Preeti Raghunath

Bookshop.org enters the e-book arena, giving indie stores a new way to compete with Amazon "Everything Amazon can do, we want to do as well or better," says CEO Andy Hunter on boosting indie sales digitally.

This is VERY good news. Love bookshop.org and all the stuff they do!

www.salon.com/2025/01/28/b...

How India's own ShareChat plans to corner a big share of the social media market - CNBC TV18 ShareChat, India's first profitable social media platform, has achieved success through cost optimisation, AI/ML-driven personalisation, and diverse revenue streams like ads and virtual coins. With 18...

My thoughts on India’s ShareChat, vernacular digital worlds, valuations of Indian startups, socio-ecological implications of AI/ML tech & legal frameworks governing platforms. Thanks to Shraddha Tiwari, journalist at CNBC TV18 and my former student, for reaching out: www.cnbctv18.com/technology/h...

💥AI and data center folks 💥 I've just uploaded a mini series I did with Sean Willett in 2017ish, pre genAi boom, about data centers and their impacts.

It'll be out on all podcast platforms in about 48 hrs. Early listen here:

🎙️shows.acast.com/the-data-cen...

On the Shadow Tracks 'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achie...

As the year comes to a close and I'm headed back to the region, here's one of the best books I read in 2024. 'On the Shadow Tracks' by Clare Hammond tells the story of British colonialism and of lives under brutal rule through the #infrastructure of the Myanmar railway. A captivating read.

* 10 days to go *

Hyderabad is home is Hyderabad

The Beginning of the End of Big Tech From politicians to VC firms, everyone is falling out of love with the massive, money-oriented, global technology titans. In their place, we have the chance to build something open and trustworthy.

Great piece by @meredithmeredith.bsky.social on “alternatives that stop tinkering at the edges of the monopoly tech paradigm, and work to design and build actually democratic, independent, open, and transparent tech.”

A coauthor and I have some ideas in a new paper 🧵

www.wired.com/story/the-be...

Interview with Preeti Raghunath - MYELOPATHY.ORG Learn how a myelopathy volunteer uses personal experience and academic expertise to advance research, care, and technology for the condition

Here's a short interview of mine published by myelopathy.org, a charity dedicated to the degenerative neurological condition of Myelopathy. This is really close to my heart

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An important new article

#RPVSky #RPVMethods

If you teach qualitative methods/ethnography, this post may be of interest to you:

How to write field notes (and how to teach the writing of fieldnotes) www.raulpacheco.org/2021/10/how-...

A change in mood at #COP29!
via @jendlouhy.bsky.social @johnainger.bsky.social

Presenting as part of a panel at the American Anthropological Association's annual conference and cannot help but think (jealously) about the joys of deep anthropological work. Going beyond disciplinary norms and embracing eclectic sensibilities is definitely (very rewarding) ongoing work.

A New Tool to Track and Analyze Philosophers’ Mentions (guest post) - Daily Nous Philosophers have always referred to other philosophers in their writing, but not always with citations. Since most bibliographic tools track connections between philosophers merely by tracking who ha...

Tired of Google Scholar? Citation tracking has ruined philosophy? Do not despair, you have edhiphy!
A free tool for mention-based (instead of citation-based) history of philosophy.

@sanderverhaegh.bsky.social and I have written about it on @dailynous.com

dailynous.com/2024/11/20/a...

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The energy transition will be much cheaper than you think Most analysts overestimate energy demand and underestimate technological advances

Lots to be depressed about right now, but this may be a bright spot - moving to net zero may not be as costly as estimates suggest
www.economist.com/interactive/...

My first chapter in an edited collection has been published with Bloomsbury! So thankful to have my physical copy of “Contesting Memorial Spaces of Japan’s Empire” with my chapter on the Puppet Emperor Palace. www.bloomsbury.com/us/contestin... @borderthinking.bsky.social

Hype, Sustainability, and the Price of the Bigger-is-Better Paradigm in AI With the growing attention and investment in recent AI approaches such as large language models, the narrative that the larger the AI system the more valuable, powerful and interesting it is is increa...

Now that "scale is all we need" has predictably faltered...

1. Small AI models often perform better in context.

2. Obsession w bigness has bad consequences, from climate, to power concentration, to research capture.

Me + @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social @sashamtl.bsky.social

arxiv.org/abs/2409.14160

Hello there! Would like to be part of this.

We collectively agreed to donate all royalties to Gaza. Please order Handbook for your library (publication July 2025).
My chp theorising coloniality of sexuality will be of interest, but another far better chp on decolonising/ debrahminising queerness enacts epistemic transformation.

Text reads: "London Migration Film Festival, 20-27 Nov 2024"

London Migration Film Festival, 9th edition, 20-27th Nov 2024 📽️💜↪︎
www.migrationcollective.com/london-migra...

Writing and imagining history: narrating the Indian Ocean world The Global Cultures Institute and the Marie Skłodowska-Curie project IATIO welcome the world-renowned author Amitav Ghosh to present the Institute's 2024-25 Annual Lecture and mark the end of the IATI...

Amitav Ghosh on "Writing and imagining history: narrating the Indian Ocean world", 28th Nov 2024, 7pm 💜 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/writi...

Can’t wait to dig into this one

It’s been super fabulous collaborating with the folks at the United Nations University at Macau for the first one, and Joanne (Nottingham) and Stefan (Monash), both in Malaysia.

Two updates to kickstart my Bluesky account:

1. Our co-authored report on AI and the WPS agenda in Southeast Asia is out! Link: unu.edu/macau/news/n...

2. Our co-edited special issue on Governing Technologies is now out as well! Link: intellectdiscover-com.sheffield.idm.oclc.org/content/jour...