Quinton Temby
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Asst. Prof. @MonashUni Indonesia | Southeast Asian politics. Opinions my own via context engineering.
Jakarta
Joined January 2018
We need more Indian tech people to immigrate to Australia to break us out of our technophobia
INDIA, INTERNET, INTERNATIONAL If you're Indian, don't move to America. Because the US left hates technocapitalists. And the US right wants no more immigrants. Moreover, as the sovereign debt crisis worsens... It only gets worse. Possibly murderously worse. So: Indian immigrant
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伟大的舵手万岁!
This morning, the State Department renamed the former Institute of Peace to reflect the greatest dealmaker in our nation's history. Welcome to the Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace. The best is yet to come.
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Let's Not Bring Back The Internet and Social Media Gatekeepers: Instead, try to refute what you think is wrong & persuade those who disagree with you. Shocking suggestion by philosopher Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil.
conspicuouscognition.com
The challenge for the liberal establishment in the social media era is simple: persuade or perish. If you can’t control the public conversation, you must participate in it.
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Claude is the Garner's Modern English Usage of AI
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Rafflesia hasseltii: a plant seen more by tigers than people. Watching this flower open by night was the closest thing to magic:
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Australia's youth social media is going to create perfect conditions for testing some hypotheses about radicalisation, innovation and fragmented networks. Some researchers must be gearing up for this. @acerbialberto @duncanjwatts ?
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Industrial policy is good, actually. Better late than never.
The World Bank's 1993 "East Asian Miracle" report attributed the miracle to macroeconomic fundamentals, not state intervention. "Industrial policy" would remain taboo for 30 years. In a new JEP symposium, @nancymbirdsall -- who oversaw the report -- reassesses that call. 🧵
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My recent interview with Barry Marshall is doing the rounds on X again, courtesy of Steve Pinker. A reminder you can watch it in full on YouTube (and subscribe while you’re there!): https://t.co/Jai07LNR2N
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The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of good and bad: and covering both bubble & non-bubble arguments. It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”
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mRNA vaccines are a miracle technology.
What does this mean for the future? We may be able to design universal mRNA cancer boosters - off-the-shelf shots that supercharge the immune system to fight all types of cancer. Not by targeting the tumor directly, but by reawakening our body’s defenses. 7/
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Perhaps the single most embarrassing thing happening in this country right now.
Follow your favourite pop stars and content creators on YouTube? ❌ Spend hours a day in the swamp of 4Chan ✅ The stupidest policy of all time
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Joe Frost, in the first image here, has released a moving podcast series on the events 2005, which he survived along with his father, a doctor who helped victims at Sanglah hospital
open.spotify.com
Podcast · 9.6 Digital · On 1 October 2005, three young men wearing backpacks walked into restaurants on the Indonesian island of Bali. Moments later, 20 innocent people were dead, more than 100 were...
Today marks 20 years since the 2005 Bali bombings. We honour those who lost their lives and the resilience shown by those who had theirs changed forever. In memory of the victims, survivors & first responders, the Australian Government will fund a permanent memorial in Australia.
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New James Pogue just dropped. One of the best long form politics writers of our time. https://t.co/d4OhIMtwXg
vanityfair.com
NYC’s mayoral candidate has Kennedy-like charisma, a global profile, and nepo baby instincts. He is also a proud democratic socialist who has both Donald Trump and the left-wing establishment in a...
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Today we launch the Southeast Asia Influence Index, a new digital tool mapping China-US competition, geopolitics, and neighbourhood relationships in this critical region. A 🧵on the findings ... 1/
influence.lowyinstitute.org
Explore comprehensive analysis of the relative importance of Southeast Asian countries and their leading partners across five dimensions of influence
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My recommendation: university governance needs to involve academics as key stakeholders. The top management of universities should be accountable to (and possibly dismissed by) a council or senate in which senior academics make up at least 50% of the members.
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The 'infiltrator' is a common frame in Indonesia for interpreting and narrating mass expressions of dissent . I suggest that it operates to obscure the political agency of marginal political actors, many of whom were at the forefront of recent protests. https://t.co/rHhDDzN3U4
indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au
The figure of the ‘penyusup’—the shadowy provocateur who incites unrest and pushes protest beyond the bounds of legitimate political action—has become deeply entrenched in Indonesia’s interpretive...
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My take on the recent protests in Indonesia https://t.co/KUXC66l9hG
newmandala.org
A subculture of street protest survives beyond Jokowi
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The most cancer-causing pathogen in the world is Helicobacter pylori. It lives in the stomach of about half the world's population. As the leading cause of stomach cancer, it's therefore responsible for about 5% of the total burden of new cancer cases globally. It's also the
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Great fun recording a chat with Barry Marshall in Perth a few weeks ago. Publishing the episode next week. His self-experiment is one of the most famous in the history of science. Few living individuals can claim to have increased total wellbeing by as much as Barry has. Hero.
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