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19 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
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I see a spiritual upheaval in that shark's future
The greatest single moment in cinematic history for a fan of HBO's The Wire is Stringer Bell and Jimmy McNulty sealioning together.
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Gaurav Sabnis 🇮🇳🇺🇸 Profile picture
20 Jul
As a non-fascist Indian, it is surreal how many huge objective fuck-ups get shamelessly defended. Demonetization, objective fail. Covid handling, objective fail. Pegasus findings, objectively horrifying.

But there's barely a murmur among BJP voters. Cos Muslims bad?
Really, to the silent BJP voters among my followers who are still silent. If you stand for nothing, what will you fall for? What will it take for you to speak up?
The most bizarre myth they cling on to is that "Modiji has raised India's profile abroad" because it's the exact opposite. I've been living in the US for 15 years. The first 8, when Manmohan was PM, is when this so called profile was high and ever growing. Then 2014 came.
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20 Jul
For the actual work, it's very reasonable and can even go up to $100/he. But I'm not comfortable with a doctoral dissertation being edited and rewritten on that scale in the first place. Papers, books, etc, yes. Dissertations, just proof reading is kosher IMHO.
Unless it's a dissertation essay or study being turned into a paper to submit to a journal. That's cool. But the dissertation officially defended, printed, bound, put in the library etc... That, just in my personal doctoral training philosophy, should not be copy edited.
I should stress again that this is my personal subjective policy, and not all academics feel this way. It's the way I was trained and the way I train. I'll happily pay top dollar for copy edits of papers I submit with my students. But their dissertations, have to be all them.
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19 Jul
Yash Chopra "romantic" movies don't age well in the #metoo era.
Lamhe - Rich scion wants to get with an older woman, who is not into him, loves someone else. He tries hard, but fails. So then grooms and marries her daughter who looks exactly like her. 🤢🤢
Chandni - Rich scion hooks up with a woman, but then throws her under the bus to please his patriarchal parents. She moves on, meets a nice guy. But rich scion is like, nah, she is mine for life, no matter how much I abused her, cos I'm awesome.
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19 Jul
We need to stop and take a moment to recognize the #PegasusProject consortium as a historic thing in itself, separate from its chilling findings. It's an unprecedented alliance of media and watchdog entities spread across the globe. First coordinated pushback against fascists.
Fascists have come to power across the world in the past decade by using social media to demonize the "newsroom, editorial meetings, fact checking" type media entities. This is the first global alliance to push back.
Cos substack and podcasts are nice and all, but something like this.... This requires teams. Big teams. Resources. Standards. Coordination. Forensic analysis. Multiple confirmations and triangulations. This takes a village. Hundreds of people make investigative journalism happen.
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19 Jul
I'm way more affected by these trees dying from the storm last night than I thought I'd be. Trees are peak evolution for me. We are still figuring out how to turn sunlight into cheap energy and they've been turning it into food while growing way taller than us, peacefully.
Their only predator is us. No other creature on earth thinks, nice tree, I'd like to decapitate it and turn it into a chair or Amazon boxes.
Parasites do kill trees but they don't set out to do it. We are the only ones.
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19 Jul
I don't think indians fully understand what a big deal #Pegasus is.
NYT is like Kohli. WaPo is like Pujara. If you know what I mean.
Yup. Most indians.

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