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There'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.

The "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.

Communications 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.

There'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.

After 13 years, Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the Mississippi Senate, flipping 3 legislative seats.

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.

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.

This 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.

In what might be the most unintentionally self-owns in modern governance, parliamentary leaders have claimed that the Straw Hat Jolly Roger — the beloved skull-and-crossbones from One Piece — repre…

Megawati 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.

The road to fascism is paved with "objectivity" and "civility."

Widely broadcast real-time video images challenge our beliefs about who is really protesting and for what reason.

Taylor Swift has regained control of her master recordings years after they were sold, first to Scooter Braun's Ithaca Holdings, then to Shamrock.

The 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…