Or when there was a boy who wore the pink medical mask and refused to go to school, because other classmates may laugh at him. The next day after learning this, the CECC, everybody including the health minister wore pink medical masks to show solidarity and gender mainstreaming. This shows ...
We started health inspections for fliers originating from Wuhan the very next day, that is to say, the first day of 2020. This fast response enabled a collective intelligence system where the CECC can get tips from anybody. They just pick up their phone and call 1922, and then they ...
I would say that Taiwan is very fortunate, because we have a robust civil society that not only warned on the Taiwan column of Reddit, the PTT, last year when Dr. Li Wenliang did his whistleblowing on social media that immediately circulated in Taiwan. Instead of like Dr. Li Wenliang ...
Mm-hmm. In Taiwan, there is no crisis. It’s been three weeks with no domestic confirmed cases. Our professional baseball league has been playing for some time. Tomorrow, the stadium will have one thousand people in it watching the professional baseballers play their game.
The only way for democracy to continue functioning is to integrate it into the fabric of the new public forum, and making sure that we work with the social media platforms so that they are pro-social rather than anti-social.
This is important because without this kind of day-to-day mechanism, the distance between the government and the people, which stays the same, is going to be dwarfed by the distance that is massively shortened with hashtags and other kinds of social media between the social sector groups, which means that ...
Like many other newly democratic countries, the elected officials or the representatives is only part of democracy. People care much more about the day-to-day participation of the democracy through, for example, participatory budgeting, e-petitions as sandbox applications, Presidential Hackathons. There is many mechanisms for people to voice their ideas for ...
Yes. In Taiwan, we are a very young democracy. Our first presidential election is 1996, which means that when we had our first presidential election, we already had the World Wide Web.
See you soon. Stay safe. Have a good localtime.
“Be conservative in what you send, and be liberal in what you accept.” That’s from Jon Postel. Thank you.
David said — I think you’ve probably knew this now — “We reject kings. We reject presidents, and we reject voting. We believe in rough consensus, and we believe in running code.”
Yeah, sure. I think what I will say is a very old idea. It’s actually in “The Tao of the IETF”. [laughs] It’s worth repeating and it’s from the words of David Clark.
Yes, we’re all with Hong Kong together.
That’s right.
Yeah, I know. This is super symbolic.
That’s pretty much it. I think this one is pretty good, aside from the technical difficulties, which I’m sure that with plenty of editing, you can pretend that this didn’t happen. [laughs]
There’s always one more way to do it, and so we keep exploring different fields and it’s good that we still keep the same ethos, and we do consider ourselves a big family. I think that’s what Clay Shirky means, that Perl is not a technology. It’s like a Shinto ...
Definitely. I just got reconnected to Peter Scott, also of the Perl community, and he’s now working on also thinking how assistive intelligence can integrate with humanity and so on. We did a similar video chat, and the transcript is already up. I think it’s really nice because, as Perl ...
We’ve worked on a lot of projects, and now if I team up with you today, I will work on podcast.
Maybe we’re going internationalization. We can do some really simple syndication work. We did that too.
Maybe work on this container technology. We also did that, right?
Maybe write a YAML Parser. We did that too.
Maybe write a Perl 6 compiler. We did that.
Yeah, because that is a gender-bending word. It’s a non-binary word. It used to mean male phoenix, but phoenix next to a dragon also means femininity, so it’s a non-binary word by itself.
I think it’s also Lost in Translation, but in any case, yeah.
It’s Babel?
Yeah, I think we were visiting Dan Kogai’s place, the place that’s also featured in the movie, although it’s not Arrival. It’s “Lost in Translation”.
…including you, including my truly, that informed me of that. I think it all happened on the same day, and so I’m like, “Yeah, it’s a really good interpretation. Let’s just keep this interpretation.”
That’s true, but it’s entirely because certain Japanese friends, including…
Yeah, a cute person.
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Sure.
Exactly.
I learn also something from the creativity from the various disciplines, different fields.
It’s really cool, and when I did contribute to Creative Commons, it never occurred to me that it could be made into a hip-hop song.
I rather like the music, and because of creative commons, I can’t really stop them from using it, but they were kind enough to notify me. In any case, I did listen to some Dos Monos music afterwards.
I listen to music a lot, and that’s transcultural republic of the citizens. I said that words in an interview, and there’s a band called Dos Monos, from Japan, they just reused that samples in their hip hop, and that’s really experimental.
Yeah, it’s research.
It’s now more like a study in anthropology.
I think it’s job. It’s not relaxing.
I found that Moana touches upon some part of that, so I just watch it for the Austronesian symbolisms and the myth that they included, which as I understand, of course is a radically simplified and sometimes not entirely anthropologically correct version of that.
I was trying to build a new kind of transcultural identity of the republic of citizens, which is my translation of the name of the country here, transcultural republic of citizens, which would include the Austronesian roots, the swirling ocean, and so on.
I think the last movie that watched in full was “Moana”, Moana the Disney movie, not because it’s particularly enlightening or something.
I read the transcript of the movie maybe, and I just skim through the book. I focus on the part I want to discuss, and I just explore on those parts instead of on the whole movie.
To be honest, I don’t have much time for movies. I write movie reviews and book reviews without finishing reading a movie or the book.
I use GoodNotes for that.
Yeah, actually the handwriting recognition is pretty good now. It can do vectorization. It can do OCR.
That’s it.
At home, Nokia 8110. When working, I’m using mostly now a Samsung Note, because I’m addicted to stylus, and iPad Pro, with the second-generation of the Apple Pencil because I’m addicted to stylus, I say that.
Of course.