Madhu Menon

Photographer. Chef. Former UX guy. Freedom-loving rationalist. Often sarcastic.

Tweets on food, UX, governance, technology, TV. My new food newsletter. 👇

[Madhu Menon @madmanweb]

Extremely shitty behaviour from Google. You are just deceiving people if you call this a "family" plan.

[Harshit Jain @jain_harshit]

Google just paused the YouTube Premium subscription for my parents because we use a family plan and currently don't live in same city

Dear @Google, if you want to verify a family, ask for official proof. Mandating that a family has to stay in same household is very old school

[Claudia Webbe @ClaudiaWebbe]

Rape with objects. Gang rape. Rape by trained dogs. Targeted genital shooting. Filmed. Photographed. Archived by the perpetrators. Across 12 named Israel detention sites.

The UN calls it a pattern. B’Tselem calls it a network of torture camps. Both are correct.

[Paritsh Sharrma @Paritolkks]

Vivek Agarwal's father was admitted to MAX Hospital. Seven members of his family were staying at the ill-fated Hotel Flourish Stays, where the fire broke out.

Not a single one of them survived.

Entire family was wiped out because some fire officer allegedly took a bribe to issue a fire clearance, some government babu never checked the building plans, and authorities ignored the illegal restaurant operating in the basement.

Now they will find the owner and put all the blame and act as if they are serious. But they won't allow anyone to talk about the system failure that made this tragedy possible.

Sadly, the news cycle will move on, and so will most people.

[Salil Tripathi (સલિલ ત્રિપાઠી) @saliltripathi]

So @TheEconomist is now hiring an editor for the world's LARGEST continent and charmingly says that journalism experience is not necessary, but writing entertainingly matters. I'm all for clear, fun writing. But how low is your bar, eh, @zannymb?

[Ed Newton-Rex @ednewtonrex]

Suno - a company that trained on "essentially all music files of reasonable quality that are accessible on the open Internet", and argues it does not need to pay to do so - is now valued at $5.4 billion.

They will pay for GPUs, and for engineers, but not, apparently, for the music they use - other people's music - without which their models would not work.

I know lots of musicians who will be upset. I am with them.

[Madhu Menon @madmanweb]

It's HR so nobody minds.

[Kalshi @Kalshi]

JUST IN: Uber to cut 20% of jobs in HR

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

Seems important to remember she disowned him, not the other way around. She gave up perhaps the largest inheritance in human history because that's how important it is to be yourself

[Florian Roth ⚡️ @cyb3rops]

The fix for Meta's AI bot vulnerability was apparently:
- remove the feature from the UI ❌
- leave the API endpoint accessible ✅
I wish I was joking.

[mas.to / @kingslyj]

Demanding to see Pradhan Non-Biological Exam Warrior's degree will land you in jail.

But everyone else is going to be forced to store their entire academic history on a shitty sarkari cloud that may end being breached by a bunch of teenagers?

#DigitalIndia

[Aarthi Iyengar @ThatsAarthi]

If you take a loan in India, do NOT use your main number! Use a dummy number that has no incoming calls. CIBIL leaks your number to every bank and loan shark the moment you even accidentally click on the button. This is just from today morning. Data protection and privacy is not a thing in India.

[Madhu Menon @madmanweb]

Damn, Peabo Bryson passed away. I'll sing "A Whole New World" for him at karaoke.

[Kane Murdoch @CCguerilla]

Unis, signing on to microsoft, are now discovering how the other shoe falls.

More enshitification for us all.

[Madhu Menon @madmanweb]

Couldn't happen to a nicer promoter.

[Harsh Upadhyay @upadhyay_harsh1]

Big: Ola Cabs (Ola Consumer) valuation has been reduced to $70 Mn, according to the latest disclosure by its early backer Vanguard.

▪️ Ola was once valued at $7.3 Bn in December 2021.

▪️ Ola’s valuation has fallen by nearly 99% from the level at which Vanguard first invested.

[Corey Quinn @QuinnyPig]

Jesus, Microsoft Security folks; I'm starting to wonder if we need to start making the "DANGER: CHOKING HAZARD" warning on the crayon box larger or something.

Spectacular own-goal on your interactions with the security community.

[Quail 🪶🐕🩵 @GambelerQuail]

I have bad news about gun silencers

[👑Che_ಕೃಷ್ಣ🇮🇳💛❤️ @ChekrishnaCk]

Ya believe govt

[Programmer Humor @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R]

aiCompaniesRightNow

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

This motherfucking war has more endings than Return of the King

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

Anushka Sharma left India to live in 4 AQI of London, eats the most unadulterated food items in the world, jogs in clean lanes, lives around the most advanced healthcare system.

Then comes home occasionally and preaches unscientific cures using Homeopathy to Indians who breathe in 400+ AQI Air, eat adulterated food and walk in garbage and dirt.

[Sahil Khan @sahilk]

Bio says capitalism. Candidate wants to do capitalism and suddenly they have a problem.