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[phils @iam__philips]

I learnt about tailscale today. Awesome way to share webapps to the select few that I care about

[phils @iam__philips]

@AlexAndBooks_ I have read it , partially. It's so dense for me that I have to take it small piece at a time

[phils @iam__philips]

All good things originated from Rajasthan. RTI and now this.

[The Nalanda Index @Nalanda_index]

The NEET paper leak would probably have stayed buried forever if a school teacher from Sikar had not refused to stay silent.

Shashikant Suthar, a chemistry teacher from Rajasthan, was shown a “guess paper” by one of his neighbors after the NEET exam. That PDF had reportedly been circulating in Telegram groups for weeks.

Out of curiosity, he matched it with the real exam paper.

The result was terrifying.

Around 140 questions were identical. Same sequence. Same wording. Even punctuation marks matched.

He rushed to the local police station expecting immediate action.

Nobody listened.

No FIR.
No urgency.
No investigation.

But instead of giving up, he kept escalating the matter emailing the NTA, PMO, President of India, and CBI while continuously raising the issue online.

Only then did the system move.

Rajasthan Police formed a Special Operations Group. What initially looked like a small leak soon exploded into a nationwide examination scam connected across multiple states.

The case eventually reached the CBI. NEET was cancelled. And investigators uncovered an organized network of professional paper leak operators.

This entire scandal was exposed because one ordinary teacher decided that remaining silent was not an option.

Sometimes one honest citizen is more powerful than an entire broken system.

[phils @iam__philips]

@RahulGandhi Rahul warned us much earlier about cjp

[phils @iam__philips]

@nramind @YouTube Struggling to understand why hindu stopping so low that they are now analysing social media posts in podcasts

[phils @iam__philips]

The Hindu and N Ram still unable to move on from DMK

[phils @iam__philips]

claude code down in india? @claudeai

[PMO India @PMOIndia]

एक सबसे अच्छी बात मुझे पूरे रास्ते भर दिखी... वो थी सिक्किम की सड़कों की स्वच्छता।

दूर-दूर तक कोई गंदगी नहीं... वायु में भी स्वच्छता...सड़कों पर भी स्वच्छता... सिक्किम के आप लोग प्रकृति के पक्के वाले संरक्षक हैं... brand ambassador हैं: PM @narendramodi

[phils @iam__philips]

I see amazon ads in @NPCI_BHIM transactions window.

Isn't that wrong for a govt payments app from data privacy angle?
@ramrastogi
@amitabhk87 @npc

[phils @iam__philips]

@GargEtisha @badlogicgames But recent policy change at anthropic won't allow me to use pi using a claude pro subscription? I'll have to purchase api credits for it to work?

[Skitzo @theskitzo_]

Easily one of the best sample chop of all time

[phils @iam__philips]

@StockMarketNerd Been seeing th is since yesterday! For a moment I thought my isp blocked Claude!

[phils @iam__philips]

Sanju!

[phils @iam__philips]

Running claude code on my raspberry pi5 with 8gb RAM almost always crashes even for light weight tasks. Usual for it the takeaway such huge memory? @bcherny @trq212

[phils @iam__philips]

This seems to me as a transparent account of what lies ahead across all domain of work

[jack @jack]

we're making @blocks smaller today. here's my note to the company.

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today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.

first off, if you're one of the people affected, you'll receive your salary for 20 weeks + 1 week per year of tenure, equity vested through the end of may, 6 months of health care, your corporate devices, and $5,000 to put toward whatever you need to help you in this transition (if you’re outside the U.S. you’ll receive similar support but exact details are going to vary based on local requirements). i want you to know that before anything else. everyone will be notified today, whether you're being asked to leave, entering consultation, or asked to stay.

we're not making this decision because we're in trouble. our business is strong. gross profit continues to grow, we continue to serve more and more customers, and profitability is improving. but something has changed. we're already seeing that the intelligence tools we’re creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. and that's accelerating rapidly.

i had two options: cut gradually over months or years as this shift plays out, or be honest about where we are and act on it now. i chose the latter. repeated rounds of cuts are destructive to morale, to focus, and to the trust that customers and shareholders place in our ability to lead. i'd rather take a hard, clear action now and build from a position we believe in than manage a slow reduction of people toward the same outcome. a smaller company also gives us the space to grow our business the right way, on our own terms, instead of constantly reacting to market pressures.

a decision at this scale carries risk. but so does standing still. we've done a full review to determine the roles and people we require to reliably grow the business from here, and we've pressure-tested those decisions from multiple angles. i accept that we may have gotten some of them wrong, and we've built in flexibility to account for that, and do the right thing for our customers.

we're not going to just disappear people from slack and email and pretend they were never here. communication channels will stay open through thursday evening (pacific) so everyone can say goodbye properly, and share whatever you wish. i'll also be hosting a live video session to thank everyone at 3:35pm pacific. i know doing it this way might feel awkward. i'd rather it feel awkward and human than efficient and cold.

to those of you leaving…i’m grateful for you, and i’m sorry to put you through this. you built what this company is today. that's a fact that i'll honor forever. this decision is not a reflection of what you contributed. you will be a great contributor to any organization going forward.

to those staying…i made this decision, and i'll own it. what i'm asking of you is to build with me. we're going to build this company with intelligence at the core of everything we do. how we work, how we create, how we serve our customers. our customers will feel this shift too, and we're going to help them navigate it: towards a future where they can build their own features directly, composed of our capabilities and served through our interfaces. that's what i'm focused on now. expect a note from me tomorrow.

jack

[staysaasy @staysaasy]

My new favorite insult is calling someone’s job a Claude skill.

[phils @iam__philips]

Fitting fee! Well played lenskart

[phils @iam__philips]

Is the kerala RTI portal working fine?
The file movement tracking, reply , payment history option are all not loading after the maintenance done on the site on Feb 16...

Anyone else facing the issue?

@drbabukv

[phils @iam__philips]

@techgirl1908 Are the skills published somewhere?
Any awesome skills repo you recommend?

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

Pelican mindset is just "Imma eat that"