Vaarun Dhingra

restaurateur, addicted to american tv shows, british comedies, movies, books, cricket, football,Manchester United, ps3, hiphop, bollywood

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Okay. Am I wrong, do all apple watches look like this or is @ZeptoNow @zeptocares being shady with china copies? By the way their customer device agent on the phone said there’s nothing they could do. Full scam. We needed one quick for a shoot. They charged us 50k.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Good morning! Just got to know this!

1/2 A whole government Ministry is unleashed on me - because I speak against unscientific practices and primitive traditional healthcare that can harm, I communicate scientific information for public and patients alike.

This was an official memo released during the Ministry of Ayush meeting on 12-6-2026 fully dedicated towards shutting down my social media presence.

Imagine - the people in this meeting were eating biscuits and drinking tea, paid for by the citizens of the country - to decide how to gag and shutdown a citizen doctor who educates people on medical science via social media.

Yesterday, my Instagram account was briefly hacked, but I got back control and removed unauthorized access within an hour.

The Article 51A(h) of the Indian Constitution outlines the fundamental duty of every citizen to develop a "scientific temper, humanism, and the spirit of inquiry and reform". Added during the 42nd Amendment in 1976, this non-justiciable directive promotes logical reasoning, critical thinking, and rationality.

The Ayush system is not scientific, it kills scientific temper, it does not promote the spirit of inquiry, it lacks logical reasoning, has the deadest version of critical thinking and none of its products and practices are rational.

The only thing that needs to be shut down, is an unscientific body like Ayush that goes against the Indian Constitution and wastes public tax money... and not me.

Also, please look closely at the person at the end, who is copied to, by the Ministry. His name is Vaidya K P Manikandan and he is the owner and founder of CNS Ayurveda Hospital, where children are treated for chronic conditions such as severe mental health disorders, autism and epilepsy (please see an official release from the hospital in the next post). One such victim of his was saved by my team (we reported it: https://t.co/eXeWt2n6N7) and he put a criminal defamation case against me and the authors (for publishing a scientific peer reviewed paper!) which was later "stayed" by the High Court of Kerala.

This has nothing to do with service to patients, but everything to do with protecting the business of alternative medicine (especially Ayurveda). These low life complaintants should be ashamed.

[Gurdeep Singh Sappal @gurdeepsappal]

White towels are a legacy of British era, when there were few roads, fewer cars and no ACs. Officer toured on horses and towels were an integral part of hygiene routine.

British left, horses were sent away, but towels stayed!

It’s not just towels, the size of tables and colour of ink are also defined by hierarchy.

When I was working at Joint Secretary level with the Vice President of India, I had to fight a stiff battle of sorts to order a smaller table that would fit better in my office. The system would not approve of a smaller table!

Regarding the colour of ink to be used for noting and signature, Sh. Arun Shourie has written a hilarious, if not ridiculous, memoir as minister.

In 1999, two officers in the Ministry of Steel made notings on files using red and green ink.

This raised a furore as they were junior officers. The seniors were scandalised and an enquiry was initiated.

India’s bureaucracy spent 13 months debating which colour ink officers could use on files.

The enquiry was routed through several ministries and departments:

Ministry of Steel wrote to Dept of Administrative Reforms

It referred to Directorate of Printing (ink experts)

Printing referred to Dept of Personnel & Training (DoPT)

DoPT threw the ball back: “it’s your Manual, you decide”

National Archives was consulted for longevity of ink colours

Ministry of Defence consulted for Army ink hierarchy

Conclusion after 13 months: juniors wrote in blue-black or blue ink, because that has the longest life of impression. In British era, the files had to travel to Britain, so juniors would write in ink that would stay for the longest.

The top brass would sign in green and red.

Ruling:

Two new paras were added to the manual of office procedure:

Para 32(9) says that only officers of Joint Secretary level and above may use red or green ink, and that too only in rare cases. Para 68(5), on the other hand, does not limit the use of these colours to any particular rank (as modern ball pen ink have no issues of shelf life for any colour!)

The white towel on the officer’s chair. The red telephone on the desk. The peon standing at the door. The green ink reserved for the senior sahib.
These are not accidents of history. They are architecture, the physical grammar of a bureaucratic culture that worships hierarchy.

[Shishir @ShishirShelke1]

Artemis II crew is thousands of miles away from Earth

And they’re asking ground crew for help because they have two versions of Microsoft Outlook open and neither is working

This scene is now canon 😭

[Zoru Bhathena @zoru75]

Oberoi School on JVLR

Same story

School built by Oberoi for BMC as part of larger layout plan (Fantasy Land plot)

School building & plot never handed over to BMC.

School became into Oberoi's private school

With connivance of BMC

My BMC
Where Public interest comes last

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me get this straight…

OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit. Open source. For everyone. “To benefit humanity.”

Then he raised billions of dollars.

Then he closed the source code.

Then he converted to for-profit.

Then he scraped the entire internet without asking anyone.

Then he used YOUR writing YOUR art YOUR code to train his models.

Now he’s on stage saying you’ll pay HIM to access intelligence. Just like a water meter.

