newnaratif.com Call for Short Historical Fiction – New Naratif
In Singapore and beyond, there has been a quickening of interest in the anticolonial and socialist struggle of the 50s and 60s.
My main is @cendawanita. this account is all about sharing and boosting stuff from Malaysia and SEA. I started @magASEAN to share all that stuff. Come join. Have a personal one too: @myMOAC - mainly to announce my website updates and also any quick and dirty linking
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2023 ASEAN Civil Society Conference / ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF)
JAKARTA WELCOMES YOU - We, Indonesia’s Civil Society Organizations, are honored and excited to welcome you to be part of this year’s ASEAN Civil Society Conference / ASEAN People’s Forum (ACSC/APF), which is going to be held on 1-3 September at Atma Jaya University, Jakarta. The theme of ACSC/APF 2023 is “Reclaiming safe spaces, restoring democracy and equity in Southeast Asia!” – this forum is a space to discuss and learn the situations of ASEAN and its member states through people’s lens and civil society’s perspectives, and co-create approaches as our collective contribution to develop the region to be more people-centered. Throughout the three-day program, we look forward to having active and inclusive participation of many civil society organizations, groups and individuals, learning from each other and building regional solidarity and movements.
Call for Short Historical Fiction featuring Lim Chin Siong as a minor but vital character – New Naratif
From the link:
In Singapore and beyond, there has been a quickening of interest in the anticolonial and socialist struggle of the 50s and 60s after the publications of archival research by historian PJ Thum and of the Eisner-winning graphic novel The Art of Charlie Chan Hock Chye by Sonny Liew, among other works. The undisputed leader of this historical struggle was the student activist, trade unionist, and politician Lim Chin Siong (LCS), who organised the largest social movement in Singapore to fight for democracy, freedom, and justice. Although this movement ultimately failed, it opens a window into an alternative future for Singapore, Malaysia, and the rest of Asia—a window that creative writers with their imaginative powers can help us look at and through.
Deadline for submissions is 1 December 2023. There are also introductory material on Lim Chin Siong himself and the historical context he was in.
Unfortunately their twitter thread about Lim is not mirrored anywhere els
www.reuters.com Philippines sees risk of conflict over Taiwan as a 'major concern'
The Philippines seeks to bolster its ability to address threats while underlining the need to strengthen ties with allies while pursuing an independent foreign policy, under a six-year national security policy published on Tuesday.
WHO lists Malaysian-developed hepatitis C drug as essential medicine
From the article:
Former health director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said Malaysia led the effort to list the drug.
“The ravidasvir listing on the WHO EML is another milestone for Malaysia in its journey of developing a cost-effective hepatitis C drug. It addresses healthcare access, affordability and equity, particularly in low- and middle-income countries.
Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah.
“This addition to the list would mean many more member states and civil society groups can gain access to this affordable medicine and eliminate hepatitis C by 2030,” Noor Hisham, now a board member of DNDi, told FMT.
DNDi, or Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative, is an international, not-for-profit research and development organisation.
The development of ravidasvir was initiated by Malaysia’s health ministry and DNDi, in partnership with Thailand’s health ministry, Médecins Sans Frontières, Presidio Pharmaceuticals, Pharco Pharmaceuticals and Pharmaniaga Berhad.
Malaysia approved the use o
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.
@macallik
Absolutely. If this is true then for the other small to mid-size instances it's not just an existential threat philosophically but technically. They're expecting Threads onboarding might just knock out instances because of the traffic. Might as well limit or block just for your own performance metrics.
@YourClarke hahaha don't worry. I've really only been on Fedi since Nov 22 and kbin at the same time as you guys set up this Lemmy instance. I think the redditors will get the hang of it, certainly faster than Twitterjaya (I'm in perma-eyeroll mode since you guys arrived, because those are my gang. I'm even here cos someone made a big fuss about Elon. Guess where they are at now? Twitter ppl are babies. Mastodon as a platform was at least a few years old and they whined so much. Boo hoo have to pick instance, dunno who to talk to, feed so empty blablabla. But look at you guys! Most of the two major protocols are still held together by string lmao and you make it work.)
The main thing about Fedi protocols is that janji we can roughly talk to each other. Some functionalities across the microblogs pun not shared (I've only mentioned a couple), but it's doable, we make it work. Since joining my to-read tabs blew up and there's less Main Character discourse. So it's been a real nice change. But i was missing Malaysia content and community A LOT (hence my eyeroll at Twitterjaya). The current kbin state of things pun (like how when I'm logged on my kbin.social account i can see who upvoted) is probably because of what i explained above but also it's not even three months old. Lmao the dev is just some Polish kid. Lemmy is much older but a lot of ppl avoided because the main instance and devs are full-on tankies. The Reddit wave made it moot since you can always 1) make your instance; 2) fork the programme if tak puas hati with those devs and maintain your own codebase.
