The airline lost my bag for 72 hours.
They handed me a $50 โcourtesyโ voucher at the baggage desk.
I kept the voucher. Then I opened my laptop and used a 1999 international treaty they never mention at check-in.
Total recovered: $1,650.
-@hrswatigupta
The airline lost my bag for 72 hours.
They handed me a $50 โcourtesyโ voucher at the baggage desk and smiled like theyโd done me a favor.
I kept the voucher. Then I opened my laptop and used a 1999 international treaty they never mention at check-in.
Total recovered: $1,650.
Here are the three legal weapons most passengers never know they have.
Microsoft just banned its own engineers from using AI.
The tool was literally costing MORE than the humans it was supposed to replace.
They lied to you about AI adoption and now the whole narrative is blowing up:
Microsoft gave thousands of engineers access to Claude Code six months ago and encouraged them to use it.
Engineers loved it and adoption exploded. But then the invoices arrived.
Token-based pricing means every query, every code review, every debugging session costs money. At scale across 100,000 engineers, the numbers became so large that Microsoft issued an internal order to cancel nearly all Claude Code licenses by end of June and force everyone onto their own cheaper tool instead.
The company that invested $5 billion in Anthropic just told its own people to stop using Anthropic's product because it costs too much.
Uber's story is even worse...
Their CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga told The Information that the budget he planned for the full year was "blown away already" by April.
Uber had rolled out Claude Code in December 2025. By March, 84% of their 5,000 engineers were using it with 70% of all committed code coming from AI systems.
Heavy users were burning $500 to $2,000 per month each. Naga himself spent $1,200 in a single two-hour demo session.
The company had even built internal leaderboards ranking engineers by how much AI they used. They literally gamified the spending and then ran out of money.
Now look at what Nvidia's own VP of applied deep learning Bryan Catanzaro said to Axios last month. Direct quote:
"For my team, the cost of compute is far beyond the costs of the employees."
This is a VP at the company that SELLS the chips saying that using AI is more expensive than paying humans.
Think about what this means for the entire AI narrative.
Every CEO on every earnings call for the past two years has said the same thing:
AI will make us more efficient, reduce headcount, and cut costs.
The stock market rewarded every company that said it.
Fired workers, stock goes up. Announced AI adoption, stock goes up.
But the actual companies deploying AI at scale are discovering the math doesn't work. The MORE employees use AI, the HIGHER the bill.
Goldman Sachs forecasts a 24x increase in token consumption by 2030 as companies adopt AI agents. Gartner just published a report showing that even though individual token prices will drop 90% by 2030, total enterprise AI costs will go UP because agents consume exponentially more tokens per task than basic tools.
Meta built an internal dashboard called "Claudeonomics" to track which employees use the most AI. Amazon started pushing engineers to "tokenmaxx," their internal term for consuming as many AI tokens as possible.
Both companies are spending hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure this year alone.
And Microsoft, the company that bet its entire future on AI, just told 100,000 engineers to stop using the tool they liked best because the per-token bills got out of control.
The companies building AI are telling investors it saves money. The companies using AI are finding out it costs more than the humans it was supposed to replace. And even the company that makes the chips just admitted it through its own VP.
This is the gap nobody on Wall Street is pricing in.
$725 billion in AI infrastructure spending this year across Big Tech. And the first companies to actually deploy these tools at scale are already pulling back because the economics don't work.
What do you think?
Creation is Amazing
Acts 17:24 God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands;
The word of God is clear the heaven and the earth and everything in them were created by God. Always remember He is the Creator and He loves you.
The creator of Claude Code teaches more about vibe-coding in 30 minutes than most tutorials do in hours.
Save this โ it'll change how you build forever.
This 2-hour Stanford lecture breaks down how models like ChatGPT and Claude are actually built, clearer than what many people in top AI roles ever get exposed to.
Save this and set aside two hours today. It might end up being the most valuable thing you learn all week.
Keralam will be one of the most affected states if BJPโs delimitation bill passes.
As of now,
Kerala : 20
UP : 80
If based on 2011 census as per BJP bill,
Kerala : 23
UP : 142
If based on proportionality,
Kerala : 30
UP : 120
For those who say proportionality is fair, let me give an example based on salaries.
A employee gets a 50% hike which takes his salary from โน20,000 to โน30,000 and adds cost to company of โน10,000.
Another employee who gets the same 50% hike takes his salary from โน80,000 to โน1,20,000 and adds cost to company of โน40,000.
Is the impact same? Do absolute numbers not matter? Has inequality and weight not widened? In the real world, Absolute numbers matter the most. They matter even more so in politics.
BJP is trying to permanently disempower the South where it has never been dominant. Remember BJP has never come to power in Keralam, TN, AP, Telangana and never won a majority in Karnataka as well.
