Pranesh Prakash
@pranesh
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Tech law & policy adviser. #a2k #privacy #FoE #AI #infosec #FOSS #a11y zhōngyōng & anēkāntavāda. Past: @cis_india/@yaleisp
Madras, Tamil Nadu, India
Joined July 2007
I've a paper out in @IPPRJournal on content blocking and Internet shutdowns in #India from the perspective of international human rights law. Comments welcome. Do share widely! PDF: https://t.co/AgGNJszgSN HTML: https://t.co/LqhMVY812x
#FoE #censorship #IHRL
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I just tried Gemini CLI with Gemini 3 Pro (preview). It's just amazing to be able to provide an AI assistant access to a whole local git repo, especially when it can run commands and use error messages to debug. I now totally get the hype over such code assistants. #genAI
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the story behind what actually led to the alcohol ban in Saudi Arabia is wild
Saudi Arabia quietly expands access to its only alcohol store for non-Muslim residents https://t.co/SdpPqqZ5R3
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It wasn’t DNS. It wasn’t BGP. It’s actually #NTP this time (pun intended). https://t.co/iQhAGhj6PO
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May the copyright police never catch up with AA for preserving the common (digital) heritage of mankind.
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If you're someone who's never used a version control system (to track and manages changes to files, primarily text files and code), this is probably the best introduction you're going to get: https://t.co/D2VpRflLna
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Werner Herzog being interviewed in the outtakes of the mockumentary “Incident at Loch Ness” about why he refuses to speak French.
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Pervasive cameras (incl. CCTV cameras) help contradict the lies of murdererous authorities, as long as they're not the ones in control of the footage. #surveillance #sousveillance #security #privacy #cctv #evidence
So, they killed a 16-year-old, then got caught lying (again). Imagine how much they lie about that doesn’t get caught on tape.
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So, they killed a 16-year-old, then got caught lying (again). Imagine how much they lie about that doesn’t get caught on tape.
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I can understand why large corporations end up using things like Microsoft Word. But I honestly don't understand why research orgs force everyone to use Microsoft Word as well. How does that make any sense? Why not create Typst/LaTeX/Quarto templates?
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I can understand why large corporations end up using things like Microsoft Word. But I honestly don't understand why research orgs force everyone to use Microsoft Word as well. How does that make any sense? Why not create Typst/LaTeX/Quarto templates?
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@pranesh The language of offence-culture is a literalist fundamentalism. There is a crazy war on metaphor, despite the fact it is a key part of all languages and how they develop.
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The US has reached a grim milestone — over 100 killings from strikes on boats in the Caribbean and Pacific. These are extrajudicial killings, plain and simple.
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We used to live in a world where the US ignored ICJ and WTO rulings that it didn't like and launched wars of aggression without Security Council authorization. And no one could do anything. Now we're live in a world where no one even questions it.
Shying away from Gramsci, @DMiliband of @RESCUEorg sounds the death knell of the rules-based order. He tells me: "I think we’ve passed a tipping point from the old order. We can no longer say that the rules-based order is the defining anchor of the global system and that there
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"Double-blind study" isn't an "ableist" metaphor. Removing all references to sensory impairments from everyday language is more ableist since it stigmatises sensory impairments and also paints persons w/ disabilities as overly sensitive. #ableism #disability
Can I get people in #scholarlypublishing to join me in using the phrase “mutually anonymous peer review” instead of “double blind” to avoid reproducing ableist metaphors? And also because it just makes more immediate sense?
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How is that researchers in their 30s don't know how to use heading levels in documents? Making something bold is not the same as creating a heading!
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Amtrak had a lot of fanfare around its fancy new trains that can go 160 mph, but it turns out that the limiting factor is the super-outdated track infrastructure, so the actual speed hasn't changed much, averaging 65 mph. Whenever I hear about an amazing new productivity
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Did you know that Chevron is still allowed to operate in Venezuela, despite all the US sanctions and blockade? And Chevron pays no tax or royalties to Venezuela! It refines about a third of Venezuelan oil and ships them to the US. US foreign policy is like the Mafia.🤨
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