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nitin

@nitin@thinktanki.social

Co-founder and director, The Takshashila Institution

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nitin, to random
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DuckDuckGo was down most of today. Discovered that it’s because Microsoft’s infrastructure is down.

nitin, to random
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#protip #PSA
Set up a Linux computer that you can use. Install all the software that you normally use. Keep it in working condition.

So that you don’t depend on big tech.

ZekuZelalem, to random
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My latest story for the Globe & Mail newspaper: cheap armed drones, manufactured by the likes of UAE, Turkey, Iran & China, are causing mayhem across Africa.

Sudan, Libya, Ethiopia, Somalia, Burkina Faso & Nigeria, have all seen drone massacres in recent times. Co-authored with legendary journo Geoff York, we cite five atrocities caused by drones that now cost as little as $1 million.

Also features survivors of a Feb 19 drone massacre of 30 civilians in Ethiopia.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/world/article-cheap-imported-drones-fuel-a-surge-of-deaths-in-africa/

nitin,
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@ZekuZelalem See the last couple of paragraphs here https://www.nitinpai.in/2024/04/19/there-are-costs-and-risks-to-an-amazing-missile-defence-shield

nitin, to nature
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Saw this guy walking across our driveway yesterday. Can anyone help identify?

nitin,
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@ubi
@ElizabethLeeCo It has the shape but the wings are of military camouflage pattern.

nitin, to random
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Piketty’s wrong again. We should be happy India is creating billionaires https://toiblogs.indiatimes.com/blogs/voices/pikettys-wrong-again-we-should-be-happy-india-is-creating-billionaires/

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“Additional automated systems, including one called “Where’s Daddy?” also revealed here for the first time, were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their family’s residences.”

https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

nitin, to random
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Well, thank you for reminding us that the passport you carry determines how human you are. Will keep that in mind.

coffeegeek, to coffee
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One To Fourteen.

One of the more important articles I've written on CoffeeGeek in some time. It's all about getting the best possible cup of pour over, siphon, press pot and AeroPress coffee, but without the need for an expensive (or even inexpensive) scale.

Read, and share, if you like!

cc @coffee

https://coffeegeek.com/blog/techniques/one-to-fourteen/

nitin,
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@coffeegeek @coffee Yes. I second that. 16g:200ml is the optimum baseline ratio.

cydonian, (edited ) to random
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And on this fine day, I’ve come upon the Answer to Life, Universe and Everything.

nitin,
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@cydonian Many happy returns.

nitin, to random
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Fully agree with @Mer__edith Governments must not buy into the AI FUD (Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt) that is deliberately played up to get attention, fuel speculation, raise valuations and choke off competition by inviting regulation.

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Mastodon: always an opportunity for people to lecture you when you’ve made a frivolous point that they took all too seriously

nitin,
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@jon @codeyarns Seriously, I think that’s a problem with any social network that grows beyond a “contextual community threshold.” When you can’t presume that its members share the same background, motives and norms.

nitin,
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@jon @codeyarns It happened on Usenet, mailing lists, IRC and blogs before social media. I think it’s mainly about the size of the connected community…of course, some platforms suffer the same malaise at higher intensity.

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Wow. Nicaragua is taking Germany to ICJ over weapons supply to Israel.

NicoleCRust, (edited ) to random
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Curious: do you ever participate in polls/studies when contacted by email, text or phone?

nitin,
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@NicoleCRust I am a person who

cydonian, to magASEAN
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South Indian thali yesterday. Nalan’s thali shot up from $8 to $24 in 16 years, but is as awesome as it has ever been.

nitin,
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@cydonian Wah liao! I recall having had it around $5

nitin, to random
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Like theodicy, we need demodicy. Why do bad things happen in democracies.

nitin, to random
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First use of AI in a major election campaign: generating a deepfake of yourself because you are in prison and can’t campaign

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/10/world/asia/pakistan-election-imran-kahn.html

codeyarns, to random
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Trying a retractable fountain pen was one of the best decisions ever. ✒️

Since I mostly use pens to jot short notes or annotate, uncapping and capping a regular fountain pen is just too much effort. Clicking on a retractable is so low effort that I transitioned over almost completely from gel pens at home.

#RetractableFountainPen #FountainPen

nitin,
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@codeyarns Which one? I always suspected them for the risk of leaks.

nitin, to random
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What’s the best font on an e-ink book reader?

nitin, to random
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Some used their freedom
to imprison themselves in cages
of their own making.
Others, in the stories
they told themselves.
Some held their freedom so dear
that they kept it locked up.
Others insisted using theirs
to lock up that of others.
Some claimed everyone must have it
and everyone did.
Others said it was merely an illusion
and no one really had it.

nitin, to comics
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Asterix and the White Iris is lovely!

I didn't know that the Asterix series is continuing.

#Comics

nitin, to random
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If you changed every word one by one is it the same theseusaurus?

dmoser, to random
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Over the past 60 years the west has begun to shift away from the culture of progress, and towards one of caution, worry and risk-aversion 👇👇

nitin,
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@dmoser This might be misleading. That which is taken for granted (or the reigning philosophy) might not be mentioned, because it’s taken for granted.

matt, to history
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Going through a box of my late grandfathers belongings from the Second World War. 📦

There’s a lot of good stuff here with a lot of history behind it. 🤓

But does anyone have any knowledge of what these daggers are? Specifically the silver one. 🗡️

There’s something inscribed on the blade. I’m not sure what.

A dagger with a black handle.
Inscriptions on the silver blade.

nitin,
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@matt @smurthys First, please be careful in handling them. I was scared when I saw them held over your lap while seated.

You have a German fireman’s bayonet (the one with a black sheath) and a Palestinian Shibriya dagger. Your grandfather must have been a collector.

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