Adrianna Tan

Southeast Asian in California. I once worked at an aquarium. Now I write and work on AI evaluations.

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2026-03-27 00:20:47 UTC

This article written by a former employee of an unnamed gambling platform is.. quite something.
https://defector.com/why-i-got-out-of-the-gambling-business

2026-03-25 14:18:47 UTC

It’s almost impossible to book any local camping spots because all of your competition has built or set up some kind of scraper to do it for them. (This was happening even before Open Claw and stuff)
This is the stuff that should be in a remake of Silicon Valley

2026-03-24 22:58:40 UTC

The answer to this question is ‘France’
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haitian_independence_debt
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2026-03-24 14:45:31 UTC

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2. MacArthur BART station has a bunch of free shuttle buses. The one I use most is the EmeryGoRound, primarily to the Amtrak station in Emeryville.
Fun fact: the Hollis route runs from 5:45am to 9:20pm on weekdays, every 15 min
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2026-03-24 14:24:30 UTC

Taking a series of trains, buses and fun facts about them
1. Civic Center, San Francisco to MacArthur, Oakland
Fun fact: BART uses the broad gauge, same as Indian Railways (another train system I know super well)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_ft_6_in_gauge_railway
#Trains #Transit #BART #BayArea #SanFrancisco #Oakland
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2026-03-22 23:47:01 UTC

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I hope everyone who works on data analysis for dynamic pricing for anything gets bed bugs.

2026-03-22 23:46:16 UTC

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At the shop they haven’t gone fully dynamic price tags so there was still the physical price tag to refer to. Online, the price had changed and you wouldn’t know it. Anyway, I am sitting here waiting for a manager to decide if he will honor a physical price tag.

2026-03-22 23:43:36 UTC

Dynamic pricing is such a scam. I was at Best Buy looking at something and in 10 min it jumped $200. lol

2026-03-22 18:26:05 UTC

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@nprofile…l7em USA public sector budgets are huge and software projects massive and convoluted.. other types of problems
(I used to say working in SF that we had more money than most countries)
(My boss was British. She would say ‘this is weird no body has ever asked me to cut costs! Or asked me how much anything cost! Or to justify expenditure by reducing costs!’) but again a rich city / state thing

2026-03-22 18:13:01 UTC

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I also generally feel like when someone says ‘American immigration is awful and inhumane’ the vast majority of Americans are like yep absolutely I hate it and I’m sorry
And many people from many places who are like ‘Omg Murica is so bad’ are also very likely to be like ‘well it is true immigrants are responsible for all of my country’s problems’
Welcoming people but evil system on the one hand, bad system but unwelcoming people on the other (this is not specifically about Canada, which I know is mostly welcoming. But the anti immigrant stuff is also wrapped up in a polite culture I don’t like or understand. Just give it to me straight, like the Americans. Make movies about it. Wear a hat. Something.)
This is not pro - Murica toot. This is a ‘I personally really dislike polite racists in most Anglo settler countries because they are just culturally incompatible with me so I can’t be arsed to actually try to live in those places personally’ thing

2026-03-22 18:09:07 UTC

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This article talks about them using a spreadsheet-based decision-making tool that doesn’t look much different from Excel. It looks extremely basic and not very good and I’m willing to bet it’s responsible for a lot of pain in the system. Most immigration governments have much more advanced software for their specialized use case.
I’m not willing to claims things are more humane for US immigrants (it’s not), but there are many more avenues for legal action against USCIS through other U.S. govt branches (yes this costs money but there is also pro bono support sometimes). In many countries it mostly feels like you just take the decision that you’ve been handed down arbitrarily.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/immigration-canada-ircc-technology-1.7632130

2026-03-22 17:46:38 UTC

Canadian immigration appears less evil to me but also a heck lot more incompetent and confusing to deal with
(I’ve actually never figured out how to get a work visa to Canada and I’ve figured it out for most countries. Like even the How to Apply page is.. vague. And I’m a native English speaker with international immigration experience. I think you’re supposed to use an agent, most of the time, but I refuse. Anyway, that’s not on the cards anymore and I would die in the cold)
https://vancouver.citynews.ca/2026/03/21/bc-uk-midwife-work-permit-denied-english-test/

