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2026-08-17 13:32:49 UTC

Dope.
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2026-08-14 10:29:17 UTC

Bullshit-as-a-service.
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2026-08-06 13:04:19 UTC

A post-it review, as seen in a cafe in my city.
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2026-07-28 06:57:44 UTC

CJP and Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation on Wikipedia's front page today.
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2026-07-27 09:50:30 UTC

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18 years. Proud Wikimedian. Sharing a snapshot of my on-wiki and off-wiki contributions to the knowledge commons.
On another note, some of you have figured that I haven't attended in-person events in the past few years. Requesting kindred spirits to keep directly in touch.
#Wikipedia #Openness #KnowledgeCommons #OpenKnowledge #PolyglotDiaries #Wikiversary #Wikimedia
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2026-07-19 13:59:02 UTC

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I cannot fully read or write five of the scripts in the screenshots in my previous post. I use Google Inputs Tools to type in Latin characters and TTS to read the text back to me.

2026-07-19 13:39:42 UTC

A part of today's handiwork. I wrote these structured data captions and descriptions on the Wikimedia Commons in eight languages.
#PolyglotDiaries #openness #openknowledge
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2026-07-19 12:18:48 UTC

Dopamine.
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2026-07-16 07:54:17 UTC

Wikipedia now allows requiring an email address along with the username to raise a password-reset request. A few years ago, I was a part of a DEI project funded by the Wikimedia Foundation. DEI haters viciously attacked the grant proposal and my personal talk pages. And I used to get dozens of password-reset emails every week for almost a year from unknown people trying to break into my account. Good to see this feature introduced in the settings.
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2026-07-06 15:27:18 UTC

Too much marketing 'genius' in this country. Besides, it contains ashwagandha, ginseng, other 'herbals.'
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2026-06-30 18:24:04 UTC

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sometimes people can't access money or food because these sites don't work as intended.

2026-06-30 14:56:31 UTC

Mysore Literature Festival is happening this weekend. Grateful to the organisers for not having changed its name to Mysore International Literature Festival. (I overheard some folks wanting that, last year.) Delhi, on the other hand, needs an international literature festival.
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2026-06-30 14:10:48 UTC

Indian government sites are usually I-don't-know-whether-to-laugh-or-cry bad.
https://www.economist.com/asia/2026/06/28/why-cant-indias-government-build-a-decent-website

2026-06-25 15:17:12 UTC

The co-founder and I joking together that this card game was meant for us.
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2026-06-24 08:30:20 UTC

Yours truly in conversation with Dr Manish Tiwari of the Institute of Governance, Policies and Politics (IGPP) on 25 June at 5 pm IST. It will be streamed on YouTube on IGPP's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@igppvmf/streams
#NCII #IBA #IBSA #TFGBV #OGBV #VAW #ImageBasedAbuse #IGPPExpertTalks
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2026-06-13 13:03:19 UTC

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If you are in #Bangalore, ice cream from Omm Nom Nomm is recommended. This is my favourite flavour. It's a cloud kitchen and you can buy directly from them.
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2026-06-13 11:46:25 UTC

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It was like eating in a Naga home, complete with traditional plates and utensils.

2026-06-13 11:12:22 UTC

North Bangalore has many restaurants from northeastern India. Singju, sticky rice, kholar, axone, and chak hao pudding were had for lunch. I hope peace comes to Manipur soon.

2026-06-10 16:59:33 UTC

Yours truly's latest publication. I wish I could write more often.
https://botpopuli.net/llm-extractivism-and-the-politics-of-the-knowledge-commons/

2026-06-09 13:10:48 UTC

When I moved to Mysore, I was chuffed to find this street. (It's name is misspelt on Google Maps.)
Attaching my favourite Rubá'í.
#Mysore #OmarKhayyám #Mysuru
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2026-06-06 16:12:08 UTC

Statements from speakers including yours truly in a side-event of the AI Impact Summit 2026 held in Delhi, on the intersection of AI, Intellectual Property, and Cultural Rights.
#AI #IP #AIGovernance #AIEthics #Copyright
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OavJYL8BNN9Z0eCYWd-cK-guDumALHzp/view
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2026-06-03 16:19:48 UTC

