iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Dang Nguyen

@digitaldang.bsky.social

1.3K followers 726 following 7.1K posts

Researcher of AI @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.dangnguyen.digital

Posts Replies Media

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

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/...

journals.sagepub.com

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...

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

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...

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

🍵

100

Reposted by Dang Nguyen

David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

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.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

A day at the beach

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

😎

000

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Study Saigon, an exposition

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

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...

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...

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

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...

hup.harvard.edu

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...

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🍵

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

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

YouTube video by Crisis and Critique

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

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

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Another example is Robespierre of the French Revolution: www.historytoday.com/archive/robe...

historytoday.com

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...

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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.

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

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

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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)

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

🐚

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

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

Reposted by Dang Nguyen

AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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.

news.bloomberglaw.com

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...

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

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

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Busy day at the heart hospital 🏥

200

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

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)

YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

👋🏻

000

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

FUD

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Here is Sting performing at the Panthéon in Paris: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDtj...

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

This is fascinating: Southeast Asians in the Arctic—How Filipinos and Thais are reshaping Greenland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGkF...

Southeast Asians in the Arctic: How Filipinos and Thais are reshaping Greenland

YouTube video by CNA

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Here is something absurdly beautiful: Sting and Dominic Miller stripped down to almost nothing, inside the Rijksmuseum, letting the paintings and the building become the third musician. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9Us...

Sting - Sounds Like Art - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - ARTE Concert

YouTube video by ARTE Concert

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Here is a bizarrely perfect early-2000s artefact: Craig David and Sting doing “Rise & Fall”. Here we have a young star making a song about fame’s moral and emotional corrosion while visibly borrowing Sting’s voice, melody, and elder statesman gravity. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pU2u...

Craig David - Rise & Fall (Official Video) ft. Sting

YouTube video by CraigDavidVEVO

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Today's gender is Sting being exceedingly charismatic in this interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Hv4...

Sting DESTROYS the Media While Revealing His Biggest Life Philosophy (1985)

YouTube video by Sunset Vinyl

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🕸️

000

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Here is Bryan Magee conversation with William Barrett on Heidegger and modern existentialism. Barrett is unusually good here because he explains Heidegger without either turning him into mystical fog or flattening him into Sartre. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ry6a...

Heidegger & Modern Existentialism - Bryan Magee & William Barrett (1977)

YouTube video by Philosophy Overdose

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Breakfast 🫶🏻

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Today's gender is Jon Batiste doing Track Star. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kb0d...

Testing Jon Batiste's Music Knowledge | Track Star*

YouTube video by Track Star*

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

📖

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Here is Zena Hitz making the more radical claim that even when achievement succeeds, it may still corrupt the activity being pursued. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JD4F...

A philosopher’s argument against the cult of achievement | Zena Hitz: Full Interview

YouTube video by Big Think

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Here is Laurie Santos telling us to do less and become happier. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJAM...

Do less, become happier, says Yale cognitive scientist | Laurie Santos

YouTube video by Big Think

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

On this day last year 👀

000

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Today's gender is Little Simz doing Track Star. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwFK...

Testing Little Simz's Music Knowledge | Track Star*

YouTube video by Track Star*

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

This is lovely: Fei-Fei Li on Spatial Intelligence as the Next Frontier in AI. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pio...

Fei-Fei Li: Spatial Intelligence is the Next Frontier in AI

YouTube video by Y Combinator

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Saigon breakfast 🫶🏻

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today's gender is J.Lo doing Track Star. www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2r-...

Testing Jennifer Lopez's Music Knowledge | Track Star*

YouTube video by Track Star*

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

❤️

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is consequential: "Thai-Cambodian tensions rise again" www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6nq...

Thai-Cambodian tensions rise again | DW News

YouTube video by DW News

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🍝

100

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Today's gender is Cillian Murphy doing Track Star. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XY4v...

Testing Cillian Murphy's Music Knowledge | Track Star*

YouTube video by Track Star*

100