Athenasquared

I am but human, chock-full of complexities & contradictions. Also, @x is my personal black hole- a time warp that I’m barely fending off.

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

Have you guys heard these songs? ⬇️

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

Surprised these features aren’t available on @amazon yet.

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

Suggestions:
1. Ability to sync Amazon wish-lists with Goodreads TBR +auto update purchases
2. Ability to sort +filter book wishlist’s by genre, author, publication year, language, format etc.
3. Wishlist price total: helps plan better.
@amazon @amazonIN @goodreads @AmazonHelp

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

Suggestions:
1. Ability to sync Amazon wish-lists with Goodreads TBR +auto update purchases
2. Ability to sort +filter book wishlist’s by genre, author, publication year, language, format etc.
3. Wishlist price total: helps plan better.
@amazon @amazonIN @goodreads @AmazonHelp

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

Has anyone found @AdityaDharFilms’s personal playlist? #PeakTasteinMusic #Dhurandhar2‌

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

@HotstarReality @JioHotstar @DisneyplusHSVIP ????

[Taeta_thv💃 @Ibelieveindest3]

Dear kdrama lovers..Is Tempest available on hotstar in india??? because I am not able to see it😭

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

@sanjeevsanyal Given the YAP (finally!) being put into action, time for an updated take on this?

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

My article in today's Times of India argues that the Delhi Masterplan 2041 and the Central Vista Project need to be debated in terms of whether or not they make the city more democratic, flexible and suitable for the needs of the 21st century:

https://t.co/oWATwpGEa4

[Josh Cahill @gotravelyourway]

Air India can be a chaotic airline at times, delays, changes and outdated cabins are well-known issues but they aren't unsafe. Their staff is well-trained and India has some of the strictest aviation regulations in the world. I had over 20+ flights on them in the past and I would always fly them again. My thoughts and prayers are with the airline and families today!

[Kautilya_Uvacha @Yogakshema_]

Be worthy of Bharat #OperationSindoor

[SUHEL SETH @Suhelseth]

All you Western woke dolts. Let’s explain this to your little heads.

Pakistan is attacking India because they want to protect their terrorists.

India will screw Pakistan because we want to protect our citizens.

Simple enough?

[Krishna @Atheist_Krishna]

As a South Indian, I want to 🫡 my North Indian brothers and sisters who are really on the frontline in this war.
🇮🇳

[WarMonitor🇺🇦🇬🇧 @WarMonitor3]

India has every right to defend itself against terrorism!

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

Terrorism sponsored by State 1: insurgency.

Targeted retaliation by State 2: State sponsored terrorism.

Logic 💯 👏🤯

One can’t rear snakes in their backyard and shirk responsibility when it bites another. Classic occupier’s liability.

#OperationSindoor #IStandWithIndia

[구슬🔮 @lovable_casi]

아 진짜 너무 웃김
표정을 좀 관리해볼 생각은 없나요

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

What’s the point of being affiliates, if my @goodreads TBR list doesn’t automatically sync up with my @amazon @AmazonHelp @amazonIN wish lists?

[arun v @unraveaero]

Indians.

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

☕️

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation.

[Rowan Cheung @rowancheung]

Apple just announced a ton of incredible AI developments at WWDC.

The 11 most impressive reveals:

1. Using the iPad calculator as a notepad and getting real-time answers

[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

[Mohit Pandey @pandeymohitt]

Like ‘Make in India’, now “Arbitrate in India”. EAM Dr S. Jaishankar’s remark at the launch of the Arbitration Bar of India. @DrSJaishankar

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

@casescasescases @ChewieMortCM In the Pursuer State that is…

[Athenasquared @athenasquared]

@casescasescases @ChewieMortCM Might be de minimis for any international criminal court.

Instead could there be a tort/delictual claim against whoever’s installed the portal? Similar to importer liability in case of defective goods.