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More irony.
'When using Gemini, you must protect University data. Learn about your responsibilities.'
#AI #LLM
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2026-06-03 11:26:38 UTC

The irony. This is not about the specific individual who did this. Some activists and NGOs routinely use LLMs now in ways that conflict with their stated objectives and missions.
Companies and organisations, please implement an AI use policy and train the staff to use it. I provide support and guidance for the tech and policy needs of organisations and companies and I can't even begin to recount the kind of shitfuckery I have come across.
#AIpolicy #LLM #AI
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2026-06-02 12:12:51 UTC

Not gonna lie, this is why I like reading Google Maps reviews.
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2026-06-02 10:04:09 UTC

#Bangalore and #Mysore folks, this seems amazing.
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2026-05-30 11:23:50 UTC

Yours truly speaking online at the Global Summit on Tech-facilitated Gender-based Violence on 9 June.
#TFGBV #safety #privacy
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2026-05-29 12:24:32 UTC

Google is offering to shove its AI into my slides on Google Drive that are everyone says are beautiful and amazeballs. Time to get all my stuff out of Google Drive.
#AI
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2026-05-25 14:08:04 UTC

Researchers and research-adjacent professionals:
If I conduct a 2-hour, hands-on, online masterclass on archiving for preserving integrity and openness of research outputs, what time and day of the week suits you?
Some of my work on this topic: https://www.genderit.org/index.php/feminist-talk/archiving-feminist-research-method-preserving-integrity-and-openness
I am in UTC +5.5 timezone.

2026-05-22 13:58:38 UTC

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🧵 Personal opinion: Policies like these assume that every home is a loving, nurturing Nandagokula* for all children of all genders, (dis)abilities, and neurotypes. Every school is a sanctuary free of harm. And all danger and harm resides in digital devices and the internet.
* Hindu mythological place; the idyllic childhood home of Krishna in pastoral Gokul, where he was raised by his foster parents Nanda and Yashoda. (2/n)

2026-05-22 13:54:30 UTC

🧵 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; we included a summary.
https://zenodo.org/records/20342825
The submission addresses digital use in adverse environments; neurodivergent and disabled students; Aadhaar-linked identity requirements; technosolutionism; and unrealistic and inequitable familial expectations, among other issues.
(Yes, we worked our a$$es off on this one.)
(1/n)

2026-05-20 01:16:13 UTC

Yours truly is speaking here today. 11:30 am IST. (UTC +5.5).
Registration link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/XWj5-t8WQhKcq3QV3_BzqA#/registration
#gender #conflict #disinformation
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2026-05-16 12:01:13 UTC

Somebody tell men's rights activists that 'going commando' does not mean what they think it means.
(Screenshots from my work: https://www.genderit.org/index.php/feminist-talk/challenging-gendered-disinformation-indias-manosphere-requires-systemic-change)
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2026-05-15 12:13:52 UTC

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One of the sessions where I was supposed to speak at Rightscon this month is scheduled as a webinar on 20 May.
#Rightscon #Rightscon2026 #gender #conflict #disinformation
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2026-05-10 10:16:48 UTC

I wrote a thing.
https://aarohini.medium.com/the-glass-city-0ab739cb706b
#poetry #urbanism #placelessness

2026-05-08 14:11:22 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rohini/116490095135649344
One of the sessions at Rightscon where I was a speaker is being organised as a public webinar later this month. I will post the details when I have them.
#note1m3r…uha2

2026-05-08 05:54:27 UTC

I am doing an account security training online for Indian journalists and mediapersons in two batches on
May 13 and May 18.
"Mediaperson" and "Indian" can be liberally interpreted. Free of cost for the participants.
If you are interested, please DM me your email address. I'll email the details of the session. If you have queries, DM those too.
These sessions are restricted to the topic of account security and participation is restricted to mediapersons and journalists. +

