Abhinandan

Music lover, Book reader, Sound sleeper, NUFC Follower, Part Time Engineer, Full time enthusiast

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Give this man a medal. 🥇👏

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[Abhinandan @Abhimaria]

@readswithravi Born a crime

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It’s over

[Zakir Hossain | AI & Tech @zakiraicoder]

50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇

1. https://t.co/ueX0rgHHma — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. https://t.co/ZvRw1wmNsJ — See every plane currently in the sky
3. https://t.co/ysMWhN8eU5 — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. https://t.co/ukJigDtLFY — Live map of winds and storms
5. https://t.co/Y1I20AitIs — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. https://t.co/LmzpGivPqL — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. https://t.co/VU7EuP5SOm — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. https://t.co/kAAdHcSNpt — Watch forests disappear from space
9. https://t.co/bbkThFLpz1 — The world's statistics, second by second
10. https://t.co/pMvZJO0YfM — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. https://t.co/VhEnQl9oax — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. https://t.co/XyyYYcRjdm — Maps from centuries ago
13. https://t.co/AOXvH90KFK — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. https://t.co/u0Zf6LJoDZ — World map drawn by volunteers
15. https://t.co/p2uu9hAQks — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. https://t.co/powm7RRAmX — Virtual walks through cities
17. https://t.co/bcsy3ybL07 — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. https://t.co/5YbDgnYpF7 — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. https://t.co/SJN9aIxuyM — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. https://t.co/bpyBnZgtz1 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. https://t.co/UP12t0jeRy — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. https://t.co/9xDWk6aGgf — Real sky map in your browser
23. https://t.co/ZSJokVTin1 — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. https://t.co/7XrqjHR7BR — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. https://t.co/3tWvLaeyGu — Visual articles told through data
26. https://t.co/JY8FI1u9ls — The state of the world with real data
27. https://t.co/Ois9J7u7m7 — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. https://t.co/NtDVcv2cxN — Visualizing complex data
29. https://t.co/FqijxOqnJL — World Bank's open data
30. https://t.co/NyYgq0wMs7 — Turkey's official statistics database
31. https://t.co/KDjOuBVmft — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. https://t.co/9Y8pcXCzKu — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. https://t.co/hJt2YM0nzp — Record of every book in the world
34. https://t.co/6kwMQCzdZq — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. https://t.co/GAjugENT89 — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. https://t.co/LPx73NbK1E — America's digital library collection
37. https://t.co/VjpuQq1BIZ — Tour museums from home
38. https://t.co/lkaoYLTy3S — Download artworks in high resolution
39. https://t.co/AX9cd7YatS — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. https://t.co/WExwDy3e6F — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. https://t.co/Bobq0w1hyR — Free archive of culture and education
42. https://t.co/bgBEuHixJo — Met Museum's open collection
43. https://t.co/jxj8X1LuEy — Family tree of music genres
44. https://t.co/d8lZJ9yWc3 — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. https://t.co/avmQLINXhU — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. https://t.co/7WDyOPTfU6 — Random knowledge well
47. https://t.co/4qVlBpRvCf — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. https://t.co/V2ObL5vTSR — Live stream of science news
49. https://t.co/VFhRaZRXso — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. https://t.co/JUo9A2FPFW — Visualize data with live code

Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖

Follow @zakiraicoder for more useful websites, AI tools & tech resources.

[Abhinandan @Abhimaria]

@readswithravi Me

[Sann @san_x_m]

In April 2019, one of the largest food companies in the world sued 9 potato farmers in Gujarat.

The farmers were growing a potato. They had bought the seed in the local market. Most of them had never heard of intellectual property.

The company wanted damages running into crores.

Her name is Kavitha Kuruganti.

She is a farmers' rights activist and the convenor of an organisation called the Alliance for Sustainable and Holistic Agriculture.

The potato at the centre of it is called FL 2027, sold commercially as FC5. It is the variety grown for Lay's chips, because it has low moisture content and fries well. PepsiCo India had registered it in 2016 under a law called the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Act.

That law is unusual, and it is the whole point of this story.

Most countries protect the plant breeder. India's law protects the breeder and the farmer, in the same statute. Section 39 says a farmer is entitled to save, use, sow, resow, exchange, share or sell his farm produce, including the seed of a protected variety.

That right was written in deliberately, because in India seed has been saved and exchanged between farmers for thousands of years, and Parliament decided that a registration certificate should not be able to end that.

PepsiCo sued anyway.

The response was immediate. Farmers' organisations mobilised. Political parties took it up. It became a national argument about whether a company could own a potato.

On 10th May 2019, PepsiCo withdrew all the cases.

That is usually where such a story ends. The company retreats, the news moves on, and the registration that made the lawsuit possible stays exactly where it was.

Kuruganti did not stop there.

In June 2019 she filed an application asking the authority to revoke PepsiCo's registration of the variety altogether. Her argument was that the registration itself was wrong, that documents were missing from the original application, and that granting it was against public interest given the hardship it had caused.

