Rohini Lakshané

While searching for Airbnbs, I found one named "Zamindaar's abode". Zamindaars were a feudal, exploitative, land-owning class of yore. India legally abolished the zamindaari system after the colonial British left. But here we are.

I vaguely remember seeing a "Burra Sahib's bungalow" somewhere.

F**k these companies. Is AI god? How TF are they rolling out such features?

In today's episode of AI-enabled sh*tf**kery: A text from my AirBnB host.

The listing shows there are two beds although there is only one. So, I ended up assuming the place is bigger than it is. And invited friends over. Then, I had to backtrack because there was not enough room for everyone.

Generative AI, automated abusive Mechanical Turk edition - the ongoing exploitation of low waged disadvantaged workers in the global south for data classification and moderation gives the lie to generative AI being of any ethical use at all

The vast majority of college students aren’t attending Ivy League schools, they’re grinding away at night classes in community colleges across the country. Distance and online learning has been an enormous boon for those students. “If there’s no credibility to that, then you’ve just ruined the investment and the learning goals and the access to meaningful learning that that they can then also use for employment of students who are underprivileged, who can’t come to the classroom, who are working full time and raising families and trying to get an education,” Mills said.

my other takeaway is that EdTech and technology in general has been a boon for non-traditional students. And runaway AI, left unchecked, could dilute the tech they use to succeed and learn

"The public discourse around #Manipur has swayed unpredictably. Neither mode ever managed to capture the true scale, complexity, or human cost of what was unfolding on the ground."

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An excerpt by Hoihnu Hauzel.

Speaking Tiger

#bookexcerpt

Should this cover-up be termed Scapegoatia? 🤔

#AIImpactSummit

*3 sutras and 7 chakras reference: static.pib.gov.in/WriteReadDat...

#AI #AIImpactSummit

+ We need small, resourceful, purpose-specific AI. Not an arms race of fraudulent tech. 😭😭😭

#AI #AIImpactSummit

I am back home from the AI Impact summit and I have a body ache, but I swear in the name of 3 sutras and 7 chakras, I am an automation engineer by training and I am not anti-AI. I am against snake oil AI that will crash and burn with the hype cycle and make the planet burn with it. 😭 +

My rent is due today, and I am about 100USD short

I was hoping some of the clients would clear out my payment 🥲

If you can comfortably commission me for something, from stories or buying high res versions of my photograph.

#MutualAid — I'd rather you get something from shop (than just donate!) ❣️

After the Galgotia University protest fiasco, I believe the word "galgotia" can become a new unitary measure. For example, "How to give zero galgotias about critical thinking."

പെൺ/Pen Power intertwines the dual powers of women journalists. The Malayalam പെൺ (Penn), which means Woman, captures the unique challenges women journalists face and resolve.

പെൺ/Pen Power’ is the theme for the souvenir released during the 20th National Meeting of the Network of Women in Media in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. The souvenir was released at the public meeting on 8 February 2026.

Yes, it is. I am just spreading some humour.

Beti bachao, beti pataao. As seen in Delhi.

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said.

Seems as good a time as any to remind everyone that this lets you batch delete everything you've said on a topic

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LLMs made computers innumerate and illogical. The basic jobs computers were supposed to do.

#Anthropic stole my #book

I in Delhi and I haz Dyson air purifier.

I speak Hindi fluently but f**kers figure out my non-native accent and try to take me for a ride.

I have a backache but what I see nearby on the map are spas with names such as Blue Moon with blue lights inside, and today is lou day. So, I'm not going.

My millennial friends are asking what "Delhi is Delhi-ing" means. I told them I know some GenZ lingo. 😎

Delhi is Delhi-ing. Why can't international summits be held elsewhere?

I hope we reach a point where human-made content sells at a premium and such freeloaders get wiped out.

I would indeed be a shipwreck if I went without coffee for 2 weeks.

Exclusive: Hacktivist scrapes over 500,000 stalkerware customers' payment records More than half-a-million people who bought access to phone surveillance and social media snooping apps had their email address and partial payment card numbers published online.

SCOOP: A hacktivist has scraped more than half a million payment records from a company that makes consumer-grade spyware and other phone tracking apps, exposing customers' email addresses and partial card numbers. TechCrunch verified the scraped data is authentic.

By @lorenzofb.bsky.social and me:

‘Scientific astrology’ Some quacks are interdisciplinary.

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#Astrology #pseudoscience #jyotish #Mysore

Bandar Apna Dost mixes monkey and AI to become most-viewed AI-generated YouTube channel earning crores annually - The Statesman Bandar Apna Dost, an India-based AI-generated YouTube channel, is earning crores with silent, low-effort videos

This article on AI slop is, ironically and clearly, AI-generated. www.thestatesman.com/entertainmen...

I found it because it quotes me from another publication. Articles on Medium, LinkedIn posts, news and features, everything is AI-generated now. I have stopped visiting these sites. #AISlop #AI