no devices and low-tech for billionaires’ kids but ai for the rest of us plebs www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...

Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids.

At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.

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@memeghnad.bsky.social (if you are still on this platform) People should also consider popularising a move away from "legacy" social media to decentralised spaces where it's harder to censor. You are suggesting an overload, alternatives can provide resilience. youtube.com/shorts/vrMIZ...

Tips on how to fight gormint censorship.

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Tried this Ownly app, seems Yamraj got allotted my first delivery.. while 'take me home' was playing in the bg. Yeah, what even is left in 'this' world?

"Indians have a low bar for many things. But Indians are hysterically serious about their children. They can bring up their children in filthy air, let them dangle from unsafe trains and travel on dangerous roads, but they will not tolerate that terrifying thing called an uncertain future."

Turns out they used expired tear gas among other things to "push back" protestors. Big thanks to shri nitin albert gadkaristein & Modi's space tech enabled roads, ppl got to push those barrels in potholes to minimize impact somewhat.

Thinking aloud (and in public) when you buy govt securities (TBills, SDL) you loan out money to the govt. Some of this money is evidently used by corrupt politicians & babus for the galaxy of scams where they pocket obscene amounts for themselves

"Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares." - Daniel Dennett

Yes lallantop, please make the 'karara' extra crunchy please, your peers might be using 'KO punched', 'obliterated', 'red eyes' etc to describe the situation, don't keep it so bland. Spoiler: this bloke just gave status update everything is progressing, japan minister post is in personal capacity.

This guy used to do shows like satyamev jayate. And now it has come to this. youtube.com/shorts/3pTaa...

Aamir Khan broke his silence on Sonam Wangchuk...

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"Mera bulbul so rahaa hai shor-gul na machaa"

youtube.com/post/UgkxCP6... "A fast works only when the person watching you suffer is capable of feeling shame"

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[My open appeal to Dear @SonamWangchuk66 Dear Sonamji, A fast works only when the person watching you suffer is capable of feeling shame. Many years ago when...

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What's the difference between these and a terrorist taking lives? Spurious plasma: Eight Maha blood banks under lens | Ahmedabad News - The Times of India share.google/amJ77C62R8da... Fake Blood Plasma Racket Busted In Ahmedabad, Mastermind Among 4 Arrested share.google/Sj7HW9ENXHyq...

Spurious plasma: Eight Maha blood banks under lens

Ahmedabad: Eight Maharashtra blood banks are now under the scanner in the spurious plasma racket. Adulterated plasma has the potential to cause serious health complications among vulnerable patient gr...

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They have been sitting there for weeks, govt doesn't bother to even reach out. Source: The Hindu share.google/ZEEfmLdEk1GZ...

Sonam Wangchuk hunger strike: CJP protest enters Day 25

Sonam Wangchuk's health declines on Day 25 of CJP protest as hunger strike continues, prompting appeals from prominent citizens to end it.

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💧As India rapidly builds data centers for AI growth, concerns are rising that this digital expansion could worsen existing water shortages. Read @rohinikrishnamurthy's report for Down To Earth learn more: https://loom.ly/gNgv-pE #DarkSideoftheBoom

History repeating (again)... www.distributedthoughts.org/2026-07-09-p...

Painted Seams

Apple raised Mac and iPad prices up to 25% this month and the machines did not change. The AI buildout requisitioned the world's memory the way 1942 requisitioned silk for parachutes, and this time th...

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bsky.app/profile/scro... In India, our children will be made to do cow dung cancer research or learn from the sermons of godmen and babas, while ministers' children study abroad in Ivy League colleges.

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“The fact that ministers send their children abroad shows the apathy that they have for the education system here,” said an education activist. scroll.in/article/1094... "But what are we doing to improve the system here? That’s a question that we need an answer to right now.” By Johanna Deeksha

"He’s doing a rally … what he would usually do in India, but he’s doing it overseas for the Indian diaspora to update them on the economy, on what’s happening in India, where India is heading,” he said Lol 😅 He will say the most generic scripted stuff, watch ppl dance, photoshoot and fly off.

I think I noticed this around 2015-16, several social media accounts/channels which started sharing Indian historical glory days, to make you feel good & proud of what our ancestors achieved. Then gradually pseudo science mixed in with mythology.

Gemini doing some switching up when asked to double check. Adding links to make it seem more confident than it should be. Some might say harnesses, specs/loop are the way nowadays to know if what it emits is correct. Maybe.. what if the goal is just a quick lookup?

Govt's strategy has been to turn institutions untrustworthy & incapable, let people go to court over everything, overwhelm the bottleneck. Make questioning, seeking justice labourious and unsustainable. PCB rules out pollution by ethanol plant in Meghalaya's Byrnihat share.google/G3uLyk3XOCy5...

PCB rules out pollution by ethanol plant in Meghalaya's Byrnihat

The Meghalaya State Pollution Control Board (MSPCB) on Tuesday said its inspection of an ethanol and distillery unit at Byrnihat found no violation of prescribed emission standards. The probe followe...

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Haven't been on this street/block since last year, so not sure if it still exists in Ejipura, Bengaluru. Size zeros allowed only, if you really fancy this footpath. Footpath accomodating feet -- ✅ BBMP -- lgtm

What's with the general obsession with visitor counters on indian govt websites?

Socio-political/economic problems don't have purely technological solutions. It needs negotiation, consensus & participation from vested stakeholders on intent/approaches. That proves so difficult since it dis-incentivises the groups who profit from status quo. How do you make them let go?

Our Indian "sarkari babus" didn't build this marvel so you could tell me AI is inevitable.

India is the perfect 'papers please' Kafkaesque state. Passport, Aadhar card, PAN card, voter's card, and none of them are proof of citizenship. Utter weaponised bureaucracy. Every Indian is a Schrodinger's citizen, both citizen and un-citizen simultaneously under the eye of the state.

Indrapramit Das@indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The regime does love setting up more and more hurdles for Indian citizens to 'prove' they're citizens so that they can deny you voting rights, welfare, and/or shove you into a concentration camp or push you across the border if you're poor enough.

It has to be in the Indian ethos right? Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav's Family Bought 168 Acres in Ujjain Since He Took Office share.google/5vUJGJGHkVKp... #india #madhyapradesh #corruptionLove

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Mohan Yadav’s family bought 168 acres where his government built roads

An Indian Express investigation finds that Madhya Pradesh CM Mohan Yadav's family and their real estate firms acquired at least 137 plots spanning 168 acres in Ujjain for ₹45 crore in two years since ...

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The Voice of Hind Rajab review: A child’s voice in a world that stopped listening share.google/vCdqDN2Hcgqr...

The Voice of Hind Rajab review: A child’s voice in a world that stopped listening

The scariest thing in Kaouther Ben Hania’s ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ is not the gunfire you hear in the background. It is the sound of a child who has not yet stopped believing that someone is coming ...

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