2026-03-21 18:37:49 UTC

Indonesia has so many excellent female music groups that it seems pointless to even call them a female music group
https://youtu.be/pEv0bHdmJJc
#Music #Indonesia #TootSea

2026-03-20 21:51:33 UTC

Many things suck but I can’t believe I exist on the same planet and timeline as baby manatees
#Marine #Science #Manatees
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2026-03-10 02:39:24 UTC

“Opportunity for Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to carry out research in the areas of peace and conflict studies, political violence or state repression at the University of Mannheim, Germany.”
“The recipient will be part of my team at the University of Mannheim and carry out their own theory-driven empirical research broadly on the topics of peace and conflict, political violence and state repression. The fellowship may last from 6 to 24 months and can be divided into up to three stays within three years.”
The Fellowship includes a monthly stipend of of 3,000 EUR, moving and travel allowance.”
“To be eligible:
- you need to have a PhD in political science
- you need to have an excellent publication record relative to your academic age
- you are not a German citizen and you do not have a degree from a German university or have previously had a longer research stay at a German institution.”
#Academia #Germany #PoliticalScience #GetFediHired
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2026-02-28 05:34:12 UTC

My mom sent me a list of what she is planning to eat, and what transit she will utilize to get to those places, on a specific date in April in a country she doesn’t live in.
I am her daughter for sure

2026-02-28 04:37:34 UTC

13 months ago, I printed and dropped off a dossier. It weighed about 6 pounds (I weighed it).
My laser printer more than paid itself off.
It’s been an arduous 13 months, but we are now permanent residents and I never have to check ‘require visa sponsorship’ again.
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2026-02-25 19:41:08 UTC

I am ‘my body hurts for no reason, including my butt’ years old

2026-02-09 07:32:47 UTC

I’m going to learn Spanish. I don’t think it’s possible to live where I live, in this time, without participating in a world that is rich, vibrant, joyful, Indigenous, wonderful and welcoming. All of my favorite parts of living in California have been centered on what little I have experienced of Mexican, Salvadoran, Honduran and other cultures.

2026-02-09 06:50:32 UTC

Posting a story about mushroom poisoning is just like posting a story about scams. Everybody thinks it won’t happen to them, they’re so smart, unlike all the victims

2026-01-13 02:26:01 UTC

Someone on a call told me they liked reading about my info dumping about #Food even though they don’t love food as much as I do.
I said I enjoy Info Dumpling
#Puns #ActuallyAutistic

2026-01-09 22:02:45 UTC

sorry for the *stack link, but many writers i like from developing countries are on it, and this is an impt post:
every time someone says 'hey it's so cheap to have a nice villa in bali' here's the exploitative math behind it
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the money quote
"Villa owner: Australian guy named Brett who visited Bali once in 2015 and decided he deserved to own a piece of it.
Property manager: UAE company with an office in Seminyak and a token Indonesian partner who doesn’t do anything.
Booking platform: American corporation headquartered in San Francisco.
Cleaning staff: Indonesian woman named Wayan who’s been scrubbing toilets for five years and still can’t afford to take her kid to the doctor without selling her phone.
But sure. “Locally staffed.”
https://wulanadlerunfiltered.substack.com/p/balis-40000-villas-and-the-8day-cleaners
#Indonesia #Travel #Bali

2025-12-24 08:30:04 UTC

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@nprofile…7ppx that sounds traumatic. So sorry you experienced it

2025-12-21 03:35:22 UTC

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@nprofile…7ppx @nprofile…9ynp leaves of ginger and turmeric are also delish and great in coconut milk based stews!

