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[Swaroop Nandi @RnSwaroop]

winter skies

[Oren John @orenmeetsworld]

Gear acquisition syndrome, and how buying (or posting) the thing gives our brain a similar sensation to actually doing it.

We must resist

[Vishal Ganesan @vjgtweets]

I haven't been following the India protests that closely, but it seems to me that they reflect a basic contradiction in India's political economy that will naturally get more acute as the country grows economically. At a very basic level, the path to political power in India is through the rural poor and the farmers. This plays out at the central and state level, with governments at every level regularly extracting resources from surplus-producing urban areas to fund welfare for the hinterlands. As long as this basic political logic remains, Indian politicians will neglect the aspirations of the electorally insignificant urban middle class who form the bulk of the protesters.

The BJP has somewhat successfully bridged this divide through Hindutva politics: When it comes to economic policy they double down on rural development (water connections, electricity, welfare etc.) while pushing cultural and religious nationalism to satisfy the ascendant Hindu middle class that has the luxury of voting on ideological lines. But this is not sustainable in the long run. As the urban middle class grows, the demand for greater economic opportunity, a better standard of living, and the promise of a better future will naturally increase in intensity.

Retorts about the depredations of the Congress-era, even if true, are little consolation to the young who have only known BJP-led India. The reflexive tendency of BJP supporters to see protests as a "foreign conspiracy" reflects a basic inability to see the world through the eyes of others. That there are bad actors is no doubt true, but this does not detract from the legitimacy of the complaints about corruption, stagnation, urban misgovernance etc.

Modi and the BJP have spent years referring to their era of electoral dominance as a "golden age" of Indian economic and cultural regeneration. Turns out when you set expectations high, people will expect you meet them. Who would have thought?

[litquidity @litcapital]

SpaceX plumbers showing up to Morgan Stanley’s wealth management department tomorrow

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇳🇴 Completely agree. Been to Norway several times - easily the worst grocery market in Western Europe. The Finns call it the last Soviet Union, and they’re not wrong. Four chains carve up the country like a planned economy, hiding behind tariff walls that slap 277%+ on European cheese to protect an agricultural sector that couldn’t compete with a mid-sized Danish farm. One of the richest countries on earth, eating like it’s 1987.

[haon @noah_eacc]

Stockholmaxxing Day 29

Went for a lunch swim and had a sandwich & Diet Coke by the water.

Life is good here in Sweden.

[PeterSweden @PeterSweden7]

Teknologijätten Ericsson flyttar nu alltså huvudkontor bort ifrån Kista.

Detta kommer efter rapporter om att personal har känt sig otrygga i området.

Det är så illa att anställda fick eskorteras med väktare till tunnelbanan i Kista om kvällen.

Sverige är inte tryggt längre.

[Viktor @desishitposterr]

@ambkcsingh @hermanprit Imagine the audacity of these pesky clowns to seek perks and privileges after sucking the lifeblood of this republic and its people.

And he wants us to be grateful for his “sacrifice” of not falling for private sector “doles”?

MY FOOT.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Rs 171 won over Rs 311

To conduct exams they replaced TCS with a cheaper vendor. L1 strikes again. It's the country's mindset of treating everything as Mitti-Baalu.

[Internal Tech Emails @TechEmails]

Sam Altman texts Mira Murati

November 19, 2023

[Yves ౨ৎ @yvessirae]

Fun fact:
"Breaking Bad" could only happen in America because any other country would be paid for Walter White's chemotherapy.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Honestly, most guys don’t even have enough work to automate using AI. 3 meetings and 3 lines of code in a day, doesn’t need Claude.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

There's a physicist at Stanford named Safi Bahcall who modeled this exact principle and the math is wild.

He calls it "phase transitions in human networks." When you're stationary, your probability of a lucky event is limited to your existing surface area: the people you already know, the places you already go, the ideas you've already been exposed to. Your opportunity window is fixed.

When you move, your collision rate with new nodes in a network increases nonlinearly. Double your movement (new conversations, new cities, new projects) and your probability of a serendipitous encounter doesn't double. It roughly quadruples. Because each new node connects you to their entire network, not just to them.

