Prasenjeet Dutta @pd@curmudgeon.cafe
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RT @gregpmiller@twitter.com
EXCLUSIVE: "It was the intelligence coup of the century."
The CIA secretly owned a Swiss company that sold rigged encryption systems to other governments for half a century.
The Post obtained classified files tracing the entire operation.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gregpmiller/status/1227205791867920385
At last 😌 — turn off autoplaying previews on Netflix: https://help.netflix.com/en/node/2102
I had a chance to see Little Women at the cinema. Greta Gerwig follows up Lady Bird with a fantastic adaptation that, I believe, enhances the original material. Great writing and directing. And phenomenal performances from Saoirse Ronan and Florence Pugh.
Interestingly the theatre was about 90% women.
Studio Ghibli’s catalogue is coming to Netflix outside the US/Canada (and Japan) from February onwards. I’m really excited about this! 🎉
Dates for specific movies here: https://bit.ly/36blobD
Messiah on Netflix - eps 1-3 have been quite interesting so far.
My 10 most looked-forward-to #movies for 2020:
1917 (Jan)
Parasite (Feb) ✨
No Time to Die (Apr)
Black Widow (May)
Wonder Woman 1984 (Jun)
Tenet (Jul) ✨
Top Gun: Maverick (Jul)
Eternals (Nov)
Godzilla vs Kong (Nov)
Dune (Dec) ✨
Barack Obama’s list of favourite books of the year: https://twitter.com/barackobama/status/1211033245812441091?s=21 I’m currently reading through The Anarchy and it’s an amazing read so far.
Star Wars Episode IX: Flashes Before Your Eyes
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RT @gautambhatia88@twitter.com
"For those in the queue, the biometric authentication test is no less than clearing an exam. There is relief on their faces when they pass the test. Failure means going back to the end of the queue again."
On the devastations that Aadhaar has wrought.
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/new-hunger-games-in-jobless-bharat-11576601380302.html
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/gautambhatia88/status/1207135378760536064
Watchmen on HBO is astonishingly good, as a “sequel” of sorts I expected very little from it, and it delivered in spades.
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I'm a lawyer. I feel most competent in constitutional law. This means I'm constantly recovering from the trauma of being alive in these times.
In my doctoral work, I'm trying to understand constitutional claims outside courts - or the gulf between the Constitution of India & the constitution of India.
I'm currently teaching the law & science module to science undergrads, developing an RPG for children to work the Constitution democratically, and writing writing writing.
Although if Indian political twitter moves to Mastodon in a big way, it’ll be a big test for the way Mastodon currently deals with content warnings.
Sort of awesome to see non-technical people ask what Mastodon client to download. I recommend @tootapp for most people.
Twitter suspended an Indian Supreme Court lawyer’s account. He said he’ll move to Mastodon, now Mastodon is trending in India: https://bit.ly/2NsYg2s
So... after considering a Mac to replace an old family laptop, we might go Windows after all. A 1-year old Thinkpad T480 i7, 16GB, 512GB SSD sells for £650-800 on eBay. A similar-age & spec MacBook Pro / Air is £1700+.
Violent video games are setting a bad example to impressionable young geese. https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/4806410/goose-m73-lanarkshire-rush-hour/
This sudo ‘-1’ bug is pretty wild: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/14/linux_sudo_security_bug/
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