that's what I'm saying!

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While the U.S. currently houses 54% of the world's hyperscale data centers, the infrastructure is expanding into countries like India, where the rush for land is sparking protests restofworld.org/2026/india-data-center-t...

India's Tata signs up OpenAI as customer for data centre business OpenAI will become the first customer of India's Tata Consultancy Services' data centre business, beginning with 100 megawatts of capacity, part of the global AI infrastructure initiative Stargate, th...

Sorry, did I say Adani? I meant, Adani and/or one of our PM's other billionaire friends.

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Also probably wouldn't hurt to bribe local power brokers so you can stamp down local opposition before it even starts.

The slop must go on, after all.

You're welcome to steal our land for a pittance, make our hot as hell country even hotter, and not give as many jobs as you lead us to expect. One caveat: you have to partner with Adani and figure out how you can make him more money.

Data centers are spreading around the country. Now, data-center bans are, too | CNN In the coming weeks, Maine could be the first state in the nation to pass a temporary moratorium on new data centers. At least four other states are poised to do the same. Proponents say these bills a...

Don't worry tech cos being chased out of US states, our beloved pm is happy to lend our population dense, resource scarce country for your ugly, energy guzzling, data centers.
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Though I think the saving voices project is a pretty cool concept. Would love to know what linguists think about it.

This recent trend of media coverage fawning over "frugal AI" makes me think of the way people love to valorize indian "jugaad" without recognising the serious systemic problems that necessitate such improvisational work.

trying to make my way out of post phd disassociation from thinking too deeply and i'm being tested by the cosmos

screen grab of a Cloudflare bot verification page for a Sage journal website

in endless bot verification hell

just the thought of e-mailing every author on my to-read list and begging for a copy of their work has my adhd brain crying screaming throwing up

man, i really took my US institutional access to research journals and databases for granted when i was a student

Blackboard at a coffee shop in tamil nadu informing customers that they are operating with limited menu due to the cylinder crisis as a result of the war in Iran

Writing on the wall.

I'm not saying STEM grads being exposed to humanities/critical studies etc will solve all or even many of the current problems with big tech but I'm having a hard time with the idea that it won't help at all. Who has done research on this? What can I read to understand this better?

"CEO Said A Thing!" Journalism "CEO said a thing!" journalism involves parroting the claims of a business leader or executive with absolutely no context, correction, or challenge whatsoever, no matter how elaborate the delusion.

Over at the newsletter I wrote about the unholy scourge that is "CEO said a thing!" journalism:

Hahahah. Thank you 😆

late response sorry, i'm just getting back on bluesky after a while. Have you found any? :D

Big BIG thanks to my advisors @aramsinn.bsky.social & @saifshahin.bsky.social. Thanks also to @paufder.bsky.social for being on my committee and @ubisurv.net for serving as the external examiner!

Screenshot of Title Slide of dissertation with a photo of the presenter.

Screenshot of the dissertation defense Zoom meeting room with icons of all attendees.

Happy to announce (belatedly) that I'm #PhDone! I defended my dissertation "Guilty Faces: Localizing Surveillance through the Cultural Construction of Facial Recognition" last month.

I would be so glad to never hear the term h1b again in my life

I assure you that you do not actually have to contribute to the great American Casteist NRI vs Racist White Person debates of 2024.. You don't have to speak up for your "Indian friends" and definitely don't have to learn and spout half-baked nonsense about the US immigration process.

My favorite part (and by that I mean the part i detest most) is when people say oomfie.. 🤢

Petition to ban the word oomf on bsky

If someone already has, please @ me with the link tia

Someone smarter than me needs to write a paper calculating the point at which the informational landscape becomes so polluted with garbage that the genAI hallucination problem becomes unsolvable by fact checking mechanisms.

Hard relate! This whole PhD has been a process of catching up with "basic" theory and foundational scholarship that everyone else already seems to know and is able to pull out (correctly) at whim.

we're always on the cusp of some revolution or other if marketing copies are to be believed

Randomly meeting one of my to-be mentors at a random event and getting a chance to speak with her for 10 mins (which was all the time she needed to convince me that I'm meant to do a PhD instead of job hunting in the DC think tank circuit)

I don't think it is! I'm just caught by surprise in most cases :)