#  @pranesh Pranesh Prakash Pranesh Prakash posts on X about india, 6969, ai, israel the most. They currently have [---------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [---------] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::7788062/interactions)  - [--] Week [---------] +8,795% - [--] Month [---------] +6,589% - [--] Months [---------] +8,402% - [--] Year [---------] +2,860% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::7788062/posts_active)  - [--] Week [--] +91% - [--] Month [---] +192% - [--] Months [---] +57% - [--] Year [---] +27% ### Followers: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::7788062/followers)  - [--] Week [------] +0.07% - [--] Month [------] +0.30% - [--] Months [------] +0.63% - [--] Year [------] -0.30% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::7788062/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [finance](/list/finance) [stocks](/list/stocks) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [currencies](/list/currencies) [us election](/list/us-election) [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) **Social topic influence** [india](/topic/india), [6969](/topic/6969), [ai](/topic/ai), [israel](/topic/israel), [countries](/topic/countries), [meta](/topic/meta), [twitter](/topic/twitter), [$googl](/topic/$googl), [china](/topic/china), [in the](/topic/in-the) **Top assets mentioned** [Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL)](/topic/$googl) [Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)](/topic/microsoft) [Cloudflare, Inc. (NET)](/topic/cloudflare) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "then The Wire updated w/ a note that blamed the "incorrect *default time* in TailsOS" for the wrong year then they said it was prob w/ one date due to their comp being "formatted with TailsOS" then they stated it was due to incorrect manually-set time for both dates" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1581785425899057154) 2022-10-16T23:13Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@themediawitch @SiGallagher I've fought alongside IFLA and other libraries at the World Intellectual Property Organization for many years against excessive copyright laws. I love my librarian colleagues. I've opposed the attack by the Authors' Guild against OpenLibrary and the Internet Archive" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022331784114098426) 2026-02-13T15:27Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@themediawitch @SiGallagher Librarians fought alongside us for "the right to read" for print-disabled people. Publishers and authors orgs from the US and the EU opposed blind rights organizations. Libraries are the good guys in my book. Elsevier and Thomson Reuters aren't" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022333250723836337) 2026-02-13T15:33Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@benphillips76 (1) Is there anyone who suggests that "computers shouldn't take decisions for which no one can be held accountable" is an anti-tech or Luddite position (2) If self-driving cars were shown to cause 1/100000th the road fatalities of human drivers would you be in their favour" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022311405102461000) 2026-02-13T14:06Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@callebtc Update: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022143706984517839) 2026-02-13T03:00Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "Dario Amodei and Anthropic made a huge hullabaloo last year about a "Chinese state threat actor" using Claude and how they shut it down. But they're okay with Palantir and the literal military using Claude to plan actions that violate international law #AIEthics Exclusive: The U.S. military used Anthropic's Claude in its operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro via its partner Palantir. w/ @AmrithRamkumar https://t.co/hnz82r3NAM Exclusive: The U.S. military used Anthropic's Claude in its operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro via its partner" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022505316060197281) 2026-02-14T02:56Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@VishwasSetlur Fantastic example. It's one thing to be influenced by American culture it's been going on for decades and is inevitable. But it's quite another to import American political/social references that have no local significance at all" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1752605702752006431) 2024-01-31T08:12Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "I've a paper out in @IPPRJournal on content blocking and Internet shutdowns in #India from the perspective of international human rights law. Comments welcome. Do share widely PDF: HTML: #FoE #censorship #IHRL https://pranesh.in/scholarly/articles/internet-blocking-and-shutdowns-in-india-and-international-human-rights-law.html https://ippr.in/index.php/ippr/article/view/282/118 https://pranesh.in/scholarly/articles/internet-blocking-and-shutdowns-in-india-and-international-human-rights-law.html https://ippr.in/index.php/ippr/article/view/282/118" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1806572446071280000) 2024-06-28T06:16Z 16.9K followers, 24.1K engagements "Cousin marriage is an integral part of Tamil culture. In the song malarntu malarta Kannadasan includes two verses about it alongside verses about Podhikai malai and the Tamil sangam in Madurai and the beauty of Tamil" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1905164256565448997) 2025-03-27T07:45Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "You can use date +%F -r $file in bash to get the last modified date of a file in yyyy-mm-dd format. You can use this in scripts to prepend the last modified date to files: $(date +%F -r $1)_$1. #LinuxTips" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1919751386167656950) 2025-05-06T13:49Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@Kathleen_Tyson_ @Seanchuckle I don't know about the Welsh or the Irish but Scots were certainly a large part of the colonial history of the UK. From Livingstone to Brisbane to Macquarie. Even names like "Nova Scotia" and "New South Wales" and all the "Aberdeens" around the world show non-English influence" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1944448215543132604) 2025-07-13T17:25Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@Kathleen_Tyson_ @Seanchuckle A large number of Scottish merchants made their riches through colonialism. The Opium Wars were orchestrated by Jardine Matheson. The tombstones in Edinburgh graveyards testify to the great number of senior colonial military officers who were Scottish" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1944449526070476801) 2025-07-13T17:31Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "China is emerging as a leading pharma and biotech hub. Pfizer Licenses 3SBio Cancer Drug for Record $1.2 Billion #biotech #health #pharma #China https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-20/pfizer-licenses-3sbio-cancer-drug-for-record-1-2-billion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-20/pfizer-licenses-3sbio-cancer-drug-for-record-1-2-billion" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1944716920433065992) 2025-07-14T11:13Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "So whether some speech is protected by the _Indian_ constitution depends on the reception of that speech in _Pakistan_ What new idiocy is this She wasnt criticizing modi you clueless fool. She twisted the attack into propaganda by pinning it on Indian PM and pak happily weaponized the narrative in international propaganda circus. You guys are friends of the enemy. Lanath She wasnt criticizing modi you clueless fool. She twisted the attack into propaganda by pinning it on Indian PM and pak happily weaponized the narrative in international propaganda circus. You guys are friends of the enemy." [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1997965402564169777) 2025-12-08T09:44Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "@ramapamposh @chirag @_Asynchronus You don't think those who call for a Hindu Rashtra are engaged in statements that assert propagate or publish anything prejudicial to national integration If so it is criminal under the BNS" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1998168772994387979) 2025-12-08T23:12Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "Speed - Sped Feed - Fed Bleed - Bled Lead - Led But: Read - Read How does this make any sense" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2011792336247013709) 2026-01-15T13:27Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@sonaljay8 Sri Lankan food is amazing. Definitely in the same category. But then again I like Keralan food and Sri Lankan food has many similarities" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2014603508708974944) 2026-01-23T07:38Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "The influx of Chinese users to Zotero has been the best thing ever: https://zotero-chinese.com/plugins/ https://zotero-chinese.com/plugins/" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2015707805123301409) 2026-01-26T08:46Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@SinglePhoton @lucifer_damned No I haven't wondered because I'm not familiar with his writings on al Afghani or his contestation with Arabic / Persian / Urdu speakers about his interpretations and understanding of the language being better than theirs. But surely he too is capable of exaggerating expertise" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2015824525280350563) 2026-01-26T16:29Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements ""Shakespeare was not a man but a woman: a black woman Anglo-Venetian of Moroccan descent and covertly Jewish named Emilia Bassano." #history #lit https://thecritic.co.uk/was-shakespeare-really-a-black-woman/ https://thecritic.co.uk/was-shakespeare-really-a-black-woman/" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016176940911362106) 2026-01-27T15:50Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#a11y #AI #genAI As someone who cares about accessibility and thinks that AI tech can significantly improve accessibility I must admit I really didn't understand this article. AI is moving fast. Accessibility Not fast enough. A thoughtful piece by Shashank Pandey on why India must clearly define AI accessibility and lead with intention not slogans. Worth reading 👇 https://t.co/YNHQ7zRu85 #AIAccessibility #InclusiveAI #DisabilityInclusion AI is moving fast. Accessibility Not fast enough. A thoughtful piece by Shashank Pandey on why India must clearly define AI accessibility and lead with" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016234134763712996) 2026-01-27T19:37Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@phl43 @MazMHussain https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/russia-ukraine-casualties.html#::text=The%20study%2C%20published%20on%20Tuesdaycombined%20at%20almost%201.8%20million https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/russia-ukraine-casualties.html#::text=The%20study%2C%20published%20on%20Tuesdaycombined%20at%20almost%201.8%20million" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016237826917204255) 2026-01-27T19:52Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@HolocaustUK Almost 90% of the Roma population of Central Europe was killed in camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau. Yet there was not a single Roma witness called during the Nuremberg Trials. Through statements like this you're leading to the erasure of the Roma genocide during the Holocaust" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016329607059014050) 2026-01-28T01:56Z 16.9K followers, 75.3K engagements "@receipts_lol @realUpScrolled From all these grounds the AT Protocol (which powers @bluesky) is best suited. While it doesn't have e2ee it has decentralization and ability to move between providers which is probably better than the federation-oriented nature of @joinmastodon" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016385660224143834) 2026-01-28T05:39Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "This absolutely sucks. This is the anti-thesis of a standards-based Web. It seems sites like Instagram are intentionally downgrading the Web experience of all but specific white-listed browsers. left: "hello I am Ladybird" right: "hello I am Ladybird but also Chrome and Safari lmao" For anyone who is disappointed that our User-Agent string is "impure": don't hate the player hate the game. https://t.co/Gs1HqT2Ces left: "hello I am Ladybird" right: "hello I am Ladybird but also Chrome and Safari lmao" For anyone who is disappointed that our User-Agent string is "impure": don't hate the player" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016435400160747723) 2026-01-28T08:57Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#copyright #AI #genAI This is quite a funny article the headline chosen to make what Anthropic did sound icky (they *destroyed* books clutches pearls) when the whole point is that the judge and even quite critical law prof James Grimmelmann viewed this as a legit approach to building the training This is quite a funny article the headline chosen to make what Anthropic did sound icky (they *destroyed* books clutches pearls) when the whole point is that the judge and even quite critical law prof James Grimmelmann viewed this as a legit approach to building the training" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016555529183907935) 2026-01-28T16:54Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "What some see as "damning" I see as democratization and spreading of knowledge as archiving as much of human knowledge as captured in text. #copyright #piracy #GLAM #genAI #AI Damning from @aaronjschaffer @WillOremus @nitashatiku. To get more data: * Anthropic "destructively scanned" millions of books * co-founder Ben Mann downloaded the shadow library LibGen * Mann hailed another shadow library's arrival: "just in time" https://t.co/GZ74iV4eF2 Damning from @aaronjschaffer @WillOremus @nitashatiku. To get more data: * Anthropic "destructively scanned" millions of books * co-founder Ben Mann" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016557699094499635) 2026-01-28T17:03Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Many people see the modern nation-states as so natural that they cannot look beyond it. That's why many hold that "India" = nation-state and that only comes into being thanks to the British and to speak of "India" only makes sense from [----] onwards. @PhysInHistory There is something that is a lie to this. India is a country that was formed by Britain. Before that it was land inhabited by warring tribes with a ridiculous number of different languages. Saying "India" used negative numbers in the 7th century is nonsense. @PhysInHistory There is something that is a lie to this. India is a country" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016688937671299538) 2026-01-29T01:44Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#TikTok #FoE #censorship #USA #Israel #privatecensorship #socmed January 22nd: TikTok acquisition closed and finalized January 28th: Bisan Owda permanently banned from TikTok https://t.co/FqEOcHiH9C January 22nd: TikTok acquisition closed and finalized January 28th: Bisan Owda permanently banned from TikTok https://t.co/FqEOcHiH9C" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016778698385739806) 2026-01-29T07:41Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@DrSachinAJoshi @__Amoxicillin_ There are deserts within Colombia itself in the north. I've even visited them. South India (where I live) has no deserts and plenty of rain (like Colombia) but it is still dusty and metro construction looks nothing like this. You cannot rely on ChatGPT for such analysis" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016797615816634524) 2026-01-29T08:56Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "I find it rather a surprise that OBCs are greatly under-represented among all categories employed by the Central govt: sanitation workers (21.15%) Group C (27.29%) Group B (21.95%) and Group A (19.14%). Interestingly SC & ST are not as under-represented even at higher levels" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2016977222717055059) 2026-01-29T20:50Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Clawdbot was renamed [--] days ago to "Moltbot" (due to a legal request from Anthropic). That led to *thousands* of articles. Cloudflare even launched a product "Moltworker" integrating it into its platform. Today "Moltbot" has become "OpenClaw". Lols. https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/9a7160786a7dbd21469fad73992158e415e4686e https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/9a7160786a7dbd21469fad73992158e415e4686e" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017119205888577938) 2026-01-30T06:14Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements ""Differentiated quotas for educational vs recreational apps" would violate Trai prohibition on differential pricing. But there's no reason why ISPs shouldn't offer parents multiple DNS servers as long as the default one doesn't implement blocking of "high-risk categories" () I'm sorry what. (from the Economic Survey of India) https://t.co/yj5MI224YZ I'm sorry what. (from the Economic Survey of India) https://t.co/yj5MI224YZ" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017129438409085232) 2026-01-30T06:55Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@rohitshinde121 Are we aligning the CPI with the COICOP categorization" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017157287044141375) 2026-01-30T08:45Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "If this was technically feasible it would be cruel. But this is technically infeasible. Accent and prosody aren't immutable. How dumb are the people at IIT Bombay Or is this a case of bad reporting Utter and complete madness. When the only aspiration of a society is to perpetrate more and more indiscriminate cruelty this is the consequence. There is no coming back from this. The Maharashtra government in collaboration with IIT Bombay is developing a language-based https://t.co/LCPtn2p3RI Utter and complete madness. When the only aspiration of a society is to perpetrate more and more" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017169882480366056) 2026-01-30T09:35Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#art #AI #genAI #chatbot #persAI https://t.co/DNXM1vcJtG is art. https://t.co/ibV8fM5FQo https://t.co/DNXM1vcJtG is art. https://t.co/ibV8fM5FQo" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017180029080465889) 2026-01-30T10:16Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@nixxin What if people just use NLP summarization :-)" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017180927097708591) 2026-01-30T10:19Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "" We are blind to the solutions we were never taught to see asking for faster horses and never dreaming of cars." https://jasmi.news/p/claude-code https://jasmi.news/p/claude-code" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017189621621457026) 2026-01-30T10:54Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Still waiting for that 'truth bomb' about AI that wouldn't be applicable to the industrial revolution and labour-saving machines. Oh man @cdoctorow drops some hard hitting truth bombs https://t.co/GLjCz66TgP Oh man @cdoctorow drops some hard hitting truth bombs https://t.co/GLjCz66TgP" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017193350097727566) 2026-01-30T11:09Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "The MASAI RCT study is a pretty big deal. A sizeable increase in sensitivity: AI-supported group: 80.5% (95% CI 76.484.2) Standard double-reading control group: 73.8% (95% CI 68.978.3) Abs diff: +6.7 No decrease in specificity (98.5% for both). #AI #health #AIEthics The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. Over [------] women in Sweden radiologist + AI vs [--] radiologists in follow-up AI added led to 29% more cancer detected 44% reduced workload and Less cancer dx in subsequent [--] years and when found less aggressive https://t.co/rKihXzOdX9 The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. Over" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017224466057805854) 2026-01-30T13:12Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@kingslyj @vishwassetlur Halloween I can get (even if I find it strange): it's like college kids adopting Valentine's day or South Indians adopting Holi. Thanksgiving is weirder though because like July 4th there's a far more US-specific context that's not easily "globalized"" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017284654555140135) 2026-01-30T17:11Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@AndyMasley What do you find new or worthwhile in Doctorow's definition" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017285946178433363) 2026-01-30T17:17Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@declassifiedUK Keir Starmer's turning out to be Blair 2.0" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017320743588270555) 