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John retweeted
Most interesting analysis beyond the honeytrap stuff is how this will impact corporate structure at Nvidia, and how that in turn will impact other companies/wider space IMO.
Could be a fairly critical moment given how much of sector is cyclical w Nvidia. Would be something if AI bubble ‘popped’ not due to capex overspend but instead due to man’s weakness of the flesh.
"Nvidia Corp.’s board is launching an investigation into whether Chief Executive Officer Jensen Huang was targeted by a foreign espionage plot after he admitted to employees that he was unfaithful to his wife." bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
bhai yeh news channel hai? aur isko journalism kehte hai?
Will the Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resign or will he continue and finish his term? Astro Sharmishtha shares her predictions.
#UnPolitics #CEC #GyaneshKumar | @AstroSharmistha @PreetiChoudhry
John retweeted
I will not be explaining this but what Zomato is to innovation, CJP is to progressive politics
Rooting for a world class R&D led innovation from India!
Hope you will continue to keep science at the heart of it @deepigoyal!
Keep going strong!
John retweeted
My money’s on the former CJI being the one feeding documents to the RW journalist for her expose.
John retweeted
Five months on, CJP seems to have lost the opportunity to politicize Indian youth in a way that challenges the political order. For that you need an organisation with an ideological vision which evokes 'value commitment'. Now it seems a self-contained civil society pressure group
what on earth is manipurians?
Everytime we have a call with the CJP North East team, it becomes impossible to hear the plight of fellow Manipurians.
They have been saying this for a while - "Bhaiyya we all feel abandoned".
I am not sure what to say in such a moment, for I can't even imagine what the people of Manipur are going through.
Let me just say this - @Cockroachisback stands in complete solidarity with the people of Manipur. We sincerely hope that peace comes to your beautiful state, for you all deserve the same happiness as the rest of India.
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Boss, everyone who stands up to the state pays a price. The price may differ, but that doesn’t make one person’s struggle more worthy of admiration than another’s. Focus on the politics and the system people are fighting, rather than romanticising individual sacrifice.
A few years ago, Ashu had a high-paying corporate job in London, earning millions. Saurav was writing about the country’s legal system and living a great life. Both had successful careers, financial security and every reason to continue living the lives they had built for themselves.
But they chose to give it all up in the hope of making this country a better place. They had absolutely no reason to leave behind their comfortable lives, take to the streets, face uncertainty and eventually end up in jail. Yet they did.
What I admire most about these two is that despite coming from privileged backgrounds, they chose to fight for those who aren’t as fortunate. They could have easily looked the other way, enjoyed their lives and never bothered about the struggles of people they had never even met. Nobody asked them to make these sacrifices. Nobody expected them to. But they did, because they genuinely care about people beyond themselves.
And to me, that is the greatest quality a human being can have. To stand up for people you don’t know, to fight battles that aren’t your own, and to risk everything you have so that someone else might have a better life.
That’s the kind of people Ashu and Saurav are.
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no doubt that KS is a learned senior counsel and a doyen of the bar but yeh kaisa flex hai aur kaun aise bolta hai bro
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We have consulted Mr. Kapil Sibal. If Ashu and Saurav are not released by tomorrow, we will pursue legal action against all those who deliberately ensured that they continue to be in illegal custody especially when they have not committed nor charged with any offence.
The deliberate use of delaying tactics to keep them behind bars cannot go unchallenged. Those responsible will be held accountable.
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John retweeted
Abhijeet has been consistently graceful.
This tweet merits some factual corrections though.
The impression being painted is that the INC/INDIA escaped persecution while CJP didn’t.
RG, PGV, Com Brittas, Mahua Moitra, countless activists- many who were part of yesterday’s march have suffered assault.
Beaten up, dragged through the streets and more.
The CJP trio was not on the streets on July 20, not on the streets on the 10th (detained) 11th (not detained).
They weren’t out there yesterday (12th) to find out if there will be assault.
The critique against CJP is *not* that they aren’t the one true heroic org.
It is that they have been disorganized, reckless and ordinary protestors have had to pay a price for it.
Protestors who turned up after CJP gave a call.
The CJP keeps side tracking that criticism by saying don’t divide stay united.
When CJP was granted permission to protest, many were quick to float conspiracy theories that we were planted by the BJP.
Yesterday, the INDIA bloc held a massive protest, but there was no crackdown like the one we witnessed on October 10.
This is exactly how the govt plays us against each other. By treating different protests differently, they create suspicion and mistrust among people who are ultimately fighting for the same cause.
My only request to everyone is to see through these tactics. Today, they may allow one protest and crush another. Tomorrow, they could reverse the roles. The idea is to keep us doubting each other instead of questioning those in power.
Don’t let conspiracy theories divide us. Don’t fall into the trap of fighting among ourselves when we should be standing together.
The fight is against Gyanesh Kumar and those protecting him. Don’t lose sight of that.
Not to fall into the trap of comparing what has always been everyday life in the margins with what is now happening at the centre, but I think we are reaching a point where approaching institutions is mostly about creating a record of their failure to provide relief.
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#BREAKING Supreme Court orders no illegal detention can take place of those peacefully gathering.
Court orders Metro & Rail Services to function normally, Internet facilities must remain undisturbed as per law and free movement of people and traffic be permitted.
Court also directed take down S.163 board outside Supreme Court, so there is no apprehension with regard to access to justice.
#SupremeCourt #CECProtest
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bravo to the lawyer but also you’ll understand why she may have been let go the moment she slipped into a dialect if you know a little about the social composition of the Delhi Police constabulary
John retweeted
From today's protest in Paris: “our children are not cockroaches”
(In La Monde - via a friend)
John retweeted
The many faces of protest. In Delhi and Haryana, leaders from Rahul Gandhi to Neha Bora to Yogendra Yadav, Deep Hooda, Brinda Karat and Derek O'Brien (at a previous protest against the ECI) face the police, water cannons, detentions and more.
In Mumbai, the @Cockroachisback team celebrates a successful rally.
The CJP has brought energy and freshness to politics, brought much of the youth together. But it is absolutely legitimate to ask questions about the visible difference in the way that this new outfit with unclear end-goals has been treated by the authorities/ the police, or to ask them about cross-solidarity.
They might want to respond with some thought rather than defensiveness, especially when many of the people asking have taken an active part in questioning this regime, and in street protests.
