Apt, though tragic, time to start reading this polyphonic International Booker Prize longlisted novel that seamlessly merges the personal with the political.
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Apt, though tragic, time to start reading this polyphonic International Booker Prize longlisted novel that seamlessly merges the personal with the political.
“The chaotic and bloody world around us is the rule of law”. Uff. Too much truth.
And to do so on a day like today…gosh.
“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.”
- Pema Chödrön
Meet Einstein Einstein is an Al with a computer. He logs into Canvas every day, watches lectures, reads essays, writes papers, participates in discussions, and submits your homework — automatically. Get started How it works Einstein has a ful virtual comouter with a browser - anvthina you can do. he can dol Has his own computer Einstein isn't a chatbot. He has a full virtual computer — he can browse the web, watch videos, read PDFs, and interact with any site just like you Logs into Canvas for you Einstein connects to your Canvas account, sees your assignments, and submits completed work — automatically Watches lectures & videos Reads & writes essays Give him a reading assignment and he reads the full text, understands it, and writes original essays with proper Participates in discussions Discussion board posts, peer replies, forum response Every subject covered Math, physics, CS, history, literature, econ — if it's on Canvas, Einstein can handle it. Works while you sleep Set him up and forget about it. Einstein checks for new assignments and knocks them out before the No more copy-pasting Forget switching between ChatGR and your LMS. Einstein reads the directly. Telegram & Discord too Optionally connect Telegram or Discord to message Einstein on th - check deadlines, ask questions, tell him to skip one.
This Einstein will destroy intelligence.
Very good summary piece as the India AI Summit comes to a close.
www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering
The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory
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“…outsourcing the entire writing process to LLMs may deprive us of the opportunity to reflect on our field and engage in the creative, essential task of shaping research findings into a compelling narrative — a skill that is certainly important beyond scholarly writing and publishing.”
Precisely. It is usually those with privilege who claim to be apolitical.
I’m only underlying that knowledge of power and politics that drives tech dampens excitement for it.
The general excitement over AI is the possibility of an abundance sans politics. When one learns about what powers the AI ‘revolution’ (and how), the magic seems expensive.
There should be excitement for alternatives that don’t dry up resources and communities. This needs a care-centred economy.
With cash transfers in general, the question is whether it only serves to "manage" exclusion and precarity, or become the foundation of a more radical, emancipatory politics. The spectrum of support spans these imaginations.
(Concrete utopians must hold onto the latter!)
"The most effective censorship is endogenous," says Geeta Seshu, co-founder of the Free Speech Collective. Having tracked this institutional erosion for decades, she notes that the state has successfully offloaded the labor of suppression onto the journalists themselves. "It is invisible. It's the reporter who stops pitching because they've internalized the boundaries of the permissible. It's the editor running mental simulations of state retaliation before a single word is printed."
The journalism story is bleaker.
“…the fundamental crisis isn’t whether a journalist can publish. It is the psychological alchemy that occurs in the mind before the first keystroke—the transformation of a reporter into a censor.”
opcofamerica.org/the-quiet-ca...
By one of Fernando Pessoa's alter egos.
Amrit Kaal impossible without such (l)aura-farming.
Well, maybe the “one stop shop” for chakras could be at laure-lag dot ai.
In India, droughts made more severe by climate change are making it harder for farmers to earn a living and, as a result, to find partners and marry. By Karan Deep Singh and Elke Scholiers for Deutsche Welle…
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically. The cataclysm has happened, we are among the ruins, we start to build up new little habitats, to have new little hopes. It is rather hard work: there is now no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles. We’ve got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.
"we've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen."
d.h. lawrence
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““Most of the women in this economy are shouldering responsibilities all on their own,” Seema said. “Ninety-nine percent of them are single women and mothers, and the ones that are married usually come from households where they don’t have much support from their husbands or families.””
"“The crisis. It’s everywhere now, in the air, in our banks, crawling through our blood if you’re living near the wrong ticks or mosquitoes. I knew all this was coming, but I always had that thought in the back of my mind, you know? That there would be someplace to escape, someplace safe. But there’s not. There’s just not.”" (Stephen Markley, The Deluge)
"“No, I get it. You have to convince yourself that doing well and doing good are the same thing. The whole world’s run by people who think even when the dark days come, they’ll just sub in money for justice and it’ll all be fine.”" (Stephen Markley, The Deluge)
Book 23: The Deluge by Stephen Markley
This is a near-future climate epic (in the vein of 'Ministry for the Future' by Kim Stanley Robinson) . Markley is ambitious in covering multiple themes--global ecological and political breakdown, moral questions about complicity, power, etc. Real and grim.
From the introduction to the book: "I was struck by the modernity that jazz anticipated and directed, and by its unreasonable optimism. Whatever the truth or consequences of individual entanglements and the racial landscape, the music insisted that the past might haunt us, but it would not entrap us. It demanded a future—and refused to regard the past as “…an abused record with no choice but to repeat itself at the crack and no power on earth could lift the arm that held the needle.”" (Toni Morrison, Jazz)
"I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life. The very first to know what it was like. To bite it, bite it down. Hear the crunch and let the red peeling break his heart." (Toni Morrison, Jazz)
Book 22: Jazz by Toni Morrison
Superlative prose. Took me a while to get used to the rhythm, but once I did, I was absolutely locked in.
A profile of Anke Gowda, retired sugar factory worker from Karnataka, and his library of two million books free for anyone to borrow and read.
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I read Stephen Markley's ambitious novel 'The Deluge' at the fag end of 2025. Sharing my reflections on this excellent piece of speculative fiction.
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“India has witnessed a fivefold surge in waste tyre imports from developed countries over the past few years.”
Excellent reporting uncovering yet another ‘value chain’ of an anti-care global economy.
#climate #environment
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The study “warns that a precipitous drop in global aid could lead to 22.6 million additional deaths by 2030 across 93 low- and middle- income countries, including 5.4 million children under the age of five”.
www.asiaresearchnews.com/content/21-a...
I read Stephen Markley's ambitious novel 'The Deluge' at the fag end of 2025. Sharing my reflections on this excellent piece of speculative fiction.
#booksky #bookreviews
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