Kevin Hsu

environment. energy. equity. education. design research & action for a more sustainable world. cultural heritage = part of the equation.

[Kevin Hsu @earthsys]

Turns out ‘Jin Chao’ from the #DevilWearsPrada2 is not merely high-achieving & socially inept—she surveils private convos, and mimics her boss w/out developing her own personality. Good ol’ Asian tropes: robotic, sneaky, useful, unoriginal copycats 😹 Happy #AAPIheritage month?

[Kevin Hsu @earthsys]

🚊@MBTA D line skipped Woodland Stn on the way out & on the way back in. After the first miss, driver said “the inbound train will stop” and guided me onto next train. It hurtled past my stop. How do we recommend friends take transit when you’re letting us down twice in a row? 😓

[Kevin Hsu @earthsys]

“I’m a member of the Imperial Senate on a diplomatic mission to Alderaan!” didn’t work for Princess Leia. Did they really think it was going to go any better with DHS stormtroopers? 😅

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Sen. Alex Padilla was just handcuffed and detained while standing up to DHS Secretary Kristi Noem at her LA press conference.

This is not America.

[Melissa Chan @melissakchan]

🇲🇳 Team Mongolia’s #ParisOlympics clothes for the opening ceremony, designed by Michel & Amazonka in Ulaanbaatar, are these badass, imperial space nomad outfits.

[Kevin Hsu @earthsys]

After viewing a tweet, has anyone else mistakenly tried to close the window by tapping on the X? Isn’t this a UI/UX problem? 😅🙅🏻‍♂️ #uiuxdesign

[Kevin Hsu @earthsys]

Calling out oppression is offensive?! 🇺🇸 Should we stop teaching about the American Revolution to avoid upsetting students with English ancestry? After all, such inconvenient historical facts could paint the British in a negative light! 🙀 🇬🇧❄️ https://t.co/vkqrCQ7GDL

[Kevin Hsu @earthsys]

America doubles down on the semiconductor industry, featuring clean-room workers at the Super Bowl halftime show #CHIPS #CHIPSAct

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

I can confirm that it was not a Star Fleet shuttle shot down over Alaska.

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

The Romulan ambassador appeared distressed this morning when I bumped into him.

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Matt Taibbi and Elon Musk rummaged through millions of emails & Slack messages from pre-Musk Twitter & all they found was employees deliberating & consulting w/each other about how to fairly apply & enforce rules. But I get it..

To a rich white man, that seems very oppressive

[Kevin Hsu @earthsys]

A protest wall at @MIT of blank white paper, in solidarity with the same blank sheets Chinese protestors are holding up in demonstrations nationwide #whitepaper #WhitePaperRevolution #白纸运动 https://t.co/iHrQLg2pq8

[Hong Kong Free Press HKFP @hkfp]

1/ Students holding a map of China and a black banner reading “ our lives are one” gathered at the Chinese University of Hong Kong on Monday to show support for protests in the mainland dubbed the “A4 Revolution."

[Selina Wang @selinawangtv]

Went back to the exact same place where protests were in Beijing last night in Liangmaqiao. Totally quiet. Instead, entire street of police vans.
This is a police state w/ far-reaching security/surveillance. No social media that allows people to easily mobilize and gather either

[Eva Rammeloo @eefjerammeloo]

It’s now just super annoying to live, work or pass through Wulumuqi lu in #Shanghai.
Police (plainclothes and uniformed) on every corner. Was told not to take pictures. When I kept asking why, the officer and I agreed that I wouldn’t take photos of the police. But it’s tense.

[Manya Koetse @manyapan]

This video is making its rounds on WeChat, allegedly showing a street sign taken down at Wulumuqi Rd in Shanghai. Someone joked: "Are they changing it to Road 404 now?"

[Taisu Zhang @ZhangTaisu]

Statements from students at @PKU1898 and @Tsinghua_Uni, found on the internet. Well done, especially the PKU one (but I’m biased towards the place where I grew up).

[李老师不是你老师 @whyyoutouzhele]

今天白天 浙江乌镇

[Vivian Wu @vivianwubeijing]

One more from Beijing. This girl read out, standing on Liang Ma He riverbank “let’s remember. Dr Li ( Li Wen Liang)a whistleblower who warned of Covid but died of virus infection and was punished, remember the Guizhou bus that shipped infected patients who died on road, remember

[Eva Rammeloo @eefjerammeloo]

‘Down with the party! Down with Xi Jinping!’ Free Xinjiang!’

[Vivian Wu @vivianwubeijing]

Ppl in different cities start to echo and support each other. This gathering in Beijing was themed with “上海加油 which means add oil Shanghai”. 上海放人 which means “Shanghai you free the arrested!”