Rayan Das

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[Helle @Oyemisty]

India has got a wonderful Prime Minister, caring, loving and supportive There is no one like Modi-

The heat has increased a lot, so everyone should drink plenty of water.

India’s great Prime Minister Modi held a high-level meeting yesterday. In the meeting, he called all the MPs and ministers. The entire country was expecting that, with the rising prices of petrol, diesel, and CNG, increasing inflation, and the difficult situation faced by poor people, small business owners, street vendors, and rickshaw pullers, the government would announce some relief measures or make an important decision.

But the interesting part is that Prime Minister Modi told his MPs and ministers:

“The heat has increased a lot, so all of you should drink more water.”

And then the meeting ended.

Tell me, can there be a more caring Prime Minister anywhere? In a high-level meeting, he is advising his MPs and ministers to drink plenty of water.

Now wait and watch. Today they are asking people to drink more water. India was already mixing 20% ethanol in petrol, and now the government plans to increase it to 30%. Slowly, after some time, they may even say, “Please drink less water too, we need it to produce ethanol.”

Now it is becoming clear why the great Prime Minister does not hold press conferences. He probably knows that he may not be able to answer even five serious questions.

If questions are asked about development, education, national security, healthcare, and corruption, then he himself might need to drink plenty of water.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Cockroaches survive nuclear disasters. The authorities panic over social media posts.

We condemn the takedown of Cockroach Janta Party (@CJP_2029 ) page on X/Twitter under India’s opaque digital censorship infrastructure. It is clear violation of free speech and expression. We will provide any and all support against any illegal state censorship.

@Cockroachisback

Comic by @aaaaadvik

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

As expected Cockroach Janta Party’s account has been withheld in India.

[Deedy @deedydas]

The vibes in SF feel pretty frenetic right now. The divide in outcomes is the worst I've ever seen.

Over the last 5yrs, a group of ~10k people - employees at Anthropic, OpenAI, xAI, Nvidia, Meta TBD, founders - have hit retirement wealth of well above $20M (back of the envelope AI estimation).

Everyone outside that group feels like they can work their well-paying (but <$500k) job for their whole life and never get there.

Worse yet, layoffs are in full swing. Many software engineers feel like their life's skill is no longer useful. The day to day role of most jobs has changed overnight with AI.

As a result,
1. The corporate ladder looks like the wrong building to climb.
Everyone's trying to align with a new set of career "paths": should I be a founder? Is it too late to join Anthropic / OpenAI? should I get into AI? what company stock will 10x next? People are demanding higher salaries and switching jobs more and more.

2. There’s a deep malaise about work (and its future).
Why even work at all for “peanuts”? Will my job even exist in a few years? Many feel helpless. You hear the “permanent underclass” conversation a lot, esp from young people. It's hard to focus on doing good work when you think "man, if I joined Anthropic 2yrs ago, I could retire"

3. The mid to late middle managers feel paralyzed.
Many have families and don't feel like they have the energy or network to just "start a company". They don't particularly have any AI skills. They see the writing on the wall: middle management is being hollowed out in many companies.

4. The rich aren’t particularly happy either.
No one is shedding tears for them (and rightfully so). But those who have "made it" experience a profound lack of purpose too. Some have gone from <$150k to >$50M in a few years with no ramp. It flips your life plans upside down. For some, comparison is the thief of joy. For some, they escape to NYC to "live life". For others still, they start companies "just cuz", often to win status points. They never imagined that by age 30, they'd be set. I once asked a post-economic founder friend why they didn't just sell the co and they said "and do what? right now, everyone wants to talk to me. if i sell, I will only have money."

I understand that many reading this scoff at the champagne problems of the valley. Society is warped in this tech bubble. What is often well-off anywhere else in the world is bang average here.

Unlike many other places, tenure, intelligence and hard work can be loosely correlated with outcomes in the Bay. Living through a societally transformative gold rush in that environment can be paralyzing. "Am I in the right place? Should I move? Is there time still left? Am I gonna make it?" It psychologically torments many who have moved here in search of "success".

Ironically, a frequent side effect of this torment is to spin up the very products making everyone rich in hopes that you too can vibecode your path to economic enlightenment.

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

@HaimantikaM Time to let your trainer go now?? 😛

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

And then there’s vishwaguru.

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

BREAKING 🚨: Spain 🇪🇸 has become the most LIKED country online since the US-Iran war begun

87% people globally rate Pedro Sánchez a courageous leader 🔥🫡

[Rafael @FlickyCuler]

Since Messi, I haven’t seen runs this terrifying until Yamal

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

@HaimantikaM @SantoshYadavDev @BhosalePratim @sachaarbonel @KubeCon_ @kubeautoday @yashsharma_f Sure

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

Heya KubeCon EU! 👋

[Kyros @IamKyros69]

my favorite scene from Silicon Valley

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

Someone said they’re not taking questions because modiji doesn’t understand English. 🥲🥲

[ritwik @IndieKnopfler]

"no questions will be taken"

Meanwhile the kind of questions our previous PM used to take:

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

Sounds like Godi Media in India

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

You don’t need an enemy when your country has corrupt media 😂

[Arun Arora @Arun2981]

Hello @realDonaldTrump

Pls order Modi ji to reduce income tax slabs in India

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

Then they said: Gungi Gudiya
It’s time for us to say: Gunga Gudda (only haha hehe hahah)

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

🇺🇸 USA : President addressed Press Conference 09 hours ago

🇪🇸 Spain : Prime Minister addressed Press Conference 18 hours ago

🇬🇧 UK : Prime Minister addressed addressed Press Conference 2 days ago

🇫🇷 France : President addressed Press Conference 3 days ago

🇮🇳 India : Prime Minister addressed Press Conference 12 years, 2 months ago on 3rd January 2014

It was addressed by Dr Manmohan Singh 😭

No idea when we will have the next Press Conference of our PM

[Subhasmita Swain @whtssub]

You’ve seen the transformer diagram. Can you trace one tensor through it? I couldn’t so I wrote down every shape, every dot product, and every “why.” No hand waving.

Happy reading!

https://t.co/WP4MhWm7F4

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

@Urvashi432 that day is not far :P

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

waiting to hear the stories when people run AI to manage production xd..

[mitsuri @0xmitsurii]

How was the show Silicon Valley so ahead of its time?

[Rayan Das @raydeeam]

No major elections this year, so nothing for the middle class in the 2026 Union Budget.

#UnionBudget2026

[DigitalOcean @digitalocean]

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