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@surveyguy2 Lovely to see! Thank you for sharing.

@Subeer This is on the border of Minnesota and Wisconsin, right near the St. Croix River here in the states, which feeds into the Mississippi River.

@surveyguy2 Hello! Thought to share that I finally got the bike. Do you still have your bike?

@surveyguy2 Thank you. Yes, they are stock. No modifications so far. It’s actually very quiet. Probably some new regulations on noise levels. I remembered you are Triumph owner. Good to hear you would be riding again. Please share pictures when you go riding!

@Subeer WOW!! That is awesome! Congratulations. Are those the original pipes on it? I imagine it's a bit louder than mine 🙂 yes, I still have mine, in fact I just renewed my registration recently. Hopefully I'll get out a bit more this summer.

85% of India's police are constables. The clerk is invisible to everyone — except the citizen who needs him. Sociologist Lenski called it Status Inconsistency: high power, low rank. The strain turns outward. Onto you. A 2021 study found low power breeds paranoia — which breeds aggression. That hostile window clerk isn't a bad person. He's a predictable product of a broken system. The Police Act of 1861 still governs how a constable meets a citizen in 2025. When I became DGP Haryana, I didn't start with training. I started with dignity. Wrote to every jawan in Hindi: "You are the most important rank. The citizen at your gate is having a difficult day. Offer them a chair." It worked. Because these are good people inside a broken design. But goodwill has a shelf life. Georgia after Rose Revolution recruited anew, raised salaries, tied promotion to conduct. Within 6 years — per Princeton's research — their police ranked 3rd most trusted institution in the country, after church and army. The lesson isn't training. It's incentives. Reward dignity. Recognise integrity. Link promotion to conduct. Give them something to gain by being good. That's the reform. Everything else is noise. Read my full article in @Dailyworld

me having jail food cause I questioned FSSAI that why my paneer tastes like detergent.

Today’s a good day to recall the time when people mad started writing off Google

@FrontalForce Maj Gen Bakshi has been sporting his moustaches since academy days. Are you sure?

Guess who is on left of then Chief of Army Staff Field Marshal Sam Manekshaw (1970) Hint - He is very popular in Indian news channel discussions nowadays 😎

@Iamsamirarora @kaul_vivek I will be buying into this fund. Have faith in your approach.

@kaul_vivek I saw yr article being used to pack channa. What to do- part of life. Life is tough for everyone.

Ohhh...

𝗛𝗶𝘀 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽’𝘀 𝗯𝗿𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝟭𝟬𝟬 𝗺𝗶𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗮𝗯𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵. 𝗦𝗼 𝗵𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽. May 1963. Gordon Cooper is alone in a capsule the size of a phone booth. 17,500 miles per hour. Twenty-two orbits in. He’d been up there for over a day, the longest Mercury flight ever. Then a short circuit kills the entire automated guidance system. The system that calculates the exact angle to bring him home alive. Too shallow - he skips off the atmosphere into the void. Too steep - friction turns the capsule into a meteor. Margin of survival: fractions of a degree. Every computer designed to hit that margin is dead. Cooper uncaps a grease pencil. Draws reference lines on his window. Sets his Timex. Does the math in his head, cross-checking against constellations outside. Then he fires the retrorockets. For several minutes - superheated plasma. No communication. No radar. Alone inside a fireball, trusting math done with a pencil and a watch. Faith 7 splashes down four miles from the carrier. The most accurate landing in the entire Mercury program. 𝗔 𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗮 𝘄𝗿𝗶𝘀𝘁𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗔 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱. Last month, vaibhavi - a rock star ML engineer on my team - was reviewing outputs from a system we’d built for a client. Everything passing. No alerts. The system doing exactly what it was designed to do. She pulled up the outputs, scrolled past the results, and stopped. A cluster of edge cases the model was quietly getting wrong. She caught it the way Cooper caught his reentry angle - not because a screen told her. Because she understood the system deeply enough to feel when something was off. 𝘚𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘰𝘸. The more powerful the AI, the more autonomous the workflow, the more everything depends on that person. The one who can read the constellations when the screens say all clear. Cooper’s story isn’t nostalgia. It’s a design principle. 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸𝘂𝗽 𝘀𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝗻𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲. 𝗜𝘁 𝘄𝗮𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗵𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝘄𝗵𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝘄𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗲𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝘁. The pencil. The window. The stars. That’s 𝘏𝘶𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘣𝘺 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘨𝘯.

@IndiaTriumph Hello - here is a tip on the number plate assembly. The curvature makes it harder to screw in the barrel nut. Increasing the space would make it convenient. PS - your DMs are only open for verified users.

Yes.

