Anirudh Venkatesh

[Anirudh Venkatesh @An8roK]

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@BatteredVawl516

[฿₳₮₮ⱠɆ ฿ɎⱤĐ @BattleByrd]

So I guess those cartoons were real...

[Tamil Labs 2.0 @labstamil]

What exactly is the argument of Poet Arivumathi in his book "Thamizh Murugan" which is the inspiration for Dhanush x Vetrimaaran's next project?

A thread rebutting his book using his own sources. Do read this important thread, RT it and think for yourself (1/n)

[prathosh A P @prathoshap]

A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.

And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.

[Anirudh Venkatesh @An8roK]

@notexisthub Link please!

[Anirudh Venkatesh @An8roK]

@ugach_kahitarii Would really appreciate the link, thanks!

[Anirudh Venkatesh @An8roK]

@pythaginboots Credibility going down the drain with his post

[Jon Mackenzie @Jon_Mackenzie]

John Muller has just brought this to my attention...

[प्रथम✴︎ @Indraketu1]

This is how the statue can look like!

[i stay unbothered @lowkeyxmenace]

shot almost a decade ago, not even single clip got leaked till now. how is it even possible @menongautham 😭🙏

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Pete Hegseth said this was "the first sinking of an enemy ship by a torpedo since WWII" (which is false, but that's beside the point), so I decided to look at what happened in WW2 and... this might surprise no-one: turns out the Nazis were more humane than the Americans.

Probably the most abject part here is that the warship had many survivors - 32 to be precise (https://t.co/bS1uARrBtf) - and the U.S. made zero effort to rescue them, despite it being required by the laws of naval warfare and simply being the honorable thing to do.

It took little Sri-Lanka, with its very modest means - especially compared to the $1 trillion US defense budget - to do the honorable thing and launch a (successful) rescue operation.

Even the literal Nazis, during WW2, rescued the survivors of ships their U-boats sank. It was considered a matter of basic honor.

The history of this is actually interesting: the Nazis rescued survivors all the way until the so-called Laconia Incident in 1942 (https://t.co/6wI251aNCv).

The Laconia was a British troopship sunk by U-156, a German U-boat, off the West African coast. Right after the sinking, the Nazis immediately began rescuing over 400 survivors, broadcasting - as was common practice - in plain English their position on open radio channels to all Allied powers nearby, so they wouldn't get attacked during the rescue.

That's when a US B-24 "Liberator" bomber attacked the submarine anyway, even though all the rescued survivors were on its foredeck. The B-24 killed dozens of Laconia's survivors with bombs and strafing attacks, forcing U-156 to cast into the sea the remaining survivors that she had rescued and crash dive to avoid being destroyed.

The American B-24 pilots mistakenly reported they had sunk U-156, and were awarded medals for bravery...

This event completely changed Nazi policy on this matter: Karl Dönitz, commander of the U-boat fleet, issued the "Laconiarefehl" - the Laconia Order - forbidding U-boats from rescuing survivors, because the risk to the submarine was now too high.

In other words, the Americans during WW2 essentially forced the Nazis to abandon survivors - from the allied side (!) - at sea.

Dönitz at least had an excuse.

[Ryan Reynolds @VancityReynolds]

Chelsea at the Racecourse! Holy crap 🔴⚔️🔵

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

At the lunch hosted by my friend, PM Anwar Ibrahim, one of the songs sung was Naalai Namathe, from a movie starring the great MGR!

PM Anwar Ibrahim, like several of us in India, is a big fan of MGR!

@anwaribrahim

[Prithvi @Prithvi10_]

Kamal Hasan plays all these roles in a single movie

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Interesting perspective. Wonder if this also applies to Khalistan ....

[FischerKing @FischerKing64]

I had a male teacher for grades 5 and 6 who was highly eccentric (and not gay - he was a family man without a whiff of scandal). He had old printing presses in the classroom and we learned about how books and newspapers were printed - by printing our own pages with movable type we set ourselves. He showed us violent war movies. He had WW2 and Vietnam veterans come in and give graphic talks. One guy talked about his baptism of fire in Japan - he said something like ‘I jumped into the foxhole and killed two Japs with my pistol - I’m glad I bought that pistol off a guy before the fight because I might not be here if I hadn’t.’ The teacher would tells us the casualty figures of WW1 and 2 and sometimes start crying. He also taught us chess, and he spotted kids who were good in math. He gave me math problems well in advance of 6th grade, and ensured I was pushed up a level in middle school. He was tolerant of wild boy behavior - including boys throwing things at each other across the classroom.

Only a few years later I heard he had to stop showing the war movies, the veterans weren’t allowed to give talks. He retired shortly thereafter - he was getting old anyway.

But this kind of man used to teach elementary school. I don’t know why he wanted to do it - but he was good at it. And I don’t think there are many like him in public schools now - and that isn’t good for boys.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Today, on Thiruvalluvar Day, paying homage to the versatile Thiruvalluvar, whose works and ideals inspire innumerable people. He believed in a society that is harmonious and compassionate. He personifies the best of Tamil culture. I urge you all to read the Tirukkural, which gives a glimpse of the outstanding intellect of the great Thiruvalluvar.

[Chelsea FC @ChelseaFC]

Seamless match highlights. 🎥

#CFC | #UCL

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Expensive real estate destroys demographics. Any society that traps its young people in debt, because of expensive education or expensive housing or expensive health care (or all of the above in many cases) is a society that is destroying its own demographic future.

If you love children, enable lower cost of living for prospective parents.

[Tactx @Tactx_]

I found these quotes from Anthony Barry very interesting.

"But in the middle area of the pitch, those 24 metres, we feel the game has become stuck, particularly in the Premier League. Everybody has so much information now. They know how to set up – mid-blocks, deep blocks. We are really trying to focus on accelerating the game across those 24 metres.”

"It’s our job not only to stay ahead of the trends but to beat them and create our own ones. It’s a constant process to have this problem/solution-finding mentality. And it’s to make the complex clear."

The high possession stats may be a trend of the past. A slower build-up to get the pieces in place for counter-pressing and rest defence allows opponents to get organised. Is the new trend finding the quickest route to the goal WHILE coaching players to move more quickly into the counter-pressing and rest defence positions?

Keep an eye on this one. We are already seeing it develop.