siva

@sivas.bsky.social

Technologist & Endurance Cyclist

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

In India we have a PM who has refused to even put his college certificates in the public domain!

[Sumedha @TweetSumedha]

Dear Sir, @ceo_maharashtra you counter claim is not based on the truth at all. And I counter your false clarification with full responsibility. We sent you detailed questions. We also sent a reminder. You did not reply. You may want to read the questions again in the image below.

[Urban Cycling Institute 🚲  @fietsprofessor]

Your morning school run doesn't have to be a dismal experience. It can be filled with 𝗷𝗼𝘆, with 𝗹𝗮𝘂𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝗿, with 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆! See and hear the magic when two bike buses meet!

🎞️ by SOMa Bike Bus.
📍Maplewood & South Orange, New Jersey🇺🇸

[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

Fundamentally we are an unempathetic and uncaring people. For our own personal benefit or happiness we are willing to sacrifice the well being, happiness, health and peace of anyone and everyone else.

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

The Election Commission of India is allowing the rigging of elections. This is the biggest threat to our country. Just look at this another piece of evidence. All skeletons are coming out of the closet.

When the time comes, every person like Gyanesh Kumar who has committed such treason will be behind bars.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

For those wondering what’s happening with Gokul Dairy in Kolhapur:

- Elections were held for Gokul Dairy. Satej Patil’s group won 13 seats, while the BJP-led Mahayuti lost with 12.

- After the defeat, the BJP govt brought in an ordinance appointing 4 additional members with voting rights.

- With these 4 extra votes, the BJP-led group could gain a majority and take control of Gokul despite losing the election.

Imagine, if they’re this desperate to steal the mandate of even a dairy cooperative, what they must be doing in state elections with the help of Gyanesh Kumar.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Never seen people so determined to make their own lives miserable.

#AQI #Mumbai #Delhi

[Charles Arthur @charlesarthur]

This might be one of the best viewing angles for seeing the speed, the height and the ridiculous distance he covers

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

The @carlosalcaraz effect 🤩

#RolexParisMasters

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Goodmorning to you good people (not you Deepinder). Now that India has entered the commercial era of "scienceploitation", I would like to educate and inform the people on this topic, using one of Temple device's claims as an example.

This is long, but stay with me, you will really benefit.

But first, what is Scienceploitation?
It is a marketing and communication tactic where brands, influencers, or media outlets borrow or manipulate language from legitimate, emerging areas of science (such as stem cell research, the microbiome, or epigenetics) to promote unproven health, wellness, or beauty products and services.
The term was coined by @CaulfieldTim (I am honored to have known him and written an editorial with him in the BMJ), a professor of health law and policy at the University of Alberta.

Temple Device is your first boss battle against scienceploitation. Let me explain this using their own biggest claim - ENTROPY. Temple claims it measures Entropy.

What is entropy? In lay terms, entropy is a measure of how spread out, mixed up, or disorganized things naturally become over time. In human health, entropy can be a measure of disorder, wear and tear, and loss of organization in your body's cells, tissues, and organ systems.

Low Entropy = High Health (Order): A young, healthy body is in a state of low entropy. Your cells are communicating well, your DNA is intact, your proteins are folded properly, and your heartbeats have a smooth, adaptable rhythm.

High Entropy = Disease or Aging (Disorder): As entropy increases, biological "mess" builds up. Damaged DNA accumulates, proteins misfold, cells stop working right, and communication breaks down.

Aging is essentially a slow, natural rise in entropy. While conditions like cancer (uncontrolled, chaotic cell growth), neurodegeneration (like Alzheimer’s protein tangles), and metabolic dysfunction (like uncontrolled blood sugar) represent spikes of high entropy in specific parts of the body. Note that - aging is a normal anatomical and physiological process, it is not a disease.

Now you know how complex this term is?
Well, this is what Deepinder Goyal's Temple device claims to measure.

A device can produce a number without proving that the number means what its advertising says. That is the central problem with Temple’s “Entropy.”

“Entropy” has different scientific meanings. In physics, it concerns energy transformations. In heartbeat or brainwave analysis, it describes how irregular or unpredictable a signal is. Measuring one does not mean you have measured the other, or someone’s overall health.

Yes, wearable recordings can be used to calculate signal entropy. A Polar H10 chest strap, for example, records heartbeat intervals that suitable software can analyse. GE’s clinical Entropy monitor analyses electrical signals from the forehead to help assess anaesthesia. Neither tells you how much “disorder” your body contains or how long you will live.

