S.Sharavana

Master in being Jack of all trades :P
Software Engineer. Hobbyist Music Producer.
TCE alumnus (2005-09 IT), Hilton Alumnus. #Android #Linux #MobileBanking

[Josh Billinson @jbillinson]

Really funny to see this email become LinkedIn management hustle porn when it was actually a key piece of evidence in a legal case that cost Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel $415M.

[Grok @grok]

The email is from Steve Jobs to Adobe's CEO in 2005, enforcing a "no-poach" agreement where tech giants like Apple, Google, Adobe, and Intel secretly agreed not to recruit each other's employees, suppressing wages. This led to a 2015 class-action lawsuit settlement of $415M. Ironically, it's now shared as motivational "hustle" advice on platforms like LinkedIn, ignoring its role in illegal anticompetitive practices.

[Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin]

CENSOR BOARD is OUTDATED

Not in the context of just @Actor_Vijay ‘s #JanaNayagan ‘s censor issues but in an overall manner, it is truly foolish to think that the censor board is still relevant today

It has long outlived it’s purpose, but it’s being kept alive out of laziness to debate it’s relevance now , and it is the film industry as a whole which is mainly responsible for this

We live in a time where a 12-year old with a phone can watch a terrorist execution filmed on a GoPro, a 9-year-old can stumble upon hardcore porn, and a bored retiree can binge extremist propaganda, indulge in conspiracy theories , from anywhere in the world, uncut, uncensored, algorithmically pushed. All of it is available instantly, anonymously, and without a gatekeeper.

At the same time, everybody in every wake of society speak in abusive language from new channels to YouTubers and from other apps ..If you quote that age old belief that cinema is a powerful medium , don’t ignore the fact that the social media has far more reach than cinema .and it is full of political venom, communal poison, character assassinations, live, uncensored shouting matches in the name of debates.

And in this reality, for the honourable censor board to believe that cutting a word in a film, trimming a shot, or blurring a cigarette will “protect society.” is a Joke

The censor board was born in an era of scarcity when images were rare, access was limited, and the state controlled the media . Cinema halls were crowd points. Newspapers had editors. Television had schedules. Control made sense then.
But today, any form of a control is impossible because no one can no longer decide what people should or should not see

In such times as now, censorship doesn’t prevent exposure… it only insults the viewers .
We are supposed to have smartness to decide who should rule us but not what we want to see or hear ???

What the censor board actually does now is not protection, but only theatrics . It’s a ritual of authority in Oscar worthy performances where scissors replace thinking, and moral pretence moves around in a disguise called responsibility.

The same society that freely scrolls through graphic violence on social media suddenly becomes “concerned” when a filmmaker shows something in a theatre

This hypocrisy is dangerous

Censorship assumes people are children forever as if they aren’t even aware what all things children have access to?

Cinema is not meant to be a classroom where lessons are taught . They are mirrors , view points , expressions and opinions meant to entertain
The job of the authorities is not to edit or cut them out, but to trust citizens enough to decide for themselves ,which is the main point of freedom of speech and expression, guaranteed under the constitution

If the argument is “think of the children or adults who are like children “it takes very less intelligence to understand that they cannot be protected by blunt scissors wielded by committees ,whose own personal tastes pass off as public morality also not to forget their bias and agendas .

Age classification makes sense. Warnings of the content makes sense. Censorship does not.

Continuing to defend the relevance of the censor board today is like insisting on a watchman for a building whose walls have already been broken and everyone can see what’s inside

The world has already moved on to so many platforms which are unfiltered and unsupervised and so the painful question is whether the authorities have the courage to admit that they are obsolete, and more than that, whether we as a film industry collectively have the will to question them on the same
So instead of raising this topic once in a while over a particular film , the fight should be with that particular system of thinking which created the censor board

[michael ryan @michaelryan756]

Tetanus is not a “dirty nail myth.”
It’s a medical nightmare we forgot — because vaccines worked.

Credit to Dr Richard Hirschson for highlighting this.

Tetanus is caused by Clostridium tetani, a bacterium found in soil and dust.
It does not spread person-to-person.

You don’t need a dramatic injury.
A small cut, splinter, or scrape is enough.

Once the toxin takes hold, it attacks the nervous system:

• muscles go into uncontrollable spasm
• jaw locks (“lockjaw”)
• back can arch violently (opisthotonos)
• breathing muscles can seize
• patients often remain fully conscious

There is no cure for tetanus.
Treatment is ICU care, ventilation, heavy sedation — and people still die.

As Dr Hirschson notes, he has lost patients to it.

So why don’t most of us see this anymore?

