Prateek Waghre

@prateekwaghre.com

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Digital Rights/Public Policy Researcher (technology)| past: Exec. Director @internetfreedom.bsky.social, Research: Takshashila Institution, Prod. Mgr.: Akamai Technologies| ✍️: prateekwaghre.com, techpolicy.substack.com

Many around the world trust their own country's ability to regulate the use of Al effectively % who have _ in their country to regulate the use of artificial intelligence effectively
Screenshot showing difference in actual causes of death vs what gets covered in the media in the US.
You got a lotta nerve to say you are my friend When I was down, you just stood there grinning You got a lotta nerve to say you got a helping hand to lend You just want to be on the side that's winning You say I let you down, you know it's not like that
Screenshot of an article that answers the question of whether or not the cat in Apocalypse Z survives. Image shows a grey cat in a crate.
Screenshot of the first two paragraphs from https://www.splinter.com/plagiarizing-independent-journalists-is-part-of-mainstream-medias-business.
Screenshot of cover of the book "A Revolution of Rules : The Regulatory Reform of India’s Nonprofit Sector"
Newswhip: Q1 2025 Publisher Report News content on TikTok is booming: This is especially true for hard news and even civic content. TikTok now leads all platforms in news publisher engagement, accounting for 63% of the total and leaving a once dominant Instagram behind. Hard news is back at the top of feeds, especially on Facebook and X: Fox News, ABC, CBS, and CNN saw a combined 200% increase in engagement on Facebook compared to Q1 2024, and Fox News itself had a 700%+ increase. A few giants still drive most of the attention: Just five publishers — ESPN, Bleacher Report, Daily Mail, LADbible, and Fox News — account for over half of all engagement across platforms.
Screenshot of headline which reads: ‘Unprecedented intrusion’: DOJ shreds Trump-appointed judge for letting Associated Press back into press pool, says it’s invasion of president’s ‘most intimate spaces’
Screengrab of episode listing of Ep. 54 of Ctrl-Alt-Speech podcast. A link to the episode is in the post.
Screenshot of lyrics from (Everything I do) I do it for you by Bryan Adams with 3 lines in focus: You know it's true Everything I do I do it for you
Danny Glover saying (captioned) “I’m too old for this shit.”
Screenshot of reel featuring Christopher Walken’s Weapon of Choice dance set to Chappel Roan’s Pink Pony Club talking about “dissociating” to get through 2025
The High Court also said that Wikipedia can not evade responsibility for content on its platform by claiming to be just an intermediary. “[Wikipedia] cannot completely wash its hands of the contents of the article on the ground that it is only an intermediary and cannot be held responsible for the statement that is published on its platform,” the court said in its judgement. It highlighted that the platform carries carries “higher” responsibility because it “professes itself to be an encyclopedia and people at large have a tendency to accept the statements made on [it] as gospel truth”.
**Demsas:** Let’s step back for a second. This question, though, that I have because you’re raising this question of young men feeling this resentment: Are young men becoming more sexist? Is that what you’re seeing in the data? **Evans:** I think it depends on how we phrase it. So in terms of, yes, young men are much more likely to say, *Yes, women could work. They can go out to clubs. They can do whatever they like. They can be totally free*, and young men will support and vote for female leaders. So in terms of support for recognizing women’s capabilities, absolutely, younger generations tend to be much more gender-equal, and that holds across the board. ==The only exceptions are places like North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, where there’s no difference between young men and their grandfathers.== But in culturally liberal, economically developed countries in the West and East, young men are more supportive.
3 headlines suggesting that the state government will pursue criminal action against individuals for "misinformation" about power disruptions in India's capital city.
Screenshot of a google maps notification with the text: Download maps for your trip Search & navigate in <redacted>
Screenshot with 2 parts Part 1: Lyrics from Please Please Please by Sabrina Carpenter "I heard that you're an actor, so act like a stand-up guy" Part 2: Post from the Twitter account of Hindustan Times, an english daily in India. ‘Criticism is the soul of democracy,’ says PM Narendra Modi on Lex Fridman's podcast.
Id discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it properly, you can get away with it and nobody will think you are bad-mannered or poorly brought up. They will think you are original and very witty.
It's not that we hadn't enough to eat at home, it's just that my grandmother always cooked economy joints and economy meat-loafs and had the habit of saying, the minute you lifted the first forkful to your mouth, I hope you enjoy that, it cost forty-one cents a pound, which always made me feel I was somehow eating pennies instead of Sunday roast.
Screenshot of Page 1 story from today's (2025-03-13) Indian Express about police in Hyderabad arresting two journalists for making a video about the state's Chief Minister based on a complaint made by the Congress party worker.
Lyrics Heaven is a place on earth by Belinda Carlisle: We'll make Heaven a place on Earth Ooh, Heaven is a place on Earth
Hollywood has spent a good century remaking important literature, and I am hardly the first to argue that “the book was better.” But these adaptations suggest something more expansive at work. Thanks to the scale of Netflix’s viewership and its surveillance trove of subscriber data, the company is starting to centralize the world’s moving images under a single umbrella; it is creating a platform where everything has to stream together well, playing to everyone everywhere. Márquez’s book achieved such global success because its sensibility was specific. On TV, it is one of many shows that seem to have been reverse-engineered from the needs of its parent company; it resembles the other things on Netflix more than it resembles anything in Márquez. Its story is dissolved into a world of content which exists, entirely, as its own description — a sign on a tile representing something else altogether.
