Another one of those late night sysadmin rabbit holes
My new manifesto
Akshay S Dinesh shared 25 days 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
I just installed a firefox extension to share a link via telegram.
And then I uninstalled the extension after sharing the link.
Corporate hands off Public medical colleges!
Kameshwar Rao and Abhay Shukla has written an insightful article about why privatisation of medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh is an anti-people move. Linking in first comment.
Also available in Hindi and Marathi!
https://phmindia.org/2025/07/01/corporate-hands-off-public-medical-colleges/
In which bell hooks has written everything I think about theory (and try to do it in my blog), about academia, and about the struggle (and so much more).
Spent half a day yesterday moving my tech blog from jekyll to hugo. If you notice a new style for the site (like it or not), this is the reason.
Akshay S Dinesh shared 2 months ago
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An appeal to be asking more questions and engaging with things more sincerely.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/21st-century-humans-are-incredibly-easy-to-fool/
It's a common habit for scientists to be excited about the possibilities of newer technologies. But for people in public health, it is important to pause and reflect on what really matters.
Okay, there's no way an American director could have produced something that Indians can learn from, is there?
Just merged my medicine blog with my primary blog. Turns out my understanding of medicine has grown to cover everything else that I used to write about in the main one.
No warranty LLM generated script for staying on top of domain expiry (of friends and family too)
Often when I think I'm being clever in communication, I'm just being cryptic.
Putting this here not because I hate critical theory, but because I hate academia. https://www.conspicuouscognition.com/p/contra-critical-theory-26a
It goes well with my instagram post from yesterday and that's merely a coincidence https://www.instagram.com/p/DInZobHJNEp/
Caste and capitalism are both widely misunderstood, and so it takes a long time to discuss how they work together to perpetuate inequities.