Násser Junedi

WB'17. WSU'21

[Násser Junedi @nasnomas]

Ran a red light today for the first time... Felt like Tom Cruise in a Mission Impossible car chase... It's been a bad ass day.

[r @bekhayalime]

Aditya Dhar needs a rebirth to make a film as real meaningful and compelling as Homebound, because films full of propaganda and hate, like Dhurandhar, can’t be truly meaningful.

[IGN @IGN]

The sequel to Bollywood’s biggest hit, the violent spy saga Dhurandhar: The Revenge is a naked piece of political propaganda that lacks the momentum of its predecessor.

Our review: https://t.co/8pj1tjhXWi

[ismosis @ccphusrox]

My India lives, in tiny pockets, it still does. Eid Mubarak <3

[Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee]

I called Aditya Dhar a BJP propagandist 3 months ago.

Now everyone will see it. It was subtle in the previous film, but he went so blatant this time in overconfidence. Remember how I said, well-made propaganda is more dangerous? Ab toh well-made bhi nahi raha. Lol

[The Wire @thewire_in]

‘Dhurandhar: The Revenge’ is a Masterstroke in Pandering to a Nation that Wants to be Misled

The film is a PR job for Narendra Modi including hailing demonetisation as a ‘masterstroke’.

@LunkyFallow✍️
https://t.co/eLRy3S1frs

[Násser Junedi @nasnomas]

Dhurandhar is one of the most dangerous movies to come out of Bollywood. Splicing footage from real terrorist attacks in India and inserting fictional storylines to make it seem real is insane. Avg person in India gonna start hating Muslims if they didn’t already.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is one of the most important studies in sleep science.

Van Dongen et al. ran the experiment that changed how we understand chronic sleep restriction. They had subjects sleep 4h, 6h, or 8h nightly for 14 days, testing cognitive performance every 2 hours.

The 6h group’s reaction time deficits by day 14 matched subjects who had been awake for 24 hours straight. The 4h group? They performed like someone awake 48 hours.

But here’s what makes this study terrifying.

The Stanford Sleepiness Scale ratings in Panel B plateau after day 3-4. Subjects stopped feeling more tired even as their cognitive performance continued deteriorating through day 14. Your subjective experience of fatigue is a lagging indicator that eventually just… stops updating.

This explains why chronic undersleeping feels sustainable. You’ve adapted to feeling tired. Your prefrontal cortex hasn’t adapted to being impaired.

The PVT (Psychomotor Vigilance Task) in Panel A measures lapses in attention. These are the moments where you’re staring at a screen and your brain simply checks out for 500ms. Every additional day of 6h sleep adds more lapses. The curve never flattens.

Panel C and D show working memory and processing speed. Same pattern: continuous degradation with no subjective awareness.

The practical implications:

If you’re sleeping 6h and think you’re functioning fine, you’ve lost the internal calibration to know you’re not. The subjects in this study would have told you they felt “okay” while performing like they’d pulled an all-nighter.

For anyone doing cognitively demanding work, this means you cannot trust how you feel. You need to track objective markers: error rates, decision latency, problem-solving throughput.

Sleep need is biological, not negotiable. Most adults require 7-9 hours, and the research shows no population-level adaptation to chronic restriction. “I only need 6 hours” is almost always “I’ve forgotten what baseline cognition feels like.“

[Násser Junedi @nasnomas]

@DrDiGiorgio What is the solution to training more surgeons? What changes have to happen?

[Aadit Sheth @aaditsh]

The most dangerous addiction today isn't a substance.

Research on 100,000 people confirms that heavy short-form video use is just voluntary cognitive decline. We are actively training our brains to fail at hard tasks.

If you can simply sit with a problem for 10 minutes without swiping, you have a massive competitive advantage.

Basically, boredom is the new IQ.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Talking to independent physicians, it's obvious that the big insurance carriers are doing to them, what their PBMs are doing to independent pharmacies.