2026-05-05 22:59:18 UTC

This isn't a 'domestic help' crisis. This is an 'adults who can't clean and manage their own homes' crisis.
https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/house-help-crisis-grips-gurugram-as-bengal-migrants-return-home-to-vote-11406863
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2026-05-01 12:30:17 UTC

Something to text to bae now that summer showers have started.
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2026-04-29 21:23:09 UTC

What a setback this is for the digital civil society, the community, and the movement! And for those trying to bring these gatherings to the Global Majority world.
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2026-04-28 13:38:19 UTC

Food delivery apps now serve AI slop.
#AI #AIslop #Swiggy #fooddelivery
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2026-04-28 11:05:44 UTC

Crazy heatwave in India. I am in a room with three fans including a pedestal fan blowing air right in my direction and I am still not comfortable.
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2026-04-19 04:53:27 UTC

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This meme template from last year.
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2026-04-19 04:39:12 UTC

I watched some Hindi TV news today over my buffet breakfast. Indian channels which generally act as if they have a crush on Trump are swinging Iran today. Plenty of the usual dramatic 'storytelling.'
Opportunistic, because India is suffering directly because of the war. Escalation = higher fuel prices + economic pain.

2026-04-16 13:16:00 UTC

Me, when the dear leader makes cryptic statements in public.
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2026-04-14 20:55:10 UTC

The X accounts of Iranian embassies in different countries be hitting it out of the park.
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2026-04-13 14:57:32 UTC

https://www.amazon.in/Tackling-Continuing-Image-based-Sexual-Abuse-ebook/dp/B0DV6GCFNJ I just discovered that #Amazon is charging INR 49 for a Kindle copy of my e-book, which the publishers and I published CC-licensed and free of cost. We didn't list it on Amazon, only on Archive.org, the publisher's site, and Google Play. The Kindle copy is no different from the printable version we published.

2026-04-02 12:18:03 UTC

Not to make light of the ongoing war but whenever I hear or read 'Strait of Hormuz', I want to believe that Hormuz is the name of a cantankerous old Parsi bawa in Bombay.

2026-03-28 06:38:01 UTC

Useful advice on my bag of tortilla chips. Applies to everything from labour exploitation to sh*tty relationships.
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2026-03-24 16:33:28 UTC

As seen on BlueSky. Too good to not share.
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2026-03-24 07:48:37 UTC

Are we surprised then that people turn to LLMs for emotional support? (They shouldn't, but here we are.)
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2026-03-23 12:45:11 UTC

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2026-03-23 12:43:00 UTC

I asked some folks I know whether WW III has broken out and got this as the response: https://gemini.google.com/share/74ec4b404531
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2026-03-23 09:20:26 UTC

Good people of the fediverse, what is a good collaborative task-list app for a neurodivergent team (dyslexia, dyscalculia, ADHD, and autism)?
Preferably a free one. Preferably no LLM integration. No Meta products.
#neurodivergence #productivity #lazyweb #help

2026-03-23 05:47:50 UTC

Dopamine.
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2026-03-22 12:19:57 UTC

I picked up this copy of a Tintin comic in a waiting room. My first time reading Tintin as an adult. These comics are racist as f**k. The coloniser gaze is everywhere. As a child, I felt it but could never articulate it.
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2026-03-17 09:39:14 UTC

Funny incident that happened at Sunder Nursery when I was walking around this mausoleum there.
There are swings suspended from the branches of some of the trees. One young couple arrived. The woman sat in the lap of the man and they started swinging. A woman guard ran towards them, blowing a whistle. I was expecting her to do morality policing and preach not doing PDA. Instead, she yelled, "The swing can't take that much weight. It will collapse and you'll get injured."
#Delhi #travel
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2026-03-17 07:25:29 UTC

I wonder what it's like to have a dentist who likes making puns.
#Delhi #travel
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2026-03-17 06:59:27 UTC

Made me think of colonisation.
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2026-03-16 09:47:59 UTC

Someone from the cooking gas company arrived and noted down the reading on the gas meter of my Airbnb flat in Delhi. Gas may possibly be rationed now.
#LPGCrisis2026 #lpgcrisisindia

