Pracheta B

Love is all there is. It’s the only force to take us forward as society and species. Now more than ever before, Mahatma Gandhi’s approach to change makes sense. #Love #notoviolence #empathy #GandhiJayanti

Was destroying Hasdeo Aranya supposed to make India stronger against China? Was crushing tribal rights part of some “national security” masterplan? Is flattening the Aravallis also aimed at countering Beijing? Or is China just a convenient excuse, the perfect ghost to justify every act of destruction? Because the truth is simpler. And uglier. China is already inside our borders, especially in Arunachal Pradesh, building, expanding, asserting claims. And the Modi government’s response? Silence. After the Galwan Valley clash and the sacrifice of 20 soldiers, what we saw wasn’t a resolve, it was denial. “Na koi ghusa hai, na koi ghus aaya hai.” A film by Salman Khan on Galwan, on our soldiers’ sacrifice? Not allowed, lest China gets offended. The MEA even admitted the obvious, China is a bigger economy. So we tiptoe. But the moment Shri Rahul Gandhi raises concerns about forests and ecological damage in Andaman & Nicobar, suddenly it’s all about the “Chinese threat.” Convenient. Destroy forests. Displace tribals. Hand over resources, all in the name of fighting China. What a strategy. Will anything be left for future generations to breathe, to live? Same script. Same players. Same beneficiaries. Call it what it is: The Great Corporate Plunder of a naturally wealthy India.

@effthealgorithm Mic drop !

Search is full of ads and wrong answers. Every other email is an ad. Prime Video charges you and shows ads. Paramount? Ads. Peacock? YouTube? Hulu? Ads followed by more ads. Netflix full of ads. Meta and X, every other thing is an ad. Pinterest is nothing but ads. AI is in everything. AI finishes sentences incorrectly and won’t stop. AI reads your email and search history to target you with more ads. Every time you open an app or visit a site there’s an update making it worse. In a hurry? First, click here to agree to terms you don’t have time to read and must accept. You need an account to do that. Change your temporary password. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email and enter that code. Now use a passkey. Your password is too simple to remember. Change it. No, not like that. Now log on. Enter your 2FA code. Check your email for a code… Welcome back! We’ve updated our terms of service and privacy policy (you have none). Subscribe to the site. Subscribe to Netflix. Subscribe to toilet paper. Subscribe to these groceries. Pay a membership fee for the right to subscribe then tip your driver who delivers the subscriptions your membership lets you subscribe to. Time to work? We’ve got to update your laptop and will slow down everything you do until you agree to update. But first, click here to agree. Update installed — your laptop’s broken now. It doesn’t matter, since your boss just replaced you with AI. Go to your phone to complain on social media. Wait, your phone needs an update so we can add more AI. Click here. Oh sorry, your phone can’t handle this update. Now it’s useless. Go get the newest phone. Here’s a text from a friend, an email, a voice mail they left three days ago but you didn’t see until now because of sync problems with the cloud. It’s their GoFundMe. Their MLM. Their Patreon. Never mind, you didn’t respond to their text within 9 minutes and now you’re no longer friends. They blocked you. Make new friends. Download this app to find people in your area. In your neighborhood. On your street. Two doors down from you. Do you know this person yet, we think you’d get along. You need an account to use this app. That username is taken. Enter a password. Not that one, you used it on another site. You need to be connected to WiFi to download the app. Allow the app to connect to other devices on your network. Allow the app to access your contacts, know your precise location, store your credit card details. Oops, sorry, we got hacked now all that info is available on the web. There’s a class action suit. You can join. It’ll take a decade to get your $3.73 share of the ten billion settlement. We’ll send it via PayPal or deposit it to your bank, just tell us those details. Oh no, another hack. That info is circulating now, too. Here’s a spam call, a spam email, a spam text. Why are you angry? Why are you talking about getting rid of your phone? Why don’t you like AI, it lets us make all of this easier? Do you know how ridiculous that sounds? This is progress. You’ll be left behind. Do you want to be left behind? Do you???

The biggest lie in politics is not what they say. It’s what they make you stop noticing. What you see on TV about PM Modi, it's not leadership, it is branding disguised as power. A carefully scripted spectacle, built to confuse the public, intimidate dissent, and sell obedience as patriotism. While the camera stays fixed on the face, the machinery keeps working in the dark. That is how manufactured power survives. Not through truth. Through repetition. Through fear. Through the slow death of public memory. And once a nation starts worshipping the image, it stops asking who built it, who profits from it, and what it is really hiding @rajuparulekar Link: youtu.be/sSwZKZWiHIs?si…

@TARUNspeakss @Subytweets They aren’t pretending to hide such blatant fallacies. The fall and further fall of judiciary. Every institution hollowed so mediocre, hatred filled cowards can rule.

But milords have problems with slogans of Umar Khalid & Sharjeel. Anurag Thakur, Kapil Mishra didn’t go to jail but Umar & Sharjeel. This is called the majority privilege.

@santheepnair @bismil_prasad @Subhashgarg1960 Also read the original tweet in Hindi that the refers to Dinkar’s poem. Grok is a bad translator taking everything out of context.

