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basically edging death at this point

[Ankush Ban @phoenix964]

written poems to impress so many different people call me edgar allen hoe

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yee haw is the american ji haan

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CANNOT believe that the only queer film i have watched in the past so many months is bhool bhulaiyaa 3

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idk man maybe my brain isn't rotten enough for bhool bhulaiyaa 3 😭😭

[Ankush Ban @phoenix964]

are all bollywood comedy writers immune to imposter syndrome or something

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at least don't drag madhuri and vidya into your bs this late into their careers they have families who love them

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maybe we're all turning into crabs because claws are easier to draw than hands

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We got real life Minecraft beacons before GTA 6

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Light pillars are an atmospheric optical phenomenon in which vertical beams of light appear to extend above and/or below a light source. Sometimes they even appear as detached from the source.

These ones were spotted over Daisen, a coastal town in Japan.

[Ankush Ban @phoenix964]

I think the best thing to come out of this ola CEO pronouns bs is that we finally know which apps to uninstall to make space on our phones
https://t.co/nTwdIN77Rm

[Ankush Ban @phoenix964]

bro did all that yapping just so he could go buy my merch from the link in the description below

[Bhavish Aggarwal @bhash]

On @Linkedin, @Microsoft and their wokeness.

As an Indian institution, Ola is for genuine actions on diversity. We run one of the largest women only automotive plants. Not 1 out of 10 lines, or a small section, but the whole plant! Almost 5000 women now and will grow to tens of thousands in the coming years. And regarding gender inclusivity, we don’t need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive. Our culture didn’t need pronouns to be inclusive for thousands of years. On a personal note, I had visited Ayodhya last year and learnt about how transgenders had been accorded special respect in our culture from ancient times! Here’s a short video from our national broadcaster DD on this - https://t.co/TGxfSjtM0F.

On the other hand, the pronouns issue I wrote about is a woke political ideology of entitlement which doesn’t belong in India. I wouldn’t have waded into this debate but clearly Linkedin has presumed Indians need to have pronouns in our life, and that we can’t criticise it. They will bully us into agreeing with them or cancel us out. And if they can do this to me, I’m sure the average user stands no chance. As a founder and CEO, this western DEI system has a major impact on my business as it grows an entitlement mindset in our professional lives and I will fight it.

This situation brings me to the need for us to build our own Indian tech platforms. I’m not against global tech companies. But as an Indian citizen, I feel concerned that my life will be governed by western Big Tech monopolies and we will be culturally subsumed as the above experience shows. This is not about Ola or any of my companies. Ola is too small to make any impact against this. I want to confront this forced ideology as a free thinking Indian and do what I can in my capacity. So here are the actions I’m taking. Putting my money where my mouth is.
⁃While we can’t do anything about Linkedin’s monopoly overnight, I’m making a commitment to work with the Indian developer community to build a DPI social media framework. DPIs like UPI, ONDC, Aadhaar etc are a uniquely Indian idea and is even more needed in the world of social media. The only “community guidelines” should be the Indian law. No corporate person should be able to decide what will be banned. Data should be owned by the creators instead of being owned by the corporates who make money using our data and then lecture us on “community guidelines”!
⁃Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own @Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this.
⁃Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that! Mail us on [email protected]. Offer is perpetually open!

Read more here: https://t.co/M27jpJHPWT

[Ankush Ban @phoenix964]

@shlokapandey i had to google this and ????😭😭😭😭????

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the kinda stuff i end up saying to convince someone i'm actually not sleeping

[Ashzier💡 @unwellunearth]

????

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@shlokapandey ma'am that's at least two 34 year old men

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@shlokapandey ONLY 34????????

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guys we should all embrace slow travelling actually (I'm rich and/or have no dependents)

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@dramatickles I'm like the met gala 💅

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getting post malone on the lead single for your album and using him as basically background vocals is the most chad move i can think of

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can't believe y'all are trying to use science and logic against BJP

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

VANDE BHARAT | We've decided to prick the 'Vande Bharat' bubble. Analysis of IRCTC booking data reveals that over 50% of Vande Bharat runs either operate with empty or partially filled seats.

This data, sourced from IRCTC just hours before train departures, focuses solely on the General category, excluding Tatkal bookings. Despite the holiday season prompting increased travel among families nationwide, bookings for Vande Bharat remain surprisingly low.

Moreover, this data highlights a concerning trend regarding economic disparities. Affluent regions demonstrate a higher ability to afford Vande Bharat, while economically disadvantaged areas struggle to access these costly services.

You may ask a question what if these routes have less passengers in general? Good question, but see the next tweet for answers (1/3)

[Ankush Ban @phoenix964]

all the met gala designers today probably

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can't believe I've seen more insta discourse about kendrick v drake than the elections

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only a matter of time before they make a shitty, rigged, and blatantly sponsor-heavy Indian version of physical 100