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Dang Nguyen

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Researcher of media technologies and infrastructures from below and across Southeast Asia www.dangnguyen.digital

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 24d

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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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1h

Turns out it’s Kim Wyman, not Wyden—correction from the event team. Everything else still gloriously on track for the session next week. (You can’t make elections without a little version control.)

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1h

I’ll be contributing a global perspective from my work on information operations, examining how emerging AI systems are transforming the infrastructures of electoral trust and information integrity across the Asia–Pacific and beyond.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1h

The discussion will bring together leading voices in election security and digital governance, including Scott Bates (USC), Michael Coden (MIT), Jude Meche (Democratic Senate Campaign Committee), Eryk Waligora (Accenture), and Kim Wyden (former CISA).

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1h

I’ll be joining the University of Southern California’s Center on Communication Leadership and Policy for the event “U.S. Election Cybersecurity: New Challenges and Tools for 2026” on Tuesday, October 21 (2–4 PM ET).

📍 Details and registration: annenberg.usc.edu/events/cclp/...

Promotional graphic for the USC Center on Communication Leadership and Policy event titled “U.S. Election Cybersecurity: New Challenges and Tools for 2026.” The event will be held on Tuesday, October 21, from 11 a.m. to noon PT (2–3 p.m. ET), both online and in person at DACOR Bacon House in Washington, D.C. The graphic includes a QR code labeled “RSVP” and the URL annenberg.usc.edu/cybersecure. Logos of USC Annenberg and USC Dornsife appear at the bottom against a dark blue background with network line graphics.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 3h

It’s a pleasure! You’ve built the infrastructure that makes this kind of seeing possible. 🙂

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 3h

Thanks, Joshua! Your tender care for the archive is unmatched.

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 12h

Hope you're carrying one

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

The real work of cybersecurity isn’t defending against invaders; it’s reckoning with the worlds our networks make possible.

electionsecurity.usc.edu

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

Turning them into “aliens” is tidy marketing, but it also evacuates moral complexity. It’s easier to wage war on the non-human than to face the systems that make exploitation profitable.

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

Scammers = Aliens is a clever line—until you remember that scammers are often people in Myanmar, Vietnam, or Cambodia, caught in messy infrastructures of labour, coercion, and survival.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGIQ...

Inside Southeast Asia's Notorious Scam Hub For China-Linked Syndicates | Insight | Full Episode

YouTube video by CNA Insider

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

The campaign is also self-aware of its messaging: Telstra calls it “essentially a product demo—a very entertaining one—that differentiates our network not just on size, but also on safety.”

campaignbrief.com/telstra-unle...

Telstra unleashes Steve Buscemi as an evil intergalactic Emperor in new network security campaign via Bear Meets Eagle On Fire with +61

With cybercrime on the rise and Aussies losing thousands of dollars every minute to scammers, Telstra's latest campaign, developed by Bear Meets Eagle On Fire with +61, focuses on how it helps protect...

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

The campaign uses absurdist sci-fi parody (aliens, over-the-top villainy) to personify scammers and highlight Telstra’s protective role.

It frames cybersecurity not as dry tech, but as visceral, dramatic conflict—good vs evil. Aliens = external threat, network = fortress.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

By all accounts, it was a successful campaign: winning a Grand Prix at Cannes Lions, with Bear Meets Eagle on Fire named the third-best independent agency, and production partner Revolver taking out the Palme d’Or.

lbbonline.com/news/steve-b...

Steve Buscemi Stars as Alien Overlord Whose ‘Scamageddon’ is Blocked By Telstra | LBBOnline

Little Black Book, The iconic actor had “the right mix of nostalgia and humorous hostility” to play the villain, Micah Walker told LBB’s Tess Connery-Britten of Telstra and Bear Meets Eagle on Fire’s ...

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

On my way to replenish my stationery supply yesterday, I was slightly amused to spot Telstra’s in-store Scamageddon display on Bourke Street.

The space was built to evoke high tech confidence: bright screens, chrome edges, a promise that the network is watching over you.