Automation makes sense for each company, but risky for the economy if everyone does it.
Outcome depends on whether jobs, demand, and policy keep up, not a guaranteed collapse.
๐จBREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.
The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.
Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.
If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.
The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.
They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.
The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.
The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.
This is indeed a #MustRead thread by @NAR_Handle. Not just to be read by the Southern MPs to whom itโs addressed, but by the Government of India, so that it realises how this Constitutional misadventure is being perceived by many in the South.
We need a serious discussion on alternative formulae that preserve democracy, protect federalism, appease such anxieties and ensure the viability of the legislature. The Bills before us do none of these.
An urgent rethink is needed! @INCIndia
I GAVE CLAUDE MY BIRTH DATE AND TIME
It broke down my entire life with an unsettling precision.
No horoscopes. No tarot. Just pure artificial intelligence.
Here are 7 prompts you should try โ
The wealthiest people in the world raise readers, not scrollers. ๐
While we hand our kids phones, tech billionaires hand their kids books.
The difference between #RichDadPoorDad isnโt money, itโs mindset.
What are you putting in your childโs hands today?
#RaiseReaders
This is a photo of Elon Musk's son at a meeting where his father met with the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi. Notice that this child of the richest man in the world carries no phone, no iPad, or any other electronic gadget that entertains, while stealing children's attention span. Instead, the then-eight-year-old boy was reading Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur T. Benjamin and Michael Shermer, while his brother held another book.
That is the secret between the Rich Dad and the Poor Dad. The wealthiest man in the world is teaching his children mathematics and numbers, while your child has a phone, iPad and still plays video games on another device after watching Netflix.
Steve Jobs, the creator of the iPad and iPhone, did not let his own children use both devices. He instead gave them books and even paid them to read. Please fact-check me. Yet, you overload your children with digital devices.
Mark Zuckerberg is famous for not having a television in his house. Not even one. His reason is that it will distract his wife, his children, and him from reading.
Notice what all three of these tech billionaire founders had in common. Their children are readers.
If you don't teach your children to love learning, they will grow up to become adults who are not earning. Children who lead grow to become adults who lead. The expansion of the mind in childhood results in an increase in your wealth in adulthood, if you can apply what your books supply.
And by the way, notice how simply the children are dressed. It just reminds me of how simply Alhaji Aliko Dangote's children were absorbed when I met them last year after spending time with him.
Think about this and consider making a positive change in your child's life.
Reno Omokri
Gospeller. Deep Thinker. #TableShaker. #1 Bestselling author of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of the Jonathan Years. Hodophile. Hollywood Magazine Humanitarian of the Year, 2019. Business Insider Influencer of the Year 2022. 21st Most Talked About Person in Africa, 2024.
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Mumbai is set for a stricter cleanliness regime as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has enforced the Solid Waste Management, Sanitation and Cleanliness By-laws, 2025. The new rules bring steep penalties for spitting, littering, improper waste segregation, open urination and unauthorised dumping of construction debris, aiming to curb public nuisance and ensure a cleaner, healthier city. The by-laws apply to all citizens and establishments, with the BMC warning of strict action against violators.
1974 to 1978 I studied in Sri Ramakrishna Misson Vidyalaya, Coimbatore.
Reason to go there :
City colleges fees: Rs 1000 to 3000.
Hotel fees : 200 per month.
In SRMV: (25 kms from city)
College fees: 300
Hotel fees : 75 per month.
Reason to travel by train:
I could not afford even that Hostel fees.
I found a Govt Harijan hostel in city which was free.
But bus fare was 60 paise one way. Monthly Rs. 30.
That also sounded too costly.
A passenger train used to run in that route and its student quarterly pass was Rs. 7.
Reason to talk about this platform:
Train
In: Dep : 5:50 am. Arrival: 6:25 am.
Out: Departure: 6:10 pm. Arrival 6:45 pm.
College started at 9:00 am. Ended any time.
Time to kill:
6:30 am to 9:00 am.
Any time to 6:00 pm.
Average daily 6 hrs.
What I did:
Sat in this Railway platform and studied Maths Physics Chemistry
How did I get BARC job:
My 1000 days and 6000 man hours intense focus on Avagadros, Ohms and Pythagoras
Those days my mother was only earning member of family. Rs. 3 a day. So I had to do all sacrifice to get a degree without denting her arithmetics much. She gave her 4 bangles to pay my college fees.
What I wish to say is:
โFortunately I was poorโ.
Be it college or Career or business
โPatience, Focus, Frugality and Discipline โ Gives slow but sustainable success.
I took my wife to show how a railway platform made a Scientist. Pic :2015.