Sandeep Mertia
@SandeepMertia
Asst Prof, STS @followStevens • formerly @AnnenbergPenn @mccNYU & Sarai-@CSDSdelhi • retired enthu cutlet • http://sandeepmertia.bsky.social
📣 #LivesOfData is now live! 🎉 <networkcultures.org/blog/publicati…> I’m thrilled to announce that the book is now available for download in ePub and PDF formats, and for print-on-demand orders. Please share widely!
Obviously using chatbots makes you more dumb, everyone is skipping over the funniest part: the study authors are such dedicated LLM haters they set up traps to expose AI users lol
MIT just studied how ChatGPT impacts our brains time.com/7295195/ai-cha…
Twenty-five family business groups account for 15–20% of India’s GDP. It's a list that has remained largely unchanged in the last 25 years.
Udaan was the first movie I watched with friends in the first semester of college! Looking back, it feels like a relic of a post-liberalization India that was, perhaps for a brief cultural moment, open to crafting new selves, instead of clinging to reactionary strongmen.
15 Years of this masterpiece 🎬 Udaan
Zizek meme material ✨
🚨 District-wise per capita income of India.
Bihar as the Laboratory of Electoral Mismanagement: Rethink Aadhaar Statement on the Special Intensive Revision of Voter Rolls rethinkaadhaar.in/blog/2025/7/7/…
India is not the 4th most equal country in the world. We re-did correct & comparable calculations: India ranks 176 (& not 4) out of 216 on income inequality. On calorie consumption inequality, it ranks 102 out of 185. I explain this in @thewire_in m.thewire.in/article/econom…
This week on Platypus, Eric Orlowski and Juan Forero-Duarte offer an ethnographic comparative study of metaphorical Silicon Valley's within local contexts of Sweden and Columbia using Yuk Hui's (2017) cosmotechnics as framework. Read this piece at: blog.castac.org/2025/07/excava…
Wait till you find about about non-metropolitan salaries & non-labor-arbitrage-centric global tech imaginaries… ✨ (yeah, I should be writing 😌)
#CITYSTICS | The average annual salary of a #softwareengineer in #Bengaluru is about a fourth of Beijing and a tenth of Silicon Valley. Even compared to the global average, it's only about one-fourth Read more in today's Times Of India print edition 📰toi.in/epaper
🥳🥳🥳 Aj mera jee karda - kaawa kaawa - monsoon wedding youtu.be/i66vQ2EM9Z0?si…
Why Wall Street fears a 33-year-old political outsider on.ft.com/4kSqGA8
Oh, Twitter, do you remember when you were just a “micro-blogging” website with lots of innocent egg-faced profiles, before becoming a 🗑️🔥? Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary
It can’t prove date of birth, it can’t get you a passport, it can’t save you from getting pushed out forcibly to Bangladesh. My high-school mark sheet did all three, without any digilocker mumbo-jumbo. What is Aadhaar good for then? Genuine question.
Updated: So now Passport Seva does not rely on #Aadhaar-- it is hugely faked, says the officer. So you are FORCED to download digilocker to verify with @UIDAI ! What a complex web was spun by @NandanNilekani when he convinced both #DrManmohanSingh #UPA and @narendramodi (who was…
“Last year, a Boeing engineer also raised concerns about the Dreamliner, saying that sections of the fuselage, or body, of the plane were improperly fastened together and could break apart mid-flight after years of use.” nytimes.com/2025/06/12/bus…
Limn 12, Climate's Interiors, has dropped online. Get it now for free at the link below or in bio. Limn works because of authors, readers, and issue co-editors, everyone collaborating in our new approach to peer review. limn.press/issue/climates…
If Hubert Dreyfus were alive, he perhaps would’ve written ‘What Computers—despite all the broligarchic accelerationism & data/carbon death drive—can’t do…’ ✨
BREAKING: Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all. They just memorize patterns really well. Here's what Apple discovered: (hint: we're not as close to AGI as the hype suggests)
‘Builder.ai, once touted as a revolutionary AI startup backed by Microsoft, has collapsed into insolvency after revelations that its flagship no-code development platform was powered not by artificial intelligence—but by 700 human engineers..’ businesstoday.in/technology/new…
"Across India’s universities, patents and research authorships are quietly being sold to the highest bidder—no contribution required. Behind it lies a pay-to-publish ecosystem fuelled by ranking pressures, academic incentives, and zero oversight." the-captable.com/2025/05/resear…
