Madhav
@madhav.bsky.social
CID from Kerala; Indian-American. Movies, books, tech, stocks, politics, Hearthstone battlegrounds, and (at times in) dire straits. https://madhav.beehiiv.com/
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Madhav
@madhav.bsky.social
· Feb 6
This couplet from Vayalar has been on my mind lately. I fell in love with it the first time I heard it, ages ago. Its essence is what I’ve believed in all my life.
"സ്നേഹിക്കയില്ല ഞാന് നോവുമാത്മാവിനെ സ്നേഹിച്ചിടാത്തൊരു തത്വശാസ്ത്രത്തെയും”
Poorly translated as:
“I will not love a philosophy that does not love the suffering soul”
"സ്നേഹിക്കയില്ല ഞാന് നോവുമാത്മാവിനെ സ്നേഹിച്ചിടാത്തൊരു തത്വശാസ്ത്രത്തെയും”
Poorly translated as:
“I will not love a philosophy that does not love the suffering soul”
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Glad to see others are waking up to the abdication of responsibility from a number of German institutions, cowering behind the moniker of abstention.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
Arundhati Roy quits Berlin film festival over ‘stay out of politics’ comment
Author says she is ‘disgusted’ by claim from jury president Wim Wenders that film-makers should remain apolitical
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2026 at 7:14 PM
Glad to see others are waking up to the abdication of responsibility from a number of German institutions, cowering behind the moniker of abstention.
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...
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If she asks you if you have a police record and you say, “Synchronicity,” and she doesn’t get it, she’s too young for you.
March 26, 2025 at 4:15 AM
If she asks you if you have a police record and you say, “Synchronicity,” and she doesn’t get it, she’s too young for you.
Added to the list, as my existing copy is a blurry, sweaty DVD from National Market.
"You're not too smart, are you? I like that in a man."
It was such a pleasure to write the essay for Criterion's director-approved 4K of BODY HEAT, exquisitely restored.
Preorder now for May!
www.criterion.com/films/32141-...
It was such a pleasure to write the essay for Criterion's director-approved 4K of BODY HEAT, exquisitely restored.
Preorder now for May!
www.criterion.com/films/32141-...
February 13, 2026 at 7:43 PM
Added to the list, as my existing copy is a blurry, sweaty DVD from National Market.
Scum of the earth, these guys.
Meta's plan for launching glasses that people can use to secretly identify strangers on the street is to do it "during a dynamic political environment" when people who care about why that's bad are "focused on other concerns."
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses
www.nytimes.com
February 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
Scum of the earth, these guys.
I watched this last night and was cheering for her right through. What a win!
Okay but she posted on Reddit after the broadcast that she realized partway through Double Jeopardy that this was her only way to win, and started deliberately picking clues/buzzing in to maximize the odds that they would be tied going into Final. Absolute galaxy brain.
February 13, 2026 at 6:56 PM
I watched this last night and was cheering for her right through. What a win!
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Apparently Stalin unveiled a statue of Marx.
In Chennai.
In Chennai.
February 13, 2026 at 2:12 PM
Apparently Stalin unveiled a statue of Marx.
In Chennai.
In Chennai.
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Wim Wenders in 1988 vs Wim Wenders in 2026 (when asked about Palestine)
February 12, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Wim Wenders in 1988 vs Wim Wenders in 2026 (when asked about Palestine)
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Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp
February 13, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Suburban wine moms will really be like "you believe in voting? that pales in effectiveness to my strategy, firebombing a concentration camp" and then very effectively firebomb a concentration camp
A better week for movies, mainly because of the bookends #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
February 13, 2026 at 5:57 PM
A better week for movies, mainly because of the bookends #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched
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Here’s the thing… a dusty, used-up, gravel-sounding, lying, murderous eugenicist who snorted blow off a toilet seat *is* the best that MAGA can find to do the job. Nobody else is any better than this scumbag. That’s the problem, they’re all this venal. It’s a jobs program for the scum of the earth.
"I'm not scared of a germ... I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats."
This is a direct quote from the secretary of Health and Human Services. I lack words to describe how unhinged it is to have this person dictating healthcare policy for 350 million people.
news.sky.com/story/robert...
This is a direct quote from the secretary of Health and Human Services. I lack words to describe how unhinged it is to have this person dictating healthcare policy for 350 million people.
news.sky.com/story/robert...