2025-12-21 03:28:10 UTC

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@nprofile…7ppx @nprofile…9ynp stir fry sweet potato leaves are delish. Also in soup. Use like spinach

2025-12-08 19:45:02 UTC

My cat hogs the space heater.
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Torties
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2025-11-01 00:52:34 UTC

Malaysia has a govt procurement code for ‘witch doctor services’
https://mefi.social/@cendawanita/115452184609217432

2025-10-29 17:08:27 UTC

I really think that people who haven’t been poor should not give money or frugality advice to poor people. The problem with poor people isn’t money management or knowledge, it’s the insufficiency of money. This goes for anyone who wants to help people on food stamps navigate this situation. People on food stamps are already experts in navigating food and money with a shortage of both.

2025-10-11 19:40:16 UTC

As I get older I’ve concluded, ‘everything is basically either a cult or a database’. I will not be explaining

2025-09-10 13:09:06 UTC

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@nprofile…jx7w hey, canceling this. Can’t make it to dc anymore

2025-08-28 01:07:04 UTC

Ok DC folks: who’s up for a Fediverse snack on the evening of 9/15?
I’d prefer an outdoor location with nonalcoholic beverages available.

2025-08-25 02:24:42 UTC

WE CUDDLE CATS
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Torties
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2025-08-23 05:20:59 UTC

I will never make fun of sea lions for being lazy anymore. I saw thousands of them in the ocean swimming and hunting for a long time. no wonder they are so tired and they like to bark about it
#Monterey #SeaLions #Pinnepeds
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2025-06-30 23:51:39 UTC

Me: my superpower is I always get free food when I least expect it
Orcas:
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/these-orcas-have-been-trying-to-feed-people-new-research-shows/
#Marine #Science
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2025-06-24 03:48:51 UTC

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This includes all the wringing about H-1Bs taking *your* jobs.
Criticism of the exploitative tech industry and inane exploitative immigration system is valid. But I just can’t shake the gross feeling of how much of all of that is just objection of certain types of people supposedly ‘taking up’ the ‘good’ jobs.

2025-06-24 03:28:30 UTC

I don’t care what side you think you’re on, anyone whose take on immigration is ‘immigrants take away American jobs’ is not a good person

2025-06-23 17:24:35 UTC

BREAKING NEWS
Orcas seen grooming each other with kelp, in a first for marine tool use
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/23/killer-whales-kelp-grooming-tool-use
#Marine #Orcas #Whales #Science #Kelp #Ocean

2025-06-13 04:10:14 UTC

This reminds me of how when I first moved to Jakarta I was not aware of the flirty connotation of ‘abang’ (standard phrase in Malay to refer to anyone on the street, much more.. flirty in Jakarta). I called everybody abang. This is how I ended up with many random men’s phone numbers accidentally
https://social.nancengka.com/objects/45b1f023-70a4-4fd8-97fd-1c01f1cfa65f

2025-05-31 06:07:56 UTC

I went on a tour of the aquarium today with one of the early founders of the place. When others heard I had met him they asked me if I had heard the story about the whale genitals. I said yes, shared it, and it turned out that 4 of us had a completely different story about whale genitals.

2025-04-26 01:33:14 UTC

A coworker says the only way to get out of the tunnel traffic in Monterey during the summer is to bike.
I was once stuck in it: 1h (0.5 miles). Never again. Walking it is nicer, and you can also look at the sunset over the water.
Looking forward to all my bike rides there this summer. (Many people don’t live locally. They have to go to San Jose or Santa Cruz, and during rush hour it can be as long as my off-peak commute back to San Francisco). There’s only one tunnel in and out of New Monterey, where the Aquarium is
#BikeTooter #Monterey #California

2025-04-08 17:47:32 UTC

When I first came to SF 13 years ago I asked for ‘cut chillies’ and ‘chilli sauce’ at a pho place and I didn’t understand when I was given jalapeños and sriracha. None of these met my definition for ‘even remotely spicy’.
13 years later, I’m still annoyed about it but no longer surprised.
(I was expecting sliced birds eye chillies..)

