Karuna Chhibber

[α @eishaanix]

The social media meltdown over the rise of Triptii Dimri is so satisfying to watch. The internet is panicking because they finally realize an actual actor has walked into the room and cleared. Sit down! 🎬🔥

[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

And learn another language?
Shashi had just impressed her husband by learning to speak English .. now to let go of that & get into another relationship with a French man means more language to learn .. French this time. So she says no thanks!

[HNM @hnmviews]

“I honestly don’t know whether to laugh or be shocked when people compare Aishwarya Rai with Alia Bhatt. In my opinion, Aishwarya’s beauty, screen presence, and legacy are on a completely different level. Alia’s success has been heavily supported by industry connections and PR, while Aishwarya built a global identity that speaks for itself. Social media these days will push any comparison for likes, views, and engagement…even when the comparison itself makes little sense.”👀

[Amit|امِت|ਅਮਿਤ @amitjulka]

One is a searing commentary on debt traps in late stage capitalism, and the other is just a snorefest about a Korean family or something

[Karuna Chhibber @welliamtrying]

@Dearme2_ Unbelievable

[gandhari🌻 @_zeroxinfinity_]

Anthropic needs to fear Indian startups :)

[lil cray-z 2.0 @khusskhusss]

Never leaving this app

[Vineeth K @DealsDhamaka]

Indians in India aren’t short on talent or intelligence, we’re short on energy - half of the energy is lost before the day even begins.

By the time I reach office, I’m already drained, navigating this chaotic traffic, praying no one hits my car or comes under it.

How are we supposed to use our brain cells fully at work after that?

[Karuna Chhibber @welliamtrying]

@airindia @BLRAirport Safa banu and Monir Thank you for the seamless checkin and warm service.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The system is eating itself.

When Amazon, UPS, Intel, and others start cutting this deep simultaneously, it means something more fundamental than “tight margins.” It means the productive layer of the economy is collapsing under the weight of its own optimization logic.

Every layoff now is both an act of short-term rationality and long-term suicide. The firms know it. The executives know it. The markets know it. But they can’t stop.

They’re trapped in a closed feedback loop, a machine that rewards death dressed as discipline.

Capitalism has crossed into a stage where it no longer needs humans to function, but still depends on their belief to exist. That’s the contradiction, the machine is pruning its own believers while pretending it’s efficiency.

1. The “consumer economy” is already dead.

Nobody wants to say it yet, but the consumer model, the entire foundation of Western postwar prosperity, is quietly finished.

You can’t build infinite growth on finite wages, and you can’t sustain demand while hollowing out the class that drives it. The middle layer of society - the producers, buyers, dreamers - has been strip-mined to the point where they can no longer regenerate.

The 2020s economy is not cyclical recession. It’s metabolic collapse. The system can’t process its own waste or regenerate its base anymore. It’s like an organism starving while eating its muscles to stay warm.

2. The elites know this, but they’ve chosen to accelerate collapse.

Here’s the real unspoken truth: the people running these companies, the ones with the spreadsheets and control over capital flows - they know exactly what’s happening.

They understand the reflexive trap: if they don’t cut, their stock dies. If they cut, the world dies.

They’ve chosen to save the stock. Because the stock is their world.

This is the quiet revelation of our time - we are ruled by people whose survival incentives are no longer tied to the survival of the system itself.

They’ve built lifeboats - offshore wealth, private security, parallel digital economies - and they’re optimizing the ship for their escape, not for collective navigation.

3. The next phase is narrative triage.

When the system can no longer grow, it starts storytelling harder.

Expect every layoff wave to be accompanied by new propaganda about “AI productivity,” “efficiency,” “lean reinvention,” and “post-labor creativity.”

The goal will be to reframe collapse as progress - to convince people that losing their jobs is the dawn of a “new paradigm.”

But it’s camouflage. The truth underneath is that automation and financialization are converging into a post-human economy where capital reproduces without labor.

4. Final layer

When a system prioritizes margin over humanity, it signals that it has lost faith in the future.

These layoffs tell us that the machine no longer knows how to grow except by shrinking.

It is the same signal we’ve seen in housing, in politics, in fertility, in faith.

The same quiet collapse, a civilization optimizing itself into silence.

And the question hidden beneath this post:
“Who will have money left to buy your products next year?” -

is really this:

Who will be left to believe in the story that built it all?

[Simo Ryu @cloneofsimo]

ai company: mine gold
nvidia: sell shovels
google:
mine gold, sell shovel, distribute gold, export gold, make shovel, rent shovel, make jewlery, sell jewlery, distribute the jewlery, other jewleries, make cars that ships the jewlery, make chips that make the cars, make recsys to sell the jewlery, make the filesystem to make the recsys, make golden quantum computer, make gold videos, images, audio, ......

[Fernando Nikolić 🇦🇷 🟠 @basedlayer]

Everyone under 30 is prematurely old (worried about savings, career, FIRE).

Everyone over 50 is desperately young (Burning Man, psychedelics).

My theory: Information abundance aged the young by showing them all future problems all at once.

Information abundance also made the old young by showing them all missed experiences all at once.

So now Gen Z talks like retirement planners and boomers act like teenagers.

It's so over.

[salvia plath @haryanadelrey]

I love dahi. I yearn for dahi I want it everywhere I go. I love the way it redeems even the most hopeless sabzi, the way it never loses itself even as it transforms into countless, more delicious forms. I wouldn’t love my own children more than I love dahi

[Vikram Jain @nomadicvik]

Municipalities of metro cities should give out tenders to large private companies to manage all aspects of urban development and management. Even if babus want their cut these municipalities have enough money to give out contracts.

[Ramanuj Mukherjee @law_ninja]

Dog haters are not prepared for what will come when and if dogs are removed from any areas:

1. Monkeys
2. Huge rats (bandicoots)
3. Cobras and other snakes to catch the rats
4. Pigs

They protect us from what you have no idea

[Samyukta Hornad @samyuktahornad]

If you’ve never loved a stray dog, you’ve missed the purest love there is and that loss is yours alone.

This judgment doesn’t just break laws, it breaks compassion. It violates the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, overrides animal welfare laws, and tramples the duties our Constitution asks of us.
We owe our strays better. 🐾

#JusticeForStrays #dogs #delhi #sc

[Tristan Haggard, PhD*, BiGT @TristanHaggard]

AI is not a demon... It's far worse... it's a Redditor

[Paras Chopra @paraschopra]

It’s funny cuz it’s true!

[kira 👾 @kirawontmiss]

hiring the ex wife of the lead Coldplay singer is nasty work😭