Yogesh
@heyyyogi.bsky.social
Writing about technology and society, Indian Ocean literary history and culture, ecocriticism, as well as cult classic television. Increasingly AI-sceptical. From Singapore! (he/him)
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Thinking about “Hamnet”, “Pluribus” and “28 Years Later” as media this year that is (among other things) very overtly about the absurdity of trying to grieve the recent massive global pandemic in a world that often refuses to acknowledge the enormity of the tragedy.
December 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Thinking about “Hamnet”, “Pluribus” and “28 Years Later” as media this year that is (among other things) very overtly about the absurdity of trying to grieve the recent massive global pandemic in a world that often refuses to acknowledge the enormity of the tragedy.
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Pluribus (2025, created by Gilligan)
Dealing with people that use chatgpt is like fucking invasion of the body snatchers
December 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Pluribus (2025, created by Gilligan)
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pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
pluribus is the only show brave enough to ask if one mean lesbian could save the world
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Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
'Slop Evader' Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022
Artist Tega Brain is fighting the internet’s enshittification by turning back the clock to before ChatGPT existed.
www.404media.co
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.
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Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
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November 21, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other.
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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'Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment” after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI.' 1/3
‘We could have asked ChatGPT’: students fight back over course taught by AI
Staffordshire students say signs material was AI-generated included suspicious file names and rogue voiceover accent
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
'Students at the University of Staffordshire have said they feel “robbed of knowledge and enjoyment” after a course they hoped would launch their digital careers turned out to be taught in large part by AI.' 1/3
I just finished River of Smoke, and wow, what an excellent book! Ghosh brings the world of Canton on the eve of the Opium War to life in gorgeous detail, with liminal figures who chart stirring and tragic arcs, culminating in the inevitable move towards imperialism and war in the name of trade
November 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I just finished River of Smoke, and wow, what an excellent book! Ghosh brings the world of Canton on the eve of the Opium War to life in gorgeous detail, with liminal figures who chart stirring and tragic arcs, culminating in the inevitable move towards imperialism and war in the name of trade
3/4 done with Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke, and the way he dramatised opium's supply chain on the eve of the Opium War and used it to sketch a picture of mid-19th century globalisation from the vantage point of the Indian Ocean is nothing short of brilliant
November 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
3/4 done with Amitav Ghosh's River of Smoke, and the way he dramatised opium's supply chain on the eve of the Opium War and used it to sketch a picture of mid-19th century globalisation from the vantage point of the Indian Ocean is nothing short of brilliant
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🤖 "Holes in the web: Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, GenAI is shockingly ignorant too."
Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.
aeon.co/essays/gener...
Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.
aeon.co/essays/gener...
Generative AI has access to a small slice of human knowledge | Aeon Essays
Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too
aeon.co
November 18, 2025 at 8:43 AM
🤖 "Holes in the web: Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, GenAI is shockingly ignorant too."
Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.
aeon.co/essays/gener...
Excellent essay on algorithmic epistemological knowledge and the collapse of knowledge throughout mean-driven data machines.
aeon.co/essays/gener...
“It’s hard to get China to commit to a long-term goal.. But when we commit, we really want to get it done, and all aspects of society — government, policy, private sector, engineering, everybody — work hard toward the same goal under a coordinated effort.”
This is a great article. #China is smashing #Trump’s #US on this front: economically
and geo-strategically. When people look back at this time they may well wonder how the #USA could’ve so spectacularly dropped the ball. Click on link to read…
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
and geo-strategically. When people look back at this time they may well wonder how the #USA could’ve so spectacularly dropped the ball. Click on link to read…
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
China's Clean Energy Boom Could Win the Race to Power the Future
Beijing is selling clean energy to the world, Washington is pushing oil and gas. Both are driven by national security.
www.nytimes.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:23 AM
“It’s hard to get China to commit to a long-term goal.. But when we commit, we really want to get it done, and all aspects of society — government, policy, private sector, engineering, everybody — work hard toward the same goal under a coordinated effort.”
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Policy-making in the ChatGPT era: answers rich, but questions poor sverhulst.medium.com/generative-a...
Generative AI and the New Tabula Rasa: Why Question Literacy Matters
By Stefaan G. Verhulst
sverhulst.medium.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Policy-making in the ChatGPT era: answers rich, but questions poor sverhulst.medium.com/generative-a...
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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
October 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
September 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind
"Nicholas faced potential charges for possession, consumption and trafficking of a CBD-based pain relief cream. He bought the cream from a US-based company to help manage worsening chronic pain from an injury during his national service days after little success with over-the-counter options."
The Unexpected Adulthood of a Sudden Drug Trafficking Charge at 24
Adulthood doesn’t come with age; it hits when life leaves no choice. It pushed Nicholas into adulthood after a brush with drug laws.
www.ricemedia.co
June 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
"Nicholas faced potential charges for possession, consumption and trafficking of a CBD-based pain relief cream. He bought the cream from a US-based company to help manage worsening chronic pain from an injury during his national service days after little success with over-the-counter options."
