the agentic work @openclaw is out of this world. If you are an academic researcher, you are going to love this. The deep research is so fantastic. Spent the last few days using it for deep-dive research, and it handled the heavy lifting effortlessly.
Seven years ago a representative from Google reached out to me in an official capacity to discuss the company's energy use. I told them it would become necessary for major firms in core economies to reduce energy use in order to enable Paris-compliant decarbonisation.
They assured me that their new AI tools were already helping them identify ways to improve the company's energy efficiency, so they weren't worried. They insisted this would soon yield radical efficiency improvements, and lead to energy use reduction without any change to their production activities. "Just wait, you'll see!" they told me, full of confidence.
I told them that's not how it works. In growth-oriented capitalist firms, savings from efficiency improvements are generally leveraged to expand production. I predicted that even if their AI found ways to improve efficiency, Google's energy use would go up, not down. Seven years later and this is where we're at:
@StateDept "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." (Mat 6:6 NIV)
"Real love, the only kind genuinely worthy of the name, is a kind of dialectical overcoming. It only becomes possible at the point where one comes to understand the full reality of one’s beloved, which necessarily, means encountering even those qualities one finds infuriating, loathsome, or detestable.
For surely, if you know enough about anyone, you will find something in them that you hate. But it’s only when one encounters that, and decides nonetheless to love them anyway, that we can talk of love as an active, redemptive, and powerful force.
Real love can only be love if it conquerors hatred, but not by annihilating but by containing and transcending it, and not just once, but forever."
- David Graeber
Yesterday, in the early evening, I was fortunate to spend an hour and a half with President (Ibu) Megawati Sukarnoputri, the daughter of Bung Karno. I gave her a copy of the Indonesian edition of Darker Nations (Bangsa-Bangsa Kulit Berwarna) and she wrote a wonderful inscription in a copy of Sukarno's writings and speeches for me. During our time together, she told me about the story of her birth (the role of Biju Patnaik in her naming) and the stories of her encounters with Bac Ho, Uncle Nehru, and Aunty Indira; she told me of her father's favourite ways to relax, and about her own struggles during the New Order regime that sought to erase the socialist heritage of her father and the national struggle. Wonderful tales about her trip to Iran to meet Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and about her relationship with leaders across Asia during her time as president.
When I told her that we are doing a volume of her father's writings and speeches for an international edition, she was overjoyed. It makes me want to bring that out faster than fast.
Merdeka atau Mati!
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So happy to have met @vijayprashad & @t_ings at the Global South Solidarity lecture! They were kind and warm in person. Thrilled, that I brought my students & moved our class to the event. Hopefully they received it wholeheartedly. Planted revolutionary seed for a better future
@logos_id Dulu juga gitu min, wkt tulisan muncul sebagai sesuatu yg revolusioner di masanua, ada juga yg anti sama tulisan sebagai tool untuk membantu pengembangan pikiran. AI itu sama kyk bulpen, klo tulisannya itu jelek itu bkn krn bulpennya. Teknologi itu adalah exosomatic mnrt Stiegler