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journalist, editor of (banned) https://t.co/imc5iuSd35 & https://t.co/LLttRuLvM1 @ https://t.co/vaCXxyoj9r
Joined November 2008
Thailand strikes Cambodia as Donald Trump-backed ceasefire collapses via @FT @AnanthalakshmiA
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Cross-border clashes erupt again months after south-east Asian neighbours were involved in five-day conflict
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Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?
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In Indonesia, there is a growing anger from the public about how the ongoing floods in Sumatra are tied to deforestation. Malaysians need to channel the same anger. Especially since 94% of our REE minerals are in forest reserves & the government plans to develop (mining) them.
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Systemic institutional markets failures enable corruption #kleptocracy checked by journalism says Nobel laureate #JosephStiglitz, amid info integrity sabotage via #AI... belies society's financialisation & shadow banking failures? needs @gijn #gijc25 wkshops.. @SheilaCoronel
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2 #gijc25 💥 re: #AI empire +power, malevolent goldrush that dismantles society via unaccountable #broligarchy hyping 'heaven'/ #dystopia -"scale boggles the mind" of data centres' fossil fuelled blackholes ala openAi trillion$ claims #climateemergency #democracy @_KarenHao @gijn
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Good pts re: authenticity premium/hunger of audiences; persuasive voicings that are popular not deceptively populist, diversity of hidden songs & liminal moments amid corporate algorithms; from distant China autocrats to intimate pandemic subjects & brazen scamsters #gijc25
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China is now selling FSD L4 autonomous logistics vehicles that costs as low as $11 a day. Last week I mentioned that when people ask me what the next “surprise technology” out of China will be, my answer isn’t flashy — it’s autonomous logistic vehicles. (Consequently, the next
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How today's America catches up with our region's media traditions @Reaproy 🙃
Where we’re at: Prominent Media analyst @RichLightShed argues that to get regulatory approval from the Trump admin in a WBD acquisition, Comcast should bring in TPUSA’s Erika Kirk to serve as the editor-in-chief of a combined CNN/NBC News
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older @ASEAN democrat &chair @anwaribrahim signs in youngest democracy #timorleste, as rakyat rally 2 out crumbling democracy literally &figuratively amid genocide; its leader lands 2 jig in classic KL warmth, centring #pmx skills in @asean's historic week https://t.co/ZuQmpXBNNV
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“Most mature as they grow into adulthood. Trump has populated his administration with those who didn’t.” @JohnJHarwood breaks down how the Trump administration is basically run by racist school bullies who never grew up.
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good points @MikeySlezak re: press freedom &false equivalences, breaking silence over Gaza in #auspol newsrooms, targeted killings of journos & newsrooms jobs, gambits over power barely scrutinised ... & industry implosions? @withMEAA @MediaDiverseAU
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Israel's man without a plan The @gideonrachman Review talks to journalist @AnshelPfeffer about Israel’s 'strongman' PM Netanyahu and how his ‘brazen disregard’ for international norms has left him at the mercy of extreme forces in Israel. https://t.co/Sqtk2HXz6N via @ft
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How Netanyahu turns calamity to his advantage
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a grand military parade too for a martial minded leader reflecting halcyon daze?
Cancel one day, continue the next. Prabowo went to Beijing anyway last night to “keep the good relations” with China and to “interact” with other world leaders. Just so we’re clear what his priorities are.
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"..protest &opposition to Suharto had spread on campuses, middle class &urban poor, laying the groundwork for 1998. Today, the dynamics are similar. 2025 didn't come out of nowhere..they're at least the 5th major wave of youth-led mass protest since 2019."
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A subculture of street protest survives beyond Jokowi
My take on the recent protests in Indonesia https://t.co/KUXC66l9hG
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The Jakarta protest on Thursday began with 64 workers unions having rallies in Jakarta, Medan and other industrial areas. In Jakarta, it was outside the parliament building. They demand an increase of the minimum wages and to end outsourcing 🧵
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Hundreds of workers protested in front of the House of Representatives complex in Senayan, Central Jakarta on Thursday to demand a revision to the labor law and ways to ensure better work protection...
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The Guardian on our study published today: https://t.co/Z6PXgCJG7N
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Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout
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"Americans wrongly believe there'd be one clear moment where we go from 'democracy' to 'authoritarianism.' Instead, this is how it happens -a blurring here, a norm destroyed there, a presidential diktat unchallenged. Then you wake up one morning..."
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Today is different than before.
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"In this era of information deluge and weaponisation, where much is not what it seems and facts are optional, banning books and febrile campaigns against legacy media may be sideshows of a looming bigger opera." ... flooding the zone @SheilaCoronel @JoshKurlantzick @latingle
Journalist Kean Wong reflects on #mediafreedom in the context of his arrest over a book on #Malaysia’s politics. This article is part of a series to accompany Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist @mariaressa's Oration @UniMelb on Thursday August 28. ➡️ https://t.co/gBBPkQ2fHh
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banishing Thaksin's chaos 'for good' in military's checkmate of rival civilians, via @JoshKurlantzick: "The conflict has allowed the military to stoke nationalism, and the leaked phone call, amidst this spike of nationalism, got rid of Paetongtarn..."
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In recent weeks, the border conflict between Thailand and Cambodia had ramped up dramatically, until the two sides agreed to a ceasefire that started at midnight Monday their time; noon today, U.S....
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"For all its claims to superior virtue, liberal America manifests v. little courage & dignity it has expected from artists & thinkers in less fortunate societies, as hooded masked officials disappear students for writing school op-eds & liking soc-med posts" #manifestdestiny
Must read: Pankaj Mishra’s insightful and trenchant critique of passivity and complicity of American liberal intellectuals in the age of Trump
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