@santheepnair @bismil_prasad @Subhashgarg1960 Dinkar wrote those lines in his poems, we read it. MLK could have also said something similar. Please read up before making uninformed claims with such gusto.

"समर शेष है, नहीं पाप का भागी केवल व्याध जो तटस्थ हैं, समय लिखेगा उनके भी अपराध" ये पंक्ति रामधारी सिंह दिनकर की कविता – ‘समर शेष है’ से हैं Those who are quiet & are fence sitters ,time will also hold them guilty . समर :- युद्ध व्याध : शिकारी तटस्थ :fence sitter, neutral

कह दिया था - चुनाव के बाद महंगाई की गर्मी आएगी। आज कमर्शियल गैस सिलेंडर ₹993 महंगा। एक ही दिन में सबसे बड़ी बढ़ोतरी। यह चुनावी बिल है। फरवरी से अब तक: ₹1,380 की बढ़ोतरी - सिर्फ़ 3 महीनों में 81% का इज़ाफ़ा। चायवाला, ढाबा, होटल, बेकरी, हलवाई - हर किसी की रसोई पर बोझ बढ़ा। और इसका असर आपकी थाली पर भी पड़ेगा। पहला वार गैस पर, अगला वार पेट्रोल-डीज़ल पर।

@MrDemocratic_ Word

Jyotiraditya Scindia was as popular as Raghav Chadha. He was good-looking, crowd-puller and spoke fluent English. Scindia's support base was many times greater than Raghav's. Then Scindia joined the BJP. Nowadays, no one knows where he is or what he's doing. Raghav's situation will be even worse, he may not even win the election.

@RahulGandhi We all were making noise about the horrible Nicobar project since its inception. Good that you are taking it up with the understanding and making the point in unambiguous terms. We need forest cover to increase not deplete.

I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.

In the last few days I’ve seen three separate instances of generative AI being used to promote propaganda for US-Israeli war agendas which are worth paying attention to. Firstly, an Israel-based company called Generative AI for Good has been creating deepfakes of supposedly real women who say they were sexually assaulted by government forces in Iran. The Canary reports: “An Israel-based AI firm, Generative AI for Good, claims to be using deepfake technologies for positive ends. ‘Positive’ appears to mean creating deepfake videos to help the illegal US-Israel war on Iran. … “Generative AI for Good claims that it uses AI to ‘help survivors testify safely — in their real voice, without revealing their identity’. But Israel and its mouthpieces have been shown to have used false allegations of rapes and other atrocities on 7 October 2023 to justify its genocide in Gaza.” The Canary notes that Generative AI for Good is staffed with Israelis who have very conspicuous agendas, including a creative director who pushes the discredited narrative about mass rapes on October 7, a marketing manager who served in the IDF’s “Psychotechnical Headquarter”, and a founder who said in early 2024 that “Artificial intelligence is a secret weapon of ours” in using the technology to bolster the military’s efforts both online and on the ground in the information war being waged alongside the military battlefields in Gaza. An Israeli company generating AI videos of anonymous Iranian women describing sexual abuse at the hands of their government should obviously be considered a deceitful propaganda operation until proven otherwise. The line between using AI to help real victims protect their identities when describing real events and using AI to generate fake atrocity propaganda is far too nebulous to be taken seriously, especially in the hands of wildly biased Israelis. You should trust it about as far as you’d trust a hungry crocodile. Secondly, users of the graphic design platform Canva have been complaining that the company’s AI service has been translating the word “Palestine” to “Ukraine” without prompting or permission. Complaints went viral, compelling Canva to address the issue. The Verge reports: “One of Canva’s new AI features has been caught replacing the word ‘Palestine’ in designs. The Magic Layers feature — which is designed to break flat images out into separate editable components — isn’t supposed to make visible alterations to user designs, but it was found by X user @ros_ie9 to automatically switch the phrase ‘cats for Palestine’ to ‘cats for Ukraine.’ “The issue was seemingly limited specifically to the word ‘Palestine,’ as @ros_ie9 noted that related words like ‘Gaza’ were unaffected by the feature. Canva says it has now resolved the issue and is taking steps to prevent it from happening again.” Thirdly, a Spanish-language tweet about Israel from user @maps_black was auto-translated into English by Elon Musk’s AI Grok in a way that added entirely new sentences to the social media post to frame the Zionist state in a sympathetic light. The original tweet read simply, “¿Cuál es tu opinión sobre ISRAEL?”, which of course translates to “What is your opinion about Israel?” But Grok translated the post into English as “My opinion on Israel? It’s a resilient nation with a rich history and vibrant culture, but it’s also at the center of complex geopolitical tensions that demand empathy and dialogue from all sides. What’s yours?” Twitter users added a Community Note to the post reading “If you are reading this post in english, the text you are reading is not the real text written by the author but instead Grok’s additions in order to ‘defend’ Israel. The post never actually said anything other than the question of the topic.” Someone removed Grok’s propagandistic translation after outcry on the platform, but the Community Note remains. None of these instances look particularly significant or impactful on their own, and right now they only scan as ham-fisted efforts to manipulate public opinion in ways that are far too obvious to do much damage. But we can be sure that we’ll be seeing a lot more AI-driven propaganda in the future, and we can expect its manipulations to become much more sophisticated as the technology develops and grows more influential in shaping the information ecosystem. American tech plutocrats are only ever allowed to ascend to billionaire status when they collaborate with the imperial machine. Julian Assange was warning years ago that we could one day expect artificial intelligence to be used in this way, saying that the growing ability of the powerful to manipulate public opinion using AI “differs from traditional attempts to shape culture and politics by operating at a scale, speed, and increasingly at a subtlety, that appears likely to eclipse human counter-measures.” Pointing out how AI could already outmaneuver even the greatest chess players in the world, Assange described in 2017 how programs which can operate with exponentially more tactical intelligence than the human mind can manipulate the field of available information so effectively and subtly that people won’t even know they are being manipulated. People will be living in a world that they think they understand and know about, but they’ll unknowingly be viewing only empire-approved information. “When you have AI programs harvesting all the search queries and YouTube videos someone uploads it starts to lay out perceptual influence campaigns, twenty to thirty moves ahead,” Assange said. “This starts to become totally beneath the level of human perception.” Anyway. Something to keep an eye on.

