How do we hold debates and reach productive solutions to the problems of the world? Words matter. But how exactly do we use words? All of those problems are addressed in this book

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/09/how-to-talk-with-people.html

Some practical (?) suggestions on what to do about social media.

https://asd.learnlearn.in/understand-social-media-role-in-democratic-backslide/

Wrote a quick guide to download administrative boundaries at ward level from OpenStreetMap

https://asd.learnlearn.in/downloading-wards-from-osm/

I've written a lot about intersectionality. I finally realize a lot of what I say when I talk about intersectionality is actually about the non-binary.

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/11/being-comfortable-with-non-binary.html

In which I heavily quote Ravikant Kisana to state that our world is built on lies and that a radical commitment to truth is what we need to escape savarna mediocrity

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2023/11/radical-commitment-to-truth.html

Just documenting some know-how about #subtitles (automatic and manual)

https://asd.learnlearn.in/subtitling-experiments-2023/

In which I send a cease & desist notification to Vidhi

https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2023/12/what-ails-indias-approach-to-universal.html

Just explaining myself in another debate

https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2023/12/whats-most-important-scientific-research.html

They say you can't be a good doctor until you've killed five patients. Similarly, you cannot be a good sysadmin until you've ran an open relay mail server.

https://asd.learnlearn.in/hardening-mailu/

Finding districts without Domino's Pizza

https://asd.learnlearn.in/districts-without-dominos/

Just another way of saying "be patient" when it comes to change.

https://blog.learnlearn.in/2024/01/how-world-should-be-and-how-world-is.html

Please give me anonymous feedback

https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/xKqc-lPCYGVZLowywbLx+G9wAOb2--wUPTmZe4aoVfA/

Quickly jotted down some of my thoughts about the reasons why medical college work #culture is horrible.

https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2024/02/why-medical-college-work-culture-is-so.html

As someone who spends a lot of time online, in discussion groups, and some of it moderating groups and conversations, I wrote about moderation

https://asd.learnlearn.in/moderation-is-hard/

In which I discuss some Freire without reading Freire

https://youtu.be/Us5AbNpczc8

In which I discuss the debate on conscientization (is it needed or not), on how our idea of expertise is closely tied to banking model of education, how this itself is the biggest hurdle in conscientization, and how critical thinking is the answer

https://youtu.be/poByFZg9E4c

A quick run through on the spectrum of disagreements on social justice work

https://youtu.be/1DwjOz-yqRo?feature=shared

Capitalism forces people to question the idea of shared ownership and collectives everywhere and all the time. In this post I examine whether open-source maintainers giving up open-source is actually an example of the tragedy of the commons as thought by some.

https://asd.learnlearn.in/solution-to-open-source-tragedy-of-commons/

Simple trick to block mails to certain addresses/domains on your mailu server (postfix users can read too)

https://asd.learnlearn.in/block-outgoing-mail-addresses-mailu-postfix/