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Many people present this as Indonesia "aligning" itself with the U.S. when at the very same time as Indonesia's Defense Minister was in Washington, President Prabowo was in the Kremlin meeting Putin (en.antaranews.com/news/412121/pr…), quoted with this opening statement: “Your Excellency, I have also come to consult with you as the global geopolitical situation is developing and changing very rapidly.” Which means it looks much more like Indonesia playing the non-aligned playbook, leveraging its position between great powers. This "Major Defense Cooperation Partnership" seems mostly aspirational for now: it says both countries "will explore" co-development of asymmetric capabilities, "pioneering" next-gen defense tech in maritime and autonomous systems, "cooperating on" MRO support. All words high on Pentagon press release energy, low on substance. There's also this other story about a secret deal between Indonesia and the U.S. where Indonesia would grant the U.S. military blanket overflight rights across its entire archipelago (reuters.com/world/asia-pac…). Fascinatingly, this classified document was leaked by The Sunday Guardian (here: sundayguardianlive.com/world/us-seeks…), an Indian media outlet founded by M.J. Akbar, a journalist who became a BJP politician (he served as Minister of State for External Affairs under Modi). This is not a paper that accidentally stumbles onto classified US defense documents about Indonesian airspace. Someone gave them this document, and they published it for a reason (presumably because they don't want the U.S. to have a free air corridor across the Indonesian archipelago any more than Beijing does). The impact of the publication is already disrupting the deal, which was probably the whole point. Indonesia's parliament is already saying that "there is no legal basis that allows for the granting of unlimited free access to national airspace to foreign parties" (antaranews.com/berita/5524735…) and Indonesia's Defense Ministry is in damage control mode, downplaying the document as merely a "preliminary draft" that hasn't been approved (en.tempo.co/read/2097899/i…). Mission accomplished, presumably. So all in all, the actual story is: - Indonesia signed a vague framework with the U.S. that's mostly aspirational - high on PR, low on substance - It collected a photo op with the Pentagon and the Kremlin on the same day - The consequential stuff would have been the overflight deal but it looks like someone wanted it killed badly enough to leak it to Modi-adjacent Indian media - who happily published it and the deal is now compromised. That's where the actual power play happened - and it seems to have worked.

A common experience: Many brilliant scientists cannot grasp elementary philosophical distinctions. Last night I could not get a colleague to understand the difference between the "hard" (sentience, subjectivity, experience) and "easy" (reportability, information access) senses of "consciousness." Nor the difference between a definition of consciousness and various explanations of consciousness. Hypothesis: scientists tend to equate rigorous thinking with mechanistic explanation, and don't recognize that abstract concepts requires sharp analysis as well.

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Gak melindungi Prabtolol atau apa tapi tolol juga lu kalau bilang NGO di Indonesia ga didanai Special Interest Groups apalagi nyebut itu teori konspirasi. CELIOS dan YLBHI didanai OSF; KontraS didanai OMCT yang didanai NED; WALHI didanai Ford Foundation.

This is the single best framework I’ve seen for understanding AI. Terence Tao, arguably the smartest mathematician alive, just dropped a paper with Tanya Klowden on arXiv called “Mathematical Methods and Human Thought in the Age of AI.” The core idea: a “Copernican View of Intelligence.” Stop thinking of AI on a line from “dumb” to “superhuman.” That’s the wrong axis entirely. AI excels at BREADTH. Humans excel at DEPTH. Tao himself said AI has made his papers “richer and broader, but not necessarily deeper.” That’s not a limitation. That’s the entire playbook. Stop trying to replace yourself with AI. Start using it to cover the 90% of surface area your brain physically can’t. The people who get this are already 10x more productive. The rest are still arguing about whether AI is “smart enough.” Reframe your point of view from “smarter” to “different”. Human + AI > either alone. The math on that has never been clearer.

The CEO of Google DeepMind just went on record saying he disagrees with one of the most respected AI researchers in the world. Demis Hassabis, the man behind AlphaFold, AlphaGo, and Google's entire AI operation publicly pushed back against Yann LeCun's claim that large language models are a dead end for artificial intelligence. LeCun, who left Meta earlier this year to start his own AI lab, has been saying for years that LLMs cannot reason, cannot plan, and will never get us to human-level intelligence. Hassabis disagrees, and he said so directly. His position is that scaling laws are still working, foundation models are still getting more capable, and whatever AGI ends up looking like, LLMs will be a central part of it, not something that gets replaced. He does say there is roughly a 50/50 chance that one or two additional breakthroughs will be needed beyond scaling alone, things like better memory, long-term planning, and world models. But the core disagreement with LeCun is clear, Hassabis believes the current architecture is sound and the current path leads somewhere real. Two Nobel-recognized researchers, two founding figures of modern AI, now publicly on opposite sides of the most important technical question in the industry.

Marcus Hutchins, the guy famous for stopping the WannaCry Ransomware, probably has the best take on Mythos doing vulnerability research

