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Posts by Pessimist Payasam

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Ms. Rachel is helping kids get out of ICE detention—one video at a time The wildly popular children's educator is taking on ICE's notorious family detention center.

Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

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Love to see Vi's journey from a cursed tech reviewer into a policy reporter.

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Dumping Human remains - ok
Eating Chicken biryani - jail

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Hi. Please crosspost this. Unequivocally fuck crypto, my instagram has been hacked

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A couple things…

The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war.
It is a war of choice.
It is warfare without conscious.
It was unprovoked.

And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

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This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)

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Indians:

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I just learned today that Kerala has now started doing Kumbh, a kind of ritualistic festival for the religious majority to show their power by gathering all fanatics at one place, bathing and polluting the rivers, exchanging diseases, and making loud noises. srsly, have we gone completely bonkers?

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Cancel your trip

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tweet from @digitaldutta that reads 
The Hyderabad Police are now using OpenAI to automatically allocates police duty and issue official letters generated by OpenAI.

He is quoting a tweet from VC Sajjanar the commisioner of police, already under investigation from the supreme court for his role in the extrajudicial murder of three suspects in a sexual assault case that details the scheme

tweet from @digitaldutta that reads The Hyderabad Police are now using OpenAI to automatically allocates police duty and issue official letters generated by OpenAI. He is quoting a tweet from VC Sajjanar the commisioner of police, already under investigation from the supreme court for his role in the extrajudicial murder of three suspects in a sexual assault case that details the scheme

Hyderabad is often the digital testing ground for dystopian technostate policies. here we have the police department which routinely runs counterinsurgency programs in the city adopting openAI tech

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Verge headline: It doesn't matter if Alex Pretty had a gun
by Sarah Jeong

Photo by Steven Garcia depicts several masked law enforcement agents soaked in red light at night

Verge headline: It doesn't matter if Alex Pretty had a gun by Sarah Jeong Photo by Steven Garcia depicts several masked law enforcement agents soaked in red light at night

"Why is it so normal for law enforcement — those who are supposed to be keepers of law and order — to kill Americans? And why is the only question at the end of the day how much their victims deserved to die?"

Read more from @sarahjeong.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/policy/86745...

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Literally every college romance movie from India in 2000s

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Third time's the charm

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Abolish ICE

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Applying for jobs is a humiliation ritual, no one can change my mind.

I refuse to write cover letters.

I refuse to give unnecessary information that is not related to the job.

Does that put me at a disadvantage?

Obviously.

But why do companies need PAN detail when they wont share CTC detail?

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This is the most unpopular administration in the history of America.

What the fuck are their congress and citizens doing?

Why can't they just remove the asshole from power!

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Earlier this month, I met with the parents of Umar Khalid, who has been jailed in India for over 5 years without trial. Congressman Raskin & I are leading our colleagues to urge that he be granted bail & a fair, timely trial in accordance with international law.

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Best time to read as New York gets a new mayor.

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It's not actually about safety. They just like segregation. Safety is pretence.

They don't want to share spaces with undesirables, so they don't bother improving public spaces.

Gated society-Car-Gated offices-Gated Malls

They don't want to interact with the real city.

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Of business districts and enclave living November 2025. I was in Hi-tech City, Hyderabad to attend a conference.

I was in Hi-tech City, #Hyderabad to attend a conference last month, and stayed in an Airbnb flat in a gated apartment complex. Large, securitised business districts are aplenty, so are gated apartments.

Thoughts from the experience of visiting them: aarohini.medium.com/of-business-...

#urbanism

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@edzitron.com

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why did they redact this

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Generative AI is amazing at tasks where I am not qualified to judge the output.

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This basically amounts to Waymo using city workers to provide customer service -- with local taxpayers footing the bill.

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The actual cooking part is easy. Just throwing stuff into the pot at regular intervals.

I want robots to do the prep work and clean up.

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