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.)

https://josephheath.substack.com/p/populism-fast-and-slow

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

https://asd.learnlearn.in/peertube-upgrade-fsci/

Fighting the misuse of "science" to do caste aggression

https://blog.learnlearn.in/science-of-caste/

In which I argue how public health, as it is practised today, is bullshit

https://blog.learnlearn.in/public-health-is-bullshit/

A long overdue travelogue

https://blog.learnlearn.in/puducherry/

Where Time Takes a Break Blissful Life

What if there was a shop which sold organizational values?

https://blog.learnlearn.in/1kg-equity/

1kg Equity Please Blissful Life

Documenting how much we pay domestic worker

https://blog.learnlearn.in/paying-domestic-worker/

Paying Domestic Worker Blissful Life

A rough sense of how much capital I have as of now

https://blog.learnlearn.in/capital/

Capital Blissful Life

The scientific method is not an 18th century European creation. It's what human beings (and brainy animals) are born with since before history.

Notes/links on protecting mediawiki from crawlers

https://asd.learnlearn.in/mediawiki-crawler-spam-ddos/

Nokia — connecting people ChatGPT — disconnecting people

Another one of those late night sysadmin rabbit holes

https://asd.learnlearn.in/postfix-to-loomio-on-same-server/

Akshay S Dinesh shared 3 months ago

In which I argue that "privacy", indeed, is unnecessary

https://blog.learnlearn.in/privacy-is-not-the-goal/

Privacy is not the Goal Blissful Life