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We all suspected this but it’s incredible to see a systematic study on the automation of caste bias in GPT-5. The harm is immense, especially when we consider India is already OpenAI’s second largest market. Screenshots of findings that will haunt me below www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

Rich countries drained $152tn from the global South since 1960 Imperialism never ended, it just changed form.

www.aljazeera.com/opinions/202...

Nepal: The Failure of Refurbished Stalinism and Maoism, the Attempts by Hindutva and Imperialism - Historical Materialism Nepal has been in the news. Gen Z agitators, who began agitations following a ban on several social media platforms, were rooted in public anger at corruption and display of wealth by government figur...

Now online: 'Nepal: The Failure of Refurbished Stalinism and Maoism, the Attempts by Hindutva and Imperialism' by Kunal Chattopadhyay.

Smita Patil in Bhumika (1977) dir. Shyam Benegal

re: the events that have taken place in #nepal over the past two days.

Nepal’s Gen-Z uprising is about jobs, dignity – and a broken development model : Peoples Dispatch The resignation of Nepali PM KP Oli, amid massive youth-driven protests has raised many questions for the people of Nepal and its once united Left. While many have accused the uprising about merely be...

19 people have been killed in the protests in Nepal

peoplesdispatch.org/2025/09/09/n...

Smita Patil in Mirch Masala (1986) dir. Ketan Mehta

dear mr. vandermeer, please consider growing some form of fungi on a copy of absolution, so that the mycelia may acquire every part of it. please and thank you. (i think merlin sheldrake did this once)

Low-angle green-tinged image of a harbour in 1929. In the background there are industrial chimneys. In the centre there is a small steamship, with clouds of steam trailing behind it. In the foreground, the sun's reflection on the wet, rocky shore.

Julia Hertäg reflects in NLR 154 on three generations of Arbeiterfilme, from the radical expressionism of the Weimar era and 1960s militancy to the damning portrayals of post-reunification Germany presented by contemporary filmmakers.

newleftreview.org/issues/ii154...

YouTube video by PSBT India Fragments of a Past

Fragments of a Past by Uma Chakravarti (2013), a documentary on the life of Mythili Sivaraman, who was deeply involved in the trade union movement in Tamil Nadu, and co-founded AIDWA.

i would really appreciate a tagging system in conjunction with a top level page for long form blogs, it would help me identify themes that begin emerging as i write :)

ousmane sembene in ceddo (1977) and faat kine (2001)

ousmane sembene in tauw (1970) and emitai (1971)

ousmane sembene in la noire de... (1966) and mandabi (1968)

Dismantling the Cancer Industrial Complex • SftP Magazine In Hasan’s telling, cancer is a disease of capitalism. It is not just that the disease symbolises the growth-addicted, violently expansionist, and self-destructive nature of capitalism. Instead, Metas...

just updating my reading list, don't mind me.
#readinglist #dialecticalbiology