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[karthik @argvK]

@zhr_jafri still I'm stingy to pay for verified account, still a local at heart.

[karthik @argvK]

Private SaaS companies: We need to go enterprise. Build build build.

Public enterprise companies: We’ve got bloat.

[karthik @argvK]

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[Bhavish Aggarwal @bhash]

On @Linkedin, @Microsoft and their wokeness.

As an Indian institution, Ola is for genuine actions on diversity. We run one of the largest women only automotive plants. Not 1 out of 10 lines, or a small section, but the whole plant! Almost 5000 women now and will grow to tens of thousands in the coming years. And regarding gender inclusivity, we don’t need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive. Our culture didn’t need pronouns to be inclusive for thousands of years. On a personal note, I had visited Ayodhya last year and learnt about how transgenders had been accorded special respect in our culture from ancient times! Here’s a short video from our national broadcaster DD on this - https://t.co/TGxfSjtM0F.

On the other hand, the pronouns issue I wrote about is a woke political ideology of entitlement which doesn’t belong in India. I wouldn’t have waded into this debate but clearly Linkedin has presumed Indians need to have pronouns in our life, and that we can’t criticise it. They will bully us into agreeing with them or cancel us out. And if they can do this to me, I’m sure the average user stands no chance. As a founder and CEO, this western DEI system has a major impact on my business as it grows an entitlement mindset in our professional lives and I will fight it.

This situation brings me to the need for us to build our own Indian tech platforms. I’m not against global tech companies. But as an Indian citizen, I feel concerned that my life will be governed by western Big Tech monopolies and we will be culturally subsumed as the above experience shows. This is not about Ola or any of my companies. Ola is too small to make any impact against this. I want to confront this forced ideology as a free thinking Indian and do what I can in my capacity. So here are the actions I’m taking. Putting my money where my mouth is.
⁃While we can’t do anything about Linkedin’s monopoly overnight, I’m making a commitment to work with the Indian developer community to build a DPI social media framework. DPIs like UPI, ONDC, Aadhaar etc are a uniquely Indian idea and is even more needed in the world of social media. The only “community guidelines” should be the Indian law. No corporate person should be able to decide what will be banned. Data should be owned by the creators instead of being owned by the corporates who make money using our data and then lecture us on “community guidelines”!
⁃Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own @Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this.
⁃Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that! Mail us on [email protected]. Offer is perpetually open!

Read more here: https://t.co/M27jpJHPWT

[Balaji @sbalaji1]

The speech by @narendramodi should concern each one of us, and our relationship with fellow human beings. There is no point in practicing any religion if it only teaches you to hate others.

[karthik @argvK]

@shrayasr what happened to the yellows?

[karthik @argvK]

@shrayasr Funny boy - Shyam selvadurai. Hitchhikers guide is really good with Fry’s narration.

[karthik @argvK]

@_shankarganesh 🙋

[karthik @argvK]

@shrayasr aioli + sriracha or a vinegar like balsamic or yoghurt with jeera/coriander/chat masala powder

[karthik @argvK]

@zhr_jafri Congrats bhai!

[Jason Carman @jasonjoyride]

Alright fine, here are my 29 slides explaining Tenet

[Shankar Ganesh @_shankarganesh]

Immediate needs:

Mineral water cans, in hundreds of numbers required. They are hard to find in Thoothukudi. Can someone connect us to someone who sells these in other districts?

Beds and towels.

[saanjjanna @SanjanaLaddha]

Something very unexpected happened yesterday and I’m still processing it.

I was supposed to join a well-known fintech company in Berlin two weeks from today.

They called me friday evening to tell me that they are withdrawing my offer because of operational reasons.

[karthik @argvK]

They literally picked the worst newspapers.

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

We have formed a new global partnership with @AxelSpringer and its news products.

Real-time information from @politico, @BusinessInsider, European properties @BILD and @welt, and other publications will soon be available to ChatGPT users.

ChatGPT’s answers to user queries will include attribution and links to full articles for transparency and further information. https://t.co/MVxjDrY73h

[James Jackson @derJamesJackson]

Berlin's U-bahn tried the "actually Palestinians are also Semites" canard. What is going on here?

[Lavyyy Boiiii ✨ @Lavyyboi]

Been almost 2 days since i reported this issue

Still no one from corporation has come to assist with the snake catching,even today early morning one of my neighbors saw the snake in the near by park but no response from the snake catching department of the @chennaicorp

So many kids and senior citizens are roaming and cleaning their houses in our place

The people have thrown a bunch of garbage from the lower level which went damaged due to the flood in the road corners,its a clear violation but what can the civilians do . This increases the chance of snake to get into the garbage dump .

Can someone pls have a look at this from @chennaicorp

For wider awareness:
@Rohinisridh @SwethaWriter @maryamshifah @raveeeeee___ @naekum_nokuma @valliraghu @VenkatRamanan_ @alwaysharini55 @apppuu03 @saloon_kada @Ananya_ananth @handlebarluv
@sudantherobot @bala_ilv @anupriya_a_m @AazimKassim @YouGoManWhyMe @anirudh533 @praveenrajinba @Rx_venkatraman @notkayy___ @lakshitposts @Chinmayi @kishendas @Vijaykarthikeyn @RJVijayOfficial @gautamravindran @ponkarthik_r

[Mohan G @mohandreamer]

எண்ணூர் cpcl அருகே இந்த கொடுரம்.. இந்த oil நம் பார்வையில் படுவதால் தெரிகிறது.. ஆனால் இந்த மாதிரி நிலைமையை பயன்படுத்தி காற்றில் விஷவாயுக்களையும் கலந்து விட்டுள்ளனர்.. இந்த பக்கம் ஒரு முறை வந்து சுவாசித்து பார்த்தால் புரியும்.. வாழ்த்துக���் இந்த விஜய் மக்கள் இயக்க நண்பர்களுக்கு..

[Siddharth Ramadass @SiddhuRamadass]

#korattur is helpless. Still pathetic situation. Heavy waterlogged.
@apppuu03 @TRBRajaa @itisprashanth @chennaicorp @UpdatesChennai @CMOTamilnadu @OfficeOfTRBR @Udhaystalin

[appss @apppuu03]

Name: DHANUSH
Number: 9940350044
Alternative num : 9840450134

Location: No 10/21 t. v.k nagar 3 street pulianthope Chennai-600012

Request : food , milk and oil
No.of ppl: above 200
Verified

Time of request: 12:45 am
Date of request: 7/12/23

[Sneha Rajeev @SnehaRajeev_]

🚨 DANGEROUS SITUATION- MYLAPORE

Police have advised my friend to evacuate as water levels reached 5ft. Her building has tilted dangerously due to flooding, posing a risk of collapse.

If you're aware of anyone living in old buildings in Mylapore, please urge them to evacuate.