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[Devina Mehra @devinamehra]

And the AI monster is here without the mask and gloves

Bezos now says that resources must be allocated and prioritised for the technology rather than for human consumption.

“Biological limits are real, but digital potential is infinite. If we starve our data infrastructure of cooling resources just to sustain baseline human comfort, we are actively delaying the birth of a super-intelligence that could solve all of our resource problems in the first place." Says the great man

Just to sustain baseline human comfort is euphemism for letting people die without water by giving Jeff Bezos water to cool his data centres

We should tell him to first sacrifice himself and his children to the God of AI before asking other human beings to sacrifice themselves

That should be the base minimum to show his commitment to his philosophy of AI over human beings

Sam Altman of Open AI on an Indian stage said recently that it was more efficient to train an AI model than a human child, which besides everything else, was off by several orders of magnitude

The idiotic interviewer did not even cross question him

Meanwhile Altman, who is gay, has used not quite natural means to have a child himself 🤦

And remember the whole AI story started with all the evangelists saying that the basic problem it will solve is climate change

And here we are saying that that AI god must be fed all of the planet's resources... Mass stravation is the price we should pay at the sacrificial altar.

We cannot let men like this make all the critical decisions in the world...yeah only a man will be tone deaf enough to say something like this

https://t.co/h2hfsVUmvI

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

It was a Dalit who wrote the Constitution of this country

[Santosh Yadav, Ph.D. @sky_phd]

ये भारत सरकार के मुख्य आर्थिक सलाहकार हैं। ये मान रहे हैं कि चूँकि भारत आर्टिफ़िशियल इंटेलिजेंस के दौड़ से बाहर हो चुका है और मैन्युफैक्चरिंग आधारित रोजगार सृजन में काफ़ी पीछे रह गया है, इसलिए युवाओं को अब खाना बनाने, प्लंबिंग, केयरगिविंग जैसी नौकरियों पर अधिक ध्यान देना चाहिए।

एक समय था जब भारत के युवाओं को तकनीक, नवाचार और उच्च कौशल आधारित रोजगारों का सपना दिखाया जाता था। आज स्थिति यह है कि सरकार के शीर्ष आर्थिक सलाहकार ही स्वीकार कर रहे हैं कि अब देश उन क्षेत्रों में अपेक्षित अवसर उत्पन्न करने में असमर्थ हैं।

[Apoorvanand अपूर्वानंद @Apoorvanand__]

The road is blocked. Allowed for the fitness of Muslims, but namaz cannot be allowed on the road, as it causes spiritual illness to a section of society. But we know what is happening.

[Asim Ali @AsimAli6]

When Serbs ethnically cleansed Bosniak Muslims for Greater Serbia, the only people cheering them on were Israelis. When Israel committed genocide in Gaza it were mostly Indians rooting for them (both elite & popular level). Says a lot about self-identity narratives.

Wrote this.

[RyanMatta 🇺🇸 🦅 @Ryanmatta]

Give this man a follow. Israel is plotting to assassinate him as soon as possible.

[Sayantan Bera @sayantanbera]

Being a parent to a 12-year-old, this one touched a raw nerve @andymukherjee70 My daughter is extremely upset she has to give up French. Like you rightly said, the super rich can switch to IB, and anyone who cannot afford a Rs 50-60k monthly school fees will be pushed to revive lost civilizational glory. Thanks for writing this.

[Daniel Davis Deep Dive @DanielLDavis1]

This open admission by Israeli Defense Minister Katz is an outright, black-and-white, war crime. No embarrassment, no bashfulness, just a boastful declaration that he has "first" destroyed villages that used to house 200,000 civilians and "not one of them" will ever be allowed back.

He doesn't even pretend they were Hezbollah. He acknowledges they are civilians, and unabashedly declares their dwellings have been destroyed and they will never be allowed back *in their own country.*

And our government doesn't even yawn. Doesn't push back in horror, demand sanctions, leap to the UNSC. Nothing. Just send them more bombs and money, while staying silent on the war crimes.

Welcome to the frightening world of 2026.

[Alter Magazine @AlterMagIndia]

In 1939, Jawaharlal Nehru visited Rabindranath Tagore to ask if Jana Gana Mana could become India's national anthem. A statistician was in the room.

That statistician, P.C. Mahalanobis, would go on to build the system that let a newly independent nation of 350 million people see itself clearly for the first time.

