Tag: Secretive

H-Pop The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars [Audiobook]


Free Download H-Pop: The Secretive World of Hindutva Pop Stars (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D2LLP9GF | 2024 | 9 hours and 49 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 279 MB
Author: Kunal Purohit
Narrator: Adwait Karambelkar

Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India’s dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics to poetry recited in kavi sammelans to social media influencers shaping opinions with their brand of ‘breaking news’ to books rescripting historical events, ‘Hindutva Pop’ or H-Pop is steadily creating societal acceptability for Hindutva’s core beliefs. By cleverly inserting Hindutva into popular culture, H-Pop normalizes Islamophobia, demonizes minorities and vilifies its critics each day, without ever making headlines. What makes H-Pop so popular? Who are its stars and its audience?

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Your Face Belongs to Us A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It [Audiobook]


Free Download Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BWSL6BFL | 2023 | 10 hours and 6 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 292 MB
Author: Kashmir Hill
Narrator: Kashmir Hill

The story of a small AI company that gave facial recognition to law enforcement, billionaires, and businesses, threatening to end privacy as we know it. New York Times tech reporter Kashmir Hill was skeptical when she got a tip about a mysterious app called Clearview AI that claimed it could, with 99 percent accuracy, identify anyone based on just one snapshot of their face. The app could supposedly scan a face and, in just seconds, surface every detail of a person’s online life: their name, social media profiles, friends and family members, home address, and photos that they might not have even known existed. If it was everything it claimed to be, it would be the ultimate surveillance tool, and it would open the door to everything from stalking to totalitarian state control.

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