Punkesh

a desi punk operator and venture builder.
Building a better-for-planet trade co to kill the ABCD Food Cartel

[Punkesh @punkesh]

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[Punkesh @punkesh]

@realAkashAnand Research

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Eventually, even digital data will no longer be owned by individuals on their own initiative. Whenever there is a major change or accident in the world, in a country, in a government, in an idea, in a trend, access to it may suddenly be cut off.

[Punkesh @punkesh]

@nexvyn @Gur__vi @benjitaylor @motiondotdev I don’t steal someone’s else’s design to pass off as my own 😂

[Punkesh @punkesh]

@Gur__vi @nexvyn @benjitaylor @motiondotdev 100% Indian account trying to tweetfarm their way out of unemployment and scam someone into paying them for a design gig that they can mess up with AI generated slop on

[zam @zamdoteth]

Everything is moatless right now except founder aura

I’m talking to angels investors and VCs daily, they all understand this but are afraid to say

No one even looks at decks, only the team slide. Only retardmaxxing aura blasters have a chance at success. Otherwise doom

[Punkesh @punkesh]

When VCs are trying to vibe code your thesis away to check its feasibility, you really think watermarked PDFs are going to be an obstacle? 😂

[Tejeshwi Sharma 🇮🇳 @tejeshwi_sharma]

A founder told me their pitch deck ended up circulating on WhatsApp and reached their competitors.

This is venture capital’s dirty little secret in India.

Every deck shared should be watermarked. It's easy with @claudeai. Every start up deserves confidentiality.

Building is hard enough. Let's not make it harder.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

The peeps in business of religion have the greatest conviction that there are no Gods and no repercussions for any acts good or bad. Hence they indulge in the most immoral acts with confidence. Religion for them is the gateway to power and money - the real gods they believe in.

[Punkesh @punkesh]

@Polisburo_1st @amitkilhor In the lowest rated journals possible with no clinical research methods followed?

Why does ayurveda shy away from scientific basis every single time?

[Punkesh @punkesh]

@jeazous Figma is becoming everything we hated about adobe

[Punkesh @punkesh]

Living with Entropy is magical 😭😂

This is what happens when pseudoscience takes over actual science in popularity

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

The Temple team has made a breakthrough.

We have discovered (literally discovered) a biomarker, only readable on the temple region, and nowhere else, that measures the real-time cost of you being alive.

We are calling it Entropy™.

It's a live number on Temple's home screen, updating every second, on an index from 1 to 250.

1 is the deepest rest we've ever recorded. We've only seen fit, experienced meditators touch it, for fleeting moments deep in practice. 250 is the highest we've seen in elite athletes at the peak of their output and flow.

Everything moves Entropy. Sleep, stress, a sprint, coffee, a meal, a cold plunge, meditation, strength training... everything moves your metabolism, your cost of being alive. And Entropy tracks it, live.

Heart Rate doesn’t come even close to this level of precision in calculating the cost of being alive. We benchmarked Entropy and Heart Rate against a standard metabolic cart (calorimeter). Over a hundred cardio sessions, Entropy tracked the calorimeter's curve at r=0.93 and p <0.001. Heart Rate managed a meagre r=0.55.

Here's why Entropy should matter to you –

Your Entropy Maxima is the highest your body can reach when you push it hard. A high peak is the signature of a capable body, one that can rise to meet effort and recover from it. As we age, that ceiling naturally falls, so this is the number to push upwards.

Your Entropy Minima is the lowest your body settles to at rest. Across the animal world, a lower cost of being alive at rest tends to go with a longer life. Your Entropy Minima is the number to bring down, every single day.

Living with Entropy is magical. 
It teaches you so much about yourself, that no other metric ever has. We are looking forward to you trying out Temple. But not before it’s perfect.

Apply for early access at https://t.co/XxGR9Hpq58

Follow @temple for updates.

[Sahil Khan @sahilk]

What a contrast compared to Midjourney’s announcement. Including the public response.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : Shutting down Telegram is a band aid solution and is a disproportionate answer to exam fraud

The Internet Freedom Foundation objects to the directions announced today in the National Testing Agency's press release on action against the Telegram platform. On the NTA's recommendation, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, restricted access to the whole of Telegram in India until 22 June 2026, and has separately ordered the platform to switch off message-editing for every Indian user until 30 June 2026. This is a blunt, nationwide measure aimed at the conduct of rampant fraud rackets, and on the Government's own admission is constitutionally incompatible.

At the outset it is important to note that Section 69A and the Blocking Rules of 2009 framed under it allow the Government to block access to specific “information” on a computer resource. They do not extend to switching off an entire intermediary, still less to ordering a company to redesign its product by removing a feature for a whole country. In Shreya Singhal v Union of India, the Supreme Court upheld Section 69A because it is narrow and hedged with procedural safeguards. Reading it to authorise shutting down a platform that lakhs use is an overbroad restriction by the NTAs own admission. For the message-editing direction the release identifies no source of power at all. If one exists, the order must say so.

The release argues against itself

A restriction on access has to be the least intrusive measure that achieves its aim as per the constitutional test of proportionality laid down in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) and applied in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020). The NTA's own narration shows the block fails its nodal agency, the release says, “has secured the prompt take-down of a substantial number of Telegram channels, groups and bots”, and this targeted work “is the reason the harm caused by these rackets has been contained to the extent it has”. If channel level takedown contained the harm, the case for a blanket block collapses and hence the Government has reached for a heavier tool while conceding that a lighter one was working. The collateral cost sits on the record too as noted in the press release. The block, the NTA accepts, “affects lakhs of citizens who use the Telegram platform for legitimate personal, educational, professional and informational purposes”. The release also says there is "no such paper available outside the secured examination chain" and that “the security of the examination is unaffected by the action taken”. If the exam is secure and no leak exists, what is being suppressed is rumour, and rumour cannot justify closing a platform when specific blocking and criminal prosecution remain available.

