Akshay S Dinesh 🏳️‍🌈 أكشي ☂ @akshay@mastodon.technology

On the other hand, most people aren't really invested in any ideology.

Don't expect anyone following any ideology to be completely rational. The moment you're wedded to an ideology, you stop questioning.

"Can politics be a career devoid of principle? Politics has to be about ideas, or it’s nothing. Can a person of conviction change political parties the way a cricketer changes IPL teams?"
https://www.thequint.com/voices/opinion/shashi-tharoor-on-indian-politicians-values-principles-former-congress-leaders-jitin-prasada-jyotiraditya-scindia-defect-to-bjp

I've gotta share this for two reasons.
1) people shouldn't be scared of politics and BJP. Democracy will prevail as long as we believe democracy prevails.
2) Taking away the credit of Indian crassness from BJP and attributing it rightly to Indian culture.

https://thediplomat.com/2021/06/why-indias-democracy-is-not-dying/

Note that the socialistic tendencies in capitalism benefits only those who have the privilege to negotiate fairer treatment.

Free software and mental health

https://www.redox-os.org/news/open-source-mental-health/

My first bug report on #archlinux - got fixed in half a day :)

https://asd.learnlearn.in/phantoms-in-the-brain/

"The only way to truly think independently is to have enough knowledge to spot the hidden assumptions that underwrite your current views."

~

https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2021/05/13/think-for-yourself/

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2321023020918055

It's okay to look in-depth at individual factors that contribute to a complex problem. Yet important to create an overview of all the factors before doing so or else you run into the risk of reaching wrong conclusions based on in-depth understanding of the trunk of the elephant.

Don't Let Them Dehumanize You, Doctors!

https://mbbshacker.blogspot.com/2021/06/dont-let-them-dehumanize-you-doctors.html

Don't be worried about your lack of lived experience when you're thinking about oppression in the society. Your privilege puts you in a special space where you can think intersectional without being drawn to one particular oppression by your lived experience.

What I take from this is not "Don't use Twitter" (or mastodon for that matter). But, "Don't be afraid to stick out your neck".

The media's lab leak fiasco https://www.slowboring.com/p/the-medias-lab-leak-fiasco

Government should clarify how intermediaries can implement traceability without making it impossible for citizens to have private conversations.

https://asd.learnlearn.in/hash-constants-break-encryption/

Can't atheists be casteist?