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Rent-free in my head music 3 February 17, 2025 micro & unvarnished & rent-free-music

Image Source A short list of 5-6 songs that I’ve been listening to frequently the last few days, or, as they say, have been living rent-free in my

Rent-free in my head music 2 February 10, 2025 micro & unvarnished & rent-free-music

Image Source A short list of 5-6 songs that I’ve been listening to frequently the last few days, or, as they say, have been living rent-free in my

Wanted: Small-tent progressive spaces February 8, 2025 micro I don’t follow the day-to-day of politics in India too closely — lots of motion/noise and not enough movement/signal. What is clear 1, though, is

Rent-free in my head music 1 February 5, 2025 micro & unvarnished & rent-free-music Image Source A short list of 5-6 songs that I’ve been listening to a lot over the last few days, or, as they say, living rent-free in my head. In no

Choose Love, Delhi February 5, 2025 micro

Choose love Delhi (even on non-polling days), even, and especially, if our politicians don’t. Delhi is going to polls today. I’ve only followed the

Thinker Feeler Hider Why January 31, 2025 micro & reflection & unvarnished Most of my life I’ve thought of myself as a thinker, or just a person who thinks (I am, indeed, an over thinker, but that’s different) as opposed to

Happy Republic Day - choose humanity January 26, 2025 micro

Let’s channel our patriotism into loving everyone equally*. Happy Republic Day *ok, fine, you can love your family and friends more equally, but

On Participatory ‘Unserious’ness January 13, 2025 micro & culture & blog Backlash and memes, but not enough introspection and interrogation Some of the memes around the L&T Chairman’s 90-hour work week / ‘wife staring’

On the means of exploitation January 7, 2025 micro When people are exploited, should the response be to? Seize the means of exploitation? Cease the circumstances that create the conditions for

On COAI's letter about Internet Restrictions December 10, 2024 micro

It is interesting that COAI is asking for some form of limitation/restraint on internet shutdowns. Anyone have the actual letter? I don’t want to

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