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I may have to keep around multiple references from the book #TheEdgeOfSpaceTime . So making this the start of a thread.

Also 3 anthologies of Tamil Pulp Fiction in translation Hard-boiled detectives! Vengeful goddesses! Drug-fuelled love affairs! Nitrogen-eating aliens!

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Great thread! I would add that AI boosters dwell in the world of the corporation, full of managers parroting jargon like "deliverables" or "getting buy ins." Bender has accused a world full of parrots of creating machines that parrot. That they are oblivious to the irony should not be a surprise.

The lessons from Brazil and Serbia? Don't concede one inch of ground to the far right. Don't appease. Don't triangulate. Don't grovel. Don't say they have "legitimate concerns". Mobilise your base, and fight them with all the democratic means at your disposal.

and please, for my poor country too.

I know the vast majority of you are here because of my art, but I need to share a thread about Brazilian politics because what we achieved today deserves to be mentioned and celebrated I'll do my best to be objective for those who have no idea what was happening

"He came to this area for a fellowship, but realised there is a much deeper malaise" #Odisha police arrest Dr Randall Sequeira, who works with #Adivasis & backs anti-mining protests. Police accuse him of instigating tribals Ayaskant Das profiles him & his work article-14.com/post/-mobile...

yup ... continues to persist in the laws as well.

Political participation is also an education. It teaches young people to question society Drawing on her arrest during the 1978 movement to rename Marathwada University after Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar, Chetna Gala Sinha reflects on what parents owe young protesters Subscribe: article-14.com/subscribe

kid's power move in assignment on polygons - illustrates a hexagon and write "imagine it as perfect".

can we also have a mid term in India please?

Yesterday I made a “plaything” for Igarashi et al.’s excellent SIGGRAPH 2005 paper, As-Rigid-As-Possible Shape Manipulation! Works with a mouse, but it’s much more fun with multi-touch on an iPad. Link below 👇

Ashoke Sen is the first Indian to win physics honour Oskar Klein Medal

Must've watched "The Orville" only recently. orville.fandom.com/wiki/Majorit...

Arc browser - was nice while it lasted. Switching to Safari/Firefox. Apparently Dia supercedes Arc but Dia's faq on "can we use it on sensitive sites like banks and healthcare sites" answers with an "it depends" with a caveat for AI stuff. So pass.

Across 2 #Mumbai’s #Muslim-majority slums, residents say they submitted #SIR forms, provided voter ID, Aadhaar & 2002 voter list mapping. They received acknowledgements from BLOs. Yet their names were marked “absent” or “shifted” in #Maharashtra’s draft electoral rolls, Kavi Iyer reports Link 👇

Claude: The command stalled on a stray cat waiting for input. 😂😂😂

Somebody needs to make a film called "Enough with the nerds".

"In fact, I don’t want to optimize my learning. I’m fine drawing my own crummy cartoons and embarrassing myself in my own essays. I want to do it myself, so I know how to do it, and I’ll never need anyone else to do it for me."

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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What was that again that I heard? "Athithi devo bhava" did you say? The hypocrisy of the far right is a global invariant.

#india As a kid, Saraswathi puja used to often be torturous for me. It was the day when we put all our books and instruments for puja, with the mandate that we arent supposed to read anything or play any instrument. It would be on this day that I get my strongest urges to read or play!

Today on Scroll: scrollnewsletter.substack.com/p/daily-brie... -Ramachandra Guha: India’s classical music unites faiths. Its syncretic heritage must be preserved -Kolkata: Durga Puja stampede kills 19 More⤵️

He spoke for what ought to be every constitutional democracy.

This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

This fantastic review of Manickavel's novel went up on Goodreads yesterday and it's SO cool to see a book connect this way, I feel all validated as a publisher, I think I will go buy some fancy gummy candy to celebrate

When her baby wouldn't stay without the mother, she brought the child onto the dance floor, and they danced together. Original post

Brendan Larsen from Ngāmotu in Aotearoa and a member of the New Plymouth Astronomical Society took this stack over a couple of hours and estimates 14000 satellite trails. This is how bad it is now, it's set to get much much much worse - and then we lose Low […] [Original post on river.geek.nz]

The gov believes that it all lies with the leaders. About time the next gen decentralized themselves to get away from that constraint. i.e. do not look up to a leader and just take the lead. About time to *be* cockroaches which have survived from before dinosaurs.

when have any of those currently in power fought for the constitutional rights of our people, even for the police though they dont seem to see it?

"protest is meant to be inconvenient" is an often missed point. Yeah bear with getting stalled in traffic for a while so you take the time to think and realize that things like potentially losing your vote are what are at stake today.

I mean if Jantar Mantar is closed to protesters, every place should turn into a Jantar Mantar.

[Why would Whittaker and Gebru and their very specific indictments worry the oligarchs more than the prophets of all-out extinction like the AI scientist-turned-critic G. Hinton, or J. Coxon? Perhaps because, like a big fireworks display, Hinton and Coxon’s warnings add frisson to the atmospherics.]

no no .. pitch the name right and they'll bite - swach vayu karya yojana karyanvayan vibhagakrama prathishta not Swach vayu action plan implementation ranking

When the AI bubble pops, we can’t repeat past corporate bail outs. We need to be ready with policies that protect ordinary people and hold tech execs accountable. We also need to talk about nationalizing AI companies — or maybe even abolishing them altogether… @astra.bsky.social @theguardian.com

I used to have a kid's "animal world" kind of book with lots of pictures and habitat descriptions. I clearly recall an entry for a fish named "whip-poor-will" but all I can find on that is a bird with the same name! I couldnt have been gaslit right? The fish had a face with a semblance to JDVance.

Add "for Tax Purposes" to a movie: Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy for tax purposes I bet Adams would be proud of that one!

RSS fascist playbook explained in under 3 mins (also how goons alongside the cops were beating protestors)

This is TOMORROW (Friday) evening (Please forgive the time zone autopost confusion)

This is quite unbelievable actually - not the "letting an AI agent in" and it "running amok" part, but the team not having a backup of their work! Like really? I take a backup (and another) if I feel I might lose over a day's work due to some mishap. Also someone primed the tool to do this right?

Another day, another cartoon blocked in India on the Modi government’s orders. As always, I’m posting it again. PM Modi calls India the “mother of democracy”. Yet, criticism is silenced. **This is how an authoritarian regime behaves.**

This energy is going on in #india right now.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Election Officer Admits ECI Auto-generated 85,000+ Voter Deletion Forms Without a Reason, Confirms Mass Deletion Attempts Against Muslims