Akshita Nanda
@naraitai
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Likes Science, Policy and Stories | 📚Nimita's Place @epigrambooks |📚Beauty Queens of Bishan (Penguin Randomhouse SEA) | https://t.co/9ab0uRSlHv | She/Her
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Joined December 2012
So this happened!😊💃🏾 Thrilled and still stunned that my debut novel made it this far & in such good company! #nimitasplace
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Congratulations to @yishkabob (Lion City) and @naraitai (Nimita's Place) for winning the 2020 Singapore Literature Prize! 🎉 @sgbookcouncil
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Not gonna lie! I understand why men fight tooth and nail to uphold the patriarchy or are passive aggressive when it’s being discussed cause wdym. My breakfast lunch and dinner is premade and served, I can “help out” with childcare with no societal obligations to apart from
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These are the people who are always forgotten: the seafarers from India, the Philippines and other countries who we rely on to take goods around the world, but are underpaid and frequently abandoned at sea.
JUST IN: Three thousand ships are anchored in and around the Strait of Hormuz. Twenty thousand seafarers are aboard them. Fresh food ran out two weeks ago. Perishables are rotting in refrigerated holds whose generators are burning through the last reserves of diesel. Water is
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I met someone super smart the other day. An agency Founder, says she's been training an LLM on every single email she's ever written. Uploaded every document she's ever created. Fed in transcripts of every call that she's been on lately. And she now expects 99% of her small
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We see routines every day. Some things at home feel invisible. Who decides what a father or mother should do? Initiatives like these create spaces where team members can reflect, share, and learn from one another. #GenderEquality #TeamVoices #WorkplaceCulture #EverydayAction
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dak got quiet tonight. oog and dak and bruk at fire. bruk talking. bruk always talking. about hunt. about that throw he made. about how he definitely could beat that boar one on one even though no he couldn't. bruk: "...and THEN bruk pivot. pivot LEFT. spear in right hand. the
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i actually think “surface-level” friendships are very healthy. not everyone in your life has to be your ride-or-die. some friends are for the gym. some friends are for church. some are just for complaining about work or bureaucracy. when you stop expecting everyone to be your
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The whole marital rape discourse is deeply disturbing when you realise that a large section of men believe sexual coercion is okay but a wife saying no isn’t.
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🚨BREAKING: Every book you have ever read. Every novel that has ever been published. It is sitting inside ChatGPT right now. Word for word. Up to 90% of it. And OpenAI told a judge that was impossible. Researchers at Stony Brook University and Columbia Law School just proved
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back in my day instead of asking chatgpt, we asked a kaiju to do our homework like any other normal person
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This is a genuinely interesting story. Huge amount of automated work, potentially saving hundreds of thousands of human hours. BUT: with an error rate of 10%, and with the precise reading of *every* word mattering in such an exercise, it is meaningless, and for manuscripts of
Over 32,000 medieval manuscripts transcribed in four months using AI https://t.co/WPbmB7uVlR
#medievalmanuscripts
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Endless propaganda has convinced Americans that bombs dropping in the Middle East is “normal.” As if those families don’t have jobs, school, hopes & dreams. As if every life lost isn’t someone’s entire universe. Geographical luck. That’s the only difference between you & them.
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Human rights are absolute. Human rights are universal. Human rights are non-negotiable. Human rights are our only defence. https://t.co/b5dLahyl6A
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In the entire history of humanity, there has never been a documented ticking bomb scenario, where lives have been saved by information retrieved from tortured. That's not the point. The point of torture is to terrify, terrorise & intimidate entire populations. It's a performance.
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During the first airing of my Star Trek series where a kiss was objectionable; many southern stations pulled the episode & condemned the show. Using today’s vernacular it would absolutely be called“woke DEI crap”because it went against “norms” of society for its time. Not a lot
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The funniest thing happening in the world right now is the way the western political/media class is asking us to be shocked and outraged that Iran would attack US allies who are actively collaborating toward its destruction in an unprovoked war of aggression. It's hilarious.
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Block the straight of Hormuz for a week and the world goes mad but block the Rafah crossing for years, preventing the entry of food and humanitarian aid into Gaza and nobody bats an eye. It’s not hard to see that this world values markets, profit and capitalism over human lives.
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The response to this is rather strange. Did anyone sensible seriously think that Israel and the US could assassinate a literal head of state, and that this wouldn’t normalise…political assassinations?
IRANIAN MILITARY SPOKESMAN SAYS ISRAELI AND AMERICAN OFFICIALS AND MILITARY PERSONNEL WON'T BE SAFE IN 'RESORTS AND TOURIST CENTRES AROUND THE WORLD' AFTER IRANIAN OFFICIALS KILLED IN STRIKES - REPORTS
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Asked about the words of Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, who during a briefing went so far as to quote Psalm 144 to invoke a divine blessing on the ongoing attack, Cardinal Pizzaballa replied that “as believers we must do everything possible not to leave the discourse to them. We
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The Patriarch of Jerusalem’s address at a webinar organised by the Oasis Foundation. “We have seen in these decades of conflict what violence has produced: only further fear, resentment and hatred....
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In the dramatic circumstances of war, information must guard against the risk of turning into propaganda. It is every journalist's duty to verify the news, so as not to become a megaphone for power. They must show the suffering that war always brings to populations, which entails
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