Swetabh Changkakoti

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“The cultural landscape of interplanetary space”
The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space
As Leo Cornum (2015) writes, “Outer space, perhaps because of its appeal to our sense of endless possibility, has become the imaginative site for re-envisioning how black, indigenous and other oppressed people can relate to each other outside of and despite the colonial gaze.”
The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space
connections to the stars that influence storytelling, governance, and religious tenets
The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space
Indigenous people have always been engaged with the worlds beyond the Earth, in ways that often stood counter to accepted ‘settler’ conventions of space exploration (Young, 1987). In one example, when asked about the Moon landings, several Inuit said, "We didn't know this was the first time you white people had been to the moon. Our shamans have been going for years. They go all the time...We do go to visit the moon and moon people all the time. The issue is not whether we go to visit our relatives, but how we treat them and their homeland when we go (Young, 1987: 272).”
The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space
In terms of settler colonialism, scholars have written about how Antarctica was initially thought of as the ‘perfect’ settler colony—land that could be had without the messy business of pushing Indigenous people off of it (see Howkins 2010). Of course, we know now that engagement with Antarctica should be constrained by ecological concern—who is to say that these concerns will be heeded in ‘unpopulated’ space?
The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space
Such a statement underscores the cultural bias within conventional notions of what constitutes the “human” and “knowledge.” In the absence of a critical self-reflection on this inherent ethnocentrism, the tacit claim to universal truth reproduces the cultural supremacy of Western science as self-evident.
The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space
that newer logics of space exploration such as potential resource extraction tie in with existing military logics in a way that creates a new way of thinking about the ‘openness’ of outer space to the logics of empire
The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space
For example, Aboriginal land in the Australian Outback was viewed as ‘empty’ land that was turned into weapons ranges where the British military tested nuclear weapons in the 1950s, which directly led to negative health effects upon Aboriginal communities downwind from the testing sites (Vincent, 2010).
The Settler Logics of (Outer) Space
But the possibility of care is not a one-sided question of the AI’s technological capabilities alone. Care occurs not entirely within a face-to-face dyad of caregiver and care receiver but also as a series of rituals performed throughout a networked community.
Routine Care — Real Life
There was something very special, but it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her,
Routine Care — Real Life
For a machine to pass as a person, it must not just be mistaken as human but be loved as one.
Routine Care — Real Life
reciprocal, complicated, and distinctly human variety
Routine Care — Real Life
all strings in C are terminated by a NUL byte (a char storing numeric value 0), also known as \0
Lab 1: C Programming and Makefiles - HackMD
On a 64-bit architecture (which most computers today use), the pointer occupies 8 bytes in memory
Lab 1: C Programming and Makefiles - HackMD
Again, in most countries, there are no laws granting the public, or even governments, any rights to inspect the source code of private companies, even in matters at the heart of democracy.
Critically Conscious Computing: Methods for Secondary Education
Information technology has indeed become the primary means for generating the kind of free time that, in the not so distant past, was at the heart of many political battles and was eventually enshrined in laws (think of limits on daily work hours, guaranteed time off, the free weekend). Such political battles are long gone.
The Taming of Tech Criticism
Why not ask citizens to internalize the costs of all the horror around them, for that horror probably stems from their lack of self-control or their poor taste in gadgets? It is in this relegation of social and political problems solely to the level of the individual (there is no society, there are only individuals and their gadgets) that technology criticism is the theoretical vanguard of the neoliberal project.
The Taming of Tech Criticism
One can tinker with consumers and companies, but the market itself is holy and not to be contested. This is the unstated assumption behind most popular technology criticism written today.
The Taming of Tech Criticism
They are “imaginary” and “theoretical” inasmuch as their rationale is imposed on them by the explanatory limitations of technology criticism rather than grasped ethnographically or analytically.
The Taming of Tech Criticism
the former group sees such firms as economic actors and situates them in the historical and economic context, while the latter sees them as a cultural force, an aggregation of bad ideas about society and politics.
The Taming of Tech Criticism
Only a technology critic—with no awareness of the actual role that “financial professionals” play today—would fail to ask a basic follow-up question: How is this not good news?
The Taming of Tech Criticism
It’s as if, in articulating a program, Silicon Valley had also articulated all the possible counter-programs, defining a horizon of thought that even its opponents could never transcend.