Temple’s published research describes an optical sensor that shines light into skin and detects changes associated with blood flow. That can provide useful physiological information of flow and perfusion only there or at the heart level, but not the brain or other systems. And detecting blood-related signals does not automatically measure whole-body heat loss, metabolism or thermodynamic entropy. Those claims are wild. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

Researchers have estimated human thermodynamic entropy production. The experiment cited by Temple used a whole-body calorimeter, measurements of breathing gases and mathematical modelling. It did not demonstrate that a small optical sensor at the temple could do the same job. Misrepresenting and misinterpreting genuine research and extrapolating that to a new device does not establish that Temple performs the measurement described in that research - this is classical Scienceploitation. It Is "sciencey" word salads. Non-medical people will fall for this sort of gimmicks.

Temple also claims that lower resting “Entropy” means better health. That is not an established universal rule. Even the theoretical paper it cites discusses the importance of maintaining adequate entropy production and increasing it when needed—not simply driving the resting value ever lower. A lower number needs a proven health meaning before it becomes a health goal. Deepinder's Science Team has to prove this first, before they let their "machine" measure it - if it really can.

A reading that changes with exercise, meals, stress or temperature may be responding to real physiology. But that does not prove it measures immune health, digestion, reproductive function or recovery. Responding to many things is not the same as understanding or measuring all those things.

Temple lists (their own) preliminary studies of heart rate and brain-circulation-related signals. Those studies do not establish the advertised health meanings of “Resting Entropy,” “Entropy Max” or “Span.” These cannot be measured using currently available wearable tech, including Temple. Combining readings into a new score does not remove the need to validate that score, or if the score is really meaningful to start with. Pretty much like Homeopathy. So much stuff, no content or context.

Highly advanced wearable science is not impossible. The problem is presenting an unvalidated interpretation as an established fact about your body. Calling a product “wellness” does not make its scientific claims true. Temple device is the commercial, expensive example of consumer scienceploitation. The website needs to be updated with medical and health truths rather than magical thinking and delusions of so-called founder and his science team.

Deepinder's Temple device is very much like Baba Ramdev's Coronil. Only one difference. Former is scienceploitation, latter is pseudoscience and both are harmful in their own ways. Learn to identify a scam and fraud when you see one.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

libghostty 1.0 is here! I started Ghostty ~5yrs ago to work towards this. Today, libghostty is in hundreds of projects used by tens of millions of people. 1.0 marks ABI stability, quality, and an invite for distros to begin packaging. https://t.co/i0FoSZHJT3

Since starting the Ghostty project in 2022, the most common question I've been asked is "why?". Today, I'll answer this by showing the broad industry impact libghostty has already had.

On top of JetBrains and Neovim already mentioned (that alone being over 10 million users):
-KDE developers are experimenting with a Konsole replacement built on it.
- Vercel's Turborepo uses it to render task output in its TUI.
- devenv uses it to drive shells.
- Antithesis used it to fuzz TUI programs and found real bugs in btop and others.
-Ghostel brings it to Emacs.
- ghostty-web is the WASM build with an Xterm.js-compatible API.
- Commercial products like OrbStack embed it.
- And a whole wave of new terminals and "agentic" coding tools, such as herdr and cmux, have been built on it rather than writing yet another emulator.

There are community bindings for Rust, Go, JavaScript, Swift, Python, .NET, Elixir, Dart, Java, and more, and the awesome-libghostty list tracks well over a hundred projects.

More people today use a terminal powered by libghostty than use Ghostty the application, by a very large multiple. And libghostty is having a much larger impact than being "just" a terminal emulator.

I'm excited to see where people take it from here.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

This Is 420 In The Name Of E20 According to Minister for Consumer Affairs of Karnataka @ArshadRizwan, Four out of five petrol pumps surveyed in Karnataka sold petrol with ethanol content above the 20% limit.
Including 31.2% in IOCL (MS), 30.5% in HPCL (Power MS), 27% in HPCL (MS), 26.5% at BPCL (MS - Speed): 26.1% in Nayara (MS), 25.5% in Shell (MS)

[Nagarjun Dwarakanath @nagarjund]

BREAKING: Not E20 fuel , but E 31.2 fuel

Karnataka govt’s petrol tests find ethanol blending above 20% in samples from seven districts.

