A. Das
@rohandas.bsky.social
Writer, editor, digital programmer, sometimes movie critic. CMS@MIT, CRC@NYU. Editorial/programming: @TEDTalks, @io9, @slant_magazine, @livemint, @SundayGuardian. NYC/Kolkata.
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THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so:
February 9, 2026 at 4:31 PM
THE LAST DRAGONERS OF BOWBAZAR limited ed N. American hardcover is officially out of print, & no longer available. My BFA-winning book about a family of interreal refugees in 90s/00s Calcutta is still available as an ebook, & a paperback in S. Asia. Shares appreciated, reads even more so:
Lovely. Right on cue. The rich freak shows will have us all dead before letting their stupid fucking investments go. There needs to be full disclosure of ‘AI’ involvement in surgical practices.
When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured”
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts
Medical device makers have been rushing to add AI to their products. While proponents say the new technology will revolutionize medicine, regulators are receiving a rising number of claims of patient ...
www.reuters.com
February 10, 2026 at 12:09 PM
Lovely. Right on cue. The rich freak shows will have us all dead before letting their stupid fucking investments go. There needs to be full disclosure of ‘AI’ involvement in surgical practices.
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I dream of having enough stability in our culture that anyone who wants to can pursue the arts, but the meaning comes from that pursuit, from translating human experiences through skills acquired over time. Art is labor, but it isn't just some commodity that can be pulped and reconstituted.
February 6, 2026 at 5:39 PM
I dream of having enough stability in our culture that anyone who wants to can pursue the arts, but the meaning comes from that pursuit, from translating human experiences through skills acquired over time. Art is labor, but it isn't just some commodity that can be pulped and reconstituted.
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Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM
Every instance of "AI democratizes the arts, you're classist and ableist and a gatekeeper for trying to stop it" is a slap in the face to the literally centuries of poor, disabled people making art on the margins and a crass lie in service of a machine that strips down and regurgitates dreams
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We could fix a lot of things if we agreed as a society that proximity to money is not an measure of merit, and at certain scales, it is in fact a pretty reliable indicator of lack of merit.
February 6, 2026 at 6:43 PM
We could fix a lot of things if we agreed as a society that proximity to money is not an measure of merit, and at certain scales, it is in fact a pretty reliable indicator of lack of merit.
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They are systematically trying to take away our art, our culture, our community. They are disassembling, brick by brick, page by page, seat by seat, the places we go to experience moments of joy, empathy, hope, collective grief, connection.
February 4, 2026 at 2:32 PM
They are systematically trying to take away our art, our culture, our community. They are disassembling, brick by brick, page by page, seat by seat, the places we go to experience moments of joy, empathy, hope, collective grief, connection.
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Some thoughts on one of the greatest to ever do it: decider.com/2026/01/31/r...
Remembering Catherine O’Hara: On 'SCTV' and elsewhere, when she was on screen no one was funnier
We were lucky to be able to experience her talent.
decider.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Some thoughts on one of the greatest to ever do it: decider.com/2026/01/31/r...
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unreal that they are both gone now www.youtube.com/watch?v=fggX...
Midnight at the Oasis - Waiting for Guffman HD
YouTube video by artfilm33
www.youtube.com
January 30, 2026 at 7:22 PM
unreal that they are both gone now www.youtube.com/watch?v=fggX...
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⚠️ Trade Offer ⚠️
I get: 20,000 leather jackets and a free pass to continue ruining the economy and wages.
You get: A fun, exciting return to backbreaking manual labor.
I get: 20,000 leather jackets and a free pass to continue ruining the economy and wages.
You get: A fun, exciting return to backbreaking manual labor.
January 23, 2026 at 5:44 PM
⚠️ Trade Offer ⚠️
I get: 20,000 leather jackets and a free pass to continue ruining the economy and wages.
You get: A fun, exciting return to backbreaking manual labor.
I get: 20,000 leather jackets and a free pass to continue ruining the economy and wages.
You get: A fun, exciting return to backbreaking manual labor.
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I've found religion
Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure
January 20, 2026 at 1:52 AM
I've found religion
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Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
January 18, 2026 at 5:29 PM
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
MBA geniuses strike again. Bunch of dudes so illiterate they think an engine that can summarize ten line emails to five for them has got to be sentient.
January 17, 2026 at 11:38 AM
MBA geniuses strike again. Bunch of dudes so illiterate they think an engine that can summarize ten line emails to five for them has got to be sentient.
Genuinely huge and paradigm-shifting if this becomes consistent policy as opposed to occasional gesture. Art is not a disposable luxury, especially now.
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:15 AM
Genuinely huge and paradigm-shifting if this becomes consistent policy as opposed to occasional gesture. Art is not a disposable luxury, especially now.
