Vikas Jha

allah-hu-akbar Messi

[Vikas Jha @Likaswa]

Here's how Goat India tour scenes unfolded at Salt lake stadium today. Thread 🧵

[Vikas Jha @Likaswa]

Fancode working on phone but not on TV. FIX IT MFs @FanCode

[blue @bluewmist]

You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices, it's in romanticizing your life. A person always finds an untravelled path alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue isn't making the right choice. It's choosing and deciding which regret you'll live with. In life, we must choose our regret.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

When India accidentally wiped out its vultures, half a million people died in five years.

The bird doing zoomies in this video runs the most extreme digestive system in the animal kingdom. Vulture stomach acid sits near pH 1, strong enough to destroy anthrax, rabies, and botulism in the carcasses they eat. A flock strips a cow to bone in about 45 minutes.

India had 50 million of them. Free sanitation at national scale, in a country where religious custom means most cattle die natural deaths and every dead cow becomes a carcass someone has to deal with.

Then the patent on diclofenac expired in 1994. Farmers started using the cheap painkiller on livestock. Trace amounts left in a carcass cause kidney failure in vultures. Within a decade, 50 million birds fell to a few thousand. The fastest collapse of any bird species since the passenger pigeon.

The carcasses didn't disappear. Feral dogs took the vultures' place and brought rabies with them. Rotting remains leached into waterways. In districts where vultures once thrived, human death rates rose more than 4 percent. Economists at Chicago and Warwick put the toll at 100,000 extra deaths a year and $69 billion in annual damages.

So yes, the goofy bird sprinting down the walkway is adorable. It's also a disease firewall that evolution spent millions of years building and one generic painkiller nearly erased in ten.

[All About Argentina 🛎🇦🇷 @AlbicelesteTalk]

🚨🚨🚨🥹 LEO MESSI ON IG:

"Dad, I still can’t believe you’re gone. It hasn’t sunk in, or rather, I don’t want it to. It’s so hard for me to imagine that I’m never going to see you again, that we’re never going to talk again. I know you were suffering and that this is for the best, but you left us far too soon. We still had so much left to enjoy together.

"You kept asking me to play in one last World Cup, and just days before it began was when your condition got worse. It was the first time you weren’t going to be there with me at a tournament, but Mom kept telling me you were going to get better and that you’d be well enough to travel. I kept telling you we were going to reach the final so you could make the trip.

"After every match, I waited for and missed your message. That’s when I realized how serious the situation really was. Even so, I couldn’t stop thinking about going as far as possible, to give you more time and the chance to watch one of the games.

"We reached the final, but you couldn’t be there. I wanted to win it so I could bring the trophy to you and show you another one. I couldn’t. My legs just couldn’t give me any more. This time I tried to push beyond what my body could handle, but I couldn’t. I never managed to feel physically right.

"When I got back, you thought we had lost the final on penalties. We couldn’t talk about anything that had happened. You weren’t able to enjoy any of it. We didn’t become champions, but you have no idea how much we enjoyed every match. Once again, you were right: I had to be there and play in it.

"I’m telling you all this because it was the only thing we never got the chance to talk about. You already know everything else. We spoke every day and saw each other whenever my commitments allowed us to.

"I don’t know what I’m going to do without you. I don’t know how to keep going. All I ever did was play football, and now I have serious doubts about whether I’ll keep doing it for much longer. You were by my side from the very beginning, and there was so little left until the end. Why couldn’t you hold on just a little longer so we could finish it together?

I know your happiness came from seeing your family doing well, your wife, your children and, above all, without anyone else knowing, from watching me play…

"It had always been that way since I was little. You took me to every training session as soon as you got home from work. Mom took me to many of them because you were working.

"And of course, you never missed a single match. How much you suffered watching me, and how much you enjoyed it, even though you never gave me too much praise.

"You were my dad, my friend, and my representative. You always knew exactly who you needed to be in every moment, and you were never wrong about anything. Despite some arguments or disagreements, you were always right. In the end, things always turned out the way you said they would.

"I’m going to miss you so much, but you’ll always be present, especially in the way I raise my children, because I teach them and raise them the way you and Mom raised me.

"Rest in peace and watch over us from above, just as you did here. Thank you for everything.

"I love you, Dad. ❤️"

[Alejandro Wall @alejwall]

Una cámara siguió a Lionel Messi durante el partido contra Inglaterra. Su genialidad, su esfuerzo, sus gestos, sus frustraciones momentáneas, su desahogo en el empate y su felicidad en el triunfo. También sus sonidos, incluso el disparo de las cámaras. Todo está ahí.
Es Messi jugando con una intensidad absoluta a los 39 años. Encarando a jugadores mucho más jóvenes y ganándoles, engañándolos, escondiéndoles la pelota. Es el fútbol que nos emocionó en este Mundial. El de un hombre que jugó así mientras la vida de su padre se apagaba.
Y entonces esa entrega adquiere otra dimensión. Es Messi ofreciendo el cuerpo a los otros, a esa excitación que se escucha cuando arranca con la pelota y el sonido del estadio se eleva. Por eso la gratitud eterna, aunque tantos, en tantos lugares, no lo entiendan. O no les interese entenderlo.

