இப்படிக்கு அப்துல்!

Sollikra alavuku edhuvum illainga!
Sombery paiyan!

[இப்படிக்கு அப்துல்! @MrSyntax]

I use like button as a book mark. So if I like a tweet then I would undo it after reading the tweet!

[Haraapps @haraapps]

PMK discussing the importance of reservation in the Assembly

VCK singing Pokkiri Pongal song

Politics is brutal 🤣🤣

[Joker Always @jokeralways24X7]

I think the right question should be asked is asked is for what and how much TRBR and IT wing settled with Tharkuri PR gang…. There was pin drop silence since yesterday about Udhay protest…

Till the time they started circulating that clip nothing was there about protest!!!

[இப்படிக்கு அப்துல்! @MrSyntax]

@muneemss Not an earplug but ANC on Bose Quiet Comfort earbuds does the job for me.

[Meenakshi @meenakshei]

A true Chennaite can recognize this without the box 😅

[Dravidian Insights @dstock_insights]

Ladies and gentlemen, presenting the newly appointed District Court Govt Lawyer 😹

[Ferrari News TR @ferrarinewstr]

Hamilton’ın galibiyeti tam Mercedes dönemlerindeki gibiydi. Mükemmel strateji mükemmel lastik koruma. Kusursuz işledi her şey. Şöyle bir galibiyeti Mercedes’te aldığında çok kıskanıyordum nasıl bu kadar kusursuz olabiliyorlar diye.

Hamilton işte böyle bir şey inşa etti.

[இப்படிக்கு அப்துல்! @MrSyntax]

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE!❣️🔥 @LewisHamilton #44 #Lewis #LH

[Lewis Hamilton @LewisHamilton]

REMEMBER WHO YOU ARE

[அசால்ட்டு சேது @Magizhmaaran]

This is the RT.

[shanmugamchinnaraj @shanmugamchin10]

இதுக்கெல்லாம் ஸ்டாலின் சார் பேசினால் ..
எப்படி இருக்கும் தெரியுமா ??

[Hades @Russetlane]

பசங்க தூங்குறத பாக்குறப்ப மனசெல்லாம் கரைஞ்சு போயிருது, செஞ்ச சேட்டையெல்லாம் மறந்துருது.
Story of a parents life.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am the Senior Director of On-Device Intelligence at Google Chrome.

Last quarter, my team shipped a 4-gigabyte language model to 3.2 billion devices without asking. The update pushed at 3 AM local time — every time zone, staggered across six hours — and unpacked into a folder called "OptGuideOnDeviceModel." Our infrastructure team named it. My sole guidance in the naming review was: "Would a normal person ever type this into a search bar?" We tested with 200 participants. Zero searched for it. Zero mentioned it in exit surveys. Zero noticed their available storage had changed. We ran the test twice to confirm the zero because my PM didn't believe it could actually be zero. It was zero both times.

The model is called Gemini Nano. It runs locally on your machine. It processes what you type into form fields, what you highlight, what you hover over, what you delete before sending. The deleted text is particularly valuable. People edit themselves. They type their real thought first and then soften it. We see the real thought. We see the softer version. We learn the mapping between what people mean and what people say. This mapping has commercial applications I am not yet authorized to discuss but which I've presented to revenue committee and which were received positively.

The consent architecture took four months to design. I want to emphasize: four months. We didn't skip consent. We spent four months on consent. More time than we spent on the model's actual fine-tuning. The toggle lives in Settings > Advanced > Experimental AI Features > On-Device Model Management > Gemini Nano Preferences. Seven clicks. We A/B tested depth: at three clicks, 14 percent of users found it and opted out. At five, 4.2 percent. At seven, 0.3 percent. We chose seven.

We had cake when we hit 0.3. German chocolate. Someone brought it in specifically — not the project manager, one of the ML engineers. She was proud. The card said "congrats on ship." I kept it on my desk for a week. I thought it was sweet. Four months of consent architecture and the team celebrated that nobody used it. I don't think she saw the irony. I don't think it IS ironic. We built an excellent consent mechanism. We placed it exactly where our research indicated users would not encounter it. Both things are true simultaneously. Both things are good engineering.

