RSS’ Hosabale at Stanford: Invaders destroyed India’s scientific past, Modi govt reviving it The RSS leader placed ancient Indian knowledge systems alongside modern scientific inquiry, arguing that traditions embedded in texts such as the Upanishads reflected a long-standing culture of…

We are horrified that Stanford University hosted a hatemonger whose organization USCIRF has called to sanction. We call on @HudsonInstitute to revoke their invitation to Hosabale. indianexpress.com/article/indi... (edited)

I Know the SPLC’s Flaws Better Than Most. This Investigation Still Looks Like a Witch Hunt. MAGA has wanted to take down the SPLC for years. Now it has the DOJ to try.

"...it was almost inevitable that a weaponized DOJ would try something like this. Discrediting the SPLC is a way of retroactively rehabilitating everyone the SPLC ever exposed."

The government can legally do a bunch of things regular citizens cannot, so that's not a great argument.

But I don't understand what actual law was being violated here? We have freedom of payment and freedom of association in the US, last I checked.

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who's confused by this. It's not like infiltrating hate groups to gather intel and evidence is an unprecedented move.

Putting some $ towards the villains in the short term, as part of the quest to ultimately dismantle them, is the cost of doing business.

a man with curly hair making a surprised face Alt: A white man with curly brown hair is making an overexaggerated look of surprise.

MRW I reopen Bluesky and see 30+ notifications, when I'm usually lucky to get 1/week. 😆

The hedge fund that owns McClatchy—Chatham Asset Management—also has a controlling interest in Postmedia, a Canadian news conglomerate that owns & prints over 130 news titles across 🇨🇦. I couldn’t find much about Postmedia’s AI use, so I wonder if 🇺🇸 papers are testing ground given this news:

Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

The list of newspapers owned by McClatchy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McClatc...

Thank you, Dorian 🩷

Hang in there. It'll get better eventually.

Thank you so much, friend. And I wish the same for you. 🩷

Thanks. 🩷 Unfortunately, I have a habit of killing my houseplants, lol! But that is a great way to look at it.

I'd like to reclaim the time and energy I spent reading that thread. My curated view of Bluesky is thankfully much more enlightened than...all that.

I love the "i am colour blind" type of western, white, cis-gendered, male privilege

Firefox has something similar, but it doesn't give a granular view of what comprises each entry. However, all the entries are much smaller in size compared to Chrome.

In Firefox, go to Settings > Privacy and Security > scroll down to Cookies and Site Data > Manage browsing data.

Chrome users: go to Settings > Privacy and Security > Site Settings. Under "Recent Activity," click on "View permissions and data stored across sites."

YouTube stores 60-75MB per page for a BUNCH of pages. You can go into each site and delete YouTube from the list. I probably freed up 1GB of space.

Getting out of bed is hard, actually. And has been hard for weeks now. What a cruel twist that depression, by its very definition, actively prevents you from doing anything that might make you feel better.

I kind of really want a Cricut.

Obama and Mamdani telling a story to children. They have their hands raised and they look surprised,

"And then all the right-wingers heads exploded like BOOM!"

So, his DUI+theft do make deportation plausible (if my perspective's off, someone please enlighten me)...but not in such a inhumane, barbaric way. ICE is monstrous.

And the temporary lapse of his visa wasn't a criminal act and shouldn't be held against him. But of course they're doing exactly that.

No New Data Centers in Seattle We need a moratorium on new data centers.

SEATTLE: sign the letter for our representatives to voice our dissent against the proposed 5 new datacenters, which will use 1/3 of the city's energy, and also generally contribute to the scourge that is generative AI.

actionnetwork.org/letters/18b9...

I wonder if The Pitt has impacted Pittsburgh’s tourism numbers?

The exterior shots are all the real thing. PGH Trauma Med Center = real-world Allegheny General Hospital. They even use actual Allegheny Health Network choppers!

It’s such a great city. I’m grateful for all my years there.

shoutout to all the people calling The Pitt just Pitt

hail to Pitt, I guess, right

Pittsburgh has a TON going on. A history of jazz, an underground punk scene, hipsters, tech, and a bit of extreme granola. This is absolutely plausible.

Ironically, at least when I moved away a few years ago, Pittsburgh had the last remaining reproductive health services within a wide radius.

a woman in a blue dress is clapping in a crowd of people Alt: Anne hathaway applauding meme

Just. Throw all the gold statuettes at Noah Wyle. Jesus.

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Also, “academia and the left wing”…lol. Racists perpetuate anti-Indian stereotypes. End of story.

All these absolute winners belong in the #DesiHallOfShame, though I daresay they’re all in there already.

I keep hearing people say
that this pandemic
broke our society,
that this pandemic
profoundly broke our society,
and while that may be
I cannot help but think
that what this pandemic
has truly done to our society
is reveal
just how profoundly broken
it already was.

Awesome! Thanks for that. Take care, I hope things work out this month for you. 💜