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My book threads:
1 Harper's End of Empire teapawt.net/__earth/status/9536130…
2 Roff's Origins teapawt.net/__earth/status/9770079…
3 Mahathir's Malay Dilemma teapawt.net/__earth/status/9444874…
4 Ariffin's Bangsa Melayu teapawt.net/__earth/status/9013073…
5 Winsdtet's Malaya teapawt.net/__earth/status/8788508…
(Others weren't in threads)
“Amid industry’s shift towards digital platforms”
What is this? The 2010s?
Nearly 100 Media Mulia employees will be placed on paid leave as part of a business rationalisation exercise.
The publisher of Utusan Malaysia and Kosmo! said the move was aimed at ensuring long-term sustainability amid the industry's shift towards digital platforms.
However, it remained committed to publishing print newspapers for its loyal readers.
utusan.com.my/berita/2026/11…
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Excellent comment on this FT article about the Binance hack
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Economist William Nordhaus has passed away.
He's the author of one of my favorite papers on the economics of innovation, "Schumpeterian Profits in the American Economy: Theory and Measurement" (2004), in which he estimates how much of the social surplus (a rough measure of how much value is created for society) generated by innovation accrues to entrepreneurs and innovators. His answer? Only about 2.2%.
That is, innovators, as economists like Julian L. Simon continually stressed in their writings, end up leaving the world a far better place. And this is important because many see wealthy innovators as a drag on the economy, with some even wanting to heavily tax their gains according to some ideal scheme of redistribution. And yet, these people are not social drags, but great social benefactors.
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Tell Sam Altman that I use my 64GB of RAM to run print("Hello, World!"). I want him to know it's me.
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People often say: "Why focus on economic growth and GDP per Capita? Other things are much more important than money."
Here is the thing: many of those other things correlate strongly with GDP per capita.
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Verso Books condemns the Labour government’s decision to ban one of our leading authors, Andreas Malm, from entering the United Kingdom.
versobooks.com/blogs/news/a-…
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Breaking News: Patrick Stewart, who found acclaim as a Shakespearean actor before making a career pivot that would bring him his greatest fame, has died at 86. He achieved pop-culture stardom with major roles in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and “X-Men.” nyti.ms/4zc4Ka8
[3032] Kampung Dato Abu Bakar Baginda’s set of pressing problems do not include the Rohingyas
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My chili is powered by AI now
Rumors that chili maker Lao Gan Ma laid off 500+ workers due to AI have gone viral in China.
Beneath Beijing’s positive messaging, many ordinary Chinese people are worried about AI and jobs.
Lao Gan Ma recently touted a new AI-powered chili inspection system that uses high-speed industrial cameras that significantly outperform manual inspection.
A stat about the company using this AI system to reduce human inspectors from 600 to 48 went viral on Chinese social media. The iconic, family-run company pushed back.
But if you look at the data, the company has reduced headcount from 2,912 to 740 in the past few years while earning record revenues.
Original story: m.jiemian.com/article/152425…
That look different from my understanding of hologram
The Malaysian Border Control and Protection Agency has developed hologram technology to guide travellers through arrival procedures at KLIA Terminal 1.
The digital avatar can answer queries in real time in multiple languages, including English and Mandarin, and provide information on the country’s entry requirements.
📷: Bernama
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How Lula turned his election fortunes around in 3 weeks ft.trib.al/XwYLjjG
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President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva came from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election, halting a right-wing wave sweeping Latin America and defying predictions that the 80-year-old political veteran had finally reached the end of his extraordinary career. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Not on my geopolitical tension bingo card
Indonesia begins cutting natural gas exports to Singapore from Oct 24: Reports bit.ly/4z6bRRj
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JUST IN: Getty Images files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after struggling with mounting debt & growing competition from AI-generated images.
Many people are consumer-minded without concerns for other factors that include cybersecurity, industrial policy and even the future
They highly discount the future, insisting on eating some ice-cream today and in fact, now
Anwar Ibrahim urged citizens to avoid Waze, citing data security concerns over the Israel-founded app and its access to users’ movement data.
"Penggunaan aplikasi tempatan TuJu, yang dibangunkan oleh LLM, digalakkan sebagai alternatif," said the prime minister, noting that Waze is subject to Israeli government laws.
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