Wayne Bruce

Science @ IIT Madras

[CBG San @OnlyNakedTruth]

I have read works by Tolstoy, Orwell and Dostoevsky.

Let’s talk after you have read “Digital Signal Processing” by Oppenheimer.

[Paul Raymond-Robichaud @PaulRRobichaud]

Very brave to protect humanity from dangerous, unregulated mathematics.

We wouldn’t want theorems released to the ignorant masses without first obtaining an imprimatur from the Guild of Mathematicians.

[🎴 @mellowpropanex]

People blindly licking IITB should also know that same institute researching about face recognition model to identify bangladeshi in mumbai. Based 🗿

[Melissa Chen @MsMelChen]

Ed’s always had the reputation of being one of the decent ones. The rare guy in the music industry who actually lifts people up, nurtures them and genuinely sees music as a way to inspire and bring people together. His entire vibe is wholesome and earnest, the kind of guy who believes in the power of love and all that (it’s way too kumbaya and saccharine for my tastes).

Which is what makes this whole affair so grim.

Because he should be the last person to receive so much hate and vitriol.

When he says he’s lost friends over this, the thing that jumps out to me is the really bad behavior of his “friends” in the music industry.

You know, the ones he actually invited out on his massive tour. Macklemore and the other opening acts get bigger crowds, bigger paydays and a platform most of them wouldn’t have had on their own.

First, Macklemore used Ed’s stage to make the night all about his own cause. Bro you’re the opening act, nobody is paying for those tickets to see you.

Second, after Robert Kraft and the other stadium owners made it clear the shows weren’t happening with Macklemore on the bill, what did he do? He threw his “friend” under the bus.

The decent move would’ve been for Macklemore to say to the public, “this wasn’t Ed’s fault. Don’t turn him into the villain.”

Instead he’s watched Ed take every arrow on social media and get churned through a full-blown media storm. He lets the climate in which activists hysterically accuse Ed of being complicit in genocide and post absurd cartoons of him personally shooting a Palestinian kid with an RPG fester and bloom.

There were lots of things Macklemore could’ve said to take some of the heat off the man who actually put him on that stage. But he didn’t.

Neither did the other openers who walked. Instead they framed it as principle and solidarity. From the outside it just looks like they took the opportunity, cashed the goodwill, and then left Ed trying to figure out how to keep the tour alive for hundreds of thousands of ticket-holders and the crew who actually depend on the tour to get paid. Ed is the one who took all the risk after all.

This dynamic reminds me of those child actors who built careers off @jk_rowling’s work and then publicly disowned her the second her views became inconvenient. These are not good people and they don’t know gratitude.

Ed’s finding out, the hard way, just how many shitty people were around him.

It’s a terrible experience to go through but in the long run, he would be all the wiser for it

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

I’m sort of shocked at how many people think “it’s nothing personal but I think you worship a monkey demon” isn’t an insulting stance. Especially people who should realize there is nothing more personal than faith.

[unrave @unrave20]

Whose bright idea was it to add humanities departments to IITs

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

Ideally every professors from each IITs should boycott teaching from tomorrow. That’s the only thing our political class understands.

[Saiswaroopa Iyer @Sai_swaroopa]

If you are OK with malpractice in exams, your fight against paperleaks was hypocritical at best.

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

Vajpayee ji had fractured mandates, coalition compulsions and limited resources. Yet he mentored and built leaders.

Modi ji has had historic mandates, massive public support and enormous political capital. Yet his era is producing more sycophants & puppets than visionaries.

[BIRABAR NANDA @brknanda]

It will have long term disastrous consequences if the director of @iitbombay resigns. The director and the institute cannot held responsible by any stretch of imagination if a student commits suicide after caught cheating in the exam.

As the news flow over mainstream and social media at the moment, the institute did not take any disciplinary action and rather counseled the student. What more an institute can do?

If we want to build strong characters, and maintain academic integrity and standard, we cannot simply accept that it is okay to cheat in the exam.

I am deeply concerned about the dilution in the academic rigor that has already happened in IITs over the years. Now if the director resigns, the dilution will get a further boost.

Institutes should not respond to knee-jerk reactions in the social media. Rather they should focus on building robust frameworks to address issues.

[Frank McCormick @CBHeresy]

Maybe pro-family Indians with conservative values wouldn’t vote Democrat if you didn’t call them “dirty pagan poop people.”

Just a thought for those of you that want to win elections and don’t have a doomsaying career that requires us to always lose for your message to resonate.

[Dr Manhattva @Manhattva]

Elon Musk deserves to be the richest man in the world.

[alexei @alexeixbt]

neuroplasticity works faster under high emotional intensity. if you can resist a craving when it's at its peak, you get a bigger rewiring effect. this is why the hardest moments matter most, they're not setbacks, they're high-voltage opportunities to change.

[Sidharth @Cloudwatch199]

Megan, are you really going to pretend like you did not contribute to this bigotry?

Didn’t you spend the last week explaining how non-Christians somehow did not belong in “American” culture?

Weren’t you the same person who spent the entire last week assuming those at the UT football game were foreigners based on their skin color?

Love the fake solidarity you’re showing here.

[UP 10T Economic Goal™ @up_10t_army]

Most right-wing people who actually think critically eventually explore left-wing ideology to understand it, and most eventually move back.

Only those with a low IQ get stuck there and make it their entire identity to hide their incompetence.

[ol’ stocky ⛳️ @oldstocky]

My wife begging me to get a job but I have to explain to her that Nietzsche said whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself is a slave

[Arthur MacWaters @ArthurMacwaters]

Ayn Rand predicted this

Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, and most of hollywood (each worth 10s to 100s of millions) will rabidly insist that Elon is evil simply because he is a billionaire

Yet they are living in one of their 3-4 beautiful mansions and he is living in an airstream so he can work on building superintelligence and employing people

[Padmaja Joshi @PadmajaJoshi]

Now that they have finalised the headline introducing Pallavi Joshi as ‘Vivek Agnihotri’s wife’, they can quickly move on to writing that essay about women’s agency and smashing patriarchy.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Every day it increasingly feels like the future is just Democratic Socialist vs Nationalist Socialist and you just have to pick a side or be marginalized into nothingness.