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[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Don't expect motivation to carry you. Motivation comes and goes. Systems stick around. Design your environment so the right choice is the easiest one. The less you have to rely on self-control, the more consistent you'll be.

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇

"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.

Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.

A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

Ram Rahim comes out of jail today, on the same day that Umar Khalid’s bail application is denied.

Let that sink in. A child rapist has more rights than a student who dared to question the government.

#NewIndia

[Alec Stapp @AlecStapp]

We have a moral duty to accelerate biomedical innovation.

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

@ankita_phalle @Pepperfry @PepperfryC @Pepperfry cannot be allowed to get away with this level of service and support. Literally everyone has this sort of experience with them, where customer support goes AWOL. Consumer court will have to be the way to go

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

@gifsagar @kunksed @ouraring Typically no, but I means of extraction I sometimes exercise :P

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Vijay Shah's case Vs Prof. Ali Khan's case: the difference explained by Mahua Moitra.

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

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[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

My unhinged take on this is - religious division.

If there is a deep separation between society, horizontal and vertical, we never end up cooperating at scale. Every faction for themselves. That's why we can't have nice things. One can never see the other happy.

It used to be a national project to build a unified India. Where is that project? I miss it. We used to have 'mile sur mera tumhara'. Where it went?

And building a strong nation, stronger than religious identity should actually be the goal. So that we all can enjoy. If we start fighting amongst ourselves then how this good for anyone?

The thing that dooms India is how far away beauty is for almost every one who lives in our cities. A population with no conception of beauty - what will it do?

India has stopped making songs. The last good songs are from 10 years ago. There used to be a film a week. We used to be alive.

This is what education is for - so that we can have more beauty in our lives. I want everyone to be educated to a high level for free because that is the cheapest way to build a beautiful society.

What we deny others is what we deny ourselves.

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

@visakanv Just saw this at a grocery store in Goa!

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

it’s like Asians raising their kids to perform better in school. Carrot & stick! 🥕🦯

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

This report is long but very good.

“With R1, DeepSeek essentially cracked one of the holy grails of AI: getting models to reason step-by-step without relying on massive supervised datasets. Their DeepSeek-R1-Zero experiment showed something remarkable: using pure reinforcement learning with carefully crafted reward functions, they managed to get models to develop sophisticated reasoning capabilities completely autonomously. This wasn't just about solving problems— the model organically learned to generate long chains of thought, self-verify its work, and allocate more computation time to harder problems.

The technical breakthrough here was their novel approach to reward modeling. Rather than using complex neural reward models that can lead to "reward hacking" (where the model finds bogus ways to boost their rewards that don't actually lead to better real-world model performance), they developed a clever rule-based system that combines accuracy rewards (verifying final answers) with format rewards (encouraging structured thinking). This simpler approach turned out to be more robust and scalable than the process-based reward models that others have tried.”

https://t.co/XRqgMNRzg1

[critter @BecomingCritter]

Wanting too many things can cause a lot of unhappiness

Not knowing what you want guarantees it

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Absolutely

[Nikhil Patwardhan @patwardhannn]

🚨 Trigger warning: Today, I had gone for a morning jog in a government garden in Kandivali.
There were RSS people doing prayers. I was asked to not jog in a GOVERNMENT ground. I didn't acknowledge and continued my jog. 4-5 people came behind me with sticks and tried beating me. When I stopped not a single person had the guts to actually beat me. I was asked my name and when I told them my name their response was "ye to apne hi log hai inko nahi marna. Muslim hote to abhi maar dete"

The kind of hate this country is seeing is unimaginable. Firstly, I was running on my own. I wasn't disturbing any of them. It was a government ground, which is free for all. And thirdly, just my name saved me today.

Below are photos of some of these RSS people who were praying. I was not even running close to them.

This needs to stop.

[spencer 🦈 @Unpop_Science]

I believe Moo Deng would want to use her fame to make the world aware that her few remaining wild relatives are losing their homes to palm oil plantations in Liberia.

https://t.co/45rBFtUDMH

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

@desheltn Nonsensico, if I was making 4X my current pay through affiliate marketing I’d 1000% create guides on Instagram and make people comment ‘get rich’ to share it w em.

[Dr Jason Philip. M.S., MCh @Jasonphilip8]

We live in a highly patriarchal society. I hv done around 200 kidney transplants. My findings in my series:
1. Around 80-90 % of Kidney Transplant Recipients are men. When a woman develops ESRD( Kidney Failure), it is very hard to find a Kidney donor, among the relatives.
2. In my entire career, not even a single husband came forward to donate his Kidney to his sick wife, & save her life.
3. When a woman is a Kidney recipient, the person who donates is usually a sister or daughter, or mother.
4. Most women r ready to offer their kidneys to their ailing husbands to save his life. The converse never happens.
5. There was once an extreme case, when a 19 yr old legal wife, donated her Kidney to her 45 yr old husband. After the Tx, I was casually talking to her. Her story was bizarre. This was her elder sister's husband. Just for Tx, the entire family had planned it carefully. The husband divorced his wife, & the 19 yr old girl was beaten fr days to marry the 45 yr old man, since her Kidney was a perfect match.
So, a simple survey of Kidney Tx recipients & donors exposes how deeply patriarchal, misogynistic, our rotten society is.
Scratch the veneer of democracy, modernity in India, & u find that underneath, we are still a feudal, casteist, misogynistic, patriarchal community.

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

Having spent some time in Mumbai & Blore, I suspect that political corruption in Goa is at an all time high and also relatively higher than most other states.

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

Bonkers how our government can get away w this quality of work. Roads cave in within 2 months of tarring, after 4 months of being dug up and ‘worked on’

This is all over the city - having been to literally anywhere else, the incompetence here is v apparent.

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

Obv we don't have place cells for all places we ever go to, which means theres overlap. Mad how far away we are from codifying human perception.

[Renuka Figueiredo @figueiratively]

Been nerding out on 'place cells' which are specific cells in the hippocampus that seem to store info about places, there are unique cells for diff places we go to... AND WHICH I CLEARLY DON'T HAVE!
In your home there's specific neurons that light up telling you where you are.