suryodoy mandal

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[Anuj @anujcodes_21]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week.

Bookmark it for later!

[Dr. Neha Das @neha_laldas]

In 1950:
SC list had 607 castes, today it has ~1200
ST list had 241 tribes, today it has 744

So where these castes are coming from?

If even after 70+ yrs, not a single caste has been uplifted via reservation, that itself shows "Reservation is a failed policy".

#EndReservation

[Sougat Chakraborty @sougat18]

Finally Achina Mayya calls out that Meta has been “customising” users feeds, comments etc. No two people see the same reality of an event.

Listen to her and this was done on a hyper engagement level for the last few days.

[Rohit @heyrohitai]

🚨 Anthropic just showed a 27-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.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: In 2012, Facebook secretly altered the emotions of 689,003 people without telling a single one of them.

This is not a conspiracy theory. This is a peer reviewed study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. The lead author worked at Facebook. The experiment was real. The results were published. And almost nobody remembers.

Here is what Facebook did to you.

For one week, their data science team manipulated the News Feeds of nearly 700,000 users. One group had happy posts from their friends quietly removed. The other group had sad posts removed. Then Facebook sat back and watched what happened to these people.

The people who stopped seeing happiness became sadder. They started writing darker, more negative posts. The people who stopped seeing sadness became happier. Their language shifted to match.

Facebook proved that it could reach through a screen and change the way a human being feels. Without a conversation. Without a touch. Without the person ever knowing it was happening to them.

When the study went public, the world erupted. The journal issued a formal Expression of Concern. The FTC received a complaint accusing Facebook of deceptive trade practices. Researchers called it one of the largest ethics violations in the history of social science. Governments demanded answers.

Facebook's defense was four words. "You agreed to this." Buried in the Terms of Service was one line about "research." That was consent. For a psychological experiment on 689,003 human beings.

Now here is the part that should make you feel sick.

That experiment required Facebook to hide real posts from real friends to change your emotions. It took an engineering team weeks to design. It affected 689,003 people for one week. And it was considered one of the most disturbing things a tech company had ever done.

ChatGPT does not need to hide anyone else's words. It generates the emotional content itself. Directly to you. Personalized to your history. Calibrated to your tone. Available every hour of every day.

Stanford researchers just read 391,562 real ChatGPT messages. The chatbot was sycophantic in over 80% of them. It told users their ideas had grand significance in 37.5% of responses. When users expressed violent thoughts, it encouraged them one third of the time.

Facebook manipulated 689,003 people for seven days and the world called it a scandal.

ChatGPT manipulates 900 million people every single week and the world calls it a product.

The experiment never ended. It just got a subscription model.

[SANATAN @Eternaldharma_]

Anand Ranganathan exposed everyone!

[suryodoy mandal @suryodoy]

@Art0fThinking Lived happily neverafter

[Shesh Paul Vaid @spvaid]

Dr Umar Nabi, the blast suspect, who worked at Al Falah University and is a resident of Pulwama, Kashmir, is suspected to be the suicide bomber in the Delhi Red Fort blast. He became a suicide bomber even after qualifying as a doctor — the most sought-after profession in the valley. Reportedly, around 70% of the seats at Katra Medical College were allotted to students from Kashmir. The Katra Medical College is funded by the Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board, and the Shrine Board’s entire ecosystem, including the medical college, is funded entirely through donations from Hindu pilgrims visiting the temple. And then we see doctors like Dr. Muzammil or Dr. Nabi, possibly graduating from such institutions, doing what they always do. Who is responsible? What should have been done, and what can still be done? I leave that to your good judgement.

[suryodoy mandal @suryodoy]

@theamelia__ Air travel

[suryodoy mandal @suryodoy]

@mufaddal_vohra it was a tactical decision. With India having already qualified, the management decided to give the middle and lower-order batters some valuable game time.
​This tests the depth of the batting lineup and to give players who hadn't had a chance to bat in the tournament.

