Ali

Software Engineer by profession, Philomath by passion. Love to travel and meet people.

[Omkar Mankame @Oam_16]

Sorry, but the highest any left-arm seamer can reach is second place.

[James Bond @007]

Adding ‘local food guide’ to Bond’s resume.

[Football Away Days @FBAwayDays]

Different angle… 😭

[The Telegraph @Telegraph]

❌ Airlines around the world are cancelling thousands of flights after the war in Iran caused jet fuel prices to more than double.

More than one in 20 flights scheduled to take off on Monday was reportedly cancelled ⤵️
https://t.co/uq64OSZDVU

[Weather Updates PK @WeatherWupk]

⛈️ ممکنہ طور پر سال 2026 کا ایک طاقتور ترین ویسٹرن ڈسٹربنس آئندہ ہفتے پورے ملک کو متاثر کرے گا۔ کراچی سے کشمیر تک 2 اپریل (شام/رات) سے لے کر 5 اپریل 2026 تک تیز بارشیں، ژالہ باری اور آندھی/تیز ہوائیں متوقع ہیں۔

یہ سسٹم خاص طور پر پاکستان کے جنوبی علاقوں بشمول

[ChatGPT @ChatGPT]

140 million people use ChatGPT to help them understand math and science concepts every week.

[Claude @claudeai]

Claude Code on desktop can now preview your running apps, review your code, and handle CI failures and PRs in the background.

Here’s what's new:

[DocXus @docxusofficial]

This man had 4 minutes to live. No one was in the room. He survived because he knew something 95% of the world doesn’t.

Choking kills over 365,000 people globally every year, according to the WHO.

95% of these choking episodes share one variable: the person was alone. Not because the obstruction was worse. Because no one was there to help, and the victim didn’t know how to help themselves.

Without oxygen, brain damage begins in as little as 4 to 6 minutes. Average ambulance response time globally? Eight minutes or more. In many countries, they don’t arrive at all. The math is unforgiving.

You either know what to do in the first 60 seconds, or you don’t survive long enough for help to arrive.

This man survived for one reason, he’s a medical worker. He knew the self-Heimlich exists. He knew to use the back of a chair to generate subdiaphragmatic thrust against his own epigastrium.

That’s not his instinct. It’s training.

Now think about who doesn’t have that training. Elderly people eating alone. Toddlers. Anyone living by themselves who has never been shown that a chair, a countertop, or even your own fist can substitute for another person’s hands.

The Heimlich maneuver was invented in 1974. Fifty years later, most people on Earth still don’t know it exists, let alone that you can perform it on yourself.

112K+ people watched this video. Almost none of them would have thought of actually learning the technique. They watched a man almost die and just felt relieved.

Here’s what the video should have taught you:

In case you’re alone and choking:

Step 1: Make a fist. Place the thumb side just below your rib cage, above your navel.

Step 2: Grasp it with your other hand. Thrust sharply inward and upward.

Step 3: If that doesn’t work, lean over any firm surface. A chair back. A countertop edge. A railing

Step 4: Drive your upper abdomen against it. Hard. Repeat until the airway clears.

That’s 15 seconds of knowledge. Don’t forget that. Save this post.

[TRT World @trtworld]

A medical worker in Türkiye saved his own life after choking while eating alone. With no one around to help, Ilyas Yildir used a chair to perform the Heimlich manoeuvre on himself, dislodging food stuck in his throat

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The signal strength hitting Earth from Voyager 1 is less than one trillionth of a watt.

To put that in perspective, your phone’s WiFi signal is roughly 100 billion times stronger, and it drops a connection walking between rooms.

NASA picks up Voyager’s whisper using arrays of 70-meter antennas, then reconstructs coherent data from it at 160 bits per second. That’s slower than a 1990s modem. Downloading a single photograph at that rate would take weeks.

The spacecraft itself runs on 8.8 kg of decaying plutonium-238 that generated 470 watts at launch in 1977. Today it produces roughly 200 watts, losing about 4 watts per year. NASA has been shutting down instruments one by one since the 1980s to keep the math working. They turned off the cosmic ray sensor just this year.

And here’s the part nobody’s talking about: there is exactly one antenna on Earth that can send commands to Voyager. Deep Space Station 43 in Canberra. It went offline for major upgrades from May 2025 through early 2026. During that window, if Voyager had a critical fault, the team would have had to wait months to respond.

A 48-year-old spacecraft built on 1970s computing, running on a plutonium battery that’s lost 60% of its output, transmitting at a power level that barely qualifies as existing, from a distance where light itself takes 23 hours to arrive. And a German observatory just casually picked up its carrier signal on a live stream.

The engineering margin NASA built into this mission was designed for 4 years to Saturn. Everything after that is borrowed time the engineers keep extending by doing math with 200 watts.

[Lexis @niilexis]

In 2014, footballers were statistically more likely to be bitten by Luis Suarez than a shark.

[AccuWeather @accuweather]

A massive ice storm stretching for 1,800 miles in over a dozen states threatens to halt travel and cut power to a million utility customers. https://t.co/1KmgEuYDjd

[ESPN Insights @ESPNInsights]

The FA Cup produced the biggest upset in its 154-year history on Saturday‼️

Macclesfield, in the SIXTH division of English football, became the first non-league club to knock out the defending champions in 117 years 😳

The last to do it? Crystal Palace vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1909.

[JAS @JazJazzmine]

“If you visit someone and you notice dust on their chandelier, don’t ever go back”

[Pakistan Aviation News 🇵🇰 @avpak3]

PIA Privatization Bidding Process.

Consortium led by Arif Habib Corporation wins bidding process with PKR 135 billion offer.

[Sophie Vershbow @svershbow]

There is too much happening for mid-December. Where are the cancelled meetings? Why are we not circling back next year?

[Match of the Day @BBCMOTD]

Everton have just made history 💪

[Marnus Labuschagne @marnus3cricket]

Happy Ashes eve to those who celebrate 🇦🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏏