🧵Thread: Last month, we made a submission on the #Karnataka government’s draft policy on minors’ use of digital devices. 4,800-word- long submission; summary included. The submission addresses digital use in adverse environments; neurodivergent and disabled students; #Aadhaar- linked identity (1/n)

'While Trump and Putin held high-stakes strategic deliberations in Beijing, and Pakistan actively negotiated a peace deal in the Gulf, Modi engaged in giving toffees to his Italian counterpart while running away from questions from foreign journalists.' www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/on-t...

The corallary is that it’ll try to make time-tested knowledge production and assimilation unviable through various ‘knowledge enclosures’.

“…no epoch of defeat, however long, is endless. There are no lost causes because people keep faith.” #Arsenal

A good friend had been trash talking all season. Too tired for a hatewatch, I had the pleasure of waking up to a text message from him: ‘Congratulations!’ Arsenal Football Club. You don’t make it easy, but it has never been sweeter.

"The relational aspect of human powers suggests that our relations with others are really important for determining our individual and collective powers. Who and what we connect and relate to, and how we do so, profoundly affects what we can do and become."

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The report by the independent High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP is out. ‘Counting What Counts: A Compass of Progress for People and Planet’ www.un.org/en/beyondGDP

The report by the independent High-Level Expert Group on Beyond GDP is out. ‘Counting What Counts: A Compass of Progress for People and Planet’ www.un.org/en/beyondGDP

"Social entrepreneurs risk toiling in this Sisyphean—even if relatively honourable—business of improving the lives of others, making the world a better place." toughloveforhumanity.substack.com/p/skolled-ou...

"As Delhi rapidly urbanises and open spaces shrink, one urgent question remains: Who gets to play?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rv_x...

"Social entrepreneurs risk toiling in this Sisyphean—even if relatively honourable—business of improving the lives of others, making the world a better place." toughloveforhumanity.substack.com/p/skolled-ou...

Maybe it’s just me, but using a thesaurus can get quite compulsive.

Someone should do a study based in Delhi-NCR. I’d be curious, but won’t hold by breath. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“…if you were to remove caste from Indian society, you would not have Indian society minus caste. You would have something fundamentally, structurally different. Something that has never yet existed.” - Anand Teltumbde m.thewire.in/article/cast...

Billions of people have access to far less electricity than is needed to run AC for just one hour a day, as Hannah explored in a recent article: ourworldindata.org/four-minutes...

How Hungary’s Independent Media Held the Line Investigative journalists helped keep democracy’s flame alive in dark times niemanreports.org/how-hungarys...

The AI boom could generate up to 5 million metric tons of e-waste by 2030. Much of that hardware will likely end up in informal scrap yards across India and Africa https://restofworld.org/2026/global-ewaste-crisis/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

Apologies here's the signing link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1cB6...

Important coverage by @lyndalrowlands.bsky.social. The other thing that stands out: three out of the six women are organising against fossil fuels. The award has underlined the importance of actions aligned to a key principle: primum non nocere. Do no harm.

Wow you created an entire Claude “skill sheet” of your “voice”? Why not use the free one that lives inside your brain

What few Indians there are on this site, #Indiasky, this is really, really important, please submit your comments to the government letting them know you're against their plans to further strangle your online freedom of speech. Last date 29 April (I think? It says 14 here), info/email template here:

🧵 While most Indian households now own a mobile phone, computer ownership in India has grown slowly. Over the last two decades, the share of households that own a computer has increased from just over 1% to just over 9%. In most developed countries, by contrast, computer ownership exceeds 75%.

I'd been working on a project, and the report is finally out there. There has been wide-ranging chatter on the use of cash transfers in India. We examined the motivations behind philanthropic support to Project DEEP, a nonprofit facilitating unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) in India. (1/4)

I'd been working on a project, and the report is finally out there. There has been wide-ranging chatter on the use of cash transfers in India. We examined the motivations behind philanthropic support to Project DEEP, a nonprofit facilitating unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) in India. (1/4)

Disabled people are very online because they’re excluded from being able to participate in much of life outside.

I wonder what caused this change of heart. www.climatechangenews.com/2026/04/08/i...

“These stocks might be enough for the initial application when the crops are being sowed. But beyond that basal requirement, farmers will require a second and third application as well, and for that, we may not have enough,” said an expert. scroll.in/article/1091... Vaishnavi Rathore reports

In Delhi, a 14 kg cylinder is going for about INR 3,000-4,000, (about 214-285 per kg) in the black market. Impossibly high for most people. The last worker exodus from the cities was during COVID. The state failed its most precarious back then, and it seems to be failing now.

It is such an indictment of the world we live in that just as the vaunted domestic checks and balances in the US have been shown to be basically fantasies, so are any international norm against and ability to stop a nuclear holocaust.

This has been my life for a while. Highly recommend.

Strangely fitting that I’m reading this on Easter Sunday afternoon.

The nonprofit sector in India does incredible care work for many that fall through the wide cracks of state welfare, despite an overbearing regulatory framework. FCRA funding enables causes and projects that few domestic funders support. (1/3) #nonprofits #india

India’s free trade agmts. undermine access to affordable medicines. The govt must resist big pharma’s narrative that stronger IP protection drives investment & innovation, & instead heed health advocacy groups that say healthcare costs for the poor will balloon. www.theindiaforum.in/health/how-i...

AI was supposed to be a global democratizing force, but instead, it is concentrating power and wealth in the hands of a few American companies at unprecedented rates

1. Germany already said the war is illegal. 2. US now threatening "complete obliteration" of Iran's energy system and, maybe, of desalination plants – i.e., war crimes. 3. Reminder: The war is conducted from Ramstein, Germany: "the nerve center of America’s operations against Iran". What gives?

My transition, now at the stage of coming out in my social circles, came after years of internal turmoil. Just as self-acceptance felt within reach, the goalposts have shifted again Mridula Chari on why the transgender rights bill does not amend but erases article-14.com/post/the-tra...

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

“It’s always a market overreaction to unrelated events when the stock price goes down. When it goes up, it’s due to the brilliance of management, and rewarded with stock options.” - Max Barry, ‘Company’

“It is unclear when the Strait of Hormuz might fully reopen to ship traffic, but one thing is certain – there is a blow coming for the global economy through the supply chain, no matter how soon the war ends.” www.newstatesman.com/internationa...

bring back shame to the US (and more pressingly, bring back energy to Cuba)

Funny how measures the climate crisis has warranted -- in vain -- for decades are immediately called forth by capitalist crisis

Dictionary of Foreign Policy. Excellent satire by G. Sampath, Social Affairs editor of The Hindu. archive.is/202603220356...

"Effectively taxing the wealthiest is not just a matter of fairness or democracy, it's also a matter of economic growth: it's about raising the public resources that are needed to invest and champion innovation." 💬 @josephestiglitz.bsky.social at the EU Tax Symposium 2026 🇪🇺 #TaxMix2050 #EUTaxation

"…the irony that the labor of reproducing life in the contemporary world is also the activity of being worn out by it has specific implications for thinking about…” (1/2)

Spoke to the Guardian about the idea of quitting LLMs for climate: -“I see this all as very much part of the tactic of trying to embed these systems into society and instil dependency in a fashion similar to the growth of single-use plastics in the 1970s.” www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

1/3 "We (at SFC) went to nine states and tried understanding what local implementers are doing at the local level (Report link - bit.ly/3FDx3HD). We were quite happy to find that there are lots of emergency measures that are put in place during the summer. What was missing was long-term resilience.