Pandu Pradhana

A programmer for a living, a husband to an Angel, likes to play with lots of data.

[Pandu Pradhana @phynx17]

Atrocious https://t.co/GVeldFIUSP

[Southampton Times @sotontimes]

🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms”

Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media:

“Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/BkYXbsx92x

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

We are banning social media access for under 16s.

These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.

I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.

[Samuel McDonnell @samueljmcd]

https://t.co/yWm2xTrCW4

[Esteban Suárez @EstebanSuarez]

This is a real Shopify store.

A storefront you play like a game: walk around, step into shops, and buy real products with others shopping right next to you.

Built this with @v0 using the new native Shopify integration.

Fork the template and build your own storefront game.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Your calendar was full at 21 and empty at 26 for a reason MIT discovered in 1950.

Researchers studied a housing complex called Westgate and found friendship was predicted by one variable above everything else: physical distance between front doors. Students living near stairwells and mailboxes made the most friends. Shared interests, values, personality? All downstream of foot traffic. They named it the propinquity effect.

Researcher Rebecca Adams later distilled friendship formation into three conditions: proximity, repeated unplanned interactions, and settings where people let their guard down. A college campus delivers all three automatically, dozens of hours a week of engineered collisions. Adult life delivers zero by default.

That's the entire mechanism behind days blending together. Your brain registers novelty from unplanned human contact. Remove the collisions and time loses its texture.

The fix is repetition. One dinner party changes nothing. The same gym class, same coffee shop, same pickup game at the same time every week rebuilds the structure school gave you for free. Friendship grows from accumulated accidental contact, so frequency wins.

College handed you a collision machine. Adults who stay social just rebuilt one.

[Pandu Pradhana @phynx17]

JB is tough. Congrats Knicks!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Interesting. AI will in effect increase both supply and demand for formal methods. You need them more, but you also have tools that make them cheaper.

https://t.co/t4QFZueL9c

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Grok is maximally truthful

[Todd Saunders @toddsaunders]

goodbye all original design work

[Deborah Folloni → 🪽epic.new @dfolloni]

Como nunca tinha lido isso antes?

Há anos os system of records (CRMs, ERPs, HCMs etc) construíram moats gigantescos armazenando dados vitais das empresas.

Ela argumenta que os novos system of records dos agentes serão os 'context graphs', que armazenam não só os dados crus mas também, um registry/ histórico do reasoning por trás de cada decisão tomada.

Isso faz muito sentido pra mim e o artigo está super bem escrito - merecidíssimo esses 4.8M de impressões!

[CASSIEN @niyo17417]

Imagine surviving a mountain lion attack on a snowy cliff edge just to fall down the entire mountain anyway. 🫣 This is literal nightmare fuel.

[Peter H. Diamandis, MD @PeterDiamandis]

People ask me how I stay so optimistic. The honest answer: I read the data, not the headlines.

[Ruby on Rails @rails]

The creator of Ruby on Rails is all in on AI...but that doesn't mean he's rushing to build it into the framework just yet.
On the newest On Rails, @DHH joins @robbyrussell to talk Rails, the Basecamp 5 launch, and AI-assisted development: "It is a professional obligation of every programmer to take this revolution seriously."
Curious where Rails is headed? Listen or watch the full episode on YouTube (link in thread). https://t.co/23Gil4jzYZ

[Pandu Pradhana @phynx17]

Freight stocks fall as Amazon announces less-than-truckload offering for outside businesses

https://t.co/1794yIlewn

[GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg]

The unspoken truth about "the creator economy”

Most creators don’t make any money at all (and want to)

- 43k Spotify artists are pulling in 90% of the royalties
- The average non-“top tier” Spotify artist earns $144/year
- The top 1% of OnlyFans accounts make 33% of all the $$

[Pandu Pradhana @phynx17]

Anunoby!!!

[Pandu Pradhana @phynx17]

Agentic commerce market cap https://t.co/7xyUtAw5T1