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[Mr Vince🇬🇧🇺🇸 @daniels_bukola]

Ali said he hit Joe Frazier with punches that will crumble a brick wall yet Frazier will not fall. He said he knew he was in big trouble.

This is why the Ali-Frazier trilogy remains the greatest rivalry in boxing history.
#Boxing

[Social Shoshan @SocialShoshan]

@Dhimahi11 Ask for a glass of cold water with a slice of lime. Add a lot of ice to it. And then start talking shit like everyone else. Sing, dance and if someone asks just say this Gin is awesome.

[Social Shoshan @SocialShoshan]

@Nrvs90s Trivia: he did not sanitise it before getting the autograph. Revenge need not be loud.

[Social Shoshan @SocialShoshan]

@coolcoder56 Somehow doesn't add up. He might have started working way before 2005. If he graduated in 2005 (leta assume he was 21 then) and motorola was his first job, does that mean he married immediately to have two 21 yr old sons by 2026...?

[Social Shoshan @SocialShoshan]

@AlphaWizarDD Between point 4 and point 7, have the "muscle" to hold the land and keep land mafia away.

[Rohit @Iam_Rohit_G]

Imagine you're on the 14th floor. A fire or earthquake strikes, lifts stop working, and you're alone with your child.
How do you escape?

An Indian company, Skydrop, has introduced a balcony safety cable system with free training for every user, offering a potential emergency evacuation option when every second matters.

High-rise societies spend crores on luxury amenities. Maybe it's time to invest just as seriously in life-saving safety solutions.

[Social Shoshan @SocialShoshan]

@chrisboettcher9 You don't have to be involved to make great memories. Presence and secure environment for kids is enough.

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

The heat has been brutal this past week. Temperatures hit 45° in Nagpur, 44° in Ahmedabad, 43° in Prayagraj, 42° in Delhi. Even Bengaluru hit 37°. And we're still in April 😬

A big contributing factor behind rising temperatures is the loss of forest cover, and India has lost a lot of it. Back in 2020, we met the team behind Farmers for Forests (F4F). Their idea was to do agroforestry at scale. The challenge is that farmers can't afford to wait years for trees to pay off, and most tree-planting projects don't survive the first monsoon. The idea was ambitious, and we at @RainmatterOrg backed them early.

Most tree-planting in India is monoculture, just rows of one species. But a plantation isn't a forest. F4F plants multi-layer agroforests with fruit, timber, shrubs, intercrops, and native species, trying to mimic what an actual forest does.

Six years later, they've gone from 50 acres to 5,000 acres and have just secured funding to reach 40,000 over the next three years. Compared to traditional crop farming, per acre, they're seeing ~4x carbon sequestration, ~3x farmer income, and meaningful improvement in biodiversity and soil health. Still early days, but promising.

Those numbers needed to be verifiable. So F4F built TreeLens, an open-source tree-tracking system that uses drone imagery to measure carbon sequestration, tree height, and biodiversity across thousands of small farms. 15 other organisations now use it.

The hardest problem in agroforestry is time. Fruit trees take 5 to 7 years to pay off, and most small farmers simply can't wait that long. So F4F is now working with the government and the larger ecosystem to design financial instruments like carbon bonds and first-loss guarantees that protect farmers while the trees grow.

Really glad we backed Arti, Aditya, and Krutika early.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A 15-pound honey badger can survive a cobra bite that would kill a full-grown man in under two hours. Then it finishes eating the snake. A biology grad student at the University of Minnesota wanted to know how. She needed badger blood to find out, and the only samples she could get were from two American zoos in San Diego and Indiana.

What she found in the DNA was one tiny change. There's a small socket on your muscle cells that your nerves plug into to tell your muscles to move. Cobra venom kills you by jamming that socket shut, so your lungs stop working. The honey badger's socket has a swapped-out amino acid that gives it a positive electrical charge. Cobra venom is also positively charged. Like magnets pointing the wrong way, the venom gets pushed off before it can lock in, and the muscles keep firing.

The same workaround showed up separately in hedgehogs and pigs. Mongooses got there too, with a slightly different molecular trick. Four different animals with no shared ancestor all arrived at the same solution because venomous snakes kept biting them for millions of years.

That only covers snakes like cobras and mambas. Puff adders work differently, destroying tissue instead of paralyzing muscle, and the DNA trick doesn't help there. So when a puff adder lands a solid bite, the badger collapses into a kind of coma for two or three hours. Then it wakes up groggy and eats the snake anyway.

