Roma

Writes product stuff and is perpetually confused about how the world works (likes to study policy and literature)
building

[Roma @romaticize]

happy to share something i’ve been building (and obsessing over) for the last couple months:

🚨 https://t.co/uLGFNcyJwW — a daily dashboard for people who care about Indian policy, but hate tracking it.

🧵Here’s what’s new:

[Roma @romaticize]

so thanks to oomfs, https://t.co/YG8BDbuQDs is turning into a fun passion project - an AI-powered platform that tracks and analyzes policy developments across India. a product of rapid iterations and continuous learning, which has been both challenging and incredibly rewarding

[Nabiya Khan @nabiyakhan_25]

Perhaps the greatest violence is that political prisoners stop being seen as people. They become symbols to celebrate, defend, or condemn, while their fears and ordinary humanity disappear from view. We forget that they are not just heroes or images hanging on Tihar’s walls but are living, breathing, struggling human beings still inside those very walls. They shouldn’t have to remind people that they are human.

A must read interview!

[Roma @romaticize]

mind-boggling

[Rohan Paul @rohanpaul_ai]

Big new paper release of Google for external agentic verification for science.

Science now needs AI review agents because AI is making papers faster than humans can check them.

The problem is that AI can help produce more research, but the slow part is still checking whether the work is actually correct.

The paper frames this as verification debt, where every faster research workflow creates more claims, proofs, experiments, and comparisons that someone still has to inspect.

Its main proposal is agentic verification, where AI agents help review papers by splitting them into parts, checking difficult sections deeply, and combining the findings into a review.

Google’s Paper Assistant Tool is the example system, and it focuses on objective checks like proof errors, experimental gaps, missing comparisons, and unclear claims rather than final accept or reject decisions.

The authors tested it on known math and computer science paper errors and in author-facing pilots at STOC and ICML, where authors used it before submission.

The striking result is that Paper Assistant Tool found far more known proof errors than a single model call, and many authors said it led them to fix serious theory gaps or run new experiments.

The big deal is that scientific review may need its own AI stack, with review agents, clear roles, and human oversight, because paper generation is becoming partly automated too.

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Link – arxiv. org/abs/2606.28277

Title: "Towards Automating Scientific Review with Google's Paper Assistant Tool"

[َ @gffyoq]

people should look up at the moon more often.

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

"I really want the Indian government to look at its foreign policy and ask: Are we going to permit fundamental humanitarian principles to be given a go-by?"

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Just a reminder that Fred Hampton is younger than Donald Trump.

What a different future America could have had.

[Mumbai Rains @IndiaWeatherMan]

Very heavy rains upwards of 150mm likely next 24 hours for Mumbai & surrounding areas. Another very heavy spell likely on weekends especially for catchment areas. #MumbaiRains

[🤠 @heavensbvnny]

THIS!!!!

[Ashish Goel @ashish_nujs]

"Six years down the line, I must say that I am really disappointed and even feel isolated. This silence – of opposition parties, of civil society groups, of celebrity activists who have made a career out of piggy-backing on people’s movements – emboldens this regime..."

[Roma @romaticize]

https://t.co/hphpqnFK6k

[Roma @romaticize]

one involving Chandigarh Smart City Limited and the Municipal Corporation Chandigarh, and the other concerning the Chandigarh Renewable Energy and Science & Technology Promotion Society (CREST).”

[Roma @romaticize]

“No fixed deposits were ever created. Instead, the agency said, the money was siphoned out through fraudulent debit transactions, leaving HSPCB with a loss of approximately Rs 169 crore—the worst hit among the eight government departments who bore losses.

[Sushil Manav @sushilmanav]

Haryana IAS Pardeep Kumar, ‘on the run’ in IDFC Bank scam case, arrested by CBI on day of superannuation
#IDFCFraud #CBI #Haryana #IASOfficer #HSPCB #ThePrint @cmohry
https://t.co/M4cI15DuQA via @theprintindia

[Roma @romaticize]

were allegedly diverted through forged or non-existent fixed deposits and fraudulent debit entries before being routed through shell companies… The agency has also taken over two related cases from the Union Territory of Chandigarh—

[Alonso Gurmendi @Alonso_GD]

“Walsh” literally comes from wælisc, a term used by the Irish to refer to Welsh immigrants that arrived with the Norman invasion in the 12th Century CE. To be a “Walsh” literally meant to be a “foreigner”. It doesn’t get more absurd than this

[Anjali Bhardwaj @AnjaliB_]

Is the census data being manipulated? Now when the census is finally being conducted with a 5-year delay, enumerators in Delhi, Rajasthan & UP are reportedly being told to avoid options that paint the govt in a poor light. This completely erodes public trust - census is the most important data set for public policy & planning in the country.
Watch Jaanne Bhi Do Yaaro with @sinhadipa
https://t.co/fZ90ecjuqK

[Pranesh Prakash @pranesh]

This is what licensing vs. purchase gets you: You own a book, but you licence a DRMed e-book.

#piracy #a2k #copyright

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

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[Abybaby @abybaby_san]

Soya chunks being forced on us because China stopped buying from the USA. And they need to dump it

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

A boon for scammers. Kunal knows his best customers well.

[Carl @HistoryBoomer]

If you've spent half your life not knowing what the sunk-cost fallacy is, it's probably not worth learning it now.