Beerbiceps row shouldn’t become an excuse for state to flex its biceps February 16, 2025 publicwriting & blog This is an unedited, link-supported version of an opinion piece that appeared in The Times of India on 2025-02-16 (link). The page is archived 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 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 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 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 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 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 Why is META’s “Q3 Adversarial Threat Report” for 2024 so opaque about the networks from India? December 4, 2024 blog So, META just released its Adversarial Threat Report for Third Quarter(archived link). It has been a while since I looked at these reports closely, Some Professional News October 18, 2024 blog Hello World! Some professional news, I will be moving on from the Internet Freedom Foundation in November. I look back fondly at my years with the Some Professional News October 18, 2024 blog Hello World! Some professional news, I will be moving on from the Internet Freedom Foundation in November. I look back fondly at my years with the 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 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 $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