iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

So true. We need Studs Terkel! I am certainly going to think about this. Thanks @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is just amazing piece of writing that I resonated deeply with. Antedisciplinary science or work goes on my webpage now :) (thanks to @jovanevery.bsky.social for luring me back to this site)

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Now you have raised the ante. 😀 I may visit Providence in the fall... Hoping the timing works out...

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

I am still waiting to have my kaapi with the man ...

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

@geomblog.bsky.social is showing how humans need to be multimodal to stick it to AI. He can talk, hold a mike and a pen, express his concerned opinions about the AI world and predict the number of days to see a result in the oval cricket game. Wish he was holding a kaapi cup too...

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

What if tomorrow’s utopia isn’t as neat as we imagine? I had the opportunity with Kate Chandler to reflect a bit on the question of Can We Resist the Appeal of Technological Utopias? We put our thoughts into a short piece called "Messy Utopias" globaldialogues.georgetown.edu/responses/me...

lnkd.in

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Heart broken. I lost Michael Burawoy, a dear mentor and advisor to a tragic accident! He was the best teacher I have had in my life. His passion for scholarship and solidarity for the marginalized workers is unparalleled in academia. I know many others feel the same...

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"The fundamental problem, as I see it, is not that social media misinforms individuals about what is true or untrue but that it creates publics with malformed collective understandings. That is a more subtle problem, but also a more pernicious one. Explaining it is going to require some words."

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

"If we think that the big problem is disinformation, which might persuade individuals that what is false is in fact true, we are likely to look to one set of remedies. If we think of the problem as malformed publics, then we are in much bigger trouble, without any very obvious technical fixes"

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

I agree, there is no confusion here, and we should find ways to work together, across all political and other perceived (and real) differences wherever you are.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Mixing wheat and rice, sort of a desi peace...

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Indeed internet is a human designed and maintained interconnected miracle.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

This should be good. Looking forward.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Thanks for expressing this clearly. And for what it is worth, I fully resonate, hence my suggestion to not keep notes that can be tracked back.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

ha. On a different note, If you replace "coal" with "AI", that's how some people (I don't, for the record) feel about AI's potential to be a useful tool.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New, from me: Bit of a timeline cleanse; how great it can be when government works well - Swiss transportation edition. open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...

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Has Switzerland Built the Best Public Transportation System in the World?

The joy of when governments works

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Don: wonderful writing! I am inspired to make a trip. will ask you for more details :)

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

My understanding: I cannot imagine that "law" or the research norms is going to compel you to report on the people you study intimately, whether directly or through a proxy. Probably best not to keep receipts!

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Gosh, I did take field notes, but it was private to me, and didn't name people/location etc. but, training others is a tricky matter as well as they writing about it to be potentially legible to you etc. I don't know whether there is going to be an easy answer.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

This is NOT an absolute position of course, it depends on the context, and the stakes, etc. hard to generalize.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

if you study "corruption", and study it deeply, you may witness acts of it ( like I did!) and I did not report them to the authorities.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

I don't quite understand the general context to this question, what is the qualitative research angle to this, as opposed you asking a general ethical question?

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Ha. I have met a few developers, who are actually poets, in code.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Definitely true in India, when I grew up. Interesting proxy, why you got into trouble though. Will I get into trouble for echoing your question?

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Tony Roberts @phatcontroller.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Human Rights Watch is Hiring a senior digital rights researcher

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

ouch :) "Imagine being Jasprit Bumrah when the Indian top-order combusted spontaneously on arrival at the crease. Bumrah must have barely changed and sat in the dressing room when he must have seen his batsmen "implode." #cricket

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Border-Gavaskar Trophy: In gloomy Brisbane, it rains (Indian) wickets

On a day that saw eight rain breaks, hosts Australia leave visitors teetering at 51 for 4, trailing by 394 runs in the first innings

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Naomi Hossain @naomihossain.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I wrote about the lessons of the 1974 famine - the first and the last such catastrophe in independent Bangladesh. Many thanks to @prothomalo.bsky.social for translating and publishing this on the 50th anniversary of a disaster that killed 1.5 million Bangladeshis. en.prothomalo.com/opinion/op-e...

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The lessons of the 1974 famine

People did not talk about the famine because it was deemed acutely politically ‘sensitive’. Sheikh Hasina did not look kindly on the inglorious topic

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Although it was hard to read this. I do see your point that states do learn when pushed to the extreme and a hope that governments should learn, and not give up on the crisis (climate and others)

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

Ha. Yes, I have heard some zen monks, do try to look at a tree and see it for what it is, and avoid naming it. Love this🙂

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Sounds super exciting. I wonder whether you are also tracking economic stuff (wages etc).

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

that is a techno-determinist view :)

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I think they are in a "thought free" zen state!

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

is there any good stats on the wages of the data workers behind AI? (labellers, content moderation ....) #AI #digitalworkers

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Thanks. I should warn you that the empirical context is in the implementation of a large public employment project. Lot of the analysis was really focused on the politics of that program and its implementation.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Mediated by information, rules, process and tech.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

And squarely in the world of politics, both Politics and everyday politics.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Yeah.. the part that is relevant to this idea of patching, the reasons for it, and the resistance to it, and the messy details of the outcomes, which are all mediated by class, caste, and ideologies of governance. We are not in the field of design clearly.

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Ha... Also with a geopolitical twist 🙂

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Rajesh Veeraraghavan @rajeshveera.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Trust me, I know, it is not about design alone.. wrote a book on it🙂

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