@Truth_n_Respect@prince_the_duck The anti india crap originated from TikTok run by China and spread to X.
Letely it’s Chinese accounts making anti india and weird posts about caste to the extent that Singapore cracked on such posts by Chinese accounts
This is just Indians posting about China in return
@schitcoin The sycophancy in the party that literally gave us independence from a Royal family and has dozens of highly credentialed leaders who spout liberal ideas for a living is incredible!
The US pandering is important context. He is a conservative/tech right guy who is selling Opendoor using conservative coded values.
Firing the India team should be seen in the context of the right’s views towards Indians right now vs AI replacing offshored jobs unless other companies follow suit. There is some evidence that other companies are hiring more in India (Starbucks for example).
Markets are down today due to risk off in advance of CPI release tomorrow.
With Iran having sent their revised MOU to the US, oil is also down today in anticipation of a Barak Ravid ‘deal is imminent except for a small number of issues’ headline
@TheStalwart My default has been to ask dumb questions to Perplexity and smarter questions (or questions about my domain) to Claude.
I started doing it out of embarrassment at asking the smart AI dumb questions but it looks like it was the right decision lol
@mattyglesias I’m just waiting for Kamala Harris 2028 to announce 20000$ in compute for Pell grant recipients who start a business in a low income neighborhood for and operate it for 3 years
@neoavatara Based on what part of India she’s from and her politics she’s more likely to performatively eat beef to stick it to other Hindus than ban beef
@teortaxesTex Actually sending kids to Harvard is a very third world thing to do
The kids of political and business elites in India go to Harvard and Oxford/Cambridge. The smart kids go to IITs