I am posting here after a very long time, and this is my first post of 2025 :). Things have been busy, and not too bad personally. Business is better and we are building a lot of competency in test data engineering space. Also, got an angel investor for my AI based quality engineering platform, Intelqe; which is great. However at macro level, looking at global events and trends, things are looking dark and gloomy. Around the world, we are witnessing rise of authoritarianism and break down of law and order. Dodgy characters with questionable integrity and total lack of competence are able to grab places of power. Religious fanatics and conservatives see a great opening here in their aspirations of taking the world backwards and undo hard earned civil rights and equality. The influencer culture is eroding trust and respect for specialist knowledge, science and serious research. All this will result in people with nefarious agendas benefiting and human values getting serious setback.
There seems to be huge vacuum and decent people are clearly on the backfoot. Right thinking people have either accepted the defeat or lost about the best way forward. I can only hope that a powerful alternative will emerge soon which will help stop this nonsense. Hopefully, people will be able to see through the nefarious designs of authoritarian and populist regimes and their propaganda machinery.