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@navneetalang.com Oh yeah, that was what I was implying

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@navneetalang.com I’m not surprised. Things have gone a bit nuts

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@navneetalang.com I dunno where that comes from. In the last few years, Andor, Somebody Somewhere, Station Eleven have all left lasting impressions on me. Just watched Widow’s Bay. It’s great! Yet somehow still felt that was time I could have spent taking advantage of my underused Criterion Channel subscription.

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@mattcarrington.bsky.social This is just the sort of poignant question that needs a Carver-esque treatment

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@mattcarrington.bsky.social Write this out as a short story

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@navneetalang.com to the contrary! It would be living under ideal conditions

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@navneetalang.com Probably is!

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@navneetalang.com Wait, this doesn’t make sense. My machine can have no positive values, only negative ones. Exercise, health eating etc. don’t factor in. Only vices.

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@phirephoenix.com Cool, I’ll be there

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@navneetalang.com It’s interesting to think about AI as interface. Will people want a chatbot as their window onto the world? Hard to predict! People thought folks would read news on their tablets like a newspaper…

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@navneetalang.com I’d likely be out of a job for one…

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@navneetalang.com agreed, and afaik already a part of existing action, negotiations

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@navneetalang.com I mean that kinda is what a homepage is in a way. We have way more content on the Star’s site that we can show on the homepage at any given time

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@navneetalang.com Editorial judgement = this is what you should know. A newsbot changes that obviously… But then digital and algorithms did that too (perhaps to our collective detriment). Just wondering about AI as the default interface

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@navneetalang.com I think I’m pondering why Taylor Swift and, say, Madonna as cultural phenomena feel very different despite both being massively popular, famous etc.

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@sharonk.bsky.social Ah ok, got it. Thanks!

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@sharonk.bsky.social Wait, can you explain this?

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@navneetalang.com One can historicize, situate in a broader material context etc. But it’s shocking that you can just log on to a social network you used to check every day and see white supremacist content being served up.

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@navneetalang.com (The data for this map was taken from the 2021 census, which means it’s skewed by lockdowns. Very likely there are also ridings in Montreal and Vancouver, as well as more ridings in Toronto, where transit is the most common mode)

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@navneetalang.com Will the Trump era ever be acknowledged for what it was? Or will there be some new addition to the polycrisis that will make such ”commemoration” seem unnecessary or like a luxury?

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@navneetalang.com Oh great - bought that book a while ago and it’s next on my list. I talked to @leifw.bsky.social for this piece on AI a couple of years ago: thewalrus.ca/ai-hype/

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@ohtheurbanity.bsky.social Living in a walkable neighbourhood, we tend to just buy groceries more than once a week. The bulk buy is more convenient in one way, but being able to pop out 2-3 times in a week for fresh stuff also has its upsides

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@navneetalang.com me too! but i’m also curious about how a machine can produce language we make sense of and that that language (or code) can still have real world effects

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@navneetalang.com always do

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@navneetalang.com haha, no genuinely thinking out loud… as I always do

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Listening to Oscar Peterson on vinyl: navneetalang.com

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The Trouble with David Schwartz: navneetalang.com

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Transportation is about bodies \"\" : navneetalang.com

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A (sort of) optimistic case for AI: navneetalang.com

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Thoughts on living through an inflection point: navneetalang.com

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Trees and Champagne: navneetalang.com

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Idle thought: some BIPOC ppl, esp 2nd gen etc, want the kind of representation of Bridgerton to satisfy a fantasy of inclusion in the dominant culture in which they live. The alternatives are narratives in different cultures, in different languages and that’s not what they want.

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“When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood” www.newyorker.com/magazine/…

\n","summary":"","url":"https://navneetalang.com/2024/04/14/when-the-hindu.html","date_published":"2024-04-14T14:40:22+00:00","author":{"name":"Navneet Alang","url":"http://navneetalang.com","avatar":"https://cdn.micro.blog/photos/96/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gravatar.com%2Favatar%2Fed4367c49aaa08085b1f3d628417c816%3Fs%3D96%26d%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fmicro.blog%252Fimages%252Fblank_avatar.png","_microblog":{"username":"navalang"}},"_microblog":{"date_relative":"2024-04-14 14:40","date_timestamp":1713105622,"is_favorite":false,"is_bookmark":false,"is_deletable":false,"is_conversation":false,"is_linkpost":false,"is_mention":false,"is_podcast":false,"note":"","syndication":["https://mastodon.social/@navalang/112270090211951575","https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:a7nj5cukjggnn5gvxj5d33lj/post/3kq3xyaddbw2a"]}},{"id":"34660016","content_html":"

Test

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Just testing something

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Does Toronto Need a Restaurant Critic? navneetalang.com

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Punch Magazine leans into the Martini hype (or re-hype? or?) with a comprehensive roundup. punchdrink.com/articles/…

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About the Martini : navneetalang.com

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On the Pleasures of Not Reading: navneetalang.com

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Media as Metonym: On E3, Auto Shows, and White Supremacist YouTube: navneetalang.com

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Stick with this ‘til the end even if you find parts of it to be too much hazlitt.net/longreads…

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Well that seems optimistic

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I’ve reluctantly spent a lot of time in malls recently. I forgot about that unease you feel while in one: all of us slowly plodding along, desperate to cobble together our own individuality from the sameness.

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Watched S1 of White Lotus. There was a message in there somewhere… but whatever it was, it was extremely subtle.

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To be Principled You Have to Avoid Pleasure : navneetalang.com

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I am these days a bit obsessed with things. Stuff. Objects.\nI am typing this little note on a new mechanical keyboard that I’m not sure I had any real need for. I upgraded my iPad despite my older one already being far more than I needed. I keep spending money that, if I were more pract... navalang.micro.blog: navalang.micro.blog

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When will there be a backlash to “immersion”? : navalang.micro.blog

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Listened to more of CBC Ideas’s series “The Shock of the New” and it’s great. It’s about “hinge years” – 1600, 1789, 1833, 1913, 1947 – admittedly arbitrary moments in global history that act at least as symbols for radical or deep change.\nIt’s satisfyingly meaty, erudite, and features ... navalang.micro.blog: navalang.micro.blog

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