Notices by Tejas Harad (h_tejas@newsie.social), page 2

Is ChatGPT still hallucinating citations? I asked it to recommend me research papers on a particular topic but many of the citations it suggested didn't exist at all.

While collecting data from social media for research, I need to make it a habit to make burner accounts. I have been collecting reels on a specific theme the past week and now my algorithm has been completely ruined.

India's Income Inequality Now Worse Than Under British Rule
https://time.com/6961171/india-british-rule-income-inequality/

India punishes critics by revoking visas and residency permits
https://www.france24.com/en/asia-pacific/20240321-india-blocks-access-residency-permits-of-overseas-citizen-critics

@tokyo_0 Nap, go to a park, meet a friend.

"Weeks before pivotal elections, the head of one party was arrested on what his supporters said were trumped-up charges and another party said it lost access to its funds." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/21/world/asia/india-national-congress-bank-accounts-bjp.html

After Centre alerted states on his fraud in 2019, Donor No 1 Santiago Martin went on electoral bonds buying spree
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/electoral-bonds-biggest-donor-santiago-martin-fraud-9216004/

The last census in #India was conducted in 2011. No idea when the next one will be held. What is the Modi government afraid of?

"As much as there are film-making liberties and historically dicey formulations, it is difficult to overlook the perfunctory character building of both Jotirao and Savitribai." https://thesatyashodhak.com/film-review-satyashodhak-a-missed-opportunity/

Marathi news channel licence suspended again, twice in five months https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/mumbai/marathi-news-channel-licence-suspended-again-twice-in-five-months-9102407/

If the standards applied to Harvard (ex) president Claudine Gay in the plagiarism case are applied to other academics, everyone will be found guilty.

With over 20 lakh Indians migrating overseas every year, the regionally and professionally diversified Indian diaspora is now close to 30 million and non-resident Indians are now more than non-resident Chinese. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/poor-middle-class-wealthy-more-indians-are-leaving-country-9091963/

Odisha government had conducted OBC census. Has it tabled the report in Vidhan Sabha yet?

I love Firefox's reader view feature. It makes reading any web page so much neater as it removes all the distracting elements from the page.

Satyashodhak ( सत्यशोधक ) | Official Trailer https://youtu.be/_edw2152nus?si=to4h_S-GFc8XFja8

After buying stake in NDTV and Quintillion Media last year, Adani has now bought majority stake in wire service IANS too. Most of the Hindi and English news media is now divided between two capitalists — Adani and Ambani.

Assam chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, who is BJP's prominent Brahmin leader, tweeted on Monday that serving the Brahmins, Kshatriyas and Vaishyas is the duty of the Shudras, citing a verse in Bhagavad Gita. Brahmin pandits have historically slotted all agrarian castes and below as Shudras. #caste

पोलीसांनी एफआयआरमध्ये लिहीलेली माहिती जशीच्या तशी उतरवून बातम्या करणे म्हणजे पत्रकारिता नव्हे. एफआयआर म्हणजे प्रथमदर्शनी माहिती असते जी पोलीस बऱ्याचदा रंगवून चढवून लिहीतात. न्यायालयात पोलीसांचे दावे पुराव्याअभावी टिकत नाहीत त्यामूळे पत्रकारांनी बातम्या लावताना काळजी घ्यावी. #पडघा

In India, rich people create waste which then government dumps onto poorer neighborhoods. In the US, rich people create waste that is then dumped onto poorer countries altogether.

My partner just created her #Threads account and the account that showed up on top as suggestion to follow was mine. However, I don't have a Threads account.

Basically, anyone who has an Instagram account, #Meta is automatically creating a shadow account for them and also allowing users to follow those shadow accounts. My partner had tonnes of follow requests as soon as she made the account.