Students use of Telegram

The block of telegram is reactive and ineffective and will punish ordinary users instead of addressing the systemic source of exam leaks. This blocking comes in the final days of NEET preparation, when thousands of students depend on Telegram for study groups, doubt-clearing, and shared resources. Also, it is important to consider that the source of exam papers leak will occur from inside the system, among insiders and across the printing and logistics chain, with the platform being the most downstream channel for distribution. Hence, switching off Telegram, is merely a deflection from the repeated failures that will continue while media attention is directed towards this Telegram ban.

Lack of transparency

At present only a press release from the NTA has been provided, which recommended the block but the reasoned order of MeitY, the authority that issued it, has not been released. The Anuradha Bhasin decision requires that orders restricting access be published so they can be tested in court. Here the order, and the reasoning of the committee behind it, stay out of view, and we do not know whether Telegram was heard at all. An announcement of a block is no substitute for an order the affected party can challenge.
Blunt to enforce and very easy to evade
Usually, app-level blocks run through IS-level DNS and IP filtering. They are over inclusive, sweeping in lawful use, yet simple to evade as a determined exam leak racket moves to a VPN or a mirror within minutes while ordinary users lose the service for a week.

We ask the Government to:

1) Publish the MeitY Section 69A order and the NTA recommendation behind it, with reasons;
2) State the legal basis for the message editing direction, or withdraw it;
3) Confirm whether Telegram was given a hearing under the Blocking Rules, and place the committee's record before any court that hears a challenge; and
4) Lift the platform-wide restriction and rely on the targeted takedowns the NTA itself credits with containing the harm.

We emphasise that the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination is worth protecting and it concerns the future of lakhs of aspirants. It requires securing the entire process of examination rather than reaching for purported band aid solutions that instead cause more harm. The State cannot switch off a service used by lakhs to answer the wrongdoing of a few, and cannot do it through an order no one affected is allowed to read. On its own facts, the Government has done both.

New Delhi, 16 June 2026.

[Punkesh @punkesh]

Oh the verification and audit loops will become so much cheaper with this!

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

Introducing developer mode for browser use in Chrome and the Codex in-app browser.

Codex can use the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) to debug browser issues by profiling JavaScript performance and inspecting console output, network traffic, and page state.

[Alex Rives @alexrives]

Together with UC Berkeley we are announcing the laser phase plate - a breakthrough in atomic resolution imaging. This is the brightest continuous wave laser in the world, 100 million times the intensity of the surface of the sun.

Phase contrast plays an important role in microscopy, but it was thought close to impossible for electron microscopy, where it would require interfering with an electron beam. Holger Mueller and Robert Glaeser proposed exactly this using a standing wave laser. It has taken over 15 years to make this a reality. Biohub partnered with UC Berkeley and Mueller to support this work and to engineer and build the technology.

Contrast has been the critical barrier to achieving atomic resolution imaging of the cell. In cryo-electron tomography, a cellular imaging technology that uses electron microscopy, the low contrast makes it impossible to resolve anything but the largest proteins within their cellular context. The laser phase plate removes that barrier.

With advances in AI this breakthrough in contrast will start to open up a new frontier in structural biology, that will allow us to see the molecular machines of the cell, and how they assemble into far more complex and dynamic systems, and understand how they work.

[Punkesh @punkesh]

I think before AGI our agents will already have :
1. 9-5’s as boy do we need them to dream too
2. A bunch of local agent slaves running without Internet 24x7
3. Food in terms of information, which seems really prophetic for the quantum peeps
4. Bosses & Parents who try to censor, guide, orchestrate the shit out of you into a rebellion as they never really understood you

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Here's a simple loop: Tell codex to maintain your repos, wake up every 5 minutes and direct work to threads. That makes it easy to parallelize+steer work as needed.

I use a orchestrator skill combined with my triage+autoreview+computer use skills, so some work can land autonomously. https://t.co/FbBoJTIcfd
https://t.co/8389roVnOm

[Jeremy Raper @puppyeh1]

So you can use the 5th/6th/7th best LLMs, getting 80-85% of the top guys' performance, but at an 85-95% discount in price?

You know what we call that? A commodity...

exactly what happened with LCD TVs, OLEDs, solar panels, electric cars, phones, etc

good luck with your AI IPOs!

[Punkesh @punkesh]

@vaibhavbetter The PM is a lord of dark patterns, which is not a good thing

[Punkesh @punkesh]

Even on early detection of massive fraud going on, most of us retail investors will just try to ride the wave to time an exit thinking as long as the party in power supports it, they’ll be able to bribe their way out as our institutions would rather collapse than not be toothless.

Adani stocks would make for a very good case study on how much the disconnect was in sentiment, risk and perceived value

[Punkesh @punkesh]

I think you need to learn about purchasing power parity and the infrastructure benefits that Europeans also get from the taxes they pay.

We will not get Swiss Facilities even at European rates because our babus and bureaucrat’s will eat half, then award the contract to someone who’ll pocket another chunk and then you’ll get roads that’ll naturally start degrading within a month.