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[🌻 ꯀꯤꯔꯟ꯫ 🌻 @ikiranpathak]

Truth.

[Audrey Truschke @AudreyTruschke]

One thing that all serious scholars of South Asia know, but much of the public continues to get wrong, is stated here (again) by Romila Thapar -

The idea of Hindus vs. Muslims, as separate and antagonistic groups, is colonial propaganda. You can't decolonize with that foundation

[Dr Sudhir Kumar MD DM @hyderabaddoctor]

The 90-Second Trick: A Neurologist Explains How Somatic Breathing Fixes Mid-Day Workplace Burnout

Dr Sudhir Kumar explains how somatic breathing can fix midday workplace burnout. Here is how you can practise it and follow the tips to avoid burnout.

This informative article prepared by @EmmaUnique6 published in the NDTV has cited one of my previous posts on this topic.

@ndtv
https://t.co/dz2PIImZJA

[Jaxon @jaxoncoder]

Your Gmail says 15GB out of 15.

Google is betting you'll just pay $1.99 a month.
That 15GB is shared across Gmail, Drive, and Photos.
It's stuffed with junk you never cleared.
Google built a free tool that fixes it in minutes but never told you about it.
Do not pay.

Do these 8 steps first:

[Wellness wins @Bro_Code_x]

These self-protection skills are really needed by girls. Save for later

[BroodingCinn @CinfulBean]

@SuppressedNws1 Here’s another.
Credit to @MisterQuigley33
🫡❤️

https://t.co/lk7DkKkh7b

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

WOW.

AlJazeera just dropped a ONE HOUR documentary about ISRAEL’s CRIMES against the PALESTINIANS.

This is very HARD TO WATCH.

[BookNote @BookNoteApp]

10 'classic books' to fall in love with the genre:

1) The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

[Unfiltered @quotesdaily100]

35 Greatest Russian Novels of All Time:

1. War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy (1869)
2. Crime and Punishment — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1866)
3. Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy (1878)
4. The Brothers Karamazov — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1880)
5. Dead Souls — Nikolai Gogol (1842)
6. The Master and Margarita — Mikhail Bulgakov (1967)
7. Doctor Zhivago — Boris Pasternak (1957)
8. The Idiot — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1869)
9. Fathers and Sons — Ivan Turgenev (1862)
10. Oblomov — Ivan Goncharov (1859)
11. The Cherry Orchard — Anton Chekhov (1904)
12. Notes from Underground — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1864)
13. The Overcoat — Nikolai Gogol (1842)
14. Resurrection — Leo Tolstoy (1899)
15. We — Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
16. The Life of a Man — Alexander Herzen (1861)
17. And Quiet Flows the Don — Mikhail Sholokhov (1928)
18. Petersburg — Andrei Bely (1913)
19. The Twelve Chairs — Ilf and Petrov (1928)
20. A Hero of Our Time — Mikhail Lermontov (1840)
21. Demons — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1872)
22. The Captain's Daughter — Alexander Pushkin (1836)
23. Rudin — Ivan Turgenev (1856)
24. The Lower Depths — Maxim Gorky (1902)
25. Mother — Maxim Gorky (1906)
26. The Foundation Pit — Andrei Platonov (1930)
27. Life and Fate — Vasily Grossman (1980)
28. Lolita — Vladimir Nabokov (1955)
29. Invitation to a Beheading — Vladimir Nabokov (1935)
30. The Gift — Vladimir Nabokov (1938)
31. The Enchanted Wanderer — Nikolai Leskov (1873)
32. Poor Folk — Fyodor Dostoevsky (1846)
33. Thunderstorm — Alexander Ostrovsky (1859)
34. Childhood — Leo Tolstoy (1852)
35. The Seagull — Anton Chekhov (1895)

[Gladiators zone @Gladiatorszonee]

I highly recommend this playlist on human behavior.

It will change the way you understand yourself and the people around you.

