Data Strategy (#ai, #aiethics, #strategy, #design) by day. History, languages, urban exploration during evenings. Dreamer by night. Teach at business school by weekends. Learn languages and music when I have time. Doing a part-time MS in Analytics. Also on Instagram, Flickr, Tumblr, Medium and other websites too numerous to name.
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Last Notes npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub1qk5…jlda It poured yesterday night for us! Unfortunately, daughter and I were stuck in the downpour along with the books we just borrowed from the library, but still. Rain is rain. Need more! npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub1qk5…jlda Need to add ~6C to the temperature here because of humidity. So a 34C feels like 40C. npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Apparently the only time I can go out for a brisk walk is 10PM-7AM. It’s 29 degrees C at all other times. Essentially the average temperature for April / May till 2020 has now become the minimum, and the mean maximum has become the daily mean. https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/335/769/979/318/613/original/038de14f344f09e1.jpeg https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/335/788/680/292/838/original/1787a1daabf87c84.jpeg npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Selamat Hari Raya/ Eid Mubarak to all those celebrating! Images of the Sultan Mosque and Kampong Glam. https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/244/739/708/419/852/original/90af2b1d2eaf3baf.jpeg https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/244/740/770/505/744/original/561943e4fc5a4e83.jpeg https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/112/244/741/143/850/433/original/ae4cb3adc96b1139.jpeg npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ I wade into my muted alumni WhatsApp group after a month and the first thing I see is a grossly transphobic message, reminding me once again why I muted it in the first place. Sigh. npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub1xjt…9ml2 I have to admit, I originally read that as cosmic lasers and was momentarily stunned/ impressed. 😀 Learning the lingo slowly, I’m sure I’ll get it all at some point… npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub1xjt…9ml2 I have no idea what that laser zappy zap is, but that’s a lovely photo with a very elegant necklace. 🙂👍🏽 npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Between 2010 and 2022, a bored housewife wrote more than 300 articles on Russian history on Chinese Wikipedia. All of them were highly detailed. None of them were based on real facts. She was finally found out because a novelist realised the Chinese language articles on silver mine in Russia had a lot lot more detail than on Wikipedia pages in Russian or other languages. 🤯 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhemao_hoaxes npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ The real skill I may have picked up in the last 3+ years may be the ability to listen in on a Teams/ Zoom call on one screen, while making slides on another. Everything else is detail. npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub1hvz…mle9 Here’s wishing he gets well soon! npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Deepāvali greetings to all those celebrating! https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/111/395/744/422/504/414/original/a96c1d2220ce4fce.jpeg npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub1hvz…mle9 Curious, but do you pronounce your name the French way (miɲɔ̃)? I was in a deep discussion on comics with a literature professor buddy of mine at a coffee shop, during which I needed to spell my name to the barista. So without thinking I started to say: A as in Astérix, K as in Krazy Kat… I caught myself at that point. I don’t know if the barista thought i was crazy, but she didn’t flinch. 😊 npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub19fc…ay3c Yes, at some point in 2014/15, the Stormfront types switched from angry rants to memes and lulz. And it has worked; people are absolutely getting radicalised via memes. They call this redpilling; start with the lulz and then increasingly feed serious-ish hate content. npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub13nk…asjz Here’s hoping and wishing for the best for you! npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ “Starting in 2018, the BJP-ruled states began legislating laws criminalising inter-faith marriages, targeting what they called “love jihad”. The BJP in Parliament admitted that there is no such thing as “love jihad”, when asked a specific question, but the laws are needed nonetheless. Madhya Pradesh’s law passed in 2021 retains the power to undo a marriage, including one that has children.” You need to focus on the specifics to appreciate the horror. https://www.asianage.com/opinion/columnists/021023/aakar-patel-if-you-have-eyesthe-many-ways-in-which-govt-targets-indias-minorities.html npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub15zu…s7lx Appalling. npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Climate makes my daughter feel sacred. https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/110/955/513/198/226/765/original/6efc1e338c4f00ec.jpeg npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ We just found out that my eight year old has been secretly reading The Collected Works of Kuo Pao Kun (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuo_Pao_Kun) and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Should_All_Be_Feminists) when we are not looking around. Thinking what other books from our library that we should “accidentally” leave around the house. Any suggestions? 😊 npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Teachers are now getting fired for reading children’s books about being yourself. Lecturers from the USG system who supported the teacher are “under scrutiny” from USG. If this isn’t a witch-hunt, I don’t know what is. https://thehill.com/homenews/education/4158378-georgia-teacher-fired-for-reading-a-book-to-class-about-gender-identity/ npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ As you enter the long dark teatime of the soul when the hands of a clock move relentlessly to four, you realise there are only a few certainties in life, the most important of which is that kadak chai (cardamom tea) is always the correct chai. https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/110/790/703/484/070/787/original/f25138377f4dd4dc.jpeg npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Did I do a #MakanApaToday yesterday? No I didn’t. Here goes: Japanese food for lunch. https://social-cdn.vivaldi.net/system/media_attachments/files/110/727/839/219/782/204/original/fc32c1b01c0f89c2.jpeg npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ @npub1hvd…9sq9 Come to Japan. Most restaurants there seem to be designed for solo or two seaters. We had an incredibly difficult time finding a table for five. npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ “The enshittification play is obvious: use investor cash to make things temporarily nice for customers and suppliers, lock both of them in – in this case, it's with a subscription-based service similar to Netflix's – and then claw all that value back until all that's left is a big pile of shit.” -@npub1hyk…3p33 on what Lina Khan is trying to fight at FTC https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/14/making-good-trouble/#the-peoples-champion npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ A talented, high accomplished educator was chased out of jobs in two Georgia counties even before she started her job because CRT. This is how 21st century Jim Crow looks like. What a depressing read. (From @npub16nx…rj8k ) https://www.propublica.org/article/georgia-dei-crt-schools-parents npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ India hurtling towards establishing a defacto lèse majesté law. Rahul Gandhi called Modi a thief in 2018. A sessions court in Surat convicted him of criminal defamation, which will draw two years’ imprisonment. Gujarat High Court upholds the ruling. RIP free speech. https://www.livelaw.in/high-court/gujarat-high-court/gujarat-high-court-modi-thieves-remark-dismisses-rahul-gandhi-plea-suspend-conviction-defamation-case-232134?infinitescroll=1 npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Wow. In @npub1znz…z3xm ‘s latest, he mentions that 1000+ subscribers unsubscribed from his newsletter because his team wrote this post about a trans-activist last week. https://open.substack.com/pub/counteroffensive/p/amid-missile-strikes-being-queer npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Five out of 8 sign-in attempts to my account on Microsoft in the last 15 days were fraudulent. Thank god for 2FA. I use a non-standard email provider for my MS account. So someone knew that this account could be used for accessing MS services. npub13g3m9xkq409qqgv2vyhd5ez68qxx9vnr729mzpm85wz6l4jqxa5qm54fzu Akshay | అక్షయ్ Per @npub1hyk…3p33 ‘s new piece: there are centers in the US where they give fictitious tests prolonging your pregnancy instead of giving a clinically safe abortion. They advertise heavily on Google, so when you search for “Planned Parenthood” (eg), you see links for these frauds first. Google relatively earns very little from these guys, but is probably afraid of going against them because politics. Shocking. https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/15/paid-medical-disinformation/