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            <title><![CDATA[To be there]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 22:03:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>To be there</p><p>I ran. As fast as I could.</p><p>Only to fall behind the crowd.</p><p>I tried all my life to be different,</p><p>to not follow the bandwagon</p><p>Yet, here i am.</p><p>Doubting own reasoning, choices and most importantly, own meaning.</p><p>From a no man to an every men</p><p>I see myself there among the crowd,</p><p>from not being there at all.</p><p>I still have hope.</p><p>Not to be there or anywhere</p><p>where crowds appear,</p><p>to being able to find the quietest alley</p><p>in the city, and have a moment of silence,</p><p>if it’s still affordable as an adult,</p><p>I wish… let me run again</p><p>@exileinverse</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=452ffb1902b6" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[An Email to Self written on the Tube]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 09:04:52 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dear Self,</p><p>I have never thought of sending an Email to you on purpose. I know pretty much how you are doing. Even then, I would like to grab your attention to a few things, that you might have ignored, or pretend to be.</p><figure><img alt="Tube train motion blur" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*pXC4DWGpJZ8i3W1I" /><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@danroizer?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Dan Roizer</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><p>As hasty as you are about believing in things falling into pieces through eventual nature of everything, you must remind yourself that you are not there yet to think so. Your past self could believe or act so, but the present you must carry the sense of action, not the purpose.</p><p>Your relationship with purpose might have been relentless, yet, purpose does serve but only adds to your lack of being. But, a sense of action may not outweigh the self, rather it adds motion to it. It gives you an uncanny comfort you may not like, but a comfort that makes you at peace tomorrow.</p><p>I am no saint too. I am also eager to know whether you agree with me or not. Why would you take anything about what I preach even if we have lived the exact same life?</p><p>But, we may agree upon one fact that the sharing soul we both have, knows much more than we do, about lives we had, whether it had meaning or not.</p><p>Let me remind you something. I was lying when I said I wanted to remind you a few things. Maybe I took you for granted. Whether you decided to go through this or not, I would conclude without leaving any notes for you. As you know, me and you, should stop being ourselves, and become mere actors, and let the soul act its way out. And let us pity the soul.</p><p>As much as I want to wish you the most happening moments, I am more careful about saying anything. All I want you to be you is in your rightfulness, in a position you excel through, to be the best of yourself.</p><p>With warm regards,<br>Yourself.</p><p>© exileinverse</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=bf0208b20f8b" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[What’s wrong with Ethical AI policies?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/@ExileinVerse/whats-wrong-with-ethical-ai-policies-ff7098b8fd81?source=rss-0706b5a2261e------2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/0*FmqCW4bSW-4YJ0U5" width="6016"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">The &#x201C;AI - Ethics Loophole&#x201D; When Big Tech Writes the Rules of Its Own Accountability</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/@ExileinVerse/whats-wrong-with-ethical-ai-policies-ff7098b8fd81?source=rss-0706b5a2261e------2">Continue reading on Medium »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 10:52:48 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[On understanding death.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:27:31 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Death comes with no precaution. And death happens as a surity. A surity that everyone knows, that me and you, he and she, they and them, everyone you see, meet, the strangers, or people you know, everyone is bound to death, someway or other, within a short span of time. Yet, we live with the ultimate passion for living, to making it a day, dreaming for generations to come. Even then, at least once in a life time, death needs to be understood. Abrahamic religions say it’s the way to heaven or hell. While ancient religions see death as an inevitable process as life happens again and again. And modern civilization of humans do not clearly has an answer for it.</p><p>However, the death being an inevitable event marks the end of life lived, has not entirely understood what it means to be. For example, from mummies to current technologies available, we know how human bodies can be preserved for thousands of years. This signifies one thing that death does not mean the end of physicality. But Life. A truth we embody.</p><p>Now thinking death anticipates a simple thought. What does it offer. Some people may become memories for a while, some may get forgotten fast. And given the shorter timeline of entire human race, or other living things in the earth, death marks the necessary step to sustain future lives, we give the best to planet, by adding life. And our genes continue to do the same for generations to come until current life forms meets the extinction face, but evolving into more beautiful creatures later on.</p><p>Some of the oldest cultures in the world, across south India, and Africa celebrates death instead of mourning. While there exist many philosophical point of views exist around the idea of death, most of them summarises into one fundamental idea that is death is an extension of life. In simpler terms, death ensures continuity to present life that has born out of you, means the offspring that you have produced. And it goes on to generations as death and life continues to its own extensions.</p><p>While we live in a time called modernity where civilizational value of humanity is almost bundled into the concept of material gain and consumer philosophies, understanding death and life is given limited value as humans are not understood as beings that entrusted with nature and recreation, which on the other hand has significantly affected our own ability to think about death in detail.