Siddharth M

Assistant Prof (Information Systems), PhD in Information Systems. Lover of movies, history, music, politics, cricket and chess.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Ruchika Singh vs Riddhima Sharma..
One abused PM Modi, There is an FIR against her. She is being discussed on Multiple Television Anchors..
Another, Abused Mahatma Gandhi, She was invited to several programs where Modi was giving speeches, has met several Top BJP leaders despite her abuses to Mahatma Gandhi and to Minorities.

[Narundar @NarundarM]

The PM said he wanted to reach out to Gen Z, but when reels didn't work as expected, he decided to reach out through the police and intimidation instead.

[LaurieWired @lauriewired]

Oof. See, this is why I’m not worried about “pure” LLMs in the long run.

There’s new evidence that the human brain doesn’t use natural language centers for logical reasoning at all.

Study just came out where stroke patients with complete aphasia (near-chance on written comprehension) performed….great on pure logic tasks! Even in healthy adults, fMRI showed language area activation didn’t scale with logical difficulty.

tl;dr words are too ambiguous for formal thought and our brain doesn’t use language symbols for logic

[newslaundry @newslaundry]

A truck full of stones appeared near the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar on July 20, prompting fears it could be used to frame protesters.

@ImAvdheshkumar traced it to a vehicle the Police had seized 4 days earlier after a crash that injured seven people.

https://t.co/5z52dbcgl4

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

"When mediocrity has been set as a standard, rubbish becomes acceptable."

[Hedgie @HedgieMarkets]

🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."

My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."

I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.

Hedgie🤗

[Audrey Truschke @AudreyTruschke]

My two-cents after seeing Nolan's #Odyssey, which trades on moral ambiguity --

Somebody get that director a copy of the #Mahabharata and a massive budget. He'll never look back.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

The worst abusive handles of BJP camp are horrified at the abuses Gen Z is hurling at Modi. Perhaps they should see their own TL for past 5 years to find how they ended up training Gen Z on a daily basis. There's no going back. Reap your rewards to the fullest now.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

मेट्रो बंद करो।
रास्ते बंद करो।
दुकानें बंद करो।
Internet बंद करो।
खाना बंद करो।

अपना हक़ मांग रहे छात्रों के ख़िलाफ़ सरकार ने ये क्रूर कदम उठाए।

बस एक चीज़ बंद नहीं कर पाए, मोदी जी - पेपर लीक।

[Man Aman Singh Chhina @manaman_chhina]

Even the British did not do this kind of repression.
Delhi Police now browbeating food outlets for sending deliveries to protestors.

[𝐌𝐞𝐡𝐦𝐞𝐝 ☪︎ @SinceOttomans]

𝗠𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘂𝗹 𝗛𝗮𝗾𝘂𝗲 father of three, who was shot dead by Assam police.

As he lay dying "𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗿" named 𝗕𝗶𝗷𝗼𝘆 𝗕𝗼𝗻𝗶𝗮 savagely stomped and jumped on his body.

But yeah, "don't attack the ground reporters, only studio anchors do the propaganda"

[Sanjay Singh AAP @SanjayAzadSln]

मोदी का नया हीरा तो खीरा चोर है।
मोदी जी आपके दिमाग़ पर भ्रष्टाचार का कैसा भूत सवार हो गया है?
“मंदिर से लेकर शिक्षा के मंदिर तक हर जगह चोर बिठा रहे हो”

खीरा सब्सिडी कांड वाले IAS नरेश पाल गंगवार देश के नए शिक्षा सचिव बनाए गए !!

द इंडियन एक्सप्रेस की एक रिपोर्ट के अनुसार, पिछले दिनों IAS नरेश पाल गंगवार की पत्नी, पुत्र और माता को राष्ट्रीय बागवानी बोर्ड (NHB) की योजना के तहत लगभग ₹1.16 करोड़ की सब्सिडी मिली। इससे गंगवार पर सवाल उठे, क्योंकि वह उस वक्त पशुपालन/डेयरी मंत्रालय में सचिव थे।

[Sanket Upadhyay @sanket]

वैसे विचित्र है। कल टीवी पर पूरे दिन सीजेपी और वांगचुक को डीप स्टेट बताया। फिर रात होते होते सरकार डीप स्टेट का अनशन तुड़वाने पहुँची। और आज दोपहर डीप स्टेट के साथ बात भी की। डीप स्टेट वाली बात करने वाले दिमाग़ डीप फ्रीज़र में रख मास्टरस्ट्रोक मास्टरस्ट्रोक खेलने लगे।

[Sophia Cai @SophiaCai99]

News: Nearly 200 Silicon Valley companies, including Proton and Y-Combinator, are urging the Trump administration not to cut off access to Chinese open-weight AI models or risk crippling the next generation of U.S. startups. https://t.co/Cj30cyeonb

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

इनका simple formula है।

- जो ताकतवर है उसके सामने खिखियाओ।
- जो लालची है उसे ख़रीद लो।
- जो ईमानदार है उसे पीटो।

[Kareem Nassar @kimocode]

@GaryMarcus Yes — model makers quietly went from benchmarking LLMs to benchmarking LLM+harness, without relabeling. Same leaderboard, different system under test. https://t.co/9pN9J0eeVg

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

this is confused. it’s not LLMs that are good at math; it’s LLMs merged with (neuro)symbolic tools that are good at math.

amazing that people feel free to clutch their pearls without understanding even the basic technical details.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Lost a friend to Cancer this week. Long battle. Great great person. Too young, too kind. We are gonna get old, and our bodies will fail us, and we will watch people depart. These things don’t care about all the things we seemingly cling to. I remember him as trusting and funny. Don’t know what car he drove, his politics, his net worth. I know his family were always laughing, I remember he liked a beer. This life is short, this we all know. It’s smaller than we think too. A lot smaller. Nothing big that we think defines us actually does.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Really hate the use of "front-end" as the emerging catch-all term for everything that involves taste, judgement, and design from AI. When its "back-end" software, we have tons of gradations, front end is often just groups of stuff

UX ≠ Design ≠ UI ≠ Style ≠ Vision ≠ art etc