Avinash

Avid reader,News junkie,Centre Right.#Tech #Politics #Economics #Markets. Views are Personal. RTs are not endorsement.

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Cong ruled Ktaka: Mining Mafia gets DC Rohini transferred. Mainstream media goes into hiding https://t.co/JbAyCm9jsQ

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

In effect cholestorol is largely a genetic/hereditary issue...

[Kiran Kumar S @KiranKS]

I have a curiosity question:

If my liver is producing 80% of the cholesterol, and only 20% comes from the food I eat, how will dietary changes make a big impact on the overall cholesterol numbers?

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

@KiranKS Load of random facts...dont understand whats the point

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

How are these stats real. Absolutely insane

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

WFH actually hits the economy harder...not a good idea

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Appealing for Work From Home (WFH) won’t change anything. If the govt genuinely wants it, it can strongly push or effectively enforce WFH in sectors where physical presence isn’t essential.

It’s common in the West but not in India because Indian companies still operate on a “presence equals productivity” mindset, where managers feel employees work seriously only when they are physically visible. If an employee isn’t exhausted by traffic, long hours, and physical attendance, they assume no real work is being done. There’s also a deeply ingrained feudal mindset where control, surveillance, and making juniors “feel the grind” is treated as management instead of actual productivity.

Otherwise, WFH can solve many problems for both individuals and the country. It reduces traffic, pollution, fuel consumption, stress, travel time, road accidents, and daily expenses for individuals while improving work-life balance. For India, it cuts crude oil consumption and import bills, reduces pressure on dollars, inflation, and urban infrastructure, while easing overcrowding in metro cities and saving huge amounts of productive time otherwise wasted in commuting.

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

You can get a rental house for 30/month or lesser... if you choose to live in a modest society..

[Nalini Unagar @NalinisKitchen]

This couple lives in Bengaluru, and both are working professionals.

They shared a detailed breakdown of how much it costs for a married couple to live in Bengaluru, where even a good salary can disappear quickly by the end of the month.

Rent: ₹56,000/month
Helper: ₹10,000/month
Groceries: ₹15,000/month
Electricity & Internet: ₹15,000/month
Commute: ₹6,000/month
Eating out: ₹10,000/month
Subscriptions: ₹3,000/month
Shopping: ₹15,000/month

Their monthly expenses are nearly ₹1,30,000, and this does not even include vacations or luxury purchases.

Bengaluru may offer high salaries, but the cost of living can be just as high. For many people, saving money has become harder than ever.

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Well..wasnt Gen AI/Agentic AI systems of Open AI/Claude etc supposed to make IT services obsolete with Agents doing everything?
Turns out humans are needed.Gen AI firms launch their own IT Services firm!
This is a shot in the arm for beleaguered IT services firm!

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Today we’re launching the OpenAI Deployment Company to help businesses build and deploy AI.

It's majority-owned and controlled by OpenAI. It brings together 19 leading investment firms, consultancies, and system integrators to help organizations deploy frontier AI to production for business impact. https://t.co/GnyjGFaLLA

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

@SagarH62 Craid Mcdermott

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Your @TataPlayin on call support just gives the same steps, which we follow and the OTT apps still dont work. Clearly problem is with Set-top box.
Can you immediately replace the box!!
#TataPlay #WorstService

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Hi @TataPlayin our Tata Play connection is just not working. OTT apps just dont load. Technician visitd on Apr 30th & aftr that thr has been no support!
Can U replace the fault set-top box immediately? And refund the money for the days in which we hv got service? Pathetic Service

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Makes of Maggi dont grow the rice, atta, maida for making noodles. Farmer growing these are spraying the pesticides!
So the real culprits are someone else..go after them

[Pratham khanna @Portfolio_Bull]

Reality Check 🍜

A men tested 1 batch of Maggi masala quality in lab costing ₹30,000

After testing, the results that came will shock you:

Carbaryl (Pesticide used in Masala)~

Limit~ 0.1 mg/kg
Actual~ 0.267 mg/kg
Difference~ 2.67x

Means according to FSSAI standards limits it failed in tests.

Just imagine around 2 Crore packets of Maggi consumed daily in India.

But from Maggi side :

• No Clarification
• No Explanation
• No Action Plan

This is the condition of the biggest consumer brands of India 🤡

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Very candid and at the same time bold admission from the Deputy CM of Karnataka @DKShivakumar

[Moneycontrol @moneycontrolcom]

#MCFutureOfWork | 🚨 "There will be 50% job cuts in Bangalore and different parts of India because of AI. AI is a big challenge in front of us."

