I'm critical of modern medicine. But not in the way many so-called "decolonial"/"post-modern" thinkers are. I'm critical of modern medicine that it doesn't use all of its knowledge effectively. While we have expanded our understanding to the levels of individual genes, our treatments are still based on studies conducted in general populations. This has reasons. The economics of personalized medicine doesn't really work out in favor of cutting edge science. And the ethical principles followed in medicine are centered on the concept of doctor holding power over the patient.
But all of that turns around when a billionaire takes charge of their own cancer treatment! In this story of Gitlab's co-founder Sid, the author Elliot gives a Siddhartha Mukherjee-esque walkthrough of how Sid moved away from yesterday's modern medicine to tomorrow's modern medicine to take control of their own body and their own cancer. It is also personally interesting to me because my worlds collide in this. I use gitlab and has several acquaintances who work in gitlab. Even if it's focused on medicine and not the socio-political aspects, it is absolutely fascinating to me when I see folks in tech think about health (and vice versa).
You might wonder if this is a chapter from my autobiography titled "Father Dinesan Comes to Me". I can assure you that it isn't. My autobiography isn't coming out till 2038.
Looking into Poshan Tracker face verification system
Diary entry of someone who's obviously in love
If you're happy with what you do in life, this post will make no sense. But if you're not, this might give you some comfort.
tl;dr: the frustration with how work gets done and the frustration with what work gets done
Buddhism and Scientific Temper | K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty, I.A.S (Retd.)
Hype Studies is an emergent, transdisciplinary research arena aimed to investigate hype as a powerful and pervasive phenomenon that influences economic trends, political agendas, media narratives, and technological developments.
Hypes are not exclusively linked to techno - financial capitalism but to the broader ideology of progress. Modern ideology, characterized by overstressing future potentials for opportunistic gains, can be observed in socialist, fascist, and capitalist societies throughout the 20th century. Such ideologies emphasize transformative aims through technology, war, racial purification, and so on, making bold claims about future trajectories and societal liberation via rhetorical and aesthetic means, from fascist radio propaganda to socialist realism (Marx, 1964, Edwards 1996, Nye 1996, Mosco 2005) . Today, hype operates as an inherent feature of attention economy in concert with clickbait attention economy business models and strategies , fake news and disinformation, functioning both at a micro - level, from day - to - day decision - making and news consumption, but also on a macro - scale, dominated by the military - industrial complex and other sectors (academic, or even third sector) succumbing to national strategies that are influenced by, and influence, hype generation.
https://zenodo.org/records/18764034
We strongly believe that our generation does not have to reproduce the hierarchical, extractive and exclusionary patterns of work commonly found in academia and cultural institutions. Our salaries and job titles do not define our roles within these communities. Whenever possible, we offer resources to enable participation to all (e.g., by hybrid event provision or travel fund for precariously employed workers). We are keen on disseminating our research in non-commercial open-access publications as well as formats accessible to a range of people outside academia (e.g. podcasts, news items, artworks).
https://hypestudies.org/blog/is-hype-studies-just-sociology-of-expectations-2-0
I just found so much joy in reading this treatise on critical pedagogy.
I owe my life to irreverence. Fuck JNU professors, for example.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/irreverence-is-the-only-cure-to-traditionalism/
Maybe you can't get a frog to stay in slowly boiling water, but you can definitely keep human beings scrolling reels when they are about to be cooked alive.
https://blog.learnlearn.in/no-hospital-for-the-rich-by-2030/
Akshay S Dinesh shared 3 months ago
Just a thought exercise
https://blog.learnlearn.in/the-diary-of-a-revolutionary-person-working-inside-the-system/
Stop fixing problems and start struggling with them
I'm starting to get tired of people getting tired of mental health issues.
I'm returning to atheism
In which I review a book which validates a lot of my political choices
While the world was struggling with react2shell, I was moving old software to new servers
Please donate to KDE if you can! https://kde.org/donate/
Scratching the itch caused by spammers and learning php in that process