Aadit Kamat
aaditkamat.bsky.social
Aadit Kamat
@aaditkamat.bsky.social
🇮🇳 -> 🇸🇬 -> 🇺🇸 Master’s student at the Warrington School of Business, University of Florida. Graduating in December 2024. I love learning more about spirituality, history, economics, philosophy, science and technology.
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“Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees, to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed, making widows their prey and robbing the orphan.” -Isaiah 10:1-2
January 28, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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I hate that the word "Progressive" is associated with weirdos on Twitter that hate white people. That's not what it means. Progressive means paid family leave and giving workers a living wage. It means lowering crime with criminal justice reform. Progressive means fighting for a better world. #USPOL
January 24, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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The Internet is so good for stuff like mutual aid and keep people informed amid crisis. Like, when I feel despair--and these days I often do--it's a small encouragement to be reminded that when we are proximal to suffering, we are capable of extraordinary generosity.
January 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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We should do this, but only on bluesky. I'll start: Maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has fallen by over 60% since 2017 thanks to investments from the Sierra Leonean Ministry of Health and their partners.
December 30, 2024 at 3:34 AM
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This is a fascinating article, and a reminder that TB is caused by impoverishment as much as it's caused by bacteria.
npr.org NPR @npr.org · Jan 3
A program in Brazil that gives a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.
Tuberculosis rates plunge when families living in poverty get a monthly cash payout
A program in Brazil that give a monthly cash sum to families living in poverty has an unexpected — and welcome result. A new study shows that it is dramatically reducing tuberculosis rates.
www.npr.org
January 4, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3
Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 25, 2024 at 3:20 AM
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Lie of the day: injustice is just a fact of life.

It's easy to pretend that injustice must exist in order for the system to function.

The truth is that justice ebbs and flows. Slavery was once a fact of life - now it's not. Everything can change, and you have a duty to be part of it. #USPOL #LVT
December 20, 2024 at 9:48 PM
I just completed "Historian Hysteria" - Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/1
Day 1 - Advent of Code 2024
adventofcode.com
December 22, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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''I never thought that writing one line about friendship bracelets would have you guys all making so many amazing bracelets and making friends and bringing joy to eachother. You have created a space of joy and love and I couldn't be more proud of you, honestly.'' - Taylor tonight ❤
December 9, 2024 at 4:45 AM
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To be fair.... The Republic truly was corrupt and basically teetering on the edge of anarchy well before Palpatine came to power. Obviously the Sith caused a lot of that, but mostly they just took advantage of an already dying system. Hm...sounds familiar...
December 9, 2024 at 4:28 AM
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Me watching a film.

1. Start watching.

2. Wonder what I’ve seen one of the actors in before.

3. Google actor.

4. Go to IMDb/their Wikipedia page.

5. Find out every single detail of their entire life.

6. Realise I’ve completely missed the plot of the film and now have no idea what’s going on.
December 8, 2024 at 8:06 PM
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No one:
Absolutely no one:
Me, watching Sleeping Beauty, a harmless children’s cartoon: what do you think the economic impact was to the kingdom when they burned all the looms? Do you think they had to turn to cloth imports, creating a trade deficit which destabilized the nascent industrial econ—
November 25, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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It’s December 1st and we should all pay homage to Rosa Parks today. On this day in 1955 she decided not to give her seat up on a bus in Alabama, and well the rest is history. We are all going to need to channel our Rosa Park’s for the next four years! Thank you Rosa for showing us how to #Resist
December 1, 2024 at 7:05 PM
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This is the conundrum of treating homes as investment: housing needs to be both plentiful (hence cheap) for those seeking to buy in, and increasing in value (i.e. scarce) for existing owners. Those who bit the bullet and bought at the top of the market will be the worst hit by a sudden supply glut.
December 1, 2024 at 10:31 PM
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How about instead of deregulating everything, we end Citizen’s United and large campaign donations that are used to buy special favors?

Let’s ban lobbying when it’s attached to donations.

Seems like ending government corruption is a better way to unstack the deck at the top.
December 1, 2024 at 8:24 PM
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Omg I passed both of my classes this semester!!! I only have one year left of study now!!! I’m finally getting there 😭 I’ve been studying since 2016, I’m so ready to be done!
November 29, 2024 at 12:22 AM
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I’m thankful for the top ten scientific developments that improve health:

Vaccines
Antibiotics & antimicrobials
Clean water, sanitation, & hygiene
Food safety & fortification innovations
Modern agriculture methods
Public health education campaigns

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November 28, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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Bluesky Thanksgiving traditions

- public library appreciation post
- using composable moderation to add labels to accounts that prefer white meat and and those who prefer dark meat
- 'nuclear block' a family member
November 28, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Why are Musk bot accounts following me all of a sudden? 😂
November 25, 2024 at 4:37 PM
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The world has already eradicated smallpox. Polio is the next disease we could eradicate.

Here's how we got to where we are now, mostly thanks to the polio vaccine.

From our work on Polio:
ourworldindata.org/polio
November 21, 2024 at 1:38 PM
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Reading the TÜLU 3 paper from @ai2.bsky.social. It's refreshing to see a research lab treating AI as a real science with full reports, data, code, logs, evals.

Paper: allenai.org/papers/tulu-...
Demo: playground.allenai.org
Code: github.com/allenai/open...
Eval: github.com/allenai/olmes

Notes
allenai.org
November 24, 2024 at 6:04 PM
The main issue in an uber capitalist economy significantly disrupted through automation will still come down to distribution of resources.
November 18, 2024 at 1:46 AM