Rohith Jyothish @thirdworldecon

Interesting to me that two Indian defense reporters felt compelled to make such similar points in their social media today.

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Perhaps first time in history that Hellfire missiles were used on Indian civilians. This quad partner is amazing.

NDTV @ndtv

20 hours ago

#USIranWar

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The @nytimes had published a poorly substantiated red-scare type report, with exaggerated allegations about @newsclickin. That report had been widely cited by the regime in India to demonise everyone who worked for NewsClick. Will NYT issue a correction and publish a new piece?

#AI #labour #Samsung #SouthKorea restofworld.org/2026/samsung-s…

I think many of @DAcemogluMIT's ideas about the importance of "pro-worker AI" - including policies to guide technical change to reward human expertise more - are highly useful and important. Having spent the last two days thinking and talking a lot about AI, I also feel that what we also need to do might be summarized by "General Purpose" pro-worker policies! Policies that many already like (e.g., more robust UI, wage insurance) but whose value is even higher in light of risks from AI (however large you may think they are). And this also includes thinking about new governance mechanisms and institutions that can nudge the adoption process in a "pro-worker" direction, like sectoral standards. (Great to look at countries that already have some of these mechanisms, as I talked about with folks in Sweden, where technology adoption - including AI - is something unions can negotiate over.) Anyway lots to chew on. I look forward to greater engagement on this space as it clearly is an important area of policy and institutional innovations in the present and future times.

MIT Stone Center on Inequality & Shaping Work @MITshapingwork

14 hours ago

Why isn't the market pursuing pro-worker AI? Co-director @DAcemogluMIT explains that the reasons are both economic and ideological.

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We've been running an unprecedented natural experiment running for a decade and half. 30 states have raised their minimum wages. 20 have not. What happened to pay? What happened to jobs? The good news is that it's pretty easy to figure out now. Link next post.

Omar Artan scandal reveals Gianni Infantino for what he is: one of sport’s greatest cowards | World Cup 2026 | The Guardian theguardian.com/football/2026/…

WOW, Trump administration has launched a probe into Iran war critic Trita Parsi and is considering to cancel his Green Card and deport him out of the country, The Free Press reports

When Russia hosted the World Cup in 2018, it had to suspend normal visa rules for the tournament. Foreigners with tickets could enter visa-free, using a scheme called ‘Fan ID.’ Russia also had to do weird stuff to keep FIFA’s sponsors happy. For example, small shops near Fan Zones and stadiums could only sell Budweiser beer on match days. So yes, FIFA absolutely does dictate conditions to host governments when it suits FIFA. Infantino pretending otherwise is nonsense.

Eric Njiru ⚽️ @EricNjiiru

2 days ago

Infantino was asked by a BBC journalist if he's embarrassed by what has come to pass and does he accept he's lost control of his tournament here. His response: “in 2035, the Women’s World Cup, I think, will be in the UK. Would you find it normal that FIFA will dictate to the

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This paper tries to do much. Please split it into three papers so we can reject each one individually.

the way that you translate academic research to “people” is by making public higher ed free, not by writing pop science articles

David Perell Clips @PerellClips

3 days ago

Academics write for each other, not for people. Steven Pinker has spent over four decades doing the opposite, and thinks current academic writing is "enormous wasted effort." "There's an awful lot of brilliant work, really smart people in academia. Why are they doing it? Just

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The reason why they went after Prabir Purkayastha & Newsclick is in his 2021 Caravan interview. They can't tolerate a media outlet which reports on popular movements, like of farmers and workers, which is what Newsclick did. caravanmagazine.in/media/newsclic…

Bar and Bench @barandbench

2 days ago

ED abused powers against free journalism: Delhi HC quashes PMLA case against NewsClick, Prabir Purkayastha Read Story: barandbench.com/news/litigatio…

