Veteran Actor Pawan Malhotra on recent student protests:
🗣️ "Use your brain. Somebody is using you, and you're hurting your own future."
🗣️ "How many people there were actually talking about education reforms?"
🗣️ "The so-called leaders disappeared when the lathi-charge happened—one was in a coffee shop, another in a mall."
🗣️ "India is moving forward, and Make in India is being targeted because you were their market."
🗣️ "Why should anyone die by suicide over an exam? Never give up on life."
Thank you, uncle, for this wisdom.
अमीर बनो। अमीर नहीं बन सकते हो तो Attractive बनो।
अगर Attractive नहीं बन सकते, तो Intelligent बनो।
Intelligent नहीं बन सकते, तो Confident बनो।
Confident नहीं बन सकते, तो Disciplined बनो।
क्योंकि अमीर पैदा होना हमारे हाथ में नहीं है।
खूबसूरत दिखना भी हमारे हाथ में नहीं है।
हर किसी का IQ भी एक जैसा नहीं होता।
लेकिन...
सुबह समय पर उठना,
अपना वादा निभाना,
हर दिन मेहनत करना,
और बिना बहाने के लगातार आगे बढ़ना — ये सब हमारे हाथ में है।
Discipline वो आखिरी हथियार है जो हर इंसान को मिला है.
और अगर इंसान आखिरी हथियार भी इस्तेमाल न करे, तो फिर जिंदगी को बदलने का कोई option नहीं रहता.
अब ये आपके ऊपर है कि आप Discipline चुनते हैं या Excuses.
An Indian institute filmed a professor teaching classical physics with no notes, no slides, and a green board. Almost nobody outside India watches it.
This is Classical Physics, lecture 1, taught by V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras, published free by NPTEL, India's national open courseware programme.
Balakrishnan taught at IIT Madras for decades. Students who sat in that room describe the same thing: the whole subject held in his head, delivered in order, no paper on the podium.
Lecture 1 is the introduction. What classical mechanics claims, where the claims hold, and the exact points where they stop holding and quantum takes over.
Watch how he speaks. Complete sentences, no filler, each idea finished before the next begins. Rare in any lecture hall on any continent.
A physicist I know worked through the whole NPTEL series and rates it above the western courses he paid for.
Free on YouTube, 17 years online, low resolution, no marketing.
The teaching was never concentrated in the famous universities.
The Government of India is the government of a sovereign, democratic republic and it is well within its rights to take down this kind of software which helps lawbreakers and anti-social elements.
Go try your stateless experiments elsewhere, India and Indians are not your sandbox or your guinea pigs.
THIS IS INSANE. 🤯
India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat.
By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to.
Here's what happened:
• India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication"
• GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action
• Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle
• Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure.
• The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive
• Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch
The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for.
It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns.
Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too.
India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists.
You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone.
Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.
Guys, I'm cooked. 🥲 Just found out my college teaches programming on a blackboard... and expects us to write the code in a notebook. It's so over. Bye bye, I'm dead. 💀
Can't believe that F̶̢̧̨̨͖̰͖̼̗͚̲̦͙̠̩̪̺̙̮̤̹̮͉̼̻͇̫͙̙͌̔́̏̀͊͒͊̽̂̓͛͒̿̈́̂̀̈́̇̽̈́̇͌͌̂̅̈́̑͌̾̊͘̚̚ͅͅg̶͕̘̓́͆́̀̈́͐͂̍̀̋̅̋́͘͘͝ģ̸̪̺͓̺̳͎̪̼̻̳̣̯̠̦̮̭̃̈́̈́̀̇͐̒̑̈̿͊́̇̎͆̉́͛͂́̃͒̐̊͐͑̎͒͆͂͋͒͐̿̃̒͛́͐̏̌̀̓̚͘̕ͅ ̶̡̛͙͓̹̤̍̈́̇̐͆̓͆̊͗̾͜h̴̨̢̧̝̖̗͔̙͔͚̜̟̩̗͚͖̤͖͕̯̫̘͓͔̼̺͖͉̠̣̟͔̞͈̭͉̟̱̅́̀́̒͂̈́̿̂̌̆̎̃̍̇̈́͛͛͆̈̅͑̑̾́̌̓̕̚̕̚͝ͅͅ
🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.
Taught by the people who built it.
Free. No registration. No paywall.
I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.
Watch it and bookmark it now