2025-04-04 14:29:47 UTC

Local credit union (SF Fire CU) took out an ad on the bus that said, ‘we use AI (Actual Individuals)’
#SanFrancisco #ai

2025-03-09 09:22:56 UTC

Saw yet another ignorant and condescending European take on ‘who in their right mind would want to emigrate to America’ post.
Well, there’s a reason I’m spending thousands of dollars trying to stay in this country, but I don’t need to share it with people who don’t understand that lots of people have different reasons to emigrate and maybe your own countries are also quite terrible for immigrants.

2025-03-05 19:53:49 UTC

/r/bayarea: ‘Bay Area drivers are terrible’
‘It’s all the H-1Bs’
I’ll have you know that bad drivers here come from all backgrounds. Ask any pedestrian.

2025-03-04 16:39:18 UTC

Put this person in charge. At least they dare take on the hard questions.
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/114/105/146/192/683/963/original/33e8e113cd77355b.jpeg

2025-03-03 16:07:04 UTC

Om on Skype: "Microsoft now talks about Teams being their focus, showing that even today they haven’t realized what made Skype a cultural, consumer force. Microsoft Teams is a terrible product — and I dread using it. In simplest terms, Teams is a perfect encapsulation of a bureaucratic, archaic, and outdated 50-year-old company that is trying to reinvent itself as an AI leader."
https://om.co/2025/02/28/skype-is-dead-what-happened/
#Microsoft #Teams #Skype

2025-03-02 04:57:41 UTC

In 2019 I met a young Meta engineer who was really fired up about wanting to change the company ‘from the inside’. She asked me why I hated her company. I said I’d just come from a place where I saw it accelerate genocide (Myanmar) and suppress democracy. She said oh at least they won’t do it here.
I wonder where she is now. Probably laid off.

2025-03-01 19:06:33 UTC

In some way the firing of gov tech workers is also about scaring others from taking alternatives paths other than exploitative tech work.
So many of us looked at big and mainstream and ad tech and surveillance tech today and said nope, and took our skills elsewhere.
This plants the seed of ‘do you really want this instability?’ Unsaid of course is that the people who are apparently thankful they said no to federal tech jobs to avoid such treatment, don’t feel empowered to also speak up about their poor treatment in the private sector. If you’ve been laid off by Meta the expectation is you’re still supposed to say thank you, I’m looking for new opportunities.
Federal government employees who have been treated poorly still have far more support than any private sector employee who has been laid off. Almost everyone is in a union, and there are lawyers that specialize in federal employment law.
This whole thing is about suppressing the power of labor.

2025-02-28 05:33:41 UTC

This was a confusing headline
#Singapore #TootSea
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2025-02-27 23:43:10 UTC

Is there something that someone out here needs help judging or reviewing?
Specifically I have expertise in building software and software teams that have a public interest angle. I also do research on AI ethics and bias in the non-Western context (how LLMs work in Asian and global south countries.. which is to say poorly) and what the social implications of that might be. I also research energy and water use of AI data centers.
I am completing some paperwork for something, and having more recent 'judging' and 'reviewing' experience will be good. Boost welcome!
Please email me: skinnylatte [at] gmail

2025-02-27 16:32:26 UTC

I have #aphantasia and I can’t make visual images in my head. ‘Picture an apple’.. I can’t picture anything. People have asked me how I dream. I don’t have visual dreams.
I just had a dream in which I.. smelled a variety of things. Interesting!

2025-02-27 04:44:16 UTC

Everything I’ve ever learned about cereal foods in America has been against my will.
Cornflakes were invented by Kellogg’s to prevent masturbation. And now I’ve just learned Chex was created by white supremacists to try to give white people mind control powers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralstonism
#Food #Weird

2025-02-26 03:06:49 UTC

California cities want to arrest people for 'camping' and 'being homeless' but they don't seem to want to go to trial to state a case for why they want to arrest people for being poor. They're happy to throw people's things away and treat them violently, though.
https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/they-were-arrested-for-sleeping-outside-while-homeless-now-these-californ/
#California #Homeless

