Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র
Information Retrieval Researcher ✊🏽🍉🕊️ | Pronouns: He/him
Homepage: bhaskar-mitra.github.io
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রyou say "i asked chatgpt" i hear "i asked [an improv comedy group]" an improv group wrote this report instead of a therapist i use an improv comedy group
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রPalantir fasciitis
- Happening now in Silicon Valley: marchers have surrounded the Palantir building and are holding a prayer vigil for victims of ICE, while video of ICE and Palantir crimes is projected on the building. #AbolishICE #ICEOut #Palantir #PaloAlto
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রFrom @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
- Super excited to share that our #SIGIR2026 workshop proposal "Justice, Emancipation, Democracy, and Information Access (JEDI): The SIGIR Workshop on Resisting Corporate and Authoritarian Capture of Information Access Platforms" has been accepted! 🎉🎉🎉 cc: @acmsigir.bsky.social >>
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রWill be interesting to see the posture that people take around this today. For my part, I'm glad to see that the white supremacists continue to make it clear how anti-Black and racist they are. It goes to the very top. This is what their weaponization of "woke" was always about.
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রIf you were to actually take his white supremacy and racism seriously, you would evaluate their impacts on every single decision and policy advanced by the administration. And you would be on board for future reparations.
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রOur capitalists don’t envision automation as a bridge to human prosperity, otherwise they’d advocate for the types of fundamental societal changes that would make that possible such as UBI or investment in infrastructure through taxing their income. Their vision for automation is a robot with a whip
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রRemember, sneering works. It’s working now. That’s why the lowliest AI fan and the CEO of Microsoft are trying to get us to stop saying “slop.” AI art is supposed to be its flashy flagship and treating it as disposable rubbish (which it is) ruins everything
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রThey say “But you LIKED this art when you didn’t know it was AI!” like it’s some kind of gotcha. We liked the original artist upon whose stolen work the machine was trained. Kindly point us in their direction.
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রChild at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রAfter Epstein, I think someone is going to have to develop a structural theory of elite cultures of homosocial predatory behavior that isn't conspiracy theory.
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রBlack History Month matters, especially now. At the same time that politicians try to sanitize history, gut the Voting Rights Act, and roll back civil rights protections, we’re reminded that progress has always been contested.
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রMy friend lives in this building and said it was truly terrifying. The whole building woke up to their building being broken into by federal agents all to grab some guy who’s posted about being anti facist.
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রI’ve watched this about 20 times already
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রA bus stop near Tesla's flagship store in London. Imagine a Super Bowl ad that showed only this.
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রThe tide is shifting. They're walking back the bullshit hype.
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রThe reason it's important for normies to recognize that what they want & are doing to fight the regime is leftism is they don't have to reinvent the wheel, they can tap into what humanity has been building to take care of this, & listen to the humans who have been aware all along things need fixing.
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রName them shame them
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রI appreciate the optimism here but the reality is that the executive will just flout 7 and 8, and they may flout any judicial attempts to enforce them too. The problem with creating new rules is that DHS literally just doesn’t care about them. Reasonable people can disagree on this but, yeah.
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রJust been made aware of Haiti's winter Olympics get-up. That skirt looks warm, has good pockets, and has a massive horse on it. DING DING DING.
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রTake the time to do this folks. The proposed changes to ILR are shocking and cruel, which is made abundantly clear in the text of the public consultation linked below. Please lend your voice to try to mitigate the cruelty.
- PS. Not too late to tell the government what you think about their proposed changes to Indefinite Leave to Remain - the public consultation is open until 12th Feb. www.gov.uk/government/c...
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রThis is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রSuddenly realizing that in 10-20 years, the MN Historical Society will have an exhibit about *all this* and there will be a whole wall showing different types of whistles
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রHuge missed opportunity for Canada to show global leadership in AI governance. We could be a frontrunner on so many participatory methods - open legislative development and policy workshops, public awareness campaigns, citizens assemblies - instead we're making AI slop and calling it innovation
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রCongratulations to the six! But also this really underlines the danger of long running periods of the UK govt imprisoning activists on remand while they sow malicious narratives about them in the media. Thank goodness they were all acquitted.
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রA publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্র2017: "Democracy Dies in Darkness (derogatory)" 2026: "Democracy Dies in Darkness (complimentary)"
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রAll media should be publicly or worker owned
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রNo, I do not want to be a “creator journalist” or “influencer” or run a newsletter by myself I want health insurance and a decent editor to work under and a team of comrades to work with, attend union meetings with, do good with Launch the billionaires into the sun and pass out their wealth
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রif you can't make money off the fuckin WaPo sports section, you deserve to be called a business failure till the day you die
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- I was interviewed for two documentaries about "AI" that both premiered at Sundance this year: @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social ("Ghost in the Machine") and "The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist". As a pair, these films are a study in contrasts. Another long 🧵>>
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রA problem is that there are many of us who read about, research, and publish on AI (and have been doing so for years), but the university puts us on the same playing field of decision-making about it with those who have not.
- I’m gonna name it. This isn’t a case of “legitimately differing opinions.” It is blatant professorial malpractice to adopt/allow genAI (or really *any* new edtech) just b/c we are told that we must. Especially in the humanities classroom, the only “ethical use” or reasonable stance is to keep it out
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- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রDamn you’re telling me the technology that was very obviously intended for unregulated speculation and criminal enterprises was used to do awful things
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রfiona the hippo just turned nine (9). truly, time is fleeting
- Reposted by Bhaskar Mitra | ভাস্কর মিত্রMelinda French Gates says Bill Gates 'has to answer' for being in the Epstein files
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