Gehan Dias

Tech, Sri Lanka

[Gehan Dias @gehandias]

This is insane. Nearly three-quarters of Sri Lanka's prisoners are in pre-trial or remand detention.

[The Examiner @ExaminerLK]

Most prisoners haven't been convicted

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Poor Egypt. Robbed, many would argue.

[Domhnall (Cogito) @CogitoEdu]

Reading How To Sell A Genocide, the NYT called every major population centre in the Gaza Strip a "Hamas stronghold" at some point.

They actively worked to militarise civilians in Gaza to justify genocide

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

This is what an Emmy awards acceptance speech looks like. Kudos

[Himal Kotelawala @himalkk]

There is no legal, moral, ethical or even spiritual justification for child ordination. A person that's too young for the vote is too young for the robe.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.

Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.

[PublicFinance.lk @PublicFinanceLK]

2025 was an exceptional year for Sri Lanka in terms of government revenue, expenditure, and debt. 🇱🇰

Check to understand the significance 👇

[depths of wikipedia! @depthsofwiki]

length of the table of contents in "united states involvement in regime change"

[Will Christou @will_christou]

Lebanese medics are adopting strategies as they know they are targets:

— Not seeing family or friends so that if they are bombed, they don’t take their loved ones with them

— Reducing team sizes

— Sleeping in ambulances far away from each other so a single strike doesn’t kill them all

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Imagine if the dumbest person in the world and humanity’s biggest asshole were the same person, and that guy was president. Then imagine he started a war with Iran. Now check the news. One look, and here’s what you should be thinking: “Yep, that tracks.” https://t.co/ADlQtASL0B

[Gehan Dias @gehandias]

More absurdity - the Iranian reactor that the US is upset about… was gifted to Iran by the US in 1967.
https://t.co/HNyiK7SmiT

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Mearsheimer: From 1971 to 2021, U.S. murdered 38 million people. The amount of havoc we have wrought on the Middle East in recent years is just stunning. What we do in places like Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, we use economic leverage to basically starve people, to make them suffer. 1/

[John O’Brennan @JohnOBrennan2]

This is the image that will define this war - 165 young Iranian girls, killed while at school, who are mere ‘collateral damage’ to an out of control US-Israeli war machine.

[Mangala Karunaratne @mangkaru]

Sri Lanka doesn’t have a tourism potential problem. We have an execution problem.

We talk about becoming a high-value destination. We talk about long-stay professionals, premium experiences, year-round demand.

But here’s the reality.

On 30 May 2024, we submitted a luxury boutique project through the Sri Lanka Tourism Development Authority One-Stop Shop. SLTDA has been professional and supportive.

Yet nearly two years later, we are still navigating 13 separate government approvals. A century-old estate road is now the subject of conflicting claims by the State Plantations Corporation. One arm of government invites investment. Another blocks it.

This is exactly how a country with world-class assets settles for average outcomes.

Here’s what we’re trying to build: https://t.co/MMaAakwcG0

If we are serious about competing with regional leaders, tourism reform cannot stop at marketing campaigns and visa portals. It must extend to decision velocity, inter-agency alignment, and a system that actually enables capital to deploy.

Otherwise, we will keep celebrating arrivals while losing value.

[Max Musing @MaxMusing]

https://t.co/hHZAwKSiYe

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

I have no words anymore.

States. Must. Intervene.

This isn’t genius, it’s leadership.

1. Impose an arms embargo and cut trade.
2. Break the blockade with your humanitarian navies.
3. Send a protective presence to Palestine to ensure Israel dismantles its occupation NOW.

[Francisco Rodríguez @frrodriguezc]

Quite surreal to hear the argument that the problem with Venezuela was that it was selling oil to US adversaries given that it was the US that decided in 2019 to stop buying Venezuelan oil.

[Gehan Dias @gehandias]

@nuuuwan *track

[Gehan Dias @gehandias]

@nuuuwan Now if there was some way to traffic when traffic police take over a particular junction, we could test out some common hypotheses.

[+972 Magazine @972mag]

“We spoke to almost 100 Israelis, Palestinians, and other experts, asking, where would you start? What do people not understand about the apartheid regime? How would you go about dismantling it? Where do you see the biggest ways it could go wrong?”

https://t.co/A3pX2HB4Si