Richard Wiseman ran a 10-year study at the University of Hertfordshire tracking self-described "lucky" and "unlucky" people. The single biggest differentiator wasn't IQ, education, or family money. Lucky people scored significantly higher on one trait: openness to experience. They talked to strangers more, varied their routines more, and said yes to invitations at nearly twice the rate.

The "unlucky" group followed the same routes, ate at the same restaurants, and talked to the same 5 people. Their networks were closed loops. No new inputs, no new collisions.

Luck isn't random. Luck is surface area. And surface area is a function of movement.

The lobster emoji is doing more work than most people realize. Lobsters grow by shedding their shell when it gets too tight. The growth requires a period of total vulnerability. No protection, no armor, soft body exposed to the ocean.

That's the cost of movement nobody posts about. You have to be uncomfortable first. The new shell only hardens after you've already moved.

[Swaroop Nandi @RnSwaroop]

Accurate

[Stereotypewriter @babumoshoy]

Probably Tehran’s first miscalculation since the war began - expecting an average American to read and grasp a 4-page letter on a serious issue.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

There is a project on GitHub called Axios.

Axios is extremely popular. It is used by millions upon millions of applications.

Axios is a programming library that helps your JavaScript code make HTTP/S requests (communicate with websites).

In simple terms, if you're a programmer doing something with JavaScript, and want to do stuff that communicates with a website in literally any capacity, people heavily recommend using Axios due to its simplicity. Using Axios you don't have to reinvent the wheel and do a bunch of work. All you need to do is import Axios into your code and you're off to the races.

Someone (currently unknown) compromised Axios (currently unknown how) to deliver malware to people. When someone updates or installs Axios, Axios itself contains malware.

What the malware does is (currently) unknown, but it is being reversed engineered by probably every malware analyst on the planet at this moment. In a few hours more details will emerge. Information is being exchanged in real time on social media and private communication platforms as I write this.

Due to the size and popularity of Axios, it is unknown how many are impacted, it could be millions, it could be thousands, or if we're lucky, only hundreds of people or organizations will be impacted.

If this is absolute worst case scenario, millions of organizations across the planet have been infected with malware which (currently) we do not understand. However, the likelihood of this is low. It appears Axios being compromised was detected quickly, potentially within minutes (or hours) of it being compromised to deliver malware. Additionally, the likelihood of every single Axios user updating Axios as soon as it was compromised to deliver malware is astronomically low. It is basically zero.

The impact from Axios being compromised is devastating, the fallout from this will be a massive headache. This is unironically a malware nuclear missile and will likely be studied in the future.

[Swaroop Nandi @RnSwaroop]

GOD help this country

[Deepak Bopanna @dpkBopanna]

This is what entitled MLAs think of the common man.
"They give MLAs one ticket & that too in the bottom gallery, where these people… where these people go" says Vijayanand Kashappanavar as he hesitates to even complete his sentence realising he's on camera.

[kshitij vaze @VazeKshitij]

An MLA, who is supposed to serve the people who elected him in the first place, just proudly declared that "MLAs are VIPs, we cannot stand in lines for booking tickets for the IPL"

The bastards who intoxicate themselves with power bestowed upon them by their citizens have no understanding of the responsibility that comes with it.

Each and every day, something or the other happens in this country that kills what little hope I once had for things improving in India.

[Kiran Aradhya @KiranAradhyaadv]

Bengaluru taxpayers spend 2 hours for 10 km every morning 🚗

Kannada school Kids get worm infested meals

Kannada schools are shutting down ,No money 📉

Hotels don’t have LPG..

Law and order is a Joke

But priority?

IPL tickets & VIP seats for MLAs and their beloved families 👏

Perfect socialist governance 🤡

[Swaroop Nandi @RnSwaroop]

Lmfaooo

[Doc Strangelove @DocStrangelove2]

I could be a millionaire tomorrow if the bank just allowed me to take it.

[Lisa @elisabetguwanto]

i wish i could slow down a little without feeling behind 🥹