in case you are wondering this is academia now

she was BORN for this

There is no such thing as a low-energy rich country.

that’s my spirit

I know ASEAN Secretariat has extremely limited mandate, but I think ASEC PR team shouldn’t go business-as-usual tweeting SecGen meeting someone here and there every couple minutes in times of crisis

Are they so panicked that they even forgot to properly use end quote marks?

Posisi saya adequacy decision untuk cross-border data flow data pribadi tidak seharusnya jadi satu bundel dengan negosiasi perdagangan, tapi headline macam ini itu agak simplifikasi dan cenderung misleading

State recognition is a sovereign act, hence the opinion/attitude of the 3rd state does not matter — unless there’s an obligation that calls for non-recognition; alias lu sokaaappp hah???

They turned down mediation offers from both Washington and Beijing and asked Malaysia (as ASEAN Chair) to help instead. This pleases what's left of my ASEAN idealism.

Twitter econ: please do enlighten, apakah ini unorthodox policy untuk maksa spending?

if your abstract gets accepted you will have to write the paper

2 minggu lalu ada kolega dari US cerita. Katanya di sana banyak tetangganya pasang bendera US terbalik atas-bawah sebagai mosi tidak percaya ke govt. Historisnya, ini dari praktik ship in distress. Terus kami berkelakar, kalo itu dilakukan di Indonesia, jadinya bendera Polandia…

Some second secretary in Political Affairs division at the Japan Embassy Jakarta:

Please do not bother to engage with this account and its kind, it is a reflection of the worst of the worst kind of twitter: disinformation, engagement farm, affiliate links etc etc — just report & block them.

Not an appeal, doh.

Kolega saya pengajar IP lagi disertasian di Oz, argumen intinya persis counter pendapat IP konvensional begini, which is valid2 aja. Intinya sih menurut belio rezim IP status quo gak bisa accomodate grassroot fan works, justru malah opresif kalo dilihat pakai Horkheimer & Adorno.

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