Ben Young Landis
@younglandis.bsky.social
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Designing lasting impact for science, environment, and society | Past Portfolio @cr8xt.bsky.social | Fish Art @betterknowafish.bsky.social | Opinions here are my own—esp of leaf blowers | He/Him/他🧋🖖🏼🧡 📍 Taipei TAIWAN
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clancyny.bsky.social
Madness. In jail, in another state, since Sunday, clarinetist Oriana Korol is a 38-year-old child and family therapist, a U.S. citizen and mom with a 3 y.o.

Sound dangerous?

The Sheriff says she is being held on suspicion of assault on a federal officer. But, not charged yet?

Habeas corpus, kids!
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jessicacalarco.com
Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.
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"All Media School and IU students, faculty and staff
should be scared by this blatant attack on someone
standing up for what's right," student Editors-ln-Chief
Mia Hilkowitz and Andrew Miller said in a statement.
Read more: bit.ly/43ebKW1
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adviser amid push to control
student newspaper's content The director of student media at Indiana University was fired amidst a dispute between university leadership and editors at the Indiana Daily Student over what content gets printed in the student newspaper.

As director of student media, Jim Rodenbush did not directly oversee or have any say over the content published in the IDS, per a charter between the IDS and the university. But he told IndyStar his firing follows a series of meetings with IU Media School leadership in which it grew increasingly apparent they were expecting him to officially prohibit students from publishing news.
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yolingwrites.bsky.social
Please share this explainer article on the Taiwan Pride controversy this year so that all participants can know what they are walking into~

Proud of so many Taiwanese LGBTQ+ organizations coming out in support of intra-movement solidarity and against any nefarious attempts to split us apart ❤
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betterknowafish.bsky.social
We are celebrating baby Ava this week for #SundayFishSketch! For #nursing theme here is Neolamprologus brichardi. In Taiwan hobby circles, cichlids are called 慈鯛—literally a tenderhearted/motherly fish. And this cichlid even forms cooperative nurseries where many parents and young care for fry! 🐡🦑🧪
Square photo of a crayon sketch of a lyre tail cichlid.
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johnpavlovitz.bsky.social
Good people need to start outing their ICE family members, neighbors, and community members.

They need to be made into pariahs in the places decent Americans gather.
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canopyrobin.com
Q: What do you get if you cross a mood ring with a pronoun pin?

A: My latest design at canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4376...

Please share!
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newslit.org
"In a world where everything can be fake, & the fake stuff looks & feels real, people will stop believing everything." - Daisy Soderberg-Rivkin, a former trust & safety manager at TikTok, in this @bobbyallyn.bsky.social story ⤵️

#NewsLiteracy
Sora gives deepfakes 'a publicist and a distribution deal.' It could change the internet
OpenAI's new hit app has unleashed a new wave of AI slop across the internet. But what happens when there are no rules over hyper-realistic synthetic videos?
www.npr.org
younglandis.bsky.social
Meanwhile, a screening of "Ten Years" (2015) took place this week in Taiwan.
hongkongfp.com
This week, a media report revealed that 13 films were barred from screening over national security concerns. Meanwhile, a high-ranking Beijing official told local media to “have the nation in your heart and mind" and “be responsible in your writing.” In full: buff.ly/tHi6Ece
Hong Kong's film censorship red lines; Beijing's reminders to local media
This week, a media report revealed that 13 films were barred from screening over national security concerns. Meanwhile, a high-ranking Beijing official told local media to “have the nation in your heart...
buff.ly
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kerim.one
I was Bluesky user #308, and have been a major booster of this platform since the beginning, but I'm starting to think that the skeptics were right.

It isn't too late to fix things, but I'm doubtful the team will take this excellent advice from @brunodias.bsky.social to heart:
Jay Graber Confuses the Gas and Brake Pedals
As your new Head of Comms I advise you to please stop posting this shit.
azhdarchid.com
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kerim.one
This post, by @nicomaramckay.com, gives a fuller history of just how terribly Bluesky has handled moderation since the beginning and how users have reacted:

"Bluesky’s moderation is not neutral; it is selective."
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newbloommag.net
Later this month! Yoga for all!

60 minute practice followed by conversation + Q/A around the roots of Yoga as a collective liberation movement
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wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social
"'I Won the Prize, Teacher' by the #novelist Huang Chunming (黃春明) is an essay dedicated to a #teacher who inspired his interest in #literature, Wang Hsien-chun (王賢春). [...] One day, Wang was taken away from class. Shortly afterward, a high school senior said that he saw Wang in an #autopsy room."
https://www.upmedia.mg/tw/commentary/culture-and-education/169969
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wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social
"One month ago, Sept 10, was the historic date when the number of days 🇹🇼 had spent #free from martial law officially surpassed the number of days endured under its stifling rule."

#Democracy, forged through untold hardships, is what clearly positions the 23 million people of #Taiwan in this world.
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taiwanreporter.bsky.social
"[Taiwan's] government will never take over the migrant worker system as so many have advocated. Without the brokers it could not evade responsibility.

[But] The US move [against Giant] ... could well force the government to make meaningful positive change." www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
Notes from Central Taiwan: Just ‘following the law’ - Taipei Times
Bringing Taiwan to the World and the World to Taiwan
www.taipeitimes.com
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wordsfromtaiwan.bsky.social
#TaiwanWordoftheDay is #鏟子超人 — "superheroes with shovels" aka a record 400k volunteers from across Taiwan who brought their own shovels to clean a town devastated by a catastrophic barrier lake flood in #Hualien. They were honored in the president's speech and #Taipei101 fireworks on 🇹🇼 national day.
https://english.president.gov.tw/News/7022 https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/breakingnews/5207366
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lampichthys.bsky.social
At not even 5 days old, #sundayfishsketch ‘s newest member, Ava, would like her first #fishytheme to be “fishes with nurse/nursing in their name.” Take a look, there’s a couple! #sciart 🦑