Free speech as a priority has fallen off a cliff even for civil society people. We're really going to get China's internet without China's economy

Criticism, satire of PM, UGC regulations target of government takedowns on X, Instagram Government takedowns on social media target criticism and satire of PM Modi amid rising content removal in India.

Not that anyone particularly opposes this in any tangible way anymore, but worth documenting: www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

People don’t seem to get how far along LLMs have come especially within the software development lifecycle area . Like the next iteration of engineers are going to focus more on curation / prompt engineering / conflict resolution than writing code

Was India aware that an Iranian ship that was returning to Iran after being India's guest for an official event was sunk by an American submarine in our own backyard? I hope India musters courage at least now to speak up, and protest against US, the bully.

Potentially pissed off Yann LeCun in Gurgaon while chasing a deadline. How has your weekend been?

By scanning at the theatre. This hashed URL is there in the newer certificates, but it is not predictable.

This technique is deprecated. CBFC uses hashed URLs now

WhatsApp message partial screenshot: "Hii, [in bold] Regulatory reform only works when ..."

well hii to you too

We are mixture mama of the global south

These were MTNL SIMs?

NYT extract: [Elon] Musk’s ability to turn Starlink on and off in places, as well as his dominance in space with satellites and rockets, has made him a formidable and unpredictable geopolitical player.

This is why India will only allow Starlink kicking and screaming. The government wants the policy space to turn off the entire internet at will, if shit hits the fan. And they also want the policy space for, when shit does hit the fan, to crack down brutally.

Amazing that we smothered linear TV to death/containment to previous generation before things like this could happen.

The Indian film and TV industry are in hibernation this generation. Best principle is to just wait for this medium to begin anew at some point, led by names who are nobodies today. Hope I'm alive to see the day.

Looks like they're blocking outbound RDP connections. Nothing I can do to get them to unblock it. As a middle solution I've got them to uninstall some bloatware that was not required by company policy.

Like any Hindu organization formed after 1991 in a place where Hindus are already present in decent numbers should set off alarm bells.

Hindu community leaders have warned Sir Keir Starmer that Labour’s new Islamophobia definition will have a “significant chilling effect” on freedom of speech. They say it conflates hostility towards Muslims with criticism of the religion of Islam, which would mean Hindus speaking about their historical persecution under Islamic empires in South Asia would fall foul of the definition. Last week, the Hindu Council UK wrote a letter to Steve... (Hindu Council UK is highlighted.)

Screenshot from RSS Tracker by The Caravan showing Hindu Council UK as having a linkage to the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh with a linkage of 1 (high score). Organisation was founded in 1994.

If only there were a way to ascertain the credibility of such community organisations...

Supreme Court denies bail petition of Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam Delhi riots case LIVE: The Supreme Court has denied bail to activists Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid in connection with the 2020 Delhi riots.

We're sleepwalking towards something we can't come back from www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...

I remote into my home PC because work machine isn't fast enough. Something mysterious is adding a 200 millisecond speedbreaker to this and making the whole thing unusable.

I have spoken to one of the ten most talented people in the country on this issue to troubleshoot. Still no luck 🥹

Netflix’s Death Note Reboot Needs to Fix the Anime’s Most Frustrating Mistake Though Death Note is regarded as one of the best anime series, fans have raised a criticism that Netflix's upcoming live-action reboot should fix.

@cjwritesstuff.bsky.social Does this mean the adaptation is still happening? 🥹
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Screenshot of the betting market Kalshi with a list of likely Oscar nominees for Best International Feature. Homebound is #8.

This Kalshi market (~$10k) has Homebound's nomination odds at eighth rank.

I've done it again, I'm embroiled in a tech issue so niche that no troubleshooting is available

Latest air quality in Delhi. US AQI+ 975, 564 micrograms/m³. Hazardous.

This is just insane to live through

This is so cool!!

Yes, I was splurging these credits precisely because I ran into that limit. Reached out to customer care when the credits were removed from my account, and they restored them - but warned me that it would be best to spend them in order to avoid the carryover issue.

Or a day possibly. Perhaps there to prevent hackers from abusing access to abandoned accounts with an active subscription

Tried redeeming a few Audible titles with freshly recovered credits from a long-ago lapsed subscription. Couldn't spend beyond ten credits. Can't find anything online about this. So looks like I've run into a cap that literally nobody else has faced/complained about.

Please, would be very helpful 🙏

SXSW 😁

The Opportunity Trap of the ChatGPT App Store In the AI world, context is currency.

Apps in ChatGPT aren’t destinations... they’re just tools.

Developers don’t own the interface, the brand, the interaction, or even when their app gets called. It's just "jobs to be done". ChatGPT is the selector, the umpire, the ground, the conditions and potential future opposing team, all at the