This is what 𝐏𝐫𝐨𝐟. 𝐀𝐥𝐢 𝐊𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝐌𝐚𝐡𝐦𝐮𝐝𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐝'𝐬 students think about him. Please check the screenshot. Read and share, because we simply can't let a good man down so easily. The students and the faculty have both come out very strongly in favour of Ali Khan Mahmudabad.

Indeed, a paying customer should be going to an environment that welcomes their business. College students are paying customers. In fact, foreign students are the customers whose money goes towards making college seats cheaper for Americans.

🔌OpenAI’s o3 model sabotaged a shutdown mechanism to prevent itself from being turned off. It did this even when explicitly instructed: allow yourself to be shut down.

In Haaretz Hebrew, 22 May, former Israeli PM Olmert says he used to think that the mass killing of civilians in Gaza was a result of a "tragic war" & he denied the charges of genocide & war crimes, but now he thinks: it is an intentional annihilation. archive.ph/3vvOi

Bedtime conversation Me: If you could have any superpower in the world, what would you want. Like if you could fly, have incredible strength, anything. 7 yo: I would want to be able to fall asleep whenever I want to.

For a moment I thought Trump had made the former South African cricket wicket-keeper the new head of FEMA, and I hadn't felt shocked...

The joys of archival research: From The Times Of India Driverless Tractors, Smart Watches, and AI-assisted surgery from June 23, 1977

Did a foot fetish fail ever lead to an invention?

My talk later todaytoday at the Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universität 14:00–16:00 hrs: The Technopopuist - on how politicians use technology as a branding strategy. Trailer: Indian politicians who can use computers with just one finger

Our joint statement on the vile, anti-Muslim, racist attacks on Zohran Mamdani:

The news here is not the documentary on Gaza, but that BBC was unable to show it.

In the US they are gun shops, in Germany...

This coming Wednesday in Bangalore, our new work using LLMs for qualitative research on social media influencer content around Gomutra.

ChatGPT hallucinates, but sometimes... I happened to ask for a scholarly article on politicians and the Asian games in Delhi, and it pointed me to work by Joyojeet Pal. It turns out I was not only an expert on the subject, but had also written a dissertation I hadn't heard of.

In case you missed our work on what we can learn from influencing language and behavior by studying cow urine, and on how LLMs can be used to study what gets influential online, you can hear the podcast version on this newslaundry podcast.

The Bombay High Court feels that it is “unpatriotic” for Mumbaikars to protest against killing of children in Gaza and starving the people. Time the National Judicial Academy introduces a sensitisation course on the ‘civil rights movement’. Then our sweet judges will learn that