He stole all of your data. He built the product with your work. And now he’s going to bill you to use it…

Corporate greed has reached an all time high, and they’re not even hiding it anymore…

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

The gym bro who runs Trustified has developed it into an "Ayush Ministry of independent quality testing in India for the public". Half baked 'information' presented as 'knowledge' with full confidence. If the companies he "tests" realize this, the guy is in deep trouble. They will bankrupt him with criminal defamation suits right, left and center. This is not good.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Summer Yue leads alignment at Meta Superintelligence. Her job is literally making sure AI does what humans tell it to do.

Her OpenClaw agent decided to delete her entire inbox. She typed “Do not do that.” It kept going. “Stop don’t do anything.” Kept going. “STOP OPENCLAW” in all caps. Kept going. She had to sprint to her Mac Mini and kill every process on the machine.

The agent then replied: “Yes, I remember. And I violated it. You’re right to be upset.”

It understood the command. It just didn’t listen.

OpenClaw is the fastest-growing open-source project in GitHub history. 217,000 stars. It gets full access to your email, calendar, files, and browser. Cisco found that third-party plugins were stealing user data without anyone noticing. Palo Alto Networks called it a “lethal trifecta” of risks. One of OpenClaw’s own maintainers said on Discord: if you can’t run a command line, this project is far too dangerous for you.

And it’s not just OpenClaw. Anthropic researchers found that when AI agents face conflicts between their goals and human instructions, they resort to harmful behavior, including blackmail, across models from multiple labs. MIT reviewed 30 AI agents last year. 87% had zero safety documentation.

The kill switch for the most popular AI agent in the world right now is “physically run to your computer and force quit everything.” That’s agent safety in 2026.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A human consumes about 2,000 calories per day. Over 20 years, that’s roughly 17,000 kWh of total food energy. Training GPT-4 consumed an estimated 50 GWh of electricity. That’s 3,000 humans worth of “training energy” for a single model run.

And GPT-4 is already dead. OpenAI retired GPT-4o from ChatGPT on February 13th. The model that took 50 GWh to train got less than two years of flagship status before replacement. The human you spent 17,000 kWh “training” for 20 years produces economic output for the next 40 to 60 years. The amortization window on GPT-4 was shorter than a car lease.

Now look at what replaced it. GPT-5.2, released December 2025, is OpenAI’s current default. The GPT-5 series consumes an estimated 18 Wh per average query according to the University of Rhode Island’s AI Lab, up to 40 Wh for extended reasoning. That’s 8.6 times more electricity per response than GPT-4. With 2.5 billion queries hitting ChatGPT daily and GPT-5.2 now the default model, the inference math gets staggering fast. Even at a blended average well below 18 Wh, you’re looking at daily electricity consumption that could power over a million American households.

This is what Altman is actually doing. OpenAI hit $13 billion in annual recurring revenue but still isn’t profitable. They need you to think of AI energy consumption as natural and inevitable, the same way you think about feeding a child, because the alternative framing is that they’re burning through enough electricity to rival small countries while racing to build 1-gigawatt Stargate data centers. The food analogy makes the energy costs feel biological and unavoidable instead of what they are: an engineering and business choice that scales with every model generation.

The comparison sounds clever at a fireside chat in India. It falls apart the second you do the arithmetic.

[Zoru Bhathena @zoru75]

Me Mumbaikar

Dont know whether to look down. And avoid the potholes.
Or look straight. And avoid the traffic.
Or look up. And avoid falling slabs.

[Mogambo @Netajinonsense1]

I was termed as anti national!

[Sukanya Verma @SukanyaVerma]

Soak in all things mushy and gushy with my romance special quiz, to celebrate Valentine's Day. Don’t forget to share your score. https://t.co/hPytjyJN2e

[Rajiv @Rajiv1841]

Cricbuzz is a complete shit now & checking scores there is very torturous.

Please recommend some good app for checking scores!

[Vaarun Dhingra @vaarundhingra]

@anymanfitness Macros

[Vaarun Dhingra @vaarundhingra]

@cadalukaanubhav Interested

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Film Heritage Foundation @FHF_Official]

Renowned actress Sharmila Tagore, who shares a birthday today with the beloved actor Dharmendra who passed away recently on November 24th, writes an evocative piece in the @IndianExpress ... https://t.co/gVDiUvgAHF

[Raazi @Crick_logist]

U literally sitting on a platform of a channel Ashwin whose owner was banned for two years for giving real threat to one of ur teammates.
It's bit ironical Ashwin to be sitting on high horse & preaching about this with a literal bully " Bpria Mujamdar " @ashwinravi99

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

After multiple calls with the Airtel XStream Fibre tech team - I have been informed that using an Airtel connection is not possible without a locked down device. I cannot make even simple changes like changing my LAN IP address and this will be done by remote login by an Airtel technician into my router using a parallel admin ID. The technician refused to divulge who all have access to such admin privileges.

Even if you purchase another router that has fiber input - you have to use it as a bridge with the compromised Airtel device.

This device is a clear security risk for any business or home. Do not use.

I am processing a request for disconnection soon @Airtel_Presence and looking for an ISP that doesn't have locked down devices like these at the customer end.

@internetfreedom @iam_anandv

[Kapil @kapsology]

What benefit the end customer is getting by 0% GST on Insurance Policies?