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Arnab Ray

@greatbong

7 Apr

IPL thread. The only weakness MI has is that there hasn’t been a Netflix MI documentary for years, what would be better than to see Chris Lynn playing rumaalchor at Antila & inspirational speeches from the Ambanis. Otherwise MI has the greatest T20 side that ever drew breath.

Ambani ka haath is truly magical. They have God on their payroll, Talent as their captain, one end of the Modi stadium, and while sky may be the limit for others, they have him at one-drop. How can anyone go up against them?

The only player in Delhi Capitals who would fit in to the Capital of Delhi is Ricky Ponting. The rest of the side has talent but not much character, which is why they lose to the Ambanis, and if that sounds familiar it is.

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Arnab Ray

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26 Feb

The last thing I had in 8 stages in Bengal was a sit down dinner during a wedding (back when people still had them). Lemon(yes they identified that as an item too), radhaballabi, aloor dum, fish, chicken, doi, misthi, paan.

This was of course the “Bengali middle class menu”. Variations were cholar dal and beguni. If the groom had a private sector job (i.e. executive), there would be a fancy item like “fish orly” or “chili pheesh”. If mutton was served, there was a presumption of “black money”.

This was of course Jyoti Basu times. Even if people had money, they would keep it low key to avoid army of local toughs to show up to extort with a “yeh hum hai, yeh humara Marx hai, aur yahan CPM pawty ho rahee hai”

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Arnab Ray

@greatbong

10 Feb

One shouldn’t be surprised at the dual standards of censorship Twitter adopts for the home country (US) and “third-world” countries like India. Since it’s not bad to use work terms on the wokes, this is institutional racism.

Countries like India need to be taught what free speech is. An incident where a non-national flag is forcibly planted on a symbol of authority is dissent whereas the exact same thing in US is insurrection. The ones who abetted the former are dissidents while the later are banned

Now here is what The Time reported. Not Fox. Time.

time.com/5936036/secret…

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Arnab Ray

@greatbong

9 Jan

@realDonaldTrump

With respect to Twitter banning permanently @realDonaldTrump and the justification it provides requires attention. It’s the easiest thing to ban him after he stopped being the President and can no longer take steps to the commercial detriment of the corporation.

It’s obvious that after the unprecedented incidents in DC, there was commercial pressure in terms of shareholders and Directors to take steps, if for nothing more than to ensure that the Biden admin doesn’t come down hard on them.

There is a good case to suspend Trump based on his tweet during the invasion of Capitol Hill, which was to effectively point his supporters to his own VP Pence. This was as good a case as any to not just suspend him but criminally prosecute him.

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Arnab Ray

@greatbong

22 Dec 20

microsoft.com/security/blog/… great step by step breakdown of one of the biggest (if not the biggest) supply chain compromise in history.

Trying to explain this for non-cyber folks: Recently, a state actor (Psst it's Russia) compromised leading cybersecurity firms (like Fireeye, enabling the bad guys to look at what good guys were doing to take them down), and upper echelons of the Us government.

They did this by getting into the code of a network administration system that is an industry-standard, and because network admin tools run at highest privilege, essentially anyone using these tools had become "khullam khullah" for the attackers.

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Arnab Ray

@greatbong

14 Dec 20

ndtv.com/india-news/abh… it is regrettable that Dr. Banerjee is using the Farmers Bill for spreading Fear Obfuscation Doubt (FUD) & of course the reply “do you know better or a Nobel prize winner?” accompanying the FUD.

Note not a word against the measures in the Bill (not surprising, I haven’t seen one coherent fact-based argument yet) but the kind of “Now is not the time, for all kinds of reasons” straight out of Humphrey Appleby’s playbook.

The proposal has been fully spelt out. Note there is no mention of what hasn’t been spelt out. This is followed by wild speculation that has zero basis in economic theory, more of the kind “no one trusts the BJP” which is a subjective evaluation.

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