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Has cats. Former tech journo. Into F1, NRL, NBA, tech and politics, blogs at https://aulia.me. Editor at Campaign Indonesia. Southeast Asian. Hard left.

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Copyright law was designed to solve an economic problem reasonably well. What it was never designed to do is protect the dignity of a character, the integrity of a creative vision, or the relationship between a work and the audience that grew up loving it.

aulia.meThe American standard for copyright protects commercial interests, not creative integrityThere's a corner of the internet that's existed for decades, largely unbothered, largely self-regulating, and largely misunderstood by the people who probably should be paying closest attention to it. It's the world of fan fiction where millions of stories, updated daily, written by people who love a character, a world, or a universe so completely that they can't stop at consuming it.
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The MacBook Neo: A Wuling Air EV in a World of R34 Delusions At $599, the MacBook Neo is the "Fisher-Price Macintosh." It’s a heat-seeking missile aimed directly at the bloated, plastic-laden mid-range Windows market.

aulia.meThe MacBook Neo: A Wuling Air EV in a World of R34 DelusionsThe "spec goblins" are at it again. You can hear them now, huddled in their dark corners of Reddit, screeching about the "indignity" of a USB 2.0 port and the lack of MagSafe. They’re busy counting cores and measuring nits while completely missing the point. Apple hasn’t released a "bad" laptop; they’ve finally figured out how to sell us their leftovers—and make us love them for it.
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Komdigi's media circus at Meta's Jakarta office Communications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid showed up unannounced at Meta's Jakarta office on Wednesday with a full media entourage in tow

aulia.meKomdigi’s media circus at Meta’s Jakarta officeCommunications and Digital Minister Meutya Hafid showed up unannounced at Meta's Jakarta office on Wednesday with a full media entourage in tow — cameras rolling, reporters trailing, executives summoned, questions fired, headlines secured. The official justification was that Meta had complied with just 28.47 percent of the government's requests to act on online gambling and DFK content — disinformation, defamation, and hate speech — making it one of the lowest-performing platforms operating in Indonesia.
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Indonesia to limit social media for under-16s, but it's solving the wrong problem Moral panic rushes the implementation of a flawed restrictive approach that changes nothing in protecting children from online harm.

aulia.meIndonesia to limit social media for under-16s but it’s solving the wrong problemThere's a more powerful way to protect Indonesian children online, and Indonesia has the numbers to force it. Every generation decides that something new is destroying children. Comic books. Rock music. Television. Video games. The diagnosis changes. The panic is the same. Indonesia has now joined the queue. On Friday, Communications Minister Meutya Hafid announced the implementation of a regulation restricting children under 16 from platforms the government classifies as higher-risk — YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, X, Threads, Bigo Live, Roblox.
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Oh fuck off. This is extremely ironic. I’m about to publish a blog post about how age verification is terrible and BlueSky has the fucking audacity to force it on me 🤣🤣🤣

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Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are reasons why America has the second amendment. This is when you’re supposed to use it.

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They taught the world how to fight tyranny but now they’re bowing to it. Instead of rising up, Americans are waiting for democracy to fix itself while it's being dismantled.

aulia.meThey Taught the World to Rise. And then Forgot How.America loves a good story about itself. Freedom, liberty, rebellion, all sung in a major key and wrapped in a flag. They turned revolution into a genre, democracy into a Broadway soundtrack, and tyranny into something that only happens somewhere else. For years, they sang along to Hamilton like it was gospel. They memorized the verses, quoted the lines, cosplayed on TikTok, cried over the Founding Fathers recast as rappers, a nation rediscovering its roots through rhyme.

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Jason Koebler
@jasonkoebler.bsky.social

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening www.404media.co/google-calls...

