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RT @vjgtweets: Do watch this Odd Compass video on the Portuguese Inquisition in India, a brutal, bloody period of history that isn't very well known. Well done @Tarun_Sri!

@grantmaxwell That thou art. (tat tvam asi)

[a fun little sketch of this phrase by Alan Watts ]

@btbytes Per the Vivekacūdāmaṇi author
(; ), māyā can just as well be a response (or a non-response) to this too! 👇🏿
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"Chili" is an Aztecan loanword in English: "1660s, from Nahuatl (Aztecan) chilli, native name for the peppers." "Chipotle" too: "ultimately a Nahuatl (Aztecan) word, said to be a compound of chilli 'chili pepper' + poctli 'smoke.'"

Possibly some historical context for Guido joining Microsoft (huge news, congrats to him! 🐍) from a Normcore I wrote a while back.

Cheery weekend read. The end is nigher

In macOS 11, Apple has made it easier than ever to start up Linux virtual matches. They’ve built a full API around it!

A year ago we barely knew this disease. Now cargo companies are gearing up to ship a potential vaccine made at home, likely even developed at home. Warts and all, the response of India to Covid has been phenomenal.

.@Dhume should know that only person who was ever denied a visa to the USA under International Religious Freedom Act 1998 was Mr Modi, the man who then received the most votes in any election in human history.

Democracy promotion or anti Hindu bigotry?

दातव्यमिति यद्दानं दीयतेऽनुपकारिणे | देशे काले च पात्रे च तद्दानं सात्त्विकं स्मृतम् || 20|| dātavyam iti yad dānaṁ dīyate ‘nupakāriṇe deśhe kāle cha pātre cha tad dānaṁ sāttvikaṁ smṛitam Charity given to a worthy person simply because it…

@sabdavidya The paeans of the Mahmud of Ghazni and the casual descriptions of Hindu slaves in this "Sufi classic" made it impossible for me to sustain the myth of benign Sufism or "universalist" Sufism again.
(see pg. 109 here for instance) #RedPill
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@Randy_Au @vboykis

laughs in JSON

Reddit has taken the important step of eliminating cost-of-living adjustments for US remote workers. Now you can get SF wages without paying SF prices!

Spent last night learning more Nim and was able to do a few of the examples from the sdl2_nim project:

Amazingly, all of this worked on OSX and Windows and the only real issue was getting the stupid weird SDL2 distribution to work on windows.

Thoughts:

What I've been reading - some fresh, fun books by @alexbellos and @rorysutherland
(I've figured out Rory's rule for bashing economists: if it's insightful, by definition it can't be economics...)

Do check out this piece by the better half.

Amazon has the first four books of Winston Churchill's history of WWII for $3 each. (The last two are still at full price)

"perception of an Asian advantage in this pandemic often falls prey to essentialist thinking...somehow the East is doing things the West could never do...largely down to profound differences in values, politics and culture..."

Spoiler: that's not true.

See this art celebrating navaratri by my niece @sketchesandsongs

Kannada in Alexandria - So far, seven Kannada words have been traced, six in the ancient Greek plays and one in the library in Egypt.

Sanskrit Untranslatable 16

पुरोहित purohita is not priest.

In its root sense it refers to ‘the one who is placed in front’ or ‘the leader’ or ‘the director’ or ‘the chief in front’.

To learn more visit:

#sanskrituntranslatable

@btbytes Hi Pradeep, our partners in India are happy to assist. To reach a specialist, please follow the link below and fill out the contact request form. They will then reach out to you within 2 business days. Thanks. ^Johnny

#Charukesi - Strings Attached - Dr. Jayanthi Kumaresh & Shri R Kumaresh via @YouTube #saraswathiveena

@vboykis @lgoerl Have you see this:

They're missing the third type, "California fridge." It's empty because all your food spoiled in the latest power shutoff.

While @venkat_s shares top new #Java language features, @trisha_gee will jump right after that and show how to use and be productive with them on @intellijidea.

You can't miss this segway, starting at 9:30am Pacific Time today.

#JDConf Live at

RT @chetanp: The argument for native desktop applications and why the market for such applications continues to expand. Terrific post from Sketch:

"ran the data through the Urban Institute’s Spatial Equity Data tool and found broken ice cream machines skewed Black and low-income."

You needed a fucking computer to show you that? The obvious now isn't obvious without BIG DATA

Nobody thinks of vegetables as endangered. Who hasn't had yummy vangibath featuring a popular native veggie- the long green Eeranagere brinjal (Mysore badnekai)?

There are 100's more local varieties that need preserving. Any urban gardeners willing?

🌮 50 active restaurants on now

Yesterday a 🇳🇮 Nicaraguan blog wrote about it and now lots of Spanish-language menus showing up

Next:

• start adding the first paid upsells to see what they pay for
• email current users what to change/fix/improve/add

He said the National Mission for Manuscripts (NAMAMI), set up in 2003, has listed just 3.5 million manuscripts out of the estimated 40 million in India...

The Atlantic slave trade is well known, but the Portuguese also traded in African (& even Indian) slaves in the Indian Ocean. Some of the spirit shrines of these African slaves (called Kappiri) have survived in Kerala: