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Issue 18: Stan Swamy, Afganistan, Modular Type Scale, this and that

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Issue 18: Stan Swamy, Afganistan, Modular Type Scale, this and that

Jul 16, 2021
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CRUELTY: The tribal rights activist 84-year-old Father Stan Swamy is no more. As The Hindu mentioned, 'A death that was simply allowed to happen

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’. It is a stain in the Indian democracy
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, as noted by UN Human Rights Expert. Julio Ribeiro mentions it as Blood in their (Our) hands
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and even appeals to his readers to contact Swedish Academy to consider Stan Swamy for Nobel Peace Prize. The timeline of Bhima Koregaon-Elgar Parishad is available here
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.

CODE: Github’s Copilot is criticized

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for using Open-source licensed codes
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to train the AI system. While some people claim that it’s not illegal
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, there is no clarity yet. One thing for sure is that Github never respected
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licenses while training their Copilot.

POLITICS: The US is withdrawing from Afganistan, and that means only one thing. They lost the war after spending billions, similar to what happened in Vietnam

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. Listen
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(in Malayalam) to Stanly Johny,
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International Affairs Editor of The Hindu, and author of The ISIS Caliphate
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, discuss the same.

DESIGN: Anish Sheela

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shared a Slide
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, that was supposed to be made in 2013 as an internal doc for Google, which they claim is the first step to Google's Digital Wellbeing initiative
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. Interesting read.

TYPE: I tried experimenting with the Modular Type Scale

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for a personal project. It was interesting to find good articles explaining the concept
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. Also, I found this tool
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and this Figma extension
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helpful.

EXTRA READS: Every design is a system

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and Attention as Tetris Blocks
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https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/a-death-foretold-on-activist-stan-swamys-death/article35179643.ece

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https://thewire.in/rights/stan-swamys-death-india-human-rights-record-un-expert

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https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/blood-on-their-hands-280307

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https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/bhima-koregaon-elgar-parishad-timeline-events-151798

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https://analyticsindiamag.com/why-are-people-criticising-github-copilot/

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twitter.com/mitsuhiko/status/1410886329924194309

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https://juliareda.eu/2021/07/github-copilot-is-not-infringing-your-copyright/

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https://cybre.space/@tindall/106539167944483388

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https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/07/09/is-biden-haunted-by-vietnam-should-he-be/

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https://www.thecue.in/cue-talk-time/2021/07/10/american-war-in-afghan-possibilities-of-taliban-return-stanly-johny-explains

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https://twitter.com/johnstanly

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https://www.amazon.in/ISIS-Caliphate-Syria-Doorsteps-India/dp/9387471551/

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https://github.com/anishsheela

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http://www.minimizedistraction.com/

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https://wellbeing.google/

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https://webdesign.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-establish-a-modular-typographic-scale--webdesign-14927

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https://medium.com/sketch-app-sources/exploring-responsive-type-scales-cf1da541be54

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https://type-scale.com/

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https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/741231992144144738/Font-Scale

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https://uxdesign.cc/every-design-is-a-system-28bb9bf028b7

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https://walkintheforest.com/Garden/Attention+as+Tetris+Blocks

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