Abbiramy Arumugam

Old soul ✨ Young spirit ✨

[Abbiramy Arumugam @abee6mugam]

"All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town."

[Kylie Riordan @mindfulheal]

This is generational wealth

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

Here’s one of the most fascinating child development videos I’ve ever shared.

As your baby learns language, they begin by approximating the examples you set.

After a period of early experimentation with sound (including cries, coos and gurgles), infants begin babbling - making speech-like sounds (which often include components of conventional speech) that are - nonetheless - not yet conventionally meaningful.

This babbling phase is a precursor to the use of formal words. And it happens in all languages.

Including sign language.

This video shows an infant (who, by the way, is not hearing impaired) “babbling” to her deaf grandparents.

As they sign to her, she responds in kind, using her hands to approximate the signed communication that they are modeling.

It’s a whole serve and return conversation, just as if they were conversing verbally.

If you’ll watch carefully, you’ll note distinct turn taking.

And - interestingly - that with her grandparents she largely avoids vocalizations, in favor of gesture.

What a treat to see this rich example of bilingual language development.

This fascinating video was shared to TT by mara_mccullough.

[Abbiramy Arumugam @abee6mugam]

Tamizh Koodam Mess Mylapore 😅

[signüll @signulll]

just keep in mind, the first trillion is always the hardest.

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

"Instead of punishing the insiders who leaked the exam material, India has punished its 150 million users by banning Telegram."

— Pavel Durov, CEO Telegram

[Abbiramy Arumugam @abee6mugam]

@vettichennaiguy All empowered women are not feminists. Ideally they should be but unfortunately they are not. Just like many working women from our parents generations who hold on and perpetuate patriarchy. Atleast Radhika is self-aware.

[Abbiramy Arumugam @abee6mugam]

🥲

[Muttley @notmuttley]

Who would have thought that not criticising shitty movies will end up in political consequences

[Gopigovind @Gopi_govind93]

ஒரு விஷயத்தை நியாயமாக பார்க்கணும் நண்பா.

விஜய் சார் ஒரு அரசியல் தலைவராக வந்தது இன்னும் ஆரம்ப கட்டம் தான். கட்சி அமைப்பு, நிர்வாகம், திட்டங்கள் – எல்லாம் இன்னும் உருவாகிக்கொண்டே இருக்கிறது. ஒவ்வொரு தொண்டரின் வீட்டுக் கல்யாணத்துக்கும் அல்லது நிகழ்ச்சிக்கும் நேரில் போவது எல்லா தலைவர்களுக்கும் சாத்தியமில்லை.

VIP கல்யாணங்களுக்கு போவது ஒரு சமூக மரியாதை, பல வருடங்களாக உள்ள தொடர்புகள் காரணமாக இருக்கும். அதைப் பார்த்து “தொண்டர்களை மதிக்கவே இல்லை” என்று முடிவு பண்ணுவது சரியில்லை.

நம்மை மதிக்காதவர் இருந்தா இவ்வளவு பேர் இன்று அவரை நம்பி நிற்க மாட்டாங்க. நேரில் வர முடியலன்னாலும், கட்சி வளர்ச்சி மூலமாக தான் தொண்டர்களுக்கு மரியாதை கொடுக்க முயற்சி செய்கிறார்.

நம்பிக்கை வைத்திருக்கிறோம்… அதுக்கான காரணம் இருக்கிறது.
#TVK #ThalapathyVijay

[Luis Garicano 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @lugaricano]

No, the white collar jobs are not going away in 18 months!
I was furious with the populist-baiting language (in line with @DarioAmodei 's and @sama's also preferred apocalyptic usage) that Microsoft's @mustafasuleyman used in his FT interview, threatening everyone's jobs: “White-collar work, where you’re sitting down at a computer, either being a lawyer or an accountant or a project manager or a marketing person — most of those tasks will be fully automated by an AI within the next 12 to 18 months.”

Not only do I not see the point of this backlash inducing language, I also believe it shows no understanding of the way the labour market and organizations actually works and what people do all day. (My book on this with Jin Li and Yanhui Wu will be out soon.).

Don't get me wrong: I believe AI is a huge deal, and will radically change the world. But many white collar jobs are Messy jobs, as our book (and the post linked below) will explain: automating the automatable tasks within them is not near to automating the job.

Let me make the point with the attached @jburnmurdoch graph on London.

London needs 88,000 new homes per year. In the first nine months of 2025, just 3,248 private homes started construction. Twenty-three of London's thirty-three boroughs recorded zero new housing starts in the first quarter of 2025. Planning permissions have fallen to their lowest level since records began in 2006. Construction of new rental homes fell by 80 percent in a single year. All this is after Starmer declared his government wants to "build, baby, build."

Does anyone think AI will fix this?

All the technology to design a building exists, and existed pre-AI. The bottleneck in London housing is human. What stops homes from being built in London are environmental and land use regulations and neighbors that weponize them.

AI can draft the review, but that is a trivial bit. It cannot convince the environmental group to drop its lawsuit or persuade politicians or negotiate with the neighbors.

