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Poly-Learner

[V @vindvr]

God gifted opportunity for India
to Manufacture.
to Build.
to Rise.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Breaking News: U.S. announces 245% tariff on imports from China.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Anytime someone takes a picture/video that I happen to be in the background of I like to wave at the AGI that sees me 30 years from now

[Claude @claudeai]

Keep thinking.

[Sergey Karayev @sergeykarayev]

Dario: Claude will take your job, but it will feel ashamed.

Elon: Look at this anime girl. She says the N word and is almost naked.

Zuck: ✨Superintelligence✨ will help people watch more instagram reels.

Demis: Gemini recently Calculated more precisely the motion of the Heavens.

Sam: Excited to announce that OpenAI Inc has entered into a definitive agreement with OpenAI LP and OAI Corporation, and has signed MOUs with OpenAI OpCo, LLC, and OpenAI Global, LLC!

[Bangalore real estate @Bangalorereal1]

🚨Jana Urban Space Foundation (JUSP) has proposed to the Karnataka government Walkable Bengaluru Mission to scale TenderSURE Roads citywide!

With the construction of 30 metro stations along the Blue (Airport) Line, JUSP sees a unique opportunity to convert the ORR from a high-speed vehicular corridor into a multimodal, people-orientated street.

Drawing on its TenderSURE experience, JUSP envisions upgrading all 1,683 km of arterial and sub-arterial roads to TenderSURE standards, including organised underground utilities by 2035. It proposes bringing 1,000 km of local roads connecting 163 existing and proposed metro stations under these standards by 2030, significantly improving first and last-mile connectivity. 

This SHOULD BE GIVEN A PUSH!

[Gautam Chikermane 🇮🇳 @gchikermane]

Weak is the power of crude speech.
Strong is the power of sophisticated silence.
Transformative is the power of silence to yoke speech—and deliver a new equilibrium.

[Balaji @balajis]

DECOUPLING FROM DOLLARS
The US sends India billions in printed dollars for valuable goods. This is actually the US government ripping off India, like it does Vietnam, and everyone else, including its own citizens...not vice versa.

To be precise: last year India exported $87B of valuable goods to the US for $42B of goods plus $45B worth of increasingly worthless dollars:

That difference of $45B was, effectively, made up by money printing, which the Fed does at will:

The current administration incorrectly thinks this is a bad deal for America, because they haven’t fully thought through the fact that the US can print dollars. India was giving America something that's always valuable (namely goods) for something that America can just print out of thin air (namely US dollars):

So...who was really ripping off whom?

As mentioned, this is the same trade America had with Vietnam. Vietnam worked hard to send America shoes, while America sent Vietnam printed dollars. And it’s the same trade America had with many countries, before the trade war. The world sends the US valuable goods, and gets mere Federal Reserve database entries in return:

The only reason the US had the right to do that — to run the financial database of the world, to print trillions for itself, and to freeze and seize the funds of billions — is because it set up what we call the rules-based order, what is in reality the American Empire. And of course it profited from that empire tremendously, but so did most of the empire's participants.

But now MAGA is dismantling that empire. It’s cutting off trade, talent, and even tourism. It’s abandoning its military commitments and telling allies to fend for themselves. It’s cutting off foreign aid and domestic universities. It is, in short, becoming a country not an empire.

The reason is because MAGA is fundamentally confused. It romanticizes 1945 America (the manufacturing country) without fully admitting that 2025 America makes its money in a completely different way, by managing the hub of a global financial empire.

Because the US is in denial about what it is — a money printer, not a manufacturer — it's currently on track to lose both the money-printing and the manufacturing. For example, the tariffs target the entire world (thereby reducing demand for the dollar in global trade) while also cutting off machine tools and raw materials from US entrepreneurs (thereby inhibiting the buildout of domestic manufacturing).

Anyway, I won't linger on the outlook for the US. It's made its decision and will live with it. Perhaps it will indeed be a Golden Age of Reindustrialization. And perhaps the transition to a "republic, not an empire" will go much better than the similar imperial climbdown of the UK or the USSR.

What should countries like India and Vietnam do?

They should turn a necessity into a virtue. The trade war has provided a powerful Schelling Point for the entire world to simultaneously stop using the dollar at the same time. This is also what America says it wants, for foreigners to stop "exploiting" it by accepting its printed dollars for hard goods.

So: abide by America's wishes and stop trading goods with America for dollars. Instead, trade goods with each other for local currencies (rather than USDs) and use gold for storing value (rather than USTs). Because there is no global reserve currency issued by a single country, trade remains roughly balanced over time.

Singapore's former PM calls this "world minus one." It's the continuation of global capitalism, just without America, who has voluntarily taken itself out of the game. Yes, there's a short-term adaptation cost, but the quicker that a country can decouple from the dollar the better.

Start saving in hard money instead.

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

the Domlur - Indiranagar footpath went from literally unwalkable to pristine and pedestrian-friendly in mere days!

Bengaluru is setting an example for the rest of India on expedient public infra restoration

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

India emerges as Ukraine's top diesel supplier in July, claims oil analytics firm:

https://t.co/1v4hV2DgAv

[sankalp @dejavucoder]

attention is all you need

[Adam @AdameMedia]

I think about this CIA tweet a lot

[The Armoury Brief @TheArmouryBrief]

BREAKING:

India to begin engine manufacturing for its 5th-gen fighter jets in partnership with French firm Safran ~ Defence Minister Rajnath Singh

[MFA Russia 🇷🇺 @mfa_russia]

🇷🇺🇮🇳 President of Russia Vladimir #Putin met in the Kremlin with Minister of External Affairs of India @DrSJaishankar.

https://t.co/2QFw2TxOjF

#RussiaIndia

[Lior Alexander @LiorOnAI]

Yann LeCun: "If you are interested in human-level ai, don't work on LLMs"

[India in Russia @IndEmbMoscow]

Hon’ble EAM @DrSJaishankar arrives in Moscow on an official visit to Russia.

🇮🇳 🇷🇺

[KP 🌱 @WalkofV]

Range goes up 1000km for every 10% increase in tariffs 🗿

[Kash Patel @Kash_Patel]

Happy Independence Day India

[ಅಮ್ರುತ್ ಬಾಳ್‍ಬೈಲ್ @teekappa24]

Separate bus lane, cycle lane, and footpath with a green cover. No garbage or stray animals in sight. Let’s aim for this in Karnataka, nothing less, nothing more.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

BREAKING ⚠️

1st provocation by Pak Army since Op Sindoor—border action team (terrorist infiltrators with Pak Army support) attempt infiltration in general area Uri last night. Big firefight. Bad weather, team chased back across LoC, 1 Indian soldier killed in action. @ndtv

[Isabella Anderson @IsabellaAn67]

Do we actually realise the severity of yesterday's incident at Second Thomas Shoal?

China deployed a PLA Navy Destroyer against that Philippines Coast Guard Ship!

And, that too inside Philippines's waters.

This isn't Gray Zone anymore! @CarpioJudge @ChongJaIan @Jkylebass