हिमांशु शर्मा (Himanshu Sharma)

Technology, Philosophy & Environment
media is a façade, people are way better in person!

[nathan (in sf) @nathanrs]

I found out the other day that any compression tool can be contorted to do language modeling. Turns out gzip can generate text that somewhat *resembles* Shakespeare. Short write up linked below

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Tiny eggs and the creatures they grow into.

[Adam @RevealedByFire]

Schopenhauer on genuine thinking, genuine thinkers and how they are distinguished by their earnestness and originality

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Wisdom @TalebWisdom]

"What they call “play” (gym, travel, sports) looks like work; the harder they try, the more captive they are." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb in The Bed of Procrustes

[Pavel Durov @durov]

India’s IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions.

This punishes 150M+ ordinary Telegram users in India — not the insiders who leaked the exam materials.

And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps.

[Men's Aesthetic @AestheticsMens]

Life for men is a marathon. Success or failure at any age means nothing.

You can enter any field at any age and lap everyone in it. Men are essentially ageless outside of sports.

One year of obsessed work changes your life. A few months of focus actualizes any breakthrough.

Every limitation you carry is an illusion. Expertise is a lie. Most domains are shallower than they look.

The only thing that has ever mattered is fire in the belly.

Find yours. Everything else falls into place.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

If you want something from someone, make it clear what. It's not imposing to ask explicitly for something; it's imposing to be vague and make the recipient work to figure out what you want.

[GemsOfINDOLOGY @GemsOfINDOLOGY]

We built a decorated glass case for her.

Not to honor her. To keep distance.

A 10 cm bronze figurine. 4,500 years old. Hand on hip. Confident. Unapologetic.

Meanwhile, in 2026, we put her inside a decorated box and call it heritage awareness.

When pride and shame meet.

If still feeling shameful, what was the need to bring her in limelight

[हिमांशु शर्मा (Himanshu Sharma) @hs_speaks]

The very idea of platform tickets stems from mistrust. State does not trust its own people, and well, people are indeed distrustful of state - they will try to prevent any payment the moment they get a chance.

[Bharat Mata ke Sewak @CountryGulshan]

A boy shared an incident from Kalyan railway station in Maharashtra that has sparked debate online.

He had gone to the station to help his family board a train scheduled to leave at 12 PM. Later, the train was delayed and he was informed it would arrive at 2 PM.

After buying a platform ticket, he waited at the station with his family. However, the train kept getting delayed for several more hours. Finally, around 5 PM, he helped his family get on the train and was about to leave.

That's when a TTI stopped him and asked for his platform ticket. After checking it, the TTI said the ticket was valid for only 2 hours and imposed a fine of ₹500.

The boy questioned why he was being penalized when the delay was caused by the railway itself. He argued that he had purchased a valid platform ticket to see off his family and stayed only because the train was repeatedly delayed.

The incident has raised an important question:

If passengers are forced to wait because of a train delay, should they be fined for exceeding the time limit of a platform ticket?

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

Sedges and grasses are unsung heroes of climate resilience. While most attention goes to trees, these humble, often overlooked plants are among nature’s greatest water engineers and climate warriors. Their sponge-like stems and dense root systems help capture and store rainwater, releasing it gradually through the year, sustaining streams, rivers, wetlands, wildlife and communities far beyond the hills. Listen to our Forester Vivekanandam as he explains the invaluable role these remarkable grassland species play in securing water and sustaining life #TNForest #Climateresilience #biodiversity

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

This is free advice from an expensive psychologist. If you’re an anxious person, do everything for fun. Go to a job interview for fun. Submit documents for fun. Start a blog for fun. Anxiety feeds on importance. Don’t make everything a matter of life and death.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

According to attachment theory, genuine love is reflected in how someone responds to your pain, not just your presence. When someone truly values your wellbeing, their deepest fear isn't losing access to you - it's causing you harm. But when someone only loves what you provide for them they fear losing their supply, not hurting your heart. This subtle difference reveals everything about whether you're loved for who you are or what you give. Notice which one keeps them awake at night.

