PETA India will forever remember @zubeengarg1 as a friend, a hero for animals and an inspiration.
Our heartfelt condolences go out to his loved ones.
Zubeen, we’ll miss you. 💔
#ZubeenGarg
When you think Indian mainstream media has reached the lowest levels of shamelessness, they will surprise you by going even lower.
After the Ahmedabad plane crash incident, Times Now shared a watchlist of thrillers related to plane crashes. The tweet has now been deleted.
Dear @CMODelhi@gupta_rekha your ill informed call for relocation of street dogs has led to illegal, inhuman, grossly unscientific, indiscriminate removal of dogs by RWA's & MCD across Delhi. This injudicious step of your over zealous MCD officials is dangerously counterproductive, will lead to increased dog bites, man-animal conflict & is bound to further aggravate public health issues like rabies. Benefits far outweigh risks. Why punish poor dogs for failures of civic administrators & planners to deliver? This ill advised removal defies logic, written law, Animal Birth Control rules, repeated SC judgments & science. Here is why.
Proven scientific studies establish there's no substitute for sterilization, anti-rabies vaccination of street dogs & their restoration in their habitat. They are territorial animals. Human habitations like Delhi are akin to concentric circles one surrounded by the other. At the outer most circle of Delhi lie further township circles adjoining Haryana, Punjab etc. Street dogs are known to move across 100s of kms. Moment you hypothetically forcibly remove dogs from Delhi's inner circles, ones occupying the next circle would rush in to replace the areas vacated by removed dogs. These dogs unfamiliar with new surroundings & human dwellers of those areas would be more hostile & aggressive than their evicted predecessors. Being alien to the new environs ensures they'll be unfriendly & anxious in their new habitat, resulting in greater dog bites, conflict & higher risk of rabies transmission. Likewise dogs removed by your @tweetndmc & @MCD_Delhi & dumped in unfamiliar places will do the same in those areas. As a progressive, forward looking CM you can get much better resolution by onboarding & partnering humanitarian groups, volunteers & animal welfare activists of the respective concentric pockets of population with MCD as a civic-public partnership in this joint endeavor setting timelines, infrastructure & sustainable goals. Rest assured anything else & nothing short of this will ever produce desired results. All citizens & animal welfare activists & organizations will contribute to, support & partner this initiative to the hilt.
The @PMOIndia@narendramodi often bats for man-animal harmony & alleviation of cruelty towards this helpless species of Lord Ram. Hinduism itself symbolizes an inherent reverence & compassion for animals. Random cruelty, irrational aversion & hatred towards speechless animals cannot be made the basis of resolution by a society that takes prides in its culture of Gau, Ganga & Karuna. On this pious day of #RamNavami rise & do justice to those who can't ask for it. You have a duty to them too - far above hatred & might as right espoused by few.
If a ~4 magnitude earthquake can rock the entire Delhi and wake all of us up, imagine what something higher in the Richter scale can do to us. The building construction of majority of NCR are too bad. #delhiearthquake#disasterpreparedness https://t.co/A7zKKarw9m
Thank you to everyone who made it to the launch of my new book at @IIC_Delhi last evening! It was a real delight to share my journey as a writer, from Q&A to The Girl with the Seven Lives, with the full house. Especially grateful to @virsanghvi for the engaging conversation.
Dear Mira and Ilya - congratulations on your coup at OpenAI. Since both of you have together never raised a penny as entrepreneurs, let me explain what happens.
Oh, and you *will* need to raise since your venture’s unit economics don’t make sense. Remember, you pay $0.30 every time someone asks a doofus question to ChatGPT. Heck, I sometimes ask the same thing 5 times.
Also, the last deal at $80 billion valuation - is as dead as the Egyptian pharaohs. Glorious to write about and visualize. But super dead, under the sand, not coming back.
Not only that - but you sideswiped your biggest partner, Microsoft. Of course publicly they will say the right thing, but you know and they know it and a random fellow like me knows it - they must be seething mad about it.
Few of your top researchers have already quit, and if there is one thing Sam Altman is especially good at, it is raising and deploying capital. Before the sign with your name and title as “CEO” and “Defacto CEO” gets emblazoned in the OpenAI offices, Sam would have a new company, $1 billion investment and offers out to all your, soon to be ex, top product people and researchers.
So you head into next week having lost your top dealmaker, top researchers, top product visionary, top partner and top investor, and with a business which has terrible unit economics.
And let’s not forget - the two of you are not entrepreneurs. Most people in your board have never held a proper tech job ever. You have never had to face the abject rejection which follows from pitching many investors, going through the process, and getting to close. Getting to close is the toughest. Sometimes investors say yes, but they don’t actually mean it. Sometimes they even sign, and still don’t wire the funds. You will need to live through all of it, the pain and rejection, and feel intense amount of pressure of having to provide for your team members - who pays their mortgages, car loans, kids school tuition - the ones whom you played with at the last company picnic.
After you are exhausted with the realities of the market - you will sell out OpenAI to Microsoft entirely, and be housed as Global Principal Product Managers in building 4 in Seattle, where it rains non-stop. Microsoft will never fire you, Satya will always say the right thing about you - because he is an honorable person.
But deep down in your heart, as you are watching the Netflix movie on OpenAI and Joseph-Gordon Levitt’s wife plays herself as a board member who fired Sam Altman over Google Meet, you will think and realize that you had it all - you could have been at the helm of a $1 trillion company. History will forget you. Sam and Greg and everyone else would have moved on and forgotten about you. e/acc would have built out fundamental OpenAI alternatives in anycase..
India's Space Triumph!
This quote below from TOI's report says it all🙂#Chandrayaan3 soars high, proving our nation's prowess in space exploration. Congratulations ISRO for this incredible achievement! Let's continue reaching for the stars! https://t.co/53wHcE8Cao
#ISRO #Unstoppable #Chandrayaan_3 #ToTheMoon
Was about to go to sleep and of course @midjourney dropped its v5.2. Ran a test prompt and decided to zoom this scene out went from
a close up 1:1 portrait to a full body 16:9. Tomorrow going to be a fun day!
GN! 😴