Bhavya

rage, resist and rewind -- humanely so. alt @/NomNom_ChomChomsky™

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

"Patriarchy does not mean that men cannot act decently [...] but it does mean that there are no men who can ever claim to be entirely beyond its reach. It is always [in the bg] rewarding, giving cover to good men who decide, however briefly, not to be." https://t.co/p2j3VQeRlW

[Daak @DaakVaak]

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[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

"[Satrapi's death] made me wonder if sadness could ever be a valid reason for the death of a person in a rural hinterland in India, someone who is a beneficiary of a government develop- mental programme."
Here, grief must stand in line.

Hansda Sowvendra Shekhar @IndianExpress

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

I have been reading the new UN report about how Israel has been targeting children in Gaza. There are no words to describe how awful it is. Here are some of the worst examples:

1) Hind Rajab and family, Tel al-Hawa, Gaza City, 29 Jan 2024. Named. A family of seven plus two paramedics killed. Hind Rajab, 5 to 6, stayed on the phone with rescuers for hours, trapped in a car among her dead relatives. Her cousin Layan Hamadeh, 15, was killed mid-call. The rescue ambulance, dispatched with COGAT clearance, was shelled.

2) The 15-year-old with the white flag, Khan Younis, 24 Jan 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the foot during an ordered evacuation while holding a white cloth, then shot twice more in the back and neck as he tried to rise. His 20-year-old brother killed running to him; their mother shot signaling for an ambulance. Assessed as DAN .338 sniper fire from about 200m.

3) The 10-day-old baby, Nuseirat camp, 12 Apr 2024. Anonymous. Shot in the head by a quadcopter-mounted rifle while being breastfed inside a tent. Survived with brain damage and seizures.

4) The 14-year-old killed with fragmenting pellets, Aug 2024. Anonymous. Cube-shaped pellets that fragmented internally like cluster munitions, destroying multiple organs. The report flags the munition itself as a possible war crime.

5) Jadallah "Jad" Jadallah, Al-Far'a camp, Tubas, 16 Nov 2025. Named. Jadallah Jihad Jouma Jadallah, 14, shot at close range and left bleeding for roughly 45 minutes while about 14 soldiers stood around him. One kicked his cap back when he threw it for attention, one filmed him, one placed a stone beside him to stage a stone-throwing pretext. Soldiers fired at his approaching mother and blocked two ambulances. Body withheld.

6) Layla al-Khatib, Muthallath al-Shuhada, 25 Jan 2025. Named. Layla (Laila) Muhammad Ayman al-Khatib, 2, shot in the back of the head during dinner at home, four bullets fired through the living room window. Youngest West Bank child killed in the reporting period. B'Tselem found the only man in the building was her grandfather, contradicting the "wanted terrorist" claim.

7) Saddam Rajab, Tulkarem, shot 28 Jan 2025, died 7 Feb 2025. Named. Saddam (Sadam) Rajab, 10, shot during an incursion. A soldier told the father, "I am the one who shot your son. God willing, he will die." Medical care obstructed; the boy died of his wounds days later.

8) Walid Ahmad, Megiddo Prison, died 22 Mar 2025. Named. Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, from Silwad. Healthy at arrest in Sept 2024; dead six months later of starvation, muscle wasting, untreated colitis and scabies. First Palestinian minor to die in Israeli custody since Oct 2023. Family learned of his death from a news article; body withheld.

9) The Sde Teiman 15-year-old, detention. Anonymous. Held among 70 adults, shackled until his hands bled, dogs released on prone detainees; described as "the worst days of my life." A separate 15-year-old reported being electrocuted via a needle in his shoulder over 54 days.

10) The four newborns at Al-Nasr Pediatric Hospital, Nov 2023. Anonymous. Found decomposing, still attached to defunct life-support machines, after staff were forced to evacuate without being able to move them. Independently verified by the Commission, Washington Post, and CNN.

11) Newborn hypothermia deaths, Dec 2024 to Feb 2025. Anonymous. At least 15 newborns, including a one-day-old girl, died of cold linked to lack of shelter, fuel, and incubators. UNICEF called the deaths preventable.

12) Sexual violence in detention. Anonymous. Forced public stripping and filming of boys during mass arrests; two cousins aged 7 and 13 stripped at gunpoint in Jenin; new reports of boys raped in custody, one on multiple occasions.

The Commission documents at least 20,179 Palestinian children killed and 44,143 wounded in two years, 30 percent of all the dead in Gaza, alongside 213 more killed in the West Bank. Thirteen times the Commission asked Israel to respond, and thirteen times it heard nothing back. Israel doesn't care enough to even respond. It kills children as a matter of policy.

[maya @jaanamaya]

“rape allegations ruin men’s lives”

[Divya Ravindranath @divyarrs]

Curious what fiction is set in your city? Explore the map: https://t.co/ZykJo7VlXr. You can also contribute to help us expand the database.