2025-02-26 00:04:17 UTC

Really fascinating piece of SF history: The Chinatown Telephone Exchange
"Both male and female operators had to remember nearly 1500 names along with the owners place of residence. They had to know all of the languages spoken in Chinatown as well as all of the different dialects. These operators knew all of the 4-5,000 residents of Chinatown. They knew all of the extensions for the businesses and residences in the area. They handled more than thirteen thousand calls a day. The phone system was also a method for contracting labor. Employers called with job offers and the operators would know to whom to put them through."
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Chinese_Telephone_Exchange
#SanFrancisco #Chinese #History #AAPI

2025-02-25 07:17:09 UTC

Wyoming woman repeatedly refers to Republican senator as Madam Chairman, and points out that she cannot be compelled to use Tim French’s preferred pronouns
She is aware that misgendering someone is not cool, but has “been watching her Wyoming legislators “tear people down” and not listen to residents’ testimony, so when she deliberately misgendered French, “Disrespect was the message.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/wyoming-resident-purposely-misgenders-senator_n_67bcbf05e4b05645f4fefee7

2025-02-25 02:41:54 UTC

I love pho and ramen as much as anyone, but those aren’t the only types of noodles.
I grew up eating ‘kon lo mein’, which is Cantonese for any type of ‘dry’ noodles tossed with seasoning. It can be wanton, brisket, shredded chicken, or mushroom. Or anything. Almost every noodle culture has some form of ‘dry’ or ‘tossed’ noodles.
Today I’m having aburasoba, which is a Japanese take on Chinese ‘dry’ noodles. Also sometimes called mazesoba. In the bay area, I love Kajiken in San Mateo. Here in Seattle I’m having one at Slurp Station near UW.
They differ from tsukemen in that you don’t dip the noodles into a side soup, they just come with various toppings and a sauce that’s already pre-mixed.
I wish I had more ‘dry’ noodles. They’re my favorite types of noodles. Soup noodles only feel worth the effort when the soup is exceptionally great.
#Food #Seattle #Noodles

2025-02-24 22:58:15 UTC

My first roll of film from my Minolta CLE!
My parents at the Portland Japanese Garden
<3
(Minolta CLE, 40mm f/2 Rokkor, Kodak T-Max 400, developed and scanned by Citizen Photo in Portland)
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #Photography #Portland #Minolta
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2025-02-24 17:55:37 UTC

I’m outside the Seattle aquarium and someone is citing marine facts and puns.
I feel at home already

2025-02-24 05:17:15 UTC

The good thing about having work on the side in AI ethics is if someone tells me I simply don't understand the value of gen AI I can simply laugh at them

2025-02-24 03:32:27 UTC

if gen AI was the game changer to business that everyone says it is, there wouldn't be so many books and PDFs and white papers and playbooks for business leaders to help them convince *their employees* to use gen AI

2025-02-24 02:49:22 UTC

My mother just before getting blown away by Seattle wind
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2025-02-23 21:48:47 UTC

Putting this in a public post so #ActuallyAutistic can see it:
Like many autistic people, it’s not that I don’t have empathy, it’s that I have too much, it just looks differently shaped.
When I was younger, I was able to just feel all the bad things that anyone around me felt. I had to work really hard to figure out how to put boundaries on where others’ feelings ended and mine began.
I’m a little more cautious about this now. I still have a lot of empathy, but I’ve learned that too much empathy at the wrong time for the wrong people is not empathetic to *me*.

2025-02-23 03:59:18 UTC

Every homophobic straight man who ever told me when I was a teenager that I would grow out of lesbianism failed to account for Cate Blanchett and Gillian Anderson getting hotter and hotter as I got older.
I have not noticed any straight men

2025-02-23 03:01:08 UTC

How far back in history could you go to communicate in X language and be understood?
Mandarin: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1qwgun/comment/cdhnwkv/
English: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/2kdymw/as_an_english_speaking_englishman_how_far_back_in/
Spanish: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7x4dyy/comment/du5n1q8/
French: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/ja5va2/comment/g8r6393/?context=3
#Languages

2025-02-21 21:09:51 UTC

I want to watch a Tamil movie about a woman who leaves a civil war to move to Europe then ends up marrying a far right lesbian politician.

