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Category: Op-eds

Why there’s no guarantee that Musk’s Twitter will resemble Dorsey’s

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Many folks are saying they’re not going to leave Twitter in the wake of Elon Musk’s acquisition because Musk and Jack Dorsey aren’t different.

April 26, 2022 Culture, Op-eds, Tech

To be better at being anti-crypto

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Molly White has a difficult read, one that I’m forced to agree with in spite of my vehemently anti-cryptocurrency […]

April 20, 2022 Op-eds, Tech

Renewable energy and technological debt

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Renewable energy is a bit like oil.

April 20, 2022 Op-eds

Free-speech as an instrument of repression

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One of the more eye-opening discussions on Elon Musk’s attempt to take control of Twitter, and the Twitter […]

April 16, 2022 Op-eds, Tech

JWST and the imagination

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When the Hubble space telescope launched in April 1990, I was too young to understand what was going […]

December 26, 2021 Op-eds

About vaccines for children and Covaxin…

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I don’t understand his penchant for late-night announcements, much less one at 10 pm on Christmas night, but […]

December 25, 2021 Op-eds, Science

Disappointing persons of the year 2021

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I’m starting to think that in this day and age, you will but err when you pick individuals […]

December 14, 2021 Op-eds, Science, Tech

Don’t donate bad food and call it ‘dharma’

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There’s a troubling pattern among some people who give food away to homeless people and beggars. I have […]

November 13, 2021 Culture, Op-eds

The ‘one billion doses’ hype

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi has addressed India’s people 10 times during the country’s COVID-19 epidemic. This is fairly […]

October 22, 2021 Op-eds

He is never wrong

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Akshay Deshmane reported for The Morning Context on October 20 that the Union environment ministry has reversed two […]

October 21, 2021 Op-eds

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