2026-03-15 13:07:52 UTC

Local meal cooked on a coal stove was had at the farmers' market in Sunder Nursery. Millet+beetroot roti, a colourful salad of diced, seasonal veggies, tomato and red chilli chutney, hand-churned buttermilk, white butter, and green chilli peppers. Food cooked without cooking gas or electricity. The buttermilk was churned in a traditional hand-operated churner called a bilona with a rope that acts as a windlass. https://www.shreejahealthcare.com/vedic-handmade-bilona-machine/
#Delhi #travel #farmersmarkets
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2026-03-15 11:14:53 UTC

Black potatoes on sale at the Sunday farmers' market in Sunder Nursery in Delhi. I was told they are low in starch content and glycemic index.
I love visiting farmers' markets. The local economy, local produce, local food in local parks.
#Delhi #travel #farmersmarkets
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2026-03-15 11:08:46 UTC

At the farmers' market in Sunder Nursery, I was pleasantly surprised to see this kiosk of the Insha-e-Noor, a women's self-help group in the nearby Nizamuddin basti (low-income settlement). They made the swag distributed at Misinfocon India last year.
https://aarohini.medium.com/conference-swag-db87b9a439ea
#Delhi #travel
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2026-03-15 10:52:51 UTC

Air filtration tower at Sunder Nursery next to the Sunday farmers' market. The QR code didn't work.
#Delhi #travel #AQI #airpollution #airquality
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2026-03-15 10:37:04 UTC

This was at the amphitheatre today in Sunder Nursery, a city park built around mausoleums and heritage sites in New Delhi. Apropos of nothing, Hotel California was playing at the amphitheatre when I walked past this.
#travel #Delhi
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2026-03-14 17:38:36 UTC

Proof that propaganda spreads faster than gas. (Two of the posts are actually making fun of the propaganda. Also, there is a copy-pasted typo in 'an Bharat Gas.')
#LPGCrisis #lpgshortageindia #LPGShortage
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2026-03-14 14:48:11 UTC

Chuffed about visiting Sunder Nursery in Delhi. I never managed to go there even though I have been to the tombs of Amir Khusro and Nizamuddin many times. https://aarohini.medium.com/conference-swag-db87b9a439ea
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2026-03-14 14:06:56 UTC

AI suggestions on a grocery delivery app in India following the cooking gas shortage.
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2026-03-12 12:33:37 UTC

You know you are in Delhi when your food delivery app offers free tickets for a Yo Yo Honey Singh concert. 🤢
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2026-03-11 16:23:10 UTC

Free ambulance service on a grocery delivery app in #Delhi. Because quick-commerce deliveries really happen faster than emergency medical services.
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2026-03-08 15:05:26 UTC

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Absolutely loved the exhibits called https://Ragi.net and Atantraru. I couldn't photograph the former because of its elevation and the ambient lighting. The latter (rightmost photo) is from #Mysore.
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2026-03-08 14:54:12 UTC

Science Gallery in #Bengaluru. The current theme named "Calorie" is about food. My photos won't do justice to the place. Go visit. It's an amazing place.
geo:13.0253977,77.5847725?z=17.0&q=13.0253977,77.5847725(Science%20Gallery%20Bengaluru)
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2026-03-07 15:27:20 UTC

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More from Jagriti theatre. I shall post most of these on the Wikimedia Commons too. #Bengaluru
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2026-03-07 09:56:23 UTC

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Know thy station. #Bengaluru
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2026-03-07 09:34:55 UTC

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Go to hell
for an eternal moment or so.
-- The Merry Wives of Windsor
(at Jagriti Theatre, #Bengaluru.)
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2026-03-07 09:28:49 UTC

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Typewriters and rotary dial telephones. A wall full of masks. Jagriti Theatre, #Bengaluru.
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2026-03-07 09:19:08 UTC

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2026-03-07 08:35:03 UTC

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Jagriti Theatre in #Whitefield has art work by an autistic artist. #Bengaluru
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2026-03-06 13:30:10 UTC

Bengalurians on my timeline, this is for you.
#Bengaluru #Bangalore
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2026-03-03 09:24:59 UTC

