Risotto Bias
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Jürgen Hubert
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Episode 33 is out! 🫡 We are diving into the story of Lakshmi Sahgal and the Rani of the Jhansi Regiment, the first all-female combat unit in modern Indian history, formed in Singapore during World War II.
ℹ️ Most members were teenage Tamil girls from plantation communities who left estate life to train as soldiers in the Indian National Army and were later sent to the Burma front.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/herstoryseapod
#HerstorySEAPod #WomenInHistory
#TootSEA #Podcast #History #Asia #India
Episode 33 is out! 🫡 We are diving into the story of Lakshmi Sahgal and the Rani of the Jhansi Regiment, the first all-female combat unit in modern Indian history, formed in Singapore during World War II.
ℹ️ Most members were teenage Tamil girls from plantation communities who left estate life to train as soldiers in the Indian National Army and were later sent to the Burma front.
🔗 https://linktr.ee/herstoryseapod
#HerstorySEAPod #WomenInHistory
#TootSEA #Podcast #History #Asia #India
Jonathan Schofield
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PH, when?
Malaysia blocks access to Grok, joining a growing list of countries like Indonesia taking action after the genAI chatbot sparked a global backlash by allowing users to create and publish sexualized images.
#TootSEA #genAI #Malaysia #Tech #Asian #Indonesia #Twitter #SocialMedia #CyberSecurity #DataPrivacy
https://www.rappler.com/technology/malaysia-restricts-access-grok-ai-sexualized-images/
PH, when?
Malaysia blocks access to Grok, joining a growing list of countries like Indonesia taking action after the genAI chatbot sparked a global backlash by allowing users to create and publish sexualized images.
#TootSEA #genAI #Malaysia #Tech #Asian #Indonesia #Twitter #SocialMedia #CyberSecurity #DataPrivacy
https://www.rappler.com/technology/malaysia-restricts-access-grok-ai-sexualized-images/
decryption
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I’ve never identified more strongly with anyone
TIL that after the Malayan Communist Party lost the guerilla war, a bunch of them decamped to Hunan, China, from which they broadcast revolutionary radio ‘Suara Revolusi Malaya’ (voice of the Malayan revolution).
They did so until the 80s, when China ‘opened up’ and Lee Kuan Yew requested that Deng shut down that station. Shortly after, they stopped broadcasting.
This book is a collection of transcripts of those broadcasts over the years
https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/publicationsg/details.html?uuid=37ce8adb-7152-49aa-b4c0-9d1015db27b3
I’ve never identified more strongly with anyone
#GenX folks who are like - we needed the Vietnam War invasion to help global democracy!
Fuck yourself, right off a high cliff.
#WarSurvivorsForPeace #SanctionUSA #BoycottUSA #AsianMastodon #USpol
People who still think the USA invaded Vietnam to help citizens get democracy are fools. It was never about helping people suffering. It was always about more geopolitical controls in South East Asia. Vietnam was seen as an easier to conquer via invasion violence than other ASEAN nations. We also had many seaports access.
Korea, Japan & Vietnam were all places where USA imposed themselves, violently. Many military personnel left behind many mixed race babies & many other trails of traumatic devastations. The living, never sold sold our souls out, war survivors, never forgot what the USA did to my birth nation, Vietnam.
#AsianMastodon #TootSEA #VietnamWarSurvivors #SanctionUSA #BoycottUSA
phildini
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Story about Polar curry puffs, literally the last thing my granddad wanted to eat before he passed away. He wanted that and bubble tea
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/polar-puffs-sugar-roll-chicken-pie-curry-puff-5611561
Story about Polar curry puffs, literally the last thing my granddad wanted to eat before he passed away. He wanted that and bubble tea
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/polar-puffs-sugar-roll-chicken-pie-curry-puff-5611561
Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:
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When I was in school (middle school?) we had a really famous noodle shop in our cafeteria. People loved the noodles so much that there was a huge outpouring of grief when the uncle passed away.
When school security got tighter and ex students (who were now adults) were not allowed to go in to the school to eat there, people were very sad.
Whenever there was a school reunion it was often a chance to eat ‘uncle’s noodles’ again, like we had giant tables and everybody just had the same noodles we had in our adolescence.
It was a legitimately good bowl for noodles compared to stuff outside of school, and it was god tier for school food.
His wife continued his legacy.
When I was in school (middle school?) we had a really famous noodle shop in our cafeteria. People loved the noodles so much that there was a huge outpouring of grief when the uncle passed away.
When school security got tighter and ex students (who were now adults) were not allowed to go in to the school to eat there, people were very sad.
Whenever there was a school reunion it was often a chance to eat ‘uncle’s noodles’ again, like we had giant tables and everybody just had the same noodles we had in our adolescence.
It was a legitimately good bowl for noodles compared to stuff outside of school, and it was god tier for school food.
His wife continued his legacy.
Ross 🏳️🌈🏴
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Some days I think I should go back to Singapore and then I see ridiculous headlines like these.
I would argue that anyone who has a college degree in Singapore and then chose a non-office job are probably people who have thought deeply about what they want to do. And who understand that ‘white collar jobs’ aren’t necessarily the path to success and happiness. If anything we need more, not fewer people like that.
Some days I think I should go back to Singapore and then I see ridiculous headlines like these.
I would argue that anyone who has a college degree in Singapore and then chose a non-office job are probably people who have thought deeply about what they want to do. And who understand that ‘white collar jobs’ aren’t necessarily the path to success and happiness. If anything we need more, not fewer people like that.