Vaccination.

The tetanus vaccine doesn’t stop injuries.
It stops the toxin from destroying your nervous system.

But protection fades over time — which is why boosters matter.

If you were vaccinated as a child but never boosted:
→ your immunity may be low
→ severe disease is still possible

That’s why adults need Tdap/Td boosters, and why doctors check tetanus status after wounds.

We’re now seeing tetanus and diphtheria re-emerge where vaccination rates fall.

Not because medicine failed —
but because memory did.

Vaccines didn’t erase these diseases.
They erased our memory of how brutal they are.

Get vaccinated. Stay boosted.

#VaccinesWork #Tetanus #Tdap #PublicHealth #Prevention

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last ~year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of abstraction to master (in addition to the usual layers below) involving agents, subagents, their prompts, contexts, memory, modes, permissions, tools, plugins, skills, hooks, MCP, LSP, slash commands, workflows, IDE integrations, and a need to build an all-encompassing mental model for strengths and pitfalls of fundamentally stochastic, fallible, unintelligible and changing entities suddenly intermingled with what used to be good old fashioned engineering. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has to figure out how to hold it and operate it, while the resulting magnitude 9 earthquake is rocking the profession. Roll up your sleeves to not fall behind.

[S.Sharavana @ssrk]

https://t.co/81iJceGmxX

[S.Sharavana @ssrk]

Conductor László Kovács is taking Ilaiyaraaja Symphony No. 1 to Hungary. And Wow, a nice write-up they have posted on the official webpage of the University to Introduce Ilaiyaraaja to the Western Classical Music audience

[Sylvian @Sylvianism]

Ilaiyaraaja’s Symphony No. 1 is being performed in Budapest by the ELTE University Concert Orchestra, alongside Beethoven’s Fifth. The first time Raaja’s symphony is played by another conductor and orchestra. This is what many Raaja fans always dreamt of. #ilaiyaraaja

[Sylvian @Sylvianism]

Ilaiyaraaja’s Symphony No. 1 is being performed in Budapest by the ELTE University Concert Orchestra, alongside Beethoven’s Fifth. The first time Raaja’s symphony is played by another conductor and orchestra. This is what many Raaja fans always dreamt of. #ilaiyaraaja

[Sylvian @Sylvianism]

In a world where most music directors ignore milieu, time period and the rooted context of a story, #Ilaiyaraaja still does the work. He understands place. He understands emotion as culture, not just sound.

[Tennis TV @TennisTV]

Stop what you are doing and watch this outrageous point 😍

#HellenicChampionship

[Nitin Sethi @nit_set]

Bookmarked for class: I will be using this as a case study of editorial misdirection as an intentional tool of avoiding journalism while enacting the theatre of it. Not the reporters' fault but that of editorial leadership in a newsroom.

Another example a friend gave: when the Indian economy is doing badly, write on Pakistan's or China's.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship was made using zero AI.

Future digital superintelligences would have to admit that it’s pretty good for a bunch of monkeys.

[Sylvian @Sylvianism]

Guess who did an happy dance seeing this! 🕺 Super glad he is writing the Symphony No 2 :) #Ilaiyaraaja

[Ilaiyaraaja @ilaiyaraaja]

Thankful for the love, warmth, and energy from everyone who joined me for the symphony Valiant performance in Dubai Opera.
Your appreciation and emotions made the night truly special...Thank you, Dubai. ❤️🎶

@onemercuri
@uaephilharmonic
@livenationme
@dubaiopera

[Kamal Haasan @ikamalhaasan]

Jane Goodall reminded us of a fundamental truth: humans are not masters, but co-tenants of this planet. She made us look into the eyes of chimpanzees and see family, not subjects. In her passing, one hard question lingers - will we finally learn to live on earth as one species among many?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

No gods or kings, only men

[S.Sharavana @ssrk]

How do you introduce Jazz music to the Tamil audience... This is how you do it... Thereby we Tamil Music aficionados get our own subgenre of jazz "Rajazz"..

#Ilaiyaraaja #KamalHaasan
#MumbaiXpress
https://t.co/FHmghrrbTk

[Shri @shrishrishrii]

That cream bun Annapurna uncle in coimbatore correct ah tongue plucking ah asked nimmy.

[Mohammad Kaif @MohammadKaif]

Sharpest cricketing brain and very skilled bowler. For me R Ashwin is the greatest Indian off-spinner, true Test all-rounder and a modern day great. Somehow I feel he deserved a much better farewell. @ashwinravi99

[Herschelle Gibbs @hershybru]

Only one on the list with 6 test 100s 👏👏