They deny, underpay, slow pay, clawback, and create administrative mazes, knowing their victims don't have the time or resources to fight.

Why ? By putting financial pressures on physicians and pharmacies, it makes them more likely to sell their businesses to them , close their doors, or refer the business to their captive pharmacy or provider. All benefitting the biggest insurance companies

We need to ditch the concept of "claims" and make every delivery of medications or care as a billable event that must, by law, be paid on a timely basis , with interest charges for any delays. If the physician or pharmacy doesn't deliver , the carrier has plenty of legal options already. As does the patient.

This is not an efficient market. This is the big guy abusing the little guy. It needs to change to better the care we get in this country

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

This is an old photo of Babri Masjid, a mosque that stood for over 400 years in the Indian city of Ayodhya.

In 1992, it was destroyed in a riot instigated by the BJP, now India's ruling party.

Tonight, Hindu nationalists will celebrate that atrocity in Times Square. (1/8)

[Aayush... @aayush_ism]

We need to talk about Zohran Mamdani's victory speech because it was EVERYTHING. He quoted Nehru. His wife beside him. His Gujarati Muslim father and Hindu mother in a saree on stage. Ended with 'Dhoom Machale' blasting. This is what representing Indian Americans actually looks like. Not Usha Vance, Kash Patel or Vivek Ramaswamy.

[Dr. Yasir Qadhi @YasirQadhi]

To be clear, @ZohranKMamdani won not because he's from a Muslim background, but in spite of it.

His faith, his name, his ethnicity, all worked against him, and blatant anti-Muslim bigotry was used by his opponents in the most famous and heavily populated city in America (which also has the largest number of Jewish Americans as well).

The fact that a candidate who was relatively unknown a few months ago won with such an astounding margin shows that his simple message resonated with the people: the masses are tired of the career politicians who represent billionaires and super-PACs instead of your average working class folks. His win also demonstrates that bigotry and hatred, while still rampant, can be conquered.

But what is most relevant for us is that Mamdani's victory also represents a loss for key billionaire AIPAC supporters, and hence for the Zionist project. They tried every tactic to bring him down, and spent tens of millions of dollars, yet failed miserably. The genocide in Gaza cannot be ignored and is taking its toll, even in mayoral elections. The humiliating dance that American politicians must do for Israel as a prerequisite in order to get elected to office is embarrassingly cringeworthy and obviously problematic, and is turning more and more people away from those bought politicians.

I'm not in a position to celebrate the person who has won, as I do not live in New York, and his policies are yet to be seen. But I am in a position to celebrate another, more important, reality, which is the following:

The tide is shifting, and if even The Big Apple is sick of AIPAC and the Zionist lobby, and New Yorkers are willing to elect an obviously Muslim politician who humanizes Palestinians and refuses to dance to the tunes of Israel, then this is a sign that my fellow Americans really have moved on from their previous misunderstands, and that the control that the Lobby had is effectively over.

And for that reason, I can most definitely celebrate such a win!

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

In the words of Nelson Mandela: it always seems impossible until it’s done.

My friends, it is done. And you are the ones who did it.

I am honored to be your Democratic nominee for the Mayor of New York City.

[Monica💚🍉Free Congo, Palestine & Sudan @BlakPantherBabe]

Yall were so offended at the idea of paying another US citizen's student loans. Now youre paying for an imaginary country's war.

Yall arent patriots, you just hate poor people

[Asad🗽🍎 @AsadFromNYC]

When asked which agency they’d cut funding from, Mamdani deftly names consultants and contractors (i.e., not city agencies but private corporations). He says we paid McKinsey millions to help install trash cans.

This man knows how to play ball.

[Tom Cruise @TomCruise]

Every choice, every mission, has all led to this. Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. May 23, 2025.

[DiscussingFilm @DiscussingFilm]

First poster for ‘TRON: ARES’

In theaters on October 10.

