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12 Oct 2026 · the latest leaf ❦
Twitter is annoying, frustrating, but still awesome
Hard agree. For all it's flaws, Twitter is still awesome
keep reading — 1 min ↗¶ 470 · a public commonplace book
Hi, I’m Bhuvan.This is my commonplace book.
It is a linkblog and digital garden for the weird, wonderful, and unexpectedly useful things I find on the internet. Read what I have kept below, wander through a subject, or visit Small Web, my directory of independent blogs.
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October 2026
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06 Oct 2026
The rage economy
source X"Rage economy" is a really nice framing
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04 Oct 2026
On brain rot
source publicbooks.orgA thoughtful essay by Mahika Dhar in Public Books on brain rot as political resistance. Please read it. I want to preface this by saying I could be wrong. This might well be a misreading of her piece. But I came away with a small confusion, and I think it's worth sitting with. A little mental exercise: replace "brain…
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03 Oct 2026
Gandhi vs Ambedkar
source www-thehindu-com.cdn.ampproject.orgkeep reading — 2 min ↗Ambedkar saw Gandhi as a timid and hesitant reformer. Orthodox Hindus, on the other hand, saw Gandhi as a dangerous revolutionary attacking the very basis of scripture and tradition. This disjuncture in viewpoints brings to mind some comments of the great black abolitionist Frederick Douglass on his great white contemporary Abraham Lincoln. In a speech of 1876, Douglass remarked that ‘viewed from the genuine abolition ground,…
One older leaf, brought back into the light.
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14 Aug 2026
Olivier Blanchard what will trigger a debt crisis in France
source Xkeep reading — 1 min ↗I keep being asked. How long can France go on with budget deficits and increasing debt until we get a crisis? The answer: I cannot tell. Not because I am particularly dumb (this is a separate issue). But because there is a potentially large danger zone, where the crisis may or may not happen, depending on the whims of investors. Given our debt and our deficit, we have probably entered the danger zone. If investors continue to…