how do we value once utopian artefacts of now-rare vinyl classics that'll fetch price$$ at auction @marcuskelson.bsky.social ?

"Silicon Valley hated governments, rules and regulations. It believed if you were rich, you were smart. It thought people could be, and indeed should be, programmed just like a computer. 'Techno-libertarianism' had no time for the messy realities of being human." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...

Systemic failures of financial institutions &markets enable corruption #kleptocracy checked by journalism says Nobel laureate #JosephStiglitz, amid info integrity attacks via #AI... belies society's financialisation woes & looming shadow banking collapse? not detailed enough here @gijn.org #gijc25?

2 #gijc25 💥 rake over #AI empires & power, malevolent goldrush that dismantles society via unaccountable #broligarchy hyping 'heaven'/ #dystopia - "scale boggles the mind" of data centres' fossil fuelled blackholes a la openAi etc trillion$ claims #climateemergency #democracy @karenhao.bsky.social

theatricality and info integrity in the era of chaotic powerplays & inequality chasms overlooked as JoKukathas Kurosawa'a Rashomon to think in journalistic terms, investigating beliefs where flooding the zone with shit now commonplace #GIJC25

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 @suelinwong.bsky.social

A Nobel Laureate in my hometown reminds us in a bracing morning of the stakes today for our communities ... where info warfare & info integrity is core as the enshittification of civilisation is fuelled by broligarchs et al #trust #democracy #journalism #gijc25 @mariaressa.bsky.social

saturday retail: a box for auction from a busted shop, iphone cases for #heaven well wrapped

new digital caste to suit newly financialised economy: 'Scamming became the new farming. The fathers try a different crop every season; the sons, a different con.' #latecapitalism www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

better than Ponzi... "The awkward reality may be that if ChatGPT admitted 'I don’t know' too often, then users would simply seek answers elsewhere. That could be a serious problem for a company that is still trying to grow its user base and achieve profitability." www.science.org/content/arti...

Devil's in the lopsided details: "The benefits to 4 SEAsian nations were less clear.. failed to negotiate a lower tariff rate than 19-20% initially imposed... only about $1b of exports to the US, or 0.2% of Malaysia’s GDP, would receive a zero tariff rate." www.businesstimes.com.sg/internationa...

another win? "This was, in retrospect, the Decade of the Hawks, the Washington-based China experts who forcefully made the case for confrontation...including China experts and Washington policy hands who have never set foot in the Middle Kingdom — shaped US policy." www.semafor.com/article/10/2...

older #asean democrat &chair #AnwarIbrahim welcomes youngest democracy #timorleste in, while rakyat rally against older democracy's crumbling literally &figuratively amid genocide; its leader jigs 2 KL warmth,centring #pmx skills in historic week of superpower talks www.facebook.com/reel/7970968...

breaking the silence: multigenerational Aboriginal Chinese families up north with poignant stories contesting colonial #auspol frameworks, the stolen generation finding chinese refuge from white colonialists, and some still living with traumas of White Aust Policy in their family legacies

hearing legendary #HenryReynolds, 87, lucidly sketching out Cairns, Darwin, "multicultural Chinese towns" until WW2, & "Aboriginal people preferred working for Chinese, shared food, kitchens... a profound difference that the Chinese took responsibility for their children as part of new families.."

This is a great, detailed piece of work. There is really no secret here: OpenAI fully intend to use fossil gas to power their data centres. All the crap about fusion, dyson spheres etc is misdirection. This is what they're *actually* doing: www.desmog.com/2025/10/13/o...

good points @mikeyslezak.bsky.social re: press freedom &false equivalences, breaking silence over #Gaza in #auspol newsrooms, targeted killings of journos & newsrooms jobs, power(points) barely scrutinised ... & industry implosion reveals fragmented startups? @withmeaa.bsky.social @MediaDiverseAU

'peacemaker-in-chief': "The White House is conditioning Trump’s attendance at the Oct. 26-28 ASEAN meeting on the Malaysian government agreeing to allow Trump to preside over a ceremonial signing of a peace deal between Cambodia and Thailand on the summit sidelines" www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

out at last: #OmarMusa Borneo novel, so fine & authentic, his imposter-syndrome musing may be book's patriarch too, always a step ahead of stifling post-colonial legacies. In uncertain nations, everyone's cosplaying, imposters abound because the feels triumph, the vibe swamps inconvenient facts...

birthdaydrinks: unraveling authenticity in desperately ambitious era of influencers, sophistry, genocide & that climate emergency, in handy stroll w. #markmordue

showmanship... or just learning from seAsia 🙃 “Trump is knocking off one by one all the late-night TV show hosts, but at the same time the actual ownership of the networks is changing as well ... There’s a sort of conservativisation taking place of big US media.” www.smh.com.au/business/com...

like an ersatz outake from a Godfather movie, or nusantara nous... "We can do this the easy way or the hard way.. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.” www.smh.com.au/world/north-...

"..protest& opposition to Suharto had spread on campuses,the middle class, among urban poor, laying the groundwork for 1998. Today, the dynamics are similar, 2025 didn't come out of nowhere. Instead, they're at least 5th wave of youth-led mass protest since 2019." www.newmandala.org/mass-protest...

Hussam al-Masri, the Reuters journalist killed by Israeli fire on Monday while operating a live video feed at Gaza's Nasser Hospital, reported on the war's civilian suffering while living in a tent and struggling to find food for his family.

