protest freedom protocols in Malaysia

 SAYA MEMBANTAH

• 1: penyekatan suara, secara mutlak, walau apapun tujuan suara itu
• 2: pencerobohan tanah peribadi, sama ada bagi pembangunan / perhimpunan
• 3: kenaikan kemarahan sesiapapun, walau apapun tujuannya

Malaysia MAMPU mengistyharkan sudut / RUANG dan TATA-suara, bagi perhimpunan awam

• A: pendaftaran NRIC melalui aps mobil
• B: perimeter berbilang + penguatkuasa bertugas
• C: jaminan kebebasan daripada campur tangan, selain daripada penguatkuasaan tata-himpun
• D: kesemuanya 24-7-365

What would you be willing to go to prison for, in Malaysia?

1.

This old law has come up in the past month's media discussions, around a parliamentary barb regarding the use of Islamic words by non-Muslims ( section 9 ). But sections 4 to 8 are of public interest also.

In 2026, this law is 38-years-old, enacted 31 years after independence. It has parallels in every state, except Sabah, Sarawak, Penang, and the Federal Territories.

2.

1988 in Malaysia was a furnace :

• - the Cold War was in its end phase
• - Anwar Ibrahim's ABIM Islamisation effort was in its late phase
• - Mahathir's cabinet was locking up journalists and activists under Operation Weeds, and establishing a constitutional crisis / judicial winter

I was about five-years-old, growing up in the capital city, with parents who were career clerics in a non-Islamic faith. It became my understanding that civil social arrest was "a Malaysian norm", as Anwar Ibrahim's end-early-career Reformasi movement reached a peak a decade later, while I was adolescent.

In 2026, it is still "a Malaysian norm" that annoying people get arrested. I have always identified as an annoying person, even though my current religious proclivity is materialist, and agnostic with regards to the concept of deity. So I spent some time during college preparing myself for solitary confinement, "just in case".

3.

Anyhow, in discussing this with local friends from different backgrounds, I found it funny that many of us have different relationships with the law. Some are prepared to be jailed for civil societal development, or simply personal preferences.

Others risk jail for drug possession, dangerous driving, or other misdemeanours. Some people consider bribery to avoid enforcement, "a Malaysian norm", some personally are committed to non-bribery.

Some people depend on wealth and social status to avoid enforcement, "a global norm", whereas masses of poorer citizens are incarcerated for possession of a few grams of this or that, outburst, and other crimes leading from economic misfortune.

I myself, pleaded guilty to a jailable offense, during a period of my life which was fully committed to the operations of a commercial enterprise.

I was once asked at a party, "would you die for your country?" But that is a slightly different, as it made me wonder if I was being tested by an agent of an undetermined government.

how get good at programming in 2026

"CHEATSHEET : so you want to be a software engineer? 2026 edition" 

Aiya. Fundamentals. 

1. Memory layouts, cache hierarchy, access patterns, C level coding

2. Distributed architecture, co/multi/etc. processing up to orchestration

3. Fin-ops i.e. business impact of small decisions

4. UI/X, really just 1/2/3 for meat

5. General management, i.e. logistics of armies

outputs from conscious mental activity

Conscious memory has (maybe) two, immediately observable output buffers :

1. Efferent signals, of the Motor Nervous System

2. Simulated (multi-modal) sense imagery, in the Imagination 

Less immediately observable buffers would include :

3. Subconscious thinking

4. Autonomic Nervous System 

I used to think about this a lot in college. Part of the broader anthropology of cognitive science, included trying to figure out what Eastern traditions from Vedic, to Buddhist, to Martial ... meant by various named concepts for mental activity, and effects which are either directly or indirectly observable. 

