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Around 1986 I was postmaster at . I got an email from an incredulous correspondent who had received an error email from our mail server, which reported a 2-bit ECC error from LMFS (Lisp Machine File System) while reading from disk. /1

"How did South Asian American groups mark the 50th anniversary of the single largest genocidal event to occur in modern South Asia?

Not a word.

They’re celebrating a Hindu-genocide-denying white historian’s talk instead."

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@hmvprasanna @karatalaamalaka It has a name: Gell-Mann Amnesia -

@bharathceegee maybe it's related to this: (read to end 🙊)

@btbytes @bharathceegee you are welcome

Langauge of Barbers in India
Barber नाई nāī (< नापित nāpita), knife छुरा churā (< क्षुर kṣura), nail-cutter नहरनी nahranī ( < नखहरणी nakhahraṇī), scissors कतरनी katranī (< कर्तरी kartarī), alum फिटकिरी phiṭakirī (< sphaṭikārī)...read more here

It is significant that on 3/23/21, the U.S. Congress recognized the 50th Anniversary of the Bangladeshi Hindu Genocide. This is an important step, although Congress doesn't get cookies for simply doing the right thing.

Weekend Film Recommendation: Although the English-language film The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo is okay, the original Swedish miniseries Män Som Hatar Kvinnor positively rocks with Naomi Rapace as Lisbeth Salander, scourge of violent men who hate women.

@sagar__dubey Don't sell yourself short, Mr. Ocean

.@nntaleb talks with @sanjeevsanyal -- full of interesting observations & deep insights

Do you know how to translate “Soviet Union” into Indian languages? 😀 Very funny, it seems nobody translated that, including the prolific writers amongst the Indian comrades.

The funny thing is, the Russian word “Soviet” is related to a Sanskrit word.

The Indian experience is incomplete without knowing the contribution of Dalit personalities to the making of the Indian state. Time travel with us to know of their inspiring lives and work, and how they have impacted our times. Pre-order:

Lydian Nadhaswaram is probably the most versatile musician in India (or the world, for that matter)! He plays every instrument and musical form with astounding ease. Here is a superlative cover of Blackbird with his sister

"60 percent of boys in foster care grow up to become jail inmates...For every foster kid who obtains a college degree, 20 are incarcerated."

A child born into a poor family is 3 times more likely to get a college degree than a child who has lived in foster care

A child born into a poor family is 3 times more likely to get a college degree than a child who has lived in foster care

The people killed at the King Soopers supermarket ranged in age from 20 to 65. Here are their stories.

Schools will return to full-time, in-person school in the fall, Holcomb says via @indystar

@avtansa It seems many of the tribal "scripts" were made up by this enterprising linguist. I think this is a completely pointless endeavor. And definitely, that script is not "endangered".

"In massive contrast [to football], is the game of cricket: gloriously multilayerd, with strategy, tactics & ordinary operations in abundance. Cricket is collective chess for 22 people; a celebration of earth & sky; a one-on-one contest in a team setting."

Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Robotics and Animal Husbandry with a Specialization in Dance

Launching my new substack with @AnikVJoshi covering Indian politics today. We begin with a primer on the state of West Bengal:

Astra Zeneca vaccine is like Andy Murray - out in the 1st round, almost there, almost almost there, and then he wins Wimbledon. Well done!

The fact that even smaller players like Herero and Virchow are getting into the game shows how much manufacturing capacity we have. Absolutely remarkable.

"After schools banned mobile phones, test scores of students aged 16 increased by 6.4% of a standard deviation...equivalent to adding 5 days to the school year or an additional hour a week. The effects were twice as large for low-achieving students."

The contrast is one of my all time non-Colts player - Darren Sproles - 5'6" (very small stature by NFL standards) playing Running Back - one of the most physically demanding positions in gridiron football

Stark Truth About Aryans: a story of India by

followup: I switched to using Viscosity for which I had previously purchased a license. It even imported settings from Tunnelblick. Long live the VPN connection!

I have ported the compiler from part 1 of my book from TypeScript to Python. It's only about 800 lines, check it out:

@santalum_aurum add a filter:

Reddit could not meet the needs of their advertiser base with their legacy #Redis -based reporting. They worked with Imply to migrate to a @druidio -based solution. Result 2-3 times faster, 100% query success SLA, moving to real-time analytics.

ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ: ಕೋರೋನಾನ ಓಡ್ಸೋಕೆ ಇನ್ನೇನೇನ್ ಮಾಡ್ಬೇಕೋ ಗೊತ್ತಿಲ್ಲ.
ಶಿಶುನಾಳ ಶರೀಫ್: ಗುಡುಗುಡಿಯ ಸೇದಿ ನೋಡೋ.
ವಿಜ್ಞಾನಿ:

Mairēya is a liquor made with the flowers of Woodfordia fruticosa (below), jaggery, coriander seeds, and the Indian gooseberry (Phyllanthus emblica).

The majority (~58%) of sandalwood cultivation in India in the modern day still occurs within Karnataka.

on bookbinding:

The Origins of the Chinese Nation: Song China and the Forging of an East Asian World Order

A small thing, but auto-completion of keywords in Merlin is going to be a very pleasant addition.

@hamsanandi @Hiranyareta @PratyushPPEE @vakibs @boringTinTin @rivalslayer Anup Jalota saying राम without schwa deletion

Compared to Jalota’s pronunciation of राम, ऋषिकण्ठा Subbulaksmi seems to be using less svara in म of राम. I would say she almost says राम् at the end of each line

@hamsanandi @Hiranyareta @PratyushPPEE @vakibs @boringTinTin @rivalslayer Anup Jalota saying राम without schwa deletion

Compared to Jalota’s pronunciation of राम, ऋषिकण्ठा Subbulaksmi seems to be using less svara in म of राम. I would say she almost says राम् at the end of each line

A few people asked me for a version of the "say" command on Windows and then I remembered there's an ancient project called eSpeak which runs on all platforms:

It also does support many different languages:

pivot: i think the next paid post substack gonna be empires of the steppe & genetics. GENGHIS KHAN

An excellent Sanskrit-English dictionary for computer terminology that is actually a pleasure to read by itself! Words have been coined so lucidly that anyone can intuitively understand them!

Also, the putrid racism of “Indiana Jones: Temple of Doom” was outdone by Kipling, the very Master of racist tropes, in his “The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes”.

I don’t know how such abject racism was ignored by generations of readers.

Cricketer Javagal Srinath, A-list entrepreneurs buyout China’s Shunwei Capital’s stake in Koo App - via @PGurus1

Finally got around to writing more about Common Lisp:

How the Irish became white @UnHerd