Zohran Mamdani quotes Jawaharlal Nehru in his victory speech:
"A moment comes rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance."
@kevinroose This may be true, but I also find a worrying lack of serious engagement with the environmental costs of AI among the "quality AI discourse" types. Quality discourse can't silo off discussions of those externalities.
@tedgioia A lot of great classic albums in the replies but electric and fusion jazz albums can be a great gateway for people who like other genres. Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds of Fire and Scofield Medeski Martin Wood's A Go Go turned me from a rock fan into a jazz fan.
@iamjohnoliver Missed opportunity to address the support and funding the Indian right wing gets from Indian Americans. There was a bulldozer used in a 2022 rally in Edison, NJ. Your audience is primarily Americans, don't ignore how Americans fuel right wing governments abroad.
Now Mr. Modi got very emotional tonight and said that this was the first election after his mother's death.
A few days ago in a TV interview he had said that after his mother's death he felt he was not a biological product but was divinity in a human avataar.