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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

News anchor: "President Trump says the government already has the tools it needs to police AI (...)" Mark Warner: "Firstly, Mr. Trump also said that what you need is a brilliant President with a very high IQ, so I let your viewers make their judgement on that." 😂

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Sen. Mark Warner says U.S. can strengthen AI safety without losing race to China

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT FOR MICROSOFT TO JUST MAKE A NORMAL PRODUCT!?!?? Sorry, just needed to vent after struggling with SharePoint sites all day.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Whenever I start Acrobat Reader, it opens with this annoying "All tools" pane on the left. To disable it, you need to look for "Remember last state of All tools pane when opening documents" in the settings. It's not only odd to place that option there, but why would one need it to open every time?

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Again saddening to see that what scientists had warned us for decades ago had rapidly become our reality. I found the summary of each country's struggles particularly grim.

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Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant

Romania, Bulgaria and Serbia are also grappling with the effects of a series of prolonged heatwaves and low rainfall.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Finally some positive news from the US for a long time (sorry, not a Knicks fan). This is another sign that a political leader does not necessarily represent the population of the country. Or in this case at least not half of it. Perhaps the US and Iran have more in common than they think 🙂

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How Americans are welcoming World Cup fans from across the globe

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

As I visit my parents, I find my mother on the phone with a friend of hers. "Look! This is my son. Remember him? He was handsome in his 30's... but now not anymore." Thanks, mum.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Interesting report by PBS News Hour. As a European, I do like the idea that migration of white Americans is still widely acknowledged. So when someone tells an Asian American that they should go back to their country there is an easier rebuttal.

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The overlooked history of Asian Americans and the struggle for belonging

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Interesting episode of a BBC podcast in which wheelchair users in Kenya, South Africa, US and UK share their experiences with going out, drunk people while clubbing, dating and more. It confirmed my expectations of how people could look down on and push their religious beliefs on them.

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My social life as a wheelchair user

Imagine being dressed up for a night out with friends and being thrown out of a bar because your wheelchair is considered a fire hazard. When 18-year-old Maddie Haining was ordered to leave a…

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

I was listening to Empire magazine's podcast speculating about the plot of #AvengersDoomsday. I hope that this time we will finally see the ending which we hoped for Avengers Endgame: Ant-Man shrinking down, crawl into Doctor Doom's ass, and then kill him by returning back to human size.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

PBS reported on the wealth which the Trump family has gained during this second term so far. At the risk of sounding clickbaity, I found some of these numbers astounding.

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Tracking the Trump family’s business deals and profits in his 2nd term

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

I deleted my LinkedIn account last week after this news broke. Fortunately my browser already blocks out all trackers. I tested it by visiting LinkedIn and saw that it launched the JavaScript, but nothing was going out. Seeing as I hardly use the platform, I deleted my account anyway.

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LinkedIn Is Reading Your Browser. Chrome Let It In.

The BrowserGate scandal has a simple fix that most people won't take.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

R.I.P. Chuck Norris I liked this Czech TV ad in which a lady asks him to take a photo of them as it is her son's first time ice skating, which is "bruslí" in Czech.

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Chuck Norris and T-Mobile - Digital photo frame (czech commercial) [subtitles]

YouTube video by The Voldevie

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

It's time to change your bookmarks! The creator of WeTransfer has released an alternative after the new owners of WeTransfer decided to sell its data to third parties and to train AI. Boomerang does not require an account, has no ads, and your data remains yours. bmrng.me

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Yesterday at the Rotterdam Film Festival I saw "In This Together", a short documentary by Lisette Olsthoorn in which three Uber drivers re-enact a confrontation they had with Uber about their inhumane treatment of drivers. It's very creative, empathic and to the point. My fave so far.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

We kicked off this year's Rotterdam Film Festival with "Badak", which sets itself apart in the slowly overcrowding CODA subgenre with its deeply rooted Malaysian setting and a look into the underground hip-hop scene of Kuala Lumpur. Impressed by her rapping and glad the drama was not too cliché.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

This latest statement, banning AI generated music from #bandcamp, makes me more proud that they are my sole source for music.

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From the BandCamp community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the BandCamp community

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

Wikipedia was founded exactly 25 years ago. With more people turning to social media for the past decade, it is important to keep the foundation of Wikipedia strong to counter the AI-generated misinformation shared by parties with ulterior motives on those platforms.

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25 years of Wikipedia

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

M'n hart doet nog steeds pijn wanneer ik dit zie. M'n favo #chuckdeely moment was toen een optreden op de Grote Markt niet doorging omdat de band in het verkeer vast zat in 🇧🇪. Daarna werd Chuck het podium op geroepen en flink toegejuigd. Eens haalde ik koffie voor hem en hij wou 9 zakjes suiker 😵

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9 jaar na zijn overlijden mist Den Haag straatmuzikant Chuck Deely nog altijd

YouTube video by Omroep West

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

Wanted to check out the new Switch 2 version of #StardewValley and decided to create David St. Hubbins as the main player character. Strangely enough, suddenly Elliot felt like a rival as I was wondering whose hay to poke. #spinaltap

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The latest #doubledragon game seems to be a collaboration with #RuPaul. Condragulations!

