Navaneeth M Nambiar

Millenial stuck in Nostalgia | Stay Curious

[Navaneeth M Nambiar @navaneethmn]

@sriharsha3729 when/where Metro

[International Space Station @Space_Station]

The Soyuz spacecraft is comprised of three modules. The crew will parachute to Earth inside the Descent Module. The other two modules will separate from the spacecraft just before reentering the atmosphere.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Danish Sait @DanishSait]

I have more charging cables than devices.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

Congratulations India.

The seriousness of @Cockroachisback, @SauravDassss, @abhijeet_dipke, @neha_aisa, Aameen, Manish, and the unhinged non-seriousness of the gen z memes has made the Kings blink today.

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Love having photography nerds on the ISS and in NASA

[hexal @imhexal_]

battle mage

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Pleased to share my favorite high-resolution capture of the Artemis II launch- the moment the SLS is clearing the tower, captured by a sound-triggered camera placed near the pad.

I'll have prints linked in my bio for this one, and here's a short thread about how it was captured

[third-party evaluation partner @mycoliza]

engineering skill thrives under constraints and withers in excessive abundance

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

A crazy mental trick is to map complex concepts onto regions the brain is “primed” for (Chernoff).

The most hilarious example I’ve seen is…multivariate portfolio data on cartoon fish.

Analysts would thus look for the "weird fish" in the aquarium.

[Phil Edwards @PhilEdwardsInc]

I miss the olden days when cool people thought everything mainstream sucked.

[Pringus McDingus @Armand_Gman]

i'm sure i locked it... right?

[DeeDee - ADHD Helper @DopaminePlsMe]

The most painful part of ADHD isn't avoiding laundry.
It's avoiding the art, the writing, or the game you’ve been dying to play all week.
I am not just procrastinating work. I am ghosting my own happiness because the "Start" button in my brain is broken.

[Phil Edwards @PhilEdwardsInc]

https://t.co/52yADJAzdt

[Gergely Orosz @GergelyOrosz]

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse.

This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares.

Journalist @CaseyNewton got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

[Jason Fried @jasonfried]

THE BIG REGRESSION

My folks are in town visiting us for a couple months so we rented them a house nearby.

It’s new construction. No one has lived in it yet. It’s amped up with state of the art systems. The ones with touchscreens of various sizes, IoT appliances, and interfaces that try too hard.

And it’s terrible. What a regression.

The lights are powered by Control4. And require a demo to understand how to use the switches, understand which ones control what, and to be sure not to hit THAT ONE because it’ll turn off all the lights in the house when you didn’t mean to. Worse.

The TV is the latest Samsung which has a baffling UI just to watch CNN. My parents aren’t idiots, but definitely feel like they’re missing something obvious. They aren’t — TVs have simply gotten worse. You don’t turn them on anymore, you boot them up.

The Miele dishwasher is hidden flush with the counters. That part is fine, but here’s what isn’t: It wouldn’t even operate the first time without connecting it to an app. This meant another call to the house manager to have them install an app they didn’t know they needed either. An app to clean some peanut butter off a plate? For serious? Worse.

Thermostats... Nest would have been an upgrade, but these other propriety ones from some other company trying to be nest-like are baffling. Round touchscreens that take you into a dark labyrinth of options just to be sure it’s set at 68. Or is it 68 now? Or is that what we want it at, but it’s at 72? Wait... What? Which number is this? Worse.

The alarm system is essentially a 10” iPad bolted to the wall that has the fucking weather forecast on it. And it’s bright! I’m sure there’s a way to turn that off, but then the screen would be so barren that it would be filled with the news instead. Why can’t the alarm panel just be an alarm panel? Worse.

And the lag. Lag everywhere. Everything feels a beat or two behind. Everything. Lag is the giveaway that the system is working too hard for too little. Real-time must be the hardest problem.

Now look... I’m no luddite. But this experience is close to conversion therapy. Tech can make things better, but I simply can’t see in these cases. I’ve heard the pitches too — you can set up scenes and one button can change EVERYTHING. Not buying it. It actually feels primitive, like we haven’t figured out how to make things easy yet. That some breakthrough will eventually come when you can simply knock a switch up or down and it’ll all makes sense. But that's at least 20 years down the road.

It’s really the contrast that makes it alarming. We just got back from a vacation in Montana. Rented a house there. They did have a fancy TV — seems those can’t be avoided these days — but everything else was old school and clear. Physical up/down light switches in the right places. Appliances without the internet. Buttons with depth and physically-confirmed state change rather than surfaces that don’t obviously register your choice. More traditional round rotating Honeywell thermostats that are just clear and obvious. No tours, no instructions, no questions, no fearing you’re going to do something wrong, no wondering how something works. Useful and universally clear. That’s human, that’s modern.

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This actually isn't the worst I've seen. I read last year about an app used to assign shifts to nurses and other healthcare professionals, which draws their credit score data from Experian, and then uses that to calculate how much to offer per shift.

Essentially, the lower the credit score, the more desperate to make money the nurse is deemed, and the lower the pay they are offered. I mean it is one thing to do this gamified capitalism bullshit to delivery drivers and Ubers, but it is another thing entirely to turn payment for lifesaving healthcare professionals into the Hunger Games.

And once I understood that capitalism has no safety rails and no adults in the room, and the animating philosophy of the rich white men behind it has not changed one single bit since they used to farm free labour and call human beings "property", I abandoned the idea of negotiating with it or reforming it.

It really is just a stupid system invented by white men who would happily turn off the sun if doing so would boost their Q3 EBITDA 15%.

[Klara @klara_sjo]

This is a man who has had too much experience with the public.

[meghnad (Nerds ka Parivaar) @Memeghnad]

I'm right now in Himachal Pradesh in a smallish village called Cheog.

Yesterday I went for a a hike up a nearby mountain, a bit difficult for a city-person like me.

1.5 hours of huffing and puffing later, I reached this pretty forest patch. What I found stunning is that in the middle of the forest -- off this trekking path -- there are beer cans, wrappers & chips packets just littered around.

a) how the hell did so much trash get up here.
b) why do people dump their shit in the forests like this?
c) Why don't tourists just CARRY their trash and dump it back in the hotels/homestays they stay in?
d) how the hell do we fix this chomu habit of Indians littering LITERALLY EVERYWHERE?!

I'm so triggered and sad.

Please. Someone tell me if this is actually a fixable problem or are we just supposed to live with this garbage behavior now?