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Dang Nguyen
@digitaldang.bsky.social
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Researcher of media technologies and infrastructures from below and across Southeast Asia

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · Sep 16
The third stack is here.

A path for ai that isn’t the stale U.S.–China binary, but something assembled, sovereign, and stubbornly local.

My essay in Noema: www.noemamag.com/a-third-path...
A Third Path For AI Beyond The US-China Binary | NOEMA
What if the future of AI isn’t defined by Washington or Beijing, but by improvisation elsewhere?
www.noemamag.com
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timeless land + historicised land = timeful country
November 26, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Let's go squad
Let's go squad
November 26, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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🗣️
davidgunkel.bsky.social David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · 1d
"Spit Out a Hit, You Mother-Fucking Machine"
This one's for Breaking Rust
gunkelweb.com/BigDada
November 26, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Bell Labs incident 🔔

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%...
Jan Hendrik Schön: World Class Physics Fraud Gets Last Laugh - A Whole Book About Himself
November 25, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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I got a mate 🤖
Dang standing indoors next to a life-size martial arts training dummy wearing kendo armour. Dang is smiling, dressed in a green T-shirt, dark cuffed jeans, a green bandana tied at the waist, red socks, and layered necklaces. The room has wooden floors, wood-panelled walls, and large open windows letting in soft natural light. A bright red vintage Ford Mustang parked in an outdoor lot beside a wall covered in colourful graffiti. A black car is parked behind it, and modern apartment buildings rise in the background under a partly cloudy sky.
November 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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I have eggs 🍳🍳
A wooden café table with a neatly arranged setting: a dark grey magazine titled ‘TOASTY — Issue 02’ featuring a cross-stitch-style cover design sits on the left. On the right, a knife and fork rest on a folded white napkin. Below, a glass of iced coffee garnished with a dried orange slice sits beside a small crystal plate holding an open-faced sandwich topped with sliced boiled eggs, ham, herbs, and a dusting of paprika.
November 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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(happening today)
Dang stands casually in front of a vivid AC/DC concert poster pasted onto a brick wall in Melbourne. They’re wearing an oversized navy FC/DC T-shirt, dark jeans, a black cap that reads “PAID ACTOR,” and Sillage loafers, holding a cold brew coffee in one hand. The FC/DC wordplay nods to the Japanese menswear brand FULLCOUNT while also gesturing, deadpan, toward the emerging field of F/Cringe Existential Disagreement Studies. A tilted 30 km/h street sign cuts diagonally across the frame, giving the scene its off-kilter charm. The whole street corner has that slightly chaotic laneway energy—brick textures, graffiti, and the “ANTIQUES AT NEX TO NIX” sign hovering overhead.
November 15, 2025 at 10:59 PM
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So good to finally see this out 🙂
melgregg.bsky.social Melissa Gregg @melgregg.bsky.social · 13d
In the Nov-Dec issue of ACM-Interactions, I summarize ongoing discussions with @digitaldang.bsky.social and others working on the regional contours of electronics afterlives. interactions.acm.org/archive/view...
November 14, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Hanging out with my guy, Steve, of Blueworks Vintage Clothing Store.
Dang and Steve stand casually outside a shop called “BLUEWORKS.” Both are wearing caps, denim jeans, and relaxed outfits. Steve leans against the doorframe with arms folded, wearing a plaid shirt and beige shoes. Dang stands with arms crossed, wearing a navy graphic T-shirt, dark loose-fit jeans, colourful sneakers, and round sunglasses. Behind them, the shop window displays patterned shirts, clothing racks, and accessories. The scene has a friendly, easygoing street-style vibe.
November 11, 2025 at 6:09 AM
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Fringe Existential Disagreement Studies (FEDS)
November 11, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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sydney day 2 👋🏻
Dang stands in a stainless-steel elevator taking a mirror selfie. They wear round tortoiseshell glasses, wireless earbuds, a blue CUSHMAN graphic T-shirt tucked into dark, wide-leg Godspeed denim trousers, and a white tote bag over one shoulder. One hand is in their pocket. The lighting reflects softly off the metal walls. a small glass of light-beige soy milk sits on a dark counter, framed by two blue cartons of Just Water. Behind the glass are clear carafes filled with different types of milk, each labelled with printed tags tied with twine.
November 10, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Hello Sydney! 👋🏻

