The Evening After...
June 5, 2024
blog & reflection
In case you’re wondering what the ‘after’ is that I’m on referring to - on June 4th, India counted the votes and declared the results for its 7
Do, or Do not, but ask why?
May 29, 2024
blog & reflection
(If you read that title in Yoda’s voice, then congratulations. If you didn’t, then this image is an attempt to Jedi mind-trick you) The last decade
The internet doesn’t forget
May 20, 2024
micro
but on balance, it mostly shrugs and goes ‘meh’
Quoted in Financial Times about Elon Musk and global censorship battles
May 12, 2024
quoted
Elon Musk launches global battle over government ‘censorship’ of X
Engineers and Humanity
May 9, 2024
blog
I am in the midst of an on-again-off-again relationship with Twitter (another topic for another day), so I missed most of this Engineers and
Quoted in Unherd about lessons from India’s TikTok Ban
May 7, 2024
quoted
What America can learn from India’s war on TikTok - UnHerd
Elections we expected vs what we got
May 7, 2024
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“AI What we got: India’s most institutionally captured elections
$300M for religious hate speech and low quality deepfakes?
May 7, 2024
blog
An article in Al Jazeera recently quoted a figure of $300M as the estimated market size for political consultancies in India 1 (more
Quoted in The Washington Post about Political Ads on Facebook
May 6, 2024
quoted
Facebook political ad policies often ignored in India election - The Washington Post
No Reliable Allies
May 3, 2024
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Time and again, supposedly liberal people / politicians / systems reveal themselves as being not very different from the supposedly illiberal. We
Do not valourise politicians / political actors
May 2, 2024
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I’m of the strong opinion that one should not valourise politicians in general, it is mainly a question of when not if, they will do something
Quoted in The Economist about ‘young voters’ in India
April 30, 2024
quoted
Even disillusioned young Indian voters favour Narendra Modi
Quoted in the BBC about lessons from India’s TikTok Ban
April 27, 2024
quoted
link:: The ghosts of India’s TikTok: What happens when a social media app is banned
Section 230, Generative AI / LLMs and Liability
April 1, 2024
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Something tells me we are going to see a lot more of this question - does information / content generated by non-deterministic models have