In any case for your example you get Lemmy features when your account is on an instance running Lemmy and kbin when otherwise but not both at the same time. Takpe, it's not gonna be too hard. And besides monyet.cc is set up, so at least you know how to hang out here. And from here, if you're signed in as monyet.cc accounts, you absolutely can find other comms such as kbin ones too. Can one can one :)
Kev Quirk, one of the admins of Fosstodon (a Mastodon instance), destroys Meta in an email exchange.
@macallik and if you scroll down the comments, Byron from Universeodon, who did take the earlier meeting, did provide some vague points from the meeting. Relating to your point about big instances, it seems likely that FB wants to throw money at them so that they won't become overwhelmed by the ensuing traffic (unlike the rest of us, I guess...) so they can demonstrate that the Instagram bridge (it's an IG product) works.
@AnnoyedCrabby oh no, downvote also I can see, being a kbin user. It's the other microblog protocols that won't register anything. (if you feel nak lepas geram, this may be useful info, if you're adding any fedi accounts to your timeline/stream/subscription view (I assume you guys have this)
@dcx @AnnoyedCrabby lol i think because kbin was written as being both link aggregation like Lemmy but also microblogging like Mastodon, Calckey, Akkoma etc. And before Reddit, the expectation must be because the main audience will be bloggers who'll be visiting from federated spaces (chewah cam star trek). So upvote maps to likes; boosts is reblogs; downvotes go nowhere (since blogging platforms don't have these).
It's memang quite interpretative dance la - Calckey (and all the keys) can give emoji reacts but it just shows up as likes on my Masto fork.
That's why I thought i better bring it up. It semi looks like Reddit but backend lain sikit.
Anyway.... I can see... But idk if adding a photo will add load so here's the direct link of this comm on kbin.social: https://kbin.social/m/[email protected]/t/77005/c-cafe-daily-chat-thread-for-23-June-2023#entry-comment-342733
Each comment has a More - then select Activity ok kesian runs away like Discord before the Trojan War
Double-checking for you guys on Lemmy: you can also see who upvoted right? It federates into a like on the microblog side.
restofworld.org The race to put Indigenous land on the map
In Borneo, Indigenous communities are using mapping tech to claim their land rights and fight the expansion of oil palm plantations.
Fedi-specific Malaysian/Southeast Asian accounts to share?
Hola, if any of you guys are also dabbling on the microblogging side (such as using your kbin account or actually on a masto build or similar; does Lemmy enable you guys to view blogging accounts as well?), i just wanted to share that a mutual of mine @irfan set up masto bots for soya cincau and lowyat.net:
[email protected]
[email protected]
(@ soyacincau @ mastodon.social
@ lowyat @ mastodon.social in case formatting breaks the link)
You can follow them and see news updates on your timeline.
I also started a SEA kbin mag: @magASEAN (@ magASEAN @ kbin.social) because not yet managed to see any (anglophone) continental southeast asian accounts around.
Do share if you've found anything else! I'm trying to build my TL to be less Western.
Show Your Stripes - See KL's temperature change since 1869
showyourstripes.info Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
(Reposting here per mod's advice. Btw - on kbin.social (or maybe any kbin instance for now) i didn't see your comment but at least i can see the monyet.cc version (but of course can't respond lah because deleted copy is deleted and on monyet.cc i don't have an account).
There's a few Malaysian cities listed, but none from Borneo :( of the Semenanjung ones, Kg Baru Subang wins for utter randomness (maybe because of old airport? Idk)
Fediverse Recap, re: Meta's Project 92
kbin.social Meta's Twitter Alternative Will Probably Be Called 'Threads' - More of a Comment - kbin.social
> Meta wants to make it easy for billions of Instagram users to sign up for Threads on launch day....
Followup to my earlier share of the anti-Meta Fedipact business. I compiled the links on my personal mag. Sort the comments by Oldest as that's where I'm adding all the stuff.
MagASEAN & getting around the threadi/fediverse
Based on my experience so far, new posts using the hashtags tracked will show up on the microblog. Old posts aren't going to get picked up.
All fedi accounts should be able to comment and participate. However kbin infra rn means even if you follow this magazine from your client logged in from another platform (especially masto builds), the content will not be fetched.
However, if you follow a kbin user account, their activity will be fetched and it'll show up on your timeline. So, that's a pickle i can't resolve technically and looks like any workarounds will be up to your browsing taste.
Helloooooo!