The state tested 63 petrol samples collected across Karnataka from major oil companies, including IOCL, HPCL, BPCL, Shell and Nayara.

After oil marketing companies failed to clearly disclose ethanol content, the government sent the samples to private labs.

Results of Ethanol blend :

IOCL: 31.2%+
HPCL: 30.5%
HPCL: 27%
BPCL: 26.5%
Nayara: 26.1%
Shell: 25.5%

Bengaluru was among the seven districts where samples exceeded the 20% ethanol limit.

Karnataka will send its report to the Centre.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

To the people disparaging the Indian medical community, please note that we, me included, are not against technological solutions towards improved preventative care. In fact, preventative care is is the heart of medical science.

But, let us not confuse fradulently selling preventive care from selling objectively verified actionable preventive care. Deepinder, who owns Temple and has already started taking pre-orders from customers for the device has taken the name of other wearables and claimed that his process was also the due process followed before Whoop, Apple, Fitbit etc.. were also marketed. This is a BLATANT LIE.

Rob Mohr (Lead Physician on Temple) and Avi Roy (Science Lead on Temple) have both being running around with their tails on fire like rats jumping of an exploding ship on Instagram and Twitter. They have provided zero evidence to Temple device claims on their website.

Deepinder himself claims that other wearables in the market published data after release. Total nonsense.

The Apple Watch Series 11 and Fitbit Sense had the strongest pre-launch clinical evidence. Before shipping ECG tools, Apple and Fitbit passed multi-site clinical trials for FDA clearance. The Fitbit Sense 2 and Apple Watch Series 11 42mm also built on 400,000-person heart studies before launch. The Fitbit Sense 2, Fitbit Sense Black, and Fitbit Sense Lunar White/Soft Gold combine FDA-cleared ECG with cEDA sweat sensing. Similarly, the Samsung Galaxy Watch8 Classic and Samsung Galaxy Watch9 passed FDA sleep apnea trials before release. Meanwhile, the Oura Ring 4 and Whoop 4.0 launched as wellness trackers backed by peer-reviewed sleep studies. Their skin temperature sensors power FDA-cleared Natural Cycles (K202897) fertility software. Even basic models like the Apple Watch SE 3 and Apple Watch SE use validated optical heart algorithms...all of which are...

...UNLIKE Temple.

By contrast, Temple opened ₹85,000 pre-orders with zero regulatory approvals and no peer-reviewed papers. It's only backed by company's internal, not validated, non-peer reviewed, not conclusive, statistically misinterpreted preprints on 23 adults and 44 young men.

Choose the WHOOP 4.0 or Oura Ring 4 if you want screenless overnight heart rate variability and recovery tracking. Pick the Apple Watch Series 11 or Samsung Galaxy Watch8 for FDA-cleared cardiac and sleep apnea alerts. Treat Temple as an unverified wellness gadget until peer-reviewed clinical trials prove its brain flow claims. Initial studies already prove it has nothing to with the brain function. PRE-ORDERS MUST BE HALTED AS THIS IS UNETHICAL, IMMORAL.

Deepinder's science team for science is as good as Taliban's education ministry is for womens education. Temple as a device for brain flow monitroing is as useful as a bikini on the mackerel.

Deepinder is a businessman. He has already entered the realm on andhbhakts and right wing nationalist with his plastic device "that does nothing" to help boost pre-sales. I dont mind this. The device does not track brain activity and in any case and thats ok with the andbhakts supporting him and the ones abusing me under my posts.

But Deepinder taking a U-turn and calling a supposed brain function tracking device as "fitness tracker" also is a scam because it has not been proven to be a fitness tracker too. People can stick a nice looking Lego piece on their foreheads and it would still function as good as Temple does now.

Now its time for the founder to rage 😘😘😘 or better, stop shipping a junk product.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

The founder of the wearable device Temple, Mr. Deepinder Goyal (who has blocked me on Twitter) has now put out an official statement regarding concerns raised by the medical community on the said device being a scam.

As expected, he has written a word salad. This man has provided no real evidence or proof that his device, which he is selling for INR 85,000/- can measure and interpret brain flow from a superficial artery (superficial temporal artery - which is an extracranial artery - meaning a blood vessel placed entirely outside the skull, supplying blood to the side of the face, temple, and scalp regions).

