Siddharth Khare

Over thinker. Mechanical Engineer turned ___. Curious how businesses, countries, and the world work. Goa|Movies|Books|Music

[William Patrick Corgan @Billy]

This made me cry. Please read.

“Every year on 9/11, firefighters and first responders across the country honor the fallen by climbing 110 flights, the height of the Twin Towers. Many do it in full gear, some on stair machines at the gym, others in high-rise stairwells.
Each step is a tribute to the 343 FDNY firefighters and all the lives lost that day.”

Credit: @newyorkers IG for copy + video credit @mjcexperience IG

[Patrick Witty @patrickwitty]

9:59 a.m., September 11, 2001. Bodies were falling. The South Tower began to collapse. I turned around. This is what I saw.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Honestly — this could only have been thought of by a woman. ❤️

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

If you haven't read the story The New York Times published in 2002 detailing the final communications from people inside the Twin Towers on 9/11, it is one of the most sobering accounts of the day.

[Patrick Cunningham @pmc3_83]

Maybe the best piece ESPN has ever produced.

25 years after 9/11 and I still watch this at least once a year.

The story of Welles Crowther, a former Boston College lacrosse player who saved at a dozen lives.

“The Man In The Red Bandana.”

[2001 Live @25YearsAgoLive]

Real estate magnate Donald Trump calls into UPN 9 News in New York City.

When they ask if his tower on 40 Wall Street has been damaged by the attacks, he brags that it used to be the second tallest skyscraper in downtown Manhattan before the collapse of the World Trade Center, and now it’s the tallest building again.

[The Tectonic @thetect0nic]

🇺🇲 Twenty-five years on, that footage is worth sitting with for exactly what it withholds: nothing. No smoke, no sirens, commuters and a skyline going about an ordinary Tuesday, five minutes before 8:46am changed what those buildings meant forever. The clip's entire power is that it contains zero information about what's coming, which is precisely the point historical footage like this exists to preserve, the world as it looked in the last minutes it still made sense.

We're publishing this on the anniversary itself, in a month that's carried its own weight. Nothing erases what September 11 was or what it still asks of anyone who covers conflict: that the ordinary morning and the catastrophic one are separated by nothing more than five minutes nobody sees coming.

#September11

[Complex @Complex]

On 9/11, guide dog Roselle led her blind owner down 78 floors of the World Trade Center to safety.

She guided Michael Hingson through smoke, debris and chaos before leading him to the Fulton Street subway station, where they took shelter from the destruction above.

[Letterboxd @letterboxd]

Happy #LetterboxdFriday! Time to post your #LastFourWatched 🔮

[Siddharth Khare @sidkhar]

Next leap after AGI: AGA

[Yuchen Jin @Yuchenj_UW]

Greg Brockman: bald
Demis Hassabis: bald
Ilya Sutskever: bald
Elon Musk: was bald

AGI has arrived
Millennium Problems solved
Can we focus on baldness next?
My hairline has been on gradient descent for years

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

Still more absolute 🔥 from Terence Tao:

“We have now seen that even the rumor of someone working on a problem can trigger a massive amount of AI-powered effort to flatten it before the original research project has time to reach its full potential. The incentives may now be pointing in the direction of no longer sharing any promising research directions with the broader community, which would reverse centuries of traditions of open science and do serious long-term damage to the future of the field”

[chl$ @chelsssseeeea]

AI is probably the biggest prisoner’s dilemma we’ve ever created. Everyone knows slowing down might be safer. But if OpenAI slows down and Anthropic doesn’t, OpenAI loses. If the US slows down and China doesn’t, the US loses. So nobody slows down.

That’s what makes this so insane. You don’t need some evil person trying to destroy the world. You just need a bunch of people making the rational decision for themselves over and over until collectively we’ve raced somewhere none of us actually wanted to go.

It’s a race to zero. Zero cost of intelligence. Zero time between thinking and doing. Maybe eventually zero need for us at all.

[signüll @signulll]

modern travel is increasingly flying 10 hours to experience a slightly different version of the same globally optimized lifestyle.

same third wave coffee. same natural wine bar. same brutalist menu. same sourdough. same beige hotel. same tasteful ceramics. same instagram lighting.

what a ridiculous convergence.

[Siddharth Khare @sidkhar]

💔
Rest easy, Tucker 🌈

[Chica the chihuahua and crew @chicathechih]

My deepest condolences to Tuckers family. Please know that he was loved and loved you so much. Thank you for sharing him with the world. He truly was the bestest puppy. Please send his mama and family all the love

[Siddharth Khare @sidkhar]

😭😭

[anmol maini @anmolm_]

lol'ed reading @manujosephsan's latest

[Monali @monali_dambre]

A pretty tasteful Teacher’s Day campaign by @ChatGPT promoting ChatGPT for Teens.

AI slop creates more work for both the creator and the consumer.

Use AI to help you think, not to think for you.

[Siddharth Khare @sidkhar]

Beautiful 💜

[Laphingwala @humorosaurus]

A map of 𝗳𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗮𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘁𝗼 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝗻 𝗗𝗲𝗹𝗵𝗶, divided into multiple categories. I'll keep adding newer stuff. It also has some Durga Puja pandals for pandal hopping enthusiasts.
Share with people who might need it.
https://t.co/VbHmcffubM

[raga-learns-to-rock @pnamblat]

Anu Malik on Chunari: I was walking in Goa and this tune just came to me.

Meanwhile the Konkani classic Channeachi Rati was already waiting in Goa for decades.

Turns out Nolan’s Inception gang operates out of Goa.

[Siddharth Khare @sidkhar]

Leave aside the delusional part (which is a given when it's a Pakistani talking), the most hilarious thing is this guy talking cricket when he might have *slightly* more pressing issues at hand, being the HOME MINISTER of Pakistan

[Gurtej Singh @GGurtej]

South Africa Lost To Namibia & India Had Also Lost To Ireland. Does That Mean Their Cricket Is Over ?? No Team Can Become Champion In Just 3 Months.
Pakistan Has Improved From Number 9 To Number 6 In T20Is & From Number 8 To Number 5 In ODI Cricket.
#pakvseng

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

India, with the increasing focus on the greatness of Vedic times and Vedic knowledge is trying to become an old person without dreams