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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 2h

@SandeepUnnithan Lt Col #PavithranRajan @spf #hidden #battle shaping our future : war 4 control over #digital #substrate.
#algorithms #shape what we #see #platforms #control what we #think #power lies not in #armies, but in #data #chips & #code
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Digital Freedom or Slavery — India Decides | The Sandeep Unnithan Show Feat. Lt Col Pavithran Rajan

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 15h

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Knowing Me , Knowing You. #ABBA

vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 1d

@PavithranRajan
@SpfAdmin
#media #visibility, #institutional #affiliation, or #ideological #alignment. The focus is on #structural #depth, #doctrinal #coherence, #systematicrigour, and the #transformative #impact these contributions have on #statecraft
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The Cartography of Mind and Power

Introduction: The Deluge and the Discernment Imperative

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 1d

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Securing India: Balancing self-reliance and collaboration

Union minister Ashwini Vaishnav’s recent decision to adopt Zoho, an Indian platform to manage official documents, has sparked wider conversations about technological self-reliance in India. While the ...

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 1d

#PavithranRajan 🙌🏽✊🏽🇮🇳✊🏽
@SpfAdmin
" #foreign firms tend to #circumvent or #ignore #nationalprivacy and #security #regulations. They treat #compliance as #optional when it #conflicts with #corporate #interests or home-country (#INDIA 🇮🇳 ) #demands.'

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 1d

@pamelaphilipose
#PamelaPhilipose
#BrokenRepublic
"What’s conspicuous to the #media watcher are the strategies the #Indian #state have employed to control the public narrative in #Ladakh during this tempestuous interregnum."
thewire.in/media/backst...

Backstory: Decoding Media Repression in Ladakh

A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 10d

- Each word is a #filter.
- Each #slogan, a test.
Who #hesitates. Who #obeys.
Who's ready to #crosstheline!
Once you understand that every #call to " #destroy" is a #recruitmentsignal, you start #reading the #code."
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Why radical slogans recruit better than truth

What looks like moral outrage is often a recruitment mechanism. Extreme language filters, bonds, and mobilizes - long before anyone notices it's no longer about justice.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 10d

Punish. Erase. Destroy. Cleanse. Annihilate.
Same people.
Same cause.
I've seen this pattern over and over and it's not random. It's a mechanism.
#Extremism #recruit with #vocabulary:

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Why radical slogans recruit better than truth

What looks like moral outrage is often a recruitment mechanism. Extreme language filters, bonds, and mobilizes - long before anyone notices it's no longer about justice.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 10d

#OrianeCohen

"in every #radicalmovement, #LANGUAGE moves first.
#Violence only follows.It always begins softly.
With #moral #words: #justice, #freedom, #rights, #humanity.
They sound #pure, #universal, #virtuous.
Then - almost imperceptibly - the #tone #hardens.

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Why radical slogans recruit better than truth

What looks like moral outrage is often a recruitment mechanism. Extreme language filters, bonds, and mobilizes - long before anyone notices it's no longer about justice.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 24d

@Sajal4mThen
#SajalSingh
"#disruption #norm #memorable #products #outdatedproducts #unhappycustomers #marketofexperiences #understanding #user #enabled #technology #designthinking #design #understanding #users #solutions #problems ."

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How Design Thinkers Can Improve CX Adoption In Their Organizations

Activating experience through a product or service requires a personal, situational and contextual understanding of your user that's enabled through technology. That's where design thinking comes in: ...

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · 27d

The Latest #Trump Plan for #Gaza is an Effort to Ensure the Permanent Subordination of #Palestinians .
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#AchinVanaik
2OOCT2025.
This ‘agreement’ seeks to legitimise the continuation of this #genocide by #Israel should #Hamas refuse to accept the plan.
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The Latest Trump Plan for Gaza is an Effort to Ensure the Permanent Subordination of Palestinians

This ‘agreement’ seeks to legitimise the continuation of this genocide by Israel should Hamas refuse to accept the plan.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 28

@pamelaphilipose #PamelaPhilipose
@MercedesBenz @HurunIndia #WealthReport has just informed us that today India has 8,71,700 #millionaire households, which is a staggering 90% increase #pandemic #aggregation #richest #policymaking #corporatepower.
m.thewire.in/article/medi...

Backstory: The Rise and Rise of Oligarchies and the Dark Shadow They Cast on Media Freedoms - The Wire

A fortnightly column from The Wires ombudsperson.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 28

#GregSatell
" #dictatorships always #rot from within.
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This Is How You Bring Down A Dictator | Digital Tonto

In the early 20th century, the sociologist Max Weber noted that the sweeping industrialization taking place would transform how societies worked. As small operations gave way to large institutions wit...