His own Science Lead (Avi Roy) has accepted that the fact that their device is not yet proven to measure brain flow or "entropy" as they claim on their website and additionally, has directly addressed concerns of poor methodology as well as statisitical misrepresentation, without respond to clear evidence of data falsification in their pre-print papers.

Other wearables like Whoop (which he cited) measured and validated exactly what the wearable can measure within limits of human anatomy and physiology. Temple is overdoing it and defrauding its potential customers. The device can only measure blood flow and flushing to the face in humans and has ansolutely NOTHING to do with the brain as they claim. This is the issue, not what can happen in the future. The device itself fails its primary objective.

There is no our science and your science. But there is bad science, fringe science and science fraud and Team Temple, embraced all of these.

Temple device is a scam. There is no doubt about it. The question is however, how long can this man and his team keep defrauding people under the garb of "we are spending millions for you" or "we are trying our best" or "we are taking the risk" kind of responses?

These farts in the windtunnel responses are not what is expected from a company who's website claims "solid science". There is solid fraud though - pathetic little businessmen.

[almonk @almonk]

One design goal for Rex is “make any machine in the world feel like my local machine”

[Amey Tirodkar @ameytirodkar]

BJP's way to save democracy.

Fought Gokul. Won 12 out of 25.

Cong won 13 out of 25.

BJP minister demanded amendment in cooperative org rule.

Cabinet made decision. 4 govt appointed directors with voting right.

Now BJP will have 16 members.

Democracy saved in Gokul!!

[Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 ಪವನ್ ಖೇರಾ @Pawankhera]

The Maharashtra government is brazenly attempting to subvert the democratic mandate of milk producers at the Gokul Milk Federation by using legislative changes to manipulate the composition of an elected board.

In the 19 October elections, the Congress-led panel won 13 of 25 seats, securing a majority over the Mahayuti’s 12. After Mahayuti-backed directors stalled the chairman’s election by remaining absent, the Bombay High Court directed a fresh election on 10 November.

Instead of allowing the elected board to function, the state Cabinet has approved a proposal to nominate four government directors with voting rights, potentially altering the electoral arithmetic and overturning the mandate of milk producers.

The larger question is whether a government can change the rules after an election simply because it does not like the result. We are challenging this decision in the Supreme Court to defend the democratic mandate and the autonomy of cooperative institutions.

[Insightful Geopolitics @InsightGL]

-@anandmahindra Sir, do you have anything to say on this
-While we want to support #India & #Indian companies
-Companies also have to become accountable & safety minded
-This is a very disturbing message for from a Friends:

As you are aware, we were involved in a horrific accident on 1 January 2026 in our Mahindra BE6 electric vehicle.

Mona suffered multiple fractures and was bedridden for nearly five months. I sustained three fractured ribs. My friend, a retired Air Force officer, suffered four fractures, while his wife was also seriously injured.

The four of us went through an absolute nightmare over the following six days in Tuticorin, struggling with serious injuries, hospitalisation and eventual air-ambulance evacuations.

Our vehicle suddenly accelerated from approximately 11 km/h to 63 km/h within seconds, without any intended acceleration by me, before crashing into a concrete wall.

We have subsequently learned of three other serious accidents involving Mahindra electric vehicles. One involved a senior Congress leader from Pune, who reportedly suffered a devastating spinal injury resulting in paralysis. His family has described a strikingly similar incident involving sudden, uncontrolled acceleration.

For the past eight months, I have repeatedly requested Mahindra to release the vehicle's FDR/EDR and electronic control data so that the actual cause can be independently investigated. Mahindra has refused to share this crucial information while maintaining that there was no vehicle malfunction.

We are now initiating legal proceedings against Mahindra.

Anand Mahindra recently celebrated the Indian Air Force Chief's selection of a Mahindra electric SUV with a post referring to “Air Superiority and Road Superiority.”

Our distinguished friend Harish, a renowned test pilot, has responded to that post, raising the issue of our accident and Mahindra's accountability.

I request you to support or even ask questions like what happened etc. -Harish's comment by replying to it, sharing your concerns and asking Anand Mahindra why the company has not released the electronic data for independent investigation.

This is not merely about our accident. It is about vehicle safety, transparency and accountability, potentially affecting every family travelling in these vehicles.

We are not asking Mahindra to accept responsibility without investigation. We are asking them to release the evidence so that the truth can be established.

[Balaji @sbalaji1]

All our life will be reduced to getting ID Cards, linking cards, submitting biometrics, correcting errors, change of address, and filling KYC forms.