Arvind Thatikonda

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[Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino]

OpenClaw can now use QVAC for true 100% local AI agents.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Before the world knew the power of Big Pharma, a journalist in a tiny lab in Bombay created a substance so potent it triggered a trade war with London. It was a yellow grease that did not just soothe headaches but funded a movement, bypassed British blockades, & became 1 of the few Indian products to make the Empire's own medicine look like scented water.

Unlike other brands started by chemists, Amrutanjan was founded by Kasinadhuni/Kasinathuni Nageswara Rao, a man who was primarily a journalist & a freedom fighter. In the late 1800s, the pain balm market in India was a British monopoly. If your head throbbed, you bought imported ointments. Rao saw this as a tax on pain. He retreated into a lab & perfected a formula that was significantly more potent than anything coming out of London.

The British tried to push their own balms like Vicks/early menthol rubs as sophisticated & odorless. They attempted to smear Amrutanjan as primitive because of its overpowering scent. Rao leaned into the scent. He realized that in a country where literacy was low, a brand could not just be a name, it had to be an experience.

He distributed free samples at music concerts (Sabhas) & religious festivals. By the time the British tried to patent the market for pain relief, the entire Indian public had already associated the smell of camphor & menthol with trust. The British balms felt alien & weak compared to the sensory explosion of the yellow tin.

The smell of Amrutanjan... that piercing, camphor-heavy aroma became the literal scent of the freedom struggle. If you walked into a room & it smelled of Amrutanjan, it was a silent signal: A patriot is present. It was a scent the British police could not arrest, yet it was everywhere.

The British had a Patent Medicine Tax that made imported drugs expensive. However, by classifying Amrutanjan as an Ayurvedic Proprietary Medicine, Rao managed to navigate a complex legal gray area. He essentially used the British legal system against itself. By proving his ingredients were ancient yet his manufacturing was modern, he avoided the crippling taxes that applied to purely Western drugs, while maintaining a price point (initially 10 annas) that made British imports look like daylight robbery Rao fought back not just in the market, but in the press. He used the profits from the balm to fund Andhra Patrika, 1 of the most influential anti-British newspapers.

The British were literally paying for their own downfall. Every time a British officer’s wife bought a jar of Amrutanjan for a migraine (because it worked better than the London balms), she was inadvertently funding the printing of revolutionary literature that called for the end of the Raj.

By the 1930s, this Indian yellow grease was being exported to Indian diaspora & locals in South Africa & Ceylon. It became a global symbol of Eastern Wisdom defeating Western Chemistry. It was 1 of those few occasions, an Indian OTC (Over the Counter) product achieved cult status internationally w/o a single pound of British investment.

In fact, the yellow tin became so iconic that it did not need a label in the villages. The color & the smell were the brand. It was a biological Swadeshi. While others were fighting with words, Rao was fighting with molecular relief.

[Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino]

Tether just released its quarterly attestation for Q1 2026.

Tether had a great start of the year, with more than 1B in net profits, despite highly volatile global markets.

USDT user base grew throughout the first quarter of 2026, reaching the new all-time-high of 570M, boosted by new demand of dollars across all emerging markets, fueled by the current period of geopolitical uncertainty. 67B USDT are currently held as savings across many millions of users especially those located in developing countries.

Highlights as of 30 April 2026:
* ~1.04B in net profits for Q1 2026.
* ~183.5B total issued USDT, end of Q1 2026.
* ~191.7B total assets/reserves, end of Q1 2026.
* ~8.2B excess reserves, on top of the 100% reserves in liquid assets that back all issued tokens, end of Q1 2026.
* ~141B in US treasuries (direct + indirect exposure), end of Q1 2026.

Thank you very much for the continued support ❤️

[Paolo Ardoino 🤖 @paoloardoino]

The world is approaching a moment where billions of humans share the planet with billions of autonomous machines and trillions of AI agents.