Robert F Kennedy Jr admits he used to 'snort cocaine off toilet seats'
The US health secretary made the confession to podcaster Theo Von during an episode of his show, This Past Weekend, as he opened up about his past drug use.
news.sky.com
February 13, 2026 at 1:02 PM
Here’s the thing… a dusty, used-up, gravel-sounding, lying, murderous eugenicist who snorted blow off a toilet seat *is* the best that MAGA can find to do the job. Nobody else is any better than this scumbag. That’s the problem, they’re all this venal. It’s a jobs program for the scum of the earth.
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been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis
February 11, 2026 at 10:48 PM
been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis
They really are getting desperate, aren't they?
Avengers: Doomsday directors Joe and Anthony Russo have further discussed their claim that the film's four recent trailers were not actually trailers — and now described them as "narrative information." https://bit.ly/3MBv8XY
February 13, 2026 at 12:08 PM
They really are getting desperate, aren't they?
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When Lee Raybon is a Jeopardy clue:
February 13, 2026 at 2:19 AM
When Lee Raybon is a Jeopardy clue:
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You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.
February 13, 2026 at 5:05 AM
You really really REALLY have to read the whole thing.
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Mughal monuments in particular are just begging for symmetrical photos
February 13, 2026 at 7:06 AM
Mughal monuments in particular are just begging for symmetrical photos
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Glad to see a Columbia administrator speaking the plain sense about AI so many college leaders refuse to contend with. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
Opinion | A.I. Companies Are Eating Higher Education
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:13 PM
Glad to see a Columbia administrator speaking the plain sense about AI so many college leaders refuse to contend with. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/o...
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Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?
February 13, 2026 at 12:41 AM
Will Fox be updating their story on this and giving it the same amount of airtime as they did initial arrest?
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“.. We haven't seen anything like this since the dotcom bubble burst.
“.. Over the last 8 sessions, 115 stocks in the S&P 500 have decline 7% or more in a single day.
“.. The average drawdown when that happens is 34%. Right now we're 1.5% below the all-time high.”
@michaelbatnick.bsky.social
“.. Over the last 8 sessions, 115 stocks in the S&P 500 have decline 7% or more in a single day.
“.. The average drawdown when that happens is 34%. Right now we're 1.5% below the all-time high.”
@michaelbatnick.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 8:24 PM
“.. We haven't seen anything like this since the dotcom bubble burst.
“.. Over the last 8 sessions, 115 stocks in the S&P 500 have decline 7% or more in a single day.
“.. The average drawdown when that happens is 34%. Right now we're 1.5% below the all-time high.”
@michaelbatnick.bsky.social
“.. Over the last 8 sessions, 115 stocks in the S&P 500 have decline 7% or more in a single day.
“.. The average drawdown when that happens is 34%. Right now we're 1.5% below the all-time high.”
@michaelbatnick.bsky.social
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a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
February 12, 2026 at 1:29 PM
a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500
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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the meritocracy they want you to believe Black people are violating
A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.
A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.
RFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
February 12, 2026 at 8:07 PM
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the meritocracy they want you to believe Black people are violating
A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.
A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.
Pretty sure this news won't penetrate the Fox News-addled smooth brained people of my country of birth who gleefully voted for tHe eConOmy. Or they still believe it doesn't apply to them, of course.
The Trump administration is dramatically expanding an effort to revoke U.S. citizenship for foreign-born Americans as it works to curb immigration, according to two people familiar with the plans.
Trump administration working to expand effort to strip citizenship from foreign-born Americans
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials focused on denaturalization were sent to offices nationwide, sources say.
nbcnews.to
February 12, 2026 at 10:44 PM
Pretty sure this news won't penetrate the Fox News-addled smooth brained people of my country of birth who gleefully voted for tHe eConOmy. Or they still believe it doesn't apply to them, of course.
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The FTC has sent a letter to Tim Cook because Apple News is too woke and needs to include more right wing content.
This would sound silly even for The Onion but it’s our current reality.
This would sound silly even for The Onion but it’s our current reality.
Apple faces new tensions with Trump administration
US regulator issues warning to iPhone maker about its News platform following controversy over Super Bowl half-time show
www.ft.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:50 PM
The FTC has sent a letter to Tim Cook because Apple News is too woke and needs to include more right wing content.
This would sound silly even for The Onion but it’s our current reality.
This would sound silly even for The Onion but it’s our current reality.
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February 11, 2026 at 2:03 PM