They should check the area for eggs. This is mating behavior. After a short incubation period, the spawn will swarm towards the nearest freeway

The way forward:

US universities genuinely are like “welcome to Tennessee Agricultural College in Bumfuck Nowheresville. We invented the modern potato and our facilities include a particle accelerator, nuclear reactor, and TOP500 supercomputer. Tuition is $12,000 for instate students and we have 40,000 of them”

地政大樓 台中市 2015

Very impressive pages

Katie Lee says what she describes as a “traumatic” experience giving birth in the U.S. made her question if she wanted a second child. A move abroad to Taiwan helped her reconsider. “It basically felt like being at a luxury hotel with the baby care and food delivery programs,” Lee says.

Lanthimos is the Orson Welles of the weird. Watched "Bugonia" (2025) last night and realized it's been a long time since a film left me simultaneously stunned and delighted....And what a sublime ending! #weird

21st Century warfare: Sylph-child uses Nintendo-style pad to direct miniature explosive drones into enemy tanks, hundreds of miles away, detonating them, killing the crew.

BREAKING: The Chinese government pressured Zambia to screen + exclude Taiwanese speakers attending @rightscon.org, leading to the largest international convention on digital rights being canceled a week before it takes place, the host org @accessnow.org tells WIRED. By @telliotter.bsky.social + me

"Taiwan needs spaces where voices can be shared without being reduced to a single label or skin tone." (CommonWealth Magazine 天下雜誌): english.cw.com.tw/article/arti... 🧋

Ordered this for our campus library (w/grant money) a while back. Great book design still lives. #horror

Meanwhile, Michael Stipe to Stephen Colbert:

Themes, lousy themes… theonion.com/you-cant-eve...

Grant Wood: Spring in the Country, 1941 Cedar Rapids Museum of Art Further description in the alt text 👇

I disagree with her about many things here, but this talk with Catherine Liu offers an interesting take on MAGA and identity politics #identitypolitics www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1N...

one of the ways the mid to late 20th century political world has distorted the historical memories of even sophisticated observers is in the idea that you can achieve major transformations of american political life through something like bipartisan consensus

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

Here are some more photos taken by the Jesuits in Taiwan, ca. 1960s. #photography #Taiwan

Interesting piece on the fragmenting of digital identities in the sciences, key point: "keep your ORCID profile up to date... it is controlled by the researcher, portable across institutions and designed to connect to publishers, funders and organizational systems" #AcademicChatter

🇹🇼 Tens of thousands of political documents from Taiwan’s years of one-party rule have been fully declassified by its top intelligence agency. All pre-1992 records have been transferred to the National Archives for public view with no redactions. focustaiwan.tw/politics/202...

For some reason this all reminded me of Nikolai Gogol’s novel “Dead Souls,” where Chickikov goes about the countryside buying up the rights to dead serfs futurism.com/sam-altman-d...

“Ká-Sióng” 假想: newbloommag.net/2025/04/05/k...

⚡Historic election ousts Hungary's Orban after 16 years in power. The election results are "painful for us, but clear," Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said in a brief concession speech Sunday night.

That PRC produced satirical USA vs. Iran AI video with Engl. subtitles is peculiar in that it has no Israeli character or Epstein references…Overall: 3 out of 5 stars youtu.be/mdBL1kmy6F0?...

This was a great, timely episode

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Cheng Li-wun's startled response to a CCP official's comment on having "viewed her vids" led netizens on a mad scramble to uncover her past — from being an activist denouncing the KMT's inhumane treatment of the #Taiwanese in 1989, to dressing up as a #bunny for Lien Chan's farewell banquet in 2005.

Received a polite notice from the university that there would be a public showing of the Falun Gong documentary "State Organs"《國有器官》on 4/25, emphasizing there would be a significant police presence on campus... youtu.be/Zo6A-qnVkBI?...

Someone at the hellsite posted a clip from this, Cyberpunk (1990) documentary, so I looked it up at the Internet Archive archive.org/details/TheV...

"Many people in Taiwan have a positive image of Japan for its anime and manga rather than focusing on history," the guide said.

The author of How Fascism Works and Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future is clear: He believes the United States is currently under an authoritarian regime led by a fascist leader.

The Earth Cow has been stirring a lot down there recently… #地牛翻身

Today's top headlines:

Back in 2009 Thomas Pynchon voiceovered a video book trailer for his new novel, Inherent Vice, published by Penguin. Watched it again today and it really feels like it didn't get nearly enough appreciation: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWK...

Seriously though, what if you have a nightmare? www.reutersconnect.com/item/people-...

🚨CALL FOR ABSTRACTS🚨 We are proud to announce the call for abstracts for our 11th annual conference: FREEDOM. The conference takes place at Copenhagen Business School on October 2-3 2026. Read the full call here 👇 and submit before 1 May 2026 💌 marxistiskestudier.com/2026/03/03/c...

Nice interview with one of Taiwan’s most important spaces for sound culture countercurrentmag.com/thecube

AI’s green-energy goal is devastating Taiwan’s coastal villages https://restofworld.org/2026/taiwan-ai-green-energy-impacts/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1774711680

Higher ed in Taiwan in trouble. Has been for years www.taiwannews.com.tw/news/6325704

Kluge was having fun with Ben Lerner in this, trying to get him to learn German youtu.be/7DmzI5l2J7M?...

Palantir’s CEO Alexander Karp on getting rejected by Habermas as his dissertation advisor: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Taiwan: Earth god temples

Butthole Surfers to release shelved 1998 album 'After The Astronaut'

Interesting take on the “mindfulness” market www.psychotherapy.net/perspectives...

Despite its name, “The Tibetan Book of the Dead” isn’t just about death. The famous Tibetan Buddhist text is really about the “bardos” — life’s in-between states — and how moments of uncertainty can become opportunities for transformation.

In a profound and elegiac work of investigative journalism, the writer Chris Hedges and the cartoonist Joe Sacco collaborate to present the testimony of displaced Palestinians who lived through the genocide: Requiem for Gaza is out 10/6. https://ow.ly/WKqI50YhoUz

Mondo 2000 Magazine - Issue number 09 (1993), pages 27-28 #Mondo2000 #Cyberpunk