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@bhaumikgowande @tajmahalfoxtrot @MTPHereToHelp does anyone in your entire organisation understand this?

@rishav @tajmahalfoxtrot This is the case for all intersections on any coastal bridge. The intersection is the main problem in Mumbai, not the road width and they don't understand that.

Not a single bus in sight. The photo frame could fit into just 3 buses. That's how you reduce congestion, not by more flyovers. It's time to introduce congestion pricing in South Mumbai while expanding BEST services & issuing more premium bus permits to Chalo & CityFlo.

@vrexec From “[in Europe] They're not working for tips, it's just a job, and firing them is nearly impossible” To “America celebrates the individual”. Math isn’t mathing

I'm going to say something that will befuddle some Europeans, anger others, and maybe inspire a few. Today I experienced one of the starkest differences between Dutch and American culture. And though it's Dutch, I think it's broadly European. Let me explain. I had an important conference call and took it while biking to a local package pickup point. You walk in, show your code and ID, they hand you your package. Basic. Not a big deal. I wasn't being loud or obnoxious… but yes, I was on the phone. As I was leaving with my package in hand, the other clerk… not the one helping me, the one across the room who wasn't serving anyone… chimed in loudly.. “Next time, finish your call before you come in here to get your package." As an American, I was stunned. As someone who thrives on verbal confrontation, I had all sorts of comebacks flowing through my head. But I was on a call, so I just gave a “WTF?” look and kept walking. Some of you will have no reaction to this. Some will think… sure, you were being rude, and that person had every right to say something. And yes… they do have that right. But… If that happened in the US, the likelihood of that employee being fired on the spot… depending on how the customer reacted or complained… is several orders of magnitude higher than here. In this country, it is nearly impossible to fire an employee. The protections are so vast and far-reaching that workers have no fear, and no reason to check their behavior toward customers. At no point did it even occur to this person that there could be a consequence to speaking to me in that manner… "The customer is always right" does not exist in these parts. It's partly why European waiters carry the stereotype of not really caring about you. They're not working for tips, it's just a job, and firing them is nearly impossible… so where's the incentive to be nice? Funny enough, many Europeans view American retail workers as friendly to an almost weird degree. Understand the incentives and it all makes sense. Net-net, being a customer in the US is a far better experience. But there’s an even deeper issue… America celebrates the individual, and that culture trickles all the way down through business into something like at-will employment. The individual has the right to get up and leave… the owner has the right to fire on the spot. The individual is put on a pedestal. It is our nature. It is our origin story, for better or worse. The Old World is about what I call deference to the institution. The institution above the individual. It's been this way forever, and in my opinion it will never change… for reasons very similar to Zelinsky's Doctrine of First Effective Settlement. Absent a clean slate, cultures don't change even across centuries. You might say…. but Europe empowered the individual in this very story… the clerk got to speak his mind to a customer. Not true. Employees of a company or institution are agents of that institution. So what EU employment protections actually do is not strengthen the individual. They empower the agents of institutions… giving them even more leverage over the actual individual… the customer. The person walking into an establishment acting on their own agency to receive a service. They don't want a lecture from the institution. Europeans should appreciate what they have here. It's easy to complain about low wages, but it's a real trade-off… you get to talk shit to a customer, and another Dutch customer might even nod along… we're a pragmatic society, we speak our minds, we're honest with each other. Who knows which path is the correct one. From a realpolitik, hard power, and innovation perspective… and social mobility… American culture wins every time. And there is a perspective that, regardless of your feelings, your ancient cultural dispositions, or your tolerances… hard power is all that matters in the modern world. Maybe from other perspectives, the EU way wins. I don't know.

@Pulkits77 Because civil liberties, press freedom, and political discourse have been restricted, heavily policed, and aggressively targeted by investigative bodies under direction from the government.

Why isn’t Kiren Bedi, Prashant Bhushan, Arvind Kejriwal, Amir Khan etc join Sonam Wangchuck? They all were drumming to the fake Anna Hazare Scam Andolan?

