Lit. Professor in Taiwan || 🇹🇼+🇺🇸 ☕📜 || “much madness is divinest sense” || “子不語怪力亂神” || against the fascist recrudescence
台中市, Taiwan
Joined August 2016
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Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social retweeted
Typhoon Champi leaves 146,000 households without power across Taiwan
taiwannews.com.tw/news/64646…
So maybe now AIPAC can be designated a national security threat?
Pentagon designates Confucius Institutes in US a national security threat reut.rs/3Ua265G reut.rs/3Ua265G
Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social retweeted
Giant waves slammed onto Taiwan’s east coast as Typhoon Champi brushed by the island.
Taiwan shut down schools and offices and grounded hundreds of flights, with the storm bringing strong winds and torrential rains.
Read more: abcworldnewstonight.visitlin…
Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social retweeted
Offices and schools in 13 cities and counties across Taiwan will be closed due to Typhoon Champi on Saturday, while those in southern Taiwan will see classes and work proceed as usual, according to local government announcements.
focustaiwan.tw/society/20261…
Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social retweeted
Typhoon Champi brought strong winds, heavy rain and massive waves to Taiwan on Friday, causing widespread damage across the country.
He’s right, and it needs to be a large well-designed agency because many scientists and experts will be needed to do the work of keeping us safe from AGI. This is the kind of bold, creative thinking we should expect from an intelligent representative of the people. #AI
U.S. Senate candidate @AbdulElSayed (D-MI) says he is "really worried" about AI's recursive self-improvement: "We need an SEC or FDA-style regulatory agency that can oversee the development of these models to make sure we don't open Pandora's Box..."
Preemptive apologies to Australian drivers.
"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision." -Bertrand Russel
His painful point then (1951) applies doubly today.
Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social retweeted
Historian of fascism here. This is an escalation of an attempt to normalize extreme violence, ritualize violence, militarize the country, and make violence entertaining so when they ask you to commit violence in their name, you will be ready.
Trump & Hegseth aren't just proposing to livestream an execution for people who want to watch.
They're proposing to broadcast a man being shot to death, even if deserved by our system, and even if you agree with this version of the death penalty, knowing that the footage will be clipped, shared, and pushed into social media feeds.
Including those of our children. The gruesome image will be everywhere.
Parents will have virtually no control over whether their kids see it. Once those images are released, there is no taking them back.
Hope all the parents in the Trump Admin are cool with that.
Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social retweeted
mountain crossing
everything living
leans into something
Basho
Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social retweeted
Así quedó la Facultad de Ciencia y Tecnología de Jan Yunis, Gaza
Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social retweeted
1/ New from me: Chinese diplos scrambled 90 min before the Xi/Trump visit to the National Archives to stop a Taiwan-related treaty from being shown.
..."an indication of pushback from within the U.S. gov against President Trump's warm reception of Xi.."
npr.org/2026/09/29/nx-s1-598…
Interesting observations—the wholesale military purges ensured consolidation of Xi’s power at the same time that he was telling them to be ready to take Taiwan by 2027. “Taiwan” sounds like a litmus test in retrospect, since Xi knew it would be impossible given his purge urge.
Ron S. Judy @ronentity.bsky.social retweeted
Since both political parties and the donor class decided today is Paramount Oligarch Day, it seems like a good moment to post this before it is erased from the world by the media overlords.
This scene was supposed to be a cautionary tale. It became America's dominant ideology.