That sinking feeling when you accidentally send a tariff letter addressed to the leader of a ruling military junta that the United States refuses to recognize or (otherwise) engage with. theguardian.com/world/2025/jul…

The whole "Karl Marx failed to account for matcha pilates labubu dubai chocolate" genre of memes is so funny because it's quite literally what happened 100 years ago and led to the emergence of the Frankfurt School and critical theory

Trump says Indonesia to face 19 percent tariff under trade deal - Economy - The Jakarta Post #jakpost bit.ly/44voV6a

Good news, guys, you can now indict your president & government officials for corruption by lowering the tariffs for US imports (reducing government revenue & therefore counts as a "loss").

The way this criminalization means government officials can’t hyper experiment the hell out of everything they do to reform the government…

Thank god at least *one* organization maintained its commitment to funding research

Vietnam has replaced China as the major source of US imports for many simpler manufactured goods.

There is no Labubu in Ba Sing Se

Rip Frederick the Great… You would have loved Grindr

That font looks familiar...

It's kinda funny that after years of complaining about "China China China," threats of 100%+ tariffs, etc., Trump has now put higher tariffs on Canada, Switzerland, and Brazil than he placed on China

First, second, and third worlds were flawed but useful categories to lump countries into (especially during the Cold War) but “Global South” just seems so incoherent you can’t even call it vibes based tbh

"I have an AI boyfriend" no you don't. It's Adam and Eve or Adam and Steve not Adam and USB

The Indian state of Tamil Nadu is an impressive case study in industrial policy at the subnational level: - 1/7 manufacturing jobs in India - Industrial clusters: auto, electronics… - Its own MITI super agency: DIIPC Fantastic piece by Mausam Kumar & co: phenomenalworld.org/analysis/coord…

If Sumitro were alive today, [...] he would probably see Mr Prabowo’s signature policies—free school lunches, village co-operatives and a new sovereign-wealth fund—as precisely the kind of undisciplined state spending he spent his career warning against. economist.com/asia/2025/08/1…

It's Game of Thrones and it's not really an argument. This show was a cultural juggernaut, every week the whole internet watched together, it was endlessly quoted, children were named after the characters, and no one brings it up anymore because the last season was so awful.

me @ Republic of Indonesia every 17 August

What’s even more fascinating is that the greater Jakarta area alone has more people than Australia and New Zealand combined