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Listen to what Professor Nandita Narain, legendary Maths teacher of DU & former President DUTA is saying about what ails University education today & why she joined the Cockroach Janta Party protest at Jantar Mantar

[🌻 ꯀꯤꯔꯟ꯫ 🌻 @ikiranpathak]

@Velvetyvirgo Hugs, hugs and more hugs. You're brave and you got this.

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Ask the next five people you meet if they can say ‘climate change’ or ‘global warming’ in their mother tongue.

Marisha Thakur writes on World Environment Day: Why we need local Indian languages to navigate climate change

https://t.co/Ktkr0tVpdZ

[CyberDost I4C @Cyberdost]

Chaukanni Chachi is here to share simple but important Aadhaar safety practices that can help you protect your personal information and stay alert to suspicious activity.

• Enable available security features for your Aadhaar
• Regularly review authentication activity for any unusual access
• Share Aadhaar details only when necessary and with trusted entities

If you are a victim of cyber fraud, report it immediately by calling 1930 or visiting https://t.co/8W7L5b3Hrx

#CyberDost #AadhaarSafety #CyberAwareness #DigitalSafety #StayAlert @mygovindia @_DigitalIndia @UIDAI @ndtv @ndtvindia @Aadhaar_Care

[Ayanokoji @layeee09]

Le vieux du quartier m’a dit : « N’oublie pas que la boussole a été inventée avant l’horloge parce que la direction est plus importante que le temps. »

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

New research shows clutter dramatically spikes women’s cortisol—while men’s stress barely budges.

Household clutter extends far beyond mere aesthetics—it's deeply intertwined with stress physiology and cognitive burden, impacting women in particular.

Drawing from studies on dual-income married couples, therapist Elizabeth Earnshaw explains that women who view their homes as cluttered often see their cortisol levels rise throughout the day, unlike those who feel at ease, whose levels naturally decline. This heightened effect in women stems largely from bearing the disproportionate invisible mental load—the constant cycle of noticing, recalling, planning, and orchestrating household tasks.

Earnshaw suggests a realistic, three-part approach to reducing the stress–clutter spiral.

First, “shedding” involves intentionally minimizing possessions, including doing the emotional work required to let things go, in order to create more mental and physical space. Second, “preventing” focuses on systems: giving items clear “homes” so that decisions about where things go become automatic rather than mentally taxing. This may start with listing common types of clutter and designing dedicated spots for each (for example, a single, consistent place for receipts). Third, “adapting” asks families to accept that some clutter is inevitable in busy seasons of life and to concentrate on emotional regulation and co-regulation with partners, keeping stress and cortisol lower by adjusting expectations rather than striving for a perpetually picture-perfect home.

[Earnshaw, E., "Clutter, Cortisol, and Mental Load". Psychology Today, 2024]

[Saxbe, D. E., & Repetti, R. , "No place like home: Home tours correlate with daily patterns of mood and cortisol", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(1), 71–81, 2010, DOI: 10.1177/0146167209352864]

[Kanika @KanikaBK]

A Persian scholar finished a single math book in 9th century Baghdad that quietly became the foundation for every line of code running on Earth today.

His name was Muhammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi.

The book is called The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing. I started reading about him at midnight and could not believe how many things in my daily life trace back to one man.

Every time you say the word algebra, you are saying his book title.

And every time someone says the word algorithm, they are saying his name.

Both English words come from him. Both are Latin transliterations of Arabic and of his own identity. The man did not just contribute to mathematics. He named it.

Al-Khwarizmi was born around 780 CE in Khwarazm, in what is now Uzbekistan. He moved to Baghdad and worked at a research institution called the House of Wisdom, which during the Islamic Golden Age was the single most important center of learning on the planet.

The caliph al-Mamun hired the best mathematicians, astronomers, and philosophers from across three continents and put them in one building with one job.

Translate, study, and produce new knowledge. Al-Khwarizmi finished his book on algebra around 820 CE. The Arabic title contained the word al-jabr, which referred to one of the two operations he used to solve equations.

When the book was translated into Latin in the 12th century, the Latin world did not have a word for what he had built.

So they kept his Arabic word. Al-jabr became algebra.

