Mask☆Demasque

I'm a bona fide oddball -- on a temporary twitter hiatus

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Nobody has figured out how to make money from AI/ML other than by selling you a pile of compute and storage for your AI/ML misadventures.

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

I'm now past 50 anecdotes on the job market, and it feels there's a catch-22 position repeating:

1. Companies struggling to hire certain profiles (product-minded engineers, devtools infra etc)

2. Inbound apps are SUPER noisy, so most co's give up on them

3. Devs with the above skillset are submitting applications... but rarely ever make it thru the massive noise of inbound applications

So #1 never finds #3 and both #1 and #3 wonder what is going on

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@TheEmissaryCo @real_mahalingam It's also not a coincidence that Akshaya Patra finds support in MH urban settlements & among those who have a cultural memory of such organizations and their equivalents from various Teertha-kshetras (Annadaanam). Our culture is expressed in our spiritual leanings and vice versa.

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@TheEmissaryCo @real_mahalingam You'll also note that the "simple" bhakti practices that have taken root deeply in North, West, and south-central states (North K'taka, Telangana, MH, GJ, RJ, HR) all are part of the same "stream of consciousness" and promote sattvic living for householders. Not a coincidence.

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@real_mahalingam @SchrdingersDbag Milk and milk products (generally) and eggs (for athletes/laborers/physically demanding jobs) are acceptable for those who have outsized requirements for nutrition, but this is not the same as going back to egg-based diktats owing to a lack of understanding of food and nutrition

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@real_mahalingam @SchrdingersDbag There is a concerted effort by "cultural RW" types, specifically online but also offline in congi-adjacent circles, to present this as "Jain extremism" even if most practicing Brahmin families also adhere to this custom in north-west-central India. It's heinous and not welcome.

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@SchrdingersDbag And the "sakta"s are interested in self-serving snobbery than service of the masses. "Vaishnava ideology" is at the core of the bhakti movement and is the dominant religious practice of spiritual aspirants and householders in Bharata, but godless "cultural RW" types hate this 😸

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@TheWand68425335 You'll notice that something like this only seems to happen online when you have to provide OTPs at some merchant gateway or portal instead of when you do a standard POS transaction at a high end restaurant but that's part of how banks will differentiate these txn for fraud risk

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@TheWand68425335 It's not nanny statism bc it only kicks in for "high value" txns in a given account. There's ways to define what it is, but if you're making a transaction above 1% of your total credit threshold on say ₹5L, you'd trip this alarm for txns above ₹5000 on online merchant portals

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@AMR1T1 @Me_Predictor Even today, the same system of gibs and back-scratches works even in the US to be fair, but when it's less egregious and "more sophisticated" (i.e more "stakeholders" for the bribes), it becomes more palatable to call it "lobbying" or "qualified investments" in critical areas

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@AMR1T1 @Me_Predictor It's technically not wrong historically speaking, but one would imagine we have better ways and systems of dealing with such malcontents than they did back in the railroad robber baron era in the United States of America. Non-existent judiciary here means looting is free 😺

[Joe McReynolds @McReynoldsJoe]

That kind of thinking - the idea that since we've made it so hard to open small biz, it would be unfair to existing small biz if we went and made it easier - is depressing as hell but it's the reality of what we're up against here. We're settling for less unless we fight for more

[Joe McReynolds @McReynoldsJoe]

We can have this too! But only if we shift policy to let people easily open small biz like this, out of their own homes. I met w/ a city official recently who told me, "if people can serve coffee from their home, isn't that unfair to the coffee shops that paid big money already?"

[dax @thdxr]

it's so crazy ai is bad at your job but good at everyone else's job

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@AMR1T1 In my mind, the unique failure of Nehruvian policy-making is that they didn't actually see "poverty" as an issue to be solved with any sense of urgency or desperation. To them, it was a "fact of life" to be accepted/tolerated but not to be solved and that shows in their policies

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@AMR1T1 Even gandhian ideals can be massaged into a modular, "village as a productive economic unit" model that allows for agglomeration and urbanization from settlements into a larger structure. Modiji has tried pushing policy in that direction with Mudra loans, Surya Ghar Yojana etc

[Mask☆Demasque @SparkyBlitz]

@AMR1T1 Exactly. Same LeLis will repost a post about TOTO the JP ceramic manufacturer who is pivoting to AI but then cannot answer why a group like Jaquar has not been able to do the same. Only recently have they made the *bold* step to move beyond the bathroom into *lighting fixtures*