
Akilan
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Akilan
@akilan27
Aeronautical engineer. Programmer. Liberal, secular, atheist. Policy researcher. Wannabe writer. | FOSS | Not all 🔄 are endorsements.



JD Vance: Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I’m proudest we’ve done in this administration.

So I confirmed, this is genuine. This is what @peyushbansal tells his employees, hijab is okay, but bindi/tilak/Kalawa is not, for @Lenskart_com, a company that exists in Hindu majority Bharat, where most of the employees and consumers are Hindu! What do you say to this? This is page 11 of the Lenskart style guide for employees. You can find the link here. scribd.com/document/90118…

[BREAKING] Delhi High Court asks Police to remove videos of Arvind Kejriwal arguing before Justice Swarana Kanta Sharma report by @prashantjha996 barandbench.com/news/delhi-hig…

Andhra cops pick up Hyderabad-based stand-up comedian Anudeep Katikala from UP over jokes on Pawan Kalyan being divorced twice. thenewsminute.com/andhra-pradesh…

No more ‘Tinku’, ‘Chhotu’, ‘Bablu’ or ‘Shaitaan’…. Rajasthan government launches scheme - Sarthak Naam Abhiyaan- to CORRECT ‘ inappropriate’ names. Only the Indian bureaucracy could draw up such a govt scheme of 3000 acceptable names. Acceptable names include ‘Akbar’, ‘Birbal’, ‘Vrindavan’. Amazing report in @htTweets today. By the way, Major Shaitan Singh, Paramveer Chakra winner and hero of Rezang La would have had to change his name if this scheme had been in existence then…..

Five questions on ChatGPT use 500 ml of water. Bengaluru has 31 data centres guzzling water to do such tasks. And neither the water board, pollution control board nor the IT department can quantify their water use. Read the full report by @kavashivani. thenewsminute.com/karnataka/in-b…


The Delimitation Bill, 2026 | Articles 239AA, 330A, 332A and 334A provide for, as nearly as may be, one-third reservation of seats for women in the House of the People and the Legislative Assemblies of the States, including within the seats reserved for the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes. These articles make provisions for enhancing women’s representation in the House of the People and the Legislative Assemblies effectively to enable greater participation of women in policy making and governance. The purpose of the Bill is to constitute the Delimitation Commission to undertake the exercise of delimitation, inter alia, to provide reservation of seats for women in the House of the People and the Legislative Assemblies.

"Bengal has never been a hub for large manufacturing, and cannot be." -- Mahua Moitra Request India's greatest historian Shri Ram Guha to fact check this statement. 🙏


So Dravidian politicians are crying oppression because *checks notes...* the union govt *suggested* that they might consider paying farmers for growing millets instead of a bonus for extra rice production?

Waymo reportedly plans to test robo taxis in Ontario. Toronto’s mayor has her doubts about its technology trib.al/pTZ9R09


NEW: If Waymo gets its way, 2 million workers will be out of work. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, wages go down. Some drivers now have to work 12 hours day, 7 days a week just to get by. This isn't inevitable — but Big Tech is spending millions to make you think it is.


A Blockade stops the chinese resupply


NEW: If Waymo gets its way, 2 million workers will be out of work. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, wages go down. Some drivers now have to work 12 hours day, 7 days a week just to get by. This isn't inevitable — but Big Tech is spending millions to make you think it is.

NEW: If Waymo gets its way, 2 million workers will be out of work. When Waymo gets a firm hold on a city, wages go down. Some drivers now have to work 12 hours day, 7 days a week just to get by. This isn't inevitable — but Big Tech is spending millions to make you think it is.

