Microblog

Posts on Social Media that I *may* also post on Twitter, BlueSky, Mastodon and Threads. Not all of these will feature on the main feed of this website.

On the state of my social feeds November 26, 2024 micro Here’s what my social feeds look like right now. Twitter: 10 people from BLR who seem to know each other (but I know none of them) + run clubs, MAGA On Roasting your team November 26, 2024 micro No lies On Octopus’s Garden November 24, 2024 micro This person gets it… Threads On taxes, death and the Indian state's god-complex November 23, 2024 micro Taxes, death and the Indian state’s god-complex + ever increasing appetite for surveillance are just some of the certainties of life in India. This On a word with The Indian Express November 21, 2024 micro I would like with a word with the person at @IndianExpress who thought adding this was a good idea. Oh, and the ‘X’ doesn’t seem to work for me, so Action, Documentation and a vile ad November 19, 2024 micro BarandBench reports that the vile BJP Jharkhand ad has been taken down. It also references a letter (pdf link) from the Election Commission of The internet doesn’t forget May 20, 2024 micro but on balance, it mostly shrugs and goes ‘meh’ Elections we expected vs what we got May 7, 2024 micro “AI What we got: India’s most institutionally captured elections No Reliable Allies May 3, 2024 micro 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 micro 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 Section 230, Generative AI / LLMs and Liability April 1, 2024 micro Something tells me we are going to see a lot more of this question - does information / content generated by non-deterministic models have