For example, one of the simplest training domains is 1. where you study the conscious relaxation and flexing of muscles. Slightly more complicated is 4. via 1., much of which has already flowed into modern military, self-care, and martial arts curricula. 

the human schedule

Human life has three trimesters of forty years. Before modern medicine, surviving the first trimester was a matter of luck. Currently two trimesters is a common expectation, and many people do not plan for a third. But the edge cases have often reached the third trimester, and almost never the fourth. Life is what you make of it. And then there is just dumb luck. 

fiction is inevitable

1. I stopped reading fiction for fun when I went to college. Mainly because I realised the quality of facts in the world was poor enough, so I might as well just study facts. Plus it was time to actually worry about making a living. Such privilege.

2. Fiction remains an important variety of fact : it shows us what people think about, irrespective of correlation to objective states of affairs. 

3. Moreover, many fictions are treated naively as facts. No one actually knows which is which. Everyone tries their luck based on personal experience. 

... this is pretty much the only reason I watch movies, read summaries on Wikipedia, and study history, particularly the history of religion. 

Fiction is inevitable. 

Malay translations for STEM, philosophy of mind, logic, and epistemology

So, this is indeed a "casually chauvinistic view" which I shall deploy for the sake of starting conversations. Forming an academically defensible thesis about this is not one of my personal priorities. But I do hope eventually there are more interested parties who will fix this situation. 

( Parts of a longer thread looking for translations )

Tolong sesiapa yang boleh, bagi terjemahan yang tepat (kalau mungkin), bagi istilah BI dibawah. Kalau boleh, gunakan konsep yang hampir selari dari tradisi falsafah Islam?

1. Consciousness -> kesedaran? 

2. Pan-consciousness -> pan-kesedaran? 

3. Phenomenology -> fenomenogi?

4. Ontology -> ontologi? 

5. Metaphysics -> metafizik? 

Penggunaan istilah teknikal bagi pengajian sebegini macam tidak kukuh di Malaysia..

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A lot of technical terminology just ends up being transliterated. Not entire useful. 

There is a specialised istilah kewangan which is quite comprehensive, but i haven't seen an equivalent for linguistics and STEM :) will check again later

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The main holes I am aware of are quantifiers such as "supervenience", "concept", etc. this will be an interesting study one day.

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There are a few problems here. 

1. At the base of it, epistemology is always political. 

2. Malaysia's politics are in summary, race oriented, because the constitutional ethnocracy economically privileges one race.

3. Race is conditionally subject to religion, so religion becomes poitical also.

4. The result of this, FWIW, is that the academic core of epistemology was organised around Islamic approaches and any earlier organisation linked to European traditions was severed : hence after the 1960s we rolled up any representation of "academic departments of philosophy / logic / epistemology" in Malaysian universities. Critical theory survives in lit departments, but natural and social sciences have become more pragmatic rather than epistemology oriented.

5. Finally we get to the translation problem. Because there has been no Malay language practice of certain European skillsets, there is apparently a void of canonical Malay language translation for those technologies.

6. A naive observer then may say "Malay is not useful", but that is the effect not the cause of the real problem. 

:)

emotional dependency in relationships

Re : "1. You are emotionally self-sufficient & happy 

2. You are financially self-sufficient & happy

3. You are not dating in order to change 1 & 2" 

From chat : Elements of a serious relationship for me 👍🏻. I know many people don't subscribe to this, haha. / Emotional dependency is a lower priority for me, and I will usually fiddle around with potential matches to see if they are too dependent on feelings and remove the ones that are lol. HIGH priority to red flag. LOW priority to green flag. / With regards to emotionally dependent people, the red flags are simply where they start costing me time. The green flags are counted only if there are near zero red flags hahaha. Say for example, a partner who likes to sentimentally lavish gifts on me, is not worth it if they expect me to worry about them on a daily basis. / Emotions that people have that don't cost me time are 1 not zero. No multiplicative effect. Emotions that people have that make me time, i will weigh as >1 multiplier haha. / I mean, if the partner imposes a cost upon me to address their concerns, it is their decision, and my reaction is to downgrade them. Free market. / Some people will be like "i need you to ask how i am feeling". Since i don't want to expend such energy, i simply reduce demand for their time. It is a shopping concern