🚶🏻‍♂️mohit

Independent researcher working at the intersection of complex systems, augmented intelligence & medium design.

[🚶🏻‍♂️mohit @hrdayya]

“What can be analysed in my work, or criticised, are the questions that I ask” - John Cage

[Percy Liang @percyliang]

What would truly open-source AI look like? Not just open weights, open code/data, but *open development*, where the entire research and development process is public *and* anyone can contribute. We built Marin, an open lab, to fulfill this vision:

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Janamdin Mubaarak, M.F. Husain. The man who walked barefoot all his life for his friend Gajanan Madhav Muktibodh.

[Financial Times @FT]

Computer scientist Yann LeCun: ‘Intelligence really is about learning’ https://t.co/ImkJZFOGMZ

[Jawhar Sircar @jawharsircar]

Did RSS pay 3 crore rupees in dollars to hire U.S. lobbyist Squire Patton Boggs to influence US Congress (Parliament) that it is not a Religious Hate Organisation? What would RSS say if an US organisation spent so much money to lobby Indian Parliament?
https://t.co/u4eI3iwfwN

[Bloomberg @business]

Amazon has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity demanding that the artificial intelligence search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases online for users. https://t.co/w7ITnk2xpf

[🚶🏻‍♂️mohit @hrdayya]

On India’s shifting turn from democracy towards an electoral autarchy through the disenfranchisement of its citizens’ identity & rights in the name of good governance & efficiencies.
https://t.co/bfm04T0Fz1

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Telling an accurate story leads to much more relevant questions than simply narrating "AI" as resulting from scientific progress -- a singular idea from Zeus' head! Indeed, conflating scientific progress w tech co products is one way these cos staved off regulation for so long 3/

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

An aquarium in Japan has changed the diet of its penguins and otters due to rising costs, and the animals are refusing to eat the cheaper fish

https://t.co/s6tJNfHoKi

[Purva Chitnis @ChitnisPurva]

#Thread 🧵

Bharti Koli who lost her husband during covid has been following widowhood practices since then. But she feels humiliated and hurt. She says she has wishes and want to live life normally but society treats her differently (1/3)

[John Maeda @johnmaeda]

“Knowledge upon which action cannot be taken is barely worth having at all.” —Chris Argyris (1923-2013) https://t.co/unYTiAp753 via @RogerLMartin

[The Paperclip @Paperclip_In]

If you’re asked what is the coolest fact you know about #RabindranathTagore, tell them there is an elementary school located 15,000 KM away from Kolkata in the city of Rio de Janeiro that teaches diversity and inclusion, named after Kobiguru. A thread (1/14)

[🚶🏻‍♂️mohit @hrdayya]

“A populist ideology about distributed power and wealth is used to deliver power and privilege wealth.” - Keller Easterling.

[🚶🏻‍♂️mohit @hrdayya]

“It is easier to see that ideologies, so firmly held, are often decoupled from what organisations are actually doing. A declared ideology and an undeclared disposition are misaligned.�� - Keller Easterling.

[Marcel Proust @Daily_Proust]

There are moments in life when a sort of beauty is born of the multiplicity of the troubles that assail us, like Wagnerian leitmotifs

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Olga Kvasha, contemporary artist born in Lutsk, Ukraine #WomensArt

[LARB China Channel @LARBchina]

Housekeeping notice: The LA Review of Books China Channel remains closed, but we've consolidated our archive in a new URL at: https://t.co/rae8s4Nc7b. Do browse our 600 essays, reviews, dispatches, podcasts and more, by hundreds of China experts – and thanks for all the memories!

[Rebecca Buxton @RebeccaBuxton]

Judith Shklar, November 13th 1981, was asked how her male colleagues reacted when she (and other women at Harvard) became professors for the first time.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Rinko Kawauchi, Japanese photographer, known for her serene, poetic style #WomensArt