469 Musing
09 Oct 2026 · the latest leaf ❦
William Hazlitt on Jeremy Bentham
source XThis is funny
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October 2026
468 Musing
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06 Oct 2026
The rage economy
source X"Rage economy" is a really nice framing
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465 Musing
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…
keep reading — 3 min ↗ 464 Link
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,…
463 Musing
02 Oct 2026
Sukumar Sen and India's First Election
source amzn.inkeep reading — 5 min ↗An act of faith Between October 1951 and February 1952, a country that had been free for barely four years asked roughly 176 million adults to choose their government. Some 85 percent of them could not read or write. Most had never voted for anything, and the world largely doubted it could be done. It was the largest election humanity had ever attempted, spread over a million square miles of mountains, deserts, jungles and…
One older leaf, brought back into the light.
368 Musing
15 Jul 2026
I got some links for you
keep reading — 4 min ↗Even if researchers could figure out exactly why chatbots embrace negative parallelism, there’s another factor that could make it very hard to fix: “When something gets into these models, it’s very hard to pull it out,” Masrour, the Pangram engineer, said. That’s because one of the main ways that AI models have continued to evolve is by training on text generated by other bots. That AI text is presumably replete with negative…