Notices by Nitin Pai (nitin@thinktanki.social)

I remember when people would say "if only the world knew!" - believing that governments were unaware of mass atrocity crimes happening somewhere.

But information isn't the problem. (It hasn't been for a long time.) Governments know what's happening on the ground in these places. They have the information. What they lack is the will to act to try to stop it.

@prateekwaghre 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😢😢😭

@kevinrothrock @Ohsin Sounds like it’s right out of Dan Chaon’s Sleepwalk!

Your sympathy is political, not human.
Or worse, racist.

Internet companies have almost killed the internet.

Like bottled water companies dumping chemical waste into the lake they use the water from.

Stepping up?🙃 https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss/112807185064920312

We have published "Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023" here with sections linked with similar ones in the IPC.

The sections haven't come out properly and that will be fixed in the new release. https://indiankanoon.org/doc/149679501/

@matthiasott Bradbury Fahrenheit 451
Le Guin’s The Dispossessed
Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle
Brian Aldiss Non-stop
Daniel Keyes Flowers for Algernon

I just cannot square the Einsteinian block universe with the unfathomable contingency of biological life. How can an infinite contingent events at any given instant add up to a pre-determined universe?

close to my ear
a single breeze
from a mosquito
只一ッ耳際に蚊の羽かぜ哉
-Kobayashi Issa (小林一茶), 1793.
Trans. Ogawa Shinji.

#茶道 #teaceremony #CamelliaTeaCeremony #Kyoto #京都 #Japan #matcha #summervibes

I will be working on new and additional programming for #LeadersFromLaw training events over the course of the summer. We must have sessions on how to confront authoritarian opponents and how to win the votes and trust to win. We need progressive lawyers on school boards, town councils, county commissions and in key state offices, especially state secretary of state and state attorney general. We need progressive lawyers to run for elected judgeships and to seek appointment to the bench. 5/

The proof of humanity
has been reduced to
being able to identify fire hydrants, cross walks and traffic lights.

Did you catch the story about the Wayback Machine on CBS News Sunday Morning? 🌞 David Pogue chatted with @brewsterkahle about archiving the web, and the lawsuits from publishers & the recording industry that threaten our mission & your access to information. Watch now: https://cbsnews.com/news/the-wayback-machine-a-time-machine-for-the-web/

Enjoyed Cahokia Jazz (Spufford) and Sleepwalk (Dan Chaon) over the last couple of weeks. Audiobooks done well too. #fiction #Literature

#ThePier

@cydonian They care for their political interests. Not any principle.

@ionhandshaker This should lift your spirits https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc

The metaphor

“U.S. Pier for Gaza Aid Is Failing, and Could Be Dismantled Early”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/18/us/politics/gaza-pier-israel-aid.html

@mia 🤷🏽♂️

@codeyarns 😬 Any chance there’s a resourceful phone repair shop nearby?