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Ultimate goal is to put our destiny in our hands, not in metaphorical hands of fate, to live as long as we wish
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Musk’s Starlink has been operating like the East India Company. Interestingly, in recent years, in every political and military destabilisation zone, Starlink has been seen. This cannot be a coincidence. I do not believe in coincidence.
The Abrahamic European East India Companies did not enter India as rulers. They came under the pretext of trade. Commercial interests, economic interests, political influence, and military power quickly became intertwined with the exercise of sovereign power. I suppose you know where that road led. Will the Hindus and India allow South African, another English, white Abrahamic rule over you AGAIN?
Hindus and India: Will you allow history to repeat?
Purnima Nath
#PurnimaPerspective #NathNotes #truthwithnath #Starlink #ElonMusk #AmericaCorporations #AmericanImperialism #AmericanColonialism
2026 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Navi Pillay’s commitment to universal legal principles and her firm moral compass are constants in a long career. Born into a family of Indian Tamil origin under apartheid in Durban, South Africa, Pillay became a lawyer and legal pioneer, confronting deep structural discrimination, segregation and exclusion. A common thread runs from her early work defending Nelson Mandela and others who stood up against apartheid to her service as a judge in some of the key international court cases of our time.
This year’s laureate has significantly enlarged the scope and impact of international law. She has served as a judge on the High Court in South Africa, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Court. She was the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and, until recently, she chaired the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Today Navi Pillay is a judge on the International Court of Justice in the case where Myanmar stands accused of genocide.
In historic international court cases, she has shown that legal measures can help prevent acts of war and violence. Navi Pillay has also contributed to strengthen the institutions of international law. Her independence, expertise and steadfastness have made her one of the most respected international jurists of our time.
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@Sabar_Adhura_sa विकलता, विकराल रूप लेकर सब ज्यादतियों को विफल करेगी
और जीवन को एक नया मोड़ तथा आक्रती देगी
फिर सिर्फ खुशियाँ ही खुशियां, महसूस करने और बाँटने के लिये
@elonmusk, dear, because I greatly respect you, let me say this. Cozying up to the likes of @RahulGandhi will not escalate a Starlink license. But further delay it.
Companies all over the world successfully do business with India. As you know, foreign partnership starts with respect for the country and its leadership. Rahul lacks respect for both his own country and PM Modi. He is bad company.
And “the other guy” is one of the greatest and most powerful leaders in the world today and will be governing India a long time. You want a license? I suggest shifting your public messages to the attention of PM @narendramodi and not wannabees like Rahul.
Congrats on your award today, BTW. Thank you for all your contributions to our great country. 🇺🇸
Pfizer had tried something similar to what @elonmusk is doing now, during the COVID era when they tried to muscle in their vaccines without proper testing in India and roping in Indian opposition. India cannot ok Starlink unless they are fully satisfied on the security front.
Okay so this is basically US suspending the green card processing for TCS, Infosys, Wipro, HCL, Cognizant, Capgemini and Microsoft, Adobe.
So what?
The bad?
- Remittance. India leads the world with ~$125B in annual remittances coming into thr country. The US is ~25% ($30B+). This suspension eventually means lesser high-earning Indians in the US.
- Fewer Indians across the top jobs in the US also probably means less soft power and reduced angel capital into domestic startups.
The good?
- If US companies can’t bring talent to the US, they probably will bring the work to India. I expect Global Capability Centers (GCCs) to further expand. India already hosts 2,100+ GCCs employing 2.4M people.
- Top engineering talent stays back to build domestic companies and AI startups here rather than working on visa uncertainty.
What else am I missing?
Just wrapped my first day as CEO of Boston Dynamics. This company has pioneered the modern robotics industry and fascinated people all over the world. Super excited to be joining at a pivotal moment for Physical AI, when there's a massive opportunity to deliver real-world impact.
This is a deep human tragedy, a Lee Sedol moment for an entire profession. Please don't gloat, for soon the models will also be coming for *you*.
(Oh, you think your output is difficult to verify? Your work requires interaction with the physical world? You're convinced that there's some context to what you do that the machines can't reach? These are fig leaves, my friend; you have maybe a few years left at most.)
The rage against OpenAI is pointless, of course. In a year or two, these kinds of mathematical results will be obtainable in 15 minutes by anyone with a $20/month subscription or access to an open-source model. You can't hide from it. Superintelligence is here.
Everyone who does knowledge work (and I should have probably just said "everyone" - it's cleaner) should now be engaging in deep personal ruminations on the meaning of his/her life. It can't come from "being the best at what you do" anymore. For many of us, there's still time to pivot.
PSA:
Being alive and able to experience the world is the whole reason anything else matters.
AI surpassing our abilities doesn’t diminish that.
Being the smartest thing on the planet was never a prerequisite for a life worth living.
