The Apple 🇹🇼 emoji story got a lot of publicity (turned out to be a bug), but Apple has also been inadvertently censoring the word “China” in the US! If you use voice dictation to write the word China, Apple will write “Chyna” instead!

I like myself some bad TV, but Season 2 of Star Trek: Discovery is so terribly bad that I found myself rooting for the future AI against all life in the universe. Some of the stand-alone episodes were fun, but the main story is just unbearably bad.

The Southern Poverty Law Center Is Everything That’s Wrong With Liberalism

Sensefield: An Exhibition of Experimental Ethnography - Museum Anthropology Review

Apple in 1984 vs. Apple in 2019 （UPDATE: Seems it was a bug.)

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The Winner-Take-All Electoral College Isn’t In the Constitution

“I am an Uber employee and I support the drivers’ strikes.“

Asian Studies scholars debate ethics of holding future conferences in Asia after visa debacle in India

The Human Costs Of Kamala Harris’ War On Truancy

Taiwan’s NCC fines CtiTV for having 50% of headlines about Han Kuo-yu

Spending my morning trying to figure out whether 學程 should be translated as curriculum, module, concentration, minor, certificate, or program? (Looks like “program” is the most common translation used in Taiwanese univerities…)

Taking graduation pictures with the senior class.

Muslim network says $2m donation for Christchurch victims should go to persecuted Uighur people instead

For Native Americans, US-Mexico border is an ‘imaginary line’

This article does a great job of summing up the state of Taiwan’s economy, with some astute comparisons with the UK. I especially like the Taiwan-China vs. UK-Brexit bits.

Uber drivers strike: thousands of drivers are striking in Los Angeles (So glad Taiwan isn’t putting up with Uber’s BS!)

“Thinking Different” in 2019: partnering with Goldman Sachs to make an Apple branded credit card, and getting people to pay monthly subscriptions for access to the WSJ and Yachting magazine…

Why Newsrooms Are Unionizing Now

Chelsea Manning is being held in prolonged solitary confinement, a form of torture

Rural France in Revolt

Boston U formalizes a grad assistant leave policy allowing year-round stipend recipients 10 days off

“the slithery, slimy, snappy, bouncy, rubbery, skiddy and gristly textures that westerners typically dislike“

Disappointing: “2020 candidate Pete Buttigieg “troubled” by clemency for Chelsea Manning”

manual scavenging: When it comes to sewer deaths, this is Gujarat’s stinking reality

Who authors a virtual performance?