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Let's get started from scratch. 😎🚀🤘 In a way it was good to be off X for the last 4 months. But I accept, I did miss it.

Her name was Hind Rajab — 5 years old. Trapped in a car for 48 hours, surrounded by Israeli tanks, begging for help. They executed her with 350 bullets — and killed five members of her family. This is a war crime against a child.

IFF statement against the Alarming Escalation of Social Media Censorship and Proposed Expansion of Takedown Powers New Delhi, March 19, 2026 The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) is concerned by continuing reports of posts and accounts being withheld in India on Facebook, X and Instagram, including satire and criticism of the government. Recent reporting shows users receiving generic “withheld in India” notices or emails under Section 69A from social media platforms, with little or no explanation, while independent reporting has documented takedowns affecting speech that appears political, satirical, or critical rather than clearly unlawful. As reported by Business Standard and The Indian Express on March 18, the Union Government is currently exploring a proposal to decentralize content blocking powers under Section 69A of the IT Act. The new proposal would grant direct takedown powers to multiple ministries, including Defence, Home Affairs, External Affairs, and Information & Broadcasting. At present, MeitY signs off on Section 69A orders, while a separate notice and takedown channel already operates through Section 79(3)(b) and the Home Ministry led Sahyog portal that at least has 35 nodal officers across State Police Departments in India. At the same time, the February 2026 amendments to the IT Rules have sharply compressed compliance timelines. MeitY’s own published FAQ says intermediaries must act within 3 hours when they receive actual knowledge through a court order or a government intimation, within 36 hours for certain expedited grievances, and within 2 hours for specified complaints involving nudity, sexual content, morphed content, and impersonation. The government has also reiterated that intermediaries which fail to observe due diligence risk losing Section 79 immunity. A system built on speed, legal threat, and secrecy predictably incentivises over compliance. We remind the Union Government that the Supreme Court upheld Section 69A in the Shreya Singhal case on the basis of procedural safeguards and written reasons that could be challenged. Secret and inaccessible censorship defeats those safeguards in practice. IFF calls on the Union government to halt any move to decentralise Section 69A blocking powers further, publish blocking orders with only as per the letter and spirit of the Shreya Singhal judgement, and ensure timely notice to affected users with clear grounds and avenues for remedy. Platforms must also do more than send boilerplate messages. They should provide meaningful notice, preserve records for challenge, and publish granular transparency reporting given online censorship also impacts the public right to receive information. If your account or post has been withheld or blocked in India, please write to legal@internetfreedom.in with screenshots, URLs, and any email or platform notice you have received. IFF will try to assist impacted users and document patterns of opaque censorship.

Everyone Should Raise their Voice for a Cause | Sonam Wangchuk s First Press conference After His Release After nearly 6 months in detention, @Wangchuk66 urges flexible, meaningful dialogue on Ladakh’s demands for statehood and 6th Schedule protections. youtube.com/watch?v=UJ8FLL…

If you wanna level up in AI, spend an hour every day on tinkering and playing with the models. Build something & have fun with it. Test the model’s limits. Don’t be utilitarian. I guarantee that if you do this consistently for a month, at the end you’ll look back and realize this was the most productive way to spend your time. Not reading about it. Not taking a course on it. PLAYING with it. To quote @steipete: it’s hard compete with somebody who’s just there to have fun

Sanjay Hegde’s Stand is Pure Constitutional Gold‼️ “The river belongs to non-vegetarians as well.” While BJP Yuva Morcha gets 14 Muslim men arrested for a peaceful Iftar on the Ganga — citing ‘hurt religious sentiments’ — Senior Advocate Sanjay Hegde reminds India what justice truly means. The Ganga is not a private Hindu property. Public spaces belong to every Indian, every faith, every plate. No selective outrage. No selective arrests. Hegde sahab, you just upheld the soul of the Constitution. Respect. 🙏 #GangaForAll #EqualityNotBigotry

Sharp, brilliant piece by Justice (R) Madan B Lokur on why the Supreme Court must not allow the government to get away with saying the Sonam Wangchuk habeas corpus plea is now infructuous. Preventive Detention Abused: Why the Supreme Court Must Still Rule on Wangchuk thewire.in/law/on-sonam-w…

Mad respect! Wish someone like him could be the PM of this country. Alas, we don't deserve a leader like him.

Listen to Sonam Wangchuk speaking for the first time after being unlawfully put in jail and called a terrorist by the Modi Gov for 6 months. He is still not bitter, He is still worried about his people and not himself. What a man, What an inspiration. 👏🏻

₹19,000 crore. That is what Banks collected in last 3 years just for not maintaining ‘Minimum Account Balance.’ Not from the rich. Not from big borrowers. From the poorest accounts in the system. Their crime? They didn’t have enough money. A farmer misses the minimum balance - Penalty. A pensioner withdraws money for medicine - Penalty. A daily wage worker falls short by a few hundred rupees - Penalty. The poor keep money in banks for safety. Not to be quietly fined for being poor. Financial inclusion should protect small savings, not punish small balances. In Parliament today I proposed ending minimum balance penalties so the banking system stops charging people for their poverty.