(Map credit: https://t.co/JWb3fN764P — thanks @mappls, @MapmyIndia & @_rohanverma)

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

@baawraekraag https://t.co/1gCEX0Z2ns
To the ailing, curing companion that is hope.

[Jediwolf @Jediwolf]

What happens when you post a real Monet and say it’s AI? The coolest art social experiment I’ve seen in a while. Thank you @SHL0MS

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Harsh does the yeoman service of reminding kids world over that you can be dumb as rocks and incapable of even the most basic critical thinking, but you can still become a billionaire if you're born in the right family.

[Neha @nehavermani]

To the endless maternal, material, and economic labour of women that sustains the world.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

JUST IN: Meta sold 7 million Ray-Ban smart glasses in 2025 alone.

Workers in Kenya are watching the footage.

Not metadata. Not anonymized clips. The actual videos. People undressing. People in bathrooms. People having sex. Bank cards. Medical documents.

The blurring is supposed to protect privacy. It fails constantly. The contractors see everything.

Here is the part that should stop you cold: You did not buy the glasses. You did not agree to the terms of service. You did not consent to anything. But if someone wearing Meta glasses walks into your bedroom, your bathroom, your doctor's office, your home, a contractor on the other side of the world may be watching you right now.

The person wearing the glasses consented. Everyone else in the room did not.

Meta's defense is that this is all disclosed in the privacy policy. They are technically correct. Buried in language so dense that 99% of users never read it. And even if they did, it would not matter, because the terms govern the wearer's data. Not yours. You are not a party to the contract. You are the product being annotated.

Millions of AI-enabled cameras walking around in public. Recording constantly. Uploading to servers. Reviewed by humans earning a few dollars an hour to label your most intimate moments so the algorithm gets smarter.

This is not a bug. This is the business model.

The EU is already asking questions. MEPs submitted formal inquiries to the Commission this week demanding answers on GDPR compliance. The problem is obvious: European data protection law requires consent from data subjects. Bystanders are data subjects. Bystanders never consented. The entire architecture violates the regulation by design.

Meta's response has been silence and a reference to terms of service that do not apply to the people actually being filmed.

Google Glass died because people called the wearers "Glassholes" and banned them from bars. Meta solved the social problem by making the glasses look normal. They did not solve the privacy problem. They hid it.

Seven million units sold in 2025. The installed base is accelerating. Every unit is a potential surveillance node operated by someone who may not understand what they are feeding into the system and reviewed by contractors who see everything the algorithm cannot process.

The question is not whether this becomes a scandal. The question is whether the scandal arrives before or after the glasses are on 50 million faces.

Watch the EU. If Brussels moves on GDPR enforcement, Meta faces a choice: disable human review in Europe and cripple the AI training pipeline, or accept fines that could reach billions. Neither outcome is priced into the stock.

The glasses are selling faster than ever.

The contractors keep watching.

And somewhere right now, someone you have never met is looking at footage of you that you never knew existed.

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

@NedBertz Culinary brilliance, I'd say!

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

@sayantansunnyg Congratulations, Sayan!
Looking forward to it as a post-Pujo treat ✨

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

@chirag Or those who didn't bother to vote at all. Some of them are disgustingly proud of it!

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

@spiccarella Keep it up! From the moment of conception in the beginning to the birth (which you'll be reaching soon), it's truly a pregnant narrative.

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

@arunava Ay, pardon the error: I see the logo now!
And all best for the other upcoming ones too! <3

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

Gandhi Before India unfolding at the Toronto International Film Festival 2025 ✨
Kudos to the team and looking forward to the streaming dates!

@mehtahansal @ApplauseSocial
@Ram_Guha @babubasu
#GandhiAtTIFF #TIFF50

[Pratik Gandhi @pratikg80]

Honored to announce the world premiere of Gandhi at the 50th Toronto International Film Festival 2025, the first Indian series to be selected in TIFF’s prestigious Primetime slate!
#GandhiAtTIFF #TIFF50 #Gandhi
@mehtahansal @ApplauseSocial @bhaminioza @nairsameer

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

@NedBertz It's indeed breathtaking!

[Bhavya @conundrumroll]

Not historians, but "vibes-based storyteller (s) with a microphone conducting historical research"
Read the full thread by @RasFTWPutin!

[Rasputin @AnkitOArchives]

Let’s put it this way: if you wouldn’t trust a self-taught dentist, don’t trust a self-taught historian to shape national memory. Expertise matters. Credentials exist because method matters. You don’t DIY your way into scholarship.

[Sabika @sadigalisabzi]

the biggest challenge to the realisation of a mass labour movement in India is the refusal of the corporate worker to admit that they're working class