2025-02-21 19:34:23 UTC

one of the things that brings me joy about my elderly chinese parents spending time in the west coast USA with me for the first time: they have no preconceptions of what food goes with what.
they are exploring new food types and groups and just putting everything together.
this morning, for breakfast: tortillas with carnitas with sunny side up eggs AND blue cheese.
it helps that we come from a food culture with almost no food rules (eat anything, any time, anywhere, any way) so i really feel like they get me and how i like to eat. chaos is good, especially if it's tasty.
#Food

2025-02-19 23:46:24 UTC

I want to restart my infrequent food newsletter about Bay Area food, Asian food, Monterey food, LA food, immigrant food.
https://buttondown.email/skinnylatte
I find it kind of boring to recommend specific places but there seems to be demand and interest in that.
I have a lot of info about immigrant Asian food across the world (why you can find Vietnamese food in California and also in Paris), that I find interesting. Maybe more features about specific communities.
Also thinking about the people who are covid cautious and may never want to eat out again.
Maybe I can’t do it all, but something for people interested in food, history, culture, is probably what I’m aiming for.
Would love feedback and ideas.
#Food

2025-02-19 05:02:20 UTC

Some time in the early 10s, I started to hear more and more people talking about whether you’re into tech or not. I thought it was a very weird thing to say, coz if you work with computers you might say I’m into (some part of technology and what you do with it).
Instead, it’s mostly people wanting to rank others on how much technology they adopt, as a way of showing that they’re, well, ahead.
You see this a lot with MBA types and investor types.
This is not about people who don’t code, this is not about saying some people are technical or not.
It’s about an approach to technology that comes from a place of FOMO, that quickly leads to ‘technology at any cost is always good’.
These people are in charge now.

2025-02-18 05:39:08 UTC

Lots of things suck about the world, but being a hip hop and jazz music appreciator feels like a balm

2025-02-17 22:40:22 UTC

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If you ni hao at someone in sf or la you’ll just get a Cantonese curse back

2025-02-17 22:37:09 UTC

Oh my parents got a ni-hao on their second day in Portland

2025-02-17 17:20:17 UTC

A rare open and illuminating article about incels in Singapore:
"He started distancing himself, but says he still sees similar rants in many of Singapore’s mainstream online communities, even among those who do not identify as incels. He notes that many incel narratives are distortions of “traditional conservative ideas”. "
I agree! There is a lot of overlap between 'traditional Asian gender and social beliefs' with 'incel ideology'. It's interesting that a former incel was able to identify this, shows he did more work on himself than most 'traditional people' there.
https://www.straitstimes.com/life/involuntarily-celibate-inside-the-minds-of-incels-who-blame-women-and-society
#TootSea #Singapore #Asia #Incels #Gender

2025-02-17 17:10:51 UTC

If anything you do or work on is featured in any media, assume that the link won't work or will rot next month. Keep your own archives.

2025-02-16 14:30:07 UTC

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“The Fall of Singapore has been framed as Britain’s worst military disaster – but what did occupation really mean for people in Singapore?”
From the important wealth of oral history interviews conducted about the occupation
“I found that the Japanese Occupation state was actually less present the further down you were on the socioeconomic ladder.… I did start to get a sense that the Japanese were far more interested in co-opting and controlling the elites of Singapore, and that marginalized peoples (whether by race or socioeconomic status or gender) had a peculiar sort of anonymity in the occupied city. Some might not consider these people to be ‘significant,’ but their experiences provide an important corrective to standard narratives of the war.”
https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/vol-13/issue-1/apr-jun-2017/voices-that-remain/

2025-02-16 14:21:06 UTC

83 years ago around this time, my grandparents were 9 and 7 years old when British forces lost Singapore to the Japanese, after the British confidently declared that those Orientals could never defeat them.
The Japanese crossed into Singapore on a fleet of bicycles, bypassing British naval power.
What followed was 3 years of occupation as Singapore was renamed Syonan-to. My grandparents remember singing the Japanese anthem.
3 days after the Japanese won, they began a purge of mostly ethnic Chinese people in Singapore as retaliation for perceived overseas Chinese assistance to China, a few years earlier. 50 000 people died.
My grandparents never wanted to eat a single sweet potato or yam or tapioca ever again later in their lives, because that’s all they had to eat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_occupation_of_Singapore
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sook_Ching
#Singapore #History #TootSea #Japan #WWII

