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.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

Ignorance is unavoidable even in the most well-intentioned, best-run systems. In idiocracies, ignorance is not a bug but a feature. And this is the age of idiocracy.

“Fueling brains”. The overvaluation of intellectual abilities over ethical ones start so early. How about we nurture some hearts.

War. Impending energy crisis that’ll turn into many crises. Caring for self and others. Doing some good when there is overwhelming BAD. Doing what you can. Doing. Do. Keep your chin up. You’ve got this. (I’m half-kidding)

It would be nice if people remembered this piece of wisdom from the greatest economics tweet in history (and the one I am most insanely jealous of not having written, especially because it was a reply to me).

Market disruptions are providing real-time examples of how production and circulation are vital to the capitalist economy. As Marx put it: ““Circulation is just as necessary as is production itself”.

Knowledge/ignorance shaped by algorithms, a ragebait economy that drains vitality. Oh, to pay attention...

There always seems to be more than enough to bankroll carnage than care.

The planet is overheating. Why is the news looking away? #Climate

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

War. Impending energy crisis that’ll turn into many crises. Caring for self and others. Doing some good when there is overwhelming BAD. Doing what you can. Doing. Do. Keep your chin up. You’ve got this. (I’m half-kidding)

"Stopping is also to see, and seeing helps to stop.“

Apt, though tragic, time to start reading this polyphonic International Booker Prize longlisted novel that seamlessly merges the personal with the political.

Never let a crisis go to waste. www.reuters.com/world/india/...

“You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.” - Pema Chödrön

This Einstein will destroy intelligence.

Very good summary piece as the India AI Summit comes to a close. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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“…outsourcing the entire writing process to LLMs may deprive us of the opportunity to reflect on our field and engage in the creative, essential task of shaping research findings into a compelling narrative — a skill that is certainly important beyond scholarly writing and publishing.”

By one of Fernando Pessoa's alter egos.

In India, droughts made more severe by climate change are making it harder for farmers to earn a living and, as a result, to find partners and marry. By Karan Deep Singh and Elke Scholiers for Deutsche Welle…

"we've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen." d.h. lawrence

““Most of the women in this economy are shouldering responsibilities all on their own,” Seema said. “Ninety-nine percent of them are single women and mothers, and the ones that are married usually come from households where they don’t have much support from their husbands or families.””

A profile of Anke Gowda, retired sugar factory worker from Karnataka, and his library of two million books free for anyone to borrow and read. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I read Stephen Markley's ambitious novel 'The Deluge' at the fag end of 2025. Sharing my reflections on this excellent piece of speculative fiction. #booksky #bookreviews joph.in/book-review-...