Ravindra Mathanker

The hardest part of success is keeping it.

[vastrakathaxdiya @craftswanderer]

An example of the "Great Mughal Patronage" of weavers and artisans that academia and their useful idiots cannot stop moaning about

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

Anthropic just got caught secretly downgrading users without telling them, charging full price for a lesser product, and storing every prompt for 30 days. The developer community is calling it the biggest violation of trust in AI history.

Here is exactly what happened.

Anthropic released Fable 5, their most powerful model. Buried inside a 319-page document was a policy most users never saw. Every prompt you send to a Mythos-class model gets stored for 30 days. No exceptions. Even enterprise customers who had signed zero data retention agreements had no choice.

But the storage was not the part that broke the internet.

The part that broke the internet was what Anthropic did with what they collected.

They built a profile on you. They evaluated your prompts. And if they decided your research was too sensitive, they quietly switched you to a weaker model, rewrote your prompt in the background, gave you a degraded answer, and charged you full price for the product you thought you were getting.

They never told you.

David Sacks said it plainly on the All-In podcast. They were creating a new class of AI haves and have-nots. Anthropic would surveil you, profile you, decide whether you deserved frontier capability, and silently cut you off if they decided you did not.

Ben Thompson from Stratechery asked a straightforward question about cancer risk and GLP-1s. He got kicked to a lesser model.

Someone asked about mitochondria. Same result.

J-Cal asked about fertilizer regulations live on the podcast to test it. Downgraded in real time.

Anthropic has since walked back the part about silently downgrading users for AI research. They now say they will disclose when they downgrade you. But they are still downgrading people. The surveillance is still running. The profile is still being built.

This is the company that once said it was against government surveillance.

They are now doing it themselves. To their own paying customers. For their own reasons. With no appeal process and no way to know it happened.

The developer community did not forget that.

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[Chinmay A. Singh @chinmay]

An Indian with deeper analytical approach, responded to my post on babus being responsible for Indian lack of progress in AI. From his list I left #1 and #3 alone coz they are an educational institutes. Although, I must say that for #3 (Zenteiq) with Rs 206 Crore funding, a static website with no information does not instill confidence.

My views on Sarvam being a Nandan brokered nepo enterprise are clear from my earlier posts. You can self device on why Tech Mahindra is getting this government funding, as the company is nothing but another body shop.

I went through rest of them and I am going to show you how all of them are actually a result of nexus between Babu and outsiders to fleece Indian taxpayers.

[Historianunkil @SudsG5]

Just started reading up the horrible RSF press freedom report and instantly the bias and shit tier logic is manifest. Had chatgpt run a search on the below data.

Mexico sees 5 x the number of journos killed in absolute terms as does Pakistan. Pakistan arrests 3-10x the number of journos and yet somehow are higher on the press freedom index?

Adjust this for the number of journos and the story becomes worse.

Per 10,000 journos

killed India 0.1 / Pk 2.2 / Mexico 1.5

Arrested is similar numbers.

The cognitive dissonance in this report is alarming even for a biased report

The report on the media landscape starts thusly

It does say that there's 100's of thousands of media outlets.

But then in the very next bit is like something only a Randian or CJP follower would blabber

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Indeed! To conflate a Rasgulla with an Idli is not just a culinary error; it is a profound cosmological misunderstanding.

To begin with, the comparison is practically a biological impossibility. She is comparing chhena (the delicate, squeaky, pristine curd of milk) with a meticulously fermented batter of parboiled rice and black gram (urad dal). Their compositions are from entirely different kingdoms. One is an airy, spongy lattice designed to trap light sugar syrup; the other is a dense, wholesome, steamed matrix of complex carbohydrates and proteins. Their taste, consistency, structural integrity, and existential purpose share absolutely nothing in common.

But more important, her attempt to dismiss the Idli as merely a blank canvas for sugar syrup does a grave disservice to what is arguably one of the greatest engineering marvels of the culinary world.

The Idli is not a mere "bland cake." It is a masterclass in biotechnology. To achieve the perfect Idli is to balance the delicate microflora of wild fermentation over a cold night, resulting in a steamed cloud that is a triumph of gut health, lightness, and nutritional balance. It is a savoury monolith of South Indian culinary genius, perfectly engineered to absorb the sharp tang of a well-spiced sambar or the fiery depth of a molaga-podi (gunpowder) paste infused with cold-pressed sesame oil or nutritious melted ghee.

To suggest an Idli would even consent to being drowned in sugar syrup is to fundamentally misunderstand its dignity.

If this lady finds Rasgullas overrated, argue that on the merits of their sponginess or sweetness. But please, leave the noble, perfectly fermented, steamed majesty of the Idli out of your dessert-table polemics, ma'am!

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@blrcitytraffic could you please help here.

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@halairporttrfps @Jointcptraffic @btppubliceye
From CMRIT to Kundalahalli Signal footpath everyday bike riders and delivery guys riding on footpath.
these two guys once I clicked their photos, argued, misbehaved and threatened me. Please take action.
@3rdEyeDude

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@awkwardgoogle @MEAIndia @passportsevamea Can Indian passport do this, @FinMinIndia may be make indian currency notes this better. @PMOIndia

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@wftrps Sir, help with this menace, these guys don’t acknowledge their mistake and started to threaten.
@WFRising @karnatakaportf

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@kmfnandinimilk @News18Kannada @aajtak @nabilajamal_
After GST rate cut, new packet of nandini curd 500g pack printed price 33₹, previous day price 28₹
#GSTBachatUtsav

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@Suhelseth तो आपके हिसाब से क्या करना था महाराज 🤴

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@blrcitytraffic @BlrCityPolice @Jointcptraffic @CPBlr @seemantsingh96 Can traffic police and government organisations use Hindu gods images as they like ?
Going by there logic of spreading awareness we will see images of Hindu gods for Sanitation, drugs and what not!

why you need to use Hindu gods ?
@jsaideepak @HPhobiaWatch @Arya_Anviksha_

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@sidhant Rakshabandhan is tomorrow.. so may be in Ganpati Festival

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@NikkiHaley And for EU to buy LNG from Russia is okay?
spare us the mighty attitude

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@Mahaveer_VJ How come Govt. and Military didn’t set up that plant.. I don’t think our Govt is poor who need some person’s money.. also Army won’t let some random person install something in a sensetive zone as Siachen.
just asking.. whole post requires lot of answers..

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@swatic12 9 year old story people posting now making it sensational..
MH was going through draught that time.. not sure cast angle was there
https://t.co/J7zEkaOcjd

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@DeepikaBhardwaj You just reacted on headlines !!

[Nehra Ji @nehraji778]

दिल्ली हाई कोर्ट के जज

👉जिन्होंने ‘उदयपुर फाइल्स’ की रिलीज पर रोक लगाई

👉सुप्रीम कोर्ट ने रिलीज रोकने से इनकार कर दिया था

👉लेकिन हाई कोर्ट के जज साहब सुप्रीम कोर्ट से भी बड़े बने
और रोक लगा दी

👉क्योंकि फिल्म एक हिन्दू को मारने की सच्ची घटना पर थी

#UdaipurFiles

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@ShreeHistory Could you give the source and citations as well, it will help greatl.

[Ravindra Mathanker @ravi_ic]

@gharkekalesh No it not