Aswin Bhupalam

Software Professional for ~2 decades | Yoga | Startup | Humour | AI

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The DMK ecosystem is attacking me that the school issue I reported was a lie I concocted to help the TVK government. Let me state the facts.

We run two rural schools, both free NIOS schools under the Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam umbrella, one in rural Tenkasi and the other in rural Theni.

The Theni school was originally started and run by a retired IPS officer, a honest and upright man. He built very nice facilities but had to shut down his CBSE school because the state government demanded too much money to issue the NOC. He told me that as a honest retired officer he did not have the money to pay and they would not issue the NOC otherwise.

He urged us to take over his trust so we could run our free NIOS school in the premises. That is how we started our NIOS school in Theni.

Unlike in Tenkasi, where I live, the Theni school faced occasional harassment from the DMK government because we did not have a state government registration, so we tried getting state government approval again (this time for the state board) and that of course would also cost money. So it was in a limbo.

Meanwhile in Tenkasi we wanted to build new school facilities (we were operating in make-shift facilities, the ones that came in frequent photos) and we applied for DTCP approval to construct the new buildings. Everyone who knows DTCP in our state knows what kind of corruption happened there under the DMK.

We waited patiently for DTCP approval for the new school buildings but the approval never came as long as the DMK was in power. The approval came automatically once the government changed.

It is this DTCP approval that I posted about in X. I want to once again appreciate the refreshing change.

Not only did the approvals come, government people told us not to pay money to anyone for any approvals. I have to appreciate this in public, having endured what we had endured before.

This is the "lie" that DMK wants to attack me on.

I do not need their certificate on my character.
They can examine their conscience and ask why a technology nerd like me who is mostly immersed in code would post these.

If they think I would back down by their vile personal attacks because I am a Brahmin or TVK Stooge or Sanghi or whatever, I will tell them this: unlike you dynasts I grew up with nothing. I studied in Tamil medium schools. I know how to live on nothing. I have dedicated the remainder of my life to make Bharat self reliant in technology while reviving our rural areas, the soul of our eternal sanatana civilization.

I will not be intimidated by their attacks. I am unafraid of death, why would I be afraid of the mere DMK?

And if they had any conscience they can return the money they looted (they know there they keep it) and then they can attack my character.

I will now go back to optimizing the code of our compiler!

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

New Lacoste ad featuring Novak Djokovic!👌

[Aswin Bhupalam @aswinbh]

@svembu By "intellectuals", you mean 'mental'ectuals?

[Ashwin Gopinath @ashwingop]

Claude Tag is a Trojan horse.  Not because Anthropic is doing anything evil. Because the incentives are obvious.

Day one, this looks like a great feature: tag Claude in Slack, let it follow the thread, remember context, connect to tools, break down tasks, chase work, and act like a teammate.

But that is exactly the problem. The moment your AI vendor becomes a shared coworker, it stops being just a model provider. It starts becoming the place where work is interpreted, remembered, routed, and eventually executed.

That is not model lock-in. That is context lock-in. You are now renting your company back from them.

Models can be swapped. Agents can be copied. But the memory of how your company actually works is much harder, maybe impossible, to move: the Slack scar tissue, the exception paths, the customer promises, the unfinished threads, the weird workflows, the implicit owners, the “we tried that in Q2 and it failed” knowledge.

Once that lives inside one vendor’s agent layer, you are not renting intelligence anymore. You are renting your company’s operating memory.

And the pricing model makes it even more dangerous. A human coworker has a salary. Claude has unbounded tokenized activity. The more work moves through it, the more the vendor captures not just IT spend, but labor spend.

This is the enterprise bargain people will regret: Convenience now, and rapid decent into dependency.

The right architecture is simple: rent the best intelligence from whoever is best this month. OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, open source, whatever. But own the context layer.

Your company memory should be inspectable, permissioned, portable, and model-neutral. It should not be buried inside the same vendor that sells you the intelligence and the workflow surface.

Claude Tag is useful. That is why it is dangerous. Rent the intelligence, but own the context. Or, regret later.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is a new paradigm for interacting with Claude that is significantly more "inline" with all the other human activity org-wide. Once you do all of the under the hood engineering work to make this "just work" (e.g. across tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security, etc.), Claude basically joins the team in a seamless way - you can talk to it as you would talk to a person and it can help with a very large variety of workloads.

Imo this is the 3rd major redesign of LLM UIUX. The first paradigm was that the LLM is a website you go to, the second was that it is an app you download to your computer. This third one is that it is a self-contained, persistent, asynchronous entity with org-wide tools and context, working alongside teams of humans. It really takes a while to wrap your head around it, but it works and it is awesome.

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

I strongly condemn the mischivous term "two nations" in Amb Gor's statement. Joseph Vijay must immediately rebut Amb in his X. All nationalist forces in & out of TN must condemn this. This cannot be a slip. A diplomat like Gor won't use such a term workout deep thought

[Aswin Bhupalam @aswinbh]

The world’s biggest infra design companies are in Bengaluru, ready to contribute pro-bono [00:40]. @Captain_Mani72,given your interest in tech & community volunteering, can we bridge this gap & let Blore's best talent design Blore itself? @TVMohandasPai
https://t.co/mLZYMku6Zf

[Aswin Bhupalam @aswinbh]

@venom1s I'm happy for him. But, What's the achievement here for Indian men??

