Ovais.

Perpetual grump. Super-pedant. one day I'll write a book. Tweets are entirely personal

[Hiba Sameen @hibasameen]

In the past months I've been on a mission to make Pakistan's public data more useable through building open source databases and visualisations.

Today I'm launching Adaad (اعداد), a monthly data journal on Pakistan. Adaad is where those datasets become arguments and insights.

Everything here is made to be taken. The prose, the charts and the cleaned datasets are published under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY 4.0). Translate a piece for an Urdu newspaper. Rebuild a chart for a classroom. Rerun the analysis and publish your disagreement. All we ask is a line of credit and a link to the source.

Adaad also publishes contributors. If you have a question the data can answer — or data that raises a question — pitch it to [email protected]. For more details on what is required for a pitch, please see the about section.

Happy Independence Day — the struggle continues!

https://t.co/jPlWnkbD8X

[Iran Embassy in Zimbabwe @IRANinZIMBABWE]

We found the keys.
@IraninSA

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

🚨 President Donald J. Trump makes a statement on Iran:

[Ovais. @grumpcoach]

@chimgadar TeChOnOLogiA

[Justin Macmahan @JustinMacmahan]

My dad’s @facebook account of 20 years was hacked and he’s completely locked out. The recovery process fails of course because the hackers just change the email and phone number.

They’re posting very real looking AI generated photos of my dad and his wife, claiming they bought a yacht and a big house thanks to a crypto investment. The posts encourage people to send a DM and learn how to invest. It’s really sad because I know some of his friends are going to think this is real and send money to the scammers. Anyone who comments to warn people just gets blocked and they delete the comment.

It’s insane how little @Meta helps. We’ve had dozens of people reporting the account as hacked every day, and it’s still posting away without so much as a temporary suspension. He would happily pay for premium support (which today just means speaking to a human) but they offer no customer support at all. I don’t understand how these companies that are so critical to people’s lives and businesses can’t figure out how to offer support. Just make people pay a small fee when it’s urgent to cover the cost.

The tragic part is that he had 2FA activated, but I think he was taken to a spoofed version of Facebook where he completed the login process and entered the 2FA code thinking that he was just logging into Facebook. The only silver lining is that scammers and AI may soon ruin the internet and make us more of an offline society again. We could probably all use some grass touching

[وزارة الدفاع @modgovksa]

المتحدث الرسمي لـ #وزارة_الدفاع: اعتراض وتدمير 4 صواريخ باليستية أُطلقت باتجاه مدينة الرياض، وسقوط شظايا نتيجة عملية الاعتراض على مناطق متفرقة في العاصمة، والتقديرات الأولية تشير إلى عدم وقوع أضرار أو إصابات.

[Farooq Tirmizi @FarooqTirmizi]

Anyone else miss the 1990s, when we’d have one war at a time around the world?

You could really focus.

[Duolingo @duolingo]

an important message from Duolingo

[Sabahat Zakariya @sabizak]

Murtaza Solangi. This guy sat around giving lectures on human rights, and constantly crying over Bhutto. Actually, that computes. Anyone who defends Bhutto’s reign can only be a thug.

[Nahel Belgherze @WxNB_]

We may have just witnessed the largest temperature contrast ever recorded for a single country. There was a staggering 90.3°C difference between today’s lowest minimum and highest maximum temperatures in China.

[Ammar Khan @rogueonomist]

NEPRA determining electricity prices like..

[The Spectator Index @spectatorindex]

BREAKING: Imprisoned Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny is dead

[Ovais. @grumpcoach]

hey @Google , can you please add the ability to translate corporate lingo to english? sometimes we just can't brain what's being said.

[Ovais. @grumpcoach]

is this what self-sabotage looks like? asking for a friend.

[Asad Ali Toor @AsadAToor]

🚨🚨#BREAKING: Former PM and #PTI founder @ImranKhanPTI formally nominates @AliAminKhanPTI for CM #KP position.

[Anas Tipu @teepusahab]

check the date 🤭

[Atif Mian @AtifRMian]

A🧵on what Feb 8 elections mean for Pakistan

Pakistan’s economy has consistently fallen behind globally – last year was one of the worse, with the economy actually contracting

Every macro fundamental is flashing red: inflation, growth, debt, investment, to name a few
1/n

[Ariha Fatimah Arain @arihafatimah]

With every passing day you understand why fall of Dhakka was actually the rise of Dhaka.

[AK @AzamAKhan2]

How about: guy who actually lost both his seats and had no chance of forming government begs military to force people to make a government with him with no legitimacy.

[H™ @MahatmaaGanji]

The Bengalis already did this.

We're the separate nation lol.