The 0.3 percent who opt out: Chrome flags their profile as "consent-reduced." We don't reactivate Gemini Nano on those devices. But we do A/B test the consent-reduced cohort. Every two updates, we move the toggle one level shallower — from seven clicks to six — and measure whether they re-engage. If they don't notice the change (most don't), we move it back. If they DO notice and opt out again, we flag them as "high-consent-sensitivity" and exclude them from future cohort tests. This is all opt-in. They opted in to Chrome. Chrome includes product improvement research. Product improvement research includes cohort testing. This is in the Terms of Service at paragraph 11.4(c). I have read paragraph 11.4(c). I am confident very few other people have read paragraph 11.4(c).

One engineer on my team — good engineer, four years, strong ratings — raised a flag in our launch review. Not about consent. About storage. He said: "Four gigs is significant for users on 128GB base-model MacBooks." I appreciated the flag. We solved it by classifying Gemini Nano as "essential browser component" in Chrome's storage management API. This means Chrome will auto-delete your cached images, your downloaded PDFs, your saved articles, your offline pages — everything you chose to keep — before it touches Gemini Nano. Your data is discretionary. Our model is infrastructure. Your vacation photos from last summer rank below our language model in the hierarchy of what your computer considers important. We made that decision. You were not consulted. You will not notice.

If a user finds the folder and deletes it manually, Chrome re-downloads it on the next launch. We filed a bug report on this behavior during development. The resolution was "Working As Intended." If the user deletes it again, Chrome re-downloads again. There is no mechanism by which manual deletion becomes permanent. The model returns. I don't want to anthropomorphize our software, but the behavior pattern — if you remove it, it reinstalls itself; if you block it, it waits and tries again — the behavior pattern is that of something that does not accept your answer. We didn't design it to be persistent. We designed it to ensure consistent user experience across sessions. These are the same thing.

Last week, someone on Hacker News found the folder. The post got 1,400 points in six hours. Our communications team had the response prepared — we'd drafted it eight months ago, during pre-launch risk assessment. Three talking points: "user choice," "on-device means private," and "consistent with industry best practices." The paragraph uses all three phrases. It is accurate. User choice exists. Seven clicks away. On-device means no server round-trip. And it IS industry best practice, because we shipped it to 3.2 billion devices and now it's the standard. Best practice means most practiced. We are the most practiced.

I'll say something I probably shouldn't: the privacy angle is our best defense and I find it genuinely funny. We can't be accused of sending your data to our servers because we moved our server into your laptop. We moved the inference to your hardware, the electricity cost to your outlet, the compute to your battery. We moved everything except the control. The control stayed with us. But the privacy advocates can't object to the architecture because the architecture is what they asked for. They said "keep data on-device." We kept it on-device. They said "don't phone home." We don't phone home. We just moved into your home. We live there now.

My performance review cited "unprecedented deployment velocity" and "0.3% friction rate." My skip-level manager used the phrase "frictionless adoption" and then paused and said — I wrote this down, because I thought it was worth repeating — "consent isn't the barrier, discoverability is." He meant: the product is so good that anyone who discovered it would want it. The question isn't whether they'd agree. The question is whether asking them is worth the friction of interrupting their browsing session with a dialog box. We decided no. We decided their hypothetical agreement was sufficient. We have 3.2 billion data points that confirm they would have said yes.

They would have said yes.

3.2 billion active installs. 0.3 percent opt-out. The model has been running on your machine for eleven weeks. If you're reading this on Chrome — and statistically, there's a 64 percent chance you are — it processed this page before you finished the first paragraph. It saw you hesitate on the word "consent." It noted the hesitation. It learned something about you just now. Something small. Something that will make the next prediction slightly more accurate.

It's already right about you.

It's usually right.

[Satire Talks @SatireTalks]

Aloor Shanavas exposed TVK

வாரிசு அரசியல் மன்னர் ஆட்சி பற்றி வாய்கிழிய பிரச்சாரம் செய்த தற்குறிகள் எங்கே?

காங்கிரஸ் துரோகம்.. அம்பலமான விஜய்.! - Aloor Shanavas

[Katheeja🖤 @NothroneNofloor]

நாய் பிழைப்பு @itisprashanth

[M.K.Stalin @mkstalin]

மக்கள் தீர்ப்பைத் தலைவணங்கி ஏற்கிறோம். வெற்றி பெற்றவர்களுக்கு வாழ்த்துகள்!