2025-02-13 03:36:15 UTC

My mum accidentally put instant coffee into her instant cup noodles (we are on a road trip) and, to my horror, kept eating it. ‘Some noodles and wrong noodles are better than no noodles’
#Food

2025-02-10 02:39:42 UTC

At Panda Express with my parents and explaining what it is
They are intrigued

2025-02-09 19:02:28 UTC

Super gay dude working in Amtrak making small talk: so you excited about Super Bowl??
Me: absolutely not
Him: omg ME NEITHER

2025-02-09 16:40:40 UTC

Everything is better from a train
(Even if the train is extremely slow)
#Amtrak #Train #CoastStarlight
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/974/916/375/081/107/original/2967604331998a11.jpeg

2024-12-23 01:50:10 UTC

My 18 year old cat has 7 chronic illnesses (all managed). She can only eat cat food made for senior cats with kidney disease. There aren’t lots of options: there’s tuna and chicken. Thankfully, those are her favorite proteins. She does the tuna for a month then switches to the chicken. And back again. They make a dry version of the chicken food, and I love that we’ve tricked her into thinking that’s a treat.
I love her so much!
#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Torties
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/699/625/940/109/432/original/04426b077978ff9c.jpeg

2024-12-02 05:02:31 UTC

Bad vibes ads are back
https://www.reddit.com/r/bayarea/comments/1h4jsyh/bizarrely_offensive_tech_ad_on_muni_bus_shelter/
#SanFrancisco #AI

2024-11-30 19:29:25 UTC

More of this please.
Tiera Tanksley published a paper pushing back on the 'only low AI literacy students fear AI' narrative that we are starting to see / hear. She worked with Black highschoolers focusing on data ethics.
"That is, they went from "I'm terrified of AI becoming sentient and killing us" to "I no longer think AI is sentient, but I'm very concerned that these technologies are doing irreparable harm to people and to the environment."
Paper: https://www.tieratanksley.com/_files/ugd/eda377_77c1dbe2a48a4ed199bd8101d5eac40e.pdf
#AI #Racism

2024-11-05 16:43:18 UTC

New employee orientation at Monterey Bay Aquarium
#Monterey #Nature #Marine
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/431/346/980/443/787/original/dc2b297518747014.jpeg

2024-10-30 22:45:33 UTC

A lawyer specializing in immigration to the US for Singaporeans wrote a blog post about what he thinks will happen if Trump is re-elected.
The long and short of it is he will make things harder for everyone, even 'good immigrants' from ally countries. And he did, in the past.
https://theh1b1.blogspot.com/2024/10/potential-impact-on-h-1b1-cases-if.html
#Trump #Immigration #Singapore #TootSea #H1B1

2024-10-18 05:51:08 UTC

Found this in a discussion about Strava but applicable to all tech companies
#AI
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/113/326/860/903/753/214/original/0547b5d15df7dd54.webp

2024-09-16 03:07:13 UTC

Pantheon is one of the best animated series I watched recently. I wish it had more marketing and hype, it’s really worth it.
Not really about straight up AI but takes on an ‘uploaded intelligence’ idea that also has parallels with data centers, and real world current day tussles about who gets to make such decisions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon_(TV_series)
#SciFi #AI #TV

2024-08-28 03:08:37 UTC

This weekend im going to do a bike plus ferry ride to someone’s house to get carnitas, then roll through every taco truck I like until I get to Fruitvale (for even more taco trucks)

2024-08-18 17:55:20 UTC

At this point, any cis man adjacent to computers, VC and Peter Thiel should simply not be allowed to say ‘female’ except about pets, and computer cables

