अनसोशल / Unsocial – Kaushal Kishore

 

सोशल मीडिया पर गर्म है झूठों का बाजार,

हर पल दिख जाते हैं दावे प्रतिदावे हजार…

हर बात की सच्चाई चेक करना है मुश्किल,

मैं सोशल मीडिया में हो गया हूं अनसोशल…

🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️🕳️

On social media, falsehoods are rife,

People share claims that cut like a knife…

With truths so twisted, hard to verify anew,

So now I’m unsocial on social media, it’s true…

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–Kaushal Kishore  

Source: अनसोशल / Unsocial – Kaushal Kishore

Review: The Warrior’s Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Review: The Warrior’s Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold

This series just keep getting better and better, although finding my scattered notes from when I was reading these books keeps getting worse and worse in terms of organization, so I beg your patience with these reviews, Fellow Readers. I love this book for the audacity and kind heart that our hero shows as he makes his way to adulthood as the physically crippled but mentally brilliant son of a rather unlikely couple. And no, just to correct an old myth, Miles Vorkosigan is not MPD and does not have a dual personality with a Beta Colony accent, he is merely very good at imitating various accents, as I was told that I also am, as a fast language learner. I got a very pleasant surprise when I read this book in the home of some friends with a rather extensive SF collection. I’d already, or so I thought, read this book 25 years ago, and only remembered the very end, which, to avoid spoilers, I will say that it perfectly bookends the start of the book, which I had entirely forgotten.  Good read, even if I may have found it a bit difficult to suspend disbelief in some parts of the scenario in the middle of the story. I thought I had more notes on this one, as I really started to make comments and email them to myself with this book, which, as other reviewers have noted, does change in tone and in a few other ways, from the previous two books in this series. This one is where the series really takes off, for me, anyway. I may try to take some time to get it from a library again and reread it so that I can add to my notes, as this is the first book in her Vorkosigan series that I find worth reading again, which is rare for me. Thanks to fan artist gemmiona for this Featured Image of Miles Vorkosigan in his House Vorkosigan greens, if I recall my uniform colors correctly. More on this once I have time to find and read this book again.

Source: Review: The Warrior’s Apprentice, by Lois McMaster Bujold | Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

Ha’aretz: Netanyahu’s Duplicitous Speech to Congress | Diane Ravitch’s blog

Benjamin Netanyahu is a hero to the party of Trump but not to the moderate and liberal Israelis who want him to be ousted from office and prosecuted for his failures. The Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz published the following scathing analysis of his speech to the U.S. Congress. Liberal Israelis believe that Netanyahu is prolonging the war in hopes of Trump winning the election, because Trump will let him do what he wants without pressuring him to make peace. The families of the hostages are furious at Netanyahu. Many thinks he’s delaying the day when he will be held accountable for his financial crimes, for the massive security lapse on October 7, 2023, and for his refusal to end the war.

Source: Ha’aretz: Netanyahu’s Duplicitous Speech to Congress | Diane Ravitch’s blog