Shashank

[روہن @TheFookFace]

There's a certain "haha fuck you" kind of a defiance that has shaped how a lot of Indian festivals are celebrated.

They are no longer emanating from a place of love and joy, but a desire to inflict the most obnoxious self expression at the cost of everyone else's wellbeing.

[cthulhucachoo @ClitoChris]

It's quite scary that once Israelis decide they like a particular country as tourists, they start treating it's native residents as invaders - first jokingly, and then in earnest. We cannot allow them to do the same here at any cost.

[Shashank @Shash858856]

“He has a polarising perception- either he inspires awe and inspiration, or dislike and hate. No in the middle. “

What is he, a cult leader or someone?

[Prakhar Gupta @prvkhvr]

Honestly, and Ive told Deepinder about this in private as well, people want to dislike him more than they care about the product.

He has a polarising perception- either he inspires awe and inspiration, or dislike and hate. No in the middle.

I use Temple. Ive used it. In fact, I bought it with $$. Its a health tracker. Simple as that. How can you hate a health tracker? Who is forcing someone to buy it?

There are some ambitious science projects built into it- CBF, Entropy etc. But I would never see someone hate Whoop, Garmin, Gabit, Oura or any other like that.

People don’t understand second time founder psychology at all. And this is the first sign of a second time founder attempting global tier innovation out of India.

We need to encourage more of this. Way more. After money stops being the incentive, out best and brightest should build global tier tech- hardware and software.

But, one thing Ive learned also from seeing him- the hate for him is well deserved, because only a man as strong headed as him could face it, use it and build bigger and better with it. The size of your enemy is the size of your potential. Your battles are a symptom of your strength, not your weakness.

[Lessons @onlypreneurs]

In a weird way, everybody is rooting for you. When you go to a job interview, the interviewer wants you to be amazing so they don’t have to look anymore. when you go on a date, the person wants to have an amazing date with you. If you make a piece of content, people want to see amazing pieces of content and they have no problem if it’s yours.

the instant you get into the mindset that people want you to do well, your entire world gets better. And you’ll be shocked to know this pattern keeps repeating in different areas of life.

[Manish Joseph @itsmjhere]

Aam logon mein yeh avdharna hai ki a few heavy Sanskrit or Urdu words somehow makes an entire language Sanskrit or Urdu.

Case in point: Chaiyya Chaiyya.

Your mind may immediately pick up words like taaveez, zubaan, Urdu, naghma, jannat, aayat, kalma, khushboo, firdous, imaan and start thinking about the song's PersianArabic or Urduness.

But look at Chal Chaiyya Chaiyya, the main repeating refrain itself. Both chal and chaiyya come from older Sanskrit-Prakrit/Indic linguistic traditions. Then there is paanv, neeche, roop, dhoop, raat, saiyaan, daal, paat, os, kabhi, mera/meri, uske, chale and many more.

And interestingly, most of those supposedly Urdu-specific words are perfectly familiar to ordinary Hindi speakers. They have long been part of the larger Hindustani vocabulary. We often confuse vocabulary with language itself. The historical origins of individual words do not determine the underlying grammar or linguistic identity. Malayalam and Telugu have absorbed enormous amounts of Sanskrit vocabulary. English has borrowed from languages across the world. That doesn't make Malayalam Sanskrit or English French.

The underlying grammatical foundation of both Hindi and Urdu is IndoAryan, rooted in the older Indic linguistic traditions. Many linguists analyze them as standardized varieties or registers within a broader Hindustani linguistic continuum, rather than fundamentally different spoken languages. Aam Hindi aur Urdu speakers have been speaking mutually intelligible forms of Hindustani all along, even as politics may make them feel separate.

A new name doesn't necessarily create a new language. Even if we recognize Hindi and Urdu as separate languages to preserve and celebrate their literary identities, we still have to acknowledge their overwhelmingly shared grammatical foundation and everyday vocabulary. They can not live or exist without each other. Hindi aur Urdu judwa bhai hain. They are conjoined twins.

And we needn't get so obsessive about every other word, yeh Urdu hai, yeh Hindi hai, yeh Sanskrit hai. Arey bhai, dono ek hi bhasha ki saanjhi virasat hain! Preserve the poetry, celebrate the vocabulary, enjoy the diversity. But don't turn linguistic richness into linguistic division. Don't become an Urdu or Sanskrit purist. Language belongs to its speakers, not just its scholars and gatekeepers. Hum hindustani!

[turbomander @turbomander]

Gameplay? No. We only just finished coming up with the title.

[Shannon @gardengirl125]

To be clear, he’s considering using a nuke on another country…to prevent them from creating nukes, on behalf of another country who already has nukes?

[Tucker Carlson @TuckerCarlson]

Under pressure from Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the Trump administration may be within days of launching a nuclear strike on Iran. The target would be Pickax Mountain in central Iran, where Israeli intelligence claims the Iranian government has restarted its nuclear enrichment program. No conventional weapon in the American arsenal can penetrate 300 feet of solid granite to destroy the tunnels where enrichment is supposedly taking place. The only military option is a nuclear strike. Netanyahu has been pushing hard for one. “Bibi calls Trump about it every day,” says an informed observer.