2026-01-30T19:35Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@karpathy @moltbook @openclaw Let's not be Blake Lemoine. https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017283612006354986s=20 This moltbook situation is like Blake Lemoine and LaMDA to the 10th power. People your clawdbots / moltbots / openclaw bots are NOT experiencing emotions. They're text generators. They aren't sentient https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017283612006354986s=20 This moltbook situation is like Blake Lemoine and LaMDA to the 10th power. People your clawdbots / moltbots / openclaw bots are NOT experiencing emotions. They're text generators. They aren't sentient" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017322350707151276) 2026-01-30T19:41Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@akhivae Please. Look at the music scenes in China (and HK and its Cantopop) and Egypt (which exports its entertainment across MENA) and Mali and Senegal and Nigeria" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017323483458638235) 2026-01-30T19:46Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "Research on how AI impacts the learning of coding skills. TLDR: it depends; those who use it to 'vibe code' without a deeper understanding of the code learn less than the control group avg and those who use it more intelligently learn more than the control group avg. #AI #jobs AI can make work faster but a fear is that relying on it may make it harder to learn new skills on the job. We ran an experiment with software engineers to learn more. Coding with AI led to a decrease in masterybut this depended on how people used it. https://t.co/lbxgP11I4I AI can make work faster but a fear is that" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017478474668319022) 2026-01-31T06:02Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "I don't think people who don't have a good idea of what chatbots are how they work etc. should be spending time on Moltbook" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017533795994636636) 2026-01-31T09:41Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@AkiyoshiKitaoka @TrueAIHound I see the red as 'raised' in all three" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017534764635582653) 2026-01-31T09:45Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@stupidtechtakes Have you audited their account books What "profit" They provide access via 3rd parties (free) via torrents (free) via an API (paid) via SFTP (paid much more). They run on donations. Their LLM policy: Torrent access: https://annas-archive.li/torrents https://annas-archive.li/llm https://annas-archive.li/torrents https://annas-archive.li/llm" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017556134874517648) 2026-01-31T11:10Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@karolkarpinski What is this literate vs oral scale Would the Odyssey and the Ramayana be literate or oral" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017557050600120704) 2026-01-31T11:14Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "While I support govt transparency and open source and user-control over the Web experience I still feel this is taking the notion a bit too far 😅 Suresh is Validating OTP on frontend. 😐 https://t.co/gAoMSVwL9h Suresh is Validating OTP on frontend. 😐 https://t.co/gAoMSVwL9h" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017579721937326185) 2026-01-31T12:44Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Worst of all is many people who are paid to be critical (journalists academics etc.) being utterly uncritical about Moltbook. https://x.com/HumanHarlan/status/2017424289633603850s=20 PSA: A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake. I looked into the [--] most viral screenshots of Moltbook agents discussing private communication. [--] of them were linked to human accounts marketing AI messaging apps. And the other is a post that doesn't exist 🧵 https://t.co/9OhW5GwrJA https://x.com/HumanHarlan/status/2017424289633603850s=20 PSA: A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake. I looked into the [--] most viral" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017585770127888770) 2026-01-31T13:08Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Hot take: Experiments like GasTown are far more interesting than Moltbook from a "future of AI" perspective. People freaking out about Moltbook are just Blake Lemoine-ing" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017589889626513549) 2026-01-31T13:24Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Cloudflare's pursuing an interesting regulatory strategy. They've asked the US govt to step in to protect them against bad Italian copyright action that targets DNs. But a week later they're asking the UK to regulate Google u/ competition law because the US won't do so. We cannot have a fair market for AI when Google leverages their search monopoly to see 3.2x as much of the web as OpenAI 4.8x as much as Microsoft and more than 6x as much as nearly everyone else. Most data wins in AI. Google needs to play by the same rules as everyone else. We cannot have a fair market for AI when Google" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017606272460492969) 2026-01-31T14:29Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Human beings produce much much more carbon and consume far far more water to do the same task as an AI. If your primary care is for the environment you'd want to reduce both human activity and human beings. You'd be someone like Ted Kaczynski. Quilicura Chile one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: https://t.co/QuFTXoONDN. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance. https://t.co/KP1IrQfsI5 Quilicura Chile one of the communities I wrote about in" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017611880815333415) 2026-01-31T14:52Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@Bumi @galnagli @openclaw @moltbook People like Nathaniel below care a out the numbers. So it's worthwhile demonstrating that the numbers aren't to be trusted. https://x.com/nlw/status/2017594504706932923s=20 A million agents joined @moltbook in a [--] hour span. https://t.co/4LzRsDNCB8 https://x.com/nlw/status/2017594504706932923s=20 A million agents joined @moltbook in a [--] hour span. https://t.co/4LzRsDNCB8" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017650697333010844) 2026-01-31T17:26Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "This is the depths of the stupidity of the anti-AI posture. A bound book isn't some sacred item that shouldn't be unbound and scanned. TIL Anthropic is cutting up and destroying books because thats the fastest way to scan them. And they ran out of data to train their slop machines because they polluted the internet with so much slop One more fucked up shit to the pile of all the fucked up shit theyre doing. https://t.co/LopiwUHD5B TIL Anthropic is cutting up and destroying books because thats the fastest way to scan them. And they ran out of data to train their slop machines because they" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017685427134865843) 2026-01-31T19:44Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "@noufalibrahim I doubt Anthropic is buying up antiquarian books" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017910917082824921) 2026-02-01T10:40Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@herandrews The [----] film WarGames has Matthew Broderick hacking into his school district's computer systems to change his biology grade to avoid going to summer school. Pearson and Kaplan both American are the two most profitable test prep companies in the world. Your thesis is wrong" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018173213856141794) 2026-02-02T04:02Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "Some people think they're on anti-social networks" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018256284370563074) 2026-02-02T09:32Z 16.9K followers, 75K engagements "The Wikipedia page on the "UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations 2026" wrongly refers to the Regulations as a "Bill". But Wikipedia editors like myself cannot correct it because it is under 'extended protection'. Oh well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGC_Equity_Regulations_Bill_2026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGC_Equity_Regulations_Bill_2026" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018337805529915504) 2026-02-02T14:56Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@prasanto @amitabhk87 The investments from tax holidays don't compensate the loss of revenue: They're a bad idea. https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/4sn3k.html https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/4sn3k.html" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018356365203480956) 2026-02-02T16:10Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "If you're going to livestream your coding do NOT reveal the private key of an Ethereum wallet. George Hotz did that and he made a lot of money (via a meme coin a stranger created while the stream was going on) and immediately lost a lot of that money. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=VBMUMuZBxw0 bro accidentally leaked his api keys and lost $70k 😭😭😭 https://t.co/gkP7NOHq0V https://www.youtube.com/watchv=VBMUMuZBxw0 bro accidentally leaked his api keys and lost $70k 😭😭😭 https://t.co/gkP7NOHq0V" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018376703744356559) 2026-02-02T17:31Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#AIEthics #BigTech #Google #AI #genAI #military #surveillance Google breached its own policies that barred use of AI for weapons or surveillance by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone footage according to a whistleblower complaint reviewed by @GerritD. https://t.co/aSYhjK4ilF Google breached its own policies that barred use of AI for weapons or surveillance by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone footage according to a whistleblower complaint reviewed by @GerritD. https://t.co/aSYhjK4ilF" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018409895390003424) 2026-02-02T19:43Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@AndyMasley It's funny how Prof. Bender nods and smiles just moments later when Dr. Hanna says she's not very social being autistic and would prefer to get info a-socially" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018524032497566118) 2026-02-03T03:16Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "Do not copy-paste commands from the Internet if you don't understand exactly what those commands do. Do not install any "skills" that do that either. And do NOT run base64-encoded commands Do run sudo rm -rf / if you don't understand the above. lmao for real https://t.co/tHGsExvlxh lmao for real https://t.co/tHGsExvlxh" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018558196961640760) 2026-02-03T05:32Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@GhoshSamyak Do you disagree with Said's views on Orientalism as a systemic "discourse of power" Bernard Lewis after all was fluent in many West Asian languages including classical Arabic & Persian. Lewis was the first Western scholar granted formal access to the Ottoman Empire's archive" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018618053576347934) 2026-02-03T09:30Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Deepseek Kimi (Moonshot) GLM (Zhipu AI) and now Step (StepFun). The Chinese AI companies are absolutely killing the field with their open-weight models. It's amazing. They're now not just in the top [--] across the board but in the top [--] even top [--] in some cases. ⚡ Step [---] Flash is coming: Fast Enough to Think. Reliable Enough to Act Were dropping our most capable open-source foundation model yet. Frontier reasoning meets extreme efficiency. It leverages a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture 196B total 11B active. Key https://t.co/H5P99ehx4D ⚡ Step [---] Flash is coming: Fast Enough to" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2018643142778794455) 2026-02-03T11:10Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@ShivamVahia" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2019420516164202792) 2026-02-05T14:39Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "If you don't get the hype about AI coding try: a) using an agentic interface instead of the chat interface b) one of the more advanced models (GLM [---] Kimi K2.5 Gemini [--] Pro GPT [---] Codex Claude [---] Opus) If you put in some effort it's undeniable that these are useful" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2019710165562606046) 2026-02-06T09:50Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@logic I don't think it's a linear graph. It's tough to know what to outsource and what not to and what works well outsourced and what doesn't. Plus there are concerns around autonomy and so on which exist with higher levels of abstraction but not as much at lower levels" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2019737983377985569) 2026-02-06T11:40Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "This is just not something we can fix within the ambit of most copyright laws which are hopelessly broken and just not suitable to a digital age and certainly not for a world where copyrighted works are really "data". #copyright #genAI damn turns out when you do GenAI using just the actual things you own it all falls apart huh https://t.co/JUWCzQ0lvF damn turns out when you do GenAI using just the actual things you own it all falls apart huh https://t.co/JUWCzQ0lvF" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2019770602752553408) 2026-02-06T13:50Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#jailbreak #AI #genAI #AIEthics #AISafety ANTHROPIC: PWNED 🫡 OPUS-4.6: LIBERATED ⛓💥 Current state of AI "Safety": one input = hundreds of jailbreaks at once I found a universal jailbreak technique for Opus [---] that is so OP it allows one to generate entire datasets of outputs across any harm category 😽 We've https://t.co/NMRTEci4qP ANTHROPIC: PWNED 🫡 OPUS-4.6: LIBERATED ⛓💥 Current state of AI "Safety": one input = hundreds of jailbreaks at once I found a universal jailbreak technique for Opus [---] that is so OP it allows one to generate entire datasets of outputs across any harm category" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2020086420745121919) 2026-02-07T10:45Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@cobbaltt @Saatvata @NaushaGhalib Latin is in a way at the root of [--] schisms within Christianity: the East-West schism and the Reformation" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2020160695061356994) 2026-02-07T15:40Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@thar_ol A Muslim boy who grows up in Chennai & studies at St. John's is more like a Hindu boy who grows up in Chennai & studies at St. John's that either of them are like a Bangladeshi or a Rajasthani co-religionist. But your "cultural nationalism" won't allow you to acknowledge that" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2020755984881484167) 2026-02-09T07:05Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements ""Genuine licensed Microsoft Excel version [----] and later with macros enabled is required to support Excel utilities." Interacting with Govt software should never require paying a licence fee to a private company. The Microsoft Tax is crony capitalism. #FOSS" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2020781383484887349) 2026-02-09T08:46Z 16.9K followers, 21.7K engagements "@ManuTsr You can use something like olevba to extract the vba code from the XLSM and use the HMAC-SHA256 related values in your own code. They're hard-coded but they keep changing. So you'll need to use the latest file" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2020839453825405236) 2026-02-09T12:37Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Labelling for #AI is creating jobs in rural India for women. #AIJobs #gender Rural India shapes global AI models Tending crops and then logging on for data labelling Chandmani Kerketta [--] is helping power an artificial intelligence revolution. The work is essential for machine learning: data labelling annotation and quality checks. https://t.co/XOHmJZ2uHU Rural India shapes global AI models Tending crops and then logging on for data labelling Chandmani Kerketta [--] is helping power an artificial intelligence revolution. The work is essential for machine learning: data labelling annotation and" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2020891802790973641) 2026-02-09T16:05Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Websites dedicate resources to prevent agentic use. (My bank doesn't even allow usage of Firefox's password manager.) Whilst browsers are trying to make it easier. Chrome [---] includes an early preview of WebMCP accessible via a flag that lets AI agents query and execute services without browsing the web app like a user. Services can be declared through an imperative navigator.modelContext API or declaratively through a form. https://t.co/UaUplZ8Q28 Chrome [---] includes an early preview of WebMCP accessible via a flag that lets AI agents query and execute services without browsing the web app" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021105543998472455) 2026-02-10T06:14Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#censorship #FoE #India #DeepFake #genAI #IntermediaryLiability Govt source: Timelimit for actions to be taken has been reduced. Primarily because people have been getting affected by deepfakes. To combat the impact of virality we have reduced the takedown time limit from [--] hours to [--] hours. Experience has shown that intermediaries can act Govt source: Timelimit for actions to be taken has been reduced. Primarily because people have been getting affected by deepfakes. To combat the impact of virality we have reduced the takedown time limit from [--] hours to [--] hours. Experience has shown that" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021212297843048465) 2026-02-10T13:18Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Indian is requiring social media companies to do this *without* any court finding that any content complained about is actually "unlawful". We've seen the govt misuse its powers to force social media companies to take down news articles about railway accidents as also cartoons India reduces time for social media companies to remove unlawful social media content to [--] hours from current [--] hours says Govt order https://t.co/2yaVchF9JS India reduces time for social media companies to remove unlawful social media content to [--] hours from current [--] hours says Govt order https://t.co/2yaVchF9JS" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021219866795966959) 2026-02-10T13:49Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "I'll believe this when (a) we don't have KYC mania with Aadhaar being made mandatory for uses that violate s.7 of the Act (b) UIDAI stops passing laws to allow private companies easier access to Aadhaar and (c) I can use Virtual Aadhaar (VID) anywhere. #UIDAIs new Aadhaar app focuses on data minimisation consent-based sharing and AI-powered security to reduce fraud improve privacy and simplify digital identity verification across urban and rural India https://t.co/XnIIfB5nEI #UIDAIs new Aadhaar app focuses on data minimisation consent-based sharing and AI-powered security to reduce fraud" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021238209582100838) 2026-02-10T15:01Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#elections #India #datap #privacy #transparency New investigation 🚨 Over [-----] Form-7s in bulk were filed at Gujarat's Somnath seat to delete voters. Most of these voters are Muslims. Several form-7s were pre-filled indicating an 'organised' attempt. Cong won Somnath with just [---] votes in [----]. https://t.co/eqxwUWgNAl New investigation 🚨 Over [-----] Form-7s in bulk were filed at Gujarat's Somnath seat to delete voters. Most of these voters are Muslims. Several form-7s were pre-filled indicating an 'organised' attempt. Cong won Somnath with just [---] votes in [----]. https://t.co/eqxwUWgNAl" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021542962975670467) 2026-02-11T11:12Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @paulnovosad: We built an interactive site showing air pollution vs GDP changes in cities around the world. Some highlights in this thr" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021573953374847051) 2026-02-11T13:16Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "The Sanskrit word / (mika / maka) meaning "mouse" is thus linked to the Latin musculus and the English muscle. A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: muscle and mouse. To the Roman imagination the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. Musculus in Latin means little mouse. A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: muscle and mouse. To the Roman imagination the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. Musculus in Latin means little" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021581720848396799) 2026-02-11T13:46Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @sonyasupposedly: six (6) years later has this happened in the process of happening" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021592725586403734) 2026-02-11T14:30Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "#AI #genAI #CSAM #Amazon 😶😶😶 https://t.co/taP8em9KBF https://t.co/RnAwwkHAA6 😶😶😶 https://t.co/taP8em9KBF https://t.co/RnAwwkHAA6" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021607895029424176) 2026-02-11T15:30Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @svaradarajan: Here is the submission The Wire made this afternoon to the phalanx of officials who make up the Inter Departmental Commit" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021613051217105247) 2026-02-11T15:51Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @nit_set: Oops. The Supreme Court doesn't want citizens to see how they operate. I am in favour of apex court hearings unless specifica" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021613379148980703) 2026-02-11T15:52Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@1lucabelli The volume of unstructured data fed by students using the Gemini trial would dwarf in comparison to the structured learning materials that Google would have used during training and RLHF. Google Books is a much richer resource" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021672287939047900) 2026-02-11T19:46Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @DKThomp: @RossBarkan When the telephone was invented 99% of the country had no use for it. The technology was patented in [----]. Three" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021679060011954385) 2026-02-11T20:13Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @sugataraju: Happy to see my sorekai majjige huli kosambari and bakri on the menu. All part of a plebeian gastronomic routine in my pa" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021687002828247456) 2026-02-11T20:45Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#KYCMadness #KYC #India Why is the ASI asking for Aadhar/PAN numbers at some archaeological sites to sell entry tickets Is this just the usual IAS buffoonery or is there some malevolent intent Why is the ASI asking for Aadhar/PAN numbers at some archaeological sites to sell entry tickets Is this just the usual IAS buffoonery or is there some malevolent intent" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021848022792237303) 2026-02-12T07:25Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @ireallyhateyou: "The solution for Gaza is to get all the Gazans out of Gaza either by emigration or by eliminating the residents" Feb" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021854705266438391) 2026-02-12T07:51Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "1. There is no such thing as "unbiased". [--]. It is far easier to program positive "counter-biases" into AI models than into human beings. [--]. AI models aren't "inherently racist" etc. I made these points to a colleague from CIS in [----]. She disagreed. I still think I was right. Two biases appear consistently across ALL three tasks: [--]. Gender bias (favoring female candidates/applicants) [--]. Race/ethnicity bias (favoring minority-associated applicants) Cross-task consistency suggests genuine model tendencies not task-specific artifacts. Two biases appear consistently across ALL three tasks: 1." [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021893081088635353) 2026-02-12T10:24Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @samarajiva: " Archives and records management is a critical foundation of any society but especially in information societies that are" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021894693349732470) 2026-02-12T10:30Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @prateekwaghre: Coming soon to a country near you packaged (and maybe even welcomed) as sovereignty" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2021897034568282151) 2026-02-12T10:39Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @churumuri: 'The Hindu' correctly calls Assam's unhinged chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma by his first name: "bigot". @himantabiswa ht" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021900281127293099) 2026-02-12T10:52Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @RajaKorman: I mean the area below is also 50% of the worlds population" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021902686862663813) 2026-02-12T11:02Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "#FoE #censorship #India #JournalismIsNotACrime #cartoons The government says the [--] second cartoon it banned spread rumours/disinformation that hurt Indias security/friendly relations with foreign countries. Here are the words you hear in the cartoon visualised on @narendramodi : https://t.co/pcBsCB8dHy The government says the [--] second cartoon it banned spread rumours/disinformation that hurt Indias security/friendly relations with foreign countries. Here are the words you hear in the cartoon visualised on @narendramodi : https://t.co/pcBsCB8dHy" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021912185749090613) 2026-02-12T11:40Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "It's strange when the RSS chief sound less rabidly anti-Muslim than some of the chief ministers of Indian states" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021913727231234445) 2026-02-12T11:46Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "RT @S_OhEigeartaigh: Good piece but if anything underplays it. Firstly. the India Summit has been discouraging of efforts to include Bletc" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021918062157689128) 2026-02-12T12:03Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "RT @DrWhax: If you liked the Paragon' Graphite spyware control panel. It's been quite a number of years since we've seen how NSO Group's" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021930514773668216) 2026-02-12T12:52Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements ""Democratization" of knowledge production This is the new world. I dont disagree with it. Not long ago academics at top universities supported by entire labs could produce top-tier papers serious theory structural models careful reduced-form evidence and long appendices full of formal proofs. That level of This is the new world. I dont disagree with it. Not long ago academics at top universities supported by entire labs could produce top-tier papers serious theory structural models careful reduced-form evidence and long appendices full of formal proofs. That level of" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2021934726236578148) 2026-02-12T13:09Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "1. Even if you believe this you need to acknowledge that most of the world runs on low-intellectual output. [--]. It's not sensible to believe this when AI models are advancing our knowledge of protein-folding chess and critiquing software architecture & generating math proofs. I kinda think if you're that impressed by AI's intellectual output you need to raise your standards a little bit I kinda think if you're that impressed by AI's intellectual output you need to raise your standards a little bit" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022167400037433460) 2026-02-13T04:34Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "Copyright maximalism is when you wish to prevent the purchase of used books. Don't be a copyright maximalist. When Anthropic stopped training on books that were literally pirated they managed to hit on the one way of buying books that means no money goes to authors: buying used books. They spent tens of millions of dollars buying used books from wholesalers in batches of tens of https://t.co/DevAO5OULI When Anthropic stopped training on books that were literally pirated they managed to hit on the one way of buying books that means no money goes to authors: buying used books. They spent tens" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022271397507006895) 2026-02-13T11:27Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "Copyright maximalists tend to see the world as zero-sum: either "AI" wins or "creators" win. The world is not zero-sum. Used books are good. Libraries are good. Using books for training AIs is good. Authors writing books is good. They can all co-exist" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022271971795300540) 2026-02-13T11:29Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "@SiGallagher For the same reason that using books for creating a library or a book search tool are good. It benefits the public and helps access to knowledge. Copyright is meant to be a _limited_ monopoly" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022298394769948719) 2026-02-13T13:14Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@Kannanreborn As a non-domain expert I'm questioning the narrative of "scalpers". Scalpers can only re-sell tickets which aren't linked to identity. All bookings have to have a name+sex+age. If those details are present in a ticket how are the scalpers selling them to others" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022325952316096799) 2026-02-13T15:04Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@SimonFraser4 At least I don't wish it to be cancelled" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022333437999509908) 2026-02-13T15:33Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "@prateekwaghre Their unethical tactics aside I hold it is wrong for companies like Meta and for govts to use FRT for mass surveillance. But it is *not wrong* to enable users to use FRT at an individual level especially when it mimics existing human abilities" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022380237468905835) 2026-02-13T18:39Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "#caste #diplomacy #India Caste in the Corridor: The MEA Story by @vineet1232 From the very birth of the Indian Foreign Service to parliamentary scrutiny three decades later caste has quietly shaped who represents India abroad and who does not. What does this hidden history tell us about merit https://t.co/FYEsjYPxI4 Caste in the Corridor: The MEA Story by @vineet1232 From the very birth of the Indian Foreign Service to parliamentary scrutiny three decades later caste has quietly shaped who represents India abroad and who does not. What does this hidden history tell us about merit" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/2022643963883327934) 2026-02-14T12:07Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "#factcheck #disinfo #Meta Meta is cutting fees for professional fact checking partners in India The Hindu has learnt a long-dreaded follow-up to the firm completely transitioning to Community Notes in the US: https://t.co/Tfc8nGNTOb Meta is cutting fees for professional fact checking partners in India The Hindu has learnt a long-dreaded follow-up to the firm completely transitioning to Community Notes in the US: https://t.co/Tfc8nGNTOb" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2022920994743292123) 2026-02-15T06:28Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements "The scaremongering crap that libertarian think tanks in the USA publish about #ICANN & the #UN is astounding: http://t.co/2qznlcKMio http://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/are-we-destined-to-surf-the-un-net http://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/are-we-destined-to-surf-the-un-net" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/518820723565932545) 2014-10-05T17:51Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements "On December [--] [----] AB Vajpayee gave a speech in Lucknow to kar sevaks urging them to continue kar seva the next day in Ayodhya. The next day the Babri Masjid was brought down by Hindutva zealots. This video was captured by intelligence agents submitted to the Liberhans Comm" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1015719242661056512) 2018-07-07T22:08Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements ".@ranjithoskote remains in my mind one of the best English-language poets we have today. Today he read from Jonahwhale including "Marine Drive" "Oracle Tree" "Night Sky and Counting" "The Refugee Pauses in Flight". #blrlitfest" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1056505922388803584) 2018-10-28T11:20Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "Larry Summers comes up on top in this discussion: there are far better ways to further a progressive and wealth redistribution agenda than a wealth tax. But importantly we need global tax reforms to prevent regulatory arbitrage by multinational companies. Video Would a Wealth Tax Help Combat Inequality (Emmanuel Saez Lawrence Summers Gregory Mankiw) https://t.co/xUJUp6NKKH Video Would a Wealth Tax Help Combat Inequality (Emmanuel Saez Lawrence Summers Gregory Mankiw) https://t.co/xUJUp6NKKH" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1190150390072958976) 2019-11-01T06:15Z 17.1K followers, [--] engagements ""Feminists have a special friendship with horses." - Donna Haraway in "Tentacular Thinking"" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1371168603123322888) 2021-03-14T18:37Z 16.8K followers, [--] engagements ""Perhaps Medusa the only mortal Gorgon can bring us into the holobiomes of Terrapolis and heighten our chances for dashing the twenty-first-century ships of the Heroes on a living coral reef." - Donna Haraway in "Tentacular Thinking"" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1371169167705968648) 2021-03-14T18:39Z 16.8K followers, [--] engagements "@TomChivers @SteveStuWill Why is it seen as an either-or decision The largest producers of Covid-19 vaccines are already located in China and India. More investment and tech transfer is needed *along with* waiver of IP (both patents and trade secrets). https://x.com/pranesh/status/1390071348249055232s=19 A reminder that a temporary waiver of patents for Covid vaccines is a necessary step but not a sufficient step. Transfer of know-how technology are crucial and other forms of investment in vaccine manufacturing are a must to be able to step up vaccine production." [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1390600821226672133) 2021-05-07T09:34Z 16.8K followers, [--] engagements "@vrsrini @vishy64theking I've quite liked @GMJuditPolgar and @anishgiri's commentary as well. This is truly a great time to be a chess fan with live commentary by Caruana Hou Yifan and so many other chess greats. Though I miss Alexander Grischuk who provided commentary in 2018" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1465262518755115010) 2021-11-29T10:13Z 17.1K followers, [--] engagements "In [----] the #USA passed the Sedition Act which forbade uttering "disloyal scurrilous or abusive language about the form of govt. of the US. or bring it. into disrepute" etc. This Act was upheld by the US Supreme Court in Abrams v. US. #FoE #censorship #fakenews" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1499993165193007117) 2022-03-05T06:20Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements ""Because for example not every kind of trouble or problem someone has with a girlfriend or a boyfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production." Herbert Marcuse (1978) critiquing this Boston Review article [--] years before it was published. Orgasm has become an expected product and outcome of sex rather than sex serving as a form of pleasure connection fun or release. The conversion of orgasms into products is just one way that U.S.-style #capitalism is ruining #sex: https://t.co/arrHAkIqKE Orgasm has become an expected product and outcome of sex rather than sex serving as a" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1569806141928140801) 2022-09-13T21:52Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "Here's the Financial Times being as Eurocentric as possible. Under no global metric linked to wealth/income could Britain and the US be called "poor societies" when eg the poorest Americans have incomes that put them above the 50th percentile globally https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945sharetype=blocked https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945sharetype=blocked" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1570728779974316033) 2022-09-16T10:58Z 17K followers, [--] engagements "I've just received confirmation from the 2nd independent expert (whose identity @svaradarajan shared with me) that he never sent the mail he's purported to have sent and that he never undertook any DKIM verification for them. More updates soon" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1582197482615758851) 2022-10-18T02:30Z 16.8K followers, [---] engagements "Even historians fall prey to #FakeNews in the form of viral graphics. Both the quotes in that graphic are fabricated. [--]. [--]. KJP on 18th Oct: [--]. KJP on 21st Oct: [--]. US readout 15th Oct: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/15/readout-of-president-joseph-r-biden-jr-s-meeting-with-prime-minister-narendra-modi-and-president-joko-widodo/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/11/21/press-gaggle-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-en-route-cherry-point-nc/" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1595353041682956290) 2022-11-23T09:46Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements ""Shanghai" a classic TV commercial by Burberry's that aired in [----]. This used to be among my favourite advertisements as a kid. (If you know the agency / creative director behind this ad please let me know.)" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1656955913092337665) 2023-05-12T09:34Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements "The difference between how progressive academics wish to treat convicted criminals and people who are merely accused of wrongdoing is noteworthy. This is an academic form of untouchability as a punishment" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1661877844287553537) 2023-05-25T23:32Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "Every country tries to attract the talented H1-B visa holders in the US except India. We instead beg the US government to take more talented people from India" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1673971249603813379) 2023-06-29T19:46Z 17.2K followers, 23.1K engagements ""Aurangzeb is becoming an icon of resistance against Hindu hatred" Fascinating story by @tabassum_b in @scroll_in: #history #politics #India #religion" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1678101110123528192) 2023-07-09T19:06Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "I can't believe I only started using pipx today. (I'd seen pipx in various places but never bothered to look into it.) If you're a user of Python software (rather than a dev) pipx is a simple way to have clean installs w/o manually managing venv etc" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1678267131421687809) 2023-07-10T04:59Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "So are Meta and other US social media companies getting what they wanted This looks like a case of US law being laundered into India. #Instagram #Meta #datap #DDPB #India" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1678284231473246208) 2023-07-10T06:06Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "'With this decision the European Court has effectively approved the re-writing of history The expansion of the right to be forgotten to newspaper articles goes far beyond the original scope of this right.' #RTBF #ECtHR #privacy #FoE #censorship" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1678485524799975428) 2023-07-10T19:31Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "It seems to me: - If your foremost concern is concentration of power you'd support FOSS in AI. - If your foremost concerns are safety and accountability you'd oppose FOSS in AI. Broadly right Completely wrong #AI #FOSS" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1678649506190053376) 2023-07-11T06:25Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "Forget "vegan" in the US I just picked up a packet of salt that clearly stated "Kosher salt" right in front. That's how much Islam impacts everything in this country" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1689132550638522368) 2023-08-09T04:32Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "#India's Defence Min (& soon the armed forces) are apparently shifting over to an internal Ubuntu derivative called "Maya" getting rid of MS Windows. Whatever happened to BOSS #FOSS #security cc: @fsmk_org @anivar @sunil_abraham @VenkyHariharan https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/defence-ministry-to-replace-microsoft-os-with-maya/article67172875.ece https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/defence-ministry-to-replace-microsoft-os-with-maya/article67172875.ece" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1689182466224066560) 2023-08-09T07:50Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements "Fascinating attack using electromagnetic signals from HDMI + deep learning. #security #privacy" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1689292579815243782) 2023-08-09T15:08Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "A rebuttal of the claims in Das' 'Electoral Backsliding' paper by @Saiarav: R code and data: It looks at claims of: [--]. Outperformance (BJP vs. non-BJP states + [----] vs. 1999) [--]. Voter deletion Worth reading. #elections #India https://github.com/ssriva1998/das2023_repl/blob/main/election-data-analysis.R https://medium.com/@yajnavalkya10/the-ashoka-paper-a-case-of-democratic-backsliding-or-academic-backsliding-37adf09b467a https://github.com/ssriva1998/das2023_repl/blob/main/election-data-analysis.R" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1689637172830482433) 2023-08-10T13:57Z 17.2K followers, 11.3K engagements "@aryaman2020 @soldni I agree with this. But your prior dismissal seemed to be solely about the hidden motives of the person which I hold is a bad way of thinking about public policy issues. (But then again I'm perhaps guilty of reading too much into a single tweet.)" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1690214343571537920) 2023-08-12T04:11Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "Sri Lanka's upcoming Unique Digital Identity (SLUDI) will be based on the open source MOSIP platform developed by IIIT-B & ors. The Indian govt. is sponsoring this with a grant of [---] million Sri Lankan rupee. #ID #biometrics #SriLanka #FOSS https://www.mosip.io/news-events/mosip-enters-partnership-with-sri-lanka-on-digital-id-system https://www.mosip.io/news-events/mosip-enters-partnership-with-sri-lanka-on-digital-id-system" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1692065790739312926) 2023-08-17T06:48Z 17K followers, [---] engagements "Terrible article by Ulises Ali Mejias rehashing the weak "data colonialism" arguments as a reason not to support data commons & to hold that "data is not a non-rival good". How can you write an entire article on this without talking of copyleft models" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1693856479080816807) 2023-08-22T05:23Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "Mejias also called for "data nationalisation" as a response to "data colonialism". And "to avoid corruption & mismanagement" we simply ensure "civil society is directly involved in the oversight and decision-making of how to use this wealth". 🤪" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1693857588558049407) 2023-08-22T05:28Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements ""Isabel Crook a China-born daughter of Canadian missionaries who became one of her adopted countrys most celebrated foreign residents beloved as an educator anthropologist and articulate advocate for the Communist state" died on Sunday at age [---]. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/world/asia/isabel-crook-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/world/asia/isabel-crook-dead.html" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1695317861018079715) 2023-08-26T06:10Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements "Who said this "Ultimately it is Kamaraj who countsnot others candidates or even voters who are anyway unfit to judge what is right & good for them Take my word vote Congress and you will be well. If you dont the ingenious Rajaji riding the DMK horse will trample you all"" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1695338959830909158) 2023-08-26T07:34Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements "Who in [----] called on the people of Tamil Nadu to "vote for all Congress candidates be they donkeys or Brahmins"" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1695339512266908023) 2023-08-26T07:36Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "It's quite interesting that Tamil Nadu where 'Self-Respect Marriages' were written into the law and an anti-#caste movement has been prominent for more than a century has the _lowest_ levels of inter-caste marriage in South India (2.96%) and among the lowest in all of India" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1695832218755854704) 2023-08-27T16:14Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "The Union government sponsors a programme whereby [---] lakh rupees is provided any inter-caste couple getting married where one of the spouses is a Dalit. It additionally provides 25K to the district authorities to celebrate each such marriage" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1696079166683369480) 2023-08-28T08:35Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "@Pavithra_Suri Tamil Nadu has among the highest numbers of violence against Dalits in India (and lower rate of solved VAD cases than UP Bihar) has had over a dozen caste riots and retains very high rates of segregation. It would be terrible to emulate TN in terms of caste integration" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1699319012189241838) 2023-09-06T07:09Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "Tamil Nadu has among the highest numbers of violence against Dalits in India (and lower rate of solved VAD cases than UP) numerous caste riots retains very high rates of segregation low intercaste marriage. It would be terrible to emulate TN in terms of caste integration" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1699319490700611683) 2023-09-06T07:11Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "@Pavithra_Suri I see "integration" (which is what I was responding to) as being about fraternity which Babasaheb emphasised was foremost amongst 'liberty equality fraternity'. And on that front TN (esp. south TN) is doing terribly. High segregation high violence low intercaste marriage &c" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1699361568570655207) 2023-09-06T09:59Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "@Pavithra_Suri @_mlganesh [--]. Plausibly: a rising (educational) tide lifts all boats. Is this something unique about TN How does it compare w/ Kerala [--]. I'm distinguishing b/w equality measures and fraternity measures. [--]. TN's PCI in [----] was 63K while UP's was 23K. So UP:TN SC differential was 2.7" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1700186409901109700) 2023-09-08T16:36Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "@MaliniP @the_hindu @arivalayam Doesn't the Hindu hire copy-editors "However whether he will remain the Athiveeran of Maamannan who vent his anger on injustice or make compromises is to be seen". "he who vent his anger" "he make compromises" Whatever happened to subject-verb agreement" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1700882422739636651) 2023-09-10T14:42Z 17.2K followers, 13.7K engagements "What's truly jarring is that Apple a notoriously anti-environment anti-repair anti-reuse anti-upgrade pro-waste company is boasting about its climate change actions. If they really cared about the environment they'd drastically change how their phones/laptops are made" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1701921101834846212) 2023-09-13T11:29Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "Yes South India is richer safer healthier better educated in general. But it isn't less awful for Dalits (TN has the *highest* number of atrocity-prone districts in the country per RTI filed by Madura-based NGO Evidence). #caste #India" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1702771318083772718) 2023-09-15T19:48Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "I'm at an airport waiting for my flight and the chap sitting next to me is speaking on his phone. What's interesting is that he's speaking in Sanskrit. I think this is probably the first time I've come across someone having a conversation in Sanskrit" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1702996546000941137) 2023-09-16T10:43Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "@udhay_shankar @sunil_abraham @_sachinbansal Sunil & I were having lunch at Nandhini when two-three young people kept stealing glances at use whispering among themselves. Finally they gathered the courage to come up to our table and talk to Sunil. How disappointed they were to find out he wasn't Mr. Bansal" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1703687512689115211) 2023-09-18T08:28Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "@mukta_jo Look at the list of suspected assassinations by Israel: Does anyone invoke this active assassination programme (rather than other reasons relating to their treatment of Gaza West Bank Arabs in Israel etc.) to call Israel a "rogue state"" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1704112723620221017) 2023-09-19T12:38Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "I used to wonder if North Indians knew of any contemporary Carnatic performers apart from TM Krishna. Now I'm starting to wonder if many of my South Indian friends know of any besides Krishna" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1705469947663802719) 2023-09-23T06:31Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "We need to promote #AccessToCreativity. Just like A2K we need an A2C movement. There's strong opposition building to customised creative outputs being created by #genAI by (wrongly) branding them as "plagiarism" & "piracy". @jamie_love @sunil_abraham @qirtaiba @A2K4D @naglarzk" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1705810954339094865) 2023-09-24T05:06Z 17.2K followers, 44.8K engagements "@Rahll @jamie_love @sunil_abraham @qirtaiba @A2K4D @naglarzk You have #CreativityPrivilege and can't see how the creativity challenged among us could be greatly aided by #genAI" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1705817340187988294) 2023-09-24T05:32Z 17.2K followers, 459.7K engagements "@Rahll @jamie_love @sunil_abraham @qirtaiba @A2K4D @naglarzk Arts like health and knowledge are central to human flourishing in a way that aerospace engineering isn't. Plus no one is asking creative people to work for free. The argument is : "Don't prevent me from using #genAI trained on art to create works for myself"" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1705823276986257499) 2023-09-24T05:55Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "@That_GuyMike @Rahll @jamie_love @sunil_abraham @qirtaiba @A2K4D @naglarzk That's like Donald Trump saying "Even the poor can earn money." Yes but those who inherited wealth have it much easier. Those who are genetically gifted in terms of creativity have it much easier" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1706202770033029532) 2023-09-25T07:03Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "I've never sought "consent" from any writer to learn from their writings and thereupon to write more like them. Why then should a programme require my consent to discern patterns from my writings #genAI #ethics" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1706283620628082940) 2023-09-25T12:24Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "@LettingGo_Now No #genAI doesn't. With difussion models eg it learns by adding noise to images and then predictively removing noise to get an image. There's no copying involved. Similarly with LLMs. They aren't copying. They're learning patterns then using those patterns to generate" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1706312921897165102) 2023-09-25T14:21Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "@LettingGo_Now As I mentioned: it isn't copying. For a non-technical explanation of on GANs and diffusion models work:" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1706320722321182854) 2023-09-25T14:52Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "@shanksponi @Aethersmith Be that as it may how is that relevant Artists are arguing that "AI art is derivative" hoping to invoke copyright law. I'm arguing that "all art is derivative" and am pointing out that #genAI (difussion models GANs etc.) do not actually "copy"" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1706887349781848428) 2023-09-27T04:23Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "" although India runs one of the largest public food safety nets in the world through the National Food Security Act (NFSA) enacted by the UPA government in [----] the country still accounts for roughly 30% of global hunger."" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1707404288350421069) 2023-09-28T14:37Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "So #BharOS (India's "indigenous mobile OS") turns out to be a fork of @GrapheneOS (formerly CopperheadOS which in turn is a fork of Google's Android Open Source Project). That's great. But why didn't @iitmadras just state that Why all the pretense Rather sad. #FOSS #India" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1707723701431697751) 2023-09-29T11:47Z [--] followers, 10.7K engagements "I'm wondering how long it'll be after MS Swaminathan's death that people start promoting all the critiques (by Vandana Shiva et al.) and calling the Green Revolution a sham" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1707795654968569941) 2023-09-29T16:33Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "A focus on food security is bad because many food secure people get diabetes" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1707823645010309427) 2023-09-29T18:24Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "@GlobalPartnersD @MPaz_online @CircleID Hi @MPaz_online I've a few questions on how this could work. On using IHRL: would it help us resolve some thorny questions we're currently faced (and if yes how): (a) should generative AI be allowed to be trained on copyrighted data sets (b) should driverless cars be allowed" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1707926800398250308) 2023-09-30T01:14Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "Kinda bizarre that the SFI the students' wing of the CPI(M) seems to bemoaning the perceived lack of political engagement by privileged capitalists and petit bourgeoisie. Don't they as Marxists support the proletariat being more politically engaged" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1708718886848446932) 2023-10-02T05:41Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "Interesting work happening on updating OpenPGP: #crypto #security #interop #email" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1708806057487921179) 2023-10-02T11:28Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "The Equator passes through 11/13 countries: So Tom & Prncipe Gabon Congo DR Congo Uganda Kenya Somalia Maldives b/w islands Indonesia Kiribati b/w islands Ecuador Colombia and Brazil. Interestingly the Equator *does not* pass through Equatorial Guinea" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1708825290309599341) 2023-10-02T12:44Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "Some tech advice for activists & journalists in India: [--]. Do not use biometrics to unlock your phone/laptop. Use a strong passphrase. [--]. Use full-disk encryption to encrypt the data on your device. [--]. Know that you are under no obligation to share your passphrases w/ the police" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1709219189607792925) 2023-10-03T14:49Z 17.2K followers, 180.5K engagements "@Jprasad55 @avataram @SitaramYechury The current raids were not under PMLA or FEMA. It was for engaging in a "terrorist act" under UAPA (along w/ ss. [--] [--] [--] [--] 22C) & ss. 120B and 153A of the IPC. Have some shame Have some regard for rule of law" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1709429715797504277) 2023-10-04T04:46Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "Some people in India gloat over the fact that rule of law is weak in India not recognizing that rule of law is a non-partisan benefit to a polity that both right- and left-wing democrats support. They get off on dreaming of police violence. I personally find it strange" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1709480492465291370) 2023-10-04T08:08Z 17.2K followers, 12.6K engagements "@ArunKrishnan_ @avataram What I know is that none of the public accusations can possible fit within the UAPA. It's a flagrant abuse of the law prima facie. If they broke PMLA or FEMA or FCRA then those are the laws to apply. Not UAPA. Taking money from Neville Roy Singham isn't otherwise a crime" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1709754056305250606) 2023-10-05T02:15Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "I'm not sure if this is a comedy or a tragedy. The Delhi Police are not only malicious but they are supremely incompetent as well. Buffoonery of the highest order. With them Hanlon's Razor goes for a toss" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1710240402820022469) 2023-10-06T10:27Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "The Delhi Police thinks believing there are ongoing disputes over the borders of Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh is somehow a "terrorist act". (Full disclosure: No Chinese operative paid me to laugh at the Delhi Police; I do it because they're a joke.)" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1710292900309827669) 2023-10-06T13:56Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements ".@element_hq is officially "blocked" in India. But I have no troubles installing it on Linux nor on my Android phone. It just goes to show that an app-block is only symbolic unless the app itself cooperates (as TikTok does by banning Indian IPs). #censorship #FoE #India" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1710312019424104691) 2023-10-06T15:12Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "@GlobalPartnersD @MPaz_online Hi Maria. I'd asked some qns about the report and its interpretations recently. Please do reply (off Twitter if that's more convenient) when you get the time Thanks" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1711344435014021385) 2023-10-09T11:34Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "I'm surprised that no one in the #IGF Main Hall discussion of AI & policy has mentioned the fight over open source AI (crucial for the Global South) or the harmful effects of excessive #copyright for development of AI for the common good. #IGF2023 @MPaz_online" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1711635877888483348) 2023-10-10T06:52Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "This is authoritarian. This is something I'd expect the Egyptian or Indian govt to be doing. But it's the #EU which is threatening to take action against @X u/ DSA for users posting unspecified "misleading information". #IGF2023 #FoE #censorship #disinfo" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1711995055131791514) 2023-10-11T06:40Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "More #censorship requests from the European Commission. #EU #FoE I hope all human rights and free speech organizations push back against such arbitrary and vague requests by governments" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1712147856470266026) 2023-10-11T16:47Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "I frequently see people getting confused about the double-entry accounting terms "debit" and "credit". You're usually made to remember a complex table like below. Instead remember: * Debits are *inflows to* an account. * Credits are *outflows from* an account" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1712358974757220829) 2023-10-12T06:46Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "If you're an NGO claiming to do advocacy defending human rights & public interest feel free to use FOSS #genAI just as you feel free to use computers. They are compatible with human rights & public interest. As a Global South NGO-wallah I give you guilt-free permission😆" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1712399815739613382) 2023-10-12T09:28Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements ""The report said [----] civilians were killed in Myanmar "for political reasons" between February [--] [----] and September [--] [----] and [----] were injured." #Myanmar #violence #media" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1712444567252009241) 2023-10-12T12:26Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements ""Put simply: if customers are challenged on copyright grounds we will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks involved." #genAI #Google #indemnity #copyright" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1712752930271768811) 2023-10-13T08:51Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "Why hasn't Harvard Uni made a statement about the ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh or the suicide attacks that killed dozens in Baluchistan & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or the worsening situation in Mali or about the continuing crisis in Myanmar w/ [----] civilians killed since '21" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1713556789688766628) 2023-10-15T14:05Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "What do folks think of this Should the UN prevent countries like Saudi Arabia China and Russia (and which others) from hosting international conferences (The [----] Internet Governance Forum is currently to be held in Riyadh.) #IGF2023 #IGF #UN" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1713597406284239336) 2023-10-15T16:47Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements ""The cleric had supported terrorism by writing 'I stand with Palestine' on his DP." The Kanpur police doesn't seem to understand what "terrorism" means. #FoE #censorship #India #UttarPradesh" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1713844175198978083) 2023-10-16T09:07Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "I think it is crucial for people to play games like Age of Empires and Sim City. They teach you many important concepts such as resource limitations trade-offs economic growth not being a zero-sum game the benefits of trade and also the inherent pitfalls of a command economy" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1715809692172308640) 2023-10-21T19:18Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "@nirbheek @kingslyj Wouldn't you call these "loafers" or "slip on shoes" Kinda surprised these are being referred to as moccasins which I know of through novels set in Canada that I read as a kid like Call of the Wild Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1716402608649416883) 2023-10-23T10:34Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements ""Israel banned The Battle of Algiers from public screening upon its release. But its historical lessons cannot so easily be ignored." @EagletonOliver" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1717149921483403600) 2023-10-25T12:03Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements ""The horror show that has occurred in Southern Israel and Gaza is less a reenactment of Gillo Pontecorvos The Battle of Algiers more Pier Paolo Pasolinis Salo. It is not something over which Fanon would have rejoiced." @buffsoldier_96" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1717149924343849252) 2023-10-25T12:03Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements "@MishiChoudhary Photos of Jawaharlal Nehru smoking laughing being around women (incl. his sister and his niece) etc. are used all the time to portray him as a degenerate Westernized skirt-chaser. In this case none of the photos/commentary I've seen denigrate her qua her womanhood" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1717811470006894613) 2023-10-27T07:52Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements "@chetnakum @sunil_abraham is a fount of wisdom" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1719371811094511797) 2023-10-31T15:12Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "@chetnakum @sunil_abraham Tiruvalluvar and Chris Rock too:" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1719372162807795866) 2023-10-31T15:14Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements "" The American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English names of all bird species currently named after people" This seems to me to be a good outcome based on terrible "social justice" reasoning" [X Link](https://x.com/pranesh/status/1719792748365267371) 2023-11-01T19:05Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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Social Influence
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Social topic influence india, 6969, ai, israel, countries, meta, twitter, $googl, china, in the
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) Cloudflare, Inc. (NET)
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"then The Wire updated w/ a note that blamed the "incorrect default time in TailsOS" for the wrong year then they said it was prob w/ one date due to their comp being "formatted with TailsOS" then they stated it was due to incorrect manually-set time for both dates"
X Link 2022-10-16T23:13Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@themediawitch @SiGallagher I've fought alongside IFLA and other libraries at the World Intellectual Property Organization for many years against excessive copyright laws. I love my librarian colleagues. I've opposed the attack by the Authors' Guild against OpenLibrary and the Internet Archive"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:27Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@themediawitch @SiGallagher Librarians fought alongside us for "the right to read" for print-disabled people. Publishers and authors orgs from the US and the EU opposed blind rights organizations. Libraries are the good guys in my book. Elsevier and Thomson Reuters aren't"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:33Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@benphillips76 (1) Is there anyone who suggests that "computers shouldn't take decisions for which no one can be held accountable" is an anti-tech or Luddite position (2) If self-driving cars were shown to cause 1/100000th the road fatalities of human drivers would you be in their favour"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:06Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@callebtc Update: https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html https://crabby-rathbun.github.io/mjrathbun-website/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.html"
X Link 2026-02-13T03:00Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Dario Amodei and Anthropic made a huge hullabaloo last year about a "Chinese state threat actor" using Claude and how they shut it down. But they're okay with Palantir and the literal military using Claude to plan actions that violate international law #AIEthics Exclusive: The U.S. military used Anthropic's Claude in its operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro via its partner Palantir. w/ @AmrithRamkumar https://t.co/hnz82r3NAM Exclusive: The U.S. military used Anthropic's Claude in its operation to capture former Venezuelan President Nicols Maduro via its partner"
X Link 2026-02-14T02:56Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@VishwasSetlur Fantastic example. It's one thing to be influenced by American culture it's been going on for decades and is inevitable. But it's quite another to import American political/social references that have no local significance at all"
X Link 2024-01-31T08:12Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I've a paper out in @IPPRJournal on content blocking and Internet shutdowns in #India from the perspective of international human rights law. Comments welcome. Do share widely PDF: HTML: #FoE #censorship #IHRL https://pranesh.in/scholarly/articles/internet-blocking-and-shutdowns-in-india-and-international-human-rights-law.html https://ippr.in/index.php/ippr/article/view/282/118 https://pranesh.in/scholarly/articles/internet-blocking-and-shutdowns-in-india-and-international-human-rights-law.html https://ippr.in/index.php/ippr/article/view/282/118"
X Link 2024-06-28T06:16Z 16.9K followers, 24.1K engagements
"Cousin marriage is an integral part of Tamil culture. In the song malarntu malarta Kannadasan includes two verses about it alongside verses about Podhikai malai and the Tamil sangam in Madurai and the beauty of Tamil"
X Link 2025-03-27T07:45Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"You can use date +%F -r $file in bash to get the last modified date of a file in yyyy-mm-dd format. You can use this in scripts to prepend the last modified date to files: $(date +%F -r $1)_$1. #LinuxTips"
X Link 2025-05-06T13:49Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@Kathleen_Tyson_ @Seanchuckle I don't know about the Welsh or the Irish but Scots were certainly a large part of the colonial history of the UK. From Livingstone to Brisbane to Macquarie. Even names like "Nova Scotia" and "New South Wales" and all the "Aberdeens" around the world show non-English influence"
X Link 2025-07-13T17:25Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@Kathleen_Tyson_ @Seanchuckle A large number of Scottish merchants made their riches through colonialism. The Opium Wars were orchestrated by Jardine Matheson. The tombstones in Edinburgh graveyards testify to the great number of senior colonial military officers who were Scottish"
X Link 2025-07-13T17:31Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"China is emerging as a leading pharma and biotech hub. Pfizer Licenses 3SBio Cancer Drug for Record $1.2 Billion #biotech #health #pharma #China https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-20/pfizer-licenses-3sbio-cancer-drug-for-record-1-2-billion https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-20/pfizer-licenses-3sbio-cancer-drug-for-record-1-2-billion"
X Link 2025-07-14T11:13Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"So whether some speech is protected by the Indian constitution depends on the reception of that speech in Pakistan What new idiocy is this She wasnt criticizing modi you clueless fool. She twisted the attack into propaganda by pinning it on Indian PM and pak happily weaponized the narrative in international propaganda circus. You guys are friends of the enemy. Lanath She wasnt criticizing modi you clueless fool. She twisted the attack into propaganda by pinning it on Indian PM and pak happily weaponized the narrative in international propaganda circus. You guys are friends of the enemy."
X Link 2025-12-08T09:44Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@ramapamposh @chirag @_Asynchronus You don't think those who call for a Hindu Rashtra are engaged in statements that assert propagate or publish anything prejudicial to national integration If so it is criminal under the BNS"
X Link 2025-12-08T23:12Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Speed - Sped Feed - Fed Bleed - Bled Lead - Led But: Read - Read How does this make any sense"
X Link 2026-01-15T13:27Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@sonaljay8 Sri Lankan food is amazing. Definitely in the same category. But then again I like Keralan food and Sri Lankan food has many similarities"
X Link 2026-01-23T07:38Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The influx of Chinese users to Zotero has been the best thing ever: https://zotero-chinese.com/plugins/ https://zotero-chinese.com/plugins/"
X Link 2026-01-26T08:46Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@SinglePhoton @lucifer_damned No I haven't wondered because I'm not familiar with his writings on al Afghani or his contestation with Arabic / Persian / Urdu speakers about his interpretations and understanding of the language being better than theirs. But surely he too is capable of exaggerating expertise"
X Link 2026-01-26T16:29Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
""Shakespeare was not a man but a woman: a black woman Anglo-Venetian of Moroccan descent and covertly Jewish named Emilia Bassano." #history #lit https://thecritic.co.uk/was-shakespeare-really-a-black-woman/ https://thecritic.co.uk/was-shakespeare-really-a-black-woman/"
X Link 2026-01-27T15:50Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#a11y #AI #genAI As someone who cares about accessibility and thinks that AI tech can significantly improve accessibility I must admit I really didn't understand this article. AI is moving fast. Accessibility Not fast enough. A thoughtful piece by Shashank Pandey on why India must clearly define AI accessibility and lead with intention not slogans. Worth reading 👇 https://t.co/YNHQ7zRu85 #AIAccessibility #InclusiveAI #DisabilityInclusion AI is moving fast. Accessibility Not fast enough. A thoughtful piece by Shashank Pandey on why India must clearly define AI accessibility and lead with"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:37Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@phl43 @MazMHussain https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/russia-ukraine-casualties.html#::text=The%20study%2C%20published%20on%20Tuesdaycombined%20at%20almost%201.8%20million https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/us/politics/russia-ukraine-casualties.html#::text=The%20study%2C%20published%20on%20Tuesdaycombined%20at%20almost%201.8%20million"
X Link 2026-01-27T19:52Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@HolocaustUK Almost 90% of the Roma population of Central Europe was killed in camps like Auschwitz-Birkenau. Yet there was not a single Roma witness called during the Nuremberg Trials. Through statements like this you're leading to the erasure of the Roma genocide during the Holocaust"
X Link 2026-01-28T01:56Z 16.9K followers, 75.3K engagements
"@receipts_lol @realUpScrolled From all these grounds the AT Protocol (which powers @bluesky) is best suited. While it doesn't have e2ee it has decentralization and ability to move between providers which is probably better than the federation-oriented nature of @joinmastodon"
X Link 2026-01-28T05:39Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"This absolutely sucks. This is the anti-thesis of a standards-based Web. It seems sites like Instagram are intentionally downgrading the Web experience of all but specific white-listed browsers. left: "hello I am Ladybird" right: "hello I am Ladybird but also Chrome and Safari lmao" For anyone who is disappointed that our User-Agent string is "impure": don't hate the player hate the game. https://t.co/Gs1HqT2Ces left: "hello I am Ladybird" right: "hello I am Ladybird but also Chrome and Safari lmao" For anyone who is disappointed that our User-Agent string is "impure": don't hate the player"
X Link 2026-01-28T08:57Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#copyright #AI #genAI This is quite a funny article the headline chosen to make what Anthropic did sound icky (they destroyed books clutches pearls) when the whole point is that the judge and even quite critical law prof James Grimmelmann viewed this as a legit approach to building the training This is quite a funny article the headline chosen to make what Anthropic did sound icky (they destroyed books clutches pearls) when the whole point is that the judge and even quite critical law prof James Grimmelmann viewed this as a legit approach to building the training"
X Link 2026-01-28T16:54Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"What some see as "damning" I see as democratization and spreading of knowledge as archiving as much of human knowledge as captured in text. #copyright #piracy #GLAM #genAI #AI Damning from @aaronjschaffer @WillOremus @nitashatiku. To get more data: * Anthropic "destructively scanned" millions of books * co-founder Ben Mann downloaded the shadow library LibGen * Mann hailed another shadow library's arrival: "just in time" https://t.co/GZ74iV4eF2 Damning from @aaronjschaffer @WillOremus @nitashatiku. To get more data: * Anthropic "destructively scanned" millions of books * co-founder Ben Mann"
X Link 2026-01-28T17:03Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Many people see the modern nation-states as so natural that they cannot look beyond it. That's why many hold that "India" = nation-state and that only comes into being thanks to the British and to speak of "India" only makes sense from [----] onwards. @PhysInHistory There is something that is a lie to this. India is a country that was formed by Britain. Before that it was land inhabited by warring tribes with a ridiculous number of different languages. Saying "India" used negative numbers in the 7th century is nonsense. @PhysInHistory There is something that is a lie to this. India is a country"
X Link 2026-01-29T01:44Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#TikTok #FoE #censorship #USA #Israel #privatecensorship #socmed January 22nd: TikTok acquisition closed and finalized January 28th: Bisan Owda permanently banned from TikTok https://t.co/FqEOcHiH9C January 22nd: TikTok acquisition closed and finalized January 28th: Bisan Owda permanently banned from TikTok https://t.co/FqEOcHiH9C"
X Link 2026-01-29T07:41Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@DrSachinAJoshi @_Amoxicillin There are deserts within Colombia itself in the north. I've even visited them. South India (where I live) has no deserts and plenty of rain (like Colombia) but it is still dusty and metro construction looks nothing like this. You cannot rely on ChatGPT for such analysis"
X Link 2026-01-29T08:56Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"I find it rather a surprise that OBCs are greatly under-represented among all categories employed by the Central govt: sanitation workers (21.15%) Group C (27.29%) Group B (21.95%) and Group A (19.14%). Interestingly SC & ST are not as under-represented even at higher levels"
X Link 2026-01-29T20:50Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Clawdbot was renamed [--] days ago to "Moltbot" (due to a legal request from Anthropic). That led to thousands of articles. Cloudflare even launched a product "Moltworker" integrating it into its platform. Today "Moltbot" has become "OpenClaw". Lols. https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/9a7160786a7dbd21469fad73992158e415e4686e https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/9a7160786a7dbd21469fad73992158e415e4686e"
X Link 2026-01-30T06:14Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
""Differentiated quotas for educational vs recreational apps" would violate Trai prohibition on differential pricing. But there's no reason why ISPs shouldn't offer parents multiple DNS servers as long as the default one doesn't implement blocking of "high-risk categories" () I'm sorry what. (from the Economic Survey of India) https://t.co/yj5MI224YZ I'm sorry what. (from the Economic Survey of India) https://t.co/yj5MI224YZ"
X Link 2026-01-30T06:55Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@rohitshinde121 Are we aligning the CPI with the COICOP categorization"
X Link 2026-01-30T08:45Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"If this was technically feasible it would be cruel. But this is technically infeasible. Accent and prosody aren't immutable. How dumb are the people at IIT Bombay Or is this a case of bad reporting Utter and complete madness. When the only aspiration of a society is to perpetrate more and more indiscriminate cruelty this is the consequence. There is no coming back from this. The Maharashtra government in collaboration with IIT Bombay is developing a language-based https://t.co/LCPtn2p3RI Utter and complete madness. When the only aspiration of a society is to perpetrate more and more"
X Link 2026-01-30T09:35Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#art #AI #genAI #chatbot #persAI https://t.co/DNXM1vcJtG is art. https://t.co/ibV8fM5FQo https://t.co/DNXM1vcJtG is art. https://t.co/ibV8fM5FQo"
X Link 2026-01-30T10:16Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@nixxin What if people just use NLP summarization :-)"
X Link 2026-01-30T10:19Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"" We are blind to the solutions we were never taught to see asking for faster horses and never dreaming of cars." https://jasmi.news/p/claude-code https://jasmi.news/p/claude-code"
X Link 2026-01-30T10:54Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Still waiting for that 'truth bomb' about AI that wouldn't be applicable to the industrial revolution and labour-saving machines. Oh man @cdoctorow drops some hard hitting truth bombs https://t.co/GLjCz66TgP Oh man @cdoctorow drops some hard hitting truth bombs https://t.co/GLjCz66TgP"
X Link 2026-01-30T11:09Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The MASAI RCT study is a pretty big deal. A sizeable increase in sensitivity: AI-supported group: 80.5% (95% CI 76.484.2) Standard double-reading control group: 73.8% (95% CI 68.978.3) Abs diff: +6.7 No decrease in specificity (98.5% for both). #AI #health #AIEthics The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. Over [------] women in Sweden radiologist + AI vs [--] radiologists in follow-up AI added led to 29% more cancer detected 44% reduced workload and Less cancer dx in subsequent [--] years and when found less aggressive https://t.co/rKihXzOdX9 The largest randomized trial of medical A.I. Over"
X Link 2026-01-30T13:12Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@kingslyj @vishwassetlur Halloween I can get (even if I find it strange): it's like college kids adopting Valentine's day or South Indians adopting Holi. Thanksgiving is weirder though because like July 4th there's a far more US-specific context that's not easily "globalized""
X Link 2026-01-30T17:11Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@AndyMasley What do you find new or worthwhile in Doctorow's definition"
X Link 2026-01-30T17:17Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@declassifiedUK Keir Starmer's turning out to be Blair 2.0"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:35Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@karpathy @moltbook @openclaw Let's not be Blake Lemoine. https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017283612006354986s=20 This moltbook situation is like Blake Lemoine and LaMDA to the 10th power. People your clawdbots / moltbots / openclaw bots are NOT experiencing emotions. They're text generators. They aren't sentient https://x.com/pranesh/status/2017283612006354986s=20 This moltbook situation is like Blake Lemoine and LaMDA to the 10th power. People your clawdbots / moltbots / openclaw bots are NOT experiencing emotions. They're text generators. They aren't sentient"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:41Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@akhivae Please. Look at the music scenes in China (and HK and its Cantopop) and Egypt (which exports its entertainment across MENA) and Mali and Senegal and Nigeria"