404media.coGoogle Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.
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People keep saying Apple should acquire Perplexity but what is there in the company to buy? Not to mention they're culturally and ethically incompatible.

aulia.meThe Apple – Perplexity rumor that won’t go awayThis is a longer think piece from the quick post I had on Mastodon the other day. Every time someone floats the idea that Apple should acquire Perplexity to “supercharge” its AI efforts, I get whiplash, not just from the sheer strategic laziness of the suggestion, but from the deeper cultural misalignment it completely ignores. Perplexity isn’t some misunderstood innovator quietly building the future.
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Megawati is pretending coalitions and oppositions don't exist, after building both to stay in power all these years. She calls it ideology, everyone else calls it denial, but when your last name is Soekarno, you don't need to make sense to stay in charge.

aulia.meMegawati: Indonesia’s political system doesn’t recognize oppositions and coalitionsMegawati Soekarnoputri is once again lecturing the nation from a podium padded with nostalgia and selective memory. At PDIP’s 6th Congress in Bali, following her reelection as party leader until 2030, she confidently announced that “there’s no such thing as opposition or coalition in Indonesia’s presidential system,” arguing that such dichotomies belong only in parliamentary governments. She then doubled down, framing Indonesia’s democracy as one “based on the people’s sovereignty and the Constitution,” and insisting that PDIP would now act as an “ideological balancing force” rather than opposition.

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It's very obvious that the NYT has put people in editorial positions who view it as part of their job to upset the left. This is, in the bizarro, insular world of US elites, seen as a way to restore balance & regain the trust of the right. Putting aside the merits of the larger effort ...

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E. Rosalie
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🚨 THREAD: What just happened in Los Angeles is not normal, and it differs from past deployments of the National Guard in key ways that you need to understand. This is a breakdown of the history, the playbook, and why this move reeks of bad faith.

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Taylor Swift got her music back from Shamrock Capital who got them from Scooter Braun. All of it. But Reputation TV doesn’t have a release date because she hasn’t even recorded a quarter of it and now she doesn’t have to. www.billboard.com/pro/taylor-s...

billboard.comTaylor Swift Buys Back Her Masters From Shamrock, Reclaiming Her First Six AlbumsTaylor Swift has regained control of her master recordings years after they were sold, first to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings, then to Shamrock.
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The controversy in Indonesia about the definition of what #sport entails is rooted in perception and linguistic roots, since olahraga literally means body exercise. But sport isn't just about physical pursuits. aulia.me/2025/05/24/k...

aulia.meKomdigi Minister Meutya Hafid is Wrong About SportThe Minister’s dismissal of e-sports as “not real sport” exposes an outdated understanding, trapped by language that excludes millions of digital competitors. There’s a cont…

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“The Trump administration first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One…four sources familiar with the discussions told CNN. That’s contrary to the narrative from the president that Qatar reached out and offered the jet as a ‘gift’ to him.”

cnn.comSources contradict Trump narrative about Qatar offering plane as ‘gift’ | CNN PoliticsThe Trump administration first approached Qatar to inquire about acquiring a Boeing 747 that could be used as Air Force One by President Donald Trump, four sources familiar with the discussions told C...
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Ordered an Oden combo 1 for breakfast, got only the oden and charged only for the single stick of oden. Didn’t have the energy or enough fucks to give to ask for the full bowl. At least it’s warm soup 😅

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There’s a new desktop operating system made by a big company that’s about to launch. Why haven’t you heard about it? Easy: The company is Huawei, which can’t work with U.S. vendors anymore. It provides an interesting discussion point for our moment. tedium.co/2025/05/09/h... new @tedium.co

tedium.coWhat Huawei’s HarmonyOS Next Says About Tech IsolationismIf we’re headed for a less-globalized technology industry, the desktop version of Huawei’s HarmonyOS offers an interesting preview.

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Trump’s approval rating is under 40% before a “COVID-like” shortage of consumer goods—which was entirely caused by Trump—has even hit yet. How low will he go once the shortages hit? 30%? 20%? At what point does the GOP decide to cut their losses and toss him from office?

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WAPO: “.. ocean-container bookings from China to the U.S. are down by more than 60 percent .. “.. The consequence will be ‘empty shelves in U.S. stores in a few weeks and covid-like shortages for consumers ..’” @davidjlynch.bsky.social @jeffstein.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...