It took 2 years.

On 3rd December 2021, the Protection of Plant Varieties and Farmers' Rights Authority revoked the certificate. The order noted that the registration had been granted despite missing paperwork, that there were discrepancies in the process, and that farmers had suffered hardship as a result.

PepsiCo challenged it in the Delhi High Court, and the case has gone back and forth through the courts since.

Whatever the final legal position, one thing already happened and cannot be undone.

9 farmers who could not have afforded to defend themselves were sued by a company worth hundreds of billions, and within a month the company walked away.

Not because the farmers hired better lawyers.

Because 1 woman read the Act properly and knew that Section 39 was in there.

[Charly Wargnier ♨️ @DataChaz]

Best use of AI I've seen this year

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

I think India accidentally built the internet’s greatest nostalgia archive.

It started with one barbershop.

Now there are websites for truck journeys, chai tapris, regional songs, 90s cartoons, pan shops, bus rides and basically every piece of desi life you forgot you missed.

> https://t.co/GH9QuwYunn → ₹20 haircut + 90s barbershop bangers

> https://t.co/1MG24W55lW → Horn OK Please at 2 AM

> https://t.co/KbvIwPBU3H → Classic truck radio

> https://t.co/HdD5jubQgW → UP Parivahan nostalgia

> https://t.co/6hjRNCAirz → Missing home + Marathi classics

> https://t.co/BANAbuZPyz → Soft Tamil night drive

> https://t.co/xwxRyQN2Fj → 2000s Kannada childhood unlocked

> https://t.co/crdYmXGUWM → Pure Kannada nostalgia

> https://t.co/a3gWUaO7px → Sindhi lada, full volume

> https://t.co/zaX4ov0ZpE → Old Punjabi Bluetooth-memory-card songs

> https://t.co/X9AmyYpCv1 → Bihar bus journey core

> https://t.co/w676HEEG27 → Gujarati chachar chok

> https://t.co/kJcffs7BFQ → Mazdoor anthem energy

> https://t.co/WWbE0PjGVN → Cutting chai + plastic stool

> https://t.co/0lzs44brad → Chai ki tapri classic

> https://t.co/ttUYsY5dy5 → Long-distance bus uncle playlist

> https://t.co/Ij0ge45Onr → Roadways bus vibes

> https://t.co/VwExVWy1HB → Mistri / construction site radio

> https://t.co/b6PmEPGNaf → Auto wala, full volume

> https://t.co/7YvIImffu1 → Pan shop corner energy

> https://t.co/DnF8JMQhzx → Deluxe saloon upgrade

> https://t.co/l7lllxIK8q → Dhaba + full thali mood

> https://t.co/o4sgCk4NxY → Qawwali mehfil, late night

> https://t.co/eKvjd2LypA → Gali walk + old Bollywood

> https://t.co/qy4hneF2Dc → Interactive truck + 90s bangers

> https://t.co/3lMURmJPet → 90s cartoon theme songs

> https://t.co/Mrewbn0slC → 80s–90s gali nostalgia

> https://t.co/yt4Ao1OTqM → Another cutting chai classic

> https://t.co/gGyBf2nkUu → Cutting chai special

> https://t.co/7mL6WU4z4a → Another truck-radio gem

> https://t.co/X9AmyYpCv1 → Bihar Parivahan Nigam bus

> https://t.co/w676HEEG27 → Gujarati nostalgia

> https://t.co/kJcffs7BFQ → Mazdoor radio

And somehow, every single one feels like a tiny time machine.

The internet is weird.

One day it's another AI wrapper.

The next day someone builds a website that makes you remember sitting at a chai tapri, travelling in a UP bus, listening to songs from a Bluetooth memory card or getting a ₹20 haircut in 2007.

Internet is actually beautiful sometimes.

Drop the desi nostalgia website I missed in the replies.

Let's see how deep this rabbit hole goes. 👇

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Tom Cruise makes a rousing speech and leaves. Crowd goes wild.

WAIT. WHAT. WHAT THE FUCK. THE WORLD CUP HAS VANISHED. WHO TOOK THE WORLD CUP.

WHAT THE… HOW???!!!!

[NM @urbanpendu00]

Peter drury keeps calling Yamal Lamal. Go with John buddy just call him John

[NO CONTEXT HUMANS @HumansNoContext]

Current financial situation

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

7-year-olds now: iPhone, AirPods.

Me at 7:

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

37 years on and Pump Up the Jam is still an absolute banger!

[Yolo247 @Yolo247Official]

'Don't use petrol bro' 🤡

[Enezator @Enezator]

The man who doesn’t believe in gravity lol

[Ghar Ke Kalesh @gharkekalesh]

The Boys craze is real 🤣🙏

[Today I Learned @TodayiLearrned]

99% of people don't know these car functions

[Premier League @premierleague]

Time slows down when Rayan Cherki has the ball at his feet. 🕰️