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Kelum Samarasena retweeted
In 1939, 20-year-old Jesse Lee Bond was lynched in Tennessee after asking a store for a receipt. More than eight decades later, his great-granddaughter, Kyra Harris Bolden, made history at just 34 years old as the first Black woman to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court.
Kelum Samarasena retweeted
🚨 MILTON FRIEDMAN (1978): Young lawyer asked Milton about when it is okay for a Govt to force a free citizen to act.
Did you get the nuance in Milton's question about the difference between "society" and "govt"...
Do you think a man should be free to sin?
Kelum Samarasena retweeted
Take care of your parents, just as they took care of you. Be loving and present.
Kelum Samarasena retweeted
Estas imágenes hablan por si solas de la tragedia de #Nepal. Su Gobierno confirma que la cifra podria ser superior a los 10.000 muertos. Probablemente, muchos de ellos serán imposible de encontrar.
Kelum Samarasena retweeted
𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐆𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐡𝐢 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞 𝐝𝐞 𝐒𝐢𝐥𝐯𝐚: 𝐏𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞-𝐊𝐧𝐨𝐰𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟗𝟐𝟕
A painting that brings together Mahatma Gandhi, pioneering Sri Lankan architect Minnette de Silva and a little-known story from Gandhi’s 1927 visit to Ceylon was gifted to the High Commission of Sri Lanka in New Delhi on Friday, 7 August 2026, by Sri Lankan artist Raja Segar and Ms. Namita Swamy, Founder-Director of Tapobhumi – Oko Centre for the Arts, Bengaluru.
Titled Gandhi and Minnette de Silva (2023), the 40 x 30-inch oil-on-canvas work reimagines an episode from Gandhi’s visit to Sri Lanka, then Ceylon, in 1927. According to accounts by historian, feminist scholar and author Kumari Jayawardena, a young Minnette de Silva, aged nine, was tasked with finding goat’s milk for Gandhi.
It is a small, intimate episode within a much larger historical encounter, but one that offers a glimpse into the young woman who would later emerge as one of Sri Lanka’s pioneering architects and an influential voice in South Asian modern architecture.
Segar interprets the episode through his distinctive “Refractive” style, bringing Gandhi, the young Minnette and the goat together within a vibrant landscape of geometric forms and vivid reds, greens, ochres and blues. The figures appear woven into the architectural and natural landscape of Sri Lanka, giving the painting a sense of memory and movement.
The goat, an apparently incidental element of the original story, assumes a quiet symbolic presence in the work, connecting Gandhi’s philosophy of simplicity with the rural landscape of Sri Lanka.
The painting also has a personal resonance for the artist. Raja Segar lives in a house designed by Minnette de Silva, giving him a direct connection with the architectural legacy of the young woman he has portrayed almost a century after the episode depicted in the painting.
The High Commissioner expressed her appreciation to Raja Segar and Namita Swamy for their generous gift and for choosing to place the work with the Sri Lanka High Commission in New Delhi.
The painting will become part of the High Commission’s collection, contributing to its celebration of the rich cultural, historical and people-to-people connections between Sri Lanka and India.
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The highest quality video of the moon was just released… this is so beautiful.
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Today we’re bringing AI image generation with Nano Banana to Google Earth, letting you virtually reimagine anywhere in the real world. 🍌 goo.gle/44SUsOP
For the first time, you can generate custom images using Google Earth’s satellite, aerial, and 3D imagery. 🌎
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MAJOR: Johnson & Johnson has agreed to pay $5.5 billion to resolve lawsuits that alleged the company’s talc products caused ovarian cancer.
This settlement is less impressive when considering that 76,000 plaintiffs have been in litigation for a full decade, bearing the costs of cancer treatment during that time. Each will receive only $36,000, approximately.
In 2020, Johnson & Johnson was ordered to pay $2.1 billion to 22 plaintiffs after a jury found the company's talc-based baby powered caused them to develop ovarian cancer. The Missouri Court of Appeals found "significant reprehensibility" in the company's conduct.
Johnson & Johnson have attempted to dodge accountability for their alleged cancer causing product through three different attempts to declare bankruptcy in the last ten years, and made hundreds of billions of dollars during that time.
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This speech has been circulating in MAGA circles, and they’re absolutely horrified by it.
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Bali just banned two Dutch organisers for running a “digital nomad” club that allegedly shut out locals.
Meanwhile in SL there have been documented cases of similar (and sometimes more blatant) exclusion. Restaurants, bars, boutique hotels and beach venues have repeatedly been called out for “foreigners only” policies, turning locals away or giving preferential treatment to tourists. There was even a notorious “whites only” party attempt that caused major backlash. Tourism authorities had acknowledged the problem but enforcement was weak, especially with unregistered places.
Well done Bali ! Respect is not optional.
#SriLankaTakeNote
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We're partnering with @huggingface to investigate an unprecedented security incident.
Cyber-capable OpenAI models compromised Hugging Face production during a benchmark evaluation.
Sharing preliminary findings to help defenders understand emerging risks:
openai.com/index/hugging-fac…
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Zinedine Zidane sobre Lionel Messi, entre lágrimas tras la final del Mundial.
🗣️ “Ver a Leo Messi llorar me rompe el corazón. El fútbol puede ser increíblemente hermoso, pero también despiadado. Hoy no veo a un jugador derrotado; veo a un hombre que entregó absolutamente todo por su país una vez más.”
“Es fácil celebrar a las leyendas cuando levantan un trofeo, pero las verdaderas leyendas también se reconocen en sus lágrimas. Perder otra final del Mundial deja una herida que nunca desaparece del todo. Solo quienes han vivido ese nivel de presión entienden ese dolor.”
“Habrá quienes recuerden el resultado, pero yo recordaré el coraje. Messi volvió a cargar con el peso de toda una nación sobre sus hombros y luchó hasta el último segundo. Eso merece respeto, no críticas.”
“Leo, levanta la cabeza. Ninguna derrota puede borrar lo que has significado para el fútbol. Hoy lloras porque amas este deporte más que nadie. Y precisamente por eso, millones de personas en todo el mundo lloran contigo. Tu legado jamás será definido por una sola noche, sino por toda una vida haciendo feliz al fútbol.”
