Anoop Menon

Interested in UX, Search and Cognition.

[Anoop Menon @nitroargo]

Here is an approximation of the route

[Anoop Menon @nitroargo]

Get to know the current cabinet. Detailed report by @mknid with some good anecdotes that can only come from spending several years on the ground

[Nidheesh M K @mknid]

A 🧵on the new cabinet of Kerala, other than CM VD Satheesan, in the order they are swearing in:

PK Kunhalikutty: the swearing-in crowd cheered big for a reason, the don of the Muslim League is back, 85327 votes from Malappuram is not the total votes polled for him, that's his winning margin (the biggest ever for a Kerala MLA).

Going to be a towering figure in this cabinet by sheer experience of having seen it all done it all already, fifth time as minister now (imagine being a CM who was never a minister and now has to work with a man who was already Industries Minister in 1991 when you were yet to be even elected anywhere).

First won an assembly seat in 1982 at the age of 31, had his face scrubbed in the mud over the ice cream parlour case in which he was never formally charged but the political fallout cost him his ministership and his only electoral defeat in 2006.

[Kavya Manohar (കാവ്യ) @kavya_manohar]

I am genuinely proud to have played a part in this.

We have 8 ASR models released as part of the Vividh stack!! Check out the blog on @huggingface .

[Nidheesh M K @mknid]

V D Satheesan was never the obvious choice for Kerala’s next chief minister, except to the voters.

There is a photograph in my head from the Kerala Literature Festival in 2024, of Satheesan standing in the corner of a tent at Kozhikode beach, asking me about a Bulgarian novelist. Read more: https://t.co/wK4oZpf4Dg

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name was Lini Puthussery.

She was 31 years old. A nurse at the Perambra Taluk Hospital in Kozhikode Kerala. She had been working there for six years.

She had two sons. Ritul was five years old. Sidharth was two years old.

In May 2018 the Nipah virus arrived in Kerala. Two brothers and a relative were brought to the hospital with symptoms nobody had seen before.

Lini was on night duty when they arrived. She cared for them through the night.

They died soon after. Confirmed Nipah positive.

By Friday Lini herself had fallen ill.

She was shifted to the ICU at Kozhikode Medical College Hospital.

When she learned she had contracted the Nipah virus she asked the hospital not to allow her two sisters to visit. She did not want them exposed.

From the ICU she wrote a note to her husband Sajeesh.

“Sajeesh I am almost on my way. I don’t think I will be able to see you. Sorry. Please look after our little ones and take them to the Gulf. They should not be alone like our father. Lots of love.”

She died on May 21, 2018.

Her body was cremated quickly to prevent the spread of infection. Her family could not say a proper goodbye.

She did not hesitate when the patients arrived.

She did not ask who would care for her sons if she fell ill.

She showed up for her shift and did her job.

Today is International Nurses Day.

Her name was Lini Puthussery. She deserves to be remembered.

[Anoop Menon @nitroargo]

@ConradBastable Well said! And nice job there!

[Anoop Menon @nitroargo]

@Vgdktk Interesting! Thanks.

[Anoop Menon @nitroargo]

@Vgdktk The GST component is not reversed. **Fuel transactions eligible for surcharge waiver do not earn Reward Points.** Please note that the rate of fuel surcharge may vary depending on the fuel station and their acquiring bank.

[Anoop Menon @nitroargo]

@aman6490 Finally got the card. The card is labelled as everyday spends. The exclusion list says otherwise

[Anoop Menon @nitroargo]

@aman6490 Most likely, their back end has some issues. I got even video KYC done. They are yet to send a single email. Not even confirmation of application number or that application started

[Anoop Menon @nitroargo]

@joulee It does feel a bit out of place in 2D but the real power will come with AR. Think of memory palaces and the like - if apps intelligently use or augment spatial memory, it makes for delightful interfaces for specific use cases. Oh, I left my 'A City on Mars' book in da living room

[okazakitomohiro @oo_kk_aa]

ニャッキの伊藤有壱さんにお声掛け頂き、コマ撮りの展覧会に一作家として参加しています。私はコマ撮り分野ではない場所から活動をはじめて、デザインの視点でのコマ撮りに取り組んできましたが、今回初めてコマ撮り界の本丸の方々とご一緒でき嬉しいです。今6年目のマッチ撮影素材等を展示しています

[Anoop Menon @nitroargo]

The #1 excuse for slacking off right now. Claude code session limits. Thank you @xkcd

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/pB2s2Y0YJA

[el.cine @EHuanglu]

the Earth doesn’t belong only to humans, but humans can be their “gods”

[WithoutHistory @WithoutHistory]

African inventor makes biodegradable plastic using an invasive plant. In the process, he reduces malaria and provides green jobs for the community.

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

https://t.co/nd9Z3ZyuMn

[Erik Kuna 🚀 @erikkuna]

This is the shot you can’t get from the press site. This camera was sitting a few football fields from the SLS rocket at Pad 39B for days before launch, baking in the Florida sun, surviving rain, humidity, and whatever else the Cape threw at it. No photographer behind the viewfinder. Just a camera, a sound trigger, and a bet.

The way pad remotes work: you set your camera up days in advance, dial in your composition, lock everything down, and walk away. You don’t touch it again until after the launch. The shutter fires on sound activation
with a @MiopsTrigger smart+ trigger. With SLS, the four RS-25 engines ignite six seconds before the solid rocket boosters, so the camera is already firing before the vehicle even leaves the pad. You get home, pull the card, and find out if you nailed it or if a bird landed on your lens two days ago and left your a present and you got 400 photos of soemthing crappy.

There’s no formula for protecting your gear this close. Some photographers build wooden boxes with doors that pop open. Some use plastic bags and tape. Some do plastic or metal barn door rigs on hinges. I tend to leave mine open just in plastic rain covers because boxes limit my composition and setup time, but that means your cameras are more exposed to the elements and whatever energy and debris comes off the pad. You’re basically gambling a camera body every time you set one.

That’s what I love about this genre. There’s no playbook. You make it up as you go. Every time is an adventure.

📸 credit: me for @SuperclusterHQ - Artemis II pad remote | ~1,000 ft from Pad 39B | Kennedy Space Center

[Snake Oil Salesman @ghuubear]

aesthetic moviebrain via one-off artifacts is not storytelling. if you achieve coherence internally in how your teammates talk and operate, what they and the brand says and does at every touch point, the story will tell itself over time. a single “storyteller” cannot do it alone.