In 1950, nobody knew what the average Indian ate. Or earned. Or whether they had work. Policy ran on guesswork.

Mahalanobis changed that.

He built the National Sample Survey, which knocked on thousands of doors and asked, item by item: what did you eat last month? Rice, dal, cooking oil, fuel, clothing.

Harold Hotelling, then among the foremost statisticians in the world, wrote that no sampling technique developed anywhere could "compare in accuracy" with what Mahalanobis had built.

This is the story of how India built, then lost, and is slowly rebuilding the infrastructure of national self-knowledge.

Issue 4: The Making of Indian Statistics, written by @jainhiya_ , designed & built by @AltCarbonIndia

https://t.co/MdIvN1hXhC

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

Zionist terrorists massacred multiple Lebanese families today.

[Tara Krishnaswamy @tarauk]

Owned and operated by those five-letters starting with A.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Dr Jane Hawdon suspended Dr @NadimHCr just 63 minutes after an anonymous complaint over his social media posts on the genocide in Gaza.

Hawdon is the same doctor known for her Lucy Letby review. She also personally filed a complaint against me to the GMC.

When Hawdon suspended Nadeem in August 2024, she provided no specific details of the complaint. No evidence.

She sent him home mid-shift and did not even tell him why.

Nadeem was left in uncertainty overnight— he was so worried he might have harmed a patient.

Hawdon then ambushed him in a meeting and pressured him: delete your posts or face a full investigation.

Nadeem is suing the Royal Free Trust and suing Hawdon personally for discrimination and harassment.

She took the stand today in his employment tribunal. She seemed worried, as though she never expected to be held responsible for her disgraceful behaviour.

Hawdon treated Nadeem as guilty until proven innocent. Not because of clinical issues or patient harm. But because of his words expressing outrage over 'israel's' terrorism and the mass murder of Palestinians.

Nadeem is a Christian Jordanian who has borne witness to the Palestinian struggle his entire life.

Hawdon had no right to stop him caring for the British public because of his righteous and moral views.

She had no right to cause him that level of harm and force him to delete his posts just to keep his job and livelihood.

Genocide apologists working as doctors in Britain must be exposed so the British public can make informed decisions regarding their care.

Eternal shame on Jane Hawdon.

[The Muslim @TheMuslim786]

Location: Mumbai

At Mannat Showroom, owner Rafat Hussain was allegedly targeted by four Hindutva women because of his Muslim identity. An FIR was later registered against Rafat Hussain.

According to Rafat Hussain, the women first asked to see wedding clothes and then abused him based on his religious identity. When he went to the police station to file a complaint, around 150 people reportedly surrounded the station in support of the women and allegedly tried to attack him. Rafat Hussain also claimed that the incident was pre-planned, and instead of action being taken against the women, an FIR was filed against him.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

I have never heard of a country invading a neighbor and then calling it unfair that their soldiers died in that invasion. I don’t think any other country ever even thought to make that complaint.

On top of that, Israel now wants to retaliate for its soldiers being killed while invading their neighbor.

This is pure madness. Just leave Lebanon.

[Shantanu @shaandelhite]

BJP is saying that Dalits should not question RSS, why? Are Dalits not part of society, are Dalits not part of the Constitution?

If RSS is running such a bug organization in my state, they have to get registered or answer me under which you are operating.

— Priyank Kharge Ji to anti Dalit BJP

[Rana Safvi رعنا राना @iamrana]

congratulations

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Brahminist thinking, need not come from Brahmins alone. Anyone who accepts social inequality as God ordained and incapable of human remedies is a Brahminist even if he or she is not born into that caste. Those who believe that the Constitution is a social document that makes us all equal, cannot be Brahminists.

[Vinay Kumar @bahudari]

Priyank Kharge deserves the highest awards for exposing RSS like nobody else has done before.

Now RSS uncles are shooting themselves in the foot. They are in panic mode.

[Asaduddin Owaisi @asadowaisi]

A very important piece on Muslim representation in parliament and legislative assemblies. Post-2014, Muslim representation has continuously fallen. No democracy can progress if 14% of its population is invisibilised from the nation’s decision-making. Article 38 of the Constitution insists on social, economic and political justice. Political justice means that every community has a fair share in decision-making. Without political justice, there cannot be social or economic justice.