The discipline was named after a single Arabic word in the title of a single book by a single man. The deeper insight is what he actually changed about how humans think.

Before al-Khwarizmi, mathematical problems were solved geometrically.

↳ You drew shapes and measured them
↳ You compared areas

The Greeks had built an entire mathematical tradition on visual proofs and physical constructions. It was beautiful and limited.

You could not solve a problem you could not draw.

Al-Khwarizmi did something nobody had done before him at this scale.

He said you could solve any problem using abstract symbols and rules.

↳ You did not need a shape. You needed a procedure
↳ You moved terms across the equation
↳ You cancelled like terms on both sides
↳ You isolated the unknown

He invented the idea that mathematics is a manipulation of symbols according to rules, not a study of physical figures.

That single shift made everything that came afterward possible.

Calculus. Differential equations. Linear algebra. Quantum mechanics.

None of it works if math is locked inside geometry. He pulled it out.

The second thing he did is the one that changed how the world counted forever. He took the Hindu numeral system from Indian mathematics, refined it, and wrote a book introducing it to the Arab world.

That system included:

↳ The concept of zero as a placeholder
↳ A positional notation where the value of a digit depends on its location

Roman numerals could not do complex calculation. Hindu-Arabic numerals could. When his book on numerals was translated into Latin as Algoritmi de numero Indorum, the word Algoritmi was just the Latin spelling of his own name. Europeans started calling the new method "doing algorism," then "running an algorithm."

The word for the most important concept in computer science is literally his name in Latin. The third thing he did is the part that should haunt anyone who works in tech. His method of solving problems was systematic:

↳ Step one, do this
↳ Step two, check that
↳ Step three, if condition A, then do X, otherwise do Y

He wrote down procedures that could be followed by anyone, anywhere, who knew how to read.

The procedure did not depend on intuition or genius. It worked because the steps worked. That is exactly what an algorithm is. A finite, deterministic procedure for solving a problem. He did not just give us the word. He gave us the entire concept of programming a thousand years before there was anything to program.

When Alan Turing built the first abstract model of computation in 1936, when John von Neumann designed the first stored-program computer in 1945, when every engineer at Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind writes code in 2026, they are working in a paradigm that started with one man in Baghdad twelve centuries ago.

The strangest part is what happens when you walk into any tech office in San Francisco or Bangalore or Lahore today.

Engineers say the words algebra and algorithm hundreds of times a day.

They do not know whose name they are saying.

Almost nobody can spell al-Khwarizmi correctly on the first try.

His legacy:

↳ Original Arabic manuscript preserved at Oxford
↳ Book on Hindu numerals survives only in Latin translation
↳ The Latin version was the textbook that taught medieval Europe how to count

The man who built the foundation of the AI revolution did not live to see a calculator.

He died around 850 CE, a thousand years before the first electric current was sent through a wire.

The civilization he built mathematics for collapsed. The library he wrote in burned. His own grave is unmarked.

But every algorithm running on every machine on Earth right now still answers to his name.

[Saira @AiWithSaira]

IF YOU DIED TOMORROW, YOUR FAMILY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO ACCESS A SINGLE THING YOU OWN DIGITALLY.

BANK ACCOUNTS. PASSWORDS. CLOUD STORAGE. ALL OF IT PERMANENTLY LOCKED AWAY.

HERE'S HOW TO FIX IT IN 30 MINUTES:

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

How journaling actually works (not the way you're doing it):

1. Stop Writing What Happened To You. Write What It Meant To You.

[pushkar soni @pushkersoni72]

The airline lost my bag for 72 hours.

They handed me a $50 “courtesy” voucher at the baggage desk and smiled like they’d done me a favor.

I kept the voucher. Then I opened my laptop and used a 1999 international treaty they never mention at check-in.

Total recovered: $1,650.

Here are the three legal weapons most passengers never know they have.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

This paragraph by C.S. Lewis, written in 1952, still hits hard:

“We all want progress. But progress means getting nearer to the place where you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turning, then to go forward does not get you any nearer. If you are on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; and in that case the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive man.”