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Sushil Aaron

@SushilAaron

Opinion writer. Bylines: @thewire_in @nytimes @htTweets https://t.co/xKKsFOV9ms https://t.co/iV4SyxNsip

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Sushil Aaron@SushilAaron·
History will be kind to #JimmyCarter for changing the world through key decisions, and for having the right instincts on race, faith, Palestine, human rights and the climate. The Indisputable Greatness of Jimmy Carter  My piece ⁦@thewire_in⁩. thewire.in/history/the-in…
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Jason Kint
Jason Kint@jason_kint·
Unlikely for long. They’re an adjudged illegal monopolist. They can’t just unilaterally (publishers don’t have a decision since it’s tied to search) “suck up” all of the content on the web to substitute it with their own AI Overviews. That’s illegal as hell imho. Stay tuned.
zeldman@zeldman

TL;DR: It sucks. “Is it a good thing that websites’ content will be sucked up by Google and used like raw ingredients without users being shuffled toward the websites themselves? That has massive implications not just for those websites’ ad revenue, but also their readership numbers and control and autonomy over their own creative works.” vice.com/en/via/googles…

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Malini Ranganathan
Malini Ranganathan@maliniranga·
The real story is not that the rupee is in free fall--soon to be 100 to the $. The real story is that the rupee has lost 50% of its value in 15 years. For the middle-class, that's like losing half your retirement, half the value of your savings, and half your purchasing power.
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vir sanghvi@virsanghvi·
Remembering Rajiv Gandhi on the anniversary of his tragic death. He was one of the warmest, most decent human beings to become Prime Minister of India. With him, what you saw was what you got; there was no deviousness, no subterfuge & certainly, no megalomania. When he made mistakes he admitted it. When he felt he had been unfair to people he apologised. And despite growing up in a political family he never let the cynicism that characterises Indian politics get to him. We often forget that he may have been the first Indian PM to have ever held a regular job, to have paid income tax and PF. This gave him an understanding of how salaried people in India lived & how the system was tilted against them. During his time taxes were lowered,the stock market boomed and India prepared for the digital age. He went too soon. If he had lived he would have returned to power sooner rather than later. By the time he died, he had learned from the early mistakes that his inexperience led him to make & was ideally placed to lead India into the 21 st Century and to forge a society that had no room for divisiveness & hatred. As even his critics will concede, he was at heart a unifier, signing accords in Punjab, Assam & Mizoram, ending conflicts and building a better India.
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Rutger Bregman
Rutger Bregman@rcbregman·
This sounds nice, but it's a great way to undermine the welfare state. The strongest welfare states in the world (the Nordics) tax everyone, including nurses. And they give everyone universal healthcare, childcare, pensions, education in return. When the middle class has skin in the game, they defend the system. When welfare is 'just for the poor', it becomes a poor program: stigmatized, underfunded, easy to gut. That's why billionaires keep pushing this idea. The real scandal isn't that this nurse pays $12k. It's that Jeff Bezos pays $0.
Shay Boloor@StockSavvyShay

Jeff Bezos said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax. He cited a nurse in Queens making ~$75K and paying ~$12K in taxes saying “we shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”

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More Perfect Union
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS·
LEAKED AUDIO: In an all-hands meeting on April 30, Mark Zuckerberg tells employees that he's training AI on them ahead of mass layoffs. "The AI models learn from watching really smart people do things... The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks. So if we're trying to teach the models coding, for example, then having people internally build tools or solve tasks that help teach the model how to code, we think is going to dramatically increase our model's coding ability faster than what others in the industry have the capability to do, who don't have thousands and thousands of extremely strong engineers at their company."
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Tom Bacon
Tom Bacon@TomABacon·
Google is essentially killing search traffic, thereby removing the biggest source of income for sites. Worse; it is in fact removing the most *stable* source of income. Because newsfeeds are, by nature, unpredictable; whereas search usually provided a base for traffic. /3
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Lewis Goodall
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall·
“Manchesterism is the end of neoliberalism”
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Lewis Goodall
Lewis Goodall@lewis_goodall·
One of the most effective bits of political communication on the left I’ve seen in a long time. A message and a powerful messenger.
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Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR)
A long note, after a lot of reflection, and before a short break…
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Prem Panicker@prempanicker·
When we were at Rediff, @faisalshariff and I once asked John Wright what it would take for Sada to get back in the side. Ask him to score runs in Ranji, Wright said, so I can make a case for him -- even Devang Gandhi is scoring 100s at will. So we told Sada. His response: "What Devang Gandhi, da, you know Ranji pitches, even Mahatma Gandhi will score runs there."
Cricketopia@CricketopiaCom

Remember Sadagoppan Ramesh? When Sadagoppan Ramesh debuted against Pakistan in Chennai (1999), he batted like he owned the backyard, handling Wasim & Waqar with ease. Consistent runs, a few tons, and India found a classy opener. But after struggles abroad & despite doing well in SL 2001, he was dropped mysteriously.

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Narinder Kaur
Narinder Kaur@narindertweets·
Jenrick "where are we?" "You're in a different party" This is hilarious. What a put down.
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