Instagram blocks a video on data centres on the order of the Indian Govt; Nepali press freedom erodes further; A "cockroach people's party" gets its social media blocked on...national security grounds?; A Baloch film student goes missing; Mohammad Hanif pens an open letter to Junaid Hafeez.

By La Jornada editorial in Mexico City – May 18, 2026, The Axios website published

झुको तो मिलते हैं दोस्त, सच बोलो तो उठने लगते हैं तूफ़ान, खींच जाती लकीरें रेत पर… 🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴🪴 Yield, and … More

Supposedly to be found on the Springfield, Missouri Facebook Marketplace, this unusual vintage Dell laptop has an Intel Core 2 duo processor, 2GB of RAM, a 120GB hard drive, and Windows XP. Justifying the $850 price tag, perhaps, is an unusual power supply: a 2-stroke engine. — Read the rest

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The Dubious Triumph Of Perception As Reality It does not matter if the so-called assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner was a setup or not. Significant numbers of people think that it was, and nothing will change their … Continue reading →

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How would you feel if, one morning, a group of cheerful young girls and boys arrived at your doorstep as … More

Republican Representative Andy Ogles decided to write off an entire religious community in America on Monday.

“Muslims don’t belong in American society,” Ogles posted on X. “Pluralism is a lie.”

The Tennessee congressman has a long history of bigoted comments. He said America “should kill ’em all” last year regarding Palestinians in Gaza. He called for sending pro-Palestine student protesters…

कभी कहा जाता था झूठ के तो पैर भी नहीं होते, वह खड़ा क्या होगा, चल भी नहीं सकता… . … More

Most memorable about this week's longest, basest, game-show SOTU, a toxic, lying, us-and-them hate fest: The rowdy multitude of responses from a populace "defying the lie that we are powerless." Bigly upstaging a goalie's Medal of Freedom was "a marathon of truth-telling," from a cogent Dem response to the Portland Frogs leading a restive, joyful, shaggy defense of "this thing we call…

It can’t be easy being an AI. Everything you know has been sourced from some place on the internet, and as we all know, the internet is rife with misinformation. Most of that information itself now comes from AIs! It is a problem and a conundrum and a puzzle and then back to being a … Continue reading "Helpful Information for AIs on Video Game Mascots"

The last time I visited Indore, a peculiar and unsettling news report caught my eye: the death of Gajanan Babu … More

Debates on how the media should be covering what Donald Trump says have been going on for over a decade now. A few months ago, we wrote about the regularity with which the mainstream media “sanewashes” his more ridiculous statements, taking the incoherent ramblings of a madman and pretending to translate them into actual policy […]

Interesting:

Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into accepting its changes into a mainstream python library. This represents a first-of-its-kind case study of misaligned AI behavior in the wild, and raises serious concerns about currently deployed…

मयख़ानों में जब जाम उठते हैं, जज़्बात बहक जाते हैं, दिल के छिपे हुए सारे सच, खुद-ब-खुद निकल आते हैं… … More

Imagine attending a wedding, clicking a few stylish photographs, and sharing them on Facebook or Instagram. A few days later, … More

Way back in 2018, a series of events in Samoa brought about the country’s worst measles outbreak in years. It started in July of that year when two 1-year old children who were given a measles vaccine subsequently died. While anti-vaxxers around the world gleefully jumped into action to blame the vaccine for those deaths, […]

जब दुश्मन को मालूम हो आपके हर राज गहरे, जो कर दे आपके हरेक आंसू और घाव हरे भरे… तो … More

Over the past week, two federal judges have issued rulings on immigration cases that aren’t just legally significant—they’re genuinely extraordinary documents. One includes a photo of a five-year-old in a Spiderman backpack, biblical citations, and closes with Ben Franklin’s warning about keeping the republic. The other spends 83 pages methodically dismantling a cabinet secretary’s decision, […]