The skin is maybe the unfairest part of all this. It's about a quarter inch thick, rubbery, and so loose it fits like a wetsuit two sizes too big. A lion can clamp its jaws on a honey badger and the badger will twist halfway around inside its own skin and start clawing the lion's face while still in its mouth. Bee stingers barely get through. Porcupine quills don't either.

Which brings us back to the bees in that photo. They're annoying. A few sneak through to the face, and enough stings have killed honey badgers in the wild. Honey badgers still die. But they're running three different defense systems at the same time, and one of them is a genetic lottery ticket evolution has pulled four times.

[Social Shoshan @SocialShoshan]

@DealsDhamaka When it comes to GCC's hyderabad is winning. Pune started well but is now left behind.

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

A boy from MP, India, single handedly cleaned an entire river using his own hands. It's a matter of shame for our municipality 😭

[Social Shoshan @SocialShoshan]

@mayukh_panja GenZ's listen to a lot of hiphop. Gen Alpha too. I tried to introduce my Gen-Alpha daughter to Rock but she keeps going back to HipHop.

[Social Shoshan @SocialShoshan]

@mmpandit Which place near Kolhapur? Are you talking about Audumbar or Narsoba chi wadi?

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Best thing I watched today.

[Srajan @_Creation22]

No hate. I’m genuinely happy for them. They’ve achieved something that maybe even 0.001% of people ever do.

When you become really great at one thing, it’s normal that you won’t be great at everything else. Mastery takes focus. It takes time. It takes sacrifice.

As Elon Musk once said, people say they want to be him but they don’t really understand what that means. A mind that never rests. Constant pressure. A lot of loneliness.

[Naval @naval]

People who don’t organize into tribes get wiped out by people who do.

[Saraswati Films @mmpandit]

Deepak Chopra is not a ‘Guru’.
He no doubt is an American cardiologist and a good one at that (but Cardiologists can have a God complex famously) but he has done very little sadhana to acquire even 1/ millionth the Shakti a Guru needs.
And either the Shakti must be given to you OR it must flow to you on its own OR you must know the process to acquire it yourself and spend decades doing it.
Your Shakti should be such that you do not need to do that much and the Shakti around your place of meditation should be such that nothing ethereal can trouble you.
Physical body is different but in general sadhana is such a thing that you should be able to tolerate the situation and allow the karma to go back to sender which of your Shakti and Devatas are Siddha, no power on earth can survive giving you trouble.
And when you are like that, your Kama vasana will die a natural death as will your Lobha/ greed etc.
And any Guru must know a good deal of traditional scripture.
Deepak Chopra is just a cardiologist and has good intellect but is millions of miles from being a Guru.
Mahadev.

[IT Unprofessional @it_unprofession]

I'm pretty sure everyone at my company saw this article and now they all think we're in an AI crisis.

We're not in an AI crisis. We use Claude to summarize Slack threads.

But here's what's actually interesting: this whole panic reveals something nobody wants to admit.

Every company in America has been bullshitting about their "AI strategy" for two years.

We all saw the hype. We all knew we had to say something. So we rebranded our existing automation as "AI-powered" and called it a day.

My company isn't special. We're all doing the same thing.

The problem is now the executives actually believe their own bullshit. They think we have "significant AI exposure" because they've been telling investors we're "AI-first."

I just got pulled into an emergency meeting. Six executives asking me to explain our "AI dependency matrix."

There is no AI dependency matrix.

There's Claude for meeting summaries, there's some sentiment analysis in our support tickets that came free with Zendesk, and there's whatever Gmail is doing when it autocompletes my sentences.

But I can't say that in a room full of people who told their boards we're "transforming the business through AI."

So I said we have "distributed AI touchpoints across multiple vendors with no single point of failure."

Which is technically true. We use a bunch of different services that all have AI features we mostly ignore.

The CFO asked if we should "hedge our AI exposure."

I have no idea what that means. Neither does he.

What am I going to do: nothing. Because in three weeks, Anthropic will say something reassuring, the stocks will recover, and everyone will forget this happened.

But I'll have documentation showing I recommended a "risk assessment" that mysteriously never got prioritized.

The funniest part is that half these executives probably don't even know what Anthropic is. They just saw "AI" and "crash" in the same headline.

We're all pretending. The whole industry is pretending.

And articles like this just remind everyone how fragile the pretending is.

[Social Shoshan @SocialShoshan]

@ARanganathan72 India's total budget is some 640 USD bn... buying half a trillion american goods is not possible..