[Ankit Bharat, MD FACS @AnkitBharatMD]

The claim that the ACA was the "greatest piece of legislation ever passed" doesn’t just strain credulity; it collapses under scrutiny. The Affordable Care Act, enacted in 2010, was less a bold reimagining of American healthcare and more a patchwork compromise that entrenched systemic flaws while papering over them with lofty rhetoric.

First, the ACA supercharged consolidation in healthcare, a trend that’s suffocated independent medicine. @DutchRojas nailed it: the reimbursement model, skewed by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), pays hospital outpatient departments (HOPDs) far more than independent practices for identical services. A 2021 study by the American Medical Association found that Medicare pays HOPDs twice as much as physician offices for routine procedures like colonoscopies—$1,135 versus $540. The result? Between 2012 and 2018, hospital acquisitions of physician practices surged by 128%, per Avalere Health. These “not-for-profit” health systems—many sitting on billion-dollar endowments—gobbled up private practices not to improve care, but to exploit payment arbitrage. Patient outcomes didn’t drive this; revenue did. By 2023, nearly 75% of U.S. physicians were employed by hospitals or corporate entities, up from 26% pre-ACA, per the Physicians Advocacy Institute. This isn’t reform—it’s a corporate feeding frenzy.

Second, the ACA’s mandates warped economics in ways that defy logic. The “essential health benefits” requirement forced insurers to bundle irrelevant coverage—think maternity care for 60-year-old men or pediatric vision for childless seniors—into every plan. This obliterated risk stratification. Pre-ACA, a 30-year-old could snag catastrophic coverage for $100-$200 monthly, per eHealth data from 2009. Post-ACA, average individual premiums hit $476 by 2017 (Kaiser Family Foundation), often with deductibles exceeding $6,000—rendering the “coverage” unusable for many. The young and healthy got hammered: a 2016 NBER study found premiums for younger adults rose 20-30% more than they would have without the ACA’s cross-subsidy structure. Meanwhile, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected in 2019 that 7 million people would opt for no insurance by 2029 rather than pay inflated ACA premiums. Mandating overpriced, overbuilt plans didn’t fix access—it priced people out.

Third, the “50 million gained coverage” talking point is a statistical sleight-of-hand. The bulk came via Medicaid expansion—29 million by 2022, per CMS. But Medicaid’s dirty secret? Only 62% of physicians accept new Medicaid patients (2019 MedPAC report), compared to 90% for private insurance. Why? Reimbursement rates are abysmal—often 50-70% of Medicare rates, which are already below private payers. Studies, like one in Health Affairs (2017), show Medicaid patients face longer wait times and worse outcomes than the privately insured—e.g., 20% higher mortality rates for heart attack patients. For the middle class, ACA plans brought “coverage” with a catch: narrow networks (60% of 2018 plans had limited provider options, per KFF) and deductibles averaging $4,500. That’s not care; it’s a hollow promise.

Finally, the ACA’s anti-competitive streak is indefensible. Section 6001, banning new physician-owned hospitals (POHs) from Medicare participation, was a blatant sop to the American Hospital Association. Pre-ACA, POHs— nimble, physician-led facilities—consistently beat corporate systems on cost and quality. A 2008 CMS study found POHs had lower complication rates and 20% lower costs for procedures like joint replacements. Post-ACA, their growth flatlined; by 2020, their numbers had shrunk 10% (American Association of Physician Leadership). This wasn’t “market stabilization”—it was a legislated moat for hospital monopolies. Healthcare spending, already $2.6 trillion in 2010, ballooned to $4.3 trillion by 2021 (CMS), with hospital care eating 31% of the pie. The ACA didn’t disrupt this—it fed it.

[kelly @BoyYeetsWorld]

embarrassing performance from me in the TSA line just now. came in too confident, took the laptop out on a laptop in the bag day. gotta be flawless on the return trip back to recover from this one