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Guys, ada kasus yang menurut gue harus lebih banyak disorot dan ini bukan kasus kecil. Rp28 miliar dana umat dikumpulkan selama 40 tahun raib. Pelakunya mantan kepala cabang bank BUMN sendiri. Kasusnya: Paroki Aek Nabara di Sumatera Utara menjadi korban penggelapan dana sebesar Rp28 miliar oleh mantan kepala cabang BNI bernama Andi Hakim Febriansyah. Uang itu bukan uang biasa. Itu dana yang dikumpulkan umat selama 40 tahun untuk pembangunan gereja, kebutuhan kesehatan, dan pendidikan jemaat. Empat dekade tabungan kolektif. Habis dalam satu pengkhianatan. Yang paling mengkhawatirkan bukan hanya penggelapannya: Bendahara gereja menyampaikan sesuatu yang menurut gue adalah inti dari seluruh masalah ini: Deposito berjangka yang resmi bisa dicairkan tanpa tanda tangan saya, tanpa kehadiran saya, tanpa berhadapan dengan teller. Lalu di mana pengawasan BNI? Ini bukan pertanyaan retorika. Ini pertanyaan teknis yang serius. Dalam sistem perbankan yang sehat pencairan deposito berjangka membutuhkan verifikasi ketat. Ada prosedur. Ada tanda tangan. Ada konfirmasi kehadiran. Kalau semua itu bisa dilewati oleh seorang kepala cabang itu bukan hanya soal oknum. Itu soal lubang sistemik dalam pengawasan internal bank. Dan respons bank yang dikritisi: Paroki Aek Nabara menyatakan BNI kurang kooperatif dalam menangani kasus ini. Pihak gereja bahkan harus datang ke bank dan meminta pertanggungjawaban secara langsung setelah kasus ini sudah jelas melibatkan pegawai bank yang datang atas nama BNI, bukan atas nama pribadi. AHF adalah wajah BNI bukan AHF sebagai pribadi. Karena itulah kami percaya. Dan ini adalah poin hukum yang sangat kuat. Ketika seseorang datang dalam kapasitas jabatannya sebagai kepala cabang bank BUMN kepercayaan yang diberikan bukan kepada individu itu. Kepercayaan diberikan kepada institusi yang dia wakili. Kalau institusinya kemudian cuci tangan dengan mengatakan itu oknum itu adalah respons yang tidak adil dan tidak bertanggung jawab. Ini bukan pertama kalinya: Kasus penggelapan oleh oknum pegawai bank BUMN bukan fenomena baru di Indonesia. Dan polanya hampir selalu sama: pelaku adalah orang dalam yang dipercaya, korban adalah nasabah yang percaya pada nama besar institusinya, dan respons institusi hampir selalu lambat dan defensif. Yang berbeda dari kasus ini adalah skalanya Rp28 miliar dari komunitas yang mengumpulkan uang selama 40 tahun dan korbannya adalah umat yang mempercayakan tabungan hidup mereka kepada bank negara. Yang perlu dituntut secara konkret: Satu BNI harus menjelaskan secara transparan bagaimana deposito berjangka bisa dicairkan tanpa prosedur verifikasi yang seharusnya berjalan. Dua Kalau ada lubang sistemik dalam pengawasan internal itu bukan hanya tanggung jawab pelaku. Itu tanggung jawab manajemen dan sistem audit internal bank. Tiga Korban berhak mendapat kompensasi dari institusi bukan hanya menunggu proses pidana terhadap individu pelaku yang mungkin butuh bertahun-tahun. Empat OJK sebagai regulator perbankan perlu memberikan penjelasan publik apakah ada kelalaian pengawasan dari sisi regulasi. Kalau bank BUMN tidak bisa bertanggung jawab atas tindakan pegawainya yang beroperasi atas nama bank lalu untuk apa ada bank negara?

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

this tweet shows how out of touch people in tech are. the public barely knows about Stripe, Deel or Rippling. i spent my entire twenties being inspired by many tech billionaires and following their mental models and while career wise i’m glad i did, after the horrors i’ve witnessed in the past 2 years i’ve been truly distancing myself intellectually/spiritually/philosophically from the tech elite school of thought and questioning and redesigning my values and identity. i’ve completely changed social circles and broken friendships because of this and i think it’s important that more people in tech reflect on it. we entered tech to make the world a better place and to equalize opportunities globally. but which tech billionaire is talking about equalizing opportunities today? imo, the public is increasingly hating on tech because tech billionaires who were once inspiring nerds and only focused on building tech that made the world better, started talking about and influencing world affairs ideologically, and the more they did that the clearer it became that they have no understanding of anything outside of their companies, so they had to borrow agendas and views from their nearest smart-sounding and popular person in silicon valley that seemed to understand the world. they ended up adopting agendas that turned out to be alien from agendas of the public and in many cases anti public. this enabled the creation of companies and entire industries that are inherently evil in their use of technology but are suddenly normalized. there’s also an insane amount of hypocrisy, where some tech billionaires say they have value X but when it comes to upholding value X you can tell they clearly have incentives to speak sometimes and shut up some other times despite having all the resources in the world. it’s easier to respect a poor person who keeps silent in the face of injustice than an infinitely resourceful person who (regardless of their view) keeps silent. billionaires can influence government policy but don’t want to be held accountable? that’s a wild, destructive loophole in any political system. the public is smart (contrary to how tech elites often view it) and can respect success that’s result of skill and/or luck but doesn’t infinitely put up with BS

Apple has removed Lebanese village names in Southern Lebanon. As Israel invades, they are already setting the state to justify occupation. I’ve never seen something like this.

Raw GPS data shows that 44 foreign-registered cellphones were in the immediate area of Charlie Kirk on that sad day: 16 Israeli, 13 Chinese, 12 Russian, and 3 Iranian. Our system just alerted us that 4 of the 16 Israeli devices that were in Utah that day, have arrived in Islamabad last evening, at the Islamabad Serena Hotel'

계속 느끼는 사실이지만, 우리가 사는 세계는 하나로 연결되어 있는 것이 맞다.

Just TNI with another banger abbreviation

Notice how they're not killing the journalist: Israel: 0 Gorillas: 1

Watch Israeli soldiers beating and arresting Christians who were celebrating Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem: 🎥 Rafi Ghattas

23 years ago today in Gaza, British photographer Tom Hurndall was shot in the head by an Israeli sniper while trying to protect Palestinian children. Humanity will never forget him

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