Netanyahu is cornered and desperate. After last week’s election results, he can’t form a government unless Trump intervenes directly in Israeli politics and brokers a deal with other parties that gives Netanyahu 61 seats in the Knesset. Otherwise, he is out as prime minister and on his way to ignominy, investigations and possibly jail. Netanyahu must stay close to Trump. He needs this war.

To that end, he’s applied maximum pressure to his closest allies in the administration, including Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth and CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper. Both oppose a negotiated settlement to the war they’ve so grievously mismanaged; both are pushing to restart major combat operations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA director John Ratcliffe are also following Netanyahu’s lead, as are leaders of the Democratic Party. In a recent meeting on the subject, former president Barack Obama said he opposes the current Iran peace deal being drafted in Doha.

The rest of America’s longtime allies in the Middle East are terrified by the prospect of more war. On September 27th, Netanyahu flew secretly to Abu Dhabi to enlist the UAE in his lobbying effort for a final attack on Iran. The Emiratis refused. After eight months of conflict, Gulf economies are teetering. So are global energy and fertilizer markets. They won’t recover soon. Globally, there are a total of about 850 supertankers used to transport oil from producers to the rest of the world. In October alone, 11 of them were badly damaged in Hormuz. At this pace, a global depression is imminent. A nuclear strike would radically accelerate the destruction. Fallout from a ground explosion at Pickax Mountain would contaminate the Persian Gulf, poisoning the water supply for 100 million people.

And those are just some of the immediate consequences for the region. The rest of the world is every bit as exposed. No country other than the United States has ever used a nuclear weapon in war. Some would like to. An American nuclear attack on Iran would set a new precedent. The Russians have already told at least two other governments that an American nuclear strike on Iran would free them to use nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Pakistan and India would be tempted to do the same against each other, as would North Korea against Seoul. After the first nuclear strike, World War Three is inevitable. That war would be short and final.

We’ve been sleepwalking toward this moment for months. Since February, the administration has quietly rewritten America’s nuclear doctrine to make first use of so-called “battlefield nukes” easier and therefore more likely. No one in Washington in either party seems bothered by this. Now we’re on the brink of it.

Close observers say Trump is likely to decide by next weekend whether or not to use nuclear weapons. That would be November 7, six days from now. To his credit, he’s hesitating. At the moment, Trump is listening to his vice president, JD Vance, and to his envoy and friend Steve Witkoff, both of whom argue a deal with Iran can be made.

They’re right, though it won’t be simple. The Iranians are famously frustrating to negotiate with under any circumstances, and elements of that government have become more radical since Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family were killed in February. After decades of isolation, even relatively moderate Iranian leaders seem confused by how decisions are made in the West. (There is a widespread belief in Tehran, for example, that the United States government controls Israel.) But overall, people who have spoken to decision-makers in Iran say there is consensus there that more war is bad for everyone and a deal is worth making.

One group that hasn’t been consulted so far is the global population — the hundreds of millions of people who will be killed along with their children if Trump is pushed by Netanyahu into launching a nuclear strike next week. Now would be the time for them to speak up.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Wonder why no BJP leader, Hindutva Organisations like Bajrang Dal, VHS, Hindu Sena, Pinky Sena, Right Wing influencers are calling him out? Is it because PM @narendramodi addressed him and his "Chhota Bhai".
Imagine if this was by someone else.

[Sandhya Ravishankar @sandhyaravishan]

Hello @NetflixIndia the next time you want to name a reporter character Sandhya, show her uncovering illegal sand mining, create a Tamil villain, and pick bits & pieces from MY real life story which was pitched to you TWICE in 2022 and 2023, AND not give me any credit at the least.... Think hard and well.

Thankfully it was a supremely crappy movie with ham performances and @ParineetiChopra was nothing like me. In fact she was nothing like any reporter & the newsroom portrayal was idiotic & amateurish. You've been clever enough to try & escape a lawsuit by altering the story enough.

You owe me a public apology at the very least but I'm certain you have no moral fibre in you to do so.

Shame on you all, especially the director-writer Dhruv Tripathi. Stealing other people's hard work and making money sneakily out of it.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Israel is voting today on which party continues the Genocide.

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

🇧🇷 Lula defeated Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Donald Trump, and Benjamin Netanyahu.

[Tuhin @tuhinat221b]

So PVR bought Godzilla Minus Zero distribution rights for the country just so they can bury it and make the complete screen capture path clear for the other movie? Given Godzilla is beating its ass everywhere else and they are having to resort to block bookings abroad as well..

[Culture Crave 🍿 @CultureCrave]

A petition to 'Save Mass Effect' has crossed 200K signatures 🎮

Commander Shepard actor Mark Meer has encouraged fans to 'hold the line'

[LukeCB14 @LukeCB14]

As Destiny fans, I feel like we owe it to other communities to help rally for their game's revival.

[Mike Ventre @MichaelCVentre]

I do not tweet ever. I do so for this. #SaveMassEffect

[anna 🌊 @hauntingnellie]

this being real footage from a bbc one doc and not ai is making me so happy

[Shashank @Shash858856]

Fuck this timeline.