Kranti Saran
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I hope India's stunning election results will augur more truth-telling in the media, less anticipatory obedience to Hindutva, no more cult of personality, no more communal dog-whistles let alone outright bigotry, and the sudden recovery of a spine in individuals and institutions.
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We all have that drunk friend who thinks he can drive home by himself even though he can't even stand without the support of two friends.
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Congratulations to Megha Devraj (
@twoofbingo
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@AshokaUniv
's founding undergraduate class of 2017 who has a forthcoming paper in Analysis, "The Role of Imagination in Protest":
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1.4+ billion human beings will now live in a healthier democracy.
This is a great day for democracy, worldwide.
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"...under Mr. Modi... hatred of Muslims has effectively become state policy... police have been accused of standing by as Hindus attack Muslims... killers of religious minorities go unpunished... Hindu extremists openly call for the genocide of Muslims."
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My Intro to Phil course ends with a unit on freedom of expression — and a student sent me this delightful meme:
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"In the absence of this result, India would have been headed towards unchecked domination of the BJP... India now has once again a deeply competitive political system. With that comes the possibility of checks and balances and accountability."
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From what seems like another universe, an excerpt from the President of Columbia Lee Bollinger's speech on September 24th, 2007, introducing... the President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad:
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Well I've read my share of AI written student papers this semester, so I "wrote" an end of semester song for my students (h/t
@laks_srini
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In the last 12 hours, I have been dumped on by a number of people for standing by a young reporter colleague for asking a question in a press conference . Some of the feedback is instructive and reveals the serious credibility crisis facing news tv. Yes, we need to introspect
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"Academic freedom... can’t just be invoked. It has to be asserted and defended. That’s why it’s so disheartening that leaders of great universities appear reluctant to speak up for the rights of independent inquiry and free expression..."
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Very helpful discussion between
@evantthompson
and
@jzdambrosio
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If your conception of consciousness does not allow for the possibility of ant sentience, then you are being strikingly unscientific and acting like the worst kind of philosopher.
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“More recent work seems to show that in laboratory settings we can respond to just a single photon, though there is some controversy over this finding… Our visual system is operating around the absolute limit that physics allows.” 🤯
“On the one hand, perception is said to be controlled hallucination; on the other, we find astounding sensitivity in animals to what is around them.” —
@pgodfreysmith
on the brain and nature
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Bernard Williams on Stuart Hampshire: "The style is extremely graceful, but its literary merits go with a refusal to use the more ponderous devices of footnotes and reference, which, like metal spikes in mountain-climbing, may be inelegant but do help one over the steep places."
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RIP Charles Parsons 🙏🏽
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"This election was about The Supreme Leader seeking post-facto...approval for... dismantling of the republic and...for the... mutilation of India’s constitutional democracy.... If the contest [had been any fairer], he would [be] sitting in the Opposition."
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"To say that a view of human freedom is compatible with scientific advance because it is compatible with developments in psycho-analysis is much like saying that a material is uninflammable because it doesn't burst into flames when one shines an electric torch light on it."
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UNFPA: "there were 149 million persons aged 60 years and above in 2022 (as of 1 July), comprising around 10.5% of the country’s population. And, by 2050, this population will double to 20.8%, with the absolute number at 347 million."
Banking/govt. UI is hell for older people.
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