For years, I had a certain image of scientists in my mind. Brilliant, driven, deeply immersed in their work—but often somewhat removed from the ordinary rhythms of family life. I imagined the stereotypical scientist as someone who was absent from the mundane responsibilities of raising children: missing school events, family dinners, birthdays, and sometimes even the moments that mattered most. Professionally, I held enormous respect for them. Personally, however, I always wondered whether the pursuit of extraordinary professional achievement came at the cost of an ordinary, happy family life.
I remember an incident from my postgraduate years at Yale. I attended the wedding of a fellow student whose mother was a highly accomplished scientist. She couldn’t attend her own daughter’s wedding because she was caught up in an important project. She simply sent her daughter a message saying, “Sorry, honey, I couldn’t make it.” I remember being genuinely struck by it. I couldn’t help thinking: how important must a project be for you to miss your daughter’s wedding?
That experience stayed with me and became part of the lens through which I viewed the scientific world.
And then I saw Karl Deisseroth making sandwiches for school lunch.
Watching Karl completely changed that perception. Here was an exceptionally accomplished scientist, yet I saw him doing the most ordinary—and perhaps most extraordinary—things for his children: making their school lunches, preparing their meals, dropping them off, hugging them, being present in the everyday chaos of family life. His wife, too, an accomplished scientist in her own right. And yet, when you look at their family, what comes through isn’t a life sacrificed at the altar of achievement. It is warmth. Partnership. Happiness. Presence.
Karl challenged a very deep assumption I had carried for years.
Perhaps you don’t have to choose.
You can be extraordinarily successful in your profession and still be there for the people you love. You can pursue the frontiers of science and still pack your child’s lunch. You can change the world professionally and still come home to your family.
And perhaps that is what makes Karl’s story so compelling for me—not just that he wins professionally, but that he wins personally too.
Because at the end of the day, success isn’t only about how much you achieve when you’re away from home. It is also about who is waiting for you when you come back—and whether you were present for the moments that mattered along the way.
@Stanford@NobelPrize
India is still colonised.
Okay… maybe not politically.
But technologically.
We use American social platforms, operating systems, search engines.
If tomorrow they decided to use that technological dependence against us, they could (in a way, they already are).
They already hold our bank details, private photos, conversations, location history and search history.
They know what we buy, what we watch, where we go.
And probably more about us than we realise.
That is what technological dependence looks like.
It's no longer about our "privacy".
It’s about our nation’s future.
Our technological sovereignty.
It’s high time we start building our own digital infrastructure.
@PMOIndia
Reality check for mathematicians and doctors:
The purpose of 'math' is not to keep mathematicians employed, it's to solve problems and advance humankind's quality of life and understanding of reality.
The purpose of medicine is not to keep doctors employed. It's to prevent and relieve suffering caused by disease.
Yes, it's important that humans understand all the math and all the medicine.
But if AI can figure it out first, holding it back to protect the egos, prestige and income of the mathematicians and doctors is literally the opposite of the purpose of each field.
It doesn't matter who (or what) figured it out.
Just that it works.
Anne Carson – awarded the 2026 #NobelPrize in Literature – once described boredom as her arch-enemy. It is a state she confronts with drastic humour and wit.
‘The Beauty of the Husband: A Fictional Essay in 29 Tangos’, published in 2001, tells of a cutting and sardonic row with a deceitful husband, its twenty-nine episodes each opening with lines of verse by the romantic poet John Keats. Keats’s sublime words about beauty being truth are, in brutal yet playful fashion, juxtaposed with this exhausting relationship drama.
Most pills come in two mirror-image forms, like left and right hands. For small-molecule drugs the FDA approved over two decades, nearly two in three had a twin form, and about 9 in 10 of those were sold in just one version.
This year's Chemistry Nobel went to two chemists who showed how a slight edge can snowball. Henri Kagan found that a helper molecule with a small bias toward one form can steer a reaction much further in that direction. Kenso Soai found a reaction that copies its own handedness.
Nexium is the classic example. It is the single-hand version of Prilosec, approved in 2001 just as Prilosec's main patent was set to expire. In pooled head-to-head trials at the same dose, about 30 people had to take Nexium for one extra person to heal after eight weeks.
Sadly, the single-hand version was marketed as a cleaner, more targeted drug, but at the same dose, it offered little real advantage over the original.
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If you’re building/operating/investing in robotics and you haven’t spoke to Pallavi yet — that’s a darn shame!
She’s one of the finest women robotics founders in India and a complete badass who has deployed more robots than I can count 🦾
This her making her X debut! We are honored to have her here ❤️
@itchdoctor Adaptability, problem-solving, and a strong work ethic
While technical skills open the door, we stand out through pleasant personal attributes and professional behaviors
2026 #NobelPrize laureate Henri Kagan discovered a new way of manipulating chemical reactions, allowing a greater excess of one of the mirror images to be created than was previously assumed possible. His discovery has been revolutionary for chemists who develop reactions for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals, flavours, scents and new materials.