Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-12 Thread Radhika, Y.
Sure Amitha, please befriend me on FB so I can connect you. On FB as Y.r.Radhika El 11 ene. 2018 8:35 p. m., "Amitha Singh" escribió: > Hi Radhika, > > Could you please invite me too to the poetry group. I've been writing > poetry for over a decade now and await the release of my first book of >

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-11 Thread Deepa Mohan
Woohoo..the wordsmiths are coming out of the woodwork! I have no clue about the publication of written workhow is it done these days? Cheers, Amitha. It can't be an easy route. Deepa. On Fri, Jan 12, 2018 at 10:05 AM, Amitha Singh wrote: > Hi Radhika, > > Could you please invite me too to

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-11 Thread Amitha Singh
Hi Radhika, Could you please invite me too to the poetry group. I've been writing poetry for over a decade now and await the release of my first book of poems titled "A Simple World, A Simple Rule" soon. Regards, Amitha On 11 Jan 2018 11:38 pm, "Radhika, Y." wrote: > Deepa and Vani, > You migh

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-11 Thread Mohit Mohit
“Just Mohit” Regards, Mohit > On 12-Jan-2018, at 07:35, Radhika, Y. wrote: > > Hi Mohit > > ​Sure. Please send me your FB name so I c​an add you. > > Cheers. > Radhika

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-11 Thread Radhika, Y.
Hi Mohit ​Sure. Please send me your FB name so I c​an add you. Cheers. Radhika

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-11 Thread Mohit Mohit
Hi Radhika Could you please invite me to this group as well? I will be grateful. Poetry has become my refuge from the madness that seems to now inhabit the world around me. Specifically, Hindi/Urdu poetry. Regards, Mohit > On 11-Jan-2018, at 23:38, Radhika, Y. wrote: > > Deepa and Vani, > Y

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-11 Thread Thaths
On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:44 PM Vani Murarka wrote: > Yes, that dreadful question that puts hapless students in a spot: "So? What > is the poet saying?" :-) exacerbated by the teacher's frustration and > "shoulds" :-) > *shudder* I was a dunce who barely scraped by Hindi. English, on the oth

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-11 Thread Radhika, Y.
Deepa and Vani, You might be interested in Tisha shrivastava' s Poettery group on FB. Are you on FB? I can invite you. Radhika

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-11 Thread Vani Murarka
Deepa, > Ironically, both of us, if we were to > meet, might be so comfortable in our bubbles that our minds might not reach > out to each other! > Oh! In that case good that we've met online first and our minds are already reaching out to each other. > Looking at your links. Haven't read cont

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-11 Thread Deepa Mohan
Found your response very interesting. Ironically, both of us, if we were to meet, might be so comfortable in our bubbles that our minds might not reach out to each other! Looking at your links. Haven't read contemporary Hindi poetry in a long while. Not all the totrure of Hindi as a "subject" up

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-10 Thread Vani Murarka
In the online world, I have heavily unfollowed people who 1. Are very toxic - irrespective of their position on any ideology spectrum 2. Post only their personal party pictures and such This is because dissipation of mental energy directly impacts my health, productivity and happiness now. I am ac

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-10 Thread Deepa Mohan
Hi Bruce, First of allI don't know you, and may not recognize you if I see you in person. But I have followed you on this list. The email you've written is sad in tone, and I'd just like to offer an unconditional hug for the way things are with you right now. There is no self-pity in facing

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-10 Thread Bruce A. Metcalf
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:44 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote about filter bubbles and such: I am aware, sometimes sharply aware, that I occupy just such a filterbubble. I'm not happy about it, and it worries me. OTOH, the stupid hurts so much! Much as I dislike Facebook, it brings me into contact w

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-10 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 1:44 PM Udhay Shankar N wrote: > This piece [1], on one of THE hotbutton topics of the last year, caught my > attention. The background of the writer (one of Facebook's earliest > investors and a longtime mentor of Mark Zuckerberg) makes it more > disquieting. It's a long b

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-10 Thread Radhika, Y.
​Udhay, Your Offline strategy is the one I most use.​ I have to treat the online option with great care because I get easily depressed when I see the number of trolls that abound. In person, there is greater respect for viewpoints all round. I remember talking with a young Southerner (can't rememb

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-10 Thread Ashim D'Silva
I’m a tad conflicted about consuming opposing viewpoints. While I try and read a variety of sources, and will double check most stories of note, there is a line I try not to cross. Because of a general distrust of sources available to us, there seems to be a growing view that the average must be tr

[silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

2018-01-08 Thread Udhay Shankar N
This piece [1], on one of THE hotbutton topics of the last year, caught my attention. The background of the writer (one of Facebook's earliest investors and a longtime mentor of Mark Zuckerberg) makes it more disquieting. It's a long but worthwhile read, which I recommend. The need for being open