Sandipan De

photographer and musician

[Sandipan De @sheermelody]

@vkhosla @Stanford @Google @sundarpichai You think ai will help 3bn people? Okay.

[Sandipan De @sheermelody]

@deedydas You’re kidding right? You think this is good?

[Sandipan De @sheermelody]

@deedydas I don’t think you understand photo realism.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥 @ronnychieng at Harvard: “F*ck A.I. — the mission of your generation is to destroy it… shortcuts to skip to the end aren’t always good. The journey is the point of all this.”

[Edgar Allen Poe @allenakinkunle]

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[codegirl007 @codegirl007]

I hate everything this guys says. I hate all of it. I didn’t even watch the video because I know it’ll just be something I hate. But scrolling past it, I can feel how much I hate it. It’s literally been years of this guy spewing this stuff.

It’s not even me being in denial. Even if anything he’s said was true (very little of it has been), I just hate the way he puts it. It’s not coming from an innovation point of view of discovering amazing technology. It’s a “I’m enjoying ruining your life” view.

[Sandipan De @sheermelody]

@TheFigen_ Made my day!

[Bo Ren @Bosefina]

SF tech myopia is an occupational hazard and social byproduct of knowing the top 0.1%. I call it the silver medalist mindset. Silver medalists in the Olympics are the least happy medal winners bc they know how close they were to gold.

[Sandipan De @sheermelody]

@RackCityBC @deedydas Most of tech bro posts these days are exactly like this. Weird flex. But comes with the territory where you have no social skills whatsoever.

[Sandipan De @sheermelody]

Is there anyone who enjoys reading the lengthy emails people write these days using copilot? What used to be a 10-word line is now three paragraphs of bumbling nonsense. What a time to live in.

[maddy catgirlprostate @catgirlprostate]

The simple truth is that anyone with anything close to that level of empathy simply wouldn't be able to reach anything close to bezos levels of wealthy, because that amount of money requires unbelievable amounts of human exploitation

[Sandipan De @sheermelody]

@NoahKingJr Play the piano live in front of an audience.

[Tom Goodwin @tomfgoodwin]

Every single AI use case video is still utterly painful to watch for anyone not rich, 33, and living in SF.

It's still ,

"help me plan a hiking trip to Yosemite with a cute sushi picnic, maybe with a live band "

"schedule 1 on 1's with the GTM team about brand guidelines, upload to notion and update everyone on Slack"

" Can you buy a gift for my brother and and an uber to deliver it, he likes organic flour, yoga, helicopters, and lives in Carmel"

This isn't how the real world works at all.

Every time I do a big keynote to a real company, I can't possibly use any assets made.

[Yegor Bugayenko @yegor256]

Most developers think productivity comes from writing more code faster. In reality, productivity comes from writing less code with fewer consequences. Every line you add increases maintenance, complexity, and future risk. The best engineers are not the fastest writers, but the most selective ones.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I miss the world before AI more than I miss the world before the pandemic. I hate what it’s doing to publishing, job markets, schooling, and the internet. It’s made people question every piece of content they see. I’m tired of reading about it, seeing it, or thinking about it.

[David Milner @DaveMilbo]

I can't quite believe (a) how quickly so many people started outsourcing their decision-making and critical thinking to machines owned by psychopathic oligarchs, and (b) how quickly that made everyone really, really dumb.

[Felix ❤️‍🔥 @pilgoth]

I hate, hate, hate being forced to watch a video to learn something when I could read at 10x the speed. Videos are for cattle.

"Hey guys, today we'll be talking about X -- X is a fascinating topic, and a lot of you have been requesting I talk about X, so..." - Shut up, Shut up!

[Sandipan De @sheermelody]

@samjawed65 Lack of respect for women.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

sam altman watching ChatGPT hallucinate live on stage is the funniest thing i've seen all week

the CEO of OpenAI, on stage, in front of everyone, watching his own AI just make things up in real time

and his face says it all

this is the guy telling us AGI is coming soon btw

[PS @dostoevesque]

The truth about Ramayana is that it has been adapted into various formats over the years, and the filmmakers are still struggling to come out of its serialized hangover. No matter what they try, their version is like serial with a bigger budget, and I can't even say better visuals. What we need right now is not another retelling of Ramayana, but a reinterpretation through a particular character, their psychological depth, and how they felt about what was happening rather than an omniscient view.

A great story can be interpreted in many ways. A Ramayana entirely from Sita's perspective would show her isolation, her agency, her moral clarity against societal expectations. Or from Ravana, not glorified but psychologically unpacked, with ego, obsession, righteousness, and self-delusion. Even Lakshmana, with loyalty turning into quiet resentment or moral conflict. Or the most radical idea, a fragmented narrative where Rama is not the center but a force that each character interprets differently.

I am sure there are good enough writers to do that, but the risk is not commercial, it is cultural. To reinterpret Ramayana through a single psychological lens is to invite accusations of heresy from the right wing. The right wing truly has no aesthetic sense, because they lack imagination. They do not understand myth or lore, or even religion, yet they want to chest thump about how they are the protectors of religion.

But if you go back to the tradition itself, it was never that rigid. There isn’t just one Ramayana, there are hundreds across regions and languages. The moment a culture decides its stories are too sacred for reinterpretation, those stories stop being living things and become statues. And statues, no matter how golden, cannot teach us anything new.

The right wing tends to treat texts like the Ramayana with reverence, as if they need to be preserved. Their instinct is to protect the text and keep its meaning stable. They see the epic as something already complete and morally settled. But when they do this, even an attempt at interpretation starts to feel like distortion or disrespect. So the text becomes frozen. It is safe and elevated, but it loses all its complexity. They risk making it look like a moral class for students at school, removing complexities.

The left wing often does the opposite. They treat interpretation as a way to take the text or rip the text apart and discard it as myth, as if something being a myth is wrong in and of itself. They approach the epic with suspicion, questioning power, gender, caste, and ideology inside it. But in that process, showing any reverence starts to seem naive. So instead of engaging with the text as something alive, they risk turning it into a political object to be criticized or thrown away so as to counter the present political atmosphere.

Right now this situation feels inescapable because the loudest voices demand only one kind of reading. The irony is that these texts were built to handle many interpretations. They are full of contradictions, silences, and hard questions about duty, violence, gender, and power. If those questions are not being explored, it is not because the material is shallow. It is because we are choosing safer and simpler readings.