Gaurav Kalyani
@archaeogk.bsky.social
Archaeology | Anti-caste | Pop Culture | Digital Humanities
आगीतून फुफाट्यात 🔥🌈💥
आगीतून फुफाट्यात 🔥🌈💥
Important piece regarding Indian gaming industry. Hope this adds more nuance in south asian games studies discourse.
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Debugging Inequality: Caste and Labour Hierarchies in Indian Gaming Industry | The Ambedkarian Chronicle
The author reflects on their own experiences in the industry, the narratives they came across and how caste does in fact shape the process of game development.
theambedkarianchronicle.in
November 14, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Important piece regarding Indian gaming industry. Hope this adds more nuance in south asian games studies discourse.
theambedkarianchronicle.in/debugging-in...
theambedkarianchronicle.in/debugging-in...
Last few years have effectively killed my spirit to pursue archaeology or any hope that I can be one. I wish I could just bomb the shit out of white and brahmin academia.
November 13, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Last few years have effectively killed my spirit to pursue archaeology or any hope that I can be one. I wish I could just bomb the shit out of white and brahmin academia.
"Too political, for a country too unstable"
GameFile: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...
October 9, 2025 at 6:52 AM
"Too political, for a country too unstable"
So Sony is promoting Ghost of Yotei on Mumbai metro as well😯
Literally the whole train was covered with promotional posters.
Literally the whole train was covered with promotional posters.
October 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
So Sony is promoting Ghost of Yotei on Mumbai metro as well😯
Literally the whole train was covered with promotional posters.
Literally the whole train was covered with promotional posters.
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1/ Today marks the anniversary of Jyotiba Phule’s founding of the social reform society known as Satyashodhak Samaj, which began as a means of addressing caste and gender-based violence and discrimination by focusing on providing education and political access for women and Dalits 💙💛
September 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
1/ Today marks the anniversary of Jyotiba Phule’s founding of the social reform society known as Satyashodhak Samaj, which began as a means of addressing caste and gender-based violence and discrimination by focusing on providing education and political access for women and Dalits 💙💛
This is finally coming out! A collective translation of essays and memories written by Phule's contemporaries. Originally translated from Marathi. I've also contributed by translating one chapter in it. More details and joining link in the thread below.
September 23, 2025 at 5:37 AM
This is finally coming out! A collective translation of essays and memories written by Phule's contemporaries. Originally translated from Marathi. I've also contributed by translating one chapter in it. More details and joining link in the thread below.
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Just read a reddit thread of people passionately sharing about how they have still saved the links of now obsolete and defunct torrenting sites that were once almost like thriving ports...the nostalgia!!
September 19, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Just read a reddit thread of people passionately sharing about how they have still saved the links of now obsolete and defunct torrenting sites that were once almost like thriving ports...the nostalgia!!
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“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”
Your Therapists’ Notes Could Become Fodder For AI
Tech companies are marketing AI-based note-taking software to therapists as a new time-saving tool. But by signing up, providers may be unknowingly offering patients’ sensitive health information as d...
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September 17, 2025 at 5:22 PM
“Technology firms behind artificial intelligence–based note-taking software — marketed to therapists as a time-saving administrative tool — have quietly included provisions in their terms and conditions that allow patients’ therapy records to be sold and manipulated to train other AI applications.”
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"Open"AI is scanning its users' chats and reporting them to the cops.
https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police
https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police
OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police
For the better part of a year, we've watched (and reported) in horror as more and more stories emerge about AI chatbots leading people to self-harm, delusions, hospitalization, arrest, and suicide. As the loved ones of the people impacted by these dangerous bots rally for change to prevent such harm from happening to anyone else, the companies that run these AIs have been slow to implement safeguards — and OpenAI, whose ChatGPT has been repeatedly implicated in what experts are now calling "AI psychosis," has until recently done little more than offer copy-pasted promises that the company is "working on […]
futurism.com
August 28, 2025 at 11:44 PM
"Open"AI is scanning its users' chats and reporting them to the cops.
https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police
https://futurism.com/openai-scanning-conversations-police
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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August 13, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
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My friend Eslam has had her account removed by bluesky moderation. This is not the first time. I want to tell you what she said happened to her, but first, i’d like you to see Eslam’s campaign, since she is apparently not allowed here to share it herself.
bit.ly/artist-eslam
(1/?)
bit.ly/artist-eslam
(1/?)
No One Should Starve for Being Born Here
My name is Eslam Mohammad, I’m 24 years old, and I’m from Gaza. Over the past year, I’ve lived through unimaginable horror. I lost my home, my work as a photographer and artist, my friends, and the ...
