“The Bangalore Ideology”, my review essay historicising #DigitalIndia, is out now in @thecaravanindia!. Thread🧵. 1/.

RT @alfgunvald: I wrote something for @BeyondSlavery on the flaws of the World Bank's technopolitics, especially as it pertains to the idea….

RT @JulianSayarer: BBC director : "Cut Kneecap, show someone else, use anyone.". BBC editor : "That Vylan guy?". BBC director : "Anyone!"….

RT @DalrympleWill: A reminder that even now, at the peak of Iran's attack, many more innocent people are being killed in Gaza than in Israe….

RT @logic: Don't be creepy. Open up to everyone about what all data you collect. #CashlessConsumer.

RT @akm1410: Pakistan’s embrace of crypto—fuelled by Chinese energy, sanctioned by the state and linked to the Trump family—has opened a ne….

I was recently interviewed in @InvestInOpen's Open Infrastructure Report on (the lack of) overlap between DPI and open infrastructures. Though DPI promoters claim openness, in practice these systems diverge significantly from stated principles.

RT @AlanRMacLeod: Heartwarming: the two worst people you know are fighting.

RT @SouthAsiaIndex: INDIA:— AI startup "BuilderAI" has collapsed after it was revealed that there was no AI in it, but 700 Indian engineers….

RT @LalehKhalili: The first letter here by China Mieville responding to Perry Anderson’s Streeck-esque anti-immigration ideas is just so su….

RT @AntonJaegermm: Not an easy read, but definitely one of the strongest Chartbooks so far .

RT @BernardsNick: Very cool to see the *absolutely massive* Cambridge Global Handbook of Financial Infrastucture out! It's all open access.….

RT @SSidespin:

Applies to DPI as much as to DOGE.

RT @RAWU_Delhi: 🚨One of the country’s largest quick-commerce platforms, @ZeptoNow, is shamelessly.imposing a system of “digital bonded labo….

RT @liamcunningham1: Microsoft has disabled the ICC Chief prosecutors email account. This is where we are.

RT @AntonJaegermm: Debord on the disappearance of bread, in one of his best passages

Just started using Slack and Discord for two different work projects (lucky me for having managed to avoid both so far). What is this stage of capitalism where a business productivity tool and a livestreaming platform for gamers have converged on exactly the same interface?.

RT @Jackbmeyer: By 2035 or so, it will become clear that AI’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

Crucial context for how we think about AI's ecological impact: "a ChatGPT query uses 0.0029 KWh of electricity. Is that a lot? Not compared to running an electric oven for an hour, which uses 4 KWh." As with most things, the problem's not personal use but industry.

RT @STS_News: The linked review is so damning. The intellectual history approach to politics is bad enough on its own. So limited in what i….