We offered 5 people a Porsche 911 GT3 RS if they could get @WisprFlow to make a mistake It's the fastest and most accurate AI voice dictation app that's 3x more accurate than ChatGPT, Claude, or Siri. Today, we’re finally launching on Android. Download now: play.google.com/store/apps/det… As a part of the launch, we’re giving away 6 months of Wispr Flow Pro for free. Like, retweet and comment ‘Wispr Flow’ to get it. Enjoy. — Written with Wispr Flow

Mangaluru 😁

Madurai born Suresh Dakshineswar just went from obscurity to a household name overnight clinching a Davis Cup win for India against the Netherlands. Ranked 470 he beat WR 73 Jesper De Jong; won the doubles with Yuki & beat WR 160 Guy Den Ouden in decider.

@Arjunjain Lovely. Thank you for sharing this about your life.

I am standing on SP Road in 2002, holding 5,000 rupees. My friends have 40,000. They're walking into the proper shops. Pentium 4s in shiny boxes. They'll be running Windows XP by tonight. Playing Quake 3 by the weekend. I turn into a shop that sells scrap. Cables hang from the ceiling. Motherboards stacked like garbage. A man speaking Hyderabadi Hindi shows me what he has. I point to a Pentium 1. Gray. Heavy. Obsolete. I take the bus from KR Market with the CPU on my lap. Then I go back for the monitor. My allowance is 2,000 rupees a month. Mess fee takes 1,100. Mobile bill takes 200. I've been saving for months to buy this machine that nobody wants. The DJ Block hostel at RV College. 2 AM. Down the hall, my friends are playing capture the flag. Landing railgun shots. When I try playing on someone else's computer, I can't hit anything. The kind of terrible where people stop picking you for their team. So I stop trying. I stay in my room. The Pentium 1 can't run Windows XP. It can barely breathe. But it can run Linux—if I make Linux small enough. So I learn. I install Gentoo from an LFY magazine CD. Compile the kernel myself—strip out everything this machine can't carry. I configure mplayer from the command line to watch a movie. I mount SMB drives and set up FTP. My friend Vrijesh and I wire the hostel LAN with our own hands (I still remember the wire order for crimping)—the same network that everyone else uses to play Quake 3. I stay up late. Packet sniffing. iptables. Wine to run Windows apps. I follow Nat Friedman and Miguel de Icaza. See them at Linux Bangalore. I learn Linux so well that Vinay Y S, the college sys admin, chooses me to take over after him. The college website. The browsing center. The servers. 2005. A lovely office on Ramana Maharishi Road. Pi Corp—the hottest startup in Bangalore. The interviewer asks: "How do you untar a gzipped file?" My mouth answers before my brain does. 𝚝𝚊𝚛 -𝚣𝚡𝚟𝚏 Muscle memory. Hundreds of nights. Compiled into five characters. Same day offer. That night, I call my mother. "𝘞𝘦'𝘳𝘦 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘣𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦." (Photo: Me on a friend's computer.)

@_sameernigam @PhonePe Keep building! I wish you the strength to be able to ignore the press.

Have got numerous inquiries today asking us whether Rahul & I sold $430Mn worth of our shares 'for personal liquidity'. The short answer is - Absolutely Not! In Sept 2025, all employees of @PhonePe , including both of us founders, were allowed by our Board and shareholders to exercise our vested ESOPs. Exercise of ESOPs triggers an immediate tax obligation on employees in India. To meet our respective tax obligations, the Board also permitted us to sell a fixed number of our shares (== the exact amount of each employees/founders' tax obligation!) to GA via a secondary transaction. The entire secondary capital was deposited to the company, which in turn deposited ~6000Cr total TDS to the tax authorities. NONE of us employees or founders got any personal liquidity as a result of this transaction.

@0xratnakar Priyanshu, thank you for sharing a post from the heart. Just one quibble - why does this have to be about an ‘Indian’ Dad? Relatedly - connecting you here with @subhasismishra - who runs the Dadsense podcast and has well formed views on this topic.

@rwac48 @VOXINDICA Among his options, could he have done anything else after that Himalyan Blunder? In a functional democracy, could any political leader withstand the rage of a military he had tried to emasculate? He didn’t take corrective action, he was forced to by the citizenry.

@VOXINDICA He did say that. But, he also took corrective action albeit late in the day for 62. We fought the 65 war with an army created by him and improved 6 years later to win in 1971.

Yes! And he also said "As far as I am concerned you can scrap the Army — the police are good enough to meet our security needs." [Maj. Gen. A. A. Rudra's biography]

@LloydMathias @DPrasanthNair Or this.

@DPrasanthNair Some had this too! 😉

The most common poster in our student days.