A LinkedIn contact posted about how ChatGPT is being sycophantic towards her. So, I asked ChatGPT this question: Are you the modern equivalent of the mirror in "Mirror, mirror, on the wall?"
#AI #ChatGPT #LLM
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2026-03-02 17:47:36 UTC

Manforce should have consulted Malayalees before naming this one.
https://www.afaqs.com/news/mktg/with-celebrities-saying-no-to-condom-ads-manforce-creates-ai-ambassador-myra-kapoor-10546638

2026-02-27 11:29:01 UTC

In today's episode of AI-enabled sh*tf**kery: A text from my AirBnB host clarifying stuff.
The AirBnB listing shows that there are two beds although there is only one. So, I ended up assuming the place is bigger than it actually is. And invited friends over. Then, I had to backtrack because there was not enough room for everyone.
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2026-02-20 15:02:55 UTC

I am back home from the AI summit and I have a bodyache but, maa kasam, I am an automation engineer by training and I am not anti-AI. I am against snake oil AI that will crash and burn with the hype cycle and make the planet burn with it. We need small, resourceful, purpose-specific AI. Not an arms race of fraudulent tech. 😭😭😭

2026-02-14 09:52:45 UTC

I in Delhi and I haz Dyson air purifier.

2026-01-26 19:49:29 UTC

#PolyglotDiaries I was bewildered to see a paneer (cottage cheese) favoured soda in Mysore until the penny dropped that the label might be a bad transliteration of panneeru (meaning rose water in Kannada).
#Mysore #Kannada #golisoda
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2026-01-25 14:49:30 UTC

Some quacks are interdisciplinary.
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2026-01-14 18:37:11 UTC

Happy 25th anniversary of #Wikipedia to everyone. Here is a message I contributed to a time capsule for this day on Wikipedia's 10th anniversary (15 January 2011):
https://aarohini.medium.com/to-wikipedia-of-the-future-4ce2334b3c5
#wikipedia25

2026-01-12 14:54:42 UTC

LinkedIn's promoted posts algo is so broken. A few weeks ago it was showing me ads for jobs on oil rigs.
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2026-01-01 13:38:19 UTC

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More dope.
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2025-12-30 12:29:43 UTC

#TIL there is a village by the name Reis Magos (the three wise men in the Bible) in #India.
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2025-12-30 12:01:36 UTC

The website on which the registration form for the India AI impact Summit 2025 is hosted (IndiaAI.gov.in) is geofenced like many other government websites. So, I am guessing non-Indians are not able to register for this global summit.
The form asks for many personal details such as the exact date of birth, ID number (passport or something else), and phone number.
I couldn't register. The form gives me an error. 'Failed to send OTP' to my email address for verification.
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2025-12-28 12:14:58 UTC

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Citabiliity is dope.

2025-12-28 12:13:52 UTC

Dopamine.
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2025-12-28 10:36:40 UTC

I uploaded the most recent writing I did to ChatGPT and asked whether it is AI-generated. This is a part of the response:
'Allows tension to build rather than resolve neatly... That messiness is characteristic of human analytical writing'.
Some of us humans ask uncomfortable questions and speak the unspeakable.
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2025-12-24 08:01:05 UTC

#Mysore folks, I'd attend this if I were in town. An officer retired from the foreign intelligence agency of the Indian government (the Research and Analysis Wing or RAW) is reviewing a new spy movie.
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2025-12-22 11:49:31 UTC

The state of India's urban infrastructure.
There is a huge, open sewage canal right behind this touristy 'I love Lokhandwala' sign in Mumbai. Even if it's an open gutter, you're supposed to love it instead of questioning it and everything that caused it.
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2025-12-21 18:42:38 UTC

When global capitalism fails to run a spellcheck on culture.
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2025-12-21 12:28:49 UTC

This is problematic. Hiperfixation, trigger, and understimulated are terms from specific disciplines that mean specific things. This is diluting them, creating space for confusion and misunderstanding, and potentially depriving professionals & users/ survivors of more than one condition (mental illness, neurodivergence, disability) of terminology that clearly explains and articulates. (1/n)
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