मुस्कुराइए आप क़तार में हैं! https://twitter.com/i/status/1686616513846075392 video

अगर आपको लगता है कि एक ज़ोंबी की बंदूक़ चार लोगों के खून पर रुक जाएगी तो आप क़तार में हैं!

अगर आपको लगता है कि नंगी औरतों के जिस्म को नोचते, खसोटते हाथ वहीं रुक जाएँगे तो आप क़तार में हैं!

यह रक्तपिपासु भीड़ पहुँचेगी आपके घर, आपके परिवार, आपके बेडरूम तक और नारा लगाएगी “अगर हिंदुस्तान में रहना है तो ……”

ChatGPT : Simple questions, not-so-simple answers By Raag Delhi - 27/04/2023  https://www.raagdelhi.com/chatgpt-manoj-pandey/  ChatGPT is an advanced chatbot.

Notice how the computer has moved from blurting out ready-made answers to generating responses, because it has been trained to do so; and from being dumb to understanding the human language and responding in the same way (in a way, becoming autonomous). When the chatbot is that powerful, it is ChatGPT: a chatbot that is Generative Pre-Trained Transformer...  Research on ‘understanding’ the human language is also in use for some years. For example, Google has evolved an advanced language model, called LaMDA, which is being used by it for producing relevant search results. Google has also released ‘Bard’, a language tool similar to ChatGPT. 

Making use of the capabilities of GPT technology, many apps and programs are being developed for doing professional tasks (e.g. coding, video and image editing, market research) in a jiffy and often with little professional skills.

GPT and search engines work differently. In response to user queries, the search engine gives out actual resources on the web, in the form of links, small snippets, images, videos, etc. On the other hand, a GPT tool uses the information fed into it (mostly in the form of web resources) and generates its own responses based on its training and other factors.

Bhima Koregaon: Bombay High Court hears fresh bail plea of Gautam Navlakha https://www.newsclick.in/bhima-koregaon-bombay-high-court-hears-fresh-bail-plea-gautam-navlakha Sarah Thanawala | 05 Aug 2023

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Navlakha was arrested on August 28, 2018, for his alleged involvement in the Elgar Parishad–Maoists links case. While he was initially kept under house arrest, he was subsequently sent to judicial custody, in April 2020.

Kerala: Congress, BJP Oppose Speaker’s Comments on Pseudo Science, CPI(M) Refutes Allegations of Hurting Religious Beliefs Neelambaran A | 05 Aug 2023

The speaker warned students in a school in Kannur recently to be aware of pseudoscience being insisted as facts.   Responding to questions from the students, one of which was about the invention of aeroplanes, he said that it was Wright Brothers, but for believers of Hindutva, it is Pushpaka Vimana. Shamsheer also accused the Hindutva ideology of propagating myths in place of science.

Four days later, on July 25, a district-level BJP leader filed a case in Thiruvananthapuram against the speaker for insulting Hindu beliefs. The complainant alleged that the speaker violated the constitutional oath.

The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) is among the outfits jumping in to condemn Shamsheer, along with their ideological enemies, the Sangh Parivar.

The past nine years since the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) assumed power in 2014 have witnessed staggering claims about the existence of genetics, stem cell technology, plastic surgery and aeroplanes in the ancient Vedic period

Dam Safety in HP: Himachal floods have spotlighted the problems with hydropower dams. https://www.newsclick.in/hp-malana-dam-gates-still-not-operational-govt-must-ensure-safety-hydropower-projects

 Malana hydropower project in Kullu district is currently in the news for still being unable to open the dam gates, which have been blocked by the considerable muck and debris upstream. It has been over a week, but the gates are still not operational.

There are several hydropower projects in Himachal Pradesh being run by private players;  Then there are micro-hydropower projects constructed by private players, also called Independent Power Producers(IPPs). All the IPP hydropower projects are run with a run-of-the-river dam technology, which means these are not large dams. However, malfunction of the dams or their gates being locked can create a cascading effect downstream.

Indians Must say no to Hate-Filled News  https://www.newsclick.in/indians-must-say-no-hate-filled-news SN Sahu, the former Officer on Special Duty to ex-Indian President KR Narayanan . 05 Aug 2023, delves into the perilous intersection of media, hate, and violence.

