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Universities don't need to "teach students to use AI well." The whole point of AI is that it doesn't require any skill. Universities *should* teach students how to write and research on their own, and foster an ethic of shaming people who outsource their basic ability to think.

“We, as scholars of social science and the history of Muslims in India and the Republic of India, it is our responsibility to put our necks on the line by clarifying the issues for the masses. We have to get out of our comfort zone.”  Must read interview with Sharjeel Imam

unfortunately i could never be nonchalant because i am not well in the head and also my soul is on fire

In just 48 hours after the Assembly election results, the Centre is set to send letters to Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, and Kerala to implement the PM-SHRI scheme. The BJP can't be more explicit and desperate about its objectives.

At the height of McCarthyism, U of Michigan fired three professors — an event that they later felt so ashamed of that they instituted an annual “intellectual freedom lecture” in their honour, called the The Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom.

Just In | The AIADMK is learnt to have sent feelers to the DMK seeking support to form a government in Tamil Nadu where the recent elections threw up a hung Assembly. The DMK leadership, however, gave short shrift to the proposal, sources said. The DMK “was firm on sitting in the Opposition”, as it was not interested in going against the people’s mandate.

Let's call it what it is: religious supremacist tactics that brand the universal food of meat as sinful filth, while Dalda-fried or horrid substitute junk like soya frigging chaap is "cultured". Not to mention, erasing the Muslim/Awadhi culture that contributed these dishes.

Stalin’s federalism is interesting because beyond just protecting TN from Delhi he was putting together a vision of what the country reimagined from the peripheries could look like. The Justice Joseph Kurien report on union state relations offers a solid starting point.

does anyone know what to do

Ever since I was a small boy I knew I wanted to apologise for my delayed reply

Since being elected into office, Zohran Mamdani has: -reinstated homeless encampment sweeps -reneged on his promise to make sure the NYPD does not collude with ICE -condemned the protestors of illegal land sales of the Occupied West Bank, a crime under int’l law (Con’t)

only true enemy to fascism

A vast section of Hindus have become radicalized against the Muslim other and there's no denying this. Even the most committed of CPIM and TMC voters agree how a fifth or so of Bengal's population is "actually" from Bangladesh, etc! Skirting around these things won't help. (2/2)

We must protect the art of writing at all costs.

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now have to sit and explain to all North Indians that thalapathy is not vijay’s first name

Moonshine Paul Klee - 1919

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This was Hind Rajab on her 5th birthday. Today would have been her 8th birthday. 📷 Wesam Hamada