"Fieldwork conducted by ethnographer Satendra Kumar shows the membership of these groups is driven by a massive cohort of unemployed or semi-employed youth, seeking agency & dignity through religiosity."
And then there's the soft target in every religion & society, #women, who as 50% 🎯 are the largest ignored demographic in the world
https://twitter.com/rwac48/status/1515939916429262848
LURK are running an online workshop on how to run your own Mastodon instance. May 13-14th, aimed at existing groups with the intent to set up their own server: https://txt.lurk.org/how-to-run-a-small-social-networking-site/
Jeyaraj-Bennix Custodial Deaths : Questions About Lapses Of Magistrate In Ordering Remand
Read more: https://bit.ly/2CDQfED
#JayarajandBennix #CustodialDeath
Person Suffering From Covid-19 Cannot Be Expected To Produce Proof For Free Treatment In Hospital Under EWS Category: Bombay HC [Read Order] https://www.livelaw.in/news-updates/person-suffering-from-covid-19-proof-free-treatment-in-hospital-under-ews-category-bombay-hc-159008
RT @InternetFF@twitter.com
URGENT: Calling all FOSS technologists: You may not have heard of @OpenTechFund@twitter.com, but it's likely you've benefited from their work - they seeded vital secure projects like Signal & Tor. Their mission is at risk and if we don't act we'll all pay the price. https://saveinternetfreedom.tech/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/InternetFF/status/1273972042329710595
RT @CestMoiz@twitter.com
Vikas Khanna, michelin star chef, gives it back to BBC news anchor.
Anchor: In India, you were not from a rich family. So your sense of hunger must have come from there.
Vikas: NO, I am from Amritsar, everyone gets fed there in the langars. My sense of hunger came from New York!
https://mastodon.matrix.org/@svaksha/104287564092435382
svaksha - #keras #programming #python
New example on keras.io: #timeseries anomaly detection
https://t.co/pK2xRUsmta
Your regular reminder that when people* were saying AI would solve content moderation and hate speech... they ended up making racist AI, 1.5x more likely to label African American tweets as “offensive”. [2019]
* guess the majority of which color
The SC upheld the 2015 Delhi HC verdict upholding women officers' claim.
Read more: http://bit.ly/2TWVvcT
#SupremeCourt #indiannavy #GenderEquality
Centre issues guidelines for people under home quarantine to prevent spread of coronavirus in India http://dnai.in/gsyC
RT @markwby@twitter.com
Here’s something that’s absolutely terrifying: a comparison of the age distributions of Covid-19 cases in Italy, where they are only testing people who show symptoms, and S. Korea, which has broad testing. A whole lot of 20-29yos out there who feel just fine but are v contagious.
Und es geht weiter mit dem ersten thematischen Panel “Visionäre Technologien: Wir gestalten ein faire und bessere Welt” - und zwar mit #FLOSS und #PublicInterestTech! #prototypedemos
Don't trust recruiters. https://ricochet.com/721350/good-advices/
RT @peopleofindiaka@twitter.activitypub.actor
Events in #Bengaluru tomorrow on #February 8, 2020 #Saturday
RT @Jikkuvarghese
#Huge Facebook's Twitter account and FB messenger's instagram account have been hacked by 'OurMine.' It appears hackers have managed to access Facebook's Khoros account, a social media management software.
RT @NeelanjanSircar@twitter.activitypub.actor
As the credibility of India’s data is compromised, so is the credibility of the Indian state to enact effective policy.
My piece w Devesh Kapur on the irrevocable damage that will be done to the last vestiges of India’s data system and the Census by NPR. https://www.hindustantimes.com/analysis/the-new-challenge-for-census-2021/story-bPNr2SPMGSLp7ofdVMUO7J.html
RT @FeminismInIndia@twitter.com
Anyone at any age can be affected by PTSD: war veterans, victims of abuse or people affected by natural disasters, major accidents, and the death of a loved one. #PTSD symptoms can appear months or years after the event.
https://feminisminindia.com/2019/07/19/ptsd-what-it-is-how-it-affects-mental-health/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/FeminismInIndia/status/1226407885975932929
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-meta/1.443
Canonical are finally going to remove the Amazon web app in Ubuntu 20.04, thank you Canonical!