A shop window display features a green, reptilian alien figure sitting at a retro-futuristic control panel filled with buttons, switches, and screens. The alien’s long arms stretch across the console as it types, facing a monitor that reads “SCAM BLOCKED.” The setup resembles a vintage sci-fi command center, blending humor and high tech imagery. Reflections of trees and nearby buildings are visible on the glass, situating the scene on a busy city street.

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

Typeface ideas for Swift: Folklore Italic. Reputation Bold. All Too Well Sans. Gaslight Grotesk.

taylor swift is wearing a black jacket and a lace top while making a funny face .

Alt: Folklore Italic. Reputation Bold. All Too Well Sans. Gaslight Grotesk.

media.tenor.com

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

Jennie has entered the infrastructure phase of celebrity. Releasing a font on Hangeul Day—not new music, but new letters. From voice to typeface, she now commands the full stack of semiotics.

Michael Chesnut @michaelchesnut.bsky.social · 1d

An article (in Korean) on Jennie of Blackpink and her agency releasing a Korean font to celebrate Hangeul Day. Quite neat to think about a pop star releasing a font! What what a Swift font would be like . . . .
www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR2025...

제니, 소속사와 한글 글꼴 출시…"세계에 한글 아름다움 알린다" | 연합뉴스

(서울=연합뉴스) 최주성 기자 = 그룹 블랙핑크 제니가 한글날을 맞아 소속사와 함께 한글의 아름다움을 알리는 글꼴을 공개했다.

www.yna.co.kr

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 1d

"The root of negative freedom, Fromm observes, is our increasing sense of alienation, which leaves unnourished our elemental hunger for connection to the world beyond ourselves."

Maria Popova @mariapopova.bsky.social · 2d

This long-ago gem is so timely: Erich Fromm on moral aloneness, the paradox of freedom, and our mightiest antidote to terror www.themarginalian.org/2018/04/17/e...

The Paradox of Freedom: The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Moral Aloneness and Our Mightiest Antidote to Terror

“Modern man still is anxious and tempted to surrender his freedom to dictators of all kinds, or to lose it by transforming himself into a small cog in the machine.”

www.themarginalian.org

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

Plato’s cave now syncs to the cloud, shadows buffering. Memory has gone wireless.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

More or less...

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

But also: tobacco as the original spice—engine of empire, appetite, and exhaustion. The worm was keeping the receipts.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

Oh, this is a really good one—proto–Dune fan art.

The southern printer as accidental media theorist, casting debt, decay, and metamorphosis on cellulose pulp. Long before Arrakis, the worm was already currency.

Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 2d

Today would have been Frank Herbert's birthday, so I am celebrating with this merchant shinplaster from the Panic of 1837 era (actually the 1839 downturn). It features an amazing and unique vignette of a goliath worm, aka tobacco hornworm. W. Morris, Eatonton, GA, $1, Dec 17, 1839. 🗃️

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

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Art History Animalia @arthistoryanimalia.bsky.social · 2d

#WorldOctopusDay 🐙:
A #cat dressed as a woman tapping the head of an #octopus, color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (Japan, 1798-1861), c. 1847.
36.4 cm (14.3 in) x 25.3 cm (9.9 in) commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_...
#CatsInArt #CephalopodAwarenessDays #JapaneseArt

anthropomorphic cat dressed in a flowery kimono, with one paw on the head of an adjacent orange octopus, with Japanese text and seals (Japanese color woodcut print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi)

closeup of the octopus, orange with blue eyes

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

This is messing with my head, and I can't look away.

Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

youtu.be/hTWKbfoikeg?...

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Official Music Video)

YouTube video by NirvanaVEVO

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Dang Nguyen @digitaldang.bsky.social · 2d

Here Paul, take this with you.

tomyships.com/products/mar...

Stand Up Bravely - Marjoram Roll-On Deodorant 75ML

An elegant product that functions as promised and smells exceptional, Stand Up Bravely Marjoram Roll-On Deodorant inhibits armpit odour for up to 24 hours, and imparts a crisp, fresh, earthy fragrance...

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