Every girl in this country owes Savitribai Phule. Had she not shattered caste and patriarchy together, women’s education wouldnt be imaginable. Upper-caste women study today because a bahujan woman made ignorance untenable
centuries of women before me have yearned to taste the freedom i get to experience nowadays by being able to say no to marriage/children and choose my own path with full agency, and i will never take that for granted. they live through me
To cut down 45,000 mangrove trees in a coastal city is madness.
What’s worse is to allow compensatory afforestation for these trees 900 kms away in Chandrapur!
🎂 ChatGPT turned 3 years old. Here's where we are now:
- It still hallucinates
- Children can still access it freely
- 'Companionship' use is on the rise
- It has weak guardrails against mental health harm
- It amplified dozens of mental health crises, a few of which led to suicide
- It has weak controls against usage policy violations
- There is no meaningful scrutiny over its safety practices or model specs
- It is under little to no regulatory oversight in most parts of the world
- It has led to a wave of synthetic content online, including deepfakes
- It often creates an illusion of learning (the student is consuming a summary)
- It has agentic features that might lead to privacy and security vulnerabilities
- It hasn't led to meaningful scientific breakthroughs
Everybody wants "AI for societal good," but maybe we have to rethink the route to get there.
Also, there is currently a lot of focus on general-purpose AI systems (such as general-purpose AI chatbots), and it looks like more distraction (and harm) is coming from them than any positive breakthroughs.
Hopefully, 2026 will start with fresh trends.
Everything we produce is collective. Your laptop isn’t the result of one genius, it’s thousands of years of serial human knowledge. The idea of “individual achievement” is a fable used to rationalise extreme wealth concentration.
Aaand this is why I don't trust the sudden onset of the idea that "college is a scam". It's not a coincidence that higher education has started losing its value in society's eyes now that women outperform men.
What #RahulGandhi is doing is systematically dismantling the belief that elections in recent cycles have been run fairly. He is giving truck loads of information to young people, who are just discovering what their politics are.
Do not underestimate how difficult this is to do when a carefully constructed ecosystem of disinformation and hate-speech already exists, which has started radicalising kids still in school.
So I’m going to ask you to pay attention to what he’s been saying in his various press conferences. Even if you don’t support the Congress, at least listen to what is being said. Your hate politics will still be there when you’re done listening. Don’t be afraid of getting new information.
"You hate AI because it's going to replace you" Actually, I hate genAI because it is built off of stolen data, it breaks copyright laws, it's poisoning the planet & black communities. It's raising our electricity bills. It's spreading misinformation & making people fucking stupid