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

In Stardew Valley, me and a friend were already close to Christmas. So yesterday we decided to play until the start of the new year, so sync up with real life.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

As I end the year I checked my stats on #Letterboxd and like how on the theatrical posters of both my first film of the year and the last film there is a lady looking up into the sky. I also close 2025 with "House of Hope". Here is hoping for a better 2026 for Palestine and Palestinians.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

I dreamed that me and two friends were living on the streets, making money by busking with different percussion instruments and various other side hustles. And every day we would always wind down at the same round table in a square and have kebabs delivered to us by waiters with cloches. #dreams

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

depelote is my favourite game of 2025, and it is finally coming to Nintendo Switch. Really loved this trailer. I should make a list of best trailer of the year across films and videogames starting with the Force Awakens teaser in 2014.

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DESPELOTE: FIFTH TRAILER (now on nintendo switch)

YouTube video by Panic

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Yesterday evening we were picking a film to watch. I let her choose between the box with three heads and the box with eleven heads. #nocountryforoldmen #infernalaffairs

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Watched this short snippet from the documentary film "The Dating Game" by US filmmaker Violet Du Feng. This dating coach gives really bad advice and I'm glad that one of his clients remains stubborn in staying true to himself.

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How to Find a Date in a Country With Over 30 Million Extra Men | Op-Docs

YouTube video by New York Times Opinion

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Looks like another problem at Cloudflare going on at the moment, the third one in a year now. Even their own website returns a 500 Internal Error. Well, at least #Letterboxd is working so I can still log what I am watching 😁

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Spy films are such bullshit. Don't need to go through such length to hack into a system. Most teams don't know how to securely manage their passwords and write them all in a shared unsecured Word document on a SharePoint. One can just tap into their Co-Pilot agent and ask for the password.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

Saw a guy walking towards his bus stop as he suddenly left a very loud fart. He immediately turned around to see whether there was anyone walking behind him 😂

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Found myself explaining to a Gen Z'er that 15-20 years ago social media used to be more social, where you connect and interact with people you know. Now it's just bots talking with each other. And wading through seas of content from random people/bots chosen by algorithms until you've had enough.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Recommended reading about how LLM's make our brains lazier and weaken critical thinking and "can encourage passive consumption of information, which may lead to superficial engagement, weakened critical thinking skills, less deep understanding of the materials, and less long-term memory formation."

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Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab

This study explores the neural and behavioral consequences of LLM-assisted essay writing. Participants were divided into three groups: LLM, Search Engine, and …

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

I still don't understand how wireless bras work. Do you control them via Bluetooth or something?

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

When UK game studio Bits Studios was working on T2 on Game Boy, film studio Carolco would repeatedly say that Sarah's bangs needed to be bigger. Bits Studios did not know that "bangs" means fringe in US English and thought they were referring to her boobs. So they kept enlarging them.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

A couple of weeks ago, OpenAI released their browser ChatGPT Atlas. I believe we are not ready for that yet, especially with how the majority of internet users still carelessly handle their passwords. This article about Perplexity AI's browser Comet should be a reminder of the dangers.

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The Perils of AI Browsers

Perplexity's Comet browser could until recently be hijacked by malicious links, causing it to siphon personal information and send it to mock attackers.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Proton Mail now allows you to remove the metadata from images you add to an email, either inline or as an attachment. This is a great feature and removes the effort I need to do to remove the metadata manually before sharing. Now if only Bluesky would add such a feature too...

The new feature in Proton Mail highlighted. In the compose e-mail screen an image is being inserted, which now includes an option tickbox with the label "Remove metadata".

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

Yesterday I saw a guy in the train playing one of those fake ad games. I always wondered if anybody plays them, but then if nobody did then they wouldn't keep making those fake ads.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Just when you think "Fatal Fury: City of the Wolves" couldn't get any more stupid with the inclusion of sex offender Cristiano Ronaldo. The latest Chun-Li trailer features a fan service boob bump with Mai akin to the Schwarzenegger/Weathers handshake in "Predator". www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz8R...

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

An interesting interview in which the approach of occidental countries similar to the US are compared to that of China. I've often looked at the Chinese/Viet governments way of handling their markets and wish we would do that too without their cons like lack of privacy and freedom.

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How China’s engineering mindset has shaped its modern infrastructure and society

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I was playing Capcom vs SNK and my first fights were against Mai, Chun Li, Benimaru, King, Yuri, Vice, and Cammy. My girlfriend saw that. "Why are you beating up women and gender fluid people?" "They're randomly picked." "Then why do you look so happy now?" "She's English. Her country deserves it."

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Yesterday I participated in the preliminary round of the Dutch national Ticket to Ride tournament. We played three games of T2R Europe. My girlfriend won overall, but at least I got both the high score (143) and the lowest score (31).

One of our games of "Ticket to Ride: Europe" with the routes of the four players decorated on the board.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

One of my favourite products from France is the rice from the Camargue region, which France took from Indochine and then cultivated in this southern region. I used to buy them from the brand Taureau Ailé, but lately cannot find it in the French supermarkets anymore. And now I know why: cheapflation

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Riz de Camargue : ce que cache Taureau Ailé | 60 Millions de Consommateurs

Ne vous laissez pas piéger ! En rayon, Taureau Ailé joue sur la confusion et fait grimper les prix avec un riz d’origine… italienne.

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Minh Nguyễn @minhnguyenofficial.bsky.social · 19/10/2025

This week I watched "Left-Handed Girl", the solo-directional debut of Shih-Ching Tsou, who is Sean Baker's usual collaborator in writing and producing. I like how in my Letterboxd stats of 2025 I now have her and Sean Baker side-by-side under my most-watched directors.

A overview of most-watched directors this year in my personal statistics. Sean Baker and Shih-Ching Tsou are on top.

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