@limebike how is someone supposed to end their ride if your app has automatically logged me out and says you’re performing maintenance?!

i gave 5.6 sol access to my camera roll and had it extract pictures of every piece of clothing i own from my photos then, told it to find new outfits for me and render them on me with gpt-image! its kinda cool to see your entire wardrobe in a collection like this

@robert81161 @GBC_Press There’s a lot of information and good arguments out there if you’re opening to reading them.

Dems are great at telling us how Trump is leading us to disaster, destroying Democracy or ruining America, but never tell you how or why! They claim Trump’s policies don’t work yet never offer any working solutions. It’s easy to cast stones! What’s difficult is finding common ground and working together.

🚨 BREAKING: ​World-famous US actor Morgan Freeman: ​"Someone is sitting in the White House leading us to disaster. I personally cannot understand how someone convicted of 34 felonies like Donald Trump can be president. This makes no sense to me."

@arunvenk Worse, they built a new airport without making any provisions for golf cart lanes despite seeing how it’s handled here.

At Night, Mumbai T2 after a flight lands: A few hundred passengers on foot versus a fleet of golf carts. The pedestrians, unsurprisingly, are expected to give way - with honking and lane cutting In India, even airports aren’t designed with pedestrians in mind

@signulll Now do the Olympics…

if you want your country to win the world cup, don’t educate your kids, & don’t have opportunities for them to do anything else other than to play soccer.

@mpaitweets @ShivAroor @ndtv What nonsense. He has no right to be violent. He can pursue action through correct channels. Doctors aren’t recommending transferring a patient for fun, it’s an issue with resources that is not in their control. Beating medical staff isn’t forgivable.

@ShivAroor @ndtv After all these action if the lady is admitted and saved with proper treatment then whatever mistake this corporator has done can be forgiven. Itz a matter of a human life. If there is no bed then it is responsibility of the govt to provide the emergency facility.

Shinde Sena thug Corporator Ramesh Mhatre joins me to face my questions on @NDTV. Remorseless goon, fearless in the certainty that nothing will happen to him.

@signulll And they had to get the president to bully fifa to let their best player play lol

turned it off. embarrassment all around. pure mls level defending & goal keeping. trump needs to offer free citizenship to recruit some good players for the next one. gg.

@ShivAroor There’s basically no historically accurate political films because everyone is perpetually afraid of governments or hurting the “sentiments”

What event in Indian history/recent current affairs do you want to see a film made on?

@bscholl Apple’s notifications settings are so shit. They could as easily ask you to approve how you want notifications when an app asks for it instead of needing you to edit them later.

Should Apple have an App Store rule that transactional and advertising push notifications must have separate opt-ins?

@sandeep_PT This is why we don’t get anywhere. Anyone who is successful is pulled down by their own. If you think Pepsi is evil how do you even survive on a daily basis.

Ah, "merit"! Selling highly sugared sodas to crores of kids worldwide for years, ruining their health while minting millions and pontificating. Merit, indeed.

@milinddeora Who is the mayor @milinddeora

Another life lost. Another preventable tragedy. How many more Mumbaikars must die before basic civic safety becomes a priority? Open manholes are not “accidents”, they are the result of negligence, failed systems & a lack of accountability. The Bombay High Court has repeatedly pulled up @mybmc over the recurring menace of open manholes & unsafe roads. Yet these entirely avoidable tragedies continue. Mumbai deserves answers.

@here2offendyou5 @jalle51 God you’re so dumb. AI takes time to update its information sources.

@jalle51 It’s AI 🤖🤣. Now you know why most people say Ukraine is only winning on social media. The pro Ukraine cult posts AI slop like this and it degrades their credibility and image. You guys aren’t doing any favors for your cause posting AI slop like this.

