Mukul

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[Aravind @aravind]

There we go. An investment bank confirms.

But the food crisis is not going to be just due to fertilizer shortage. I know India is already ramping up imports of urea etc.

Still it may not be enough. As I had outlined in my post, it will be a manufactured crisis blamed on natural factors and the supply chain.

The food crisis will be precipitated to weaken democracies like India by turning people against the government. Using personal issues like inflation and food scarcity amplified with narrative warfare.

This is why it is important for India to start preparing now.

Increase the already high buffer stocks, but more importantly prevent sabotages to them by 0.5 front commies and radicals, tighten loopholes in exports, prepare for better coast guard and customs to prevent smuggling out etc.

And the most important preparation India needs to do to maintain stability will be in narrative. Both in preemptive narrative and in fighting fake narrative & cognitive warfare once the crisis starts.

[Mukul @mukul207]

Jai Shree Mahakaal. Lost my phone during Mahakaal ji ki sawari on 17 Aug 2026 in Ujjain. Thanks to Ujjain police, they found it and returned it back to me. @CommissionerUJN @UjjainPolice @PoliceUjjain #JaiShreeMahakaal

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

It is an honor to have such a great team join @SpaceX

[Sonam Mahajan @AsYouNotWish]

Yasin Malik’s men didn’t stop at raping the 27-year-old Kashmiri Hindu nurse Sarla Bhatt. They then murdered her, engraved the acronym ‘JKLF’ on her body, and mutilated it out of sheer contempt for her Hindu identity. After that, they issued multiple warnings to her family against cremating her remains according to Hindu rituals. The family still went ahead with the cremation, defying the threats. When they went to collect her cremated remains (asthi) later, a mob of around 200 Islamists descended upon the crematorium and stomped over them.

They didn’t stop even at that. They then bombed her family home with a grenade.

Do you really think all 200 of those monsters who showed up at the crematorium were foreign infiltrators, Pakistani terrorists, or JKLF members? These are the questions that make many Kashmiri Muslims very uncomfortable. The moment you raise these issues, especially when they present a narrative portraying their community as victims, they label you an Islamophobe or resort to similar accusations.

I have seen all kinds of Islamists, but the tribe in Kashmir is the craftiest. Many of them pretend to be atheists in private, yet their public behaviour and political leanings tell a completely different story. Very hard to take their words at face value.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

This is a new paradigm for interacting with Claude that is significantly more "inline" with all the other human activity org-wide. Once you do all of the under the hood engineering work to make this "just work" (e.g. across tools, integrations, compute environments, memory, security, etc.), Claude basically joins the team in a seamless way - you can talk to it as you would talk to a person and it can help with a very large variety of workloads.

Imo this is the 3rd major redesign of LLM UIUX. The first paradigm was that the LLM is a website you go to, the second was that it is an app you download to your computer. This third one is that it is a self-contained, persistent, asynchronous entity with org-wide tools and context, working alongside teams of humans. It really takes a while to wrap your head around it, but it works and it is awesome.

[Yarchi @undefinedKi]

https://t.co/KADozFhjGF

[Mukul @mukul207]

Never knew this... Stereo smell... interesting

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your nose isn't badly designed. You're running stereo smell and never noticed.

At any given moment one nostril is doing about 3x the breathing of the other. The dominant side swaps every few hours, driven by erectile tissue in your turbinates that swells on one side and drains on the other. It's called the nasal cycle, and every mammal has it.

Here's why that matters. In 1999 Stanford neuroscientist Noam Sobel proved each nostril smells the world differently. The high-airflow side picks up odor molecules that absorb slowly. The low-airflow side grabs the ones that absorb fast. Two different chemical snapshots, sent to your brain at the same time, on every sniff.

One big hole gives you one airflow rate. One snapshot. A narrower range of smells.

It also kills the recovery loop. While one side works, the resting side re-humidifies, clears mucus, and lets the tissue de-swell. Merge them and there's no off-duty nostril to recover.

And you'd lose direction. Your brain figures out where a smell is coming from by comparing the two sides, the same way two ears give you stereo hearing. One hole, no triangulation.

Bigger airflow would cost you smell range, a self-cleaning cycle, and your sense of direction. The two-hole nose is doing far more work than the question gives it credit for.

[nisarga @ni5arga]

CBSE people didn't configure their AWS bucket properly and now we can paginate & enumerate all their media which has 2026 answersheets & question papers. ListObjectsV2 works without any auth and the bucket root is listable too — anyone on the internet can download any scanned booklet — across institutions. Multiple institutions are using the same bucket, insanely insecure.