These obstacles employ people. Suleyman and Amodei imagine that project managers spend their days doing Gantt charts, call their job "sitting down at a computer" and dream of automating them. But the job of the planning guys is not to fill in forms, but to negotiate and coordinate developers, residents, environmental groups, heritage bodies, and elected politicians who all have incompatible interests.

At other levels and in other jobs the same is true- radiologists spend only 1/3 of their time reading scans (see this great piece https://t.co/CQoK77OqxQ). Their job was supposed to be gone in 2017; in fact, the demand for radiologists is booming (employment and wages are sharply up). Many consultants try to elicit the tacit, local, knowledge of what is actually going on in a firm in order to make a recommendation. Yes, if you spend your day just doing PPTs, you will be replaced. But how many people do just that?

Organisations/managers resolve conflicts and deal with exceptions. Making a decision stick requires authority: being a person who can be blamed, sued, or fired. The manager resolves disputes about the rules, not just within them. Think of your last renovation in your house. The contractor trying to to get the guy installing the windows and the guys from the floor to show up and do a good job, a mess right? No algorithm does that.

AI will make white-collar workers more productive. Some single-task, automatable roles will shrink (doing taxes is an expert system, drafting contracts too), many tasks will be automated. Also, the disruption of career ladders is a real concern. But "most tasks fully automated in 18 months" is not a prediction. It is marketing, designed to sell enterprise subscriptions and justify capital expenditure.

The real world is messy. The mess is not a bug. It is what happens when human beings with competing interests try to get things done together.

For more on "Messy Jobs", here is my New Years post: https://t.co/vMjQUY8aTI. A book out soon.

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

I've come here as a proud mum to say that the 12 year old took on someone in the society this week for not allowing delivery agents and domestic workers to take the same lift as residents. "They are the same as us, so what's the problem?" 🥹 The kids are alright.

[vids that go hard @vidsthatgohard]

In conclusion to 2025, fuck AI and support real artists.

[Surya 🌈⛰️🏃‍♂️🚴‍♂️🌿 @SuryaCEG]

Tamil Nadu goes one step further for creating an inclusive future society!

At #ChennaiPride, I learned that TN Model Schools across all 38 districts celebrated #PrideMonth by educating the school children about gender & sexuality etc

Thanks to @mkstalin @Anbil_Mahesh 🙏

#LGBTQ

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

That's Mariyappan Thangavelu. Just few hours back he won India's 🇮🇳 first ever Gold Medal in High Jump at World Para Athletics. Media won't share stories of such incredible athletes. But should know more about him.

At the age of 5, he met with an accident where a drunk bus driver ran over his right leg that permanently disabled his knee. His school physical education teacher encouraged him to try high jump and he excelled at it.

Comes from a humble background, he was was raised by a single mother working as a daily wage labourer and vegetable seller to support the family.

Despite this setback, he completed his schooling and earned a bachelor's degree in business administration.

At the 2016 Rio Paralympics, he won the gold medal for India. In 2020 Tokyo Paralympics he could have won the gold again but the rains made the conditions difficand settled for a silver.

He is a Padma Shri and Arjuna Award winner. And won the Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna award in 2020 which is India's highest sporting honor.

He used all his prize money to buy a paddy field for his mother and built a better house for his family.

Mariyappan believes that his right deformed big toe helps him to get the leap. “This is what gives me leverage when I jump,” he says. “It is my God.”

India is a country of amazing sporting talent. But we also need to be a country to celebrate all sports athletes.
Everyone doesn't get brand deals and sponsors. The only fuel for these athletes is their grit and determination. Our only job is to cheer them and share their stories.

[Gautam Menon @MenonBioPhysics]

Once the fog clears, this is the truth:

“All colonised people see themselves in Palestine. They see some aspect of what was done to them, in Palestine. And all colonisers see themselves in Israel.”

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Jared Kannel, a Jewish student taking part in the Gaza encampment at Columbia Uni, tells TRT World that he feels "100% safe”" and that US officials are trying to evade Israel’s war crimes by focusing on "anti-Semitism" on college campuses

[UN Development @UNDP]

The weather of 2050 is looking insane!

Burning heat waves, extreme droughts, and intense hurricanes.

Take #ClimateAction by signing our climate pledge for the children in your life: https://t.co/hto7Egx1bc

#WeatherKids

[Nethrapal @nethrapal]

My first tweet on reservation, " Does reservations affect bureaucratic performance? " hit 3.2 lakh views..
Since then, I have worked hard to change the narrative against reservations. From just 200 followers, it has grown to 8000+ followers.
1000 views to 10 million views is no joke in a short period of time...
Truth hurts.. and that's what i talk...Thank you all..
My Twitter handle is dedicated to Ambedkar...

[Abbiramy Arumugam @abee6mugam]

@Full_Meals Jeichita maara!!

[Sudhir Srinivasan @sudhirsrinivasn]

I loved #Lover--and so, here are some thoughts about it.

The film begins by showing Divya surfing the waves, and not quite successfully. She’s constantly falling off, but she’s laughing and she’s alive. It’s the sort of laughter and life that has been drained away from her wavering relationship with Arun, who, like so many, has equated love with possession, and made the women of his life the centre of his existence, much to their misfortune. Prabhuram Vyas’ Lover is fantastic in its exploration of psyches, in its understanding of the frailties and complexities of the death of love.