Dr Sohail Ansari

 My central distinction is important, and I will revise the wording accordingly. I am  not arguing that industrialization merely increased the quantity of skills that already existed.  I am  arguing that industrialization created new kinds of skill requirements because machinery, factory organization and industrial production changed the nature of work itself. My comparison with AI makes the distinction clear: the ability to perform a task before AI and the ability to perform it effectively in an AI-enabled environment may involve different competencies, not merely more of the same skill.

  Why did Article 65 of the 1918 Soviet Constitution discriminate by class? This requires understanding Bolshevik political theory . The Bolsheviks did not initially believe in liberal equality in the French revolutionary sense: every individual is equally entitled to political rights regardless of social class. They regarded society as divided into antagonistic classes: workers/proletariat; peasants; bourgeoisie; landlords; capitalists; clergy and other groups associated with the old order. The Bolshevik state therefore initially gave political privileges to the "working people" and restricted political rights of groups regarded as exploiting classes . That is why Article 65 excluded categories such as employers of hired labour, private merchants, persons living from capital/property income, clergy and members of the former ruling dynasty. This was deliberate class-based political discrimination , not an accidental failure to achieve equality. Historic...

 Bad news for the Iranian regime: its currency just hit another record low. $1 now buys roughly 2.7 MILLION Iranian rials. The situation has become so serious that Iran’s central bank is selling up to $2 billion in an attempt to support the currency. Sanctions are working.'  The post contains a real economic fact, but its conclusion “Sanctions are working” is much stronger than the evidence permits. More importantly, the way the fact is framed turns a complicated, long-running economic process into a near-linear story of sanctions → currency collapse → regime failure . That is where the analytical problem begins. I would judge it at several levels. 1. The factual core is real The rial really has reached extraordinary lows. Reuters reported that on October 3 the free-market rate was around 2.688 million rials per dollar , with the Central Bank announcing that state banks would sell up to $2 billion to support the currency. Reuters also reported that the rial had lost more t...

  You really couldn’t make this stuff up. Who was the leading visionary the Omani terror pilot supposedly looked up to?None other than our fantastic mayor of NYC, the venerated Zohran Mamdani.The terrorist was an avid fan of the NYC mayor, and after hearing Mamdani praise individuals involved in 9/11, he allegedly decided to try to reenact it himself.This man is spreading terror.' Yes, this is a useful example of a possible projection/transfer of responsibility , but I would make the argument more precise than simply calling it “projection.” The central problem is that the post appears to transfer the alleged terrorist's responsibility onto a political figure through an asserted ideological connection that has not been demonstrated . I checked the current reporting because this is a very recent incident. The underlying aircraft incident is being treated by UAE authorities as a terrorist act, and CNN reports that the suspect is Hamam al-Hammami, an Omani national. However, the i...