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A pahadan living and loving the PNW!

[Harsh @huntheharsh]

In peak India moment today, I got scolded by an uncle on bike for walking on the footpath during traffic hours. He said and I quote, “pagal hai kya be, footpath koi chalne ki jagah hai?”

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.

What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.

The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.

The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.

PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.

A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

[T @tarang_bee]

Was there a deliberate wait until elections are over?

[T @tarang_bee]

Is this a veiled heads-up before rationing kicks off for gas and petrol?

[T @tarang_bee]

One from the recent travels!

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior coordinating producer for the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner. I have worked eleven of these. I was backstage at the Washington Hilton when the shots were fired.

The first thing I heard was not the gunfire. It was glass.

A champagne flute hit the floor of the International Ballroom at approximately 9:47 PM. Then a second. Then the sound that I have since been told was a 12-gauge shotgun, which from inside the ballroom sounded like a heavy door slamming in a parking garage. Then the Secret Service moved. They moved the President, the Vice President, the First Lady through the east corridor in under ninety seconds, which is protocol, which is practiced, which is the one part of the evening that worked exactly as it was designed.

Everything else was improvised.

I know this because I ordered the wine. 94 tables. Two bottles per table. 188 bottles of a Willamette Valley pinot noir that the Association selected in February after a tasting committee spent three meetings debating between Oregon and Burgundy. Oregon won. The budget was $14,200. I signed the invoice. I can tell you the vintage. I can tell you the distributor. I can tell you the per-bottle cost because I negotiated it down from $89 to $76.

What I cannot tell you is how 147 of those bottles left the building during an active shooter evacuation.

I can tell you what I saw. A correspondent from a network I will not name picked up two bottles on her way to the east exit. Full bottles. One in each hand. She was wearing heels and she did not spill. A man in a tuxedo tucked one inside his jacket the way you'd shoplift a paperback at an airport bookstore. A woman picked up a bottle, looked at the label, put it back, and took a different one.

She checked the vintage. During an evacuation. That's editorial judgment under pressure.

The theme of the dinner was "A Free Press for a Free People." The banners were still hanging when the evacuation began. I know because I hung them. Twenty-three banners, navy blue, gold serif lettering, $11,400 for the set. They were still hanging when 2,600 guests were directed to the exits by Secret Service agents, one of whom had just taken a shotgun round in his ballistic vest and walked to the ambulance on his own feet.

The agent's vest costs approximately $800. The wine that left the building was worth $11,172 at Association cost. At restaurant markup, roughly $29,000. The guests saved more in wine than the vest that saved the agent.

That's priority.

The video went viral by 10:15 PM. Not the video of the evacuation. Not the Secret Service response. The wine. Three guests in formalwear grabbing bottles off white tablecloths while being told to move toward the exits, while a man with a shotgun stood in the same motor entrance where John Hinckley shot Ronald Reagan 45 years ago.

A woman near the service entrance was crying. She said "I just wanna go home." She was not holding wine. She was holding her phone. She was the only person I saw that night who looked afraid rather than inconvenienced.

That's the distinction. The rest of the ballroom did not look afraid. They looked interrupted. An active shooter at the WHCD is a logistical problem. The dinner was disrupted. The timeline was off. The after-party at the French Ambassador's residence would need to be rescheduled. These are contingency matters. Contingency matters have solutions. Fear is for people who attend events without security details.

I have produced eleven of these dinners. I have managed seating charts that require diplomatic-grade negotiations. I have handled comedians, cabinet secretaries, network anchors, and the editor of a major newspaper who once threatened to leave because his table was behind a column.

I have never, in eleven years, seen a guest leave a $76 bottle on the table during an evacuation. I have also never seen a guest check the label first. Both observations are consistent. The bottle is worth taking. The evacuation is worth surviving. The instinct is to do both simultaneously.

188 bottles placed. 41 recovered. 147 unaccounted for. One agent shot. Zero guests injured. Zero bottles broken.

A free press for a free people. The press is free. The wine was $76 a bottle. They took it anyway.

[Reid Wiseman @astro_reid]

On the helicopter leaving the ship right now. This planet is impossibly beautiful from every altitude I’ve seen it…surface to 250,000 miles

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

What the Artemis II astronauts did over the last 10 days was a testament to their bravery. And the fact that they traveled farther from Earth than anyone ever has, re-entered our atmosphere at more than 24,000 mph, and splashed down safely was a testament to human ingenuity. Thanks to everyone at @NASA for making this mission possible, and for taking us along for the ride.

[Queer Latifah ✨ @TheAfrocentricI]

I too would retire from the company that left me up in space for 9 months when I was only supposed to be there for 8 days.

[T @tarang_bee]

After a month of nonstop travel with flights every third day, it’s taken a solid two weeks for life to feel normal again.

[Awasthi @Awasthiii18]

Shiv Shankar Stotram by Pt. Prem Nath Shastri

[T @tarang_bee]

Nowadays, even I rarely use Google for search.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

JUST GROK IT: GOOGLE SEARCH SLIPS BELOW 90% FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2015

After a decade of ruling the web, Google’s grip is cracking.

Global search share fell to 89.71% in March - its first real stumble since 2015.

Turns out people are done scrolling through SEO sludge and ads pretending to be answers.

AI search is eating Google’s lunch.

Why dig through link farms when you can just Grok it and get straight to the point?

Users want answers, not blue links.

The age of typing “Reddit” after every query is ending - and Google knows it.

Source: Statcounter

[T @tarang_bee]

Another beautiful day in PNW! Bike trails were busy, parks were buzzing. Bright and sunny on this holiday weekend makes it so much better.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

In my opinion Sea views are overrated.

Good for hotels, where you spend a few days. But to stay in a house, with an un-interrupted view, tends to get boring. There is no life. Just the same infinite. A few pulsating boats. And complete darkness during the night. Just nothingness.

I would rather prefer the view of a city from the top. Milling with people. Lit up buildings during the night. Snaking flyovers, with a plot brewing, some drama, a lot of life.

[Wolf of X @WolfofX]

When art defies reality… This thread on surreal sculptures and statues will blow your mind.!

1. Les Voyageurs By French Artist Bruno Catalano

[Ashwin 🇮🇳 @ashwinravi99]

Red card for Gulbadin Naib😂😂😂

[T @tarang_bee]

What a win for Afghanistan today!
The reactions from players and supporters are so wholesome. They are absolutely chuffed.

[Abhishek @AbhishBanerj]

Rahul Gandhi will be PM one day. Every BJP supporter should accept this reality.

He may be PM tomorrow. Maybe not tomorrow, but some day for sure.

He is only 53. He will contest at least another 6-7 general elections.

He is bound to win one and become PM.

Rahul will be PM, he will win Bharat Ratna.

He will have colleges and universities named after him. And your kids and grandkids will struggle to clear exams to enter those colleges.

Have no illusions about the future.

[T @tarang_bee]

Election year is so different. The policies that are discussed, the crowd that’s so invested, the after effect speculation by individuals.. Be it US or India.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸AMY SCHUMER SMOKES HATERS ABOUT HER FACE

“Thank you so much for everyone’s input about my face. I’ve enjoyed feedback and deliberation about my appearance, as all women do for almost 20 years. And you're right, it is puffier than normal right now. I have endometriosis, an autoimmune disease that every woman should read about.”