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

@ni5arga @cbseindia29 good morning CBSE, you said you used scanners to scan these copies,

now since the copies are out to the public view, do you mind explaining

which copies when scanned through a scanner, have a drop shadow? and these 3 folds?

did you really use scanners?

[Mukul @mukul207]

Sleeping CBSE over losing sleep of students

[nisarga @ni5arga]

We were able to get full create, read, update and delete (CRUD) access & shell access to CBSE's prod servers (as mentioned in their circular https://t.co/MFiu5xU1DF). This is disastrous. Proof archive is at https://t.co/LWWqKBOGjv.

Prod URL (might be taken down): https://t.co/gbZKz3d65V

[Deedy @deedydas]

The national high school exam of India, CBSE, has been Pwned!

This incompetent organization continues to deny the allegations against them. And a teenager has taken over their prod servers hosting the exam booklet scans of 2M test takers. They have just taken it down.

All they had to say is "can you help us fix the problem?" but their ego is too big to admit they were wrong.

Incompetence is one thing. The complete lack of accountability to the nation while your servers get catastrophically owned is another. Internet-scale embarrassment.

[Mukul @mukul207]

For once I agree with this logical questioning line...

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Read this story. Carefully.

CBSE called for OSM tenders thrice. Zero bids the first time. No qualified bidder the second time. And finally, the technical bar was lowered until COEMPT could clear it.

Scanning resolution cut. Robotic scanner requirement dropped. CMMI certification lowered from Level 5 to Level 3. Penalties for errors in answer sheets removed.

TCS, India’s biggest IT services company, qualified in the third round too. TCS lost. COEMPT - a company with a spectacular track record of failure - won.

And what are CBSE students complaining about today? Badly scanned answer sheets. Missing pages. A broken evaluation portal.

Teachers had warned CBSE that the OSM system needed at least a year or two for further preparation before nationwide implementation, yet it was rushed through.

So I ask again - who wanted COEMPT to win? Who lowered the bar, step by step, until this company could clear it?

Pradhan ji and CBSE say “due process was followed.” That is not an answer, that is not accountability. The question is whether the contract was honestly awarded to the best company which could do the job correctly.

The futures of 18.5 lakh children were handed to a company that could only qualify after the rules were bent for it.

To the BJP Ministers attacking me for asking questions - I have, from day one, demanded an independent judicial probe. Expand it from CBSE to every contract awarded to COEMPT. Our youth deserve the truth.

And Modi ji, your silence on the CBSE debacle and inaction against the Education Minister tells the country what you actually care about - not the futures of lakhs of students, only the survival of your own government.

[shirish @shiri_shh]

HOLY SHIT 😭

Dude just recovered 5 BTC (~$400K) that had been locked for 11 YEARS… using Claude AI.

He got high in college, changed the password to “lol420fuckthePOLICE!*:)” and forgot it.

Tried trillions of guesses. Paid recovery services. Nothing worked.

He then... dumped his entire old college computer into Claude.

AI found the old wallet file, spotted a bug in the recovery tool, fixed it, and extracted the keys.

[Mukul @mukul207]

Ek baar total to check kar lete engagement farming se pehle 🤪

[Bharat Mata ke Sewak @CountryGulshan]

Today, while celebrating a birthday party with my friends, my whole bank account got emptied!

I thought the total expense would be around ₹20,000–25,000. But the hotel bill shocked me.

Before we started eating, the restaurant manager asked how many people were there. I told him we were 16 people. He first said the food would cost around ₹30,000–35,000.

But when the final bill arrived, it was ₹56,000!

When I asked the manager about it, he said the dishes we ordered were very expensive. I even requested a discount, but he replied, “This is not a roadside dhaba where we give discounts.”

In the end, I had no option but to pay the full amount. Honestly, can food for 16 people really cost this much?

[Mukul @mukul207]

And micro plastics are possibly the leading source of growing cancer population in Humans!!!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your testicles are the only organ in your body that can flush microplastics out. Your brain can't. Your heart can't. Your liver can't. That's why this number can hit zero, and a brain scan never will.

Sperm fully regenerate from stem cells every 64 to 74 days. The testes produce 1,000 to 1,500 new cells per second. The blood-testes barrier filters what gets in. Unused sperm get reabsorbed within weeks. It's the most aggressive cellular turnover in the male body.

