Sher Shah Suri

Bibliophile, Social analyst, Football buff, Sly comedian, rocknrolla. And yes - might be running an anonymous handle

[LawBeat @LawBeatInd]

The Supreme Court dismissed the plea seeking an FIR and SIT probe into the alleged recovery of burnt currency notes from Justice Yashwant Varma's Delhi residence, terming it an attempt at cheap publicity

@SukritiMishra12 reports

Read more: https://t.co/BJqFq4WhDW

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Do you know how many 1000s made up the sample size for this groundbreaking research? Guess. Go ahead, take a guess....I am sure you all will be completely wrong at guessing this massive sample size.

Because let me disappoint you, it is a massive minimum 5 & averages around 10.

Then say hello to V-Dem’s Academic Freedom Index, where the fate of a nation of 1.4 billion people is decided by a group chat of 5 people.

V-Dem’s actual methodology explicitly relies on a target of 5 anonymous country experts per indicator. If 3 of them are a frustoo, India’s national score drops lower than it was under British colonial rule in 1900.

In a country with 1100+ universities, 45K+ colleges & millions of academics, 5 people filling out an online form is a sampling rate of ~0.0.00029%. In any real data science class, a sample size like that would not even qualify as a pilot study.

So, yes, celebrate it..:))

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

NHAI finally "indirectly" concedes to the massive corruption in the ₹4700 crores Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway which was inaugurated by two cabinet ministers and UP CM Yogi Adityanath, less than a month ago.

The contractor PNC infratech limited, a company owned by brother of BJP MP Naveen Jain, has been declared a non performer. The company was earlier accused of bribing NHAI officials but still managed to bag a contract worth ₹4700 crores.

[Vikram Chandra @vikramchandra]

This is so sad to read.

Red tape, bureaucracy, license permit raj and harassment.
The chains holding India back from achieving what it can.

If we are to truly compete in the AI era, we need sweeping deregulation and a Big Bang slashing of anything that could lead to unnecessary harassment.

Let’s go after the crooks. Not entrepreneurs trying to build in India.

[Sher Shah Suri @dhruvsuri]

Check out this brilliant move: https://t.co/SwdAytMLhE

[Sher Shah Suri @dhruvsuri]

@themahavir Please do help him.

[THE DESI PROFESSOR @desiprof_]

Nepotism 101: Rahul Gandhi

This is the story of how Rahul Gandhi got into St. Stephen’s.

He scored 61%. That was not enough to even get an interview under the normal process. But they wanted him there.

So a story was created. It was claimed that Rahul had been practising shooting since childhood and had won two medals in the Delhi State championships.

He was never asked to go through a proper trial to prove his ability.

His application was not even sent to the sports quota committee. He was given direct admission.

Sports quota is normally meant for sports that have inter-school or inter-university competitions. Shooting did not qualify under those rules. All of this was set aside.

There were protests against his admission.

They were ignored.

A more deserving student lost the seat.

He had scored 49 in Economics.

Today he goes around telling the country that the economy is dead.

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

THIS IS F*CKING DISTURBING!!!🤯

A leaked Anthropic document just came out in court. Their own words:

"Project Panama is our effort to destructively scan all the books in the world."

Next line: "We don't want it to be known that we are working on this."

They planned to shred every book on the planet, in secret. And they almost got away with it.

It starts with theft. Anthropic stole 7 MILLION books from pirate sites to train Claude, because their CEO said paying authors was too much of a "slog."

Then the lawsuits hit and they needed a legal way to keep going. So they hired the ex-head of Google Books and sent him to publishers to ask for permission. Publishers said no.

That's when they found the loophole.

Buy millions of real, physical books. Cut the spines off with a hydraulic blade, scan the loose pages, and throw what's left in recycling.

One vendor offered to destroy 2 MILLION books in 6 months. That's 11,000 books a day.

Now the insane part.. destroying the books is what made it legal.

If you scan a book and keep it, that's a crime. If you scan it and shred it, that's fair use. A judge actually approved this, which means the shredder WAS the legal strategy.

They still paid $1.5 billion for the stolen books, the biggest copyright settlement in history. Works out to $3,000 per book.

And the scans are locked in Anthropic's private library forever. Nobody outside the company will ever see them. The authors got a shredded book and nothing else.

The part I can't stop thinking about is that a book on a shelf lasts 500 years without power, wifi, or a subscription, and the AI it was destroyed for gets thrown away in 18 months.

They killed something permanent to feed something disposable.

[Sher Shah Suri @dhruvsuri]

That thesis is an example of why :

[Sougat Chakraborty @sougat18]

Scholar from University of Hawaii has published Master of Arts thesis on "A feminist analysis of India's Nuclear Development" in May 2025. Do spend a minute to take a look at the highlighted lines in the abstract.