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on tuesday night i held several of the world's greatest filmmakers hostage for a 15-minute speech about what critics & artists owe to each other in the age of rapid enshittification. i'm not entirely sure why i did that.
anyway you can read it here if you want to: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
anyway you can read it here if you want to: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
January 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
on tuesday night i held several of the world's greatest filmmakers hostage for a 15-minute speech about what critics & artists owe to each other in the age of rapid enshittification. i'm not entirely sure why i did that.
anyway you can read it here if you want to: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
anyway you can read it here if you want to: www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...
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AI guys are like we can’t use it to cure cancer but we can suck all the joy and purpose out of life so that dying isn’t sad
January 6, 2026 at 6:01 PM
AI guys are like we can’t use it to cure cancer but we can suck all the joy and purpose out of life so that dying isn’t sad
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something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
There’s a funny Politico story showing that the latest polling on AI shows 80-20 in favor of heavy regulations, an absolute slam dunk platform, but Dems are worried about not winning back mask-off tech CEO donors
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
December 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore
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some of the more insidious consent manufacturing i've ever encountered. subtle enough that you might ingest a few ideas before realizing the whole point of the piece is to tell you that being raped and killed by heartless, soulless thugs is fine, actually, and you like it.
A common assumption is that throughout history, people have experienced the same basic range of emotions. A radical field of history now challenges this assumption, Gal Beckerman reports. theatln.tc/KD2QRX9Y
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
🎨: Nicolás Ortega
December 28, 2025 at 7:23 PM
some of the more insidious consent manufacturing i've ever encountered. subtle enough that you might ingest a few ideas before realizing the whole point of the piece is to tell you that being raped and killed by heartless, soulless thugs is fine, actually, and you like it.
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From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing:
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
December 28, 2025 at 3:00 PM
From my man @bilgeebiri.bsky.social's great piece on movie marketing:
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
www.vulture.com/article/movi...
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Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying www.france24.com/en/americas/... @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying
Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and...
www.france24.com
December 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Imagine it being easier to just pay the 8 billion dollars and it won't affect you in the slightest. Man what have we done lol
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TMZ has confirmed james ransone's death. a horrible loss of a character actor of immense nuance and gorgeous subtlety, especially when playing guys who tick all of our typical "god, that fucking tool" boxes. ziggy, like so many of THE WIRE's characters, was its heart. (also: watch GENERATION KILL.)
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 PM
TMZ has confirmed james ransone's death. a horrible loss of a character actor of immense nuance and gorgeous subtlety, especially when playing guys who tick all of our typical "god, that fucking tool" boxes. ziggy, like so many of THE WIRE's characters, was its heart. (also: watch GENERATION KILL.)
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the main thing about these guys is that they’re all allergic to actual work. they truly believe that they’ll be able to “leverage AI to plunge toilets” or whatever and the second a sewer backs up they’ll be blubbering for a government bailout
I love that crypto guys are setting up these little barbarian camps all over. little annoying civilization-style NPCs that pop out a bunch of resources when you conquer them. piñata nations
Belgian crypto billionaire Olivier Janssens is planning to establish a "libertarian community" with its own legal system in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
December 18, 2025 at 11:50 PM
the main thing about these guys is that they’re all allergic to actual work. they truly believe that they’ll be able to “leverage AI to plunge toilets” or whatever and the second a sewer backs up they’ll be blubbering for a government bailout
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The plot has been fully lost. Here's hoping we find it again.
![“There’s a reason Hendrix, Dylan, and McCartney experimented with substances in their creative process,” Ruddwall says. “I thought it would be interesting to translate that to a new kind of mind—the LLM—and see if it would have the same effect.”
While it sounds ridiculous, Ruddwall also wonders whether AI agents one day might be able to buy the drugs for themselves using his platform. Amjadi, meanwhile, predicts AI could be sentient within a decade. “From a philosophical standpoint,” she asks, “in the event that we actually reach AGI [in which an AI would intellectually surpass humans], are these drugs going to be almost necessary for the AIs to be free and feel good?”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2ylgbet7hkz6ntdh6eljnsri/bafkreighz4hcmwp7ivjvc4plbqg5efimfcs3tcye6vawy4peoll25cfuv4@jpeg)
December 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The plot has been fully lost. Here's hoping we find it again.
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MULHOLLAND DRIVE was on at 8:30 in the morning on Canadian television. My mother heard "I’ve Told Every Little Star" from another room and started singing along; she hadn't heard it in maybe 50 years and remembered every word. The power of Lynch compels me.
December 15, 2025 at 4:47 PM
MULHOLLAND DRIVE was on at 8:30 in the morning on Canadian television. My mother heard "I’ve Told Every Little Star" from another room and started singing along; she hadn't heard it in maybe 50 years and remembered every word. The power of Lynch compels me.
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god bless rob reiner for spinal tap
December 15, 2025 at 3:43 AM
god bless rob reiner for spinal tap