This is insane! The decline angle and the way the Suzuki Jimny powers through this slush is just crazy. Truly one of the best machines ever made!! 👌🏻 #Jimny #Suzuki

After a long time had a free flowing chat with @Wangchuk66 without glancing at the scary clock every now and then to make the most of the fleeting 60 minutes as in jail! Taking him for a health checkup as per the strong recommendations of our family doctor. He will be under medical observation for 36 hours in a good hospital! #SatyamevaJayate #ForeverPositive

Every year in Yelahanka, Bengaluru, a mother and father quietly stand beside a road that bears their son’s name... Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road. For the country, it is a tribute. For K. Unnikrishnan and Dhanalakshmi, it is a place to remember the child they raised. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan was one of the brave commandos of the National Security Guard who laid down his life during the 2008 Mumbai attacks while rescuing civilians at the Taj Hotel. In the middle of that night of terror, he reportedly told his team: “Do not come up, I will handle them.” He fought the terrorists so others could live. For India, he became a symbol of courage, duty, and sacrifice. But for his parents, the pride of a hero comes with the pain of losing a son. On his birth anniversary, they still come to pay their respects... quietly, with folded hands, carrying memories only parents can understand. The nation stands proud of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan. And it remains forever indebted to him and to the parents who gave their son in service of the country. Because the freedom and safety we live with today were secured by sacrifices like his. #SandeepUnnikrishnan #Terrorism #TerrorAttack

This is wild. 143 million people thought they were catching Pokémon. They were actually building one of the largest real-world visual datasets in AI history. Niantic just disclosed that photos and AR scans collected through Pokémon Go have produced a dataset of over 30 billion real-world images. The company is now using that data to power visual navigation AI for delivery robots. Players didn't just walk around with their phones. They scanned landmarks, storefronts, parks, and sidewalks from every angle, at every time of day, in lighting and weather conditions that staged photography would never capture. They documented the physical world at a scale no mapping company with a fleet of vehicles could have replicated on the same timeline or budget. Niantic collected this systematically, data point by data point, across eight years, while users thought the only thing at stake was catching a rare Charizard. The most valuable AI training datasets in the world aren't being assembled in data centers. They're being built by people who have no idea they're building them.

Researchers trained a humanoid robot to play tennis using only 5 hours of motion capture data The robot can now sustain multi-shot rallies with human players, hitting balls traveling >15 m/s with a ~90% success rate AlphaGo for every sport is coming

Totally unprofessional conduct by Tata Motors. Yesterday around 4:00 PM in Jispa, while we were heading ahead, some people and locals stopped us rudely saying the certain road was closed and that we were not allowed to take photos because a Tata Sierra photoshoot was happening. They even asked us to show our phones and delete pictures. The shoot was happening in a river crossing, which is clearly illegal, yet they claimed to have permission. How can a private company block a public road or restrict people from taking photos in an entire area like Jispa? Tata Motors needs to answer this. The damage to the local flora and fauna in the river during this shoot is completely unacceptable. Have some professionalism! @TataMotors_Cars @Tataev @DcLahaulSpiti

5 minutes ago, @karpathy just dropped karpathy/jobs! he scraped every job in the US economy (342 occupations from BLS), scored each one's AI exposure 0-10 using an LLM, and visualized it as a treemap. if your whole job happens on a screen you're cooked. average score across all jobs is 5.3/10. software devs: 8-9. roofers: 0-1. medical transcriptionists: 10/10 💀 karpathy.ai/jobs

the AI model that saved this dogs life is pretty fucking badass btw: - google’s Alpha Fold won a Nobel Prize in 2024 (1st AI to ever win it) - discovered treatments for diseases that no human scientist had found. - solved a 50-yr old unsolved challenge: predicting a proteins 3D shape to 90% accuracy (that’s what created the dogs vaccine!) - reduces drug discovery from YEARS TO SECONDS - it’s 1st AI-designed cancer drug is reaching human trials soon. - 3 million researchers across 160 countries use it FOR FREE

this is so fucking wholesome guy used AI to save his cancer-ridden dog by sequencing its DNA and creating a CUSTOM cure. the tech behind this is fucking awesome (well done @demishassabis and the google team): - used CHATGPT to sequence dogs DNA discovers mutations - ran the mutations through Google’s Alphafold (AI protein sequencer) which CREATED A CUSTOM VACCINE TO TREAT THEM. - treated dog and reduced tumour by 50% in WEEKS. dog is alive and well. - this is the 1st time AI has been used to create a custom vaccine for a dog (and it worked) - dude is now working on similar vaccines for humans using AI! 2026 is definitely the year we see AI change personalised medicine in a HUGE way so sick

I congratulate those 193 MP’s who signed to remove this man who is destroying our democracy!

BREAKING : Trump Loyalist Laura Loomer confronted by Indian Journalist Rajdeep Sardesai for her racist remarks against Indians and Islamophobia. She was about to cry, had no answers., This is the best video you will watch today 👏 Thank you Rajdeep for showing courage.