i’m genuinely perplexed about what is going on with people absolutely despising Disclosure Day?? its baffling to me that a movie with so much heart, sincerity, and profound ideas is the thing people have chosen to latch onto as “scourge of the earth” type shit

Good piece by @davideoks Ch. 4 of our book A SIXTH OF HUMANITY is on 1950-80 China-India comparison Despite extreme pol. & eco. chaos in China (exchange rate premium chart) China reversed fortune from 1962 Great Leap Forward trough surpassing India across the board (table)

Steven Spielberg showed up to a "Spielberg Trivia" night in a London pub, took over as quizmaster, and hung out drinking Guiness 🔥 insanely cool

Congratulations to Saikat for spending $10M of his tech and private equity fortune pretending to be a socialist candidate only to be shellacked into a distant third place.

Don’t miss this important article by Gideon Haigh published today in Cricket et. al. today: open.substack.com/pub/cricke… “Like everyone with a cricket bone in their body,” Gideon finds himself “dazzled by the talent and poise of Vaibhav Sooryavanshi, who did not just dominate the recent Indian Premier League but rather defined it.” Yet, the writer argues justly, with careful verification, sensitivity, and balance, “the question of Sooryavanshi’s age, officially fifteen, will not go away.” “To my enjoyment of watching him,” Gideon declares, “I should state, it would make no difference whether he is fifteen or twenty-five…To the issue, however, I can’t affect the same post-truth nonchalance. For if Sooryavanshi is older than acknowledged, the consequences could be far reaching for others.” Gideon looks into a 2023 interview given by Suryavananshi and other information that seem to contradict the claim that he is only 15 in 2026. The writer contextualises the question by citing no less than Rahul Dravid who spoke his mind on “the scourge of overage players in junior matches” and the fairly widespread practice of “age-fudging” at the junior level, with the collusion of coaches, parents, and others, in his MAK Pataudi Memorial Lecture given in New Delhi in December 2015. Dravid’s remarks have no direct bearing, of course, on the question of Survayanshi’s age and, in any case, the child prodigy, going by the date of birth presented in his official bio, March 27, 2011 (espncricinfo.com/cricketers/…), was only four years old at the time. Gideon gives due credit to the BCCI for grasping “the potential for age and domicile fraud,” tightening its bone density testing regime, closing other loopholes, and sanctioning several overage cricketers caught fudging their age at the junior level. But the BCCI now has this particular, highly sensitive responsibility: to act “to dispel all ambiguity with thorough enquiries and unassailable evidence of Sooryavanshi’s birthdate; most of all would it be fair to Sooryavanshi, whose achievements might otherwise be shaded by unnecessary ‘controversy’.” Gideon Haigh’s essay, “Boy wondering,” is sports journalism, cricket journalism with a literary flavour, at its best.

Daniil gonna Daniil....2-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-1...to a fifth we go....Sinner has yet to hit a ball and already two of his bigger threats - Medvedev and Ruud - will have each logged five-setters.

Address him as Dr.Kalaignar.

Fascinating scene from Karnan (1964). We give too much importance to proximate causes and forget remote, deeper and underlying causes.

"German Philosopher About Sanatan Dharma." @PawanKalyan.

Vivek Chibber is one of the American Left’s sharpest thinkers, but I disagree in comradely fashion here that technological advance cannot enhance our planning capability. @michalrozworski and I showed in our book, People’s Republic of Walmart, how the vast internal planning apparatus of firms like Walmart and Amazon, has absolutely benefited from/been enabled by information technology developments. Another example: one should very easily see how AI is already making planning easier within public healthcare (one of the most complex set of calculations, with multiple objective functions, that society engages in). Following on from the AI-in-healthcare example, one should also be able to easily imagine how AI might be able to assist with both calculation and approaching the discovery function of markets (I.e., knowing preferences better than markets). How AI assists with the economic calculation problem—the single greatest technical challenge to socialist development—should really be obvious to socialists. This is one of the key reasons why socialists should be supporting (well-regulated, humanist-oriented) AI development rather than opposing it. Socialism does not only face political obstacles, but technical ones as well. One of the frustrating things that kept coming up during our book tour for People’s Republic of Walmart was at book readings, some people thought we were saying that planning is easy. No! Hayek and Mises were correct that it is very hard. They were only wrong in confusing hard with impossible. Just as we do not want society to be governed by unelected kings, bishops or lords, or by unaccountable bureaucrats, technocrats or dictators, we should also not want society to be governed by an amoral, unaligned, unconscious algorithm (ie market incentive). Planning is simply the steadily improving extension of democratic human rationality and sovereignty over ever more of what has dominated us, just as science and medicine steadily extends human rationality and sovereignty over biology and disease. And just like medicine, planning is not something that establishes complete human democratic rational sovereignty all at once. We win gains over time. Saying tech development assists with planning is not the same as saying tech resolves the economic calculation problem in favour of planning: it means instead that planning is not a binary of feasible/infeasible, but rather, alongside challenges from the political objections of those who have an interest in the economic calculation problem not being solved, planning is *a capacity that expands in concert with the development of the productive forces*. Economic planning, market socialism and the mixed economy of social democracy are thus not competing approaches to socialism, but complementary, and their roles relate to how developed the productive forces are. There is a Grand Unified Theory of these various socialisms waiting to be written…

Re new CDS indianexpress.com/article/op…"incongruous practice of first identifying a retired three star general & grooming him to assume office as CDS & further 'promoting' the veteran to four-star (when there is no such provision) introduces a political filter that is better avoided."

The only worrisome aspect of the eternal “merit Vs seniority” debate is that the deep-selected individual might - rightly or wrongly - feel obliged/beholden for the out of turn elevation. In a weak individual this could affect the objectivity of his advice & decisions.

Who is advising Vijay on these governor meets and the signatures? How is he getting it so wrong every time!

The more you demolish. The more we reconstruct. ✊️ #lenin #jiaganj #cpim #cpimwestbengal #bjp

BREAKING: @NDTV’s @Vasudha156 reports that the DMK has confirmed readiness for outside support to an AIADMK-led Govt. VCK & Left to decide by today. Unbelievable, cynical politics unfolding in TN.