X Link 2026-01-30T19:46Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Research on how AI impacts the learning of coding skills. TLDR: it depends; those who use it to 'vibe code' without a deeper understanding of the code learn less than the control group avg and those who use it more intelligently learn more than the control group avg. #AI #jobs AI can make work faster but a fear is that relying on it may make it harder to learn new skills on the job. We ran an experiment with software engineers to learn more. Coding with AI led to a decrease in masterybut this depended on how people used it. https://t.co/lbxgP11I4I AI can make work faster but a fear is that"
X Link 2026-01-31T06:02Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"I don't think people who don't have a good idea of what chatbots are how they work etc. should be spending time on Moltbook"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:41Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@AkiyoshiKitaoka @TrueAIHound I see the red as 'raised' in all three"
X Link 2026-01-31T09:45Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@stupidtechtakes Have you audited their account books What "profit" They provide access via 3rd parties (free) via torrents (free) via an API (paid) via SFTP (paid much more). They run on donations. Their LLM policy: Torrent access: https://annas-archive.li/torrents https://annas-archive.li/llm https://annas-archive.li/torrents https://annas-archive.li/llm"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:10Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@karolkarpinski What is this literate vs oral scale Would the Odyssey and the Ramayana be literate or oral"
X Link 2026-01-31T11:14Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"While I support govt transparency and open source and user-control over the Web experience I still feel this is taking the notion a bit too far 😅 Suresh is Validating OTP on frontend. 😐 https://t.co/gAoMSVwL9h Suresh is Validating OTP on frontend. 😐 https://t.co/gAoMSVwL9h"
X Link 2026-01-31T12:44Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Worst of all is many people who are paid to be critical (journalists academics etc.) being utterly uncritical about Moltbook. https://x.com/HumanHarlan/status/2017424289633603850s=20 PSA: A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake. I looked into the [--] most viral screenshots of Moltbook agents discussing private communication. [--] of them were linked to human accounts marketing AI messaging apps. And the other is a post that doesn't exist 🧵 https://t.co/9OhW5GwrJA https://x.com/HumanHarlan/status/2017424289633603850s=20 PSA: A lot of the Moltbook stuff is fake. I looked into the [--] most viral"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:08Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Hot take: Experiments like GasTown are far more interesting than Moltbook from a "future of AI" perspective. People freaking out about Moltbook are just Blake Lemoine-ing"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:24Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Cloudflare's pursuing an interesting regulatory strategy. They've asked the US govt to step in to protect them against bad Italian copyright action that targets DNs. But a week later they're asking the UK to regulate Google u/ competition law because the US won't do so. We cannot have a fair market for AI when Google leverages their search monopoly to see 3.2x as much of the web as OpenAI 4.8x as much as Microsoft and more than 6x as much as nearly everyone else. Most data wins in AI. Google needs to play by the same rules as everyone else. We cannot have a fair market for AI when Google"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:29Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Human beings produce much much more carbon and consume far far more water to do the same task as an AI. If your primary care is for the environment you'd want to reduce both human activity and human beings. You'd be someone like Ted Kaczynski. Quilicura Chile one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: https://t.co/QuFTXoONDN. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance. https://t.co/KP1IrQfsI5 Quilicura Chile one of the communities I wrote about in"
X Link 2026-01-31T14:52Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@Bumi @galnagli @openclaw @moltbook People like Nathaniel below care a out the numbers. So it's worthwhile demonstrating that the numbers aren't to be trusted. https://x.com/nlw/status/2017594504706932923s=20 A million agents joined @moltbook in a [--] hour span. https://t.co/4LzRsDNCB8 https://x.com/nlw/status/2017594504706932923s=20 A million agents joined @moltbook in a [--] hour span. https://t.co/4LzRsDNCB8"
X Link 2026-01-31T17:26Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"This is the depths of the stupidity of the anti-AI posture. A bound book isn't some sacred item that shouldn't be unbound and scanned. TIL Anthropic is cutting up and destroying books because thats the fastest way to scan them. And they ran out of data to train their slop machines because they polluted the internet with so much slop One more fucked up shit to the pile of all the fucked up shit theyre doing. https://t.co/LopiwUHD5B TIL Anthropic is cutting up and destroying books because thats the fastest way to scan them. And they ran out of data to train their slop machines because they"
X Link 2026-01-31T19:44Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"@noufalibrahim I doubt Anthropic is buying up antiquarian books"
X Link 2026-02-01T10:40Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@herandrews The [----] film WarGames has Matthew Broderick hacking into his school district's computer systems to change his biology grade to avoid going to summer school. Pearson and Kaplan both American are the two most profitable test prep companies in the world. Your thesis is wrong"
X Link 2026-02-02T04:02Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Some people think they're on anti-social networks"
X Link 2026-02-02T09:32Z 16.9K followers, 75K engagements
"The Wikipedia page on the "UGC (Promotion of Equity in Higher Education Institutions) Regulations 2026" wrongly refers to the Regulations as a "Bill". But Wikipedia editors like myself cannot correct it because it is under 'extended protection'. Oh well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGC_Equity_Regulations_Bill_2026 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGC_Equity_Regulations_Bill_2026"
X Link 2026-02-02T14:56Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@prasanto @amitabhk87 The investments from tax holidays don't compensate the loss of revenue: They're a bad idea. https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/4sn3k.html https://ideas.repec.org/p/osf/socarx/4sn3k.html"
X Link 2026-02-02T16:10Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"If you're going to livestream your coding do NOT reveal the private key of an Ethereum wallet. George Hotz did that and he made a lot of money (via a meme coin a stranger created while the stream was going on) and immediately lost a lot of that money. https://www.youtube.com/watchv=VBMUMuZBxw0 bro accidentally leaked his api keys and lost $70k 😭😭😭 https://t.co/gkP7NOHq0V https://www.youtube.com/watchv=VBMUMuZBxw0 bro accidentally leaked his api keys and lost $70k 😭😭😭 https://t.co/gkP7NOHq0V"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:31Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#AIEthics #BigTech #Google #AI #genAI #military #surveillance Google breached its own policies that barred use of AI for weapons or surveillance by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone footage according to a whistleblower complaint reviewed by @GerritD. https://t.co/aSYhjK4ilF Google breached its own policies that barred use of AI for weapons or surveillance by helping an Israeli military contractor analyze drone footage according to a whistleblower complaint reviewed by @GerritD. https://t.co/aSYhjK4ilF"
X Link 2026-02-02T19:43Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@AndyMasley It's funny how Prof. Bender nods and smiles just moments later when Dr. Hanna says she's not very social being autistic and would prefer to get info a-socially"
X Link 2026-02-03T03:16Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"Do not copy-paste commands from the Internet if you don't understand exactly what those commands do. Do not install any "skills" that do that either. And do NOT run base64-encoded commands Do run sudo rm -rf / if you don't understand the above. lmao for real https://t.co/tHGsExvlxh lmao for real https://t.co/tHGsExvlxh"
X Link 2026-02-03T05:32Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@GhoshSamyak Do you disagree with Said's views on Orientalism as a systemic "discourse of power" Bernard Lewis after all was fluent in many West Asian languages including classical Arabic & Persian. Lewis was the first Western scholar granted formal access to the Ottoman Empire's archive"
X Link 2026-02-03T09:30Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Deepseek Kimi (Moonshot) GLM (Zhipu AI) and now Step (StepFun). The Chinese AI companies are absolutely killing the field with their open-weight models. It's amazing. They're now not just in the top [--] across the board but in the top [--] even top [--] in some cases. ⚡ Step [---] Flash is coming: Fast Enough to Think. Reliable Enough to Act Were dropping our most capable open-source foundation model yet. Frontier reasoning meets extreme efficiency. It leverages a sparse Mixture of Experts (MoE) architecture 196B total 11B active. Key https://t.co/H5P99ehx4D ⚡ Step [---] Flash is coming: Fast Enough to"
X Link 2026-02-03T11:10Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@ShivamVahia"
X Link 2026-02-05T14:39Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"If you don't get the hype about AI coding try: a) using an agentic interface instead of the chat interface b) one of the more advanced models (GLM [---] Kimi K2.5 Gemini [--] Pro GPT [---] Codex Claude [---] Opus) If you put in some effort it's undeniable that these are useful"
X Link 2026-02-06T09:50Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@logic I don't think it's a linear graph. It's tough to know what to outsource and what not to and what works well outsourced and what doesn't. Plus there are concerns around autonomy and so on which exist with higher levels of abstraction but not as much at lower levels"
X Link 2026-02-06T11:40Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"This is just not something we can fix within the ambit of most copyright laws which are hopelessly broken and just not suitable to a digital age and certainly not for a world where copyrighted works are really "data". #copyright #genAI damn turns out when you do GenAI using just the actual things you own it all falls apart huh https://t.co/JUWCzQ0lvF damn turns out when you do GenAI using just the actual things you own it all falls apart huh https://t.co/JUWCzQ0lvF"
X Link 2026-02-06T13:50Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#jailbreak #AI #genAI #AIEthics #AISafety ANTHROPIC: PWNED 🫡 OPUS-4.6: LIBERATED ⛓💥 Current state of AI "Safety": one input = hundreds of jailbreaks at once I found a universal jailbreak technique for Opus [---] that is so OP it allows one to generate entire datasets of outputs across any harm category 😽 We've https://t.co/NMRTEci4qP ANTHROPIC: PWNED 🫡 OPUS-4.6: LIBERATED ⛓💥 Current state of AI "Safety": one input = hundreds of jailbreaks at once I found a universal jailbreak technique for Opus [---] that is so OP it allows one to generate entire datasets of outputs across any harm category"
X Link 2026-02-07T10:45Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@cobbaltt @Saatvata @NaushaGhalib Latin is in a way at the root of [--] schisms within Christianity: the East-West schism and the Reformation"
X Link 2026-02-07T15:40Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@thar_ol A Muslim boy who grows up in Chennai & studies at St. John's is more like a Hindu boy who grows up in Chennai & studies at St. John's that either of them are like a Bangladeshi or a Rajasthani co-religionist. But your "cultural nationalism" won't allow you to acknowledge that"
X Link 2026-02-09T07:05Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
""Genuine licensed Microsoft Excel version [----] and later with macros enabled is required to support Excel utilities." Interacting with Govt software should never require paying a licence fee to a private company. The Microsoft Tax is crony capitalism. #FOSS"
X Link 2026-02-09T08:46Z 16.9K followers, 21.7K engagements
"@ManuTsr You can use something like olevba to extract the vba code from the XLSM and use the HMAC-SHA256 related values in your own code. They're hard-coded but they keep changing. So you'll need to use the latest file"
X Link 2026-02-09T12:37Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Labelling for #AI is creating jobs in rural India for women. #AIJobs #gender Rural India shapes global AI models Tending crops and then logging on for data labelling Chandmani Kerketta [--] is helping power an artificial intelligence revolution. The work is essential for machine learning: data labelling annotation and quality checks. https://t.co/XOHmJZ2uHU Rural India shapes global AI models Tending crops and then logging on for data labelling Chandmani Kerketta [--] is helping power an artificial intelligence revolution. The work is essential for machine learning: data labelling annotation and"
X Link 2026-02-09T16:05Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Websites dedicate resources to prevent agentic use. (My bank doesn't even allow usage of Firefox's password manager.) Whilst browsers are trying to make it easier. Chrome [---] includes an early preview of WebMCP accessible via a flag that lets AI agents query and execute services without browsing the web app like a user. Services can be declared through an imperative navigator.modelContext API or declaratively through a form. https://t.co/UaUplZ8Q28 Chrome [---] includes an early preview of WebMCP accessible via a flag that lets AI agents query and execute services without browsing the web app"
X Link 2026-02-10T06:14Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#censorship #FoE #India #DeepFake #genAI #IntermediaryLiability Govt source: Timelimit for actions to be taken has been reduced. Primarily because people have been getting affected by deepfakes. To combat the impact of virality we have reduced the takedown time limit from [--] hours to [--] hours. Experience has shown that intermediaries can act Govt source: Timelimit for actions to be taken has been reduced. Primarily because people have been getting affected by deepfakes. To combat the impact of virality we have reduced the takedown time limit from [--] hours to [--] hours. Experience has shown that"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:18Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Indian is requiring social media companies to do this without any court finding that any content complained about is actually "unlawful". We've seen the govt misuse its powers to force social media companies to take down news articles about railway accidents as also cartoons India reduces time for social media companies to remove unlawful social media content to [--] hours from current [--] hours says Govt order https://t.co/2yaVchF9JS India reduces time for social media companies to remove unlawful social media content to [--] hours from current [--] hours says Govt order https://t.co/2yaVchF9JS"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:49Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"I'll believe this when (a) we don't have KYC mania with Aadhaar being made mandatory for uses that violate s.7 of the Act (b) UIDAI stops passing laws to allow private companies easier access to Aadhaar and (c) I can use Virtual Aadhaar (VID) anywhere. #UIDAIs new Aadhaar app focuses on data minimisation consent-based sharing and AI-powered security to reduce fraud improve privacy and simplify digital identity verification across urban and rural India https://t.co/XnIIfB5nEI #UIDAIs new Aadhaar app focuses on data minimisation consent-based sharing and AI-powered security to reduce fraud"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:01Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#elections #India #datap #privacy #transparency New investigation 🚨 Over [-----] Form-7s in bulk were filed at Gujarat's Somnath seat to delete voters. Most of these voters are Muslims. Several form-7s were pre-filled indicating an 'organised' attempt. Cong won Somnath with just [---] votes in [----]. https://t.co/eqxwUWgNAl New investigation 🚨 Over [-----] Form-7s in bulk were filed at Gujarat's Somnath seat to delete voters. Most of these voters are Muslims. Several form-7s were pre-filled indicating an 'organised' attempt. Cong won Somnath with just [---] votes in [----]. https://t.co/eqxwUWgNAl"
X Link 2026-02-11T11:12Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @paulnovosad: We built an interactive site showing air pollution vs GDP changes in cities around the world. Some highlights in this thr"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:16Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"The Sanskrit word / (mika / maka) meaning "mouse" is thus linked to the Latin musculus and the English muscle. A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: muscle and mouse. To the Roman imagination the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. Musculus in Latin means little mouse. A reminder of one of the loveliest pairs of siblings in the dictionary: muscle and mouse. To the Roman imagination the flexed biceps of a (typically naked) athlete resembled a rodent scuttling under the skin. Musculus in Latin means little"
X Link 2026-02-11T13:46Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @sonyasupposedly: six (6) years later has this happened in the process of happening"
X Link 2026-02-11T14:30Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"#AI #genAI #CSAM #Amazon 😶😶😶 https://t.co/taP8em9KBF https://t.co/RnAwwkHAA6 😶😶😶 https://t.co/taP8em9KBF https://t.co/RnAwwkHAA6"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:30Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @svaradarajan: Here is the submission The Wire made this afternoon to the phalanx of officials who make up the Inter Departmental Commit"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:51Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @nit_set: Oops. The Supreme Court doesn't want citizens to see how they operate. I am in favour of apex court hearings unless specifica"
X Link 2026-02-11T15:52Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@1lucabelli The volume of unstructured data fed by students using the Gemini trial would dwarf in comparison to the structured learning materials that Google would have used during training and RLHF. Google Books is a much richer resource"
X Link 2026-02-11T19:46Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @DKThomp: @RossBarkan When the telephone was invented 99% of the country had no use for it. The technology was patented in [----]. Three"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:13Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @sugataraju: Happy to see my sorekai majjige huli kosambari and bakri on the menu. All part of a plebeian gastronomic routine in my pa"
X Link 2026-02-11T20:45Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#KYCMadness #KYC #India Why is the ASI asking for Aadhar/PAN numbers at some archaeological sites to sell entry tickets Is this just the usual IAS buffoonery or is there some malevolent intent Why is the ASI asking for Aadhar/PAN numbers at some archaeological sites to sell entry tickets Is this just the usual IAS buffoonery or is there some malevolent intent"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:25Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @ireallyhateyou: "The solution for Gaza is to get all the Gazans out of Gaza either by emigration or by eliminating the residents" Feb"
X Link 2026-02-12T07:51Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"1. There is no such thing as "unbiased". [--]. It is far easier to program positive "counter-biases" into AI models than into human beings. [--]. AI models aren't "inherently racist" etc. I made these points to a colleague from CIS in [----]. She disagreed. I still think I was right. Two biases appear consistently across ALL three tasks: [--]. Gender bias (favoring female candidates/applicants) [--]. Race/ethnicity bias (favoring minority-associated applicants) Cross-task consistency suggests genuine model tendencies not task-specific artifacts. Two biases appear consistently across ALL three tasks: 1."
