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[SanghiDentico🇮🇳,🚩🚩🕉️ @priyathedentico]

I just came across this video of @smritiirani ji I don’t know when this was taken and i just love the words she spoke. Reason why i admire her. Its very easy to copy anybody but how does it feel to be just u? Be still be you know yourself. This video made my day!! Thank u maam

[James @jamescoder12]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

11, 12, and 14 years old.

Raped for days by more than 20 Pakistani immigrants.

Tortured—one had her tongue nailed to the wall to keep her still while they raped her.

The police ridiculed, insulted, and ignored them.

The feminists turned the other way.

If it hadn't been for Elon Musk, who publicly shared the trial testimonies, sparking outrage from Reform UK and internal investigations, no one would have known anything.

You're not angry enough.

- @babetta123

[Aravind @aravind]

I have been hearing @IndianCERT has been super responsive and fixing everything these youngsters are exposing quite fast. Needs to be appreciated.

But the fact remains, these issues and lax IT security must not have been there first place. As I had posted almost 2 years ago, India needs to audit all its govt sites and IT systems cyber security.

If not, we will see more issues causing distress to not just students but citizens in every walk of life. Now that Mythos kind of models have come, adversaries can simply buy them and target India's cyber infra.

So before that, in fact right now, India needs to start fixing its IT infra security by running a massive audit operation using latest tools, AI, whatever is available to secure every critical IT infra.

[The Haryana Index @Hryindex]

India’s one border state Chief Minister used to keep the daughter of a Pakistan Army General as his mistress in the Chief Minister’s residence in Chandigarh, while the Chief Minister of another border state used to give long interviews and lavish feasts to lady Pakistani journalists in the state guesthouses in Delhi. One of India’s Foreign Ministers became so involved with a Pakistani lady journalist that his own wife died because of it, and the deceased wife’s friend stood up in court to declare that the Foreign Minister used to spend time with that Pakistani lady journalist in Dubai. Now just think — can anyone even imagine today that Yogi Adityanath would keep any Pakistani lady journalist as his mistress in the Chief Minister’s residence, or that Devendra Fadnavis would give long interviews to Pakistani female journalists inside his own house in Mumbai, or that Jaishankar would marry a Pakistani lady journalist? Today even thinking such things is considered a crime, whereas before 2014 all of this used to happen openly.

[Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD) @md_deepesh]

Everyone is talking about Annamalai leaving BJP.
Nobody is asking the right question.

Let me ask it.

In 2024, Annamalai led Tamil Nadu for BJP.
BJP won zero seats.
He himself did not win.

In 2026, BJP's vote share in Tamil Nadu collapsed further.

The media is painting him as a victim.
Modi and Amit Shah as the villain.

I am not a BJP supporter.
I am not an Annamalai supporter.
I am not even Modi and Amit Shah supporter.
I support Bharat.

So let me tell you what the media is not telling you.

In May 2024, right in the middle of the Lok Sabha election campaign, Annamalai travelled to Delhi.
Not for a rally.
Not for party strategy.
For a selection interview.

For a fellowship offered by the UK government.
He got selected.

By September 2024, Annamalai was in Oxford.
He stayed there until December 2024.
Twelve weeks.
Fully residential.

The programme is called Chevening Gurukul Fellowship for Leadership and Excellence.
Hosted at Oxford University.
Department of Politics and International Relations.

Only 12 candidates are cherry picked from all of India.

Now here is what you need to know about this programme.

It is not run by Oxford.
It is funded entirely by the UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.

The same ministry that runs British foreign policy.

The programme has been running for 25 years.
It targets India's future political leaders, senior bureaucrats, journalists, NGO heads, and civil society figures.

That means, 300 carefully selected future Indian power-holders.
Shaped inside Oxford.
Funded by Whitehall.

Past alumni include sitting Union Cabinet ministers.
Senior Tata Group executives.
And now, Annamalai.

One stat worth sitting with.

Tamil Nadu NGOs received Rs 6,395 crore in foreign funds in just four years.

Second highest in India.
After Delhi.

I am not saying Annamalai did anything wrong.
I am not saying he was sent there for any hidden reason.
I am simply presenting facts.

But here is what I will watch in the next 18 months.

Watch if international English-language media gives his new movement disproportionate coverage.
Watch if Western think tanks invite him to speak.
Watch if NGOs with foreign funding quietly support his ground operations.
Watch if his Oxford policy paper surfaces in any British foreign policy publication.

I have no verdict on Annamalai.
I have no personal agenda against him.

But I do have questions.

Maybe I am wrong.

Maybe this is a BJP strategy to rebuild in Tamil Nadu through a friendly outsider.

