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Dept. of Computer Science & Software Engineering
Concordia University,
Montreal, H3G 1M8
Canada
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+1 514 848 2424(3025) messages +1 514 848 3000
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BipinC.Desai AT concordia dot ca
Intresting reading - in no particular order:
We look before and after,
And pine for what is not;
Our sincerest laughter
With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 2024
Kneejerk response, then overcorrection: what the aftermath of the Amsterdam violence should teach us
How the Ivy League Broke America The meritocracy isn’t working. We need something new.
Our mistake was to think we lived in a better country than we do
We are witnessing the final stage of genocide in Gaza
How can I vote for Kamala Harris if she supports Israel#39;s war?
As Silicon Valley eyes US election, Elon Musk is not the only tech bro to worry about
Hollywood's villains were once Russian or Chinese. Now they're us – people from the Balkans
Trump campaign worked with Musk's X to keep leaked JD Vance file off platform
These five tumultuous years in Montreal shaped Kamala Harris
It was Ta-Nehisi Coates who asked the tough questions on #39;CBS Mornings#39;
Sam Altman's Imperial Reach
Gavin Newsom Blocks Contentious AI Safety Bill in California
Is a Chat with a Bot a Conversation?
Silicon Valley, the New Lobbying Monster
What Would Society Look Like if Extreme Wealth Were Impossible?
Unregulated money continues to corrode US politics. Reforms are needed |
Anger mounts over environmental cost of Google datacentre in Uruguay
Where is Joe Biden#39;s fury about decapitated Palestinian babies?
What links Rishi Sunak, Javier Milei and Donald Trump? The shadowy network..
Terrapin SSH Attack: An Overview
Why do America’s liberal hawks attack Russia while giving Israel a free pass
- 2023
Meta failed to address harm to teens, whistleblower testifies as senators vow action
Inside the Booming Business of Cutting Babies Tongues
What does it mean to erase a people - a nation, culture, identity? In Gaza, we are beginning to find out! - The Europeans have destroyed The Americas and Australia, now they are helping in Mid-east!
Tragic!
Who should rule the world
Why I quit
Another tragedy!
Un-coup-d-etat-numerique
A Digital Coup
Don't rejoice yet, Elon Musk and his tech bros-in-arms are winning the global battle for the truth
AI machines aren't "hallucinating". But their makers are
We've discovered the secret of immortality. The bad news is it's not for us: why the godfather of AI fears for humanity
So Much for "Learn to Code" Computer science is no longer the safe major in the age of AI.
- 2022
Two teenagers killed Spanish teacher over bad grade, Iowa prosecutors allege
A Teen's Journey Into the Internet's Darkness and Back Again
Meta-stasis of the internet
I Was Wrong About Facebook
- 2021
Retail's Biggest Bully
How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines
Daniel Kaminsky
Covid-vaccine patent-waiver: most research for new medicines is largly funded by public funds!
'Master', 'Slave' and the Fight Over Offensive Terms in Computing
Municipal Broadband
Democracy Index 2020
Behind a Secret Deal Between Google and Facebook
Google's 'experiment' hiding Australian news just shows its inordinate power
Google refuses to answer questions about removing Australian news sites from search results
Billionaires backed Republicans who sought to reverse US election results
B.C. billionaire given the green light to sue Twitter over 'Pizzagate' tweets Social Sharing
Fox Settled a Lawsuit Over Its Lies
Trump attempted a coup: he must be removed while those who aided him pay
The Art of the Lie? The Bigger the Better
The violence at the Capitol was an attempted coup. Call it that - Rebecca Solnit
Banish Trump and His Co-Conspirators—Forever
The Corporations Funding the End of Democracy(in USA)
- 2020
Apple, Google and a Deal That Controls the Internet
You Say You Want a Revolution
Another Arrest, and Jail Time, Due to a Bad Facial Recognition Match
The 'Red Slime' Lawsuit
Taking On Big Tech: real or another mirage like Microsoft
The pot calling the kettle black!
Robert Reich, "To reverse inequality, we need to expose the myth of the 'free market'"
Ferris Jabr, "The Social Life of Forest"
The US was lucky to get Trump - Biden may pave the way for a more competent autocrat
A warning from the Philippines on how a demagogue can haunt politics for decades
Le trumpisme va-t-il survivre sans Trump?
Pay to Play(be deceived)
What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common
Incompetence everywhere!
NSO Group/Q Cyber Technologies flagship spyware: Pegasus
Conviction in the Philippines Reveals Facebook’s Dangers
Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police
Yes, American police act like occupying armies. They literally studied their tactics
Lecturer and student relationships matter even more online than on campus
Militarization of police
If you’re surprised by how the police are acting, you don’t understand US history
Danger of the global village!
