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[Zack D. Films @zackdfilms1]

How Expectations Change Your Reality 🤔

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[BBC News (World) @BBCWorld]

Indonesian students protest in against state spending, fuel price hike https://t.co/p5V2GsbPJq

[duck @ExtremeBlitz__]

Life before this tweet:

[Abhijeet Singh @abjt14]

We’ve achieved glass on the web ✨

Real refractions. Real DOM. And it works everywhere. Yes, even on Safari.

https://t.co/A3LimdS5xw

[🌼✨ @BigHadeh]

@doloy @dadimdum Sama kak aku juga DM dan email tapi blm ada respon sama sekali. Agak kecewa sih

[Bigwave 2.0 @BigWave372]

My hamster escaped from prison again.
Had to use the boiled egg tongs to bring the little fugitive back into custody

[𐙚⋆ @voidwithverses]

“The same God that doesn't answer your prayers right away, is the same God that doesn't punish you right after you sin.”

— Rumi

[Ricky Ho @rickyho_1989]

This chart should terrify policymakers. Indonesia’s middle class did not merely slow down. It went into reverse.

After two decades of expansion, the middle-class population peaked at 61.5 million people in 2018, representing 23% of the population. By 2026, that figure had fallen to just 46.6 million people, or 16.6%. That is not a cyclical slowdown. That is structural deterioration.

For years, policymakers celebrated GDP growth, infrastructure projects, commodity booms, and headline investment numbers. But the ultimate scorecard of an economy is whether ordinary people become wealthier over time. This chart suggests millions of Indonesians are moving in the opposite direction.

The middle class is the economic engine of every successful country. They buy homes, cars, insurance, consumer goods, education, travel, financial products, and healthcare. They generate tax revenue. They create small businesses. They drive domestic demand. When the middle class shrinks, the economy loses its most important customer.

The uncomfortable question is simple: where did the gains go? If GDP is growing, if conglomerates continue expanding, if commodity exports remain large, then why are fewer Indonesians qualifying as middle class than eight years ago?

More importantly, if you are born poor in Indonesia today, what ladder exactly are you supposed to climb?

If you are exceptionally good looking, perhaps you can monetize attention through social media. If you are academically gifted, perhaps you can break into an ultra-competitive institution like MBB, survive years of brutal expectations, and eventually use that platform to do something bigger. If you are entrepreneurial, maybe you build a business against overwhelming odds. If you are lucky, perhaps you benefit from family connections, inheritance, or access to opportunities unavailable to most people.

But an economy cannot rely on exceptionalism. A healthy economy creates millions of pathways upward, not a handful of lottery tickets.

The situation becomes even more concerning when you consider that well-paying white-collar jobs are becoming increasingly scarce. Many multinational companies that once established regional operations, technology centers, shared-service hubs, and professional offices in Indonesia have either downsized, relocated, or shifted future expansion elsewhere.

Those jobs were not valuable merely because of the salaries they paid. They were valuable because they transferred knowledge, management expertise, technical skills, global best practices, and professional networks into the local workforce. Over time, they helped develop intellectual capital that could later be recycled into entrepreneurship, leadership positions, startups, and domestic businesses.

When those opportunities disappear, the loss is not limited to employment. The country also loses a training ground for future managers, engineers, consultants, analysts, and business leaders. Human capital compounds just like financial capital. Once that pipeline weakens, rebuilding it can take years or even decades.

The bigger risk is that social mobility slows. When people stop believing hard work leads to a better life, trust in institutions weakens. Aspirations decline. Consumption slows. Talent leaves. The country’s most productive people increasingly look elsewhere for opportunity.

This is why Indonesia’s biggest economic challenge is no longer growth. It is upward mobility. A country cannot thrive without a growing middle class, a steady pipeline of high-quality jobs, and a clear path for ordinary people to join it. And right now, all three appear to be moving in the wrong direction.

[Simone Conradi @S_Conradi]

Another one!
Made with #python #numpy #matplotlib and #marimo (and also #wigglystuff)

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Artificial intelligences do not undergo experiences, do not possess a body, do not feel joy or pain, do not mature through relationships, and do not know from within what love, work, friendship or responsibility mean. Nor do they have a moral conscience, since they do not judge good and evil, grasp the ultimate meaning of situations, or bear responsibility for consequences. They may imitate or even simulate, but they do not understand what they produce, for they lack the affective, relational, and spiritual perspective through which human beings grow in wisdom. #MagnificaHumanitas

[Edoardo Lunardi @edo_lunardi]

A little wavy scroll carousel 🌊

Ported over from my @madebywild days. A horizontal carousel where each card rides a sine wave, with a phase offset per card so the whole row ripples as you scroll.

Smooth, playful, fun to scrub back and forth.
with @motiondotdev

[🌱Mazio☆ @Maziodyne_]

Being told this changed my life

[Mike Kus @mikekus]

I've just spoken at @webexpo in Prague - this me making my slides for my talk...

[Slava @slavakornilov]

Lessons

[Kyle Anthony Miller @kyleanthony]

Pan Am's branding is pure gold

[shaima @shxi3i]

Eid in Madinah 🎈🤎

[matt @mattybtweets69]

looking for jobs is awesome man should I apply on bebee or jooble