On June 4, the world marks 37 years since the Chinese Communist Party ordered its troops to attack thousands of peaceful demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square. Those who sacrificed to uphold their unalienable rights of free expression and peaceful assembly will be vindicated someday.
Deeply moved by the simple elegance of this acceptance speech from Lin King, translator of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s TAIWAN TRAVELOGUE—which just won the Booker Prize. Her words deserve to be heard widely:
“In 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine, I made the explicit decision that, rather than translating Sinophone works indiscriminately, I would only translate writing from Taiwan for the foreseeable future. I will continue to do so, I told myself, until the day comes that my homeland’s sovereignty is no longer a provocation or a punchline. Until no English speaker feels comfortable saying to me, glibly, ‘I really should come visit you in Taiwan while it still exists’.”
#Taiwan #TaiwanTravelogue #BookerPrize
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Taiwan 🇹🇼 is central to the free world's future.
As Chris Olsen & I write for @ThinkingTaiwan, we must leverage the strengths of 🇹🇼 & democracies worldwide to defend freedom & counter foreign authoritarian actors: https://t.co/SRV0SV0Uda
The Thinking Taiwan English Edition relaunches today! Rooted in Taiwan, the forum serves as a platform for Taiwanese perspectives and expert analysis on geopolitics, security, the global economy, and everything affecting the Indo-Pacifc region.
https://t.co/02wUR84V3Q
Before I took office as president, Thinking Taiwan was started to foster discussion deepening understanding of #Taiwan's democracy. Today, I'm proud that the English version is relaunching, bringing Taiwanese perspectives & rigorous analysis on key issues to the global community.
A man spends decades at MIT mastering uncertainty.
At the very end
he distills it all into a single 1-hour talk.
No hype. No theory dumps.
Just how prediction actually works.
Soon after… he passes away.
This is that lecture.
The one that flips your thinking:
prediction isn’t about being right
it’s about playing probabilities.
Most people will scroll past this.
A few will never think the same again.
Save this.
🇹🇼 Recognize Taiwan Now
China is not neutral.
China supports Russia’s war machine.
China sustains Iran.
And at the same time, the world is told to isolate Taiwan — a vibrant democracy.
This is the contradiction we must end.
If we defend Ukraine…
If we stand with Israel…
Then we must also stand with Taiwan.
👉 Recognition is deterrence
👉 Recognition is stability
👉 Recognition is peace
USA, EU, UK, NATO — act now.
Stop double standards.
Stand with freedom.
🇺🇸 🇪🇺 🇬🇧
Gunther Fehlinger Jahn
Economist & Podcaster & author PaxEuropeana series
Chairman Austrian Committee for NATO Enlargement
🌐 https://t.co/gEt3XndLU5
@GunterFehlinger
#Taiwan #RecognizeTaiwan #NATO #EU #UK #USA #Democracy #Geopolitics #StandWithTaiwan #Ukraine #Israel #Freedom #FehlingerDoctrine
Apple fired Steve Jobs.
He walked into MIT and gave the most honest 60-minute business lecture ever recorded.
No PR filter. No image to protect. Just raw thinking from the guy who built Apple once — and was about to do it again.
Watch this tonight instead of netflix
Bookmark it for later
This 1 hour Yale lecture by Professor Ben Polak on game theory you will ever seen.
It will change how you think about decisions in negotiations, business, and everyday life.
MIT put their Machine Learning course on YouTube for free.
1 hour. No tuition. No application.
It'll teach you more about building ML models than most CS graduates learn in a semester.
Bookmark it and watch it tonight
Thank me later
Instead of watching an hour of Netflix, watch this 1-hour MIT professor, Patrick Winston, gave a legendary masterclass.
It will teach you more about speaking clearly, presenting ideas, and winning attention than most people learn in years.