Dang Nguyen

I'm back in Berkeley and realised I've never shared my Berkeley profile here. So here it is! ischool.berkeley.edu/people/dang-ng…

So DW is not simply asking, ‘Are tech billionaires bad?’ It is asking something closer to: what happens when democratic societies depend on infrastructures controlled by politically ambitious private actors?

Europe relies heavily on US platforms, cloud services, AI systems, and software ecosystems, while also trying to regulate them through privacy law, competition policy, and AI governance.

Intrigued by this DW segment: "Inside the broligarchy: Is big tech running US politics? Carole Cadwalladr talks to DW News" youtube.com/watch?v=gXMx_v…

@David_Gunkel @Pontifex @mitpress "The other as a face" is exactly the problem here.

In "Magistarium Humanitas," @Pontifex makes reference (without citation) to Emmanuel Levinas. But like Levinas, the "face of the other" is limited to human subjects, excluding other forms of otherness (e.g. animals, nature, and artifacts). Ecce "The Machine Question" @mitpress

Historically, that is very hard. Oil wealth tends to distort governance faster than institutions can mature.

The really interesting question is whether Suriname can avoid the classic resource-curse trajectory and instead leverage the oil boom to build durable institutional capacity before dependency hardens.

Here's an interesting video: "Why Big Oil is opening new frontiers" youtube.com/watch?v=4XyCWj…