Joshua Yang
@joshuacyang.bsky.social
New here 👋🏽 PhD researcher on AI Alignment and Digital Democracy at ETH Zurich. Born in Australia, raised in Taiwan, based in Switzerland — at home in all. I look to history for what could be preserved, and digital democracy for what might be possible.
Incredible. Nepal’s Gen Z just elected their prime minister on #Discord.
It shows that when politics is blocked, the internet becomes a public square where people can self-organise & decide. It’s usually the simple, familiar tools that people pick up.
Sometimes, that’s enough to change a country.
It shows that when politics is blocked, the internet becomes a public square where people can self-organise & decide. It’s usually the simple, familiar tools that people pick up.
Sometimes, that’s enough to change a country.
September 16, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Incredible. Nepal’s Gen Z just elected their prime minister on #Discord.
It shows that when politics is blocked, the internet becomes a public square where people can self-organise & decide. It’s usually the simple, familiar tools that people pick up.
Sometimes, that’s enough to change a country.
It shows that when politics is blocked, the internet becomes a public square where people can self-organise & decide. It’s usually the simple, familiar tools that people pick up.
Sometimes, that’s enough to change a country.
Back in Utrecht again and the Catharijnesingel scene still fascinates me. Canal became highway in the ’60s, highway became canal again in 2020. Sixty years of concrete undone, neighborhoods reconnected, water restored. Never too late to admit car-centric planning was a bad idea.
July 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Back in Utrecht again and the Catharijnesingel scene still fascinates me. Canal became highway in the ’60s, highway became canal again in 2020. Sixty years of concrete undone, neighborhoods reconnected, water restored. Never too late to admit car-centric planning was a bad idea.
Just visited Schoonschip, Amsterdam’s floating neighbourhood where 100+ ppl live on water. Residents share solar energy & know each other well after 13 years building together. All the kids were out playing in the water. Climate adaptation with so much life. Guess that’s the point.
July 11, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Just visited Schoonschip, Amsterdam’s floating neighbourhood where 100+ ppl live on water. Residents share solar energy & know each other well after 13 years building together. All the kids were out playing in the water. Climate adaptation with so much life. Guess that’s the point.
PhD completed 🎓 Just defended my doctoral thesis "Designing Computational Methods for Digital Democracy" at @ethz.ch! Huge thanks to my supervisor Dirk Helbing, reviewers @trivikrama.bsky.social & @cesifoti.bsky.social. I got one of these Swiss team-made PhD hats—with a cat casting votes non-stop.
July 3, 2025 at 3:42 PM
PhD completed 🎓 Just defended my doctoral thesis "Designing Computational Methods for Digital Democracy" at @ethz.ch! Huge thanks to my supervisor Dirk Helbing, reviewers @trivikrama.bsky.social & @cesifoti.bsky.social. I got one of these Swiss team-made PhD hats—with a cat casting votes non-stop.
Wholeheartedly enjoyed my time in #FAccT2025 in Athens (not so much the heat wave). It’s an open, welcoming, human-facing, an truly interdisciplinary community where the most timely & crucial questions are being asked and explored. Having a gorgeous city as the backdrop certainly didn’t harm either.
June 26, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Wholeheartedly enjoyed my time in #FAccT2025 in Athens (not so much the heat wave). It’s an open, welcoming, human-facing, an truly interdisciplinary community where the most timely & crucial questions are being asked and explored. Having a gorgeous city as the backdrop certainly didn’t harm either.
This is what you get when you host a conference in a compact, walkable city- infrastructure for spontaneity. Here we are, a group of #FAccT2025 academics at the top of Athens past midnight, talking about the wild future scenarios of AI, with the Acropolis and Agora glowing below us.
June 26, 2025 at 6:24 AM
This is what you get when you host a conference in a compact, walkable city- infrastructure for spontaneity. Here we are, a group of #FAccT2025 academics at the top of Athens past midnight, talking about the wild future scenarios of AI, with the Acropolis and Agora glowing below us.
We’re at #FAccT2025 in the Athens Conservatoire, & I was surprised to find a beautiful mid-century modernist venue. A brutalist building w/ a Greek twist- Pentelic marble, courtyards, long corridors, open foyers. Designed by Ioannis Despotopoulos, the only Greek architect to study at the Bauhaus.
June 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
We’re at #FAccT2025 in the Athens Conservatoire, & I was surprised to find a beautiful mid-century modernist venue. A brutalist building w/ a Greek twist- Pentelic marble, courtyards, long corridors, open foyers. Designed by Ioannis Despotopoulos, the only Greek architect to study at the Bauhaus.
First day at ACM #FAccT 2025 conference in Athens! The venue is beautifully designed with such thoughtful @facct.bsky.social aesthetics. There’s also something quite special about discussing AI fairness and transparency in the birthplace of democracy itself 🏛️
June 23, 2025 at 7:03 AM
First day at ACM #FAccT 2025 conference in Athens! The venue is beautifully designed with such thoughtful @facct.bsky.social aesthetics. There’s also something quite special about discussing AI fairness and transparency in the birthplace of democracy itself 🏛️
Had a great time sharing our work on how social choice and computational methods can bridge voting and deliberation in the EDDY Digital Democracy conference in Paris. But always find myself missing the swiss lakes on hot days like these!
June 20, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Had a great time sharing our work on how social choice and computational methods can bridge voting and deliberation in the EDDY Digital Democracy conference in Paris. But always find myself missing the swiss lakes on hot days like these!