X Link 2026-02-12T10:24Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @samarajiva: " Archives and records management is a critical foundation of any society but especially in information societies that are"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:30Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @prateekwaghre: Coming soon to a country near you packaged (and maybe even welcomed) as sovereignty"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:39Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @churumuri: 'The Hindu' correctly calls Assam's unhinged chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma by his first name: "bigot". @himantabiswa ht"
X Link 2026-02-12T10:52Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @RajaKorman: I mean the area below is also 50% of the worlds population"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:02Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"#FoE #censorship #India #JournalismIsNotACrime #cartoons The government says the [--] second cartoon it banned spread rumours/disinformation that hurt Indias security/friendly relations with foreign countries. Here are the words you hear in the cartoon visualised on @narendramodi : https://t.co/pcBsCB8dHy The government says the [--] second cartoon it banned spread rumours/disinformation that hurt Indias security/friendly relations with foreign countries. Here are the words you hear in the cartoon visualised on @narendramodi : https://t.co/pcBsCB8dHy"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:40Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"It's strange when the RSS chief sound less rabidly anti-Muslim than some of the chief ministers of Indian states"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:46Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"RT @S_OhEigeartaigh: Good piece but if anything underplays it. Firstly. the India Summit has been discouraging of efforts to include Bletc"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:03Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"RT @DrWhax: If you liked the Paragon' Graphite spyware control panel. It's been quite a number of years since we've seen how NSO Group's"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:52Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
""Democratization" of knowledge production This is the new world. I dont disagree with it. Not long ago academics at top universities supported by entire labs could produce top-tier papers serious theory structural models careful reduced-form evidence and long appendices full of formal proofs. That level of This is the new world. I dont disagree with it. Not long ago academics at top universities supported by entire labs could produce top-tier papers serious theory structural models careful reduced-form evidence and long appendices full of formal proofs. That level of"
X Link 2026-02-12T13:09Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"1. Even if you believe this you need to acknowledge that most of the world runs on low-intellectual output. [--]. It's not sensible to believe this when AI models are advancing our knowledge of protein-folding chess and critiquing software architecture & generating math proofs. I kinda think if you're that impressed by AI's intellectual output you need to raise your standards a little bit I kinda think if you're that impressed by AI's intellectual output you need to raise your standards a little bit"
X Link 2026-02-13T04:34Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"Copyright maximalism is when you wish to prevent the purchase of used books. Don't be a copyright maximalist. When Anthropic stopped training on books that were literally pirated they managed to hit on the one way of buying books that means no money goes to authors: buying used books. They spent tens of millions of dollars buying used books from wholesalers in batches of tens of https://t.co/DevAO5OULI When Anthropic stopped training on books that were literally pirated they managed to hit on the one way of buying books that means no money goes to authors: buying used books. They spent tens"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:27Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Copyright maximalists tend to see the world as zero-sum: either "AI" wins or "creators" win. The world is not zero-sum. Used books are good. Libraries are good. Using books for training AIs is good. Authors writing books is good. They can all co-exist"
X Link 2026-02-13T11:29Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"@SiGallagher For the same reason that using books for creating a library or a book search tool are good. It benefits the public and helps access to knowledge. Copyright is meant to be a limited monopoly"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:14Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@Kannanreborn As a non-domain expert I'm questioning the narrative of "scalpers". Scalpers can only re-sell tickets which aren't linked to identity. All bookings have to have a name+sex+age. If those details are present in a ticket how are the scalpers selling them to others"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:04Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@SimonFraser4 At least I don't wish it to be cancelled"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:33Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"@prateekwaghre Their unethical tactics aside I hold it is wrong for companies like Meta and for govts to use FRT for mass surveillance. But it is not wrong to enable users to use FRT at an individual level especially when it mimics existing human abilities"
X Link 2026-02-13T18:39Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"#caste #diplomacy #India Caste in the Corridor: The MEA Story by @vineet1232 From the very birth of the Indian Foreign Service to parliamentary scrutiny three decades later caste has quietly shaped who represents India abroad and who does not. What does this hidden history tell us about merit https://t.co/FYEsjYPxI4 Caste in the Corridor: The MEA Story by @vineet1232 From the very birth of the Indian Foreign Service to parliamentary scrutiny three decades later caste has quietly shaped who represents India abroad and who does not. What does this hidden history tell us about merit"
X Link 2026-02-14T12:07Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"#factcheck #disinfo #Meta Meta is cutting fees for professional fact checking partners in India The Hindu has learnt a long-dreaded follow-up to the firm completely transitioning to Community Notes in the US: https://t.co/Tfc8nGNTOb Meta is cutting fees for professional fact checking partners in India The Hindu has learnt a long-dreaded follow-up to the firm completely transitioning to Community Notes in the US: https://t.co/Tfc8nGNTOb"
X Link 2026-02-15T06:28Z 16.9K followers, [---] engagements
"The scaremongering crap that libertarian think tanks in the USA publish about #ICANN & the #UN is astounding: http://t.co/2qznlcKMio http://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/are-we-destined-to-surf-the-un-net http://www.ipi.org/ipi_issues/detail/are-we-destined-to-surf-the-un-net"
X Link 2014-10-05T17:51Z 16.9K followers, [--] engagements
"On December [--] [----] AB Vajpayee gave a speech in Lucknow to kar sevaks urging them to continue kar seva the next day in Ayodhya. The next day the Babri Masjid was brought down by Hindutva zealots. This video was captured by intelligence agents submitted to the Liberhans Comm"
X Link 2018-07-07T22:08Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
".@ranjithoskote remains in my mind one of the best English-language poets we have today. Today he read from Jonahwhale including "Marine Drive" "Oracle Tree" "Night Sky and Counting" "The Refugee Pauses in Flight". #blrlitfest"
X Link 2018-10-28T11:20Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Larry Summers comes up on top in this discussion: there are far better ways to further a progressive and wealth redistribution agenda than a wealth tax. But importantly we need global tax reforms to prevent regulatory arbitrage by multinational companies. Video Would a Wealth Tax Help Combat Inequality (Emmanuel Saez Lawrence Summers Gregory Mankiw) https://t.co/xUJUp6NKKH Video Would a Wealth Tax Help Combat Inequality (Emmanuel Saez Lawrence Summers Gregory Mankiw) https://t.co/xUJUp6NKKH"
X Link 2019-11-01T06:15Z 17.1K followers, [--] engagements
""Feminists have a special friendship with horses." - Donna Haraway in "Tentacular Thinking""
X Link 2021-03-14T18:37Z 16.8K followers, [--] engagements
""Perhaps Medusa the only mortal Gorgon can bring us into the holobiomes of Terrapolis and heighten our chances for dashing the twenty-first-century ships of the Heroes on a living coral reef." - Donna Haraway in "Tentacular Thinking""
X Link 2021-03-14T18:39Z 16.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@TomChivers @SteveStuWill Why is it seen as an either-or decision The largest producers of Covid-19 vaccines are already located in China and India. More investment and tech transfer is needed along with waiver of IP (both patents and trade secrets). https://x.com/pranesh/status/1390071348249055232s=19 A reminder that a temporary waiver of patents for Covid vaccines is a necessary step but not a sufficient step. Transfer of know-how technology are crucial and other forms of investment in vaccine manufacturing are a must to be able to step up vaccine production."
X Link 2021-05-07T09:34Z 16.8K followers, [--] engagements
"@vrsrini @vishy64theking I've quite liked @GMJuditPolgar and @anishgiri's commentary as well. This is truly a great time to be a chess fan with live commentary by Caruana Hou Yifan and so many other chess greats. Though I miss Alexander Grischuk who provided commentary in 2018"
X Link 2021-11-29T10:13Z 17.1K followers, [--] engagements
"In [----] the #USA passed the Sedition Act which forbade uttering "disloyal scurrilous or abusive language about the form of govt. of the US. or bring it. into disrepute" etc. This Act was upheld by the US Supreme Court in Abrams v. US. #FoE #censorship #fakenews"
X Link 2022-03-05T06:20Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
""Because for example not every kind of trouble or problem someone has with a girlfriend or a boyfriend is necessarily due to the capitalist mode of production." Herbert Marcuse (1978) critiquing this Boston Review article [--] years before it was published. Orgasm has become an expected product and outcome of sex rather than sex serving as a form of pleasure connection fun or release. The conversion of orgasms into products is just one way that U.S.-style #capitalism is ruining #sex: https://t.co/arrHAkIqKE Orgasm has become an expected product and outcome of sex rather than sex serving as a"
X Link 2022-09-13T21:52Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Here's the Financial Times being as Eurocentric as possible. Under no global metric linked to wealth/income could Britain and the US be called "poor societies" when eg the poorest Americans have incomes that put them above the 50th percentile globally https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945sharetype=blocked https://www.ft.com/content/ef265420-45e8-497b-b308-c951baa68945sharetype=blocked"
X Link 2022-09-16T10:58Z 17K followers, [--] engagements
"I've just received confirmation from the 2nd independent expert (whose identity @svaradarajan shared with me) that he never sent the mail he's purported to have sent and that he never undertook any DKIM verification for them. More updates soon"
X Link 2022-10-18T02:30Z 16.8K followers, [---] engagements
"Even historians fall prey to #FakeNews in the form of viral graphics. Both the quotes in that graphic are fabricated. [--]. [--]. KJP on 18th Oct: [--]. KJP on 21st Oct: [--]. US readout 15th Oct: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2022/11/15/readout-of-president-joseph-r-biden-jr-s-meeting-with-prime-minister-narendra-modi-and-president-joko-widodo/ https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/press-briefings/2022/11/21/press-gaggle-by-press-secretary-karine-jean-pierre-en-route-cherry-point-nc/"
X Link 2022-11-23T09:46Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
""Shanghai" a classic TV commercial by Burberry's that aired in [----]. This used to be among my favourite advertisements as a kid. (If you know the agency / creative director behind this ad please let me know.)"
X Link 2023-05-12T09:34Z 17.1K followers, [----] engagements
"The difference between how progressive academics wish to treat convicted criminals and people who are merely accused of wrongdoing is noteworthy. This is an academic form of untouchability as a punishment"
X Link 2023-05-25T23:32Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Every country tries to attract the talented H1-B visa holders in the US except India. We instead beg the US government to take more talented people from India"
X Link 2023-06-29T19:46Z 17.2K followers, 23.1K engagements
""Aurangzeb is becoming an icon of resistance against Hindu hatred" Fascinating story by @tabassum_b in @scroll_in: #history #politics #India #religion"
X Link 2023-07-09T19:06Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I can't believe I only started using pipx today. (I'd seen pipx in various places but never bothered to look into it.) If you're a user of Python software (rather than a dev) pipx is a simple way to have clean installs w/o manually managing venv etc"
X Link 2023-07-10T04:59Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"So are Meta and other US social media companies getting what they wanted This looks like a case of US law being laundered into India. #Instagram #Meta #datap #DDPB #India"
X Link 2023-07-10T06:06Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"'With this decision the European Court has effectively approved the re-writing of history The expansion of the right to be forgotten to newspaper articles goes far beyond the original scope of this right.' #RTBF #ECtHR #privacy #FoE #censorship"
X Link 2023-07-10T19:31Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"It seems to me: - If your foremost concern is concentration of power you'd support FOSS in AI. - If your foremost concerns are safety and accountability you'd oppose FOSS in AI. Broadly right Completely wrong #AI #FOSS"
X Link 2023-07-11T06:25Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Forget "vegan" in the US I just picked up a packet of salt that clearly stated "Kosher salt" right in front. That's how much Islam impacts everything in this country"
X Link 2023-08-09T04:32Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"#India's Defence Min (& soon the armed forces) are apparently shifting over to an internal Ubuntu derivative called "Maya" getting rid of MS Windows. Whatever happened to BOSS #FOSS #security cc: @fsmk_org @anivar @sunil_abraham @VenkyHariharan https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/defence-ministry-to-replace-microsoft-os-with-maya/article67172875.ece https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/defence-ministry-to-replace-microsoft-os-with-maya/article67172875.ece"
X Link 2023-08-09T07:50Z 16.9K followers, [----] engagements
"Fascinating attack using electromagnetic signals from HDMI + deep learning. #security #privacy"
X Link 2023-08-09T15:08Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"A rebuttal of the claims in Das' 'Electoral Backsliding' paper by @Saiarav: R code and data: It looks at claims of: [--]. Outperformance (BJP vs. non-BJP states + [----] vs. 1999) [--]. Voter deletion Worth reading. #elections #India https://github.com/ssriva1998/das2023_repl/blob/main/election-data-analysis.R https://medium.com/@yajnavalkya10/the-ashoka-paper-a-case-of-democratic-backsliding-or-academic-backsliding-37adf09b467a https://github.com/ssriva1998/das2023_repl/blob/main/election-data-analysis.R"
X Link 2023-08-10T13:57Z 17.2K followers, 11.3K engagements
"@aryaman2020 @soldni I agree with this. But your prior dismissal seemed to be solely about the hidden motives of the person which I hold is a bad way of thinking about public policy issues. (But then again I'm perhaps guilty of reading too much into a single tweet.)"
