Shibaprasad Bhattacharya @shibaprasad@qoto.org

Just putting it out there ◡̈

"Your password is not strong enough"
It's ok, password, don't listen to them. You're perfect the way you are.

New instance, new #Introduction !

My name is Jürgen, and I translate old German folk tales into English - not just tales from the Brothers Grimm, but from the hundreds of other 19th century German folklorists out there.

To date, I have translated more than 600 tales. You can learn more about my project here (and you can get a free ebook version of my first book if you subscribe to my newsletter there):

#Germany #folklore
https://sunkencastles.com/

Ukrainian genius #mathematician, Maryna Viazovska, has won the #Fields #Medal. She has become only the second woman to receive this prestigious award, often regarded as the Nobel Prize for mathematics. Her work solved a 400-year-old puzzle about sphere packing.

#Ukraine #Ukrainians 🇺🇦 #STEM

@trinsec To a radical not being a radical is the most radical thing you could be!

@shibaprasad @mastodonindians Do you want India-focused podcasts? Or Indians doing India-focused podcasts? Or will any podcasts by Indians do?

If it is the last one, may I offer up the podcast @ngkabra and I make? It's called "Future IQ" and it is primarily on YouTube but we also post an audio-only version.

Links:
- YT: https://www.youtube.com/@TheFutureIQ
- Podcast: https://podfollow.com/1679549394/view

@shibaprasad @mastodonindians simblified

@Memeghnad hosts some interesting podcasts too.

#BigTech is driving #polarisation & populism while the climate crisis requires commitment to #science & #democracy.

We join >270 Nobel laureates, journalists, activists & experts to support a plan to rein in Big Tech and #ReclaimOurRights.

https://10pointplan.org

@freemo @claralistensprechen3rd @ClaraListensprechen@universeodon.com

I have this weird problem of QOTO not opening from the personal PC. But it opens from the Tor browser or from Mobile through the same WIFI. Think it started happening after I updated my Windows.

Gonna give some people the benefit of the doubt so a quick post - every piece of software can have vulnerabilities, new vulnerabilities can pop up all the time, it's good that Mastodon had penetration testing carried out to test its security. No need to treat it as a "gotcha".

Every single time Windows has forced an update on you was to fix extremely unsafe security vulnerabilities too, for example.

the difference between twitter and mastodon is that on twitter people are engaging with idiots who think the Civil War was about "states' rights", whereas on mastodon we have a sophisticated debate over whether the loch ness monster has a high enough sperm count to impregnate me

@lupyuen

@divya A 100 years ago, an Indian came to US to study, joined the US Army, was honourably discharged as a Sergeant, proceeded to apply for citizenship, was granted and then denaturalized by the then SCOTUS.

This Indian, Bhagat Singh Thind, tried to argue that he was Caucasian by dint of being a high-caste. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bhagat_Singh_Thind

So yeah. Casteism has existed in US for at least 100 years.

Also, Racism in US is a form of casteism, as argued recently: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caste:_The_Origins_of_Our_Discontents

Joke’s on you, I’m on #rebased

Happy boii!