Quick notes: Lessons for India | Battery swap...

• Lessons for India:
  
  - Reduce dependency on institutions controlled by the West: We have grown accustomed to thinking of interbank communications (SWIFT) as a global utility; they’ve now been turned into a tool of Western foreign policy.
  
  - Reduce dependency on platforms controlled by MNCs : Russia bans Facebook... "calls for murder of Russian nationals and serving as a platform for organizing riots".
  
  - Prepare for every eventuality: How Ukraine is keeping its internet up and running, and what India can learn from it



• The West won't condemn neo-Nazis: Mariupol is home to a Ukrainian militia unit called the Azov Brigade that contains far-right extremists, historically including neo-Nazis.



• Battery swapping: 50 Rupees, 2-Minute Battery Change. The pivot to battery swapping was a centerpiece of Nirmala Sitharaman's budget speech.



• Battery Packs: Excellent tech talk by Peter Rawlinson, CEO, Lucid Motors




• Intel's view: Chinese chipmakers could become strong rivals by 2025



• Govt subsidies for semiconductor fabs: Intel subsidies for Ohio, Magedeburg fabs measure in billions of dollars



• The return of dumbphones: "It makes sense that some of us are now looking for simpler technologies and think that dumbphones might offer a return to simpler times. It might leave more time to fully concentrate on a single task and engage with it more purposefully. It might even calm people down. Studies have shown that too much choice can create unhappiness and agitation."



• Bowing to Han power: Pakistan invited China to Organization of Islamic Cooperation despite not being an Islamic country and currently actively engaging in genocide against Muslim minority groups.



• Jamaicans call for reparations as British royal couple arrives: “No reason to celebrate the Queen’s coronation because her leadership, and that of her predecessors, have perpetuated the greatest human rights tragedy in the history of humankind”.