Adarsh Mathew

I often teach the Ford Pinto case in class, where Ford calculated it would be cheaper to let people die from explosions caused by faulty cars than fixing the cars in a recall, as an example of utilitarianism's limitations with human rights This is the genocide version of that

She was close to six months old at the time - a child that age would have doubled or even tripled their birthweight. Cannot imagine what her parents went through watching her waste away before their eyes.

Privileged Bengalis who flex machher jhol egg roll and football in the name of Bengali identity now need to speak out against the crack down on Bengali migrants. This is an attack on the Bengali identity too and we cannot let the most vulnerable among us bear the brunt of it

Again, pretending to find a conscience now, as we enter the endgame stage of a genocide you did PR for, is not going to wash. The BBC should never be forgiven for its complicity, its self-censorship, and how it allowed itself to be pushed around by lobbyists to hide the truth.

The story is that 1000s of Bengali speaking migrant workers are fleeing cities fearing arbitrary detention, torture and deportation to Bangladesh. This is how our elite media reports it - a garbage collection problem. NO WORDS

If this figure is confirmed, this is a mass disenfranchisement - mass. The wildest suggestions cannot argue that 10% of the population of a state like Bihar came from elsewhere.

India's environment ministry mandarins really need to explain why they should not all be fired -- and their ministry shuttered. None of them do anything for the environment anyway. Read this angering report.

“But between Avni and that packet of panjiri, an energy-rich nutritional supplement for expecting mothers, stood a technological barrier that seemed insurmountable: facial recognition technology that couldn't tell she was the same woman whose photograph existed in the system.”

This is something almost no one seems to understand in what passes for 'intelligentsia' in india -- incl judiciary and media -- where invocation of "national interest" is basically end of questioning, conversation over.

A few people have asked me if a technical fix for AI model sycophancy is on the cards. In fact, a technical fix for sycophancy is trivial. In many cases all it would take is a tweak to the system prompt. The reason companies are struggling to get this right is not technical.…

Some of us have been screaming our lungs out since the last 5-6 years that the unjust Assam model of NRC/Doubtful Voter will soon be replicated in other states. But forget about the RW, even most liberals couldn’t care less.

horrors beyond comprehension

Job placement in the US for international Computer Science graduates has fallen to almost zero. Many of the universities involved should probably forgive tuition and student loan debt for these graduates. Many are likely to default on the loans and go back home anyway.

This is not how things should work in a democracy, but this is exactly how things are happening. Egregious and illegal forced displacement of people for being suspected Bangladeshis which has put their lives at risk. Please inform yourselves about how in India the marginalized…

Paraphrasing a locked account I saw this quote tweeted on, but Trump is shilling his most unpopular piece of legislation of all time, and just bombed Iran (also widely hated). Dem leadership spending any amount of time smearing Zohran right now tells you all you need to know

highest risk research institutions just came out 9/10 in the top 10 are indian universities - really shameful

I know a lady her 80s who was a leftwing sociologist and activist for decades and now that she's stuck in the house watching TV all day you can see the moral panic stuff (e.g. about trans people, but also "law and order" issues, immigration, etc.) slowly setting in

crack dealers bragging about how much crack they've sold

America so deindustrialized we don’t even manufacture our own consent

There was a time this country erupted over Nirbhaya! So when did the collective conscience of this country die, that we accept such horrors as just another headline? Either you stopped caring now Or you never did before…