You know your high-tech air defense is a total joke when it gets completely outsmarted by a weapon that looks like an ordinary flock of migrating birds... 🦅💥 Ukrainian forces have officially pushed drone warfare into pure science fiction territory. They deployed a swarm of bio-mimetic drones against the Engels-2 strategic bomber base near Saratov. These drones are custom-designed and programmed to mimic the exact migration patterns and natural flight formations of birds. And guess what? Russian radar systems didn’t suspect a thing. They probably assumed it was just geese heading south—right up until the "birds" suddenly dove onto the main runway, taxiways, and bomber hangars. The dramatic results speak for themselves in image_63cf3a.jpg: massive explosions and absolute devastation. Several of Russia’s prized Tu-95 and Tu-160 strategic bombers were severely damaged by secondary blasts as the hangars went up in flames. Imagine being in the Kremlin right now, realizing that your multi-billion dollar defense grid can't tell the difference between a seagull and a deadly explosive. Grandpa Putin will probably order his air defense to start shooting at literally everything with feathers from now on. 🤷‍♂️🦆 Sources: Ukrainian military monitoring and leaked operational imagery from Engels-2, June 30, 2026

@sardesairajdeep Moronic. Requirement to receive a passport is that you’re a citizen.

I have a VOTER ID card, but NO, it is not proof of citizenship. I have a AADHAR card but NO, it is not proof of citizenship I have a PAN Card, but NO, it is not proof of citizenship. I have a PASSPORT but NO, it is not proof of citizenship. So who will give me a CITIZENSHIP CERTIFICATE? A govt bureaucrat? My question is simple: is the problem with the citizen, or with the Mai Baap State itself?😡

@adamcohenhillel The concern is quite valid whether it’s the IDF or CIA or any other similar agency. Instead of defaulting to “the hate” you could address the concern regarding privacy better.

with all this hate, I'd like to use this platform to say the following. I will say it now once, and then I will ignore the hate and do back to shipping! 1. The hate will not stop me from working on cool things that excites me, and that I believe have a great potential. We are researching and experimenting with the next interfaces for Human<>AI interactions, hardware and software. The name of this wave I have right now, is 'presence' - how can we make AI be present across human environments (digital and physical as one), understand human intent, and be proactive. 2. We have some really cool stuff to share in this regards in the next days/weeks and months! 3. I've been open source, pro-privacy and data ownership advocate for many years, and actively created projects and products in this space, directly. 4. Generally, I'd say Israel has top tier talent, and its people are behind the technologies you all use every single day on your phone, computer, in your cloud, GPUs, the AI models themselves, everything. If you choose to boycutt, I ask you do it fully, and good luck! (you probably can't reply to this tweet without touching an Israeli technology) 5. To all the Jewish people who follow me, stay strong, stay proud - and if you are in SF, I'm hosting Shabbats often, DM me! 6. If anyone is ever interested in getting to know more Jewish and Israeli founders, I am more than happy to introduce :) and if anyone is curious and want to learn about Jewish culture, as well! Love, peace and human progress to all, Adam 🫶

@harishupadhya Buses would have been a really good investment

Only in Bengaluru. Namma Metro breaks down. Cabs vanish. Autos refuse. And IT employees in India's Silicon Valley are hitchhiking on trucks and lorries to get home. All this after paying high fares. Forget Hyperloop and AI. We've unlocked Truck-as-a-Service for commuting.

Complete lack of vision and leadership despite the biggest parliamentary majority in several years. He broke campaign promises mere months into his term, hired morons, laid out literally 0 plans to reinvigorate an extremely stagnant economy, took absolutely no risks despite the massive political advantage he came in with. He has squandered the opportunity people handed to him

If Keir Starmer does resign, history will look back on his reign and scratch its head as to why the hell he was so hated. On paper, he's probably delivered more to working British people in such a short time than any PM for decades. After inheriting an absolute mess: NHS waiting lists fallen. Worker's rights improved. Rail operators nationalised. Improved relations with EU and improved UK's global reputation. Removed non-dom tax status. Halved childcare costs. Boosted state pensions. Lowest homicide rate in 50 years. Lifted 550k children out of poverty. Immigration vastly reduced. We are in the age of billionaire funded misinformation, whose sole purpose is to topple democratically elected leaders, and insert leadership that favours the wealthy elites over the working people. Looks like the game plan is working...