This is an article which tries to theorize how populist politics works out, and why it works despite it being bad for people. It doesn't lead to practical answers straightaway, but does probably help. (There's a good chance some of you'll feel offended for the classification system it uses on who's elite and who is not, but I think it's absolutely fine and my observations about people have been same. At least, I haven't found another way all of this can be explained.)
Why do people keep saying "don't host your own email"? It's supposed to be interoperable. If you stop hosting your own email, they'll make it a closed network soon.
Fighting trolls by the day and tending to services in the night
Fighting the misuse of "science" to do caste aggression
In which I argue how public health, as it is practised today, is bullshit
A long overdue travelogue
What if there was a shop which sold organizational values?
On agency.
Documenting how much we pay domestic worker
A rough sense of how much capital I have as of now
The scientific method is not an 18th century European creation. It's what human beings (and brainy animals) are born with since before history.
The behind-the-scenes story of Kaanu's online version.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/visualizing-annotated-bibliographies-story-of-kaanu/
Notes/links on protecting mediawiki from crawlers
Nokia — connecting people ChatGPT — disconnecting people
Another one of those late night sysadmin rabbit holes
My new manifesto
Akshay S Dinesh shared 3 months ago
I had this idea of the video an year back, finally got the time and people ( @debianindia <3 ) to do it :)
The og reference: https://youtu.be/GzeAQlSxVvc
In which I argue that "privacy", indeed, is unnecessary
