really? what a narrow view! Anderson did in fact write sympathetically & convincingly about girls & women; even Hemingway has a story from an adolescent girl's perspective, "Up in Michigan," that is a knockout; not to mention D.H. Lawrence, Scott Fitzgerald, Thomas Hardy & (not least) Shakespeare. if men can't write about women, women presumably can't write about men. educated people can't write about lesser-educated people, Black writers can't write about brown people, people from Maine can't write about people from Vermont, no one can write about anyone except the sickly face in the mirror.

I read this and I'm terrified, the situation seems intractable. In the python ecosystem alone every cpython install, venv, UV is at risk. Don't get my started on npm, pnpm, yarn, go, rust. My current 2026 security posture: stay home and only connect to the internet from a trusted ISP. The winter is coming. discuss.python.org/t/informa…

Security called me at 6:12 AM today. "Patch every PHP server immediately." I asked what happened. "Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required." Cool. How many PHP servers do we have? According to inventory: 12 According to reality: Nobody knows. We found one running WordPress. Three running old internal tools. One under someone's desk. Two inside vendor appliances. A forgotten employee directory from 2016. And a server named: PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH Naturally, that one runs payroll exports. Then we found a PHP 5.6 box. I asked who owned it. The documentation said: BRIAN. Brian left in 2019. We called Brian. He said: "Oh wow, that's still running?" Excellent. By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call. CEO: "Can hackers actually get in?" Security: "Potentially yes." CEO: "Without a password?" Security: "Yes." CEO: "Then why do WE need passwords?" Not the lesson. Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue. Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers. Finance asked for a cost comparison. At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline. Marketing refused. "Our campaign is live." So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover. We finally patched everything we could find. Then our scanner discovered another PHP server. Hostname: TEMP-PHP-2014 Uptime: 4,512 days. Nobody knows what it does. Nobody owns it. Nobody can shut it down. But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels. Security has classified it as critical infrastructure. It is running PHP 5.4. The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees. The emergency patch took four hours. Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven. The internet isn't held together with code. It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

Chinese bride gifts her partner a flagship GPU at wedding — he breaks down in tears She handed him an ASUS ROG Astral RTX 5090 that costs around $12,000

Then the British made the Mahar untouchable.

Inventing varnashrama from first principles

We Must Pace the Frontier: I’ve written a new essay on why the AI industry should slow down, with a three-part plan for doing so. Anthropic is unilaterally committing to the first of these steps. We’ll provide third-party evaluators with permanent, employee-level access to our systems, so that they can verify adherence to our safety measures, report on incidents, and assess models’ alignment during training. You can read the full post here: darioamodei.com/post/we-must…

If you think caste discrimination no longer exists, watch this video. According to them, not everyone deserves to be treated as an equal. They believe that if everyone gets equal rights and equal respect, their own status will lose its value. The saddest part is that people with this mindset are working as teachers. If someone holds such discriminatory beliefs, imagine what values they might pass on to children.🤔

Baraka = varaka The dholavira sign reads raka-vararaka-araraH the initial v->b is a very common linguistic change. The vara-raka to varaka is a phenomenon driven by the Obligatory Contour Principle, a linguistic rule stating that languages naturally avoid placing identical or highly similar sounds right next to each other.

Right. So he was well educated in and wrote profusely in Latin, and he had a huge library, but he did not consult the books that pertained to the topic he was writing on?

No, Kant was an obvious plagiarism. His main ideas are copied from the Indian darshanas, reframed in European terminology. I see nothing novel in them. Like most post 1700 European philosophy, the central points are reframing of Indian darshans, with some peripheral stuff bolted on. Māya: >>Kant argued that we can only ever know the world as it appears to our senses (phenomena). We can never know things as they objectively are in themselves (noumena). Tatvam asi (the observer is the observed) : >>Kant argued that we automatically organize sensory data using innate structures like space, time, and cause-and-effect. Sānkhya: >> Fundamental laws of science apply to the observable world, but we cannot use pure reason to prove abstract concepts like the existence of the soul or God. Dharma: >>Categorical Imperatives are absolute, universal moral commands that we must follow regardless of our personal desires. "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law." Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 1.4.14 save bhavantu sukhinaḥ: >> we must treat all rational beings—ourselves and others—always as an end in themselves Nishkama Karma (includes action and aesthetics in Rasa theory): >>a truly aesthetic judgment of beauty is "disinterested"—we appreciate something (like art or a landscape) purely for its form, without desiring to possess it or use it. Sānkhyas prakriti as the infinite ungraspable: >>Kant introduced the concept of the sublime—the feeling of awe and slight terror we get when facing vast, overwhelming aspects of nature.