#News: Rare Galaxy #Frogs disappear due to reckless behaviour by photographers! 🧐🐸 Their home in Western Ghats #India is being destroyed for #palmoil. Now human vanity is killing off irreplaceable species. 🌴☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/17/galaxy-frogs-disappear-photographers-habitat-kerala?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#News: Rare Galaxy #Frogs disappear due to reckless behaviour by photographers! 🧐🐸 Their home in Western Ghats #India is being destroyed for #palmoil. Now human vanity is killing off irreplaceable species. 🌴☠️🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/17/galaxy-frogs-disappear-photographers-habitat-kerala?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#Assam Rabbits 🐰🐇 AKA Hispid Hares are regal and rare, they're endangered by many threats incl. #palmoil #deforestation in #Assam, #India 🇮🇳🪷 Help them and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚜🔥🧐🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/05/21/assam-rabbit-hispid-hare-caprolagus-hispidus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

#Assam Rabbits 🐰🐇 AKA Hispid Hares are regal and rare, they're endangered by many threats incl. #palmoil #deforestation in #Assam, #India 🇮🇳🪷 Help them and #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🚜🔥🧐🙊⛔️ #Boycott4Wildlife in the supermarket @palmoildetect.bsky.social https://palmoildetectives.com/2023/05/21/assam-rabbit-hispid-hare-caprolagus-hispidus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer

This sounds dystopian - tens of millions will be excluded, and will have to run from pillar to post.

With Special Intensive Revisions of the electoral rolls, and now with this digital census, citizenship of India and other rights have become alms thrown to the Indian people by the government. And these are alms that can be taken away for various reasons, these are alms one has to keep begging for periodically.

$[x2 Government Says Census 2027 Will Be Conducted 'Digitally']

Junior home minister Nityanand Rai said that the government has planned "to collect data through Mobile Apps."

The Wire

December 10, 2025

https://thewire.in/government/government-says-census-2027-will-be-conducted-digitally
#Asia#India#census#CasteCensus#census2027#fascism#DigitalFascism#citizenship

$[x2 Baba Adhav the grassroots campaigner and leader of the socially oppressed passed away at 96]

An intrepid and committed social reformer and organiser of the urban working class, labourers, domestic workers, waste-pickers, Baba Adhav of the “Ek Gaon Ek Panavtha” (One Village One Water Source/Well), who challenged the caste system, died in Pune on Monday December 8

SabrangIndia

December 9, 2025

https://sabrangindia.in/baba-adhav-the-grassroots-campaigner-and-leader-of-the-socially-oppressed-passed-away-at-96/
#Asia#India#Pune#BabaAdhav#urban#UrbanWorkers#workers#labourers#RagPickers#caste#CasteSystem

$[x2 How a seventy-year-old Presidential Order still shapes Dalit life after conversion]

Even after embracing new faiths, Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims continue to face caste-based exclusion. Yet a 1950 Presidential Order blocks them from constitutional protection.

by Khalil ur Rehaman

The Leaflet

December 6, 2025

https://theleaflet.in/equality/how-a-seventy-year-old-presidential-order-still-shapes-dalit-life-after-conversion
#Asia#India#untouchability#dalits#caste#CasteSystem#Hinduism#Christianity#Islam

$[x2 Delhi Pollution: Mopping Floor With Tap Open!]

It is noticeable that no authority wants to tackle the powerful automobile or construction lobbies, both of whom deny major responsibility and point fingers elsewhere.

by D. Raghunandan

Newsclick

December 8, 2025

https://www.newsclick.in/delhi-pollution-mopping-floor-tap-open
#Asia#India#Delhi#pollution#AirPollution#ToxicAir#environment#ecology#automobiles#vehicles#PrivateVehicles#construction

$[x2 Why India’s doctors leave for foreign shores while Cuba’s serve their poorest]

India’s medical education system prepares a workforce that learns early to value personal profit over their patient’s well-being.

by Harsh Mander

Scroll

December 9, 2025

https://scroll.in/article/1088715/harsh-mander-why-indias-doctors-leave-for-foreign-shores-while-cubas-serve-their-poorest
#India#Cuba#Asia#LatinAmerica#doctors#MedicalProfession#privatisation#capitalism#socialism#communism

This sounds dystopian - tens of millions will be excluded, and will have to run from pillar to post.

With Special Intensive Revisions of the electoral rolls, and now with this digital census, citizenship of India and other rights have become alms thrown to the Indian people by the government. And these are alms that can be taken away for various reasons, these are alms one has to keep begging for periodically.

$[x2 Government Says Census 2027 Will Be Conducted 'Digitally']

Junior home minister Nityanand Rai said that the government has planned "to collect data through Mobile Apps."