The current model, routing every decision through a centralized server, won’t scale to meet that reality.
The laws of physics alone make centralized AI a dead end: speed-of-light latency, single points of failure, and concentration of control are features of a system designed for a smaller world.

QVAC is built for the world that’s coming.
QVAC is the fundamental building block in the era of Stable Intelligence.

[Rajiv @Rajiv1841]

So, story behind Glenn Phillips becoming certified pilot is just so so amazing 😍

Last year, he was sidelined from any kind of cricket for 8 long months due to injury & guess what? Instead of resting, he had intense gym sessions & swimming in those 8 months of 2025.... & after gym, he started to look for other stuff to do & that is where he thought of learning flying plane.

He went through proper pilot training in new zealand from mid 2025 & got his pilot license when he was out of international cricket due to injuries. We have seen these kind of stuff in movies only, Glenn Phillips is a superstar. I haven't seen a cricketer like him, who is so immensely talented, he has just next level confidence & at this point he can learn anything!!

Even in cricket, he started his career as a proper wk batter then he started to bowl & his bowling was so good that he became bowling all rounder & we all know he is one of the best fielder in history, won test matches for New Zealand with his bowlng as well as with his batting. A great family man, I remember him crying for his father when he scored 100 vs India in kast series & he lost his father many months ago before that 100.

[QVAC @qvac]

The era of Stable Intelligence is here 🤖

Tether’s QVAC Fabric just released the world’s first cross-platform 1-bit LLM LoRA fine-tuning framework. QVAC Fabric extends Microsoft's ultra-efficient BitNet architecture, allowing fine-tuning and inference of LLMs directly on your smartphone—no NVIDIA GPU/CUDA lock-in or expensive server required.

The Breakthrough:
- Total Sovereignty: LoRA fine-tune ultra-efficient models locally on any smartphone, including iPhones, Pixel phones, Samsung Galaxy phones and any desktop/laptop operating systems using Vulkan and Metal backends.
- Extreme Efficiency: 1-bit architecture uses up to 90% less memory and runs up to 11x faster than traditional models.
- Universal Access: What used to require a data center now runs on the chip in your pocket.

Own your intelligence. The era of stable, local AI is here. 📱🧠

Read the full details on Hugging Face and grab the binaries to build on your own hardware. https://t.co/vb31ZpVrey

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

169 is the reverse of 961.

The same is true of their square roots...

√169 = 13 and √961 = 31

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

It takes a photon up to 40,000 years to travel from the core of the sun to its surface, but only 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel the rest of the way to Earth.

[Sreemoy Talukdar @sreemoytalukdar]

India's military planners and political leadership deserve praise for launching Operation Sindoor with a clear objective and end-state.
I admit, I was among the critics who wanted India to press home the advantage. But in hindsight, it was the wise thing to do.

[Ian Ellis @ianellisjones]

Operation Epic Fury: The first 10 days (IEJ version)

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

15 DAYS OF GULF WAR 3.0
WHO’S WINNING/LOSING? 🚨

Don’t waste time with the loud “won/lost” binaries around the Iran war. War is grey. Outcomes unfold slowly.

But three weeks in, there are things that can be said clearly beyond the cartoonish ‘winner vs loser’ frame.

First, Iran’s ‘victories’ are pronounced.

One, the regime has not collapsed. That was widely predicted in the opening days.

Two, Iran has dragged the war well past the two week mark despite facing the most powerful military coalition on earth.

Three, it continues to demonstrate lethal range. High value targets are still being struck deep into the theatre.

Four, it has forced its aggressors to turn to another aggressed nation. Ukraine is now being consulted to help counter one of the simplest weapons in the fight, the Shahed style drone.

Five, Iran has made Washington waffle on war aims. The messaging has sounded uncertain at times and even borderline desperate.

Six, it has produced the surreal moment of Trump dialing Putin. That was unthinkable when this war began.

Seven, the Hormuz episode. The idea now floating in US media that this was unforeseen is preposterous. The real surprise was that the war escalated enough to bring the Strait into play.

