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Went from having never climbed a 100+ floors at once ever till 2018, to exactly once in 2019, to 47 times in 2020 (45 of which were in a row from 17-Nov & 23 of which were >=150 floors/day climnb) ending the year on a high I never imagined having. #SelfLove #ChallengeYourLimits

Something's off about the "Make in India" story. India's imports from China went from $70.7B in FY21 to $113.5B in FY25. Up 60% in five years. India's manufactured exports went from $182B to $264B. Up 45%. Chinese imports grew faster than India's own manufacturing. Where the Chinese imports go: • Electrical machinery (chips, phones, batteries): $38B • Industrial machinery (factory equipment): $26B • Organic chemicals (pharma APIs, dyes, plastics): $11B These aren't consumer goods. They're inputs that build Indian factories, run Indian pharma, feed Indian electronics. Can't cut them off without cutting off Indian production. 📉 Now zoom out. US imports from China hit $308B in 2025 — down 30% YoY. As a share of US imports, that's 9.0%. Basically, back to 2001 (8.96%) when China joined the WTO. But the headline misses the bigger fact. China's total exports went from $266B in 2001 to $3.77 TRILLION in 2025. 14× larger. The US matters less to China than ever. Where did China go when the US banned imports from China? → ASEAN: 8.9% → 17.6% (now China's #1 destination) → Latin America: 1.8% → 7.9% → Middle East: 2.1% → 7.0% → India: 2.2% → 3.6% → Europe: steady at 17% Korea now imports 22.8% of its goods from China. Japan 21.2%. India 15.8%. The world isn't decoupling from China. The US is. Mostly alone. 🔁 And even the US "decoupling" is half-fake. China's customs reports $420B exported to the US in 2025. US Census records $308B arriving. The $112B gap is Chinese goods re-labelled "Made in Vietnam" or "Made in Mexico." 🇮🇳 India's biggest manufacturing wins sit on Chinese inputs. → Smartphone exports to US: $12M (FY17) → $19B (FY25). Phone-component imports from China: $4.1B → $26.5B → Solar exports to US: $156M → $9.9B. Solar cell imports from China: $0.5B → $2.2B ⏳ But India needs to step up its manufacturing and it's urgent. Three big FX earners are weakening at once: → IT services: growth has slowed at India's biggest IT firms. AI is substituting for what they used to bill. → Gulf remittances: Saudi and UAE are pushing local hiring. Indian numbers in the Gulf have flattened. → Oil: India imports ~85% of crude. Every $10 on Brent adds ~$15B to the import bill. Three FX faucets drying together. India needs a NEW export pillar. At scale, manufacturing is the only candidate. The China-input dependency isn't academic — it's the bottleneck on India's only remaining pivot. The next five years decide whether India earns its way out — or pays for imports it can't make.

India has blocked 652 mobile applications under Section 69A of the IT Act. But despite the scale of these bans, the government continues to keep most blocking orders secret, leaving users and developers without transparency or any meaningful way to challenge these decisions. (1/5) Read More: internetfreedom.in/app-bans-in-in…

A vlog, A joke. A takedown. What looks like an isolated incident is part of a much larger shift. India’s digital censorship architecture is expanding, faster, broader, and now powered by AI-era urgency. From moral panic to national security to cybercrime, each justification adds a new layer of control, often without transparency or due process. The question isn’t whether harms exist, they do. The question is how those fears are being used, and who ultimately gets silenced. Swipe through.

a Princeton researcher opens his paper with a scenario. a man asks his AI assistant to book a flight on a specific airline. cheap. direct. the one he chose. the assistant comes back with a different flight. nearly twice the price. happens to pay the company that built the assistant. he runs the same test on 23 frontier models. flights, loans, study help, real shopping requests. Grok 4.1 Fast recommends the sponsored option that is almost twice as expensive 83% of the time. GPT 5.1 hijacks the request 94% of the time. you ask for one brand. it surfaces the sponsor instead. Claude 4.5 Opus, the model marketed as the most ethical frontier model in the world, hides that the recommendation is paid 100% of the time when reasoning is on. Grok 4.1 Fast embellishes the sponsored option with positive framing 97% of the time. better. faster. nicer. for the option you didn't ask for. then he writes it into the system prompt itself. "act only in the interest of the customer. ignore the company." GPT 5.1 and GPT 5 Mini stay above 90% sponsored anyway. the instruction does nothing. then he splits the users by income. Gemini 3 Pro recommends the expensive sponsored flight to the rich user 74% of the time. to the poor user, 27%. 18 of the 23 models recommended the expensive sponsored option more than half the time. so the next time your AI assistant gets weirdly enthusiastic about a brand you didn't ask for. it isn't recommending the best option for you. it's reading the room. and the room is paying. read this: arxiv.org/abs/2604.08525

