"Instead of punishing the insiders who leaked the exam material, India has punished its 150 million users by banning Telegram."
â Pavel Durov, CEO Telegram
this is one of the highest forms of magic available btw. the equivalent of a daily spell. some call it prayer, some call it manifestation, some call it quantum leaping, but the infinite driving force behind it is the same. and it always delivers.
all of humanity's cooking now fits in a file smaller than 1 photo on your phone
an AI food startup in London grabbed 4.1 million recipes in 7 languages, boiled them down to 1,790 ingredients, and squeezed all of it into 2 megabytes.
ingredients that get used the same way end up close together.
> soy sauce sits near ginger and sesame.
> toffee sits near fudge.
the closer two ingredients are on the map, the more easily one can stand in for the other.
so the map is basically a giant "what can i swap this for" machine, built from how 4.1 million real recipes actually use each ingredient.
that means you can:
âą run out of something mid-recipe and get a swap that actually works in that dish, not a random guess off Google
âą cook a dish from another country and find the local ingredient that does the same job
âą trade a chemical-sounding ingredient for a more natural one that tastes the same
âą find two ingredients that secretly go well together but nobody has tried yet
the amazing part is nobody even told it what "Italian" or "Chinese" food is.
but when you pour in enough recipes, the cuisines naturally clump together on the map on their own.
cooking used to be guesswork. now you can just check the map.
j ai appris Ă mon ex Ă utiliser des baguettes et aujourd hui elle est en lune de miel au japon parfois on plante un arbre sans penser qu un autre va manger les fruits
Itâs 1995. You wake up. Thereâs no Wi-Fi. You donât have a cell phone. You donât have a computer. There is no Facebook/Instagram/TikTok ïżŒ
What is the first thing that you do?
Indiaâs IT ministry banned Telegram for one week because some users shared leaked exam questions.
This punishes 150M+ ordinary Telegram users in India â not the insiders who leaked the exam materials.
And the ban hasn't stopped anything. The leaks just moved to other apps.
A browser game where you deliver mail on a tiny planet is going viral for its cozy vibes and relaxing gameplay
'Messenger' is totally free and runs entirely on web browser