Eight, Iran has weaponised the economics of war. It has forced Israel and the Gulf arc to burn through extremely expensive air defence interceptors against swarms of cheap drones and missiles.

Nine, asymmetric battle craft has repeatedly disrupted what is otherwise a hyper digitised battlefield.

Ten, the diversion of a Marine Expeditionary Unit to the Middle East is telling. Even the world’s strongest military has had to reinforce the theatre.

Eleven, the war has fanned anti imperialist sentiment across the region. The post war political mood is shaping up to be inconvenient for Washington and a Trump administration already navigating strained relations with parts of the eastern hemisphere.

All of these are victories that can be pinned on Iran simply by virtue of drawing out the fight.

But declaring America the “loser” is just as preposterous.

US and Israeli forces have laid waste to large swathes of Iran’s military infrastructure. Much of its offensive strength has clearly been degraded and pinned down.

American victories are also visible.

One, the US has demonstrated overwhelming strike reach. Targets across Iran have been hit repeatedly with precision.

Two, Israel and the US have dominated the airspace over large parts of the theatre, a fundamental military advantage.

Three, much of Iran’s missile and launch infrastructure has been systematically hunted and destroyed.

Four, the US Navy and its allies have maintained control of the wider maritime environment despite threats around Hormuz.

Five, the war has reaffirmed American expeditionary power. Forces, aircraft and naval assets have surged into the region within days.

Six, Washington has shown it can coordinate a coalition response involving Israel and multiple Gulf states under intense pressure.

Seven, intelligence and surveillance networks have proven capable of sustaining a high tempo targeting cycle deep inside Iranian territory.

Eight, Iran’s military economy is under enormous strain. Replacing destroyed systems will be difficult under sanctions.

Nine, Israel’s layered missile defence architecture, even when stressed, has still intercepted large numbers of incoming threats.

Ten, the United States has reminded the world that it retains the ability to project force across continents almost at will.

War never produces neat scorecards. Both sides can accumulate victories while absorbing punishment. The Iran war, over 2 weeks in, is already proving that the simplistic winner loser frame tells you almost nothing about what is actually happening.

[NN Ojha @nnojha]

Came to Hyderabad after 41 yrs. Small civil airport at Begumpet was shared with IAF. Now there s sprawling new airport Shamsabad. Cityscape changed. What has not changed is sweet Dakkhni dialect spoken and the sweet nature of people. God bless Hyderabad and its people

[AIN @Tejusurya_]

Big Breaking: Iran confirms only ships with a valid FASTag will be allowed to pass through the Strait of Hormuz.

[Machiavelli Bot @UnmodernmanBot]

The endgame of competence is simple: you become so skilled, so resourceful, and so strategically embedded that whether it’s a company, a relationship, or a project, the rational move for everyone involved is to keep you, reward you, and bet on you, because losing you would cost them more than they’re willing to pay.

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

> Meet these baddiesss
> Born in India
> Became contractors
> Became millionaires
> Made a bloody mess of Mumbai's roads
>Destroyed thousandsss Lives
> Now enjoying a luxurious life

[HindolSengupta @HindolSengupta]

FINALLY, journalism the way it is supposed to be done. But this is incomplete. What was needed are names and photos of BMC officials, corporates, MLAs and MPs who are hand-in-glove in this corruption that has destroyed Mumbai’s roads. The companies are only one part of the story.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love.”

[Nitin A. Gokhale @nitingokhale]

Relief for Indian energy sector on the horizon. Apparently every stranded Indian flag ship (tankers, bulk carriers etc) in the Persian Gulf, west of the Strait of Hormuz, has been told by the Iranian military authorities to start the voyage by hugging the Iranian coast and clear the narrow strait as soon as possible for onward voyage.

[Srinivas Krishnan @SriniKay]

What a front page by @mid_day Awesome! We need the crooks in the Govt and BMC enjoying benefits flowing from these fine gentlemen to also be paraded in this rogue's gallery.
@zoru75