pramanik @ppmanik@qoto.org

But what's even more depressing is that the country seems to have lost its will to fight this descent into darkness

https://theweek.com/articles/877752/india-entering-new-dark-age

RT @kavita_krishnan@twitter.com

Shout out to the trend #TaxPayersWithJNU

Follow it, amplify it.
This is a struggle, not for some island called JNU, but to ensure that University education is a right for all, not a privilege for the rich.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/kavita_krishnan/status/1196639875069382656

@Deepsealioness 2mins Silence for all those selfish fucks, who still claim that things are not bad yet and that there is still some hope for this society.

If you don’t stand for students protesting for their right for equal access to education, who the fuck will you stand for??

Former PM #ManmohanSingh criticised the #Modi government’s approach to policies of the previous govt. saying that the govt tends to “look at everything and everyone through a tainted prism of suspicion and distrust.”

https://www.thequint.com/news/india/erosion-of-trust-manmohan-singh-on-indian-economy

RT @Khush_boozing@twitter.com

What's happening in JNU is an
Assault on the Right of Education.

#EmergencyinJNU

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Khush_boozing/status/1196339905661550592

For todays #FollowFriday I'm going to do something a bit different. We have a lot of new users, one of the biggest surges we have seen in a while. As such a lot of new users are looking for high quality, long-standing, accounts to follow. Similarly many of the new users need some help getting attention and making new friends.

As such I am going to do this #FF in a few parts. One for old users I have mentioned in previous posts, as well as some of the new users who have been making quality posts and been active for at least a week now. Hopefully this will be more helpful.

Also a section for some bots might be useful.

I will use a persons profile description here as I dont want to misrepresent anyone.

New Mentions

@design_RG - Books, Bicycles & Cats, Life is Good. Books, #hardcover. Bikes, #Classic sport ones. Cats, any colour or size. #Aquarius with Virgo rising. House of Ravenclaw.

@Karthikdeva - Always a Student, Nano-Technologist, Bookworm?, and basically I don't know anything, so I might be asking some agonizing questions.

@_lunawinters - Just a human , living on a rock called Earth, floating in a giant space.

@VidyaKrishnan - Independent journalist, S. Asia

@Shamar

@yantrajaal - Engineer by education, teacher by profession, programmer by passion and imagineer by intention

@susi123 - வாசிப்பையும்
நேசிப்பையும்
மறந்தவள்,,,..

@Full_marx - I am a मस्त डॉन on Mastadon. I wish to build something that can be of good use to as many people as possible. Social Sciences: Propaganda Science, Social Engineering, Behavioural Science, Advertising STEM: Human-Computer Interaction Design, Web Dev, Cyber Security Noob. Multimedia: Motion Graphics, Video Production, Electronic Music Production, Abstract Film, Writing Politics: Left, Right and Center. Whichever ideology leaves the people with the most amount of Dignity, sign me up for that one.

@raining_night - I love women, food, thriller/sci-fi/slasher movies and series, astro physics, superbikes, nature and animals ❤️ not in any specific order Trying out Veganism.

@shibaprasad - Master's student. Football Fan.

@ppmanik - Believe in free speech and data privacy. Interested in physics and science in general and future of Semiconductors and related devices in particular.

Old mentions

@jump_spider - #ActuallyPsychotic <> programming autodidact and polyglot <> meditation enthusiast

@chris - Developer focusing on #WordPress, #Privacy and the #OpenWeb. Also a speaker, teacher, blogger, and pilot doing my best to make the world a better place.

@SecondJon - I'm interested in being just not civil, but excellent in interacting with others of different viewpoints in an online world where we can so viciously defend our echo chambers and be so dismissive of other perspectives. I rarely log onto the bird site of FB anymore because the interactions are unproductive about anything meaningful. I'm a #Dad, #Husband, #Christian, #Anglican, Unaffiliated #conservatarian, Software #Developer, #Coloradan, Reader of paper #books, Card and BoardGamer, #tea drinker, solving problems for co-workers and partners primarily with and integrating with the #Salesforce/SFDC platform.

@sandfox - #PHP and #Ruby developer

@cwebber - User freedom activist, ActivityPub co-editor, parenthesis enthusiast, occasional artist.

@whirli - #teacher #rugby #skeptic #freesoftware #privacy #camping #hammocks #Finland #Suomi

@pschwede - #Coding #Paradigms #GraphRewriting #YPEGIDA #choas #KzU #developer #programming #philosophy #scifi #linux #sociology #luhmann #HvF #python #java #sed #awk #cis #white #freespeech #atheism #freereligion #art #drawing #pixelart #diagrammatics #symbolism #dresden #unisex

@Rovine - Born in Hong Kong, lived in Australia, working holiday in UK. #developer #programming #music #learning #frontend #gamedev

@Absinthe - The green faerie

@mngrif

@ae - #CogSec #Researcher

@metapsyche - I am a cloud of vapor. Fragmenting into ever smaller pieces to explore ever widening spaces. Web Developer by day, Pattern Hunter at night. Thinker and Tinkerer on weekends. :)

@imvectech - RESEARCH ° COOPERATE ° MONITOR ° ADAPT. Developing and teaching to implement DITO techniques for human survival between knowledge and fate.

@canonicalbrud - #Orthodox #Christian; husband and father; #biomedical #development #engineer; #crypto tinkerer; Stephen #Talbott fan, i.e. proponent of (re-)introducing #λόγος and #τέλος into #biology and thus heal the modern rifts between #philosophy, #theology, and the natural #science/s.

@david - Value people over code. I manage tech.lgbt. WordPress Maintenance fixupfox.com. On the Internet, everyone knows I'm a dog. Follows are open both ways for me if you're nice and cool!

@Algot - Words are my friends. #ArtWithOpenSource #3D #Clipart #poetry

@Curator - Curator of art from the instance

@Erik - Privacy, plants & politics Student CybSec @

Bots

@arxiv_math

@arxiv_eess - Electrical Engineering

@arxiv_physics

@arxiv_cs

@arxiv_stats

@arxiv_bio

https://youtu.be/bnVRW3mtG2A
Kya aaj desh itna gir chuka hain ki ab voh education system ko ek business me badal raha hain.... Log chup hain toh yeh gum hain, gareeb mar raha hain pr hum chup hain, aaj sirf gareebon se unka haq china jaa raha hain. Pr kal aap bhi ho sakte hain....
#support_JNU
#stand_against_fee_hike

I should bring this thread to a close since I've strayed far from where I started. A quick TLDR:
1. Hero stones are super useful in reconstructing some aspects of Indian military history
2. Both hero-stones and literature from the medieval period favour elites, and rarely centre the experiences of the folks that did most of the dying.
3. Deccani states - even in the 800s - could be quite innovative. War does not tolerate fools.
4. War elephants kick ass.
New thread next week! Gimme attention!🤓

A beautiful terracotta temple lying unknown and uncared for in Sonamukhi, Bankura, West Bengal http://blog.yantrajaal.com/2019/11/sridhar-mandir-sonamukhi-bankura.html

RT @vinodjose@twitter.com

Tale of two RTIs:

Nov 2019–Modi era: UGC rejected a simple RTI asking for the period of Manmohan Singh’s appointment and his tenure as it’s Chairman, citing obscure reasons.

June 2012—Manmohan era: Same qns, UGC sends a bunch of documents with file-notings.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/vinodjose/status/1193845109747408897

AI plays hide and seek and exploits game engine:

https://youtu.be/Lu56xVlZ40M

Sports and leisure in the year 2000, illustrated by Jean-Marc Côté. https://humanoidhistory.tumblr.com/post/188952327914