Reporting from the University of Technology Sydney
Dang stands in a mirrored elevator taking a selfie with a phone. They wear round sunglasses, a grey jacket with the collar slightly upturned, latest drop of Godspeed jeans, and colourful sneakers. The elevator walls are metallic and reflective, and a small screen above shows a TV scene with two people talking. A poster on a beige wall reads “#ThinkSecurely: be cyber smart at UTS.” It features overlapping circles with cybersecurity tips such as “Play your part in stopping cyber-attacks,” “Back up critical files,” “Verify requests for private information,” “Think twice before clicking on links,” and “Protect your passwords.” At the centre is an image of a globe with the words “Virus Alert.” The UTS logo appears at the bottom right.
November 9, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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Scrambling to finish slides for the Arguing on the Internet workshop at UTS—as I’m boarding another flight in a few hours. Excited and mildly terrified to hang with the Wikipedia crowd for the 1st time, given that the disagreements I’m bringing to the table unfold on forums and semi-secret channels.
A stylised presentation slide with a photograph of a young man sitting in front of computer screens inside a room lined with racks of phones and circuit boards. Over the image, bold yellow text reads “DISAGREEMENT AS INFRASTRUCTURAL METHOD,” with “Dang Nguyen” highlighted above in a yellow box. The typography mixes pixelated retro computer fonts and elegant cursive, evoking 1990s desktop aesthetics with icons for Internet Explorer, email, a floppy disk, and a trash bin along the bottom. A monochrome flyer for a workshop titled “Arguing on the Internet,” scheduled for 10–11 November 2025. Two cartoon speech bubbles with angry faces point fingers at each other beside the title. The text below describes the workshop’s collaborative format—participants read and comment on one another’s papers, contribute to a zine, and meet at UTS's Building 2. The aesthetic is minimal and zine-like, blending humour with academic seriousness.
November 8, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Abolitionst Elijah P. Lovejoy was murder OTD in 1837 by a proslavery mob as he defended the Alton, IL warehouse where his printing press was hidden. This 1850s bank note also from Alton ironically features among its images an allegorical vignette of Prosperity & Liberty. Alton Bank, IL, $3, 185-.
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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What about suspenders?
Baby Dang sitting next to a childhood friend—whose identity is now unclear—on a metal swing in the sun. Baby Dang wears white trousers and red suspenders; the friend, blue denim overalls and a serious expression. The paint on the wall behind them is cracked and pale, throwing soft shadows over the scene. It’s the kind of photograph that feels half-posed, half-accidental: childhood gravity meeting the beginnings of style.
November 7, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Baby Dang in a white shirt and oversized tie stands in front of four impeccably dressed adults outside a restaurant with a “WELCOME TO YOU” sign. The tie hangs just slightly askew—early evidence that the flair for timing and presentation started young. Everyone looks proud, the scene glowing with that unmistakable 1990s Saigon energy: a family moment already staging the future theorist’s first fashion foreshadowing.
November 7, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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Such a good track, @onehitwondered.bsky.social!

Here is The Weeknd's "Starboy" ft. Daft Punk. Released in 2016, topping the charts Canada, France, Netherlands, New Zealand and Sweden + US Billboard Hot 100. It was The Weeknd's 3rd and Daft Punk's only chart-topper.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=34Na...
November 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Just don't it
Dang Nguyen stands smiling in front of a red granite sign for the Vietnam Atomic Energy Institute (VinAtom) in Hanoi. They wear round sunglasses, a green scarf, a white T-shirt with a large green mushroom cloud and the words “NO NUKES!” in orange, blue pinstriped trousers, and colourful sneakers. The juxtaposition between the anti-nuclear shirt and the institute’s sign creates a wry, ironic contrast.
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Hanoi 🤝 Saigon
Cambridge 🤝 Oxford
Reporter 🤝 Ethnographer
@lamle52.bsky.social 🤝 @digitaldang.bsky.social

Lam Le (Hanoi-based reporter, ex-RoW staff) and I are traveling to recycling villages in Bắc Ninh (and possibly Hưng Yên) today to understand how informal recycling works in these areas.
Dang Nguyen and Lam Le collaboration in Hanoi
November 5, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Flags in the wind: an exposition
November 5, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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The oppressive banality of hotel breakfasts
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November 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
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👋🏻 Hanoi! Have you paid?
November 4, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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I woke up hungry again — it can’t be helped.

Today’s breakfast is hủ tíu mì, the Chinese–Vietnamese hybrid noodle soup: clear pork broth, chewy egg noodles and rice noodles together, a tangle of chives, minced pork, and prawns. A dish that lives somewhere between Chợ Lớn and the delta.
A stainless-steel tabletop set for breakfast at Quán Mì Cật in District 1, Saigon. In the centre is a steaming bowl of hủ tíu mì—a Chinese-Vietnamese noodle soup with both egg and rice noodles, slices of pork, minced meat, and green onions floating in clear broth. Around it sit small green bowls of lime wedges and sliced chillies, a tiny dish of chilli oil, a tall bottle of fish sauce, and a folded napkin with the shop’s pink logo and address. The light from above reflects softly off the metal surface, giving the scene a clean, everyday glow.
November 3, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0ot...
November 3, 2025 at 8:11 AM