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Cybercultural: Internet History and Its Impact on Our Culture

Cybercultural is a website covering internet history and the evolution of digital culture.

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Why Tagalog and Filipino Are Two Distinct Languages

Debunking, once and for all, the myth that Tagalog and Filipino languages are one and the same.

What can intralingual translation do?

Published in Asia Pacific Translation and Intercultural Studies (Vol. 6, No. 1, 2019)

Cultural Computing with Context-Aware Application: ZENetic Computer

We offer Cultural Computing as a method for cultural translation that uses scientific methods to represent the essential aspects of culture. Including images that heretofore have not been the focus of computing, such as images of Eastern thought and Buddhism, and the Sansui paintings, poetry and kimono that evoke these images, we projected the style of communication developed by Zen schools over hundreds of years into a world for the user to explore – an exotic Eastern Sansui world. Through encounters with Zen Koans and haiku poetry, the user is constantly and sharply forced to confirm the whereabouts of his or her self-consciousness. However, there is no "right answer" to be found anywhere.

Chronology and ecology of early islanders in the Philippines: The Mindoro Archaeology Project

The investigation and excavation of caves and rockshelters located at the southern end of Occidental Mindoro produced significant artefacts, data, and information related to the initial arrival and colonization of the Philippine archipelago by anatomically modern humans. The sites provided several indications for the increasing adaptation to maritime environments and delivered evidence for their behavioural and technological complexity. Mindoro lies along a direct route to reach the main islands of the Philippines coming from the Asian mainland via Borneo and Palawan. Since 2010, surveys conducted in the karstic regions of Ilin Island and Sta. Teresa, Magsaysay have mapped and explored over 40 caves and rockshelters. Particularly the sites of Bubog 1, Bubog 2, Cansubong 2 Cave, and Bilat Cave, have delivered cultural and biological materials that chronicle human habitation and adaptation to maritime and coastal environments over a period of 35–40,000 years. Early islanders in the region intensively foraged for molluscs and other marine invertebrates along the coast, employed different techniques to catch a variety of reef and pelagic fish as well as terrestrial animals, and were embedded in maritime networks with access to transfer routes, through which technology, information, and ideologies were disseminated over long distances and across Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) and possibly also reaching the Southeast Asian mainland. The results of the archaeological research in Mindoro contribute to our understanding of the processes of human island adaptation, complement ongoing research on the peopling of Southeast Asia, and enhance current knowledge of prehistoric subsistence strategies across the region.

From cultures to aesthetics between Asian and Western UX design

Since I moved to Europe from Asia and used to work for European company from Asia. I feel like I have to discuss the topic of design aesthetics, cultural influences and user behaviours.

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The Philippines Unicode Keyboard Layout (PH-UKL) is the first Unicode keyboard layout for Philippine languages with ₱eso and Baybayin (ᜊᜌ᜔ᜊᜌᜒᜈ᜔) support.<br/>

Disquiet – Listening to culture. Playing with audio. Sounding out technology. Composing in code.

At the end of each week, I usually collate a lightly edited collection of recent comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. I tag on what books I may have finished reading. Knowing I’ll revisit my social media posts, I’ve found, serves as a positive and mellowing influence on my online activity. I mostly hang out on Mastodon (at post.lurk.org/@disquiet), and I’m also trying out a few others. And I generally take weekends off social media.

Rosano

hello I'm a technologist, writer, and musician, mostly producing personal projects. This is my home on the web. Find more in my blog, vlog, and log. Now in Toronto, Canada 🇨🇦 . connection Strolling conversations with people I meet along the way thick skin, open heart If it was guaranteed to feel good, I wouldn't be open to whatever happens. visual family cosmos one surname is not "where you're from". introducing Occasion Shifting from "I should take less space" to "I'd like to connect regularly with people who want more".

Why You Should Keep Listening Even If You Don’t Understand | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Like I’ve said before…the set of tools/methods described on this site…I don’t know why it all works; looking at and thinking about how people learn their native language, it just all seemed obvious to me. In other words, I knew what I needed to do to achieve fluency…but not much more.

Experience Localization: What Non-English Communities Actually Need from ATProto - Nightflight

A specification request from the second-largest language community on Bluesky

The Transformative Potential of Asian Philosophies | Epoché Magazine

A free online philosophy magazine, delivered monthly

Everything I Love | Chia Amisola

Chia Amisola is devoted to the internet's loss, love, labor, and liberation, particularly of the third world experience. An artist & technologist, they unravel systems and narratives that condition & emerge from technology, and the intimacies & infrastructures beneath them. Their 'internet ambient' works build dense, durational, hypertextual worlds that entangle Philippine specificity and universal conditions.