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August 16, 2025 at 6:47 PM
My friend Eslam has had her account removed by bluesky moderation. This is not the first time. I want to tell you what she said happened to her, but first, i’d like you to see Eslam’s campaign, since she is apparently not allowed here to share it herself.
bit.ly/artist-eslam
(1/?)
bit.ly/artist-eslam
(1/?)
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Eslam shared with me that bluesky moderation made what i think is a very significant request from her. They asked her for a picture of herself, with her passport, and gave her a code to write on a piece of paper for confirmation it was her. She did those things. I saw the picture she sent them.
August 16, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Eslam shared with me that bluesky moderation made what i think is a very significant request from her. They asked her for a picture of herself, with her passport, and gave her a code to write on a piece of paper for confirmation it was her. She did those things. I saw the picture she sent them.
www.thenewsminute.com/videos/a-his...
I wanted to write about this case but don't have time. But one thing I do want to say, at the centre of it all, the Heggade family, have had unbroken rule over this area for nearly 800 years.
I wanted to write about this case but don't have time. But one thing I do want to say, at the centre of it all, the Heggade family, have had unbroken rule over this area for nearly 800 years.
A history of deaths & burials that haunt Dharmasthala | LME on ground
On July 31, 2025, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) uncovered partial human remains from a site near the Nethravathi river in Dharmasthala. This location was
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August 6, 2025 at 4:41 AM
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I wanted to write about this case but don't have time. But one thing I do want to say, at the centre of it all, the Heggade family, have had unbroken rule over this area for nearly 800 years.
I wanted to write about this case but don't have time. But one thing I do want to say, at the centre of it all, the Heggade family, have had unbroken rule over this area for nearly 800 years.
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@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social must boycott apartheid and genocide Israel. Sign and share the open letter. Deadline Tuesday August 12th! #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺#eaa2025 forms.gle/bW8cmekgefV1...
Open letter to EAA calling for a boycott of Israel
Please fill out the form below to add your name to this open letter calling on the European Association of Archaeologists to respond to ICOMOS Palestine's appeal to cultural heritage organisations to ...
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August 4, 2025 at 11:30 AM
@archaeologyeaa.bsky.social must boycott apartheid and genocide Israel. Sign and share the open letter. Deadline Tuesday August 12th! #archaeology #archaeology🏺 #🏺#eaa2025 forms.gle/bW8cmekgefV1...
Digging up the past: The Madurai community behind Keeladi’s big discoveries
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Digging up the past: The Madurai community behind Keeladi’s big discoveries
Velliamma stood under the scorching sun, inside a trench at the Keeladi excavation site in Madurai. She carefully brushed away centuries of dust from the ancien
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August 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Digging up the past: The Madurai community behind Keeladi’s big discoveries
www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/d...
www.thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu/d...
What are some latest developments in #archaeogaming?
Want to see/read some recently published research. Its been a while....
Want to see/read some recently published research. Its been a while....
July 21, 2025 at 1:25 PM
What are some latest developments in #archaeogaming?
Want to see/read some recently published research. Its been a while....
Want to see/read some recently published research. Its been a while....
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Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
I should be at Cambridge, but I’m trapped in Gaza
Home Office red tape strands dozens of Palestinian scholarship winners in war zone
www.telegraph.co.uk
July 19, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Shaimaa has a scholarship to do a PhD on Palestinian literature with me at @uoe-llc.bsky.social, but she's stuck in Gaza because the foreign office won't help. Please share. www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2...
“By using tourism to legitimize the occupation of these scared sites of Adivasis, the state is convincingly erasing the region's indigenous histories and constructing new, local Hindu histories.”
And museums are playing big role in it.
caravanmagazine.in/communities/...
And museums are playing big role in it.
caravanmagazine.in/communities/...
The commodification of tribal lives in India
Across India, tribal regions are increasingly being opened up to exploitation in the name of tourism.
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July 15, 2025 at 6:44 AM
“By using tourism to legitimize the occupation of these scared sites of Adivasis, the state is convincingly erasing the region's indigenous histories and constructing new, local Hindu histories.”
And museums are playing big role in it.
caravanmagazine.in/communities/...
And museums are playing big role in it.
caravanmagazine.in/communities/...
I'm so sick of these baman-bania archaeologists, historians and cultural heritage practitioners hoarding and controlling every knowledge production platform and funding opportunities and and have the audacity to talk about decolonization, heritage preservation and social justice.
June 12, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I'm so sick of these baman-bania archaeologists, historians and cultural heritage practitioners hoarding and controlling every knowledge production platform and funding opportunities and and have the audacity to talk about decolonization, heritage preservation and social justice.
Ugh the word salad🤮
May 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Ugh the word salad🤮