Bessie the Normie
@bessiefromsgv
Taiwan beyond night markets and semiconductors: www.taiwanese-expat.com a normie new yorker techno-realist a woman ruining the workplace
Nice day spent with the New Taipei City startup program on their pitch day in LA Taiwan has much more to offer the world than hardware alone: Energy, climate, Al infrastructure, digital transformation, FoodTech, smart buildings, AgeTech, healthcare represented www.linkedin.com/posts/min-yi...
The LAPD shot and killed a family dog The officer who shot this dog and team who managed this response are incompetent and a danger to the public @mayor.lacity.gov 📞 (800) 339-6868 LAPD Complaint Line 📞 (818) 756-4800 Valley Bureau (Canoga Park) 📞 (213) 486-5910 LAPD Media Relations
These really sad marketing e-mails from ChatGPT make me feel like OpenAI might be cooked Overall user experience feels miles behind Claude and even Gemini these days
Finished Empire of AI. Politics at the end of the day are about power, Karen Hao namely writes about knowledge, resources, and influence. A lot has gone wrong in the last decade because people ceded a lot of it. Lessons moving forward.
Taiwan Selects LA 2026 brought together startups, investors, and ecosystem builders. My notes on interesting structural trends, candid investor feedback, and the realities cross-border founders need to navigate. open.substack.com/pub/bessiefr...
Mark your calendars: UC Davis Give Day is April 17-18! Support UC Davis students and programs, fund research, enhance campus life, and contribute to the university's world-class status. giveto.ucdavis.edu/campaigns/73... #UCDavis @ucdavis.bsky.social
One of the biggest impacts you can make as @demsabroad.bsky.social is by voting from abroad to flip the midterms. A Florida state seat that includes Mar-a-Lago flipped by only a few hundred votes yesterday. Every vote counts! Register to vote at votefromabroad.org
Apocalyptic lines yesterday at JFK Terminal 5. Didn't see any ICE agents though heard someone saying ICE had showed up the day before, stood around not doing anything, and people took pictures of them and mocked them.
Not me getting my Taiwan accessories ready as I’m packing for my Japan trip.
Cancelled Spotify recently due to them running ICE ads. ICE's cruelty and acting as a secret police cannot stand. Plus getting Apple Music with Chase Sapphire is saving me $$ too with better sound quality and easy playlist transfer from Spotify was painless. Thanks @indivisible.org
Just cancelled my Spotify premium. They need to stop running fascist ads for ICE. #cancelspotify
Sitting at this old timey cafe today, Cafe Astoria, doing some personal writing and feeling gratitude to be one droplet in the ocean of stories here. The haunt of Taiwan's literary giants and the aspirational youth of a different time, including my parents. www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/ar...
Democrats have been outperforming in elections since last Nov, in both Blue and Red States. Let's keep up the momentum for this Nov! My UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) @demsabroad.bsky.social absentee ballot abroad was already counted for NYC. Drop off your ballots!
My UOCAVA (Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act) absentee ballot abroad was counted for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social @demsabroad.bsky.social Let's win this!!
Finished @amandalitman.bsky.social's book When We're in Charge. Amanda Litman is who Sheryl Sandberg pretended to be.
Happy National Day Taiwan. 雙十節快樂 🇹🇼 A reminder that so much of the world, even places that claim to have free speech, caves to CCP pressure to erase our existence to not display our flag at everything from sporting events to even private businesses they send their thugs to.
Once in awhile you see a museum exhibit done so well it says with you. I saw this at the Kumu Museum in Estonia, but Nick Gray has a great write-up from the NY exhibition by Ragnar Kjartansson nickgray.net/no-tomorrow/
Time to Vote Yes on Prop 50 (State Measure 50) my CA besties!
Cancelled Disney Plus account. Even though I'm not even a fan of Jimmy Kimmel, I'm really not a fan of fascist bootlickers