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This is an absolutely major story and almost no Western media covered it: India's water minister CR Patil said on Tuesday that "it is certain, not a single drop of water will go (to Pakistan) in the coming years." Patil said that India is "actively working on it" after "directives" from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. As a reminder, Pakistan's dependence on water from India is close to total: the country is essentially built around the Indus river system, all of whose rivers flow through India before entering Pakistan. The Indus system irrigates 80% of Pakistan's farmland, generates a third of its electricity, supplies its major cities with drinking water, and sustains the livelihoods of some 240 million people. So, essentially, no water from India = annihilation of Pakistan as a state. Pretty damn consequential, all the more given we're talking about 2 nuclear powers here. And all the more because, understandably, Pakistan's formal position is that water diversion would constitute "an act of war" (dawn.com/news/1906310). Unfortunately, Patil's statement isn't just talk: India already set up the legal framework to make this possible. Last year, they unilaterally suspended the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, despite the treaty containing no withdrawal clause. It used to be the one piece of India-Pakistan relations that worked, and had survived multiple wars and over six decades of hostility. Now India is saying officially that it will "never be restored" (aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/22…). The one mitigating factor here is physics: you don't just "turn off" a major Himalayan river system. Diverting rivers of this magnitude means building massive storage and canal infrastructure in Himalayan terrain: projects measured in years. But India IS ACTUALLY BUILDING that infrastructure: for instance it just approved in May the building of the so-called "Chenab–Beas Link Tunnel," an 8.7km ₹2,352 crore (~$280M) tunnel designed to divert water from the Chenab basin into India's Beas river system. The Chenab is one of the main tributaries of the Indus - and one of the three "western rivers" (Indus, Jhelum, Chenab) allocated to Pakistan under the 1960 Indus Water Treaty. Which means that, unfortunately, Patil's "not a single drop of water in the coming years" looks like a roadmap: the infrastructure to strangle Pakistan's water supply is being approved and tendered in plain sight. This is also a story about selective media coverage and double standards: I'm willing to bet that 99% of people in the West have never heard of any of this. Now make this thought experiment: imagine China announced it was building infrastructure to cut off every drop of water flowing to India and its ministers proclaimed on television that "not a single drop" would cross the border. It would be wall-to-wall coverage, sanctions packages, and a thousand op-eds about Beijing "weaponizing water." Heck we don't need to imagine because the simple fact of China merely building a hydropower dam on the Yarlung Tsangpo (the upstream Brahmaputra) generated exactly the wall-to-wall alarm I'm describing, even though China threatened nothing and even though Indian officials said the threat is a "myth" given the fact that the river gathers most of its volume inside India from monsoon rains (tribuneindia.com/news/india/pak…). Malign intent was still presumed from the act of construction, because it's China. In India's case, the intent couldn't possibly be clearer: it's proclaimed by ministers on the record, and backed by India's actions. But because they're a courted Western partner, what they're doing - arguably the most extreme form of economic warfare imaginable, directed at a nuclear state - largely gets silence. Src for screenshot: tribune.com.pk/story/2612412/…

Newsclick shut down, journalists lost their jobs - young reporters were called suspects. There should be an enquiry against the delhi police and ED officers in charge and should be made to pay damages

Manisha Pande @MnshaP

3 years ago

NewsClick founder Prabir Purkayastha and HR Head Amit Chakravarty have been arrested. Delhi Police statement doing the rounds says a total of “39 male suspects and 9 female suspects” were questioned. As we had reported earlier, these “suspects” include young reporters and

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Remember when people would work in ""Data"" ""Science"" and have an MS in ""Data"" ""Science"" and act like this was some sort of prestige career

@cszabla Finding quant large n results confirming a qual finding is a useful contribution on its own. Key issue is that they "ignore" the historical paper and present findings and theory as their own original thought.

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Report @TheAthleticFC There’s been a lot of public money spent in the US towards this World Cup. Here’s a mad one: the $25.8m spent by Kansas City to get a jail ready for the World Cup, only for it not to be ready by the World Cup… nytimes.com/athletic/73099…

I've spent months rethinking and rebuilding my programming languages course from scratch for the agentic coding era. I wrote myself a memo explaining what I'm doing. I figure others might be interested in the redesign, so here goes! Feedback welcome ofc. docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

Iran’s Football Federation announced today that their entire World Cup ticket allocation has been withdrawn days before the tournament. Under World Cup regulations, each participating federation is allocated around 8% of saleable stadium capacity.