Prateek Waghre
@prateekwaghre.com
Sometimes ambivalent/ignorant|
Digital Rights/Public Policy Researcher (technology)|
past: Exec. Director @internetfreedom.bsky.social, Research: Takshashila Institution, Prod. Mgr.: Akamai Technologies|
✍️: prateekwaghre.com, techpolicy.substack.com
Digital Rights/Public Policy Researcher (technology)|
past: Exec. Director @internetfreedom.bsky.social, Research: Takshashila Institution, Prod. Mgr.: Akamai Technologies|
✍️: prateekwaghre.com, techpolicy.substack.com
It is really not clear to me what GoI has done to earn this much trust on the question of AI governance. What explains this?
www.pewresearch.org/...
www.pewresearch.org/...
October 17, 2025 at 10:11 AM
It is really not clear to me what GoI has done to earn this much trust on the question of AI governance. What explains this?
www.pewresearch.org/...
www.pewresearch.org/...
I think this is extensible to other subjects and regions, and has so many implications for framing and public discourse.
ourworldindata.org/d...
ourworldindata.org/d...
October 15, 2025 at 4:53 AM
I think this is extensible to other subjects and regions, and has so many implications for framing and public discourse.
ourworldindata.org/d...
ourworldindata.org/d...
Bob Dylan… on geopolitics
September 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Bob Dylan… on geopolitics
Before I watch anything involving a dog or cat.👇
June 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Before I watch anything involving a dog or cat.👇
Lots of updates to Poster Beware, especially instances of people commenting on the India Pakistan conflict.
May 31, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Lots of updates to Poster Beware, especially instances of people commenting on the India Pakistan conflict.
This is wild, I will never understand why so many outlets (especially the big ones) don't consistently credit loudly and clearly.
www.splinter.com/pla...
www.splinter.com/pla...
May 6, 2025 at 6:23 AM
This is wild, I will never understand why so many outlets (especially the big ones) don't consistently credit loudly and clearly.
www.splinter.com/pla...
www.splinter.com/pla...
Interesting, though, at the price point, out of reach for many who probably need to read it (when it comes out).
May 6, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Interesting, though, at the price point, out of reach for many who probably need to read it (when it comes out).
Joining the Inverted Republic ™ club I see.
April 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Joining the Inverted Republic ™ club I see.
Trying to convince my friends to do a ‘Smartypants Society’ type thing on our video calls. So far I have a few wisecracks, and 0 takers.
April 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Trying to convince my friends to do a ‘Smartypants Society’ type thing on our video calls. So far I have a few wisecracks, and 0 takers.
Pretty kicked about being on this episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech with @benwhitelaw.bsky.social. Thanks for having me on, Ben!
podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
April 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
Pretty kicked about being on this episode of Ctrl-Alt-Speech with @benwhitelaw.bsky.social. Thanks for having me on, Ben!
podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
podcast.ctrlaltspeech.com/2315966/epis...
Me, to the plot, before I do things for it.
April 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Me, to the plot, before I do things for it.
At the park today someone (visibly older than me) stopped me and asked (without any hint of irony), “bro, where is the dog show?”
Good sir, I am too old to be anyone’s “bro”(!)
Good sir, I am too old to be anyone’s “bro”(!)
April 6, 2025 at 6:56 AM
At the park today someone (visibly older than me) stopped me and asked (without any hint of irony), “bro, where is the dog show?”
Good sir, I am too old to be anyone’s “bro”(!)
Good sir, I am too old to be anyone’s “bro”(!)
There is a reel in my feed featuring Christopher Walken’s* dance from Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice set to Chappel Roan’s Pink Pony Club talking about “dissociating” to get through 2025.
Yes.
* read the name as the man himself would say it. I don’t make the rules.
Yes.
* read the name as the man himself would say it. I don’t make the rules.