But here is what history tells us.

Britain lost India in 1947.
It never lost its networks.

The question is not whether Annamalai is right or wrong for India.

The question is: who benefits if he succeeds?
That answer will become clear.
Sooner than you think.

[Men of Purpose @Men_Of_Purpose]

I've never heard anyone explain how to manifest anything in your life like this before… 🤯

[SELF ELEVATING MIND @selfelevating]

The most dangerous lie in human history isn't about food. It isn't about medicine.

IT IS ABOUT SLEEP.

You don't need 8 hours of sleep. That number was invented in 1938 by a mattress company.

Here's how the biggest lie in human history was pulled:

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[Aravind @aravind]

What's this guy talking about?

The wells we see in backyard of Indian homes, the brick houses, the bullock carts, the rangoli, the co-existence with wild animals, the bangles, the pottery, the toys, the ditches on the side of roads, the use of millet, the textiles - so much hasn't changed in India since Harappan times.

Perhaps no other civilization has such an unchanged continuous history for some 7000+ years preserving itself and its dangerous wild animals as well. If a Harappan time travels to present day India, he will instantly feel at home. Albeit scoff at the bad sanitation and cleanliness of our modern towns, I am sure.

[Khairallah AL-Awady @eng_khairallah1]

A 17-year-old makes $10,400 a week. From Google Maps.

She's never built a website.

I laughed. She showed me her Stripe.

All she does is open Google Maps.

Types "tacos Philadelphia." Finds one with 4.7 stars and a site from 2013. Drops their info into a site builder. It spits out the whole thing.

20 minutes.

6 months ago she was making $9/hr at McDonald's.

Still has the uniform in her closet.

She just sends the finished site. Goes to sleep.

Their name already on it.

That taco shop owner opened the link. Showed his daughter. "Mira, this is us?"

Paid $4,800 that night.

"hey is this real? how much" — that was her Tuesday.

A web agency: $14,500. Four people. Six weeks.

Her: $0. Alone. 20 minutes.

First month: $800.
Second month: $4,100.
Last week: $10,400.

Her dad still thinks she works at McDonald's.

She found it on Google Maps. So can you.

This is the same complete system to build a $10K/month B2B lead machine using the same logic - fully automated, no cold calling, no ads ↓

Bookmark this. This is the one.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

A girl raped by 700 men over three years.
Jack Daniel bottle shoved into a 12-year-old girl in course of rape.
Girls kept in dog cages.
Girls raped by dogs, men betting on the act.
~ @RupertLowe10 narrates what Pakistani rape gangs did to British girls.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

A YouTuber with 110 million subscribers released a free version of ChatGPT.

His name is Felix Kjellberg. You know him as PewDiePie.

He spent his own money on a 10-GPU computer at home. He used it to run the same kind of AI models that power ChatGPT, but on his own hardware. Then he wrote his own app to chat with them, because the apps that already exist were not good enough.

Then he gave it away for free. Anyone can download it. Anyone can change it. Anyone can run it.

It's called Odysseus.

It runs on your computer. Your data stays on your disk. No account. No tracking. No monthly fee.

What you get:

- A chat window like ChatGPT
- An AI assistant that can browse the web, read your files, and do tasks for you
- A tool that scans your computer and tells you which AI models will work on it
- A research mode that reads many websites and writes you a report
- A side-by-side mode to test two AI models on the same question
- A writing editor where AI helps you, instead of writing for you
- Memory, so the AI remembers your past chats
- Email with AI that sorts your inbox and writes replies for you
- Notes, a to-do list, and a calendar
- Works on your phone too

23,612 stars on GitHub in 2 days. Top of trending all weekend.

ChatGPT Plus costs $20 a month. Claude Pro costs $20 a month. PewDiePie's version costs nothing, runs on your own computer, and the code is open for anyone to read.

This is what AI looked like before the subscription model.

(Link in the comments)

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

If you are planning a trip to Sikkim, this post could be helpful. Bookmark this for future reference.
We visited Sikkim in the first week of May 2026, covering Gangtok, Nathu la and Lachung (North Sikkim). Our group had six people, including my parents in their 70s.
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[EpicCommentsTelugu @EpicCmntsTelugu]

Everything is fine in this video until you realise this video is from pakistan 😭💀😂

[Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD) @md_deepesh]

Who killed the Rupee?
Not China.
Not America.
Not Indira.
Not Modi.

The people responsible have been sitting in India since 1947.
And they became richer every time the Rupee became poorer.

$1 = ₹1.
That was 1947.

Today.
$1 = ₹95.

Almost 100 times weaker.

