'steely dan', 50 years old now with their first album

steel dan has been one of my favorite groups. unremittingly negative and sarcastic, but superb lyrics. 'gaucho', for example. 

Thanksgiving..

Celebrating the day Americans fed 'Undocumented Aliens from Europe'.

even the paks can't stand the hans

is this the end of technological innovation? hardly!

my essay in open magazine:

https://openthemagazine.com/essay/will-the-churn-in-big-tech-lead-to-a-new-period-of-innovation/

the case against crypto

https://www.ft.com/content/028e0109-6e87-42ed-8480-996cf645ce04

global warming ki jai.

the future of the university: lecture by makarand paranjape

the #FTX debacle, and side players

sequoia, the great silicon valley venture capital firm?

they should die of embarrassment!

sam bankman-fried clearly despised them. that got their attention! 

this is the problem with indians: we don't despise the west. han chinese do, and the west respects them.

and even better

"drown a toddler in my panties"? do actual women talk like that? or is this testosterone-fueled la-la-land?

kantara and rocketry: two hindu heroes' journeys

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-80-kantara-and-rocketry-two-heroes#details

my take on the US elections a day before the results started rolling in

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-81-the-us-midterm-elections-and#details

On average, a lame-duck Biden Presidency is a reasonably good outcome for India. If 2024 brings back a Republican Presidency (not necessarily Donald Trump) that too may be a good thing. The decline of the woke 'progressives' is good; however the hostility of the Deep State and the Military-Industrial Complex is not going to diminish until and unless India becomes a major economic and military power; which of course will happen by 2047. 

hmm.... never heard of Rust until today

https://www.wired.com/story/rust-secure-programming-language-memory-safe/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_110722_FastForward&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WIR_Daily_110722_FastForward&bxid=5cc9e3122ddf9c1a7ae03a81&cndid=55280215&esrc=growl2-regGate-1120&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_TRANSPORTATION_ZZ&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&utm_term=WIR_TopClickers_EXCLUDE_Transportation

the joys of single-source dependence on china for your supply chain: covid ki jai

this is why india has a chance

remarkable progress of inclusive growth in the modi years, the data is in

ah, the october surprise

in 2019, it was the hunter biden laptop, which of course was turned into a non-story.

now this.

i get the feeling the Dems are *ready* for the Nov elections. #octobersurprise #speaktruthtopower

https://theintercept.com/2022/10/31/social-media-disinformation-dhs/