Fuente del video: YouTube/AntonioProds

[Guillem Balague @GuillemBalague]

Jorge Messi had only one priority related to his son: to look after him

He did it when he asked a 12 year old Leo what he wanted to do: return to Rosario with the family or stay in Barcelona? By staying, Jorge stayed with him and had to let his wife Celia go back with the rest of the family. Imagine

He was let down by many people on his way to find out how the business worked

He told Leo once to turn the car around and sign photographs, unlike what Ronaldinho had just done. He was a good person who instilled strong values in his son

It is very sad

RIP Jorge 😞

[Sudanalytics @sudanalytics_]

“Tenia muchas opciones, de Italia, muchos equipos para jugar. Pero estoy donde quiero estar: estar con Messi, hacerlo ganar, hacerlo más grande, es el DIOS DEL FÚTBOL”.

Las palabras de Casemiro. 😮‍💨🇧🇷🇦🇷

[Ole Lehmann @itsolelehmann]

btw anthropic's internal document on this literally said "we don't want it to be known that we are working on this.”

it was called project panama.

here's exactly what happened:

1: anthropic concluded that books were the cheapest way to build a world-class model because they gave claude curated facts, structured arguments, compelling stories, and writing “an editor would approve of.”

2: once anthropic decided it needed books at enormous scale, its first solution was piracy.

it downloaded 7m+ books from online libraries including libgen. the judge later wrote that although anthropic had legal ways to buy them, it chose piracy to avoid what dario amodei called the “legal/practice/business slog.”

3: that piracy created a massive legal risk.

so in february 2024, anthropic hired tom turvey, the former head of partnerships for google books, to find a legally safer way of obtaining “all the books in the world.”

4: turvey first contacted major publishers about licensing their catalogs.

those attempts didn’t produce agreements, so anthropic chose a route that required no publisher permission: buying millions of physical books through distributors and used-book retailers.

5: within about a year, anthropic spent tens of millions acquiring and scanning millions of books, including many rare and 1/1 titles. one vendor proposal targeted 500,000 to 2 million books in six months.

6: to scan that many books within months, the vendors physically dismantled them.

a hydraulic cutter removed each spine. the pages were trimmed to size, fed as loose sheets through high-speed industrial scanners, and converted into searchable PDFs. the paper remains were then sent for recycling.

7: these PDFs were fed into claude as training data.

the complete collection became a private, searchable anthropic library that the company planned to “store forever.” the scans aren’t available to the public and were never open-sourced.

[Vikas Jha @Likaswa]

Zomato Quarterly results:

Interesting that While the Revenue from Operation increased almost 3X from 7,167 Cr in Q1'25 to 20,211 Cr in Q1'26, Delivery and related charges only increased by ~1.8x from 1,869 to 3,150 cr showing signs of improved efficiency at scale

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

I'm truly filled with a deep sense of sadness. Whether Messi wins or loses, it might be his last WC match. Anyone who loves beauty (in all of its forms) will pray that Messi defies the human realm by never retiring. Even I, deeply committed to the scientific method, am willing to engage in magical thinking to assume that Messi will forever grace us with new magical moments for eternity.

[Vikas Jha @Likaswa]

Doesn't look there's any way out man. Need some good foot in the midfield to open up enough space and time for Messi to do his einsteinian magic

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

Since we started collecting data from 2009/10, Lionel Messi has won more WhoScored Man of the Match awards (389) than any other player. 🇦🇷⭐️

We have full coverage for 756 appearances, meaning Messi has won the MOTM award in 51.5% of his matches.

[Vikas Jha @Likaswa]

WOW. Amazing script

[𝗭𝗮𝗵𝗿𝗶 𓃵 @Zahri_10i]

Wtf?

[' @Bonmatimessi]

Argentina is a team that runs on pure homosexual love for Lionel Messi and there seems to be no tactic that could counter that

[Vikas Jha @Likaswa]

In All the hubris of Yesterday, we forgot to thank this man once more. A manager that Messi deserved for whole of his life. Not many insider documentary on this Argentinian group but man you can clearly imagine the way he manages his players - the calmness, the clarity, the audacity is simply unmactched. Whatever happens on 20th I will be forever grateful Senor!

[Mel 🇦🇷 ⭐⭐⭐ @miss_mercuryy_]

La emoción de Scaloni al segundo gol. Que ser humano del re carajo 🩵

[consilience @consiliencilize]

what Argentina do on a football pitch is spiritual. they stare death in the face and just refuse to die. life lesson in there.

[WhoScored @WhoScored]

Argentina stat leaders at this World Cup: 🇦🇷

🥇 Goals (8) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Assists (2) - Lionel Messi
🥇 G/A (10) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Shots (33) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Shots on target (18) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Chances created (21) - Lionel Messi
�� Big chances created (6) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Open-play chances created (11) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Successful dribbles (15) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Successful final-third passes (117) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Fouls won (14) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Accurate crosses (16) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Accurate through balls (4) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Accurate lay-offs (18) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Ground duels won (38) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Touches in the opposition box (37) - Lionel Messi
🥇 Corners won (8) - Lionel Messi
🥇 WhoScored MOTMs (5) - Lionel Messi
🥇 WhoScored rating (9.16) - Lionel Messi

[Vikas Jha @Likaswa]

What a sote fakking loser.

Hit the youngest smallest man.Had that been anyone else he would have been put to sleep right there..

Fukking pussssyyy

[Vikas Jha @Likaswa]

Ka hua re babu.... Gandiya phaat gayis ka?

Aa liye re aaliye
..Betttaaa

[Kevin Pietersen🦏 @KP24]

Messi having a mare. Told you

[Vikas Jha @Likaswa]

Finalisma was cancelled only for them to meet in the World Cup Final