Dang Nguyen
@digitaldang.bsky.social
Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.dangnguyen.digital
A thoughtful write-up from ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute of my recent talk, ‘Between Empires: Vietnam’s AI Ambitions and the Limits of the US–China Frame’. www.iseas.edu.sg/media/event-...
Webinar on “Between Empires: Vietnam’s AI Ambitions and the Limits of the US–China Frame”
Dr Dang Nguyen discussed Vietnam's AI ambitions.
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What does automation look like from below? I have a new open-access paper out with @platformsnsociety.bsky.social: “The earning web: Informal automation and the moral economy of platform earning in Vietnam.” journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The earning web: Informal automation and the moral economy of platform earning in Vietnam - Dang Nguyen, 2026
This paper examines the moral economy of ‘Make Money Online’ (MMO) practices in Vietnam and introduces the concept of the earning web to describe the distribute...
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Very pleased to be giving this webinar for the Vietnam Studies Programme at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute. ‘Between Empires: Vietnam’s AI Ambitions and the Limits of the US–China Frame’ 16 September, online. www.iseas.edu.sg/mec-events/b...
Between Empires: Vietnam’s AI Ambitions and the Limits of the US–China Frame
VIETNAM STUDIES PROGRAMME About the Webinar Vietnam’s emergence as an AI actor is increasingly—and misleadingly—viewed through a US–China binary that reduces smaller states to mere sites of great-powe...
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Back to my NIU office and waiting for me were two new translations. 1) The Vietnamese translation of "#AI for Communication" @routledgebooks.bsky.social. And 2) the Japanese translation of "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social which was co-authored with @coeckelbergh.bsky.social.
Here is Myles Burnyeat discussing Socrates and Plato with Bryan Magee. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNFF...
Socrates & Plato's Philosophy - Myles Burnyeat & Bryan Magee (1987)
YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose
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Happening as we speak: "Hanoi is building a new futuristic city where the old one stands" Hanoi has actually approved the century-long master plan, and demolition is already moving faster than the grand vision can plausibly be governed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbnw...
Hanoi is building a new futuristic city where the old one stands
YouTube video by South China Morning Post
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Consider J. Edgar Hoover. Beverly Gage’s G-Man is especially good here because she avoids turning Hoover into a cartoon villain: his longevity rested partly upon real institutional achievement and genuine public support. www.pulitzer.org/winners/beve...
Beverly Gage
A deeply researched and nuanced look at one of the most polarizing figures in U.S. history that depicts the longtime FBI director in all his complexity, with monumental achievements and crippling flaw...
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Dang Nguyen@digitaldang.bsky.social · 2mo agoConsider Louis XVI. Timothy Tackett’s When the King Took Flight is a useful source because it examines precisely how Varennes transformed political perceptions of the king and accelerated republicanism. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
This is interesting: "A neuroscientist’s guide to protecting your brain, in 58 minutes" www.youtube.com/watch?v=LViE...
A neuroscientist’s guide to protecting your brain, in 58 minutes | Lisa Genova: Full Interview
YouTube video by Big Think
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Consider Louis XVI. Timothy Tackett’s When the King Took Flight is a useful source because it examines precisely how Varennes transformed political perceptions of the king and accelerated republicanism. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
When the King Took Flight — Harvard University Press
On a June night in 1791, King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette fled Paris in disguise, hoping to escape the mounting turmoil of the French Revolution. They were arrested by a small group of citizens a f...
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Dang Nguyen@digitaldang.bsky.social · 2mo agoConsider Charles I. Charles I offers perhaps the cleanest case of someone continuing to occupy the constitutional centre while progressively destroying the trust that made settlement with that centre possible. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Here's Sianne Ngai on ugly thoughts, ugly feelings, aesthetic categories, exploitation under capitalism, and so on, interviewed by Agon Hamza and Frank Ruda. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAeQ...
Sianne Ngai on ugly thoughts, ugly feeling, aesthetic categories, gimmick in capitalism, and more
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Consider Charles I. Charles I offers perhaps the cleanest case of someone continuing to occupy the constitutional centre while progressively destroying the trust that made settlement with that centre possible. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
“Paper Oathes”: Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49 | Journal of British Studies | Cambridge Core
“Paper Oathes”: Trust, Treaty, and the Road to Regicide in England, 1642–49 - Volume 64
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Dang Nguyen@digitaldang.bsky.social · 2mo agoAnother example is Robespierre of the French Revolution: www.historytoday.com/archive/robe...
This is interesting: "Self-loneliness is real, and most people have it" Giulia Enders is making an argument against the model of the human being as a sovereign brain driving a biological machine. www.youtube.com/watch?v=npvf...
Physician: Self-loneliness is real, and most people have it | Giulia Enders
YouTube video by Big Think Clips
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Another example is Robespierre of the French Revolution: www.historytoday.com/archive/robe...
Robespierre
No other leader of the French Revolution held the centre of the revolutionary stage so long as Robespierre. George Rudé portrays him as its personification and guiding spirit — a man of lofty aspirati...
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Dang Nguyen@digitaldang.bsky.social · 2mo agoI've been thinking about historical examples of moral failures where the recurring pattern is someone confusing continued centrality with continued legitimacy, then making the original failure vastly worse by trying to preserve both innocence and position.
I've been thinking about historical examples of moral failures where the recurring pattern is someone confusing continued centrality with continued legitimacy, then making the original failure vastly worse by trying to preserve both innocence and position.
Here is Bryan Magee interviewing Herbert Marcuse in 1977. www.youtube.com/watch?v=U23H...
The Frankfurt School - Herbert Marcuse & Bryan Magee (1977)
YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose
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Well this is unfortunate: "Consulting firms face government crackdown after KPMG and PwC scandals" www.youtube.com/watch?v=UClx...
Consulting firms face government crackdown after KPMG and PwC scandals | ABC NEWS
YouTube video by ABC News (Australia)
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Good morning! Here is J. P. Stern discussing Nietzsche with Bryan Magee in 1987. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxHs...
Friedrich Nietzsche's Philosophy - J. P. Stern & Bryan Magee (1987)
YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose
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Gig nursing companies are bringing Uber’s playbook to healthcare by pushing bills across the country that classify nurses as independent contractors and erode worker protections. “This is such a familiar playbook legislatively and politically,” @katiejwells.bsky.social tells Bloomberg Law.
Gig Nursing Companies Advance Worker Status Bills Across States
Healthcare staffing is the latest focus of gig economy regulation as state legislatures weigh industry-backed proposals classifying temporary nurses as independent contractors, an advocacy strategy re...
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This is interesting, despite the atrocious branding: " From 'polycrisis' to 'polytunity' - the future of geopolitics with Prof Yuen Yuen Ang" www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnBw...
From 'polycrisis' to 'polytunity' - the future of geopolitics with Prof Yuen Yuen Ang
YouTube video by World Economic Forum
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Here is Bryan Magee talking with Anthony Kenny about medieval philosophy, especially Augustine and Aquinas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpub...
Medieval Philosophy - Bryan Magee & Anthony Kenny (1987)
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