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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7h

Lunar halo in Mysore when I don't happen to be in town. 😣

Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

AI-generated Ravana with only 7 heads. And here we complain about AI putting extra limbs or fingers on people in images. (Never mind that he "was the epitome of vices" is also incorrect. 🙄) #GenAI #AI #Dasara

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

I hate spam but I like that spammers address me as Dr or Prof. (I have neither title.)

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/10/2026

Because eMudhra is in the news, I am sharing a screenie of a footer of an email I once received from them in reply to my query about my PAN card (a government-issue tax identity and card).

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 13/10/2026

Yours truly speaking online on October 22 at 4:30 pm IST (UTC +5.5) on AI and the digital commons. Registration link: foc.oki-india.org #AI #DigitalCommons #KnowledgeCommons #OpenKnowledge #LLM

Poster for the Future of the Commons collective’s talk, “Free as in Extraction: AI and the Digital Commons,” featuring an illustrated portrait of Rohini Lakshané, interdisciplinary researcher and technologist. Thursday, 22 October 2026, 4:30–6:00 p.m. IST, online via Jitsi. A QR code enables registration and joining. Logos represent the Centre for Internet & Society, Open Knowledge Initiatives at IIIT Hyderabad, and IIIT Hyderabad.

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

These vines are from somewhere in southeast Asia.

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Does this remind anyone else of the Hastar figurine in the movie Tumbbad?

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Paddy fields, lotus ponds, and coffee plantations.

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Forest trail. The red of the Western ghats and the sound of cicadas, crickets and a little stream.

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Not a good photo but it's a whole jar of vanilla pods grown in Coorg. It smells divine. The host's cooks made vanilla shrikhand from it.

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Thread: The motorcycle isn't mine. The suitcase is.

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Unionised bank employees striking for receiving incentives promised to them 2 years ago, and a five-day work week instead of working 2-3 Saturdays every month. Good to see this. These are government employees. We need more of this in every sector.

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

I laughed so hard at the second bullet point in these guidelines for submitting pitches to a magazine. I know the place from where that instruction comes from. Some people hate editors and reviewers for doing the job they are paid for (or in an unpaid […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

My favourite WhatsApp screenies of all time. (Shared by other people, of course.)

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

The sort of spam I look forward to. I also get unsolicited emails from vanity journals addressed to Dr Lakshané. (I have neither station.)

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 19/08/2026

I made a fingerprint recognition system for my undergrad thesis. It is unfortunate that some of this stuff being debated in the *apex court* over crowd-surveillance on public protests in the *national capital* in *2026* is so basic that I had to learn it for […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Screenshot showing the text from the Medianama article:

"Delhi Police treats an 80% match as a “positive” result.

Lakshané said the figure “means almost nothing” on its own. An 80% similarity score does not mean the identification is 80% accurate, or that the error rate is 20%. Scores are algorithm-specific and shift with the model, its calibration, image quality, threshold, gallery size and operational population. The measure that matters is the false-positive identification rate at that threshold, which Delhi Police has not published. She added that earlier RTI responses indicated police could still pursue sub-80% results through “corroborative evidence.”

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14/08/2026

Looking forward to this TFGBV Community of Practice discussion on “Defining Intimacy, Consent and Harm in the Digital Age" hosted by the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI). on 25 August 2026, 9 am EDT | 6 pm IST | 3 pm SAST. Register at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Pink webinar flyer titled **“Defining Intimacy, Consent and Harm in the Digital Age,”** hosted by the **SVRI TFGBV Community of Practice**. The event takes place **25 August 2026 at 9am EDT / 3pm SAST**. Four speaker portraits appear across the flyer: **Rohini Lakshané**, Independent Researcher, Technologist, and Wikimedian; **Dr. Olga Marques**, Associate Professor of Criminology and Justice at Ontario Tech University; **Kenya Fairley**, Associate Director of Safety Partnerships at Bumble Inc.; and **Hyra Basit**, Program Manager for the Cyber Harassment Helpline at the Digital Rights Foundation. Decorative abstract symbols appear at the top and a geometric pattern runs along the bottom.

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Rohini Lakshané @rohini.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/08/2026

A post-it review, as seen in a cafe in my city.

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