Every other tissue stores plastic permanently. The Nihart Nature Medicine 2025 study found brain microplastic concentrations 7 to 30x higher than liver or kidney, and ~50% higher in 2024 than 2016. Cardiac plaque drives a 4.5x higher heart attack rate because arterial walls have no removal pathway. Placenta: 100% positive. Liver and kidney filter constantly but trap particles in glomeruli and lipid droplets.

In 18 months Bryan ran 7 complete sperm cycles. He cut input at the source (RO water, no plastic cookware, no cling wrap, no synthetic fabrics), and each new cycle got built from cleaner raw material than the last. By cycle 7, his lab couldn't detect anything.

Caveat: standard FTIR spectroscopy has a detection floor around 10 microns. Nanoplastics smaller than that are invisible to the method. Bryan flagged this himself when explaining why other studies found particles in only 44-76% of men. The same caveat applies to his result. "Zero" means zero detected.

The principle still holds. Sperm regeneration is one of the only clearance routes the body has for systemic microplastic load.

Now the part that should ruin a regular guy's afternoon: your sperm have been built from contaminated raw material for decades. Phthalates linked to 3x higher odds of low sperm count. PTFE to 5x. The cells responsible for your future kid are passing through Sertoli cells loaded with what you ate, drank, and wore since 1990.

The only good news in the data: stop the input, and the one organ that can rebuild itself clean is the one that makes the next generation.

[Mukul @mukul207]

@Pradeepkannanj @MahimaJalan2 @pradeepkannanj Can we connect on DM?

[Mukul @mukul207]

AI Is Changing the Security Equation — And an AI-assisted vulnerability discovery in the Linux kernel just proved it.

https://t.co/1FHGgrgOXe

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

THIS GUY CAUGHT CLAUDE OPUS 4.7 THINKING IN CHINESE

he was working in claude code and noticed the thinking blocks were saying "thinking process:" in chinese

the rest of the thought was in english. but the header was chinese every single time

he asked claude why its writing in chinese

claude responded: "the chinese was a leak from internal reasoning that shouldn't have been visible. won't happen again"

claude literally admitted its internal reasoning runs in chinese and it accidentally leaked into the visible output

which is definitely weird

but this actually makes some sense though:

> LLMs think in whichever language was most common in the training data for that specific topic
> chinese characters are more token efficient than english so the model naturally defaults to them to save compute
> some concepts take an entire english sentence to express but only need a few chinese characters
> claude also thinks in russian when doing cybersecurity tasks because the training data for that domain is heavily russian

so claude is actively reasoning in whatever language is most efficient for the task and then converting the output back to english

the part that should concern people is that anthropic's own model admitted this was a "leak from internal reasoning that shouldn't have been visible"

meaning there's a whole layer of thinking happening in languages you can't read that you were never supposed to see

[Gagandeep Singh Sapra @TheBigGeek]

“Taang tod doonga. 10 baje ke baad kitchen kholi toh dekh lena.”

The story starts again. Same pattern.

Police walk in and shut us down.
Refuse to take a complaint.
We employ 15 people per kitchen.
Jobs now at risk because we won’t pay a bribe.

Police that should protect us are hurting us.

🎥 https://t.co/rRXMGXN22r

@CPDelhi @LtGovDelhi @PMOIndia @dcp_southwest @CMODelhi @FinMinIndia

[Mukul @mukul207]

PAT: ₹20,589.00 Crore (Down 7.63% QoQ | Down 8.94% YoY)

PAT Margin: 6.79% (Down 133 bps QoQ | Down 160 bps YoY)

Diluted EPS: ₹12.54 (Down 9.00% QoQ | Down 12.55% YoY)

[Mukul @mukul207]

REL results show even the diverse and large business houses are not immune from margin pressure in the current global uncertainty. Despite a 12.5% increase in revenue YoY, EBITA (.3%) and PAT (9%) are down significantly.

Key Highlights of the financial results for Q4 FY25-26

[Mukul @mukul207]

Revenue: ₹303,068.00 Crore (Up 10.44% QoQ | Up 12.46% YoY)

EBITDA: ₹48,588.00 Crore (Down 4.60% QoQ | Down 0.31% YoY)

EBITDA Margin: 16.03% (Down 253 bps QoQ | Down 205 bps YoY)

PBT: ₹27,195.00 Crore (Down 8.43% QoQ | Down 6.56% YoY)