Profiting from the pandemic
Goodbye Sidewalk/Google/Alphabet - good riddance
Backyard critic
Herd immunity?
Symtopms for Cold, Covid, Flu
SOHCO - lead spokesperson should be a scientis not Legault, Trudeau or Trump
The quiet genius
Facebook wants a judge to toss out the federal privacy watchdog's finding!
How China Deceived the WHO
Avoid the terrible five AAFGM!
WHO Trump!
Trump: Lies About the Coronavirus
How Facebook Works for Trump
WHO Trump!
Covid-19: We know nothing!
Birth of a pandemic
Some observations Covid-19 April 8, 2020
The local grocery stores are crowded and with narrow isle, an ideal place for the spread; specailly when the idiotic medical profession does not think people should were some kind of face masks.
Here are some stats:
| Country | Percent fatality |
| Canada | 2.4 |
| USA | 3.4 |
| China | 4.3 |
| Sweden | 8.1 |
| Spain | 9.9 |
| U.K. | 11.5 |
| Italy | 12.7 |
Hijacking the Cell
Zoom issues
Covid-19 and on-line shoping workers
Vapping for all!
Facebook's numerous violations of Canada's federal privacy laws
The 2020 Disinfomation War
The Democrats' Best Choices for President
How Boeing's Responsibility in a Deadly Crash 'Got Buried'
The Secretive Company That Might End Privacy as We Know It
- 2019
Twelve Million Phones, One Dataset, Zero Privacy
Google is no longer listening: four fired workers file charges against tech giant
Federal court tosses Ottawa's bid to quash deadline on First Nations child welfare payments
Raises standards for police conduct
Opt out! Is it as good as getting on the Do NO CALL REGISTRY?
Contracts: Barking up the wrong tree.
More deny, delay, deflacte and appeals etc.
Sacha Baron Cohen: 'Greatest propaganda machine in history'
Evidence Trapped in your phone!
Do no good!
SURVEILLANCE GIANTS:HOW THE BUSINESS MODEL OF GOOGLE AND FACEBOOK THREATENS HUMAN RIGHTS
Corporate(as in the following) and State impunity
High paying jobs!!
Google's secret cache of medical data includes names and full details of millions
Some thought on Election 2019
What happened when Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez came face to face with Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg
Everyone's AirPods will die. We've got the trick to replacing them.
Crash Course
No absolute time
Nazism, slavery, empire: can countries learn from national evil?
Trump Is Not Well
Boeing's travails show what's wrong with modern capitalism
The Rise and Fall of the Palo Alto Consensus
Why Should Immigrants 'Respect Our Borders'? The West Never Respected Theirs
My TED talk: how I took on the tech titans in their lair: Carole Cadwallader
Cambridge Analytica a year on: ‘a lesson in institutional failure’
A digital gangster destroying democracy: the damning verdict on Facebook
How a 50-year-old design came back to haunt Boeing with its troubled 737 Max jet
The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class
- 2018
Inside the flawed world of medical publishing that allowed a lie in a paper coauthored by Dr. Gideon Koren to pollute the scientific record
The Postal Worker’s Christmas
How Britain stole $45 trillion from India: And lied about it.
In Kolkata, a Love of Literature, Fried Street Food and, Mostly, Sweets
Why
the Perfect Red-State Democrat Lost
Peer
Review: The Worst Way to Judge Research, Except for All the
Others
This
Thermometer Tells Your Temperature, Then Tells Firms Where to
Advertise
Google Is Teaching Children How to Act Online. Is It the
Best Role Model?
Who Will Teach Silicon Valley to Be Ethical?
Why Technology Favors Tyranny?
The Risks to Children From Adults Who Smoke
Canada
revokes honorary citizenship for Aung San Suu Kyi
Amazon's Antitrust Antagonist Has a Breakthrough Idea
Could Monitoring Students on Social Media Stop the Next School Shooting?
India Pushes Back Against Tech ‘Colonization’ by Internet Giants
In 'Small Fry', Steve Jobs Comes Across as a Jerk. His Daughter Forgives Him. Should We?
The Unlikely Activists Who Took On Silicon Valley — and Won
Wylie Bianca, Searching for the Smart City's Democratic Future
Losing Earth: The Decade We Almost Stopped Climate Change
Amazon's Facial Recognition Wrongly Identifies 28 Lawmakers, A.C.L.U. Says
A Minister Fetes a Convicted Lynch Mob, and Many Indians Recoil
Delivering Amazon Packages to the Top of the World
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