The Brahmic Perspective

Tech optimist exploring reality at the intersection of science, tech, economics, and philosophy. Indian roots, cosmic curiosity.

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@shreyas @lancehasson Indeed, particularly in process heavy and bureaucratic organisations

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@stats_feed Maldives vacation

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TSMC and Saudi Aramco are the only trillion dollar companies not on the US west coast.

[Samantha Smith @SamanthaTaghoy]

It’s not “history”, Shabana.

I’m from Telford. I was groomed and abused by different men from the age of 5.

I’ve seen countless little girls victimised by Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs in my hometown.

IT’S STILL GOING ON.

I went on national TV to say that little girls are still being raped and tortured by Pakistani-Muslim gangs.

The next day, the police came banging on my door to threaten me into silence for speaking out.

Growing up, we knew which takeaways were dodgy, which taxi companies were controlled by the Pakistani-Muslim gangs, which estates and high streets not to walk through alone or avoid altogether.

It’s an open secret.
And your government is complicit.

It is still happening in towns and cities across the UK. Little girls are being subjected to the worst abuse imaginable, at the hands of men who know they can get away with it.

Nothing has changed.

You are still turning a blind eye despite decades of undeniable evidence.

Politicians like you are trying to sweep the scandal under the carpet, sabotaging the National Inquiry at every turn so that they can save their own skins.

And little girls are still being sacrificed at the altar of multiculturalism and traded for votes.

Decades later.
The same old story.

You may not have shoved little girls into taxis or plied them with vapes himself, but you and your entire government are just as guilty as if you had.

And I, for one, refuse to be silenced or placated by the very people who have spent decades discrediting victims and survivors like me.

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Your industry’s ‘best practices’ are just the collective habits of companies you’re trying to disrupt.

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Yesterday, I had the privilege of speaking at the @a16z American Dynamism Summit with the builders, operators, and investors helping shape the next era of exploration.

NASA has a clear mandate under President Trump’s national space policy: Return American astronauts to the Moon by the end of 2028, build an enduring presence there, and ensure American leadership in the most important strategic domain. Achieving that requires focus and disciplined execution.

In the weeks ahead, the Artemis II crew will travel around the Moon. It is the next step toward returning humans to the lunar surface and building a lasting presence there.

To reach that goal, we’ve recently made some changes to the Artemis program: Increasing launch cadence, standardizing hardware, and adding missions that allow us to test systems, reduce risk, and build confidence before landing.

This is the same approach that carried the United States from Mercury to Gemini to Apollo. In the 1960s we launched often, learned from every mission, and improved with each step forward. That is how you build real capability in deep space.

Yesterday, I also announced NASA Force, a new initiative with @USOPM to bring exceptional engineering and technical talent into NASA and help rebuild the core competencies that make missions like this possible.

We want to open the search far and wide to attract the best of the best and incentivize them to leverage their skills to maintain American superiority in space.

NASA changed the world in 1969 by concentrating the nation’s best talent on the hardest problems imaginable.

We are doing it again.

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@readswithravi Cooperation is the best competition

[Celestara @celestaracosmos]

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world.
Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."
- Rumi

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@DrDominicNg Indeed learning is doing

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth he can accept about himself without running away.”

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

Elon Musk revealed the mental frameworks he used to build impossible companies:

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@havivrettiggur @nntaleb To me its like him conflicting his own writings - what happened to intolerance against intolerance?

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Elections are not free and fair democratic elections by international standards. The Guardian Council (unelected clerics + jurists appointed by the Supreme Leader) vets all candidates, disqualifying most reformists, moderates, independents, or anyone deemed insufficiently loyal to the system. This leaves voters choosing almost exclusively among regime-approved (usually hardline or conservative) figures.

Voter turnout has collapsed dramatically in recent years, signaling widespread disillusionment:

- 2024 parliamentary election (March): ~41% official turnout — historic low since 1979 revolution.
- 2024 presidential election (June/July, two rounds): First round ~39.9% (lowest ever for a presidential vote); runoff ~49.7–49.8%.

These figures come from official Iranian sources, Western media (BBC, Al Jazeera, AP), and think tanks. Independent surveys (e.g., GAMAAN February 2024 poll) estimated even lower actual participation (~25–30% range), with many saying they would boycott or only vote under compulsion (e.g., to get the ID stamp sometimes required for services).

Low turnout reflects apathy, protest boycotts (especially after 2022 Woman Life Freedom uprising), economic misery, repression, and the perception that voting changes almost nothing meaningful because core power remains untouched.

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@stats_feed Be curious not judgemental

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Where AI creates vs destroys value: If your moat is a UI layer, AI routes around you. If your moat is compounding intelligence, AI widens it. If you sell what AI consumes (compute, connectivity, network), you’re in the strongest position. The mill you’re running determines which side you’re on.

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Where AI creates vs destroys value: If your moat is a UI layer, AI routes around you. If your moat is compounding intelligence, AI widens it. If you sell what AI consumes (compute, connectivity, network), you’re in the strongest position. The mill you’re running determines which side you’re on.

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Buffett refused a loom that doubled output: “If it works, I’ll close the mill.” In commodity businesses, productivity gains flow to customers, not you. If AI doubles your output but competition hands the gain to customers, you’re not investing in advantage , you’re buying Buffett’s loom.

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@naval The only AI investment test that matters: if this doubles our productivity, do we capture that gain or does competition hand it to our customers? If the answer is customers, you’re spending capital to arrive at the same lousy position.

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@pmarca Prizes proliferate when there is absence of skin in the game