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Pratim Sengupta

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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Race, Intersectionality and Hidden Necessary Labour in Computing Education: An intersectional and Marxist analysis of the forms of labour that regimes of post-secondary computing education do not count as academic work (OA -TOCE Just Accepted): dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/... (w/ @apoorvec.bsky.social )
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Representative Seth Magaziner @magaziner.house.gov · 27/01/2026
Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days. His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
disgusting but sadly not surprising
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Couple Receive $200,000 Settlement After ‘Pungent’ Indian Food Complaint
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 06/01/2026
Cool analysis, which finds a steadily growing polarization of the Supreme Court, beginning around 1960, with justices appointed by Republicans favoring wealthy parties and justices appointed by Democrats favoring less-wealthy parties.
A chart showing all the supreme court justices appointed since the early 1950s, with the date of confirmation on the horizontal axis and the fraction of opinions siding with the wealthier party on the vertical axis. Justices are coded blue for those appointed by Democratic presidents and red for those appointed by Republicans.

The chart shows no difference between Democrats and Republicans in the 1950s, but a steadily growing polariation beginning around 1960, leading to the current state of affairs in which Republican justices appointed after 1990 (Thomas and subsequent) side with the wealthy more than 60 percent of the time, while Democrats (Ginsburg & subsequent) side with the wealthy less than 40 percent of the time.
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
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‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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Can Ladakh’s cold desert power India’s biggest solar project? | BBC News India
YouTube video by BBC News India
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 13/10/2025
Vanderbilt's student newspaper @vandyhustler.bsky.social has a good article about the Faculty Senate resolution condemning the White House's proposed compact on higher education. vanderbilthustler.com/2025/10/11/f...
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 03/09/2025
I have a new preprint, with Mike Vandenbergh and @eithorpe.bsky.social examining the wild uncertainties in estimates of the environmental footprint of large language models and discussing the implications for climate policy. 🔌💡 dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...
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The Energy and Environmental Footprint of AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to create major economic and social benefits but also to rapidly escalate electricity demand and its associated e
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
The most beautiful way to star my Mondays, reading Sulagana Biswas' column "Beat The Monday Blues" in The Telegraph - T2. Here's a poignant homage to the music that sustained my 90s, and at least for me, kept my dreams alive in a world that was mostly full of bad humans.
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Beat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar Sanu
Beat the Monday blues with Ab tere bin jee lenge hum by Kumar Sanu
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Aoife Mac Namara @aoifemacnamara.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Congratulations, Pallavi! #UCalgaryArts youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vd...
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Dr. Pallavi Banerjee • Associate Professor • UCalgary Research Excellence Chair • Dept of Sociology
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
worried sick about the escalating war between India and Pakistan
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
ICE, State Troopers Make 150 Stops, Detain and Remove Dozens of People from South Nashville nashvillebanner.com/2025/05/04/i...
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ICE and THP raid Nashville's Latino neighborhoods - Nashville Banner
Federal and state law enforcement conducted a mass traffic stop operation in Nashville, detaining dozens of people and leaving families in the dark.
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Watch this please.
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What Does My Diet Look Like In Gaza?
YouTube video by Mohd hatem
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
This is happening. Learn from histories.
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‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal (Gift Article)
The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.
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Wolf Conservation Center 🐺 @nywolforg.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Our voices are stronger when we howl together 🐺🐺
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/t...
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How Geo Group’s Surveillance Tech Is Aiding Trump’s Immigration Agenda (Gift Article)
Geo Group, a private prison firm that makes digital tools to track immigrants, becomes one of the Trump administration’s big business winners as its tech is increasingly used in deportations.
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Aoife Mac Namara @aoifemacnamara.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
It’s happening.
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
“Secretary of State Marco Rubio has ordered diplomats overseas to scrutinize the social media content of some applicants for student and other types of visas, in an effort to bar those suspected of criticizing the United States and Israel from entering the country, U.S. officials say.“
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Rubio Orders U.S. Diplomats to Scour Student Visa Applicants’ Social Media (Gift Article)
The order comes as President Trump expands deportation efforts, including of students who have spoken out in support of Palestinians during Israel’s war in Gaza.
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...
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Climate Anxiety Is an Overwhelmingly White Phenomenon
Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or to get “back to normal?”
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Yup. Same here. This is real.
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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How Trump’s ‘51st State’ Canada Talk Came to Be Seen as Deadly Serious (Gift Article)
President Trump, in an early February call, challenged the border treaty between the two countries and told Justin Trudeau he didn’t like their shared water agreements.
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
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Why ‘open’ AI systems are actually closed, and why this matters - Nature
A review of the literature on artificial intelligence systems to examine openness reveals that open AI systems are actually closed, as they are highly dependent on the resources of a few large corpora...
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Two interesting metaphors for me: "embodied freedoms of cycling", "mundane choreographies of the road" (second one borrowed from from Endensor). Always good to trouble notions of infrastructure in these ways.
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 28/08/2024
Yes! I enjoyed reading it. Have been following Anjaria's work with great interest.
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 28/08/2024
Hey @pratim.bsky.social @santanu.bsky.social @chetkay.bsky.social @meghas.bsky.social this new book looks very cool. newbooksnetwork.com/mumbai-on-tw...
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Jonathan Shapiro Anjaria, "Mumbai on Two Wheels: Cycling, Urban Space, and Sustainable Mobility" (U Washington Press, 2024) - New Books Network
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 06/06/2024
Thank you @jgilligan.org - I miss you
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Jonathan Magnolia Gilligan @jmgilligan.org · 31/05/2024
An insightful commentary by @pallavib.bsky.social, @pratim.bsky.social, & Yahya El-Lahib about the colonialist subtext to university suppression of dissent. theconversation.com/student-prot...
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Student protests: How the university perpetuates colonial violence on campus
Recent student protests are attempts to humanize the Palestinians in desperate need of a ceasefire. Students deserve a dignity-affirming dialogue, not the continued use of police brutality.
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Pratim Sengupta @pratim.bsky.social · 26/05/2024
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day and attempt to make your own, until you will sicken and die of them, still in silence? - Audrey Lorde Join UCalgary fac+staff in rally for students: May 28, 12 pm TFDL Quad. #freepalestine
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