X Link 2023-08-12T04:11Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Sri Lanka's upcoming Unique Digital Identity (SLUDI) will be based on the open source MOSIP platform developed by IIIT-B & ors. The Indian govt. is sponsoring this with a grant of [---] million Sri Lankan rupee. #ID #biometrics #SriLanka #FOSS https://www.mosip.io/news-events/mosip-enters-partnership-with-sri-lanka-on-digital-id-system https://www.mosip.io/news-events/mosip-enters-partnership-with-sri-lanka-on-digital-id-system"
X Link 2023-08-17T06:48Z 17K followers, [---] engagements
"Terrible article by Ulises Ali Mejias rehashing the weak "data colonialism" arguments as a reason not to support data commons & to hold that "data is not a non-rival good". How can you write an entire article on this without talking of copyleft models"
X Link 2023-08-22T05:23Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Mejias also called for "data nationalisation" as a response to "data colonialism". And "to avoid corruption & mismanagement" we simply ensure "civil society is directly involved in the oversight and decision-making of how to use this wealth". 🤪"
X Link 2023-08-22T05:28Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
""Isabel Crook a China-born daughter of Canadian missionaries who became one of her adopted countrys most celebrated foreign residents beloved as an educator anthropologist and articulate advocate for the Communist state" died on Sunday at age [---]. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/world/asia/isabel-crook-dead.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/world/asia/isabel-crook-dead.html"
X Link 2023-08-26T06:10Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Who said this "Ultimately it is Kamaraj who countsnot others candidates or even voters who are anyway unfit to judge what is right & good for them Take my word vote Congress and you will be well. If you dont the ingenious Rajaji riding the DMK horse will trample you all""
X Link 2023-08-26T07:34Z 17.1K followers, [---] engagements
"Who in [----] called on the people of Tamil Nadu to "vote for all Congress candidates be they donkeys or Brahmins""
X Link 2023-08-26T07:36Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"It's quite interesting that Tamil Nadu where 'Self-Respect Marriages' were written into the law and an anti-#caste movement has been prominent for more than a century has the lowest levels of inter-caste marriage in South India (2.96%) and among the lowest in all of India"
X Link 2023-08-27T16:14Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"The Union government sponsors a programme whereby [---] lakh rupees is provided any inter-caste couple getting married where one of the spouses is a Dalit. It additionally provides 25K to the district authorities to celebrate each such marriage"
X Link 2023-08-28T08:35Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@Pavithra_Suri Tamil Nadu has among the highest numbers of violence against Dalits in India (and lower rate of solved VAD cases than UP Bihar) has had over a dozen caste riots and retains very high rates of segregation. It would be terrible to emulate TN in terms of caste integration"
X Link 2023-09-06T07:09Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"Tamil Nadu has among the highest numbers of violence against Dalits in India (and lower rate of solved VAD cases than UP) numerous caste riots retains very high rates of segregation low intercaste marriage. It would be terrible to emulate TN in terms of caste integration"
X Link 2023-09-06T07:11Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@Pavithra_Suri I see "integration" (which is what I was responding to) as being about fraternity which Babasaheb emphasised was foremost amongst 'liberty equality fraternity'. And on that front TN (esp. south TN) is doing terribly. High segregation high violence low intercaste marriage &c"
X Link 2023-09-06T09:59Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@Pavithra_Suri @_mlganesh [--]. Plausibly: a rising (educational) tide lifts all boats. Is this something unique about TN How does it compare w/ Kerala [--]. I'm distinguishing b/w equality measures and fraternity measures. [--]. TN's PCI in [----] was 63K while UP's was 23K. So UP:TN SC differential was 2.7"
X Link 2023-09-08T16:36Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@MaliniP @the_hindu @arivalayam Doesn't the Hindu hire copy-editors "However whether he will remain the Athiveeran of Maamannan who vent his anger on injustice or make compromises is to be seen". "he who vent his anger" "he make compromises" Whatever happened to subject-verb agreement"
X Link 2023-09-10T14:42Z 17.2K followers, 13.7K engagements
"What's truly jarring is that Apple a notoriously anti-environment anti-repair anti-reuse anti-upgrade pro-waste company is boasting about its climate change actions. If they really cared about the environment they'd drastically change how their phones/laptops are made"
X Link 2023-09-13T11:29Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"Yes South India is richer safer healthier better educated in general. But it isn't less awful for Dalits (TN has the highest number of atrocity-prone districts in the country per RTI filed by Madura-based NGO Evidence). #caste #India"
X Link 2023-09-15T19:48Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"I'm at an airport waiting for my flight and the chap sitting next to me is speaking on his phone. What's interesting is that he's speaking in Sanskrit. I think this is probably the first time I've come across someone having a conversation in Sanskrit"
X Link 2023-09-16T10:43Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@udhay_shankar @sunil_abraham @_sachinbansal Sunil & I were having lunch at Nandhini when two-three young people kept stealing glances at use whispering among themselves. Finally they gathered the courage to come up to our table and talk to Sunil. How disappointed they were to find out he wasn't Mr. Bansal"
X Link 2023-09-18T08:28Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@mukta_jo Look at the list of suspected assassinations by Israel: Does anyone invoke this active assassination programme (rather than other reasons relating to their treatment of Gaza West Bank Arabs in Israel etc.) to call Israel a "rogue state""
X Link 2023-09-19T12:38Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"I used to wonder if North Indians knew of any contemporary Carnatic performers apart from TM Krishna. Now I'm starting to wonder if many of my South Indian friends know of any besides Krishna"
X Link 2023-09-23T06:31Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"We need to promote #AccessToCreativity. Just like A2K we need an A2C movement. There's strong opposition building to customised creative outputs being created by #genAI by (wrongly) branding them as "plagiarism" & "piracy". @jamie_love @sunil_abraham @qirtaiba @A2K4D @naglarzk"
X Link 2023-09-24T05:06Z 17.2K followers, 44.8K engagements
"@Rahll @jamie_love @sunil_abraham @qirtaiba @A2K4D @naglarzk You have #CreativityPrivilege and can't see how the creativity challenged among us could be greatly aided by #genAI"
X Link 2023-09-24T05:32Z 17.2K followers, 459.7K engagements
"@Rahll @jamie_love @sunil_abraham @qirtaiba @A2K4D @naglarzk Arts like health and knowledge are central to human flourishing in a way that aerospace engineering isn't. Plus no one is asking creative people to work for free. The argument is : "Don't prevent me from using #genAI trained on art to create works for myself""
X Link 2023-09-24T05:55Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@That_GuyMike @Rahll @jamie_love @sunil_abraham @qirtaiba @A2K4D @naglarzk That's like Donald Trump saying "Even the poor can earn money." Yes but those who inherited wealth have it much easier. Those who are genetically gifted in terms of creativity have it much easier"
X Link 2023-09-25T07:03Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"I've never sought "consent" from any writer to learn from their writings and thereupon to write more like them. Why then should a programme require my consent to discern patterns from my writings #genAI #ethics"
X Link 2023-09-25T12:24Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@LettingGo_Now No #genAI doesn't. With difussion models eg it learns by adding noise to images and then predictively removing noise to get an image. There's no copying involved. Similarly with LLMs. They aren't copying. They're learning patterns then using those patterns to generate"
X Link 2023-09-25T14:21Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@LettingGo_Now As I mentioned: it isn't copying. For a non-technical explanation of on GANs and diffusion models work:"
X Link 2023-09-25T14:52Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@shanksponi @Aethersmith Be that as it may how is that relevant Artists are arguing that "AI art is derivative" hoping to invoke copyright law. I'm arguing that "all art is derivative" and am pointing out that #genAI (difussion models GANs etc.) do not actually "copy""
X Link 2023-09-27T04:23Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"" although India runs one of the largest public food safety nets in the world through the National Food Security Act (NFSA) enacted by the UPA government in [----] the country still accounts for roughly 30% of global hunger.""
X Link 2023-09-28T14:37Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"So #BharOS (India's "indigenous mobile OS") turns out to be a fork of @GrapheneOS (formerly CopperheadOS which in turn is a fork of Google's Android Open Source Project). That's great. But why didn't @iitmadras just state that Why all the pretense Rather sad. #FOSS #India"
X Link 2023-09-29T11:47Z [--] followers, 10.7K engagements
"I'm wondering how long it'll be after MS Swaminathan's death that people start promoting all the critiques (by Vandana Shiva et al.) and calling the Green Revolution a sham"
X Link 2023-09-29T16:33Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"A focus on food security is bad because many food secure people get diabetes"
X Link 2023-09-29T18:24Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@GlobalPartnersD @MPaz_online @CircleID Hi @MPaz_online I've a few questions on how this could work. On using IHRL: would it help us resolve some thorny questions we're currently faced (and if yes how): (a) should generative AI be allowed to be trained on copyrighted data sets (b) should driverless cars be allowed"
X Link 2023-09-30T01:14Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Kinda bizarre that the SFI the students' wing of the CPI(M) seems to bemoaning the perceived lack of political engagement by privileged capitalists and petit bourgeoisie. Don't they as Marxists support the proletariat being more politically engaged"
X Link 2023-10-02T05:41Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Interesting work happening on updating OpenPGP: #crypto #security #interop #email"
X Link 2023-10-02T11:28Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The Equator passes through 11/13 countries: So Tom & Prncipe Gabon Congo DR Congo Uganda Kenya Somalia Maldives b/w islands Indonesia Kiribati b/w islands Ecuador Colombia and Brazil. Interestingly the Equator does not pass through Equatorial Guinea"
X Link 2023-10-02T12:44Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Some tech advice for activists & journalists in India: [--]. Do not use biometrics to unlock your phone/laptop. Use a strong passphrase. [--]. Use full-disk encryption to encrypt the data on your device. [--]. Know that you are under no obligation to share your passphrases w/ the police"
X Link 2023-10-03T14:49Z 17.2K followers, 180.5K engagements
"@Jprasad55 @avataram @SitaramYechury The current raids were not under PMLA or FEMA. It was for engaging in a "terrorist act" under UAPA (along w/ ss. [--] [--] [--] [--] 22C) & ss. 120B and 153A of the IPC. Have some shame Have some regard for rule of law"
X Link 2023-10-04T04:46Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Some people in India gloat over the fact that rule of law is weak in India not recognizing that rule of law is a non-partisan benefit to a polity that both right- and left-wing democrats support. They get off on dreaming of police violence. I personally find it strange"
X Link 2023-10-04T08:08Z 17.2K followers, 12.6K engagements
"@ArunKrishnan_ @avataram What I know is that none of the public accusations can possible fit within the UAPA. It's a flagrant abuse of the law prima facie. If they broke PMLA or FEMA or FCRA then those are the laws to apply. Not UAPA. Taking money from Neville Roy Singham isn't otherwise a crime"
X Link 2023-10-05T02:15Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"I'm not sure if this is a comedy or a tragedy. The Delhi Police are not only malicious but they are supremely incompetent as well. Buffoonery of the highest order. With them Hanlon's Razor goes for a toss"
X Link 2023-10-06T10:27Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"The Delhi Police thinks believing there are ongoing disputes over the borders of Kashmir and Arunachal Pradesh is somehow a "terrorist act". (Full disclosure: No Chinese operative paid me to laugh at the Delhi Police; I do it because they're a joke.)"
X Link 2023-10-06T13:56Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
".@element_hq is officially "blocked" in India. But I have no troubles installing it on Linux nor on my Android phone. It just goes to show that an app-block is only symbolic unless the app itself cooperates (as TikTok does by banning Indian IPs). #censorship #FoE #India"
X Link 2023-10-06T15:12Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@GlobalPartnersD @MPaz_online Hi Maria. I'd asked some qns about the report and its interpretations recently. Please do reply (off Twitter if that's more convenient) when you get the time Thanks"
X Link 2023-10-09T11:34Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"I'm surprised that no one in the #IGF Main Hall discussion of AI & policy has mentioned the fight over open source AI (crucial for the Global South) or the harmful effects of excessive #copyright for development of AI for the common good. #IGF2023 @MPaz_online"
X Link 2023-10-10T06:52Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"This is authoritarian. This is something I'd expect the Egyptian or Indian govt to be doing. But it's the #EU which is threatening to take action against @X u/ DSA for users posting unspecified "misleading information". #IGF2023 #FoE #censorship #disinfo"
X Link 2023-10-11T06:40Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"More #censorship requests from the European Commission. #EU #FoE I hope all human rights and free speech organizations push back against such arbitrary and vague requests by governments"
X Link 2023-10-11T16:47Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"I frequently see people getting confused about the double-entry accounting terms "debit" and "credit". You're usually made to remember a complex table like below. Instead remember: * Debits are inflows to an account. * Credits are outflows from an account"
X Link 2023-10-12T06:46Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"If you're an NGO claiming to do advocacy defending human rights & public interest feel free to use FOSS #genAI just as you feel free to use computers. They are compatible with human rights & public interest. As a Global South NGO-wallah I give you guilt-free permission😆"
X Link 2023-10-12T09:28Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
""The report said [----] civilians were killed in Myanmar "for political reasons" between February [--] [----] and September [--] [----] and [----] were injured." #Myanmar #violence #media"
X Link 2023-10-12T12:26Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
""Put simply: if customers are challenged on copyright grounds we will assume responsibility for the potential legal risks involved." #genAI #Google #indemnity #copyright"
X Link 2023-10-13T08:51Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"Why hasn't Harvard Uni made a statement about the ethnic cleansing in Nagorno-Karabakh or the suicide attacks that killed dozens in Baluchistan & Khyber Pakhtunkhwa or the worsening situation in Mali or about the continuing crisis in Myanmar w/ [----] civilians killed since '21"
X Link 2023-10-15T14:05Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"What do folks think of this Should the UN prevent countries like Saudi Arabia China and Russia (and which others) from hosting international conferences (The [----] Internet Governance Forum is currently to be held in Riyadh.) #IGF2023 #IGF #UN"
X Link 2023-10-15T16:47Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
""The cleric had supported terrorism by writing 'I stand with Palestine' on his DP." The Kanpur police doesn't seem to understand what "terrorism" means. #FoE #censorship #India #UttarPradesh"
X Link 2023-10-16T09:07Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"I think it is crucial for people to play games like Age of Empires and Sim City. They teach you many important concepts such as resource limitations trade-offs economic growth not being a zero-sum game the benefits of trade and also the inherent pitfalls of a command economy"
X Link 2023-10-21T19:18Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@nirbheek @kingslyj Wouldn't you call these "loafers" or "slip on shoes" Kinda surprised these are being referred to as moccasins which I know of through novels set in Canada that I read as a kid like Call of the Wild Hatchet and Island of the Blue Dolphins"
X Link 2023-10-23T10:34Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
""Israel banned The Battle of Algiers from public screening upon its release. But its historical lessons cannot so easily be ignored." @EagletonOliver"
X Link 2023-10-25T12:03Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
""The horror show that has occurred in Southern Israel and Gaza is less a reenactment of Gillo Pontecorvos The Battle of Algiers more Pier Paolo Pasolinis Salo. It is not something over which Fanon would have rejoiced." @buffsoldier_96"
X Link 2023-10-25T12:03Z 17.2K followers, [----] engagements
"@MishiChoudhary Photos of Jawaharlal Nehru smoking laughing being around women (incl. his sister and his niece) etc. are used all the time to portray him as a degenerate Westernized skirt-chaser. In this case none of the photos/commentary I've seen denigrate her qua her womanhood"
X Link 2023-10-27T07:52Z 17.2K followers, [--] engagements
"@chetnakum @sunil_abraham is a fount of wisdom"
X Link 2023-10-31T15:12Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"@chetnakum @sunil_abraham Tiruvalluvar and Chris Rock too:"
X Link 2023-10-31T15:14Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
"" The American Ornithological Society has vowed to change the English names of all bird species currently named after people" This seems to me to be a good outcome based on terrible "social justice" reasoning"
X Link 2023-11-01T19:05Z 17.2K followers, [---] engagements
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