April 5, 2025 at 1:08 AM
There is a reel in my feed featuring Christopher Walken’s* dance from Fatboy Slim’s Weapon of Choice set to Chappel Roan’s Pink Pony Club talking about “dissociating” to get through 2025.
Yes.
* read the name as the man himself would say it. I don’t make the rules.
Yes.
* read the name as the man himself would say it. I don’t make the rules.
Does Delhi HC not understand intermediary liability? (maybe there is more in the order 🤷♂️)
scroll.in/latest/108...
scroll.in/latest/108...
![The High Court also said that Wikipedia can not evade responsibility for content on its platform by claiming to be just an intermediary.
“[Wikipedia] cannot completely wash its hands of the contents of the article on the ground that it is only an intermediary and cannot be held responsible for the statement that is published on its platform,” the court said in its judgement.
It highlighted that the platform carries carries “higher” responsibility because it “professes itself to be an encyclopedia and people at large have a tendency to accept the statements made on [it] as gospel truth”.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:x6fhj7av5oorcsnbdtbhz2au/bafkreih7aibnf34dssl4x2bt6z5m2xwleo7ba4l7juepcqkq3fr5lmdryi@jpeg)
April 4, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Does Delhi HC not understand intermediary liability? (maybe there is more in the order 🤷♂️)
scroll.in/latest/108...
scroll.in/latest/108...
"The only exceptions are places like North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, where there’s no difference between young men and their grandfathers."
Damn!
Damn!
April 3, 2025 at 11:46 AM
"The only exceptions are places like North Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia, where there’s no difference between young men and their grandfathers."
Damn!
Damn!
This is, very on brand.
April 3, 2025 at 1:58 AM
This is, very on brand.
India:
‘Joke-making’ comics are enemies of the state.
‘Hate-speeching, violence-committing’ politicians are the state.
‘Joke-making’ comics are enemies of the state.
‘Hate-speeching, violence-committing’ politicians are the state.
March 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
India:
‘Joke-making’ comics are enemies of the state.
‘Hate-speeching, violence-committing’ politicians are the state.
‘Joke-making’ comics are enemies of the state.
‘Hate-speeching, violence-committing’ politicians are the state.
Roads and footpaths were ‘yucky’ so Zoey channeled her inner cat and walked on the parapet instead.
March 23, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Roads and footpaths were ‘yucky’ so Zoey channeled her inner cat and walked on the parapet instead.
Google Maps being randomly creepy on a weekday.
March 20, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Google Maps being randomly creepy on a weekday.
This is, what you would call in pro-wrestling parlance, a heel v/s heel affair.
March 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
This is, what you would call in pro-wrestling parlance, a heel v/s heel affair.
What an insane account - Jasmine Mooney who was detained without warning, and based on this - one of the lucky ones who've managed to get out.
www.theguardian.com/...
www.theguardian.com/...
March 19, 2025 at 11:57 AM
What an insane account - Jasmine Mooney who was detained without warning, and based on this - one of the lucky ones who've managed to get out.
www.theguardian.com/...
www.theguardian.com/...
Shouldn't the state bear the costs for reconstruction? Have they been directed to?
March 18, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Shouldn't the state bear the costs for reconstruction? Have they been directed to?
I have lots of thoughts, but little to say about this whole Grok thing on Indian Twitter.
What I will say is that if it keeps up, then we may get an interesting natural experiment to test a study that concluded conversations with chatbots can dampen conspiracy theory beliefs👇.
What I will say is that if it keeps up, then we may get an interesting natural experiment to test a study that concluded conversations with chatbots can dampen conspiracy theory beliefs👇.
March 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
I have lots of thoughts, but little to say about this whole Grok thing on Indian Twitter.
What I will say is that if it keeps up, then we may get an interesting natural experiment to test a study that concluded conversations with chatbots can dampen conspiracy theory beliefs👇.
What I will say is that if it keeps up, then we may get an interesting natural experiment to test a study that concluded conversations with chatbots can dampen conspiracy theory beliefs👇.