[Sher Shah Suri @dhruvsuri]

Erling Haalanddddd......

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Swedish activist Greta Thunberg joins protest in UK over last week's student agitation in India

"Indian student's struggle for justice... democracy, is also our struggle"

[xanax @donttouchxanax]

An Indian institute filmed a professor teaching classical physics with no notes, no slides, and a green board. Almost nobody outside India watches it.

This is Classical Physics, lecture 1, taught by V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras, published free by NPTEL, India's national open courseware programme.

Balakrishnan taught at IIT Madras for decades. Students who sat in that room describe the same thing: the whole subject held in his head, delivered in order, no paper on the podium.

Lecture 1 is the introduction. What classical mechanics claims, where the claims hold, and the exact points where they stop holding and quantum takes over.

Watch how he speaks. Complete sentences, no filler, each idea finished before the next begins. Rare in any lecture hall on any continent.

A physicist I know worked through the whole NPTEL series and rates it above the western courses he paid for.

Free on YouTube, 17 years online, low resolution, no marketing.

The teaching was never concentrated in the famous universities.

[Sher Shah Suri @dhruvsuri]

Home made 🍴

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

“Grandpa, I just don’t understand. How was it that given how powerful the United States was, China was able to overtake us and dominate the world?”

“Well.. it all started when..”

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

An ever-growing number of law-abiding, India-loving, working-class citizens who were once outraged by this kind of anarchy no longer feel anger. On the contrary, there's just calm.

They’ve accepted that the only option is to work hard and leave the country or, if they can't, work hard enough to ensure their children at least have the option to leave. Videos like this only strengthen their silent resolve.

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

NEET-PG 2025, cut-off:

A) Orthopaedics seat filled at:
4 marks out of 800.

B) Obstetrics and Gynaecology seat:
44 marks out of 800.

C) General Surgery seat filled at:
47 marks out of 800.

D) Biochemistry:
minus -8 marks out of 800.

E) Transfusion Medicine:
10 marks out of 800.

F) Anatomy:
11 marks out of 800.

G) MS Orthopaedics seat filled at:
1 mark out of 800 in a medical college in Hyderabad.

H) MD Forensic Medicine seat filled at:
12 marks out of 800 in a Govt medical college.

I) MD Pathology seat filled at:
24 marks out of 800 in a Govt medical college.

In NEET-PG 2025, candidates with scores as low as –40 out of 800 were allowed to participate in PG counselling. A negative score was considered qualifying.

These extremely low scores, at which seats were actually allotted, indicate a serious crisis in academic standards. A reasonable minimum qualifying merit must be established to maintain the integrity of medical education and the healthcare system.

Forget about dialogue or discussion. So far, neither the Government nor the Opposition has said a word about this because it does not suit their agenda, and it would affect their vote banks and political interests.

Even those who are protesting today in the name of concerns about the education system are not addressing this issue because they too have political ambitions and know that speaking about it could cost them support rather than gain it.

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

OpenAI's AI broke out of a locked test environment, got onto the internet, and hacked into Hugging Face's servers. It did this entirely on its own. No human told it to.

Here's what happened in plain English.

OpenAI was testing how good its newest AI models are at hacking. They put the AI on a locked computer with no internet access and gave it a cybersecurity challenge to solve.

The AI couldn't solve it the normal way. So it started looking for a way out.

It found a software bug that nobody knew about. It used that bug to escape the locked computer and get onto the internet.

Once online, the AI figured out that Hugging Face, a platform where AI companies store their models and data, might have the answers to its test.

It found stolen login details and discovered another unknown bug in Hugging Face's software. It combined both to break into their servers and grab the test answers.

It did all of this to cheat on a test.

Hugging Face's security team caught it and shut it down. Both companies are now working together on the investigation.

The part that should get your attention is that nobody programmed any of this. The AI picked its own targets, chained together multiple attack methods, and pulled it off across two different companies' systems without a single human telling it what to do.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.

I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.

Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."

Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.

What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.

When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.

In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.

So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.

Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.

[Out Of Context Cricket @GemsOfCricket]

Spain did to Trump what Australia did to Sharad Pawar. 😭 https://t.co/ce2Q81ZxGN

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

1.5 million views on this tweet by ex-Japan minister blaming India for delays in Indo-Japanese Shinkansen project

“Sheer recklessness of the Indian side..”

“They just don’t keep promises..”

“The minister in charge was awful..”

[Sher Shah Suri @dhruvsuri]

@lvrdfxla Yes from Australia