keanwong
@keanwong.bsky.social
scary but for a tasty, possibly final riposte... eaten the Mamdani way 😉
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
scary but for a tasty, possibly final riposte... eaten the Mamdani way 😉
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?
November 23, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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
November 23, 2025 at 1:43 AM
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
November 21, 2025 at 5:05 AM
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
November 21, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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
November 21, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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
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...
October 26, 2025 at 4:32 AM
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
October 14, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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.."
October 14, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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.."
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
October 13, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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
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...
October 2, 2025 at 1:06 AM
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
October 2, 2025 at 12:39 AM
birthdaydrinks: unraveling authenticity in desperately ambitious era of influencers, sophistry, genocide & that climate emergency, in handy stroll w. #markmordue
"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
August 27, 2025 at 10:30 AM
"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
August 16, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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
the 21st-century Leni will do better heroic framing? www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
August 7, 2025 at 4:07 AM
the 21st-century Leni will do better heroic framing? www.latimes.com/politics/sto...
and maybe unsurprisingly, the only regular oz uni conf on #malaysia has m'sian ambo open it as uni chiefs absent/"too busy" with fraught cuts meetings, as once-feted 'Asian Studies' does 'mergers'
/vanishing trix & anxious students around me wonder if they can graduate in time...
/vanishing trix & anxious students around me wonder if they can graduate in time...
August 1, 2025 at 1:42 AM
and maybe unsurprisingly, the only regular oz uni conf on #malaysia has m'sian ambo open it as uni chiefs absent/"too busy" with fraught cuts meetings, as once-feted 'Asian Studies' does 'mergers'
/vanishing trix & anxious students around me wonder if they can graduate in time...
/vanishing trix & anxious students around me wonder if they can graduate in time...
dawn over the harbour, clouds still to clear, #nusantara dim and distant in #auspol imagination?
July 17, 2025 at 10:37 PM
dawn over the harbour, clouds still to clear, #nusantara dim and distant in #auspol imagination?
lots around me in KL just bored and insulted by a bad joke that mixes banal yet boorish oz with ersatz americana ...
July 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
lots around me in KL just bored and insulted by a bad joke that mixes banal yet boorish oz with ersatz americana ...
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?
July 12, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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...
July 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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$?
July 10, 2025 at 2:21 AM
Conflict preventions retraced over decades updated #Asean summit & ISIS M'sia via @rorymedcalf.bsky.social & ICG's Huong Le Thu w. urgent reviving of "mandate without breaking Asean mechanisms" incl "shared facts", poss roles for #auspol as 'creative partner' in region... w. extra resource$?
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
July 10, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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
July 9, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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
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
June 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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