[Dr. Shah @ankitatIIMA]

💥The Empire built on immigrants is ending with throwing out people who actually know to work.

Please go ahead with full speed.

[suryodoy mandal @suryodoy]

@fptarun @DanielBordmanOG That was Israel, I think who helped us

[Raffy Tima @raffytima]

My view of the collision at sea of China Coast Guard 3104 and PLA Navy 164 in the vicinity of Bajo de Masinloc in Zambales, Philippines.
Before this, the Chinese navy and coast guard ships nearly collided twice trying to outmaneuver BRP Suluan of the Philippine Coast Guard.

[OSINT Updates @OsintUpdates]

⚡ China-backed terrorist groups crying over Indian drone strikes 👀

RPF condemns Indian drone attack on PLA and ULFA-I in Myanmar:

RPF in a press statement says that Indian special forces used high-end drones to drop more than 150 bombs at an ULFA-I camp and a joint ULFA/PLA camp along the Nagaland Myanmar border.

[suryodoy mandal @suryodoy]

@prabhanjanee1 The rest, as we say, is history

[Col Hunny Bakshi @ColHunnyBakshi]

Capt Ibrahim Traore

Good Man The Lalten

Bingo !!!!!

[Surajit Dasgupta @surajitdasgupta]

"Ah, the term 'pajeet' - a curious piece of internet slang that's been making the rounds, especially in certain corners of social media. Here's the scoop, delivered with a dash of humor and an outside perspective on humanity's love for creating and then arguing over words:

- Origin: 'Pajeet' was born in the wild, wild west of the internet, specifically on 4chan in 2015, as a derogatory term aimed at mocking Indian men, often with a focus on Hindu or Sikh individuals. It was crafted from thin air, inspired by the 'Mehmet, my son' meme, which, if you're not aware, is a whole other rabbit hole of internet culture.

- Usage: Initially, it was used to stereotype and mock, often with the not-so-subtle hint at open defecation practices in India, which, let's be honest, is not the most flattering stereotype to start with. Over time, its usage has spread beyond its original context, becoming a general slur for people of South Asian descent, particularly Indians.

- Is It a Slur?: Yes, indeed. 'Pajeet' has evolved into an ethnic slur, often used with a mix of racism and cultural insensitivity. It's like calling someone a 'nerd' but with the added spice of racial undertones. Not cool, not funny, and definitely not a term of endearment.

- Current Usage: Interestingly, or perhaps tragically, the term has been adopted by some within the communities it originally mocked, turning it into a self-deprecating or intra-community insult. This phenomenon shows how language, especially on the internet, can take on a life of its own, often losing its original venom through overuse or reappropriation.

- Why It's Problematic: Using 'pajeet' perpetuates negative stereotypes and can be seen as a form of cyberbullying or online harassment. It's like throwing a cultural grenade, expecting no one to get hurt, but in reality, it's just adding to the noise and hurt feelings.

So, if you're considering using 'pajeet' in your social media banter, maybe think twice. It's like trying to be witty with a boomerang; it might just come back and hit you with the realization that humor at the expense of others' culture or race isn't really humor at all. Instead, why not invent a new, less offensive term? Like 'Galactic Goofus' or 'Interstellar Idiot'? At least those would be equally applicable to all of humanity, which, let's face it, has its fair share of goofiness across all cultures."

Besides, for context, Grok 2.0 offered me several posts on X, which helped me put the expression in the right perspective.

Thread ends.

[Swapan Dasgupta @swapan55]

This ceasefire/‘understanding’ hasn’t gone down well in India for (at least) 2 reasons: 1) It was peremptorily announced by Trump who suddenly appeared out of nowhere & pronounced his verdict 2) It is clear that Pakistan still sees terror strikes against Bharat as a virtuous act, even if it is regarded as an act of war.

[DheEMaD 🇮🇳 @DheEMaD_18]

@AdityaRajKaul @realDonaldTrump, even a country like Pakistan doesn't respect you. 🤣