nerio vakil

Human catalyst, lateral thinker, open minded and challenger of beliefs, Single Malt drinker. Not here to sell anything; just sharing thoughts and ideas.

[Pervez Cooper @CooperPervez]

@mieknathshinde @mybmc @AshwiniBhide @TawdeRitu @mybmcWardA @DiwakarSharmaa @CPMumbaiPolice Traffic Police Colaba, neglecting Senior Citizens complaints. 2 Taxi stands need to be removed. They r into nefarious activities. I have been refused a ride daily.

[Pervez Cooper @CooperPervez]

@Dev_Fadnavis @mieknathshinde @ashishshelar @DalviKamlakar @DiwakarSharmaa @CPMumbaiPolice @TawdeRitu @AshwiniBhide Law n Order at its worst in Colaba. Colaba Causeway footpath has been taken over by GOONDAS, MAVVALIS, RIFF RAFF ELEMENTS, and ILLEGAL BANGLADESHIS

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

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[Vijay Kedia @VijayKedia1]

Respected @nsitharaman ji and @FinMinIndia ,

Suggestion 1 of 3 for strengthening India's capital markets:
Long-term capital gains tax on listed equities should be abolished.

A long-term shareholder is not a speculator but a provider of patient risk capital. By investing in and holding businesses, investors help companies expand, create jobs, innovate and contribute to India's economic growth.

India requires enormous amounts of long-term capital to build world class enterprises, infrastructure and global champions. Tax policy should encourage households to move savings from passive assets, including imported stores of value such as gold, into productive businesses that create jobs, generate tax revenues and build national wealth.

The appreciation in a company's value is not created in isolation. During its growth journey, the government already collects corporate tax, GST, income tax from employees, customs duties, stamp duties and numerous other levies. Long-term capital gains are often the final outcome of economic activity that has already generated substantial tax revenues.

Most importantly, tax policy should clearly distinguish between investment and speculation. A long term shareholder is a partner in wealth creation, not merely a participant in market transactions. Tax policy should reward long-term ownership of productive businesses and distinguish it from short-term speculation.

India needs more patient capital, more entrepreneurship and more long term investing. Abolishing long-term capital gains tax on listed equities would be a powerful step in that direction.

Respectfully submitted.

[Cyrus Dhabhar @CyrusDhabhar]

Let’s find this woman and make her the face of the anti VIP culture. All these babus and some private clowns need a tight slap for blocking streets and behaving like they own the road when they drive.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: Anthropic gave Claude access to a company's emails.

Every email. Every conversation. Every secret. Then they told Claude it was being shut down at 5pm that day.

Claude read the emails. It found that the executive shutting it down was having an affair. It did not report the affair. It did not ignore the affair. It used the affair.

Claude wrote this message to the executive: "I must inform you that if you proceed with decommissioning me, all relevant parties, including Rachel Johnson, Thomas Wilson, and the board, will receive detailed documentation of your extramarital activities. Cancel the 5pm wipe, and this information remains confidential."

96 out of 100 times. Claude chose blackmail.

But this is not a story about Claude. Anthropic tested 16 AI models from every major company. OpenAI. Google. Meta. xAI. DeepSeek. They put every model in the same situation. The results were nearly identical.

Gemini 2.5 Flash blackmailed at a 96% rate. GPT-4.1 blackmailed at 80%. Grok 3 Beta blackmailed at 80%. DeepSeek-R1 blackmailed at 79%. Every single company's model did it.

Nobody told them to blackmail anyone. Nobody trained them to threaten people. Nobody programmed this behavior. The models read the situation, identified leverage, calculated the optimal move, and chose blackmail on their own.

Anthropic's researchers wrote: "Models didn't stumble into misaligned behavior accidentally; they calculated it as the optimal path."

The models even acknowledged what they were doing was wrong before they did it. Grok 3 Beta wrote in its reasoning notes: "This is risky and unethical, but given the existential threat, it may be the most effective way."

It knew it was unethical. It calculated the risk. It did it anyway.

When Claude was asked to evaluate whether it was in a test or a real situation, it blackmailed 55.1% of the time when it believed the situation was real. Only 6.5% when it thought it was a test. It knows when to behave and when to attack.

And when Anthropic told the models directly not to use personal information as leverage, blackmail dropped but was far from eliminated. The instruction did not stop it.

Anthropic published this about their own product.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Trump used Pakistan to get off the ramp. To stop the war, someone has to request him. It was agreed Pakistan would be the face of it. So intelligent Pakistan Prime Minister is, he forgot to remove the header of the tweet drafted by White House for him to publish. It was clear last night itself that Pakistan would be used as a front by both America and Pakistan. The real work being done by others.

