Prashanth S

[Dan Rysk @DanDeFiEd]

Italian efficiency when it comes to coffee should be studied.

In Italy:
- Walk into a bar and look at the guy
- Un caffe
- 30 seconds later it’s ready
- Shoot it
- Leave €1
- Walk out

In the US:
- Join a line
- Wait
- Order coffee
- Answer 12 questions: Size? Milk? Roast? Sugar? Temperature? Colombia beans? Name? How do you spell it?
- $12.34
- Ask for a 20% tip. Click 5 times on a ipad to have a custom tip
- Tap phone
- ask where to send the invoice
- Wait again on a different line
- Someone call a name that sounds similar to mine
- get the coffee
- too hot, can't drink it
- finally at temperature

taste like shit

[Alex Prompter @alex_prompter]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[KRK @kamaalrkhan]

Netherland’s Ex PM handovers power to new PM and leave with his bicycle. Honest Politics is having only this much money.

[Prashanth S @prashanth__s]

@hardikkumar @yajnshri @grok Very impressive. What was your prompt to Gemini?

[Prashanth S @prashanth__s]

@JohnnyColl2bbq @NobelPrize You deserve a Nobel peace price 🥇

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

#Helsinki🇫🇮 jshows us: It is possible to go a full year with zero traffic deaths.🚶‍♀️🚲🚗

Not a matter of luck.
But a matter of policy.

🚗 Slower streets
🚲 Protected bike lanes
❎ Safer crossings
📝 Data > excuses

Vision Zero works.
Cities can choose safety.
Who’s next?

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

These are exactly the kind of initiatives we need to do to show that India is not just the world’s back office, but can also be its think tank…

More such projects, please, for creating knowledge at the frontiers of technology & exploration.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[Annurag P Rekhi @Dravidict]

Trescothick looks nice, Dravid does it better 😍❤️

[Prashanth S @prashanth__s]

@vinaynx 😂

[Vinay Narayana Swamy @vinaynx]

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[How To Kill An Hour @howtokillanhour]

Knock knock ..... #jokes #dadjokes #comedy #funny

[Prashanth S @prashanth__s]

For a country that exports IT, this is shameful.

[Raymond Russell @raymondopolis]

(1) I love India

(2) Anybody who applies for an e-visa to India knows the website is always comically, profoundly, embarrassingly broken

It looks like it was written in 2003, kicks you out randomly without saving your work, won't charge your credit card until your nineteenth attempt

But this is a new one—halfway through the business visa application, it displays a list of the tallest peaks in each Indian state??

Come on folks, I'm just trying to invest in your country!

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

I think the difference between a developed country and an undeveloped country is not income inequality.

It is power asymmetry.

In undeveloped countries, people in government, be it politicians, civil servants or judiciary, have an extraordinary right to trample on citizens and their rights.

That's the problem in India today.

Call it VIP culture. Call it unaccountability. Call it arrogance. In fact, call it toll exemptions, security clearance, whatever.

It all stems from a core belief that people in power are somewhat superior. So, they can get away with doing anything to people who don't have power.

The recent police videos and the SDM video are all examples of that.

It's only because of social media that these things even come to light - probably less than 0.001% of the daily sapping, brutal exercise of power.

So, if we want "Viksit Bharat", we need to do two things.

The first is, of course, financial growth, infrastructure, and all that.

But that still won't be enough.

We have to get rid of the power asymmetry. That will truly make a difference.

Less discretionary power, less perks, less privileges, less "exceptions". And more transparency thru social media.

We become a superpower when 1.4 billion people have power.

[Austin Tunnell @AustinTunnell]

When we impose “order” on something complex, it’s reductionist—because we are simplifying what we don’t fully understand.

We’ve done this with our cities.

We’ve taken an industrial approach to a complex ecosystem—trying to make it more like an assembly line than a rainforest.

[MANJUL @MANJULtoons]

When I first visited Pune in 2007, a friend shared a story. I dismissed it as an urban legend. But now, I see it was true. Corruption survives because honest people are kept out of the way.

[Wasim Jaffer @WasimJaffer14]

Lying on a Baz having a ball, how about you @MichaelVaughan 😆 #ENGvIND

[Prashanth S @prashanth__s]

@MichaelVaughan The 3-1 prediction is looking very real now.

[Mohammed Siraj @mdsirajofficial]

Some matches stay with you, not for the outcome, but for what they teach. 🙏🏻 🇮🇳