Gabbar Singh

PhD Candidate. IR theory, international law, value critique #keto. all tweets are personal views.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

establishment democrats and republicans weren’t fearful he’d fail and ruin nyc. they were worried he’d succeed and represent the threat of a good alternative

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[New Left EViews @NewLeftEViews]

High modernism was good actually and “the state having a plan” is the foundation of industrial society, that doesn’t change no matter how much you cherry pick. Someone should write an updated, withering review entitled “Reading James Scott in Beijing” or sth.

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

Actor Anthony Head, best known for his roles in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Ted Lasso, has died at the age of 72.

“He passed away peacefully of complications due to pneumonia, surrounded by his family,” his daughters, actresses Emily and Daisy Head, said in a statement
https://t.co/uc6fmxuIXT

[David Oks @davideoks]

I wrote an article on why China got rich and India didn't, and why investing in human capital is so important for poor countries to succeed

[Compact @compactmag]

“I can’t help but feel many young people are using faith as a Band-Aid of sorts to cover their inability to function in—or as an excuse to retreat from—the real world.”

Read @stephengadubato’s piece in COMPACT: https://t.co/CxBNLTmFJQ

[Prathyush Parasuraman @pruhthyush]

Amma Ariyan was funded by going village to village, showing Charlie Chaplin + collecting money. It was also shown like that, traveling through villages, refusing theatrical.

Archiving a moment of disillusionment, it disseminated it as collective cinema, belonging to everyone.

[kev @NBACouchside]

Just getting this out of the way:

No, the Oklahoma City Thunder don't have a "right to exist."

[ej @ejdickson]

For @WIRED, I spoke to a med student in India who made thousands of dollars duping MAGA fans by creating a blonde AI influencer named "Emily Hart." Here's how he did it.

[Calla @CallaWalsh]

🚨 BREAKING: Elbit Factory set ablaze in Czech Republic, the Earthquake Faction is launched.

“On 20th March 2026, the Earthquake Faction struck the epicenter of the Israeli weapons industry in Europe. In Pardubice, Czech Republic, Elbit Systems' "Centre of Excellence" was newly built in collaboration with LPP, to service the global expansion of Israel's biggest weapons producer.

Whilst the development, production and training center was empty, The Earthquake Faction intervened to destroy its equipment and set the factory ablaze. No one was harmed.

The site is used to develop weaponry used by the Zionist entity to massacre people daily in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and across West Asia.

The Earthquake Faction is an internationalist underground network that targets key sites critical to the Zionist entity. We aim to destroy all limbs of empire from within, by any means effective.

For our full communiqué and more videos/images which are free to distribute, see our website: https://t.co/9tImk9pxNy

Updates on Telegram at https://t.co/EshgrhBvoT”

[Francis Fukuyama @FukuyamaFrancis]

North Korea Was Right About Nuclear Weapons https://t.co/LKfeFgpEE4

[Colin the Dachshund @DachshundColin]

"Interim Ayatollah until the end of the season? I'll do it."

[Josh Brown @RhubarbBrown]

Mr President if you can hear me, the Dodgers are days away from getting a nuclear weapon.

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

My repost of the original cartoon posted by The Wire on the made-up medal the Israelis palmed off on Modi has also been deleted as a threat to national security!

So I am uploading it once again and would urge everyone to download and do the same!

Use the link in my next message to download!

[unoffical cia operator @DylanTop5]

Jeffrey Epstein is like a Jewish forest gump the guy was involved in every major historical event this past 40 years

[raptor moments 🇨🇴 @raptormoments]

KDs crash out started when OKC stole the sonics. the city of seattle woulve embraced his weirdness, he wouldnt have been an alien having to resort to sociopathic social media habbits, he couldve found a wife who smokes weed & works at a tech startup, he coudlve had it All.

[Gabbar Singh @GabbarDacoit]

@n_hold Honestly, not discussing the intricacies of transport has driven me crazy

[Pride Month Connor @ConnorNotConnor]

Just realized Dick Cheney isn’t even in the files. He just did all that for the love of the game