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The Netherlands hides massive trash containers underground so their streets stay spotless

[trramesh @trramesh]

I had deactivated my X account two days ago. I was not feeling elated with my daily feeding Hindus who, in general, do NOT care about their Temples and Dharma - with victory news from Court actions or about the violations of Dharma and Law by the instrumentalities of the Government and the infamous @tnhrcedept
I did not want to be in Twitter for some time.

But Yesterday and Today - Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri Joseph Vijay @CMOTamilnadu and his Hon'ble Minister for the Hindu Religious Department @RameshOffcl have given me - and the Temple Worshipping Hindus in Tamil Nadu - very good news and great expectations! I activated my Twitter account to share the good news!

In the Governor's address in the Assembly yesterday - the intentions of the Chief Minister
- (1) that Temple Funds would henceforth be used only for the pious purposes of temples and
(2) the past instances of mismanagement in @tnhrcedept would be corrected
--- came out very clearly! Very positive developments !!!

As a follow up today Government has issued two G.O.s and has cancelled 46 projects of commercial wedding halls and commercial complexes using Temple lands and funds - which were announced in the previous DMK regime

Only a handful of us who took this matters to Court and struggled for the past 5 years to save the funds of Temples know what a great development this is. Incidentally - exactly one year ago on 19.06.2025 I got a massive stay order on commercial constructions using temple funds from the Hon'ble 1st Bench of Madras High Court, which the @tnhrcedept did not care to obey under DMK regime.
With deep anguish I had prayed for the welfare of our temples yesterday in Sri Koodal Azhagar Temple and in Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, Madurai - Gods have blessed us with good news. !!!

In my opinion it takes a great leader to do more and talk less. @CMOTamilnadu Shri Vijay is action oriented and we, Temple Worshipping Hindus, appreciate the positive steps taken by him.
Thank You Sir !

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

40 years in shipping gave me one unusual qualification as a historian: I had no academic orthodoxies to protect.

When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I followed the sea lanes backwards into deep antiquity. Without exception, they converged on the Indian subcontinent. This was not the book I had intended to write.

I must give credit to my editor, who gave an unknown author with a controversial approach, an opportunity. His first attempts to find peer reviewers encountered significant resistance. The argument that India sat at the centre of ancient world trade, not its periphery, was considered, to put it gently, inconvenient.

What I found, and what I could not stop finding, is that placing India at the centre of world history does not simply revise one chapter. It cascades. Correct the starting assumption and you are forced to reconsider the origins of mathematics, medicine, philosophy, linguistics, religion. Each conclusion leads to another. I came to call these the collateral heresies.

My three books explain the architecture of how they connect.

If you work in a field where received wisdom is protected by institutional interest rather than evidence, you will recognise the pattern. The question is whether the evidence eventually wins.

[Sadhguru @SadhguruJV]

Business was created for human wellbeing. Human beings were not created for the wellbeing of business. #SadhguruQuotes

[Aswin Bhupalam @aswinbh]

@JanhaviNilekani @HonestlySneha Can you share some?
I did a 12-week public policy course from @TakshashilaInst , and it definitely improved my perspective on governance and gav a structured framework for analysis.

[Aswin Bhupalam @aswinbh]

@JanhaviNilekani @HonestlySneha Sneha,Honestly,there's a huge requirement for public policy guys. Take a small course in it. It doesn't matter what opinion you develop,but it'll help you think methodically.See if u can be more technical & civil.BTW,I dont intend to read the oped as summary didn't interest me.

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

Journalist: President Trump praised PM Modi as a tough negotiator. Does this mean India has finally arrived on the world stage?

Foreign Secretary Misri: India has been on the world stage for the last 7000 years when I last checked

[Sagar Awatade @SagarAwatade]

I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here.

Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual.

We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players.

There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one.

We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa.

We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage.

In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach.

We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world.

And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee.

For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us.

We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court.

All we are asking for is a fair treatment.

I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them.

The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment.

From where I am standing today, it does.
I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

[Ratan Sharda 🇮🇳 रतन शारदा @RatanSharda55]

I totally agree with this young scholar priest 🙏🏽
Stop visiting #Chardham if you can’t respect our Mother Nature, history & culture

[Vaibhav Sisinty @VaibhavSisinty]

SpaceX confirmed a $60 billion deal to acquire Cursor the AI coding tool used by 64% of Fortune 500 companies. SEC filing is live.

Cursor went from a startup to $3 billion in annual revenue in under four years. 100 million lines of code written through it daily.

Valued at $29 billion seven months ago. $60 billion today.

All-stock deal. Cursor becomes a wholly owned SpaceX subsidiary.
Expected to close Q3 2026.

With this, Elon now owns the rockets (SpaceX), the intelligence (xAI/Grok), and the tool developers use to write code (Cursor). Infrastructure.

Intelligence. Interface. One ecosystem.

He already said Cursor's data helped train Grok. Now he owns the entire data source.

The entire deal was done in SpaceX stock using the post-IPO valuation to acquire one of the fastest growing AI companies in the world.

@SpaceX

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

A robot phone farm can swipe short videos nonstop, faking “views” at scale 🤖

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

I wonder how Anthropic researchers and engineers who aren’t US citizens but were on the Fable team would be feeling right now.

They can’t access the very thing they helped create.