PUNdulkar

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[PUNdulkar @pushkal16]

#2April #worldcup2011

[Jack @jackcoder0]

Two economists just published a mathematical proof that AI will destroy the economy.

Not might. Not could. Will — if nothing changes.

The paper is called "The AI Layoff Trap." Published March 2, 2026. Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Boston University. Peer reviewed. Mathematically modeled.
The conclusion is one sentence.
"At the limit, firms automate their way to boundless productivity and zero demand."

An economy that produces everything. And sells it to nobody.
Here is how you get there.
A company fires 500 workers and replaces them with AI. A competitor fires 700 to keep up. Another fires 1,000. Every company is behaving rationally. Every company is following the incentives correctly. And every company is building a trap for itself.

Because the workers who were fired were also customers.
When they lose their jobs faster than the economy can absorb them, they stop spending. Consumer demand falls. Companies respond by cutting costs — which means automating more workers — which means less spending — which means more falling demand — which means more automation.

The loop has no natural exit.
The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income. Capital income taxes. Worker equity participation. Upskilling programs. Corporate coordination agreements.
Every single one failed in the model.
The only intervention that worked: a Pigouvian automation tax — a per-task levy charged every time a company replaces a human with AI, forcing them to price in the demand they are destroying before they pull the trigger.

No government has implemented this. No major economy is seriously discussing it.
Meanwhile the numbers are already tracking the curve. 100,000 tech workers laid off in 2025. 92,000 more in the first months of 2026. Jack Dorsey fired half of Block's workforce and said publicly: "Within the next year, the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion."
Nobody is doing anything wrong. Companies are following their incentives perfectly. That is exactly the problem.

Rational behavior. At scale. Simultaneously. With no mechanism to stop it.
Two economists built the math. The math leads to one place.

Source: Falk & Tsoukalas · Wharton School + Boston University ·

[PUNdulkar @pushkal16]

If you know a little Gujarati, his surname justifies his actions

[Polymarket Sports @PolymarketSport]

🚨Nottingham Forest and Olympiacos owner Evangelos Marinakis got in a fight at the Euroleague basketball final

He ended up with a ripped shirt and visible bruises/marks on his face.

[PUNdulkar @pushkal16]

एक नाम है, जो बॉन्ड है, जेम्स बॉन्ड.
एक मार्टिनी है, जो हिली हुई है, मिली हुई नहीं.
एक दुनिया है, जो काफ़ी नहीं है.....

[Wellu @Wellutwt]

मित्र, शून्य शून्य सात जेम्स बॉन्ड।

[PUNdulkar @pushkal16]

Koi Sukhi nahi hai duniya mein...

Except Sukhwinder Singh

[iMac_too @iMac_too]

It's a well established fact now

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Another reminder of why I’m glad English is my primary language.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.”

— Marie Curie

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

That pinecone in your bathroom is completely dead. Not a single cell in the whole thing is alive. And yet, the moment your shower fills the room with steam, it closes up on its own. Dead wood, reacting to moisture, all by itself.

Each of those little wooden scales has two layers inside. The bottom layer soaks up water and swells by about 20%. The top layer barely moves. So when one side gets bigger and the other stays put, the whole scale bends upward and curls shut, same way a piece of paper curls when one side gets wet. Air dries out, bottom layer shrinks, scale drops open again. Pine trees have been running this exact design for about 390 million years, more than 150 million years before the first dinosaurs showed up.

It does all of this for one reason: seeds. If seeds fell during rain, they'd just land right next to the parent tree and fight for the same sunlight. So the cone seals shut and waits. When conditions turn dry and windy, scales open and lightweight seeds catch the breeze and travel way farther from home. Look closely and the scales sit in spirals, 8 going one way and 13 the other. Same pattern you see in sunflower heads.

I had to read this next part twice. In the 1960s, German coal miners pulled a few pinecones out of a coal deposit. Nobody thought much of it at the time. Decades later, a research team at the University of Freiburg got hold of them and figured out one was about 120,000 years old. Another was roughly 15 million years old. They soaked them in water. Both still closed up. Moved about half as much as a fresh pinecone, but after 15 million years underground with zero maintenance, the mechanism still worked. The coal had kept the wood flexible instead of turning it to stone.

Engineers looked at this and started copying it. A team at the Universities of Stuttgart and Freiburg made 424 tiny panels out of wood fiber, designed to change shape on their own when humidity shifts, copying the pinecone's two-layer trick. They stuck them on a building's south-facing window. In winter, the panels curled open on their own to let sunlight warm the inside. Come summer, they flattened and blocked it. The whole system runs without electricity, motors, or wiring, just wood fiber reacting to weather the same way it has for 390 million years. They published the results in Nature Communications after a full year of testing. Every panel still worked.

Your bathroom pinecone is a humidity sensor that predates dinosaurs by 150 million years, runs on dead wood and physics, and engineers are still trying to copy its homework.

[PUNdulkar @pushkal16]

This is a regular pattern of poor services and harassment by @nobrokercom @NoBrokerCare The search results on X just show how many complaints are there about them: https://t.co/x89pebl5zL

[vanya utkarsh @UtkarshVan16214]

We have been severely harrassed by @NoBrokerCare @nobrokercom

[PUNdulkar @pushkal16]

@InternetH0F Why so delicious

[Sandeep Jain Tradeswift @SandeepKrJainTS]

New Meme on Stock Markets 😇🐻 EBITDA redefined🙏🏻

[m̃ @hexesandspell]

I speak fluent silence

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

You'll never look at your phone again after watching this

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

One of the best cartoons in ages! Thank you @BillBramhall!

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Tragedies like this often occur due to a "window of vulnerability" or Cold Chain Failure. If the vaccine isn't stored at 2°C-8°C constantly, it loses potency.

​4 ways to prevent this from happening to you

1️⃣ The 15-Minute Flush: Immediately wash the wound with soap and RUNNING water for 15 mins. This is the single most effective way to kill the virus at the entry point.

2️⃣ Demand the RIG: For broken skin (Category III), you need RIG (Rabies Immunoglobulin) inside the wound, not just the vaccine in your arm. RIG provides instant antibodies while the vaccine takes 7-14 days to work.

3️⃣ Choose the Right Hospital: Avoid small, local clinics that might have frequent power cuts or poor refrigeration. Go to a major government hospital where cold chain protocols (backup generators/medical fridges) are strictly monitored.

4️⃣ Zero Delay: If the bite is near the face/neck, the virus reaches the brain faster. Start the treatment within hours, not days.

[Sensei Kraken Zero @YearOfTheKraken]

What. A. Photograph.

Legendary.

Give the photographer a bloody good reward.

[Pun Parag @Enola_guy12]

"Swayamvar mein participate karne ki ticket kahan se khareedni hogi?"

"ShookMyBow"

[Rissa @rissa_kimmy]

Please get back to doing puzzles, sudoku, board games, crosswords, word search. Read long novels and watch long form videos.

Seeing my students and even my age-mates uncomfortable being cognitively unentertained is... something. We’re losing patience with thinking deeply.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.