Pranav Maharaj

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[Pranav Maharaj @pranavsm]

I used ai to vibe code an embedded system attached to my window that shows the constant intrusion of bass into my home (and soon the home of others) in Trinidad and Tobago. This won't pick up on a decibel level, but the constant bass has been part of many people's lives for many years now, including the sporadic P'sOS who blast the loudest nonsense they can from their cars and bars on non private property.

I'm hoping it can build up to a mesh system so eventually we can see the live heartbeat of the intrusive noise pollution that affects families constantly.

People are threatened with violence when they complain or make reports.

Bad actors try to spoof passing cars by blasting loud music for 10-30 seconds then cutting it and changing the tune, but there's no doppler effect - stationary cars. Even they can't enjoy what they are doing from a 'culture' perspective.

I would like if the whole world could see a live map of the country , no microphones or privacy violations, just the vibrating material in real time, on the map, which constituency, which police station, down to every bit of public office data that can be presented, officers etc.

Literal intrusions into homes, war tactics. At this point if you've seen 'Hoppers' you can grasp the concept of torturing people to run them out of their own neighbourhoods, all over the country.

Let everyone see what does be going on.

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@henlojseam You don't even need the full hour. Start with 20 mins

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There's an unacknowledged grey area here that divides two groups of people:

- those who do not know how to say what they want to say, without talking a bunch of crap/spreading hate

- those who speak the full truth conscienciously and are attacked for it

The second group is not adequately protected, but it protects the first group, so today's bad Karma naturally followed.

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@FightWithMemes That's actually beautiful

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@luisomor Firm believer in, "if you teach people how to fight properly, there's less fighting"

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Note the date. This bed was largely self-made unfortunately, together with taking adolescent 'brown girl' advice seriously.

Unfortunately for the current generation, the only way forward is to do a tremendous amount of social work from which you're not going to benefit, but you might be able to help the people who show up after you.

Try to leave some proper advice this time.

https://t.co/GVlxvwNP5r

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conclusion: The high levels of douche baggery in young Indian males at clubs today suggests parenting really took a dive 19 years ago

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This is an intricate story of availability heuristics bias that unfolded over many years.

From 2006 to maybe 2014, every guy still had a reasonable chance at whatever dream they chose.

A bunch of guys from various places started swamping the scene and killed the vibes.

They would attract negative attention to themselves. Women repellant was the term of choice.

I'll never forget just minding my own business at a club in a city. Nice girl walks up to the bar next to me. She's just there with her friends, not interested, but chill. Exchanging smiles, All good. She faces the bar to get whatever.

"sanjay" comes out of nowhere and starts jamming up on her backside. She turns around politely and asks him what's going on? Is it dancing? Even if she wanted to dance, she can't, because he's barreling into her.

He was trying to signal as Caribbean, but with a desi accent and a semi gangsta attitude (you'd be surprised how many times this happens. For the Caribbean people, he had no idea how to flex. Overconfidently cringe)

That's just one of many stories. Women spent time talking about the problem in real life and online. It was like talking to a wall.

Much of what you see now is global bad karma that made its own bed.

It probably also ruined it for guys now coming of age.

So instead if blaming the state of things, remember the cautionary tale of what happens when people overconfidently kill the vibe for others. Maybe practice situational awareness.

(I'm well aware this isn't going to make a difference but it needs to be said)

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@KILLTOPARTY Always felt like there was pop culture pressure to act like this was some sort of highest standard.

Around that time there was team Britney and team Shakira.

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@BoringBiz_ High ambition woman, low ambition man can be further divided into 2 groups.

High ambition woman who will work to keep a successful relationship.

Vs

Woman signalling as high ambition, but mostly superficial.

Many a successful woman will carry a deadbeat out of love.

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@ChineseCheese Seems normal.

It's still honest.

Never settle for an incompatible or unworthy person.

One always has the option to be alone vs lighting the slow fuse of desperate compromise.

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@theodorebeers Unless of course you're using it ironically.

... I hope

I've found that mirroring people who lose their own plots, tends to backfire.

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@Thickskellyman @BecomingCritter You're overestimating people.

Hateful people are really dumb. They couldn't even get past that moribund way of life.

Even if you waste time setting up a decoy weakness, they're most likely just going to project their own weaknesses unto you and attack that straw man style.

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@PlisskenPatriot Ignorance of the game is no reason to hate the players.

It's a pity about the dishonesty with entitlement though.

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Correct.

Listening to unproductives with a tiny bit of power waste meeting times systematically ranting how they hate their teen kids is something nobody wants to witness.

More often than not, it's not the kind of people with whom you want to work.

They lack the qualities required for professionalism and chances are you'll have to pull their slack.

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@valawakened You can take turns or have an honorary idiot.

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@c3gyo Minced ginger, not garlic*

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@c3gyo Quality soy sauce, minced garlic and store "wasabi".

Let it soak for a few days.

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@cinevow Is he in his own bubble?

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@granawkins I wouldn't be surprised if it's a form of pseudo telepathy from brain activity syncing up just by thinking alike.

Confirmation bias happens all the time when I reach out to people and they say they were just thinking about me.

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@rihntv

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Grok Build Test. This took me maybe...1 hour within 3 hours to hash out while multitasking:

(By now I've gotten all the right/wrong people to exclude/block me, so the audience is now properly filtered)

In Trinidad and Tobago it is very easy to talk.

We all know the type. Big words on Facebook and Twitter. Flag on the profile picture. Long post about justice. Tag twelve people. Then silence for months when a child still needs to get home safe in a hire car.

I am tired of that. Not tired of passion. Tired of performative talk without follow-through, especially when parents are left photographing licence plates because nobody built anything they can actually use. The race-baiter hyenas and the beggars for attention and narrative control make things worse on all sides.

So I used Grok Build to test starting something open source without fanfare, without self big-up, and without performative engineering. Lord knows we have enough of that out here.

WiTTness. Protect our kids.

It is an open idea for Trinidad and Tobago, and for anyone, wherever they are. A parent registers a trip. Taps when the child boards. Taps when they arrive safe. People at home, already online, scroll anonymous trip cards and confirm. Stuck in traffic? Running late. Real emergency? Call 999. Witnesses, not police.

A parent in Moruga should not need a cousin in Mississauga to explain safety in a voice note. They should need a link. A Trini abroad scrolling at 3 p.m. can still be part of the same witness pool, because protecting kids does not stop at immigration.

This is not a launch party. There is no personality cult here. I am not asking you to clap for me. I am asking you to use what we already have. Our phones. Our time. Our instinct to look out for each other, even the macco energy, if we point it at the road instead of the pile-on after harm.

The demo is live. The README is public. The spec is written. MIT license. Fork it. Improve it. Ignore it if you must. But please do not mistake talk for work. Someone did something.

Try it: https://t.co/4J54icrpHy
Read why: https://t.co/qRGzCo8mbK

One more thing, because I believe in being straight with people.

This whole thing was built with Grok Build: concept, spec, demo, foreword, repo, live site. Not as a gimmick. As a real test. Can one person with a clear problem in their chest, and AI as a workshop, get from "somebody should do something" to something strangers can open in a browser? I steered every word that matters. I wrote the foreword from my own mouth. My name is on it. The repo is the audit trail if you want to see how and when it was made.

If you care about child safety in hire cars, try the demo and tell me what is wrong with it.

If you care about how we build in public now, the repo is there for that too.

Recent context, for anyone who forgot why this matters:
https://t.co/TI2Tl2oPgq

We already have what we need to take care of each other. We just need to use it.

No hero or funds required.

Pranav Maharaj
Canada · Trinidad and Tobago