Satyaki Roy
@Satyaki_R
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Tweets dedicated to ideas of learning and endurance. Riffs on Nassim Nicholas Taleb and the Upanishads.
Calcutta
Joined April 2018
There's a higher probability of a campaign to call it all deep fake as deepfakes get better.
Former Paramount head and arch-genocidal Zionist Shari Redstone thinks we’ll all forget Israel’s mass murder through “interfaith” events and “sharing art.” Why not ask Israel to stop murdering babies? No, that would be impossible, apparently.
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Prison enhances priorities.
why is it always during exam week that i get hella invested in my side projects
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@lukeburgis Popper had the last word. His critics left no mark.
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten, none are undeservedly remembered." -W. H. Auden, Reading, The Dyer's Hand, 1963
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Academics make detailed notes and slog to place appropriate citations. When you love what you do the citation is most natural, footnotes are to thoughts. (All you need to check is that the book was published in 1823 in London and not 1843.)
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Wittgenstein: "a language [Esperanto] which had not 'grown organically' seemed to him [Wittgenstein] not only useless but despicable."
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“The poem is never finished, simply abandoned.” -- Paul Valery
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Common foible, people mistake books read in first week of December with whole year. Feel shy.
I really hate it when people brag about how many books they’ve read in a year. That’s why I stopped counting after I got to seventy-five.
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Imagine what the lobby been doing for decades. Robbing people of dignity to cover up ethnic cleansing and apartheid.
“My medical insurance refused to reimburse me. I have a private medical insurance and they refused to reimburse me because I'm sanctioned by the US” Francesca Albanese speaks to @mathildamall on MEE Live about the severe implications of US sanctions on an individual, such as in
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Hum se kya chhupaana. Modi ji
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When people say someone is losing the information war, they're actually losing the real war. And vice a versa.
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The decline of the West is so sweet. They are reduced to being cashiers and women such as these are nuclear scientists.
A Pakistani woman remembers her American pen pals from the 1950s asking if she lived in trees or if the sun shone in Pakistan.
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Lone tuskers are castigated in your society. But we aren't bad people.
A 108 ambulance returning after admitting a patient at Udumalpet suddenly encountered a ln aggressive wild elephant in the Chinnar forest area in Munnar. The ambulance driver calmly applied the horn and avoided any harm to the elephant as well as to the paramedics. #Kerala
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AIPAC these days gets ~100 likes on X/Twitter. After spending 100s of millions of $. Pic of a dosa would get more likes. & cost max INR 150.
🇺🇸🇮🇱
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Freedom is a method, not a goal. (Fear Wittgenstein's temper so don't tell him in case I'm wrong)
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Something funny is happening in the discourse with the inversion of terms. This is (largely) the list of brave HUMANISTS, human right activists, and compassionate people who stand against children murder, dispossession, Apartheid, ethnic cleaning, genocide, etc.
It’s that time of year - 2025 Antisemite of the Year. Vote for your top 3 candidates by Friday December 12th! https://t.co/Z03ndvnbcw
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Note how Roy doesn't need to hit no. 1 but could stay a few positions down for a very long time. (Per elite reviews, her memoir was supposed to be not as good as her books.)
Delighted to see Shattered Lands by @SamDalrymple123 and A Sixth of Humanity by Devesh Kapur and @arvindsubraman in the Top 10 of the Indian Non-Fiction category in The Asian Age! Both these books stand out for their depth, rigour, and extensive research—essential reads for
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There's a problem with you if you remember this noise.
What happened to the smartest person you went to school with?
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