The Wire

December 10, 2025

https://thewire.in/government/government-says-census-2027-will-be-conducted-digitally
#Asia#India#census#CasteCensus#census2027#fascism#DigitalFascism#citizenship

$[x2 Baba Adhav the grassroots campaigner and leader of the socially oppressed passed away at 96]

An intrepid and committed social reformer and organiser of the urban working class, labourers, domestic workers, waste-pickers, Baba Adhav of the “Ek Gaon Ek Panavtha” (One Village One Water Source/Well), who challenged the caste system, died in Pune on Monday December 8

SabrangIndia

December 9, 2025

https://sabrangindia.in/baba-adhav-the-grassroots-campaigner-and-leader-of-the-socially-oppressed-passed-away-at-96/
#Asia#India#Pune#BabaAdhav#urban#UrbanWorkers#workers#labourers#RagPickers#caste#CasteSystem

$[x2 How a seventy-year-old Presidential Order still shapes Dalit life after conversion]

Even after embracing new faiths, Dalit Christians and Dalit Muslims continue to face caste-based exclusion. Yet a 1950 Presidential Order blocks them from constitutional protection.

by Khalil ur Rehaman

The Leaflet

December 6, 2025

https://theleaflet.in/equality/how-a-seventy-year-old-presidential-order-still-shapes-dalit-life-after-conversion
#Asia#India#untouchability#dalits#caste#CasteSystem#Hinduism#Christianity#Islam

$[x2 Delhi Pollution: Mopping Floor With Tap Open!]

It is noticeable that no authority wants to tackle the powerful automobile or construction lobbies, both of whom deny major responsibility and point fingers elsewhere.

by D. Raghunandan

Newsclick

December 8, 2025

https://www.newsclick.in/delhi-pollution-mopping-floor-tap-open
#Asia#India#Delhi#pollution#AirPollution#ToxicAir#environment#ecology#automobiles#vehicles#PrivateVehicles#construction

$[x2 Why India’s doctors leave for foreign shores while Cuba’s serve their poorest]

India’s medical education system prepares a workforce that learns early to value personal profit over their patient’s well-being.

by Harsh Mander

Scroll

December 9, 2025

https://scroll.in/article/1088715/harsh-mander-why-indias-doctors-leave-for-foreign-shores-while-cubas-serve-their-poorest
#India#Cuba#Asia#LatinAmerica#doctors#MedicalProfession#privatisation#capitalism#socialism#communism

$[x2 Indian government decrees that WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. must ensure continuous SIM binding with services]

• Indian government has classified each of WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Arattai, Snapchat, ShareChat, JioChat, and Josh as a Telecommunication Identifier User Entity (TIUE)

• TIUEs must fulfill a range of cybersecurity obligations

• TIUEs must ensure that SIM cards remain continuously linked to their services, they must make it impossible for their users to use services without a SIM

• For website or web-app-based access, TIUEs must ensure users are logged out periodically (not later than 6 hours) and must offer an option to relink accounts through a QR-code-based method

https://www.medianama.com/2025/11/223-dot-sim-binding-directions-to-whatsapp-and-telegram/

Just read @pluralistic 's article on the Eurostack, and de-Americanization.

Here's a brief piece on the topic I wrote 12 years ago, that has aged well.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055208/http://ownlifeful.blogspot.com/2013/04/open-source-for-security.html

#foss #opensource #GNU #GNULinux #China #India #History #Tech #Software

$[x2 Indian government decrees that WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc. must ensure continuous SIM binding with services]

• Indian government has classified each of WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Arattai, Snapchat, ShareChat, JioChat, and Josh as a Telecommunication Identifier User Entity (TIUE)

• TIUEs must fulfill a range of cybersecurity obligations

• TIUEs must ensure that SIM cards remain continuously linked to their services, they must make it impossible for their users to use services without a SIM

• For website or web-app-based access, TIUEs must ensure users are logged out periodically (not later than 6 hours) and must offer an option to relink accounts through a QR-code-based method

https://www.medianama.com/2025/11/223-dot-sim-binding-directions-to-whatsapp-and-telegram/

Just read @pluralistic 's article on the Eurostack, and de-Americanization.

Here's a brief piece on the topic I wrote 12 years ago, that has aged well.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160304055208/http://ownlifeful.blogspot.com/2013/04/open-source-for-security.html

#foss #opensource #GNU #GNULinux #China #India #History #Tech #Software

Gaṇādhipa Saṅkaṣṭī Caturthī
A day to worship Lord Ganesh in the form of Lord Gaṇādhipa. We worship Lord Ganesh today seeking fulfilment of our wishes and protection from all future difficulties and troubles in our lives.

गणाधिप संकष्टी चतुर्थी
भगवान गणेश के श्री गणाधिप स्वरूप द्वारा मनोकामनापूर्ति एवं कष्ट-निवारण हेतु व्रत का दिवस।
#hinduism #hindu #sanatanadharma #India