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In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
June 25, 2025 at 5:54 AM
In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.
I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.
"Early backlash signals, like academics avoiding “delve” and people actively trying not to sound like AI, suggests we may self-regulate against homogenization... the deepest risk of all, is not linguistic uniformity but losing conscious control over our own thinking and expression."
"In the 18 months after ChatGPT was released, speakers used words like “meticulous,” “delve,” “realm,” and “adept” up to 51 percent more frequently than in the three years prior" www.theverge.com/openai/68674...
You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.
www.theverge.com
June 23, 2025 at 7:28 AM
"Early backlash signals, like academics avoiding “delve” and people actively trying not to sound like AI, suggests we may self-regulate against homogenization... the deepest risk of all, is not linguistic uniformity but losing conscious control over our own thinking and expression."
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'Last month...something else happened in academia: Yale-NUS College, a liberal arts college founded by the National University of Singapore and Yale University in 2012, quietly ceased to exist. And with it, thousands of books and DVDs disappeared.'
Yale-NUS’ book dumping was a tiny crime against culture
A library is not a fast-fashion store. You don’t discard last season’s items because nobody wanted them, says Andrew Hui
www.timeshighereducation.com
June 6, 2025 at 6:11 AM
'Last month...something else happened in academia: Yale-NUS College, a liberal arts college founded by the National University of Singapore and Yale University in 2012, quietly ceased to exist. And with it, thousands of books and DVDs disappeared.'
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"There is one particular type of knowledge that DOGE really missed out on which is unforgivable: how tech works in government... They have broken much, and built nothing of consequence" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
What DOGE gets wrong about tech and government
Lessons learned by civic tech, forgotten by DOGE
donmoynihan.substack.com
May 19, 2025 at 5:27 AM
"There is one particular type of knowledge that DOGE really missed out on which is unforgivable: how tech works in government... They have broken much, and built nothing of consequence" donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...
One of a wave of new movies claiming to be the first AI generated film — similar projects emerging out of Kannada, India; Hong Kong; and Hollywood
Singapore-Malaysia production Pirate Queen: Zheng Yi Sao said to be world’s first fully AI-generated movie
Set to be released in cinemas in June or July this year, the film utilised AI tools for its visuals, scene generation, script editing, animation and post-production.
cnalifestyle.channelnewsasia.com
April 30, 2025 at 11:31 AM
One of a wave of new movies claiming to be the first AI generated film — similar projects emerging out of Kannada, India; Hong Kong; and Hollywood
Interesting points raised about 18F’s cost-recovery model, and the value of approaching digital govt from “multiple entry points” in a decentralised system (as well as shedding light on the US landscape when it comes to vendors vs in house specialists, and the difficulty of transforming bureaucracy)
💭 What can we learn from the legacy of 18F?
Following the recent termination of 18F, IIPP Prof @eaves.ca and Hillary Hartley write about the lessons future digital services can learn from the team that modernized US government tech.
🔗Read their article in @lawfaremedia.org here: buff.ly/tv1q70f.
Following the recent termination of 18F, IIPP Prof @eaves.ca and Hillary Hartley write about the lessons future digital services can learn from the team that modernized US government tech.
🔗Read their article in @lawfaremedia.org here: buff.ly/tv1q70f.
April 30, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Interesting points raised about 18F’s cost-recovery model, and the value of approaching digital govt from “multiple entry points” in a decentralised system (as well as shedding light on the US landscape when it comes to vendors vs in house specialists, and the difficulty of transforming bureaucracy)
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Europe will continue to struggle until it challenges the foundational assumptions the US tech industry is built on and stops trying to replicate it in Europe.
Silicon Valley is not delivering widespread benefits. Europe needs to refocus on the public good, not what’s most valuable to shareholders.
Silicon Valley is not delivering widespread benefits. Europe needs to refocus on the public good, not what’s most valuable to shareholders.
EU views break from US as ‘unrealistic’ amid global tech race
A draft strategy obtained by POLITICO points to the difficulty of unwinding years of American technological dominance.
www.politico.eu
April 30, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Europe will continue to struggle until it challenges the foundational assumptions the US tech industry is built on and stops trying to replicate it in Europe.
Silicon Valley is not delivering widespread benefits. Europe needs to refocus on the public good, not what’s most valuable to shareholders.
Silicon Valley is not delivering widespread benefits. Europe needs to refocus on the public good, not what’s most valuable to shareholders.
It's the day the #RupaulsDragRace finale drops! Thought it'd be a good time to reflect on the historic run of season 16's winner, Nymphia Wind: the queen who became a cultural ambassador for Taiwan through the art of drag
April 19, 2025 at 4:26 AM
It's the day the #RupaulsDragRace finale drops! Thought it'd be a good time to reflect on the historic run of season 16's winner, Nymphia Wind: the queen who became a cultural ambassador for Taiwan through the art of drag
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"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"
April 13, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"