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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

Anomie and retrieval February 5, 2025 blog & unvarnished Earlier today, I posted this on the microblogs (Twitter, Bluesky, Threads, Mastodon): I recently came across a word/definition that aptly described

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

Main Character Energy 1 - Step back from that ledge, my friend January 31, 2025 main-character-energy & blog & reflection

There is this incredible scene in Yes Man (2008), watch it before reading the rest of the post.👇 The premise of the movie is this - Carl (Jim

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

Why can’t workplaces care more about people? January 24, 2025 blog & rant & unvarnished There’s this conversation between Trevor Noah and Simon Sinek whose snippets kept popping up on my Instagram Reels for months. I had some time

Quoted in Digital Data Protection Rules 2025: Here's What Needs To Change - Forbes India January 14, 2025 quoted Digital Data Protection Rules 2025: Here’s What Needs To Change - Forbes India archive

Quoted in Why the draft personal data protection rules are contentious - Scroll.in January 13, 2025 quoted Why the draft personal data protection rules are contentious archive

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’

More to Meta’s Content Moderation changes than meets the eye January 12, 2025 blog & publicwriting This is a link-supported, unedited draft of an opinion piece that appeared in TheSouthFirst on 2025-01-12. The page is archived here META recently

Quoted in How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work - WIRED January 11, 2025 quoted How the US TikTok Ban Would Actually Work archive

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

Meta and the sensible articulation of challenges to justify a ‘great pandering’ January 7, 2025 blog tl;dr There are (whether we like them or not) some accurate/sensible things in Zuckerberg’s video/Kaplan’s post (e.g. the articulation of some of

Quoted in Can you spot the dark pattern? Apps use subtle tricks to make us spend more - Times of India January 5, 2025 quoted

Can you spot the dark pattern? Apps use subtle tricks to make us spend more - Times of India Because this one came with a photo 👇

To Finding Joy and Giving Kindness December 31, 2024 blog Tl;dr - No 2024 recap, no 2025 resolutions. Just exercising my hope muscles for us to find joy, and give kindness. Not so long ago, someone asked me

Quoted in 2024's AI "armageddon" did not come to pass December 26, 2024 quoted 2024’s AI “armageddon” did not come to pass archive

Quoted in Poll rules tweaked to restrict default public access to docs December 22, 2024 quoted Poll rules tweaked to restrict default public access to docs archive

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