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 27

If you have the privilege to be around #children who are #neurodiverse or otherwise, do not miss the opportunity to meet the family of @artofmyoptimus
#JijoDas @mom2jijo @aniket_mx
#BoseKrishnamachari
#THESanctuariArt
#eCAPA2025
@gallery_dtale_archist #Bangalore #Whitefield @theartsanctuari

vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 26

@Sajal4mThen #SajalSingh
"Easy #marketentry leads to rapid #proliferation of competitors. - "one startup with 10,000 skins"— #identical companiesoffering #superficially different #interfaces tothe #same underlying #AIcapabilities."
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AI Wrappers Lack Defensibility: Why Barriers To Entry Matter

Artificial intelligence is experienced through AI wrappers today. But it might not remain like that for long.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 24

#Dissatisfaction is rife. #Wages are #stagnant. #Growth is #anaemic. The politics of #Brexit papered over the reality revealed by the 2015 general election: #Britain now has a multi-party #politics

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Peter Geoghegan · Short Cuts: Reform’s Disaster Capitalism

Reform has been accused of lacking policy: its critics say it’s a party of Farage and his epigones, with few firm...

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 19

@BoseKrishnamachari, @SurendranNair, @GigiScaria, @TVSanthosh, @RishinZaman, @NithinDas, @DodsyAntony, @ManojVyloor etc are on display. @vyloppilisamskrithibhavan #Thiruvananthapuram
www.thehindu.com/entertainmen...

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 16

@Sajal4mThen
#SajalSingh Leave college and #societalexpectations aside as you follow this ten-pointer #anti summer #bucketlist
www.trinitynews.ie/2023/08/the-...

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 15

Exploring the 11th @AIB #PortraitPrize 2024
@Sajal4mThen #SajalSingh
#Portraits #memories, #emotions #connection #disposable #moment #power #permanence #freeze moments, #preserve #histories #influence #remember #people #events.
www.trinitynews.ie/2025/02/capt...

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 13

@pamelaphilipose #PamelaPhilipose
" Nine Years of Taking Aim at #UmarKhalid, Media Style"
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Backstory: Nine Years of Taking Aim at Umar Khalid, Media Style - The Wire

A fortnightly column from The Wires ombudsperson.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 12

@Sajal4mThen #SajalSingh " #technologies are good at doing a few things. They attack #conventions, remove #transactioncosts and form a #habit"

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AI Strategy Is More Important Than Using AI

Only a clear AI strategy can fill the gap between AI hype and AI utility.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 6

@ocstrategic #OrianeCohen
" #Defense implied #protection, #reaction, the idea of being attacked first.
#War embraces #force, #projection, initiative.
This move is an #ontological move: a #redefinitionofreality."
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One Word, Infinite Consequences: Why “War” Changes Everything

Trump restored the “Department of War.” A single word reshapes narratives, systems, and perceptions. The Quantum Framework™ explains why.

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 5

How #SanatanSanstha got away after #GauriLankesh's murder: #RolloRomig explains #KarthikVenkatesh for @VarthaBharatiEn
Karthik Venkateshhttps://english.varthabharati.in/india/how-sanatan-sanstha-got-away-without-implications-after-gauri-lankeshs-murder-rollo-romig-explains

vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Sep 3

@ocstrategic #strategic #limousine #Tianjin #China #Modi #Putin #Aurus #car #mobile #safehouse #interference #advisors #notes #war #oil #power
#Russia #strategic #China #microphones #cameras
#psychological #forcedproximity #undividedattention
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The most strategic conversation of the week happened... in a limousine in Tianjin, China. Modi and Putin: Not in a closed room or at an official table... But trapped side by side… in Putin's… ...

The most strategic conversation of the week happened... in a limousine in Tianjin, China. Modi and Putin: Not in a closed room or at an official table... But trapped side by side… in Putin's Aurus...

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vaalsalya.bsky.social @vaalsalya.bsky.social · Aug 31

#preauthentication phase, when datapassing between tower &phone remains #unencrypted.
In this gap attackers #intercept & #inject messages withoutneeding toknow phone’s private credentials.systemcaptures identifiers sentfrom tower&use them to read& modify messages.
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Got no signal? This devious cyberattack can downgrade your phone from 5G to 4G without you knowing

Researchers uncover SNI5GECT, a toolkit exploiting unencrypted 5G pre-authentication.

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