Avinash ಅವಿನಾಶ್

@tnavinash.bsky.social

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Biochemist turned high school science teacher.

"Colombia’s outgoing president, Gustavo Petro, has accused an Israeli cyber intelligence company of meddling in the country’s recent election, in which a far-right, pro-Israel candidate beat his leftwing rival by a margin of less than 1%. The firm, BlackCore, allegedly waged a disinformation campaign against both Petro and his ally Ivan Cepeda, who was running for the presidency against the US and Israel’s preferred candidate, Abelardo de la Espriella." https://novaramedia.com/2026/07/15/colombias-outgoing-president-says-israeli-firm-meddled-in-election/
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas except the kid in the Omelas Hole is Elon Musk. He's been there for centuries. Nobody leaves when they find out.
Want some reminders of how fucking terrible this idea is? https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/true-cost-solar-power-night-reflect-orbital/https://theconversation.com/a-us-startup-plans-to-deliver-sunlight-on-demand-after-dark-can-it-work-and-would-we-want-it-to-264323https://darksky.org/news/organizational-statement-reflect-orbital/ Journalists: please write about how dangerous this is. Lawyers (especially if you're based in the US): please help fight this, it will take legal action now
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK NOOOOO https://ca.pcmag.com/news/16760/fcc-approves-reflect-orbitals-giant-mirror-satellite-that-astronomers-hate
Palantir tracks everyone. So we built a site that tracks Palantir. They've been watching us. Now we can watch them. Contracts. Lawsuits. Executive pay. Global footprint. Lobbying activity. Media strategies. All in one place. ›› https://palantirwatch.org#privacy#government#surveillance#technology#osint
"The strongest government in decades appears strangely powerless before the one problem it once claimed it was uniquely capable of addressing: Corruption. When the extraordinary power that the Prime Minister has encounters extraordinary silence and inaction on the issue of corruption, it tells a damning story."
A scientist, a philosopher, and a poet walk into a bar. They all drink heavily to try to forget the state that society is in.
Connect the dots: July 2, 6, 9 news. Lakhs removed across states due to SIR. Crawling slow tribunals. Lakhs in queue with papers. A lot of fellow Indians in Trishanku's hell (not heaven). Soon to happen in Karnataka too.
The burden of proving citizenship has quietly shifted from the State to the individual. The Constitution envisions citizenship as a matter of equal personhood, not an endless demand for documentary proof. Paperwork should establish identity, not determine belonging. In a constitutional democracy, citizenship rests on constitutional principles of equality and personhood, not the accident or availability of official documents.
Current El Nino, on top of human-caused climate change, could mean global avg temp could breach 2C of warming. While scientists have long braced for climate change, the growing severity of its impacts is shocking them. Excellent deep dive @eroston.bsky.social. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2026-extreme-heat-climate-change-data/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc4MzMzNjUzMSwiZXhwIjoxNzgzOTQxMzMxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUSFFSR0tLR0NURlQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIwQzg4NkY0NTI0NzY0RUE0OEY2QTk4RTk1NDc5RTI2NSJ9.38vouxpiJYi_MnxDIs9MfFMmtS1ArUuLaYWpQyqDU9w
This is fab. No Web Without Women: A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology. https://nowebwithoutwomen.com/#ComputerScience#Web#Internet#Tech
Free Software, Free Society This slogan was always the last sentence of my presentations introducing free software. Presentations whose topics were coordinated to be held at the global #LibrePlanet conference (https://libreplanet.com/) at Shiraz University (https://shirazu.ir/). But destiny turned out this way, and this conference was planned and executed in Shiraz Prison instead of Shiraz University. Of course, at that time, Shiraz Prison served as a university for us; a space full of artists, engineers, doctors, and educated people, each of whom was imprisoned on charges of acting against national security or political activity. It was a joke we always made. We used to say that with this many restrictions and warnings from regulatory and governmental bodies, we would eventually be forced to hold the conferences in prison. I have signed undertakings regarding the margins of events many times, and on several occasions we were prohibited from attending relevant centers by judicial orders. It was the accumulation of these very incidents that moved our venue from universities and innovation centers to coffee shops and parks. But in the end, that same bitter joke of ours became reality, and this time it was prison's turn to host free software events and conferences.
"Spotify's effective payout averages roughly $0.003 to $0.005 per stream... By contrast, Bandcamp pays artists roughly 82% of each sale. A direct $10 album sale can exceed revenue from thousands of streams. Buying music or books directly from artists, whether physical or DRM-free digital, is one of the most direct ways to support them." Artists are likely better off when you #buy one album (and #pirate the rest) than from your #streaming#subscription!#music#capitalismhttps://dervis.de/physical/