</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/u/0706b5a2261e">Exile in Verse</a></p><p>21/04/2026</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=2e636e6c9825" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Resettled Young Plant]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2026 07:58:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An ode to migrants</p><p>Thriving, flowering and luscious,</p><p>you were, until the winds changed.</p><p>You smelt authentic but not afraid,</p><p>until the soil changed it’s colour,</p><p>Your roots were strong and deep,</p><p>now they lament and slumber.</p><p>withering, falling and failing, yet</p><p>you are trying with no directions.</p><p>Did you ever wish to be transplanted,</p><p>or has the necessity outweighed it?</p><p>Unlike them, you were different, so did your flowers, and that’s the burden.</p><p>Is there still a way to find yourself, when the wind and water is different?</p><p>You do not know, and you are waiting,</p><p>for a change, while you changed.</p><p>Have you tried called upon the Gods,</p><p>or you left them behind?</p><p>Sooner or later, when a lost wind finds you, you be free.</p><p>Till then, you may seek and strive through paths that unwelcome you.</p><p>You may not worry about the difference you create, you are here for a reason.</p><p>you, your losses, and your vanity, everything completes the universe.</p><p><a href="https://medium.com/u/0706b5a2261e">Exile in Verse</a></p><p>17/04/2026</p><figure><img alt="" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*uLpfx8GCKKpnLs06" /><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@kelmag?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Khalil</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=8702bf961517" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[Who am I?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-snippet">a nobody, a no man, a no woman,</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/@ExileinVerse/who-am-i-b973519ba501?source=rss-0706b5a2261e------2">Continue reading on Medium »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2026 22:49:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Ancestors]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Mar 2026 16:28:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[What’s the end of a thought?]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[<div class="medium-feed-item"><p class="medium-feed-image"><a href="https://medium.com/@ExileinVerse/whats-the-end-of-a-thought-e2f9c03be0c6?source=rss-0706b5a2261e------2"><img src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/2600/0*qhWpnWbwqIpFKf4v" width="6000"></a></p><p class="medium-feed-snippet">To think of where our thoughts end is a fascinating idea that requires much attention to beyond your understanding of yourself. It is as&#x2026;</p><p class="medium-feed-link"><a href="https://medium.com/@ExileinVerse/whats-the-end-of-a-thought-e2f9c03be0c6?source=rss-0706b5a2261e------2">Continue reading on Medium »</a></p></div>]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:39:07 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Is Chat GPT compromised?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 09:06:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“The Ethics of Engagement: Why OpenAI’s Pentagon Deal Matters”</p><p>In March 2026, OpenAI finalized a controversial contract with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), signaling a profound shift in the AI landscape. While the company maintains that the partnership focuses on cybersecurity and logistics, the deal has triggered a viral #QuitGPT movement and raised urgent concerns about the future of digital privacy and corporate ethics.</p><p><strong>The &quot;Opaque&quot; Safeguards</strong><br>The primary cause for concern is the ambiguity of the contract’s &quot;red lines.&quot; Although CEO Sam Altman insists the technology won’t be used for &quot;intentional domestic surveillance,&quot; critics argue that existing laws like the ‘PATRIOT Act’ provide significant loopholes. Because the AI is being deployed within isolated, classified networks, independent oversight is virtually impossible. Users must ask: if the system processes &quot;bulk data&quot; for the military, can we ever be sure that civilian data isn’t being harvested or analyzed in the process.</p><p><strong>The Death of AI Neutrality</strong></p><p>The timing of the deal is particularly alarming. OpenAI stepped in immediately after its rival, Anthropic, was designated a &quot;supply chain risk&quot; for refusing the Pentagon’s terms. By accepting a contract that Anthropic deemed ethically compromised, OpenAI has effectively signaled that it prioritizes government revenue over the rigid safety guardrails it once championed.</p><p>This &quot;opportunistic&quot; move suggests that OpenAI is no longer a neutral tool for humanity, but a central cog in the military-industrial complex.</p><p><strong>Why Users Should Care ?</strong></p><p>Even if you aren’t a military target, this deal sets a dangerous precedent. It normalizes the integration of consumer AI into warfare and state surveillance. When the same company that writes your emails also optimizes military logistics, the boundary between &quot;helpful assistant&quot; and &quot;state instrument&quot; vanishes. For many, staying with ChatGPT is now seen as an implicit endorsement of this new, militarized era of artificial intelligence.</p><p>The question is with AI becoming an integral part of everyday life going forward, does common man like me and you have any viable options where our safety is not compromised? or will there be a solution?</p><p>#QuitGPT</p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=302f63a2816e" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Potato is not Dead]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2026 22:34:00 GMT</pubDate>
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            <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The potato is not dead until you cook it.</p><p>The one who cooks potato daily must have already been dead in the mind.</p><figure><img alt="Happy potato" src="https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*bqe8ad7Q70HR0UdT" /><figcaption>Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@lukasz_rawa?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Łukasz Rawa</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/?utm_source=medium&amp;utm_medium=referral">Unsplash</a></figcaption></figure><p><a href="https://medium.com/u/0706b5a2261e">Exile in Verse</a></p><img src="https://medium.com/_/stat?event=post.clientViewed&referrerSource=full_rss&postId=23891c6ae29e" width="1" height="1" alt="">]]></content:encoded>
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