"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." go.unimelb.edu.au/3q9p ..in part of @mariaressa.bsky.social event @rappler.bsky.social

finding such weariness, hope and optimism for the #paxamericana to come, in these historic front pages of a newspaper i'd worked for decades later, as the ends close in on themselves and the centre doesn't hold

our alumni chats blowup more... “I believe Chancellor Bishop is hostile and arrogant to staff. The previous VC Brian Schmidt kept the chancellor’s behaviour in check. Council's dysfunctional and toxic under the current regime, elected council members are afraid.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

the 21st-century Leni will do better heroic framing? www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

#BREAKING: IMMEDIATE AND UNCONDITIONAL CEASEFIRE BETWEEN THAILAND CAMBODIA AT MIDNIGHT Malaysian PM Anwar Ibrahim announces breakthrough after talks between acting Thai PM Phumtham Wechayachai and Cambodia PM Hun Manet in Putrajaya. Full speech below

While big #turunAnwar rally obscured PN opposition's fractious politix, “The solution isn't more one-off aid or last-minute announcements. What we need is structural reform & consistent, empathetic leadership that engages w. rakyat beyond election cycles & crises.” #madani hipz.my/turun-anwar-...

banishing Thaksin's chaos 'for good' in military's checkmate of dangerous civilians, via @joshkurlantzick.bsky.social: "The conflict has allowed the military to stoke nationalism, and the leaked phone call, amidst this spike of nationalism, got rid of Paetongtarn..." www.cfr.org/blog/real-re...

"For all its claims to superior virtue, liberal America manifests very little courage & dignity it's expected from artists & thinkers in less fortunate societies, as hooded masked officials disappear students for the crime of writing school op-eds & liking soc-med posts" harpers.org/archive/2025...

dawn over the harbour, clouds still to clear, #nusantara dim and distant in #auspol imagination?

Deeply Malaysian chat, but can an uncertain nation well seared previously by Jit Murad's revealing, often satirical English-language theatre and social framings resonate with genZ religiosity, confused anti-secularism & Anglosphere-v-bahasa nusantara class disdain?

today's CP daily priority, as new US boorish ambo overshadows diminished Rubio, w. PMX walking hand-in-hand with WangYi. The sharp tabloid w. renowned visual verve does geopolitix succinctly, another pax americana moment of dying-in-ditch...

Conflict preventions retraced over decades updated #Asean summit & ISIS M'sia via @rorymedcalf.bsky.social & ICG's Huong Le Thu w. urgent reviving of "mandate without breaking Asean mechanisms" incl "shared facts", poss roles for #auspol as 'creative partner' in region... w. extra resource$?

Explaining a 'progressive patriotism' off @albomp.bsky.social Curtin speech, #auspol FM PennyWong charms Malaysians w. stout pts: "we must shape the region we want... we will keep prioritising this region, upholding the rules and norms that protect us", no US-China binaries in current turmoil

tasty diversion in diversity @ KL: classic malaysian fusions, where quality diners are now scattered across the Klang valley and cost per meal nudges $8 rather than 4 from just 2 years ago, as stalwarts stall holders retire, wages and rents soar ahead of trade war angst

this Omar-Mariel collab was so resonant of our times, her conjuring downtown #NYC sonic discord was like unravelling modernity, matching his lyrical yet anxious dystopia of the seas &hills. And pivoting too a funny history lesson on Sabah #Borneo Malaya, of conquests to today (w. more colonisation?)

Amazing Malaysian-Aust artists OmarMusa & Mariel RobertsMusa in 'The Offering', his poet/jiwa so triggered/staged by her full swells of cello &brass stabs, afloat Borneo's plastic ocean of climate emergency, as Omar's classic 'Fire on the hills' urgently rings w. sonic discordance & fierce woodcuts

"It seems more likely that we will continue to work in an environment where students are shortchanged, academics treated like children, university leaders dramatically overpaid, and the public gets less back than it should from its already dwindling investment." insidestory.org.au/dropping-out...

Trust as audiences shrink: "We're weary of the cycle of corporate concern, review and apology...More significant for #ABC is the break in trust w. a multicultural audience. Silencing 1 side of the story isn’t success. Shutting down voices isn't 'social cohesion'." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Judgement against: "The decision was made to appease the pro-Israel lobbyists who would inevitably escalate their complaints about the ABC employing a presenter they perceived to have anti-Semitic and anti-Israel opinions in such a public position." www.judgments.fedcourt.gov.au/judgments/Ju...

dismantling notions of modernity & citizenship for 'safety'? "The underlying dynamic is not just about race, but about how national security narratives, when framed in terms of covert threat, activate exclusionary instincts in ordinary citizens." thediplomat.com/2025/06/coll...

"Researchers caught #Meta using tactics of digital crooks to secretly compile logs of web browsing on Android devices. No one, incl Google, knew that Meta’s #Facebook & Instagram apps were siphoning people’s data through a digital back door for months" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Summer indifference in America wins... "the American security state, with its qualified immunity, surveillance apparatus and extrajudicial tactics, has long resembled something not far from a siloviki state. But the new administration is taking it to a new level." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...

"Most Americans don’t stop to parse the difference btwn Chinese and AsianAms, or btwn Han, Koreans, Japanese... phenotype stands in for affiliation. This won’t stop with PRC passport holders. It never has. What’s taking root is more ambient, more dangerous..." www.sinicapodcast.com/p/weve-lost-...

tech feudalism: "In another timeline, Yarvin might have remained an obscure ineffectual crank, a digital de Maistre. Instead, he's one of America’s most influential illiberal thinkers, engineer of the intellectual source code for the second Trump Administration." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

on face/Asia vs Usa.. "'We don’t like being gladiators fighting 1 another for others’ entertainment. We want to deal with our differences bilaterally, not in public forums.’...Beijing always wants to control the narrative &discourse. #SLD doesn't enable that” www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/china-s...