Daniel Picardo

Music, Graphic novels, Food, Pop Science. In that order. Tweets are my own.

[Daniel Picardo @danielpicardo]

@whizkidd @FastrQuinn https://t.co/1GHGIdl8h3

25% of the land area and 50% of the population lives in slums. This might be the other 50% because water out of the tap during the monsoons can be a killer.

[Daniel Picardo @danielpicardo]

@whizkidd Oh I don’t know about that.

[B. Kolappan @kolappan]

The first one is a digitally altered page being wrongly presented as the front page of The Hindu on June 6, 1967. The second is the actual page released that day. This is what social media is capable of; it can even alter the front page of India's national English daily.

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

Anyone wondered why BJP ministers like @MPLodha name their buildings with anglicised prefix or suffixes like #LodhaBellissimo #LodhaAltamount shouldn’t Lodha sea face be Lodha SamudraKinara? Lodha World One should be Lodha Prithvi no? I am sure other builder- netas are doing the same thing! When it comes to dhanda- different rules apply.

[Daniel Picardo @danielpicardo]

Hi @tax2win - Receiving a tax penalty and notice is a nightmare. When you use it in email advertising to increase the “effectiveness” of an ad campaign - it is cheap, triggering, and feeds off fear.

Coach your marketing team/ service provider to do better.

[Clint Jarvis @clinjar]

Stanford paid 35,000 people to quit social media.

This was the largest study on emotional health in history.

The results were so shocking, scientists called it "comparable to therapy."

Here's what happens when you break free from the algorithm:
🧵

[Kaustubh Naik @mundcar]

A bunch of Delhi boys arrived in Goa. This was their pre-game perhaps. And all that trash in just one compartment. They were at least a dozen of them. And people wonder why we hate tourists!

[Newton Sequeira @NewtonSTOI]

#Goa's hills could soon be a thing of the past.

[Siddhartha Basu @babubasu]

Resurrected from a forgotten box of negs: pics from the very first Quiz Time, 1985 — when Sunday 9 p.m. on DD became quiz time for the whole country.
IIT Kanpur took the title, Presidency College Calcutta a breath behind. The cleanest pics yet, unseen since they were clicked

[Manish Singh @ManishNifty]

Growth of 7.8% is not adding up you try to check growth of all key components….
Production of cement has grown, so has the capital goods, means govt expenditure on Infra has grown which is the only area which has actually grown…. except that everything related to consumers have declined….
Now on grown the growth in Road and Infrastructure is technically negative thanks to monsoon but govt says otherwise….
Govt believes that Indians are fool and the dont understand anything….
And believe whatever is said….
How 7.8% has actually arrived is because they have played with weightage

[Daniel Picardo @danielpicardo]

@RaghavNC Hiranandani

[Mumbai Heritage @mumbaiheritage]

On This Day | World Vada Pav Day
In the 1960s, Dadar became the birthplace of Mumbai’s most iconic snack. Ashok Vaidya (and some say Sudhakar Mhatre) served the first vada pav to mill workers. This is the photo of first stall.
Which is your favourite vada pav stall in the city?

[Livefist @livefist]

Can HAL & our PSUs please stop having these elaborate events to mark the delivery of EVERY little thing? 😭

This is the official hoopla today over HAL receiving the first set of wing assemblies for LCA Mk1A from L&T.

Aircraft already late, and a pissed-off Air Chief.

[Prashant Pitti @ppitti]

I am committing INR 1 Cr to find Bangalore Choke-Points via Google Maps & AL.

11 km → 2.15 hours in Bangalore Traffic on Saturday late night!

I was stuck at one choke-point at ORR, where I spent 100 mins struggling to understand why there is no traffic-light or cop here!

But I don’t want one more “Bengaluru Traffic Memes or Rant”. I WANT TO FIX IT.

Very recently, in April 2025, Google Maps started sharing "Road Management Insight". It's a city-level data in Big Query format.

Using Google Data and Satellite Imagery, we can list down all the choke-points & their exact timings in a month. For the traffic department to work on those areas specifically.

I am willing to spend INR 1 Crore on this project by funding: 1-2 senior ML/AI engineers. And providing budget for using Google Maps API calls, Satellite Imagery & GPUs

I will start this project, when BTP/BBMP: Open their raw feeds or API access AND names a team, committed to acting on the insights we generate.

🙌 How can you help right now?

1. TAG anyone you know in the Bangalore Traffic Office, BBMP or the Traffic Commissioner’s office, let this hit the right inbox.

2. ML/AI folks: comment "IN", if you can work along part-time to end this menace

3. Every commuter who’s sick of bleeding time: comment or share. More noise -> faster response.

Bengalore is India’s tech future; and people making it happen deserve MUCH better.

#BangaloreTraffic #AIforGood #OpenData #CSR #peakbengaluru

[Aakanksha @aakancvedi]

Lately, the Adani Group has been on an acquisition spree, buying companies across sectors

So far they have spent over Rs 62,000 Cr buying over 15 companies

But you know what is common between all these companies? Well, they are all BANKRUPT!

So why is Adani buying them?

1/8

[Daniel Picardo @danielpicardo]

@RaghavNC Chandrahara. MTR.

[Daniel Picardo @danielpicardo]

@RaghavNC Paleo

[Kaustubh Naik @mundcar]

Since this is the hill I’ve decided to die on, here’s my piece on the Goa taxi issue published in Scroll today. https://t.co/NTQHitYRjS

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

Growing up in the 80s and 90s, there was a group of research scientists who went beyond their ivory towers, grants and h-indices to popularize science among kids.

Jayant Narlikar, Yash Pal and Girish Karnad (not a career researcher) did no less than Carl Sagan or Bill Nye (not a career researcher) to get a lot of kids interested in science.

That era is long gone. We are now in the era of shiny astrology apps and art of living.

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

Mumbai's tragedy: Its planners have all the money, resources to create coastal roads for the 8% car-owning population, but no money to ensure there are enough BEST buses for the remaining 92%.

Mumbai's planners forget: All great cities are built on solid public transit systems.