Smokin' Spirit

I'm what you call eternal sunshine of a drunken mind.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Everyone remembers the attack on the Mumbai railway station on 26/11, the gunmen walking the platforms, more than fifty people killed. Almost nobody remembers the announcer whose voice sent hundreds of strangers running the other way while the bullets were still flying.

His name is Vishnu Dattaram Zende.

On the night of 26 November 2008, he was on duty in the announcer's cabin at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a raised glass room looking out over the platforms. It was near the end of his shift when he heard a loud blast and gunfire, and saw people running.

Two terrorists had walked into the busiest station in the country and begun shooting everyone in sight. At that station alone, they would kill more than fifty people.

From his cabin he could see the whole layout, and he understood something fast. Local trains were still pulling in, each one about to pour hundreds of passengers straight onto the platforms where the gunmen were standing.

He had a microphone that reached every platform. He decided to use it, even though it meant staying exactly where he was, in full view, instead of hiding.

He began making announcements, over and over, in Hindi and Marathi, telling people not to come to the main concourse, telling them to leave by the rear exits, warning them away from the guns.

Hundreds of people changed direction because of that voice and walked out of the station instead of into the bullets.

The terrorists worked out where the announcements were coming from. They came and stood almost directly below his cabin. One of them fired up toward him. He kept low, waited, and when he could, went back to the microphone.

He was an ordinary railway announcer on an ordinary shift. He had no weapon and no protection, just a mic and a clear view of what was coming. He stayed at his post and used the one tool he had to push strangers out of the path of the killers.

The men with the rifles are the names everyone remembers from that station. The voice that quietly saved hundreds of the people they came to kill belonged to Vishnu Zende.

[Neha Kalani @thericebowlgirl]

quick update on how this is going: they have gone back to linear because maintaining their internal tool that they vibecoded was taking away from their actual work’s bandwidth.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

The thing is no one is even seen trying. As I have stated multiple times, Pradhan will go and some random person will come. Minister is a figurehead in the systems like the one Modi is running. Every thing is managed at PMO level, so make Prahlad Joshi the minister, won’t change a thing.

They had 12 years to prioritise education, get good guys with academic credentials to gather and plan something that would change India forever. They continued Congress’ stupid system, proudly claiming they haven’t changed a thing.

In these 12 years we would have had the opportunity to train a new set of teachers to teach a new set of curricula and lay foundation for ‘Amrit Kaal’ or ‘Viksit Bharat’ in the real sense of the word.

However, the master of acronyms at @PMOIndia, convinced @narendramodi that a nation of stupid groups of people need the same mugging up and vomiting system of education. Whatever the fuck happened to their talks of Macaulay screwed up our education system.

All the time @BJP4India spokespeople would bark at length about how Congress destroyed India with colonial education and history. The question is what the fuck did you guys do? All the bullshit of RSS and BJP saying education and culture define a civilisation!

I have little to no hope. First time, it could be attributed to inexperience, second time we could say miscalculation, but the same thing the third time is a disastrous negligence.

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

The consistent message from the govt over the years has been that it won't give a damn to people who criticize it mildly and protest and do activism in a civil manner abiding by the law, and give in to the violent anarchist elements who run riots and manipulate media perception!

[Smokin' Spirit @SmokinSpirit]

Lol! This is India.. No one will speak against reservation - neither politicians nor activists… here mobocracy rules, meritocracy suffers and democracy dies every second!

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

IT सेलियों के स्टेटस पढ़ने में बहुत आनंद आ रहा है। तो क्या मानें कि CIA और चीनी एजेंट जीत गए? मोदी को झुका दिया? और हाँ, वो ३०० मिलियन व्यू का ट्वीट अपनी गांड में डाल लो अब।

बंगाल का 208 नहीं गिनवाओगे? गुजरात निकाय चुनाव में भाजपा की भारी जीत? कहाँ है UGC का प्रभाव?

घमंड में चूर ये सब के सब साले ख़ुद ही प्रधानमंत्री बने घूमते थे। अभी मुँह बनाए लिख रहे हैं, देखना अब ये डिमांड अपडेट कर देंगे, अब इनको पार्टी बनानी चाहिए!

तो क्यों नहीं हटवा लिया था जून में ही जब 50 लोग होते थे? ख़ुमारी उतरती है बाबू, घमंड अच्छी बात नहीं। तुम्हारी आदत हैं बाँस करवाने की, सेंसिबल बात कोई शांति से बोले तो सुनते नहीं, फिर थूक कर चाटते हो और दाँत निपोड़ कर हँसते हो।

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

The Country Needs A Leader With Spine!

[Divya Kumar Soti @DivyaSoti]

बांसुरी स्वराज जी बता रही हैं कि "दिपके जी" सरकार के वीवीआईपी मेहमान थे जिन्हें आम लोगों और राजनीतिक पार्टियों की तरह धरना प्रदर्शन के लिए परमिशन लेने के दिल्ली पुलिस के किसी आफिस नहीं जाना पड़ा था। "दिपके जी" जैसे ही दिल्ली एयरपोर्ट पर लैंड किए, दिल्ली पुलिस के अधिकारी एयरपोर्ट दौड़े-दौड़े गए और दिपके जी को परमिशन देकर आए कि आइए सर जंतर-मंतर पर मजमा लगाइए। जबकि दिपके जी ने परमिशन मांगी ही नहीं थी। संदेश साफ था कि हे दिपके जी रूपी तारणहार! कुकर में बहुत गैस बन गई है, आप कुकर की सीटी बनकर गैस निकालो। परमिशन शाम 5 बजे तक की थी, परंतु बांसुरी स्वराज बतातीं हैं कि दिपके जी से 21 दिन तक तमाशा कराया गया। पहले दिन जब सरकार ने दिपके जी को जंतर-मंतर पर स्थापित किया तो 100 लोग नहीं जुटे। इसलिए 21 दिन का विशेष एक्सटेंशन दिया गया। तब जाकर दिपके जी नेता बने और अब भस्मासुर बन कर ऑउट ऑफ कंट्रोल हैं। अब भीड़ में कौन-कौन है, किसी को नहीं पता। दिल्ली की सड़कों पर जो अराजकता है उसके लिए और कोई नहीं, मास्टरस्ट्रोक ही जिम्मेदार है।

[Bob Kostic @causticbob]

Two priests running out of a burning church.

Priest 1: What about the children?

Priest 2: Fuck the children!

Priest 1: Ooh do you think we have time?

[Matei Zaharia @matei_zaharia]

Why did we build an internal coding benchmark? Public benchmarks like SWE-Bench are often over-tuned for, so we took real tasks our engineers did and curated test suites for them to see which agents can solve them end-to-end. https://t.co/SdLbEP9tye

[blue @bluewmist]

Major cheat code in life: One priority per day. Not three. Not five. One. Pick the single thing that, if completed, makes the day a win regardless of what else happens.
Protect two hours for it. Most people go entire weeks without finishing anything that actually matters because everything feels equally urgent.

[Prof cheems ॐ @Prof_Cheems]

Old is Gold 🤣😭

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[Ninda Turtle @NindaTurtles]

Kya matlab yaha Istefa maang rahe hai Lumd nahi 😭

[greg @greg16676935420]

I bet the other 24 letters are pissed

[🦁 @AndColorPockeT]

When mediocre decisions get hailed as masterstrokes and corruption gets justified as nationalist vs. anti-national corruption in the name of the deep state, Soros, ulka pind, aliens, conspiracies, etc. it leads to generational fuck-ups like NEET did, and CBSE followed soon after.