Rohini Lakshané
aldebaran14.bsky.social
Rohini Lakshané
@aldebaran14.bsky.social
Engineer, interdisciplinary researcher, Wikimedian, polyglot. Writing. Teaching. Gaia is god. Personal views. The personal is political. https://about.me/rohini
Some quacks are interdisciplinary.
January 25, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Happy 25th anniversary of #Wikipedia to everyone. Here is a message I contributed to a time capsule for this day on Wikipedia's 10th anniversary (15 January 2011):
aarohini.medium.com/to-wikipedia...

#wikipedia25
To Wikipedia of the future
(My message to Wikipedia of 2026, posted and frozen in a time capsule on its tenth anniversary in 2011.)
aarohini.medium.com
January 14, 2026 at 6:38 PM
This is a PR fluff piece published in a newspaper. And it has clear markers of AI writing. Whoever paid for this should ask for their money back.

www.financialexpress.com/sports/sport...

#AIslop
Anil Kumble: The ‘Jumbo’ engineer building a multi-million dollar business empire
From the lanky kid in Basavanagudi to the master of the PowerBat, the story of Jumbo is about more than just wickets. It is about a plan that always had a backup.
www.financialexpress.com
January 12, 2026 at 4:42 PM
The emails that start with "From the Desk of the CEO:" to convey that the CEO's minion has written the email to me and not the CEO themselves... I feel like sending them a box of wood shavings with the label, "From the desk of Rohini Lakshané."
a toy minion is sitting on the ground in the dark .
ALT: a toy minion is sitting on the ground in the dark .
media.tenor.com
January 12, 2026 at 2:47 PM
One of the joys of being a long-time freelancer is to be able to watch 'manager, HR, and ass-licker employee' comedy videos and laugh without feeling miserable.

Case in point (in Indian English): www.instagram.com/reel/DSzjfCh...
Instagram
Create an account or log in to Instagram - Share what you're into with the people who get you.
www.instagram.com
January 10, 2026 at 1:37 PM
I wonder when benne (butter) dosa became so popular in #Mumbai. Besides, it's not from #Bengaluru the way it is touted. This food is from #Davengere in #Karnataka.

#travel #dosa #India #food
January 10, 2026 at 11:58 AM
Wow.
“When I speak about making our city more affordable, my vision is not limited to the homes that we live in or the child care that we’re making universal — it’s also a vision where we make it possible for working people to afford lives of joy, of art, of rest, of expression.”
Handing Out Free Tickets, Mamdani Says Theater Should Not Be ‘a Luxury’
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2026 at 4:53 AM
A kitty 🐈 wiser than some humans I know.
Good morning welcome to Tippetty tap tap Thursday

Another person's beauty is not the absence of your own.

Beauty is in the way you hold yourself.
It is how you treat people.
The way you love.
It's self acceptance.
Beauty is in your soul
January 8, 2026 at 10:49 AM
Reposted by Rohini Lakshané
Doxing, Deepfakes and Digital Harassment in this month's InkSights by Anupama Bijur

"Most conversations around AI so far have been its impending threat to jobs. But a disturbing crisis is unfolding – AI-powered and technology-facilitated violence against women."

#InkSights #AnupamaBijur #NWMI
January 4, 2026 at 10:44 AM
Reposted by Rohini Lakshané
The website on which the registration form for the India AI impact Summit 2025 is hosted (IndiaAI.gov.in) is geofenced like many other government websites. So, I am guessing non-Indians are not able to register for this global summit.

#AI #IndiaAIImpactSummit #DigitalIndia
December 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
So, Grok behaves like an AI replica of Elon Musk. Perhaps, that is intentional. He once said that Grok is meant to be 'a rebellious AI with few guardrails.'

www.forbes.com/sites/johnko...

#Grok #AI #LLM #Musk
www.forbes.com
January 4, 2026 at 12:26 PM
Thread: Women are using LLMs to ease household tasks. It shows how overburdened women are, and that they have no human help.

www.reuters.com/technology/a...

#LLM #AI #sexism #nutrition #food
How AI tools are easing the load at home for India’s women
Priyanshi Durbha has spent more than a decade helping companies adopt emerging technologies like AI into their workflows. But the 37-year-old Bengaluru resident says her most transformative AI moment ...
www.reuters.com
January 4, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Reposted by Rohini Lakshané
I'll start replying to my emails like this.

#science #academia #academic #philosophy #philsky
December 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Papadopoulos sounds like an Indo-Greek surname. Someone who makes papad but in Greece.
December 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Getting rejected by numerous auto-rickshaw drivers in Mumbai after I tell them my destination while rushing to a work meeting feels much worse than getting rejected on Tinder.
December 30, 2025 at 12:27 PM
The website on which the registration form for the India AI impact Summit 2025 is hosted (IndiaAI.gov.in) is geofenced like many other government websites. So, I am guessing non-Indians are not able to register for this global summit.

#AI #IndiaAIImpactSummit #DigitalIndia
December 30, 2025 at 12:07 PM
December 28, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Dopamine.
December 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I was in Hi-tech City, #Hyderabad to attend a conference last month, and stayed in an Airbnb flat in a gated apartment complex. Large, securitised business districts are aplenty, so are gated apartments.

Thoughts from the experience of visiting them: aarohini.medium.com/of-business-...

#urbanism
Of business districts and enclave living
November 2025. I was in Hi-tech City, Hyderabad to attend a conference.
aarohini.medium.com
December 26, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Reposted by Rohini Lakshané
Once more, with feeling.
December 24, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Reposted by Rohini Lakshané
wait, come back
May 28, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Chuffed to have contributed as a part of the expert network of the "Human in the loop" project on the unintended consequences of Generative AI in India.
loop.digitalfutureslab.in/team

It's not related to the eponymous film.
Team
Human in the Loop is a participatory foresight and storytelling project that explores the near-future risks of Generative AI in India.
loop.digitalfutureslab.in
December 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I like localised Christmas decorations. No alien reindeer or sleighs. Nativity scenes with Indian animals in the barn. Santa driving a freight train carrying gift packages from India to Bethlehem. Carols in Indian languages.
www.flickr.com/photos/rohin...

#Christmas #XMas #Newtonmas #Santa
Because riding a one-horse-open sleigh is too mainstream
www.flickr.com
December 25, 2025 at 12:29 PM