Arpana P

A little bit of everytthing.

[Arpana P @arp4na]

Flash floods in Nepal followed by floods in Grand Canyon, then Zion .. could these be connected to a larger geographic chain event?

[🖤🫦SammieSam🫦🖤 @BarryBleunNila2]

Nothing spectacular to see here.

Just elephants being the most helpful wildlife.

Saving humans from floods like that's what they've trained for their whole lives🔥💯

#SheShed #ViVaHerAlliance

[Matthew Todd 🌏🔥 @MrMatthewTodd]

JFC.
Scientists are telling us yes this is caused by global warming which is melting and destabilising glaciers across the world.

Are we actually hellbent on killing ourselves? Where is the uproar from the public?
Do people not understand what the hell is happening?

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Nepal produces one tenth of one per cent of the world’s emissions and was ranked the 6th most climate-affected country on Earth in 2024.

We did this.

[Arpana P @arp4na]

The elderly in the US might be less lonely than we think. Multiple groups of seniors socializing at Panera prove it otherwise. Warming to see!

[Arpana P @arp4na]

Bug in @gmail ? All my Updates, Social, Promotions are showing up in Inbox.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

This teacher-turned-cognitive scientist shared a disturbing reality that left the room stunned.

“Our kids are LESS cognitively capable than we were at their age.”

Every previous generation outperformed its parents since we began recording in the late 1800s.

So, what happened?

Screens.

Dr. Jared Horvath explained:

“Gen Z is the first generation in modern history to underperform us on basically every cognitive measure we have, from basic attention to memory, to literacy, to numeracy, to executive functioning, to EVEN GENERAL IQ, even though they go to more school than we did.”

“So why? … The answer appears to be the tools we are using within schools to drive that learning (screens).”

“If you look at the data, once countries adopt digital technology widely in schools, performance goes down significantly, to the point where kids who use computers about five hours per day in school for learning purposes will score over two-thirds of a standard deviation LESS than kids who rarely or never touch tech at school. And that’s across 80 countries.”

But screens aren’t just decimating learning and making new generations less intelligent than the ones before them.

They’re doing something far worse. And when you take a closer look, it isn’t pretty. 🧵

[Arpana P @arp4na]

@DealsDhamaka I’m sure there are success stories too. But the post did hit hard! 80s born here.

[Arpana P @arp4na]

I just wrote an email using Gmail Summaries. About time to replace 'Sent from my iPhone. Sorry for typos' with 'Sent from Gmail. AI can make mistakes.' :)

[Arpana P @arp4na]

@cto_hocalwire @agoda @jagograhakjago @agoda support is known to be horrible. I have lost money in past.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Hugh Grant: "It's been very, very depressing watching Big Tech kidnap their lives, and to see children really finding it very, very difficult to get properly interested in anything that isn't a screen."

[Arpana P @arp4na]

LinkedIn down = productive evening.

[Bilal Zuberi // Red Glass Ventures @bznotes]

Westfield Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara.

We are in locked down because of active shooter situation. Hiding away with other customers.

Praying.

[Arpana P @arp4na]

@ynab Haha 6…7 .. trending hot

[Arpana P @arp4na]

@vijayshekhar @WhatsApp Similar experience! @metaai in WhatsApp had slowed down search and other features. Glad someone noticed the charts and prioritized the fix!

[Arpana P @arp4na]

Refreshing to see this amidst all the AI inundated feed. We are often seeking to go after largest TAM or frequency of a problem, whereas, sometimes it’s the niche cases such as elderly’s fall detection or tremor detection that shows deep care behind the product, and wins hearts!

[Tim Cook @tim_cook]

Life is about the memories we make.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

AI Industry Made $57 Billion Mistake and No One’s Talking About It.

While GPT-5 headlines kept you distracted...

NVIDIA quietly released a bold claim:
→ Small Language Models (SLMs) are the future of AI agents

Cheaper, faster and just as capable for 80% of real-world tasks.

Easily one of the biggest shifts in AI this year and most people missed it.

99% people haven’t read this but they should: 🧵

[Arpana P @arp4na]

with this rate of large wildfires, shouldn't barbeques / campfires be restricted? Caution on use of equipment on dry grass. I don't see enough prevention mandates or educational campaigns coming from fire dept/govt. #madrefire

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Kids are awesome. Nothing will make you happier.