#Vice #video on #homeless people living in the desert near Lancaster, California. #toread
on 02025-06-13#VICE homemade guns of #Taiwan #video includes Tsai Ing-Wen’s 02016 apology to the indigenous Taiwanese peoples and Tama Talum Suqluman’s prosecution. Indigenous hunters have an exception to the general #gun-control prohibition in Taiwan, as long as they make the guns themselves. Much footage of colorful Taiwanese clothing. “It was in the 80s that the government told us to hand in the guns for safekeeping, and we never got them back.” They’re using nail-gun powder cartridges to drive ball bearings. Covers Tsai’s pardon of Talum. #mechanical #politics #history
on 02024-04-06#VICE on “New Zealand’s lost hippy commune” Mahana #video about mostly a guy who is sad that his Mahanamates are working to keep new people from coming into the community
on 02024-04-06#VICE on Singapore’s remote-controlled cyborg insects: aerospace engineer Dr. Hirotaka Sato and his student Cao Feng at Nanjing Techncal University (in Singapore?) are controlling eight muscles of large live beetles with wires to make them walk, and his students Li Yao and Thang are working on controlling their flight. #video
on 02024-04-04