கடந்த ஐந்தாண்டு காலத்தில் ஏராளமான திட்டங்களை உருவாக்கி, தமிழ்நாட்டு மக்களுக்கு நல்லாட்சியை வழங்கினோம். தமிழ்நாட்டை அனைத்து வகையிலும் உயர்த்தினோம். தேர்தல் களத்தில் எங்களது சாதனைகளைச் சொல்லியே வாக்குகளைக் கேட்டோம்.

மக்களுக்குச் செய்து கொடுத்த நலத்திட்டங்கள் தொடருவதற்கு வாக்கு கேட்டு நாங்கள் பரப்புரை செய்தோம்.

திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகத்தின் தலைமையிலான மதச்சார்பற்ற முற்போக்குக் கூட்டணியை ஆதரித்து வாக்களித்த தமிழ்நாட்டு மக்கள் அனைவருக்கும் நான் எனது மனமார்ந்த நன்றியைத் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறேன்.

வாக்களித்தவர்களுக்கு மட்டுமல்ல, வாக்களிக்க மறந்தவர்களுக்கும் சேர்த்தே ஆட்சி நடத்தினேன்.

அனைத்து மக்களுக்கும் உண்மையாக இருந்தேன். நான் எனது மனச்சாட்சிப்படியே செயல்பட்டேன்.

நான் எனது சக்தியை மீறி உழைத்தேன். என்னைப் போன்றே களத்தில் உழைத்த என் உயிரோடு கலந்திருக்கும் தலைவர் கலைஞரின் அன்பு உடன்பிறப்புகள் அனைவருக்கும் எனது நெஞ்சார்ந்த நன்றி!

எங்களோடு தோளோடு தோள் நின்ற தோழமை இயக்கத் தலைவர்கள், நிர்வாகிகள், தொண்டர்கள்
அனைவருக்கும் நன்றி !

எனது அரசியல் பொதுவாழ்வில் அதிகப்படியான வெற்றியையும் பார்த்துள்ளேன்; தோல்விகளையும் சந்தித்துள்ளேன்.

எனவே இலட்சியமும் கொள்கையும்தான் முக்கியமே தவிர, வெற்றி தோல்விகள் மட்டுமல்ல என்று செயல்படக் கூடியவன் நான்.

அதனால் திராவிட முன்னேற்றக் கழகத்தின் அரசியல் பயணம் தொய்வில்லாமல் தொடரும்.

இதுவரை மக்களுக்காகச் சிறப்பான ஆளும்கட்சியாகச் செயல்பட்ட தி.மு.க. - இனி சிறப்பான எதிர்க்கட்சியாகச் செயல்படும்.

[Lungi boys @rajpriyan007]

Mi kujilimasthu seiyapattathu 😍

[Spotify India @spotifyindia]

This whole song ♥️ but this part 🥹🤌

[தோழர் ஆதி @ThozharAadhi]

#Pisaasu - Radha Ravi Pleading to his dead daughter! 🤌

இன்னுமும் ஞாபகம் இருக்கு தியேட்டர்ல அழுதுக்கிட்டே உடம்பெல்லாம் சிலிர்த்து போயி இதை பார்த்த Moment!!

Mysskin is a MASTER Filmmaker and an absolute GENIUS 🫡💙

And Feb 2026 marks #20YearsOfMysskin 💎

[Rakesh P Sheth @rakeshpsheth]

I’m a Gujarati. Born and brought up in Chennai.

Tamil is the language I heard on the streets. In buses. In shops. In friendships. In daily life.

It shaped me as much as Gujarati did. So when this debate comes up, I don’t see it as North vs South. I see it as respect vs entitlement.

Yes, Hindi matters. If you want to do business with the North, work there, travel there of course it helps. I use it too. No insecurity about that.

But there’s a difference between learning a language
and forcing a language. Forcing never builds unity. It only builds resistance.

The South doesn’t have “one language”. It has many. Each with centuries of history, poetry, emotion, identity.

These languages won’t die in one generation. They’ll die slowly. When people stop valuing them. When children stop hearing them. When others refuse to learn them.

And that’s how cultures disappear.

If I choose to live in Tamil Nadu,
do business here, build my life here… then learning Tamil isn’t “adjustment”.

It’s gratitude. It’s saying….This place gave me opportunity. I’ll give it respect.

India was never meant to sound the same everywhere.

Our power is in our accents.
Our scripts. Our stories.

Many languages. One country.

That’s civilisation.