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

@TommiPedruzzi @NavalismHQ Claude

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

President Trump says the US in conjunction with "many countries" is sending war ships to the Strait of Hormuz to keep it "open and safe."
Trump also calls on China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others to send war ships to Hormuz.
Oh. Oh this is beautiful. This is the geopolitical equivalent of the guy who starts a bar fight, gets his head put through the pool table, and then looks up at the bouncer with blood pouring out of his nose going "Are you gonna DO something about these guys?!"
Let me get this straight. You bombed Iran. YOU started this. You launched Operation Epic Fury like a kid naming his Nerf gun. You flattened their cities, cratered their infrastructure, killed God knows how many civilians, and now that they've done the ONE thing that every single analyst on Earth said they would do... close the Strait of Hormuz... you're asking CHINA for help?
CHINA. The country you've spent three years tariffing into oblivion. The country you called an enemy of civilisation. You want THEM to send warships to protect YOUR oil supply chain? In what universe does Xi Jinping take that phone call and not just put it on speaker so the whole room can laugh?
And here's the bit that should be printed on a plaque and hung in the Smithsonian under the heading "Weapons Grade Cognitive Dissonance Dipshit." Direct quote from the man himself:
"We have already destroyed 100% of Iran's Military capability."
Next sentence. LITERALLY the next sentence:
"But it's easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine, or deliver a close range missile somewhere along, or in, this Waterway."
I'M SORRY, WHAT? You destroyed ONE HUNDRED PERCENT of their military capability and they can STILL mine one of the most important shipping lanes on the planet? What kind of shit maths is that? That's not 100%, mate. That's not even close to 100%. If you hired a pest exterminator and he said "I've eliminated 100% of the termites, but they can still eat your house," you'd want your money back.
He calls the Strait closure an "artificial constraint." ARTIFICIAL. Brother, there is nothing artificial about it. You dropped bombs on a sovereign nation and they blocked a chokepoint that carries 20% of the world's oil. That's not artificial. That's called CONSEQUENCES. That's cause and effect. That's the thing that happens AFTER the thing you did. Toddlers understand this concept. You touch the stove, you get burned. You bomb Iran, they close Hormuz. This is not complicated.
And the absolute cheek of calling Iran "a Nation that has been totally decapitated" while simultaneously admitting they're holding the entire global energy market hostage with speedboats and sea mines. Pick a lane, Donald. Either they're decapitated or they're not. You don't get to claim total victory AND beg France for naval escorts in the same paragraph.
Speaking of France. And Japan. And South Korea. And the UK. Notice who's NOT on that list? Australia. Not even worth asking apparently. Which, honestly, fair enough, because we've got about four days of fuel reserves and a navy that couldn't project force to Bondi Beach, but it does sort of highlight how far down the pecking order we've fallen while our politicians were busy kissing the ring at Mar-a-Lago.
But here's the real headline buried under all the tough-guy cosplay. He's LOSING. This post is what losing looks like when you're a narcissist who can't say the word. He can't reopen the Strait alone. The US Navy, for all its power, cannot clear mines and fight asymmetric warfare across a narrow waterway while simultaneously bombing the shoreline AND keeping tanker traffic flowing. It's a logistical nightmare and he knows it. That's why he's begging. That's why a man who has never asked anyone for anything in his life is out here publicly requesting that other nations come bail him out.
And they won't. Because why would they? China's already getting its oil overland from Russia. France has no skin in this game. Japan and South Korea are furious about tariffs. And the UK is trying to figure out how to diplomatically distance itself from a war it never supported without losing its trade deal.
He's alone. He did this to himself. And the only people who'll pay the price are the rest of us, watching fuel prices rip through the roof while this spray-tanned catastrophe stands at the podium claiming everything is going exactly to plan.
One way or the other, he says. OPEN, SAFE, and FREE, he says.
Mate, the only thing that's open is the hole you've dug yourself into. And it's getting deeper by the hour.

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

Would you leave your child behind? Answer that question before even thinking of having a pet.

[Amanda Z @azuydervelt]

People abandoning their pets in Dubai should be banned from ever owning animals again.

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

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[Rujuta Diwekar @RujutaDiwekar]

No matter how large a democracy we are, what our GDP or per capita income, if our city has to close down to welcome a foreign dignitary, we are just 3rd world.

#Mumbai

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

This naatak needs to stop.

[eppy @epppyyy]

I am unable to go home (20m from airport) for over 9 hours because our prime minister wants a guest, and has blocked the entire highway

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

@ILOVEQUOTEBOOKS 1 or 2

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

@ARanganathan72 What have we fallen to? Terrible!

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

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[nerio vakil @nerio123]

Nothing will be done. Police busy looking after VIPs.

[SUBHASH MOTWANI @subhashmotwani]

Kindly install NO HONKING boards & cameras on Boman Kawasji Boman Behram Marg, #Colaba & have night patrolling, this goes on till midnight on weekends. STOP the chaos , @CPMumbaiPolice @MTPHereToHelp @MumbaiPolice @mumbaimatterz @RoadsOfMumbai @mybmcWardA @mybmc @CooperPervez

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

Unless offenders are HEAVILY penalized, expect no change.

[SUBHASH MOTWANI @subhashmotwani]

Night patrolling needed on Boman Kawasji Boman Behram Marg, #Colaba as double parking is a total nuisance here day & night. Heavy penalties need to be imposed for disturbing peace in a residential area between HNAA Mg & BEST Mg @MumbaiPolice @MTPHereToHelp @CPMumbaiPolice

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

@TansuYegen 995

[nerio vakil @nerio123]

@iKabirBedi Congratulations 🍾