The Taming of Tech Criticism
After all, the decay is well known, and Silicon Valley’s bullshit empire is impervious to critique.
The Taming of Tech Criticism
Each closure instance has its own unique anonymous type: that is, even if two closures have the same signature, their types are still considered different.
Closures: Anonymous Functions that Can Capture Their Environment - The Rust Programming Language
how the figure of the “good Muslim” gets institutionalised and reconfigured in the Muslim Rashtriya Manch, the Muslim front organisation of the RSS
Reading RSS comics from the 1980s
visualising, politicising and organising the global South data workers who materialise the imperial data science visions through their labour, often with little knowledge of where their labour eventually gets plugged into.
An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres
datafied decisions are increasingly being produced automatically through machine-machine interactions.
An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres
now ready, permanent and malleable repositories of knowledge/power about populations agnostic to who is pulling the data why
An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres
Being able to fingerprint the brown native, developing photographic technology that could only represent light skin and more recently, refining facial recognition technology to best capture the minority Uighur Muslims in China – are all forms of attunements built through experimentation on actual postcolonial bodies
An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres
as to reconstruct the native as a risky subject
An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres
The Imprint of the Raj
An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres
use colonies as laboratories of experimentation
An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres
render non-white bodies (within and outside of the US) completely transparent and knowable to manage and contain difference through a kind of potentiality
An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres
endurance of a knowledge/power project through which the US has sought to know, order and manage the world for its own purposes of domination
An Agenda for Decolonizing Data Science – spheres
. This embedding of an input term in another one and recursively calling desugar is a common pattern in desugaring tools; it is called a macro
4 A First Taste of Desugaring
it seems to me, at least, that university departments have the responsibility to not pretend that the companies hosting recruiting events are all the same
⚡ Three Things Your CS Degree Won't Teach You - by jessica dai and Jasmine Sun - Reboot
I had so very few feelings, and everyone else had so many, and it felt like they were having all of them in front of me at once.
Hyperbole and a Half: May 2013
What is the need to talk about Aurangzeb and Babur all day when there are Aurangzebs and Babars being born in every district."
Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech — Article 14
Islam can exist as a political factor only through its instrumentalization by one or more of the former powers
The India Cable: MEA Evasive On Taliban; As ‘War on Terror’ Story Ends, New Cleavages Replace 'Islam v West' - by Siddharth Varadarajan - The India Cable
Leftist theory for Dalit emancipation must therefore make room for a working class Dalit’s desire to own a 21 inch color teleivision while repudiating the system that deems this necessary.
The Indy
“On August 8, 1942, the Quit India Movement was launched... therefore, on August 8 this year, we started the Bharat Jodo Movement [Unite India Movement],” he said, adding that his fight was against “colonial-era laws”.
‘Bharat Jodo’ event organiser seeks action against sloganeers - The Hindu
protest against colonial laws used to suppress Indians by the British, which still exist. We were there to protest against those laws and for a Uniform Civil Code because our demand was that there should be one rule in one country
'Mulle kaate jaayenge..': Anti-Muslim slogans raised at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar
her friend Anjali Verma, another pro-CAA protester, posted a Facebook live video on 30 May, urging her 12,000 followers to support Hindutva women like her who were stepping out of the traditional role of a homemaker.
The Hateful Facebook Adventures Of Ragini Tiwari & Friends — Article 14
How will you kill these Muslims if you fall in the trap of law and constitution? We will have to eliminate them from India, then the Islamic caste with all our heart
Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech — Article 14
repeal of Article 15 of the constitution, which he said was responsible for the “birth of terrorists”
Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech — Article 14
repealing the Indian Penal Code; promulgating a uniform civil code; a law to curb “infiltration”; a law to control population; and a demand for “one nation, one school board, One Nation, One Endowment Code”
Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech — Article 14
we want the government to bring population control and anti-conversion laws
Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech — Article 14
just like five lakh were forced to leave Kashmir in one night,
Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech — Article 14
50 will come and will give birth to 70-80, and slowly the land will be grabbed
Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech — Article 14
ko hum yahan ke gharon mein kiraye par makan nahin denge
Event Calling For Genocide Against Muslims In India’s Capital Latest In An Unhindered Spiral Of Hate Speech — Article 14