Rishita Chaudhary
@rish_yossarian
multi-hyphenate
tech policy, media & society
Rishita Chaudhary
Why investing in evidence is key to translating AI hype into impact
i am renouncing useless guilt, and refraining from making a cult of suffering. i am living in the now (or at least the soon), doing what i fear, trusting joy, and believing i will figure it out. i am taking the time to learn about what brings me joy, not just relief, what feels nourishing, not just numbing.
Putting aside the need to earn a living, I think there are four great motives for writing, at any rate for writing prose. They exist in different degrees in every writer, and in any one writer the proportions will vary from time to time, according to the atmosphere in which he is living. They are:
(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be... See more
(i) Sheer egoism. Desire to seem clever, to be... See more
Animal Farm • Why I Write | the Orwell Foundation
Both writers force us to consider how particular technologies not only exacerbate and deepen forms of social alienation and control, but graft onto already-existing social arrangements. Further, both foreground the ways that speculative futures draw upon racialized and casted anxieties in delimiting who is human or robotic, worthy of being healed... See more
J. Khadijah Abdurahman • Letter from the Editor on Medicine and the Body in Tech
Rituals give form to the essential transitions of life. They are forms of closure. Without them, we slip through. Thus, we age without growing old, or we remain infantile consumers who never become adults.
Byung-Chul Han • The Disappearance of Rituals: A Topology of the Present
To relationships, I commit easily, almost instinctively, digging channels so deep they’re visible from space. I find endless fascination in the daily rhythms of loving someone.