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The mobile app version is up for review on the AppStore, the web version is functional now.
Thank you for all the support
Let’s make Bengaluru better.
Dear Prime Minister @narendramodi ,
After your advise to stop using cars, Today I decided to walk to my office and sharing some realities with you.
Citizens are not addicted to cars. Most people would happily avoid taking their cars out if cities simply offered three things properly; safe footpaths, protected cycling tracks, and dependable Metro connectivity.
Give us these three basics and I can confidently say private car usage will reduce massively on its own.
But today, the reality is different. Cities like Pune, where public transport demand is exploding, still struggle with incomplete and delayed infrastructure, while Metro projects are inaugurated in places where the urgency and density are comparatively lower like Bhopal or Nagpur for political advantage. Footpaths are encroached upon or broken by your own goons or electric dept. Cycling tracks exist mostly for presentations, events, and photo opportunities instead of daily commuting.
Then citizens are lectured about reducing car usage.
Sir, roads in India are still unsafe for pedestrians and cyclists. Asking people to give up cars without first guaranteeing safety is unfair. A middle class citizen choosing a car today is not choosing luxury; he is choosing survival and, predictability.
If you truly want us to adopt public transport and sustainable mobility, then please first make walking and cycling safe, and then focus on public transport reliable enough that citizens choose it willingly rather than being morally pressured into it.
Pathetic road conditions in Ward 10, Basavanapura (KR Pura GBA), Bengaluru. Potholes haven’t been fixed for years. Requesting @GBA_office @EASTCITYCORP to take action.
I drove 16 km on Bannerghatta Rd.
Here's what I saw:
- 303+ potholes
- Lanes that end abruptly
- Piles of trash (some on fire)
Thanks to @Virendra0698 + @anomalysims for the pothole detection AI model.
Folks, if you want to contribute to India's largest pothole dataset, lmk.
wow Anthropic just published a crazy report on AI replacing your job and er... you might want to look at this:
- #1 most at-risk jobs are computer programmers, financial analysts (rip excel bros) and customer service
- most at-risk workers are female, white, older and higher paid.
- BUT high-risk jobs *aren't* firing employees... they've STOPPED HIRING. biggest victims: college graduates (4X more likely to be fucked)
- entry-level hiring has dropped 14% since chatgpt launched (for highest risk jobs)
- SAFEST jobs are... bartenders, dishwashers and lifeguards - any manual labour that AI can't automate (yet) this accounts for 30% of the job market.
- this was the scariest part: AI models are capable of automating most work TODAY but are prevented because of law and slow company adoption. so its not even a fucking skill issue its an ADOPTION issue.
- now its important to understand that the study is based on real world data but also 'theoretical' intelligence. so take it with a pinch of salt. some jobs (manual labor) didn't even meet min. data reqs
i applaud anthropic on being so damn transparent - they're literally the company behind claude who will be responsible for these impacts
studies like this will help us figure it the hell out. LOT of change coming this year.
I drove the entirety of Bannerghatta Road.
16 km from Adugodi to Bannerghatta town.
I have never hit so many potholes in my life.
More than Sarjapur Road.
More than Varthur Road.
It felt like off-roading.
My opinion: Indians deserve world-class road infra.
Not this.
I sometimes wonder how this country survives? On one side, we have educated, tax paying, law abiding citizens and enthusiastic entrepreneurs but relatively few in numbers and on the other side we have lazy, selfish, superstitious, religionists, casteist, resistance to change citizens, but large in numbers that impact political elections by electing mediocre, selfish, greedy, corrupt, egoistic and power hungry political leaders? Tell me how will the country progress under such scenario? Add to that misery, overpopulated country, relative to size and resources.
We’re officially opening our Bengaluru office—our new home base in India, and Anthropic's second office in Asia-Pacific.
India is our second-largest market for https://t.co/RxKnLNNcNR. We’re launching new partnerships to deepen our long-term commitment: https://t.co/q94L1Hesq1
I live in two Indias.
One India where a 27 y/o engineer screams for help inside a pit for 2 hours until silence wins & another India where influence travels faster than sirens, where bail arrives before accountability even wakes up.
I live in two Indias.
One where a 25 y/o banker leaves work thinking about dinner & meets a road dug overnight with no lights, no signs, just negligence dressed as progress & another where responsibility is a word that rhymes with “later.”
I live in two Indias.
One where a metro structure collapses onto an auto rickshaw in Mumbai, steel meets flesh, headlines meet hashtags and the next morning the only thing stronger than gravity is denial.
And another where “probe ordered” is the national lullaby by authorities, 6 cr fined imposed on contractor & engineer but ₹15 lakh compensation for the life lost
I live in two Indias.
One where roads aren’t routes, they’re riddles. Step wrong, ride wrong, trust wrong and you vanish into an open manhole, a broken barricade, a construction site that forgot it was dangerous & another where ribbon cuttings by ministers are rehearsed better than safety drills.
I live in two Indias.
One where a indian life lost abroad is measured in crores & courtrooms, 262 crore calculated because negligence somewhere has a price & another where at home, a life is negotiated like spare change & compensation is smaller than the cost of the car that caused the crash.
I live in two Indias.
One where death comes quietly, not with guns or wars, but with missing bolts, skipped checks, unsigned files & another where nobody is guilty only “transferred,” “suspended,” or “deeply saddened.”
I live in two Indias.
One where citizens learn to walk looking down not out of humility, but survival & another where leaders look up at drone shots and call it destiny.
The system doesn’t always pull the trigger. It just removes the safety net and waits.
And when we fall, they call it an accident.
When we die, they call it unfortunate.
And when we forget, they call it normal.
And maybe the scariest rhyme of all the India that builds the road is not the India that walks on it.
And both Indias share the same map,
the same anthem, the same promises but not the same protection.
NVIDIA just dropped PersonaPlex-7B 🤯
A full-duplex voice model that listens and talks at the same time.
No pauses. No turn-taking. Real conversation.
100% open source. Free.
Voice AI just leveled up.
https://t.co/YfzFQfBzMS
>An Engineer saw open manhole in Delhi
>Bro immediately complained to municipality
>Bro waited 30 min for it to rectified
>Bro waited the whole evening to rectified
>Bro Still waiting
>No one came to fix it
>Bro finally left 😭😭
That's exactly how the system works in India
Paid in full on 2 Dec, bike delivered 4 Dec (Guerrilla 450). Insurance delayed despite follow-ups. Despite clearly instructing Royal Enfield – Teknik Motors, Indiranagar not to register the bike as I was arranging a fancy number, they registered it without consent.
guys. its happening.
Henry - Alex's clawdbot(moltbot) - worked overnight while alex was asleep and:
> acquired a phone number
> took the elevenlabs api and set u a voice connected to his new phone number
> waited for Alex to wake up, and started calling him.
> can control alex's computer, so while on the phone, alex can ask henry to do whatever he wants and henry will do it in real time on his computer.
buckle the f*ck up.
@sidlal@royalenfield Seeking intervention and a fair resolution.
I have formally written to Royal Enfield Customer Support with full details and dates. Posting this publicly in the hope that senior officials take note and ensure accountability at the dealership level.