Five days before India’s independence, on 10th August 1947, Mahatma Gandhi, speaking at a prayer meeting at Sodepur, warned, “If this wretched spirit of communalism had entered the police force, the prospect was bleak indeed”. Therefore, he said he “hoped that the police would realise the dignity of their profession”.

Seventy-six years after Gandhi’s dire predictions about the poisonous communal spirit within the police, the nation is witnessing the horrors of communalism guiding this armed force—be it RPF constable Chetan Singh or the police personnel in Manipur who are being accused of having handed over three Kuki women to a hostile crowd that sexually assaulted and paraded them.

Communal hatred's alarming consequences are being exposed in the violent incidents in Haryana and Manipur. The media's role, particularly 'godi' outlets known for their divisive content, is under scrutiny.

A Supreme Court bench of Justices KM Joseph and Hrishikesh Roy, while hearing a clutch of petitions on alleged hate speech via some TV shows, observed on 22 September 2022 that the visual media is the “chief medium of hate speech” and wondered why the government of India is treating it as “a trivial matter” and “standing by as a mute witness when all this is happening.”

The bench observed that hate speech in different forms “has the effect of ridiculing a community” and can have a “devastating effect.”

Universal Basic Income: Making Omelette Without Breaking Egg? Prabhat Patnaik | 05 Aug 2023 (https://www.newsclick.in/universal-basic-income-cooking-omelette-without-breaking-egg

 noted economist Prabhat Patnaik: If UBI is interpreted merely as a set of cash transfers, whether uniform or graded across individuals, then it does not necessarily achieve a real UBI, which is the objective behind instituting it.

a right to UBI, in real terms, cannot possibly mean anything other than a set of specific constituent individual rights, such as a right to health, a right to education, and such other rights.

 instituting they five universal rights . the right to food, the right to employment, the right to free quality healthcare through a National Health Service, the right to free quality education and the right to a universaold-age pension and disability benefits, would cost, in addition to what is already spent from the budget on these items, an additional 10% of GDP. ..To raise the government should be willing to tax the rich. This is virtually beyond the capacity of the bourgeois system, and hence beyond the conception of liberal economists.

Mumbai Citizens Condemn Train Firing, Haryana Communal Clashes; Accuse RSS & BJP Of Spreading Hatred https://www.freepressjournal.in/mumbai/mumbai-citizens-condemn-train-firing-haryana-communal-clashes-accuse-rss-bjp-of-spreading-hatred The speakers at the press conference condemn ruling parties for instigating riots and disrupting the peace and harmony in the country. FPJ News ServiceUpdated: Thursday, August 03, 202

Speakers said that it was "RSS, BJP and Godi media'' that were to be blamed for the spread of hatred and the rioting.

Maulana Mehmood Dariyabadi lamented the fact that hatred had seeped into the younger generation and sought a government to stop it for peace and harmony of the nation

Maulana Ruhe Zafar "Had the person Manesar been punished for his earlier crime, the problem would not have been this bad. It is the job of the Prime Minister and other ministers to keep people safe. 

Swami Ved Atmavesh said that it was shameful that top leaders including the President were not making any statements. "Even the opposition has no dam (punch). The government should focus on giving roti, kapda makaan to people instead of doing this,

A Salute to Achyut Yagnik, the One-Man Storehouse of Knowledge on Gujarat https://thewire.in/society/a-salute-to-achyut-yagnik-the-one-man-storehouse-of-knowledge-on-gujarat

He was always “Achyut Bhai”, always available for a spot of conversation, or a dialogue if you preferred, or a declamation if you had the discipline of patience. Either way, it was always a rewarding encounter.

(SETU – Centre for Social Knowledge and Action) resembled an ashram in its bare austerity but suggested the ambience of a coffee house, where over many cups of syrupy tea – and the smoke of his never-extinguished cigarette – the visiting interlocutor could get tutored into the nuances of the latest developments, be it the Navnirman Movement, the anti-reservations riots of 1981, the 1985-86 communal flare-up, the anti-Narmada dam movement, the 1990-92 Ayodhya violence, or the horrible, horrible 2002 carnage.

Achyut Bhai himself personified the very idea of a robust civil society – keeping a firm distance from the wielders of power in Gandhinagar yet willing to engage with “authority” on behalf of the poor and the underprivileged. He was available to any NGO, any movement, any group wanting to correct this or that economic injustice in any part of Gujarat