Indians should be thankful to these brave women, the adivasi communities are the first line of defence for nature. Whether you’re in Mumbai protesting against the felling of 45000 mangroves, or Delhi alarmed at the 120 acre Dwarka forest being cut or in Sijimali … you have more in common with these women than you think. 🫡 their bravery, that goes untold, undocumented by corporate media owned by mining barons and other crooks.

A few days ago in Parliament, Modi was taking credit for India’s energy security amid the West Asia crisis. Here’s the truth buried in Parliament’s own records: Every underground cavern protecting India right now; Visakhapatnam, Mangalore, Padur; was planned, approved and built under UPA-Congress in 2012. Modi’s contribution in 12 years? Capacity: 5.33 MMT → 5.33 MMT. Phase 2 (6.5 MMT), “approved” in 2021; land still unacquired in 2026. China added reserves every single year. Japan (97% importer) maintains 140 days of cover. This government maintained photo albums. India is surviving the energy crisis on Congress’s infrastructure, the Navy’s bravery, and Iran’s mercy. Nothing this regime built in 12 years stands between you and a blackout. That’s not a failure of policy. That’s a betrayal of the nation.

Unlike oil bonds, sovereign gold bonds Scheme was designed, implemented and abandoned by Modi Govt only. Modi Govt borrowed Rs. 70,000 crore through SGBs. SGBs have already created a hole of about Rs. 1.5 trillion. Who will Nirmala Sitaraman blame for it? thequint.com/opinion/sovere…

WAKE UP INDIA! TRIBALS UNDER ATTACK! In Chhatarpur, MP: Adivasis standing chest-deep in the Ken River, lying on funeral pyres, bodies smeared in mud — fighting for survival! The Ken-Betwa Project is ready to drown their villages, forests & future. Zero fair rehab. Peanuts for compensation. “We will die, but not surrender our land!” Development for whom? Tribals or Corporates? Media & govt — your silence is criminal. Enough of this selective silence! Media, courts, and netas — where is your outrage when it’s poor tribals vs. big projects? Stop the displacement NOW! #KenBetwaProtest #SaveAdivasiLand #JalSatyagraha #ChitaAndolan #TribalRights #MadhyaPradesh

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MashaAllah, so beautiful and perfect, and whata joy to listen to the Santur. Civilizational glory And they want to tell us that the pilots who would ruin everything for this little girl are liberators. What a sad joke our West has revealed itself to be in our lifetime

When 204 eminent ex-officers wrote a letter demanding Rahul Gandhi apologize for having TEA & BISCUITS outside Parliament; Arnab, Sudhir, Anjana, Chitra, Sushant ran 72-hour outrage marathons. Today? 700+ former bureaucrats, academics & civil society leaders have filed a formal complaint to EC; alleging PM Modi used Doordarshan, DD News, AIR & Sansad TV (YOUR tax money) as BJP’s personal campaign tool during LIVE elections. MCC Section VII. Black and white. On record. EC’s response to the PM: SILENCE. EC’s response to opposition leaders’ tweets: Notice within 2 hours. Same EC. Different rulers. Different rules. 204 signatures for a CUP OF CHAI = Prime Time emergency. 700 signatures for CONSTITUTIONAL VIOLATION = Pin drop silence in the Godi Media. The EC isn’t asleep. It’s working exactly as designed. The Godi media is also a part of this designed system.

@_ADeshpande @kaushikcbasu @ashabhosle Kya baat hai 🙏🏼💖

Ending a long and packed day with one stanza of one of my most favourite @ashabhosle songs. I’ve sung this so many times, it’s stopped being a song and become an anthem 😁#ashabhosletribute 🙏☺️

Oh Lord what will it take for Europe's leaders to show some integrity? To ''limit'' trade with the colonies (WAR CRIMES) is a smokescreen. If Int'l law means anything, you don’t tweak complicity: you end it. Trade with Israel -accused of atrocity crimes - must be suspended. Now.