Statista, meanwhile, aggregates other people’s data, makes sure it ranks highly in SEO, and then tries to get you to register or pay to see the result. I think Google should ban this company from the index, but even if you disagree, saying this is the source is like saying the source is ‘a Google search result’. Again, this is an intern-level issue.
The report also suggests that, despite Musk’s assertion there were “a lot of resources” involved, X may have inadvertently left its systems susceptible to a DDoS attack like the one that happened Monday. “X origin servers, which respond to web requests, weren't properly secured behind the company's Cloudflare DDoS protection and were publicly visible,” Wired writes. “As a result, attackers could target them directly. X has since secured the servers.”
These days, when we find flawed machine learning papers, we don't even try to correct the record. The system doesn't work. In fact, in many fields, studies that fail attempts at replication by other research groups are cited more than those that replicate successfully." The party line among scientists is that science "self-corrects, meaning that the normal process of science is sufficient to root out flawed research, but everything we've seen about the process suggests otherwise.
Screenshot with text from the page: https://judiciary.house.gov/media/press-releases/chairman-jordan-subpoenas-big-tech-information-foreign-censorship-american
WSJ lays off reporters in San Francisco, New York March 4, 2025 Posted by Chris Roush IAPE 1096, the union that represents journalists at The Wall Street Journal, released the following statement on Tuesday: IAPE members are once again outraged at the news that several colleagues, including six IAPE-represented WSJ reporters, were laid off today in the San Francisco and New York bureaus. Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones leadership continue to insist the waves of layoffs at bureaus across the country aren’t for cost cutting, but instead part of a restructuring—one which seems to have no end. Earlier Tuesday, IAPE filed a grievance disputing the separation of some reporters in the San Francisco Technology Bureau into different departments, which may have improperly impacted seniority protection.
Gradually the waiting began to feel less like waiting and more like this was simply what life was: the distracting tasks undertaken while the thing you are waiting for continues not to happen.
Say what you need to say Say what you need to say Say what you need to say Have no fear for giving in Have no fear for giving over You'd better know that in the end It's better to say too much Than never to say what you need to say again
PUBLIC COMMENT INVITED ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACTION PLAN
In Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a character is asked how he went bankrupt. “Gradually and then suddenly,” he says. So, too, perhaps with the rules-based international order that has governed relations between member states, after the dizzying first weeks of the second Trump presidency. Three years ago, when Russia invaded Ukraine, the violation of the UN Charter by a permanent member of the Security Council severely tested the principles upon which the post-war order had been built. It exposed the fragility of an open, rules-based international system founded on the three pillars: economic integration through a global trading system and international financial institutions; collective security based on sovereign equality; and self-determination. However, today, the U.S. has switched from backing Ukraine to echoing Russia in a repudiation of the Charter principles. This has dealt a body blow to the UN-based system of global governance.
But whereas India suffers from bouts of crass majoritarianism, it can be hard for Europe’s disparate coalition governments to come up with any sort of majority at all. India’s polity is sometimes over-centralised; the eu’s conversely can feel unworkable under the weight of vetoes wielded by national governments. Something for the Europeans to ponder over a biryani. What of policies that Europe could emulate? India has pioneered digital public infrastructure that works. An “India Stack” of technology now links citizens’ identity with their phones and bank accounts, making dealing with the still-hulking bureaucracy less daunting than it once was. Even more than Mr Modi, the Eurocrats should ask to meet Nandan Nilekani, an Indian tech grandee who pioneered the digital id scheme, known as Aadhaar, and the whizzy services that go alongside it. A detour to Bangalore and its startup scene would prove enlightening for the eu brigade.
Screenshot including the text from https://article-14.com/post/backlash-bailiffs-bankruptcy-the-unmaking-of-independent-public-spirited-journalism-in-india--67b2ad2229e63. This paragraph is highlighted: Criminal cases have included charges of sedition, among other grave allegations (see here, here and here). A coercion to self-censor has led to top editors resigning over differences with owners (see here, here and here). The series of arrests and incarceration (see here, here and here), as well as income tax raids (see here, here, here, here and here), including a tax raid on the Independent and Public-Spirited Media Foundation (IPSMF) that supports independent journalism across India, have continued relentlessly.
Karnataka deputy CM DK Shivakumar has said that even god cannot transform Bengaluru. “Even if god himself descends from heaven and walks on the streets of Bengaluru, nothing will change within one, two, or even three years. It can be changed only when proper planning is done and executed well,” he said. Source: NDTV, Indian Express.
In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love FRANK O’HARA
In name of freedom of speech, no one has licence to speak whatever they want against norms of society: SC to influencer Ranveer Allahbadia