'They paved paradise and put up a parking lot...', Joni Mitchell

Inequality denial starter kit - how Indian conservative elites try to avoid a much-needed inequality debate. Check out our latest piece in the The Indian Express

The only learning from LinkedIn reinforced daily is that never underestimate the capacity for unmitigated bullsh!t not just from those starting out and anxious to post - but also at the highest levels.

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It’s so embarrassing to be on this site, and we all embarrass ourselves when on here

Bit shocking how bad Google Gemini is compared to Claude and ChatGPT. Also so much as mention the words democracy, elections, Trump etc and Gemini reverts to standard answer of 'still learning how to answer this, use Google search' even when question is not at all controversial

I write about Google #AI tool for news, which seems to both automate plagiarism (rewriting #news copy from existing news stories) and lower reporting costs by making some reporters expendable #media rgupta.substack.com/p/googles-ai-t…

Google's AI Tool For News Seems a Lot Like Plagiarism, by Ruchi Gupta open.substack.com/pub/rgupta/p/g…

That one kid late to catch the school bus, running with half eaten sandwich in hand, one parent behind with schoolbag #morningscenes

What a fantastic line: ignorance attracts ignorance like magnets cleaving to each other.

From Ruchir Joshi's column in Telegraph today

There's a woman walking her cat (on a leash).

Voters in India are increasingly willing to trade political freedom for economic progress on.ft.com/4aCDdSG

Ruchi Gupta I also read it JAIL

Synaptic firing and misfiring, all in a couple seconds

Read the first four words as 'har ghar JAIL in India' with all the ED action. Saw it was ORF and thought they wouldn't do this kind of satire. Then saw the full picture, caption.

On a 10 foot walking path in the park, most people don't have the sense to put some distance as they pass by

Prof Rakesh Sinha MP ( Modi Ka Parivar ) #ExpressOpinion | Seen alongside the BJP’s ambition of “ #RamRajya for the next 1000 years”, “400-paar” begins to take on the ring of abiding conquest — not representation that is accountable and moveable.

Vandita Mishra writes
indianexpress.com/article/opinio…

Pilkhan and Jadi are very underrated trees

Since 2014:

- 4 fold jump in ED cases against politicians; 95% from Opposition
- 25 Opposition leaders being probed for corruption join BJP; 23 get reprieve

“It is too soon to predict how this will ultimately play out but some observations are pertinent. First, there’s an unmistakable sense of isolation of the political class. People have opinions about various developments within the political class but as detached observers.” 1/8

This is remarkable, canvassing for votes for the BJP on the express promise of changing the Constitution. Implicit in this need for majority in the Rajya and Lok Sabha is the overt lack of intent to build consensus to amend the Constitution