D. K. Shivakumar, Deputy Chief Minister of Karnataka, shares insight on AI threat to industries in Bengaluru.

@DKShivakumar

#AI #FutureOfWork #FutureOfWorkSummit #IndiQube #Network18 #Bengaluru

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

@KiranKS One can hope otherwise but hard reality is AI will replace lot of human coders, testers, designers etc...and it can work 24/7 and do things in minutes what humans take days...
And AI is just getting started

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Vow..

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Next in who after the Bibha Series? He was 22 yrs old when he discovered a secret of the universe that would take the rest of the world 30 yrs to even notice. Using nothing but a lamp & a few crystals in Bangalore, Shivaramakrishnan Pancharatnam (1934-69) found the Geometric Phase, the hidden memory of light. He died at just 35, a Ghost whose work was forgotten until a global giant rediscovered it & put Pancharatnam’s name back in the stars. Today, our future Quantum Computer will run on the logic of a man who died in 1969, unrecognized by the nation he illuminated.

Born in 1934 in Calcutta, Pancharatnam was another branch of the Raman Tree (his mother, Sitalaxmi, was the sister of C V Raman). He joined the Raman Research Institute (RRI) in Bangalore at age 18. While most 18 yr olds were struggling with basic calculus, Pancharatnam was rewriting the rules of Optics.

He did not have the fancy lasers of the West. He worked with simple polarizers, quartz plates, & a lamp. He was a Silo of pure observational genius. In 1956, at the age of 22, he published a paper on the "Generalized Theory of Interference."

He discovered that when light travels in a path & returns to its original state, it remembers its journey through a Geometric Phase. The physics world ignored his paper for nearly 30 yrs. In 1984, the famous British physicist Michael Berry discovered the same thing in a broader quantum context. When Berry found Pancharatnam’s 1956 paper, he was stunned. He realized this young Indian kid had solved the Quantum Phase decades before anyone else.

It is now globally called the Pancharatnam-Berry Phase. It is the Invisible Force behind Quantum Computing & Spintronics. Every time we talk about Topological matter (the stuff that will make computers 1000x faster), we are talking about Pancharatnam’s phase.

He was described as having a spiritual intensity toward physics. He lived in a state of constant intellectual fever. He died in 1969 at the age of 35 in Oxford, UK, due to a chest illness. Because he died so young & before his work was rediscovered by Berry, he became a ghost even within the scientific community for decades.

While his family knew him as a genius who died young, they had no idea that 50 yrs after his death, his name would be a standard term in textbooks at CERN & NASA. He is the man who died a teacher & woke up a legend.

He was a Fellow of the Indian Academy of Sciences, but he died before the Awards Era could catch up to his genius.

Today, there are international conferences dedicated solely to the Geometric Phase. If you are a physicist at Harvard, Pancharatnam is a God. If you are a person in his hometown of Bangalore, his name sounds like just another common surname. #WhoAfterBibha

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Awesome!

[Bangalore Times @BangaloreTimes1]

Malayalam superstar Mohanlal sings Kannada legend Rajkumar’s hit song Endendu Ninnanu Maretu, at an event in the US recently.
#mohanlal #drrajkumar #rajkumar #kfi #kannadacinema

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨RESEARCHERS JUST MATHEMATICALLY PROVED THAT AI LAYOFFS WILL DESTROY THE ECONOMY.. AND EVERY CEO ALREADY KNOWS IT.. BUT NONE OF THEM CAN STOP..

Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper called "The AI Layoff Trap"..

They proved something terrifying..

Every company replacing workers with AI is also firing its own customers.. Every laid-off employee is someone who used to spend money.. When enough people lose their jobs.. Nobody can afford to buy anything.. And the companies that fired everyone go bankrupt selling products to an economy with no purchasing power..

Every CEO can see this coming.. The math is obvious.. Fire workers.. Lose customers.. Lose revenue.. Collapse..

But here's the trap..

No company can afford to stop..

If you don't automate.. Your competitor will.. They cut costs.. Undercut your prices.. Steal your market share.. And you die anyway..

So every company automates.. Knowing it's collectively suicidal.. Because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives..

It's a Prisoner's Dilemma.. And the researchers proved it mathematically..

The numbers are already stacking up..

Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year.. CEO Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that "within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion"..

Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI..

Goldman Sachs deployed an AI coder that lets one senior engineer do the work of a five-person team..

Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 alone.. AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half the cases..

80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation..

And here's what should scare policymakers..

The researchers tested every proposed solution..

Universal Basic Income.. Doesn't fix it.. It raises living standards but doesn't change a single company's incentive to automate..

Capital income taxes.. Don't fix it.. They change profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human..

Worker equity and profit sharing.. Narrows the gap but can't close it..

Collective bargaining.. Can't fix it.. Because automating is a dominant strategy.. No voluntary agreement between companies is self-enforcing..

Only one thing works.. A Pigouvian automation tax.. A per-task charge that forces every company to pay for the demand it destroys when it fires a worker..

The researchers call it a "Red Queen effect".. Better AI doesn't solve the problem.. It makes it worse.. Because every company sees a bigger market share gain from automating faster than rivals.. But at the end.. Everyone automates equally.. The gains cancel out.. And the only thing left is more destroyed demand..

The paper's conclusion is devastating..

This isn't a transfer from workers to company owners.. Both sides lose.. Workers lose their income.. Companies lose their customers.. It's a deadweight loss that harms everyone..

And no market force can break the cycle..

The AI layoff trap isn't a prediction.. It's already happening.. And the math says it won't stop on its own.

[sandip sabharwal @sandipsabharwal]

Yes what a superb army
Could not prevent Special Forces in going in and rescuing two Pilots despite it being a hostile territory for the Americans.
Bhagwan Aisa success kisi aur ko na de

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Don’t ever adjust your lifestyle to a higher income

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

The Oracle layoffs are a reminder that one hidden problem with switching jobs too aggressively for higher and higher roles is this:

you keep moving up in title and salary, but you also quietly move yourself into a smaller and smaller market.

At 12 LPA, 20 LPA, 30 LPA there are many openings.

At 60 LPA, 80 LPA, 1 crore plus, suddenly the number of companies that can afford you drops very fast.

Now add layoffs into the mix.

When a company is cutting costs, the expensive mid-level or senior hire who joined recently is often at more risk than the person who has been there for 4 years with deep system knowledge.

And the worst part is this: once you get used to a certain lifestyle, it becomes mentally very hard to go backwards.

Your EMI does not want a career correction. Your ego does not want a lower title. Your family does not want a “temporary step down”. But the market does not care.

So now you are stuck in a dangerous zone: too expensive for many roles, too junior for some leadership roles, and unwilling to come down.

This is why blindly chasing the next package is not always a winning strategy.

Better strategy is: switch with a reason, build rare skills, make sure your market value is backed by real depth, and save enough money so you are not negotiating from panic.

A 40 LPA engineer with real ownership, calmness, and 18 months of runway is in a much stronger position than an 80 LPA engineer with no savings and no room to step down.

More salary is good ofcourse.

But with every jump, ask yourself: am i becoming more valuable, or just more expensive?

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

Address Israel’s Knesset, stay friends with Iran, buy oil from Russia, buy weapons from America & reset relations with China.

Can’t think of a single other nation on earth that can do all of the above.

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Dude....offer him a salary which no else can match...thats all it takes!

[Jasveer Singh @jasveer10]

Accha listen, I don’t want to say this publicly but I have to say it.

He has already wasted 1.5 months. If my recruitment team starts the process again today, that’s another 1-2 months gone. The role is urgent. So you think this guy did the right thing. Fair enough. Let me walk you through something first.

Now you’re saying founders have no power and candidates have all the power.

You’re assuming founders have no option. Hear me out.👇

If I really wanted to exercise power, I would ask the team to match the 36 LPA, ask him to join tomorrow, keep the hiring process running quietly, and replace him in 2-3 months once we find someone better.

The new development wouldn’t stop. The team would keep moving. The cost difference for a couple of months is negligible.

Do you know what the consequence would be? He might end up accepting an offer below 25 LPA. Because once he spends one or two months again in the market, desperation kicks in and people start accepting whatever comes.

But listen, I don’t do these kinds of things. I’m not interested in playing that game.

Just because someone chooses not to use their power doesn’t mean they don’t have it.

[Avinash @avinash_b01]

Shiv Sagar ...Commercial street

[Akki Rotti @Theshashank_p]

Which is that one restaurant in Bengaluru that you would proudly introduce to all your friends like it's your own?

(Apart from CTR, VB, Veena, etc)