Not because India lacked talent.
Not because Indians stopped working.
But because a small club discovered something brilliant.

A weak Rupee can be very profitable.
And they built an entire system around it.

The media rarely names them.
The textbooks never explain them.
The politicians rarely challenge them.

Because many of them eat from the same table.

Meet the invisible empire.

Old money.
Inherited money.
Protected money.

Families that mastered access.
Not innovation.

Access to licences.
Access to ministers.
Access to files that moved only when someone whispered the right number.

India became a toll booth.
A billion people became the traffic.

A foreign company wanted to sell Machines to India.
A foreign agent with deep connect contacts.
A local partner appeared.
Usually from the same circle.

The machine arrives.
The commission arrived first.
The customer paid last.

Research became optional.
Innovation became unnecessary.
Competition became inconvenient.

82% of India's listed companies report zero R&D spending.
Not low.
Not weak.
Zero.

India spends 0.65% of GDP on research.
South Korea spends 4.93%.
China spends 2.43%.

Why build something new when importing is more profitable?

Then came the second partner.

The bureaucrat.

Not elected.
Rarely removed.
Master of delay.
Keeper of the sacred file.

A file could move.
A file could disappear.
A file could sleep for years.

Together.
The connected family.
The IAS Babu.
And the untouchable file.

They shaped industrial policy for decades.

Import first.
Manufacture later.
Maybe.

Then came IT.

India's greatest success story.
Or so we were told.

We maintained software.
Others owned platforms.

We tested chips.
Others designed them.

The British exported cotton.
Made cloth elsewhere.
Sold it back to us.

The model survived.

Only the raw material changed.

This time it was talent.

India trained engineers.
India trained doctors.
Someone else collected the dividend.

36% of NASA scientists are of Indian origin.
38% of US doctors trace roots to India.

The minds left.
The system remained.
And the Rupee kept falling.

A weaker Rupee means costlier imports.
Costlier imports mean bigger deals.
Bigger deals mean bigger commissions.
And bigger commissions create very loyal friendships.

Fourteen Prime Ministers came and went.
The lobby survived.

We never fully left the colonial model.
We simply changed the colour of the uniform.

The real question is not why the Rupee falls.
The real question is who celebrates every time it does.

That answer rarely appears in the headlines.
Because people writing the headlines are sitting at the same table.

[Catchy Merch @MerchCatchy]

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[Chris Martz @ChrisMartzWX]

The Arctic Ocean will be ice-free by. . .

🎯 1980
🎯 1989
🎯 2000
🎯 2008
🎯 2010
🎯 2012
🎯 2013
🎯 2014
🎯 2015
🎯 2016
🎯 2017
🎯 2018
🎯 2019
🎯 2020

And now?

🎯 As early as 2027

[Catchy Merch @MerchCatchy]

@ErikaMorris79 Lucky you🙂

[SagasofBharat (talesbymiirabelle) @SagasofBharat]

Here's What you need to know about Audrey Truschke:

1. Her father-in-law & Husband had a business of missionary conversion in India.

2. Her FIL formed an NGO bless India with the motto "Win India for Christ"

3. Indian Govt has destroyed their family business of conversion.

[Ayurveda Monk, The Dr. 🩺🧘‍♂️🍀 @AyurvedaMonk]

One of the "Biggest Misconceptions" about India’s historical LIFE EXPECTANCY propagated is that people died young because Ayurveda was ineffective.

The reality is more complex.

For much of British rule, large sections of India suffered from repeated famines, food insecurity, and malnutrition due to rules and regulations of Britishers.
When people lack adequate nutrition, no medical system (Ayurveda or modern medicine) can keep them healthy (or alive) for long.

As food availability, nutrition, sanitation, and living conditions improved, life expectancy naturally increased.

Yes, modern medicine has made invaluable contributions in managing various diseases (just like Ayurveda) & Its role cannot be denied.

But attributing the entire rise in life expectancy solely to allopathy while ignoring the impact of "Ayurveda & nutrition" is misleading.

In my own family, my grandfather’s generation relied almost entirely on Ayurveda, yet many lived actively into their 90s and beyond because they had abundant access to nutritious food, milk, curd, and ghee.
In contrast, some members of my father’s generation had access to allopathy treatment, yet passed away much earlier.

These facts highlight an important truth: Health & longevity starts with nourishment.
Medicine can help manage disease, but no treatment system can compensate for chronic malnutrition.

Good diet is the foundation of longevity.
Treatment (whether Ayurvedic or modern) comes after that.
🙏🙏
@Gopalee67 @AshokShrivasta6 @SirPareshRawal #Ayurveda #MedTwitter #MedX #Nutrition