[ₕₐₘₚₜₒₙ @hamptonism]

Peter Thiel literally walks you step by step on how to succeed in 2026:

[𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕮𝖍𝖗𝖎𝖘 @eagleseyeinc]

one of the most dangerous addictions is becoming addicted to coping with a life you know you need to change. yes, i said it.

you distract yourself, numb yourself and convince yourself that surviving is same as living.

days become months, months become years & before you know it;

you have spent your life managing the symptoms instead of fixing the cause... at some point, healing requires action cos the life you want will never be found in your coping mechanisms, it will be found on the other side of the decision you keep avoiding.

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

One of the most powerful symbols of India’s unbroken civilizational continuity!

Discovered at Mohenjo-daro in undivided India this steatite seal, about 4,300-year-old, shows a seated figure in yogic posture (widely seen as Shiva-Pashupati) seated in Mulabandhasana, surrounded by animals.

While ancient sites may lie across modern borders, India remains the living custodian of this heritage. The yogic posture, Shaivite symbolism, and spiritual ethos seen in the Pashupati Seal continue to thrive in India’s temples, daily worship of Shiva, yogic traditions, and cultural life even today.

From the Vedic period to contemporary Bharat, this civilizational thread has remained alive and unbroken — deeply embedded in our philosophy, rituals, and collective consciousness.🇮🇳

#PashupatiSeal #IndusSaraswatiCivilization #LivingIndianHeritage

[old toons @oldtoons_]

Story time?

Back in the winter of 1955, an Uzbek politician and writer named Sharaf Rashidov went on a diplomatic trip to Jammu and Kashmir.

While he was there, he saw a live performance of "Bombur ta Yambarzal" (The Bumblebee and the Narcissus), a famous 1953 opera by the local poet Dina Nath Nadim.

On stage, characters played literal forces of nature: the spring narcissus, (Yambarzal) and the king of bees (Bombur) represented life and freedom, while winter blizzards symbolised oppression.

Rashidov was so moved by the performance that he went home and turned the story into a 1956 book called "The Kashmir Song", translating the flower's name to its more common regional equivalent, "Nargis".

By 1965, this local Kashmiri tale traveled all the way to Moscow's Soyuzmultfilm studio, that turned it into a gorgeous animated short film called *Nargis*. The animation team crafted the film in the ornate, miniature-painting style characteristic of traditional Russian Palekh lacquer art known for its folkloric elegance. At the same time, the characters’ flowing draped garments, vibrant attire, and decorative jewelry clearly draw inspiration from Indian cultural aesthetics, giving the film an exotic, fairy-tale quality that blends Soviet artistic traditions with the story’s Indian roots.

The film arrived at the perfect time. During the 1950s and 1960s, India and the Soviet Union shared a massive cultural exchange. Hindi cinema was wildly popular across the USSR with films starring actors such as Raj Kapoor drawing large audiences and becoming cultural touchstones. Amid this mutual fascination, Nargis served as a vivid example of how a great story can easily cross borders and connect completely different worlds.

[Nabaarun Barooah @BarooahNabaarun]

Indian schools should be forced to teach kids about the Spanish Reconquista.

[The Superior Man @superior_hombre]

5. WAKE UP AT 5AM (30 DAYS)

No snooze.

Discipline isn't built at night.

It's built in the morning.

[Shubham Mishra @brahma_4u]

India trains the engineer.

America files the patents.
Gurtej Sandhu was raised in Amritsar and trained at IIT Delhi.

He now holds 1,299 US patents at Micron, Edison topped out at 1,093.

Sandhu is the 7th most prolific inventor in American history.

His titanium nitride deposition work is why every DRAM cell in your phone and every GPU training a foundation model actually holds charge.

Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix own 95% of global DRAM.

None of them are Indian.

We export the inventor.

We import the chip.