Sajeel

obtuse aspirant of an elusive humepenthe…

[Sajeel @sajeel]

Life 101 …

[Ahmad Waqass Goraya Baloch 🇵🇸 @AWGoraya]

عطا تارڑ اور میاں صاب نے صدر مسلم لیک آئیرلینڈ کے ساتھ مل کر شفیع جان کی گندی زبان کی سخت مذمت کی

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

An Anthropic researcher is quitting the artificial-intelligence industry over fears that the lab and its competitors are racing to build systems that could spiral out of control and destroy humanity. https://t.co/oB7tWEwWkH

[nJ @khurammmalik]

بہترین 🙏🙏

[🇵🇸Human🌈🏳️‍🌈 @Human0000000101]

For men who feel rage with word All Men

[Sajeel @sajeel]

@omar_quraishi Almost everyday - multiple times.

[Sajeel @sajeel]

Anxiety > Platelets … or is it?

[Mohsin Hijazee @MohsinHijazee]

سیدھا سادہ پاکستانی "پاکستان زندہ باد" تک رہتا ہے، فوجی ٹٹّو "پاکستان ہمیشہ زندہ باد" کے نعرے سے پہچانا جاتا ہے۔
آج آپ بھی ارد گرد پہچانیں۔

[Vijay Gokhale @VGokhale59]

I would urge everybody to read this book by @yuenyuenang . It’s free to download.

[Atif Mian @AtifRMian]

“Do you believe in capitalism?”

In today’s hyper-polarized world, this question is increasingly posed to box people into one of two bins - often with the intention of punching them if they fall into the “wrong” one.

This is dangerous. Economics is not about “isms,” and it should not require dogmatic beliefs.

Economics is about understanding: under what conditions is a particular policy more appropriate?

It is also about constraints: I agree that X would be ideal, but given constraint Y, I suggest we do Z instead.

We gain an understanding only when we are willing to entertain all possible “isms” without believing in any of them - and instead insist on subjecting each idea to a scientific test:

What has to be true for the conclusions of that particular “ism” to follow?

If we do this, we will not only arrive at better conclusions, but will also end up friendlier to each other

[Geoff Keighley @geoffkeighley]

Hats off to doctoral student and podcaster Zhong Shu in Beijing, China, who did this fascinating and smart interview with Christopher Nolan about THE ODYSSEY yesterday, originally posted to Bilibili.

A great listen/watch.

[Vikas Vij @TheClubJunto]

This young man is an uncut diamond that deserves a future.

The Cockroach Janata Party should enlist diamonds like him as members if they really want to go far with their movement and change India’s destiny.

If not, some rich NGO or a corporate CSR department should rehabilitate him by providing an interest-free loan and helping him set up a small business.

His name is Mohammad Irfan. He lives in a broken 12 sq yd 1-room slum (with tarpaulin roof) with his parents and two sisters in Delhi’s Laxmi Nagar.

For his livelihood, along with his father, he sells ice slabs as a roadside vendor.

He cannot write, he never went to school, and all his education is acquired by asking questions to Google several hours a day.

From the Preamble to the Indian Constitution (Hindi version) to Urdu Shayar Ahmed Faraz and Kavi Gopal Das Neeraj’s poetry to legal rights of workers and minimum wage & hour laws in India, his knowledge is 10x more than the average brainwashed WhatsApp University uncles of India.

In the video, Irfan emphasizes on “garima” (dignity). The Preamble to the Constitution explicitly states: “assuring the dignity of the individual,” irrespective of their caste, religion, education, or economic status.

Irfan was discovered by The Lallantop’s brilliant journalist Rajat Pandey @RajatpandeyJF during recent student protests at Jantar Mantar. That’s real journalism India needs instead of the shameless mainstream media that is digging India’s grave.

Rajat can provide the phone number and address of Irfan to anyone interested in supporting him.

Spare 20 minutes of your time this Sunday to watch this YouTube video:

https://t.co/fDFk8umLMb

[Matiullah Jan @Matiullahjan919]

Hi @grok transcribe this talk in urdu language please

[Sajeel @sajeel]

This needs to be studied with broader context; not sure if this is sizable and significant increase in middle class against decrease in income parity in lower middle or lower class? The analysis doesn’t cover so many aspects!

[Profit @Profitpk]

If you drive through the right neighbourhoods in Pakistan, you could almost forget how poor the country is. Cars that cost more than the median home in the country, restaurant bills higher than the median individual income, imported luxury items at specialty grocery stores that will make your local Marxist academic go into an apoplectic fit of rage.

If you are a recent graduate of an elite local university – or suffering from post-Fulbright depression, or its cheaper knockoff, post-Chevening depression – you might be tempted to view these as yet one more sign of Pakistan’s dysfunction. After all, these are clear signs of inequality, and inequality, you have been assured by your intellectual mentors, is bad. Throw in a barely relevant Gramsci quote and the intellectual superiority and self-righteousness cocktail is complete.

But while the righteous indignation may make some feel morally superior, it is not a useful framework to understand the phenomenon you are beholding.

Because what is unmistakably visible across urban Pakistan is not a handful of rich people continuing to get richer at the expense of everyone else, but rather the number of high-income individuals and households is expanding, and therefore the market that serves their consumption patterns is both expanding and diversifying.

In last week’s cover story, we talked about the rise of luxury retail through things like Yves Saint-Laurent, Armani, and Porsche operating retail outlets in Lahore as a signal of rising affluence among a small segment of Pakistani society. In this story, we will dive deeper into the characteristics of that affluent segment, the emerging upper middle class in Pakistan, and examine their place in broader Pakistani society.

Our contention: the upper middle class in Pakistan barely existed even 10 years ago, but now is a sizeable class in its own right, and is starting to exert real economic gravitational pull in the economy. This has both negative and positive short-term effects, though the long-term effect is likely to be dominated by the positives. Finally, we talk about something that is a little less tangible, but perhaps more important: the emergence of a Pakistani dream (along the lines of the American dream).
https://t.co/8jL8GTQUMr

[Mohsin Hijazee @MohsinHijazee]

What Asim Munir is doing now, is what Musharraf attempted back then too. He comes off as a visionary that saw it way earlier then anyone else.

Like I say always:
ہم پاگل ہیں، فوج پاگل نہیں۔

[Lloyd Mathias @LloydMathias]

OMG! Thierry Henry’s deconstruction of the build-up to #Spain second goal, on @FOXSports is pure gold!

[Sajeel @sajeel]

@Stormpilot1234 @BitterTrut31827 @IslamCritic

[Sajeel @sajeel]

@Stormpilot1234 https://t.co/WPotpU5YMN

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[Ahmad Waqass Goraya Baloch 🇵🇸 @AWGoraya]

ایرانی ملائیت ایک کینسر ہے۔ ہمارے مارکسسٹ، سوشلسٹ اور لبرل دوستوں کا اس کینسر کو کوئی مزاحمت یا انسانیت کی جنگ بنا کر پیش کرنا اصول، علم ،انسان سب سے دغا ہے۔ ملائیت کےکینسر نے ایران کی نسلوں کو اجاڑا ہے۔ اس خطے کو اجاڑا ہے۔ نوجوانوں کو لٹکایا ہے۔اسکو کیسے گلوریفائی کیا جاسکتا ہے؟