Musings on technology and justice
When they ask you why Atlanta was burning last night, tell them it was an uprising. If you want a quick answer, you can quote the economist Thomas Piketty Every human society must justify its inequalities: unless reasons for them are found, the whole political and social edifice stands in danger of collapse. Capital and […]
Read More Why is Atlanta burning?The advancement of humanity is the struggle against inequality — Thomas Piketty
Read More A review of Capital and IdeologyThe post from Dr Bernice King is a sobering reminder of her father’s assassination 52 years ago in Memphis Tennessee There are three things that run through my head as I sit with that. He died in solidarity with sanitation workers The Memphis sanitation workers were on strike to protest inhumane working conditions — two […]
Read More Martin Luther King was assassinated 52 years ago todayStamped: racism, antiracism, and you — a book for the family teach in.
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Read More They tried to bury us, they didn’t know we were seedsA month back I watched a documentary on Abdus Salam, the first physicist from Pakistan to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. During his lifetime, he made significant contributions to quantum mechanics and was awarded the Nobel for his development of theory of the electroweak interaction. You can watch it on Netflix, here is […]
Read More The stateless quantum mechanics of Abdus SalamThe picture and words are from the The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama. It is a memorial to the 4,400 and some victims of racial terror — mostly African Americans were murdered between the years 1877 and 1950. Last weekend as I tried to wrap my mind around the tragedy, my […]
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