Pranesh Prakash
@pranesh
prāṇēś prakāś Tech law & policy adviser. Hire me! #a2k #privacy #FoE #AI #infosec #FOSS #a11y zhōngyōng & anēkāntavāda. Past: @cis_india/@yaleisp
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I've a paper out in @IPPRJournal on content blocking and Internet shutdowns in #India from the perspective of international human rights law. Comments welcome. Do share widely! PDF: ippr.in/index.php/ippr… HTML: pranesh.in/scholarly/arti… #FoE #censorship #IHRL
Who Owns Express VPN, Nord, Surfshark? VPN Relationships Explained #privacy #security windscribe.com/blog/the-vpn-r…
Do folks have recommendations for solar power installers in Chennai? (We don't need new solar panels, but need a new solar inverter to be installed.)
A dataset of 1000 food recipies from rural parts of India arxiv.org/abs/2509.16286 The dataset may not be interesting to many but to me its interesting that we now are creating these datasets for AI. We'll see more such documenting humanity for a non-human audience.
#FoE #police In 1986, the police shot and killed at least 11 people during riots that broke out after the Deccan Herald published an allegorical story called "Mohammed the Idiot" featuring a village fool & Prophet Mohammed. Overall, atleast 17 ppl died & many more wr injured.
"… the various provisos attached to the various fundamental articles need not be interpreted as though they were matters of strait-jacket as if nothing else is permissible." Dr. Ambedkar opposing a narrow interpretation of Art. 19(2) (which contains exceptions to free speech).
Privilege to talk to writer Alaa Abd el-Fatah freed from Cairo jails after 12 years. Learning to heal, be with his family and how to be an activist and a dad. Gently chiding Thatcher, he suggests the campaign for his release in UK proved society exists. theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…
The LaTeX ecosystem is so abundant and rich because it represents the collective output of 40 years of scholarly procrastination.
#TechTip: If you use chatbots to help with solving tech issues on Linux (as I do), a great way to improve their accuracy is to add the relevant man pages into their context. They're much better at quickly parsing man pages than I am, and it significantly reduces hallucinations.
This isn't new. The US & EU shifted from multilateral trade agreements and fora (like the WTO) to plurilateral trade agreements outside of the WTO in large part because developing countries got too strong for their liking in the WTO. But the frank admission is, well, refreshing.
This is actually an extraordinary admission to make for a US Vice President x.com/OopsGuess/stat… Vance explains that "the idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things." But he laments…
Look at how few American commentators are even examining the applicability of GATS, etc. I'd say that this sounds the death-knell for the WTO, but then the WTO is already looks to be half-dead. #WTO #FoE #censorship #trade #China #USA
At markup, House Energy and Commerce votes 50-0 in favor of bill banning @tiktok_us, unless it's sold by ByteDance
How does the WTO, marginalized as it has been, have funding to run?
The Executive Secretariat for the Enhanced Integrated Framework is hiring an Executive Director. Apply by 13 October: bit.ly/4pAbavo More about @EIF4LDCs: enhancedif.org/en
It's not something many people are aware of, but the Asian Development Bank is one of only two major treaty-based international organizations where Taiwan is represented (WTO is the other one). It's called 'Taipei,China', and the missing space after the comma is deliberate.
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This is not true. Urdu was largely an urban phenomenon in India which was associated with particular cities like Delhi, Lucknow, Aligarh, Bhopal, etc. One could even argue that Urdu, particularly in its Persianised form, was strongly associated with the ashraf Muslim class and…
"Creamy layer" = the only form of intersectionality that progressives hate.
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We’re going to destroy the planet for a technology whose progress is measured by fake videos of The Fresh Prince eating spaghetti.
Here's an hledger appreciation tweet. It's absolutely the best software for plaintext accounting needs, and I'd even argue for many people's personal finance/accounting needs! I've been using it for 9 years now, and it's both powerful and easy-to-use. hledger.org/index.html
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