2024-07-21 00:12:13 UTC

I’m a convert to Bob’s Mill potato flakes: good quality instant mashed potato! Add to your baking to make potato bread (denser and chewy yeast breads!) use with grated cheese instead of panko to fry or roast things!
#Food

2024-07-17 01:42:54 UTC

With great exhaustion, I send out the second post from my 'AI in public sector' newsletter
https://news.publicsectorai.tech/archive/july-2024-public-sector-ai-roundup/
#CivicTech #AI #Government #PublicSector

2024-06-24 03:10:06 UTC

Life after dog: sometimes it can be hard to remember what life was like before Cookie. To deal with grief, I’m trying to be Outside As Much As Possible.
But Outside also reminds me of Cookie: almost everything I did Outside, I did with her. Most of the time she got me Outside. Just a week ago this time she was happily walking around the city with me.
#GriefDiary
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/669/399/715/165/656/original/cf78cbe652fcee12.jpeg

2024-05-24 17:13:40 UTC

Freestyle is doing preorders for the Ago film processing machine. I don’t know anything about it. What do #BelieveInFilm friends think?
https://www.freestylephoto.com/796001-AGO-Film-Processor-with-Two-Reel-Paterson-Tank-PREORDER-NOW!

2024-05-24 05:08:49 UTC

Taco Bell art heist is just the perfect story about the state of the world
https://www.sfgate.com/food/article/taco-bell-ebay-mark-smith-paintings-19464177.php

2024-05-17 01:10:44 UTC

I’m mostly not on Reddit anymore for MH reasons but I miss reading about stuff like this. Straight man is worried about his wife going to.. literature events
https://www.reddit.com/r/AITAH/comments/1ctf64b/aitah_for_asking_my_wife_not_to_hang_out_with_her/

2024-04-15 04:07:29 UTC

Nothing tells me I’ve learned to cook at a level that pleases me, as when I was finally able to do consistently simple dishes really well. One of my comfort foods is spaghetti aglio e olio, and when I finally made one that felt like something I would pay for, that made me happy.
Like when I finally managed to cook all kinds of rice well
#Food #Cooking

2024-03-24 05:38:31 UTC

I love seeing old film photos of mine. Reminds me of past lives.
From one of the first rolls I ever shot as a teenager: Cambodia in one of the Angkor temples (around 2004)
Something about the colors and ‘look’ of the film photo makes it more visceral to me, like I can remember that memory better
#BelieveInFilm #TootSea #Cambodia #Photography #FilmPhotography
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/149/050/772/414/788/original/8328a3da1b3407b1.jpeg

2024-03-21 19:53:36 UTC

I don’t know who spread the rumor in the west that rice cookers are simply ‘unnecessary single use gadgets for foodies who eat a lot of rice’, I think of them more as ‘versatile device for depressed people with no (emotional, not literal) spoons’
Put rice (don’t even need to wash it), water, place vegetables, meat, tofu, eggs. Add soy sauce. Close the lid. Walk away.
And if you get a nice one: cook rice and eat off the cooker even 3 days later.
Even the cheap ones are so handy.
#Food

2024-03-21 03:42:40 UTC

My cat runs out of the toilet screaming every day.
Same
#CatsOfMastodon #Cats #Torties
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/131/608/293/897/890/original/ab0822832d5e6e21.jpeg

2024-03-21 03:38:44 UTC

In San Francisco even the freeway signs are #vegan
#sanfrancisco #oatmilk
https://media.hachyderm.io/media_attachments/files/112/131/592/825/885/495/original/e1c781c55dd2a7d9.jpeg

2024-03-19 03:50:00 UTC

I’ve had some pretty violent shit done to me for my racial identity here in San Francisco, but I’m actually much more angry about the guy who house sat for me, left it in a dreadful state, but said he couldn’t clean my house after leaving it in a mess because I was an Oriental Beauty and he was simply a white man who could never live up to my exacting Oriental Beauty standards
(In.. 2022)
(I made him Venmo me for cleaning. He.. left like ten fully burnt potatoes in my oven over a few weeks)