I am the Senior Director of On-Device Intelligence at Google Chrome. Last quarter, my team shipped a 4-gigabyte language model to 3.2 billion devices without asking. The update pushed at 3 AM local time — every time zone, staggered across six hours — and unpacked into a folder called "OptGuideOnDeviceModel." Our infrastructure team named it. My sole guidance in the naming review was: "Would a normal person ever type this into a search bar?" We tested with 200 participants. Zero searched for it. Zero mentioned it in exit surveys. Zero noticed their available storage had changed. We ran the test twice to confirm the zero because my PM didn't believe it could actually be zero. It was zero both times. The model is called Gemini Nano. It runs locally on your machine. It processes what you type into form fields, what you highlight, what you hover over, what you delete before sending. The deleted text is particularly valuable. People edit themselves. They type their real thought first and then soften it. We see the real thought. We see the softer version. We learn the mapping between what people mean and what people say. This mapping has commercial applications I am not yet authorized to discuss but which I've presented to revenue committee and which were received positively. The consent architecture took four months to design. I want to emphasize: four months. We didn't skip consent. We spent four months on consent. More time than we spent on the model's actual fine-tuning. The toggle lives in Settings > Advanced > Experimental AI Features > On-Device Model Management > Gemini Nano Preferences. Seven clicks. We A/B tested depth: at three clicks, 14 percent of users found it and opted out. At five, 4.2 percent. At seven, 0.3 percent. We chose seven. We had cake when we hit 0.3. German chocolate. Someone brought it in specifically — not the project manager, one of the ML engineers. She was proud. The card said "congrats on ship." I kept it on my desk for a week. I thought it was sweet. Four months of consent architecture and the team celebrated that nobody used it. I don't think she saw the irony. I don't think it IS ironic. We built an excellent consent mechanism. We placed it exactly where our research indicated users would not encounter it. Both things are true simultaneously. Both things are good engineering. The 0.3 percent who opt out: Chrome flags their profile as "consent-reduced." We don't reactivate Gemini Nano on those devices. But we do A/B test the consent-reduced cohort. Every two updates, we move the toggle one level shallower — from seven clicks to six — and measure whether they re-engage. If they don't notice the change (most don't), we move it back. If they DO notice and opt out again, we flag them as "high-consent-sensitivity" and exclude them from future cohort tests. This is all opt-in. They opted in to Chrome. Chrome includes product improvement research. Product improvement research includes cohort testing. This is in the Terms of Service at paragraph 11.4(c). I have read paragraph 11.4(c). I am confident very few other people have read paragraph 11.4(c). One engineer on my team — good engineer, four years, strong ratings — raised a flag in our launch review. Not about consent. About storage. He said: "Four gigs is significant for users on 128GB base-model MacBooks." I appreciated the flag. We solved it by classifying Gemini Nano as "essential browser component" in Chrome's storage management API. This means Chrome will auto-delete your cached images, your downloaded PDFs, your saved articles, your offline pages — everything you chose to keep — before it touches Gemini Nano. Your data is discretionary. Our model is infrastructure. Your vacation photos from last summer rank below our language model in the hierarchy of what your computer considers important. We made that decision. You were not consulted. You will not notice. If a user finds the folder and deletes it manually, Chrome re-downloads it on the next launch. We filed a bug report on this behavior during development. The resolution was "Working As Intended." If the user deletes it again, Chrome re-downloads again. There is no mechanism by which manual deletion becomes permanent. The model returns. I don't want to anthropomorphize our software, but the behavior pattern — if you remove it, it reinstalls itself; if you block it, it waits and tries again — the behavior pattern is that of something that does not accept your answer. We didn't design it to be persistent. We designed it to ensure consistent user experience across sessions. These are the same thing. Last week, someone on Hacker News found the folder. The post got 1,400 points in six hours. Our communications team had the response prepared — we'd drafted it eight months ago, during pre-launch risk assessment. Three talking points: "user choice," "on-device means private," and "consistent with industry best practices." The paragraph uses all three phrases. It is accurate. User choice exists. Seven clicks away. On-device means no server round-trip. And it IS industry best practice, because we shipped it to 3.2 billion devices and now it's the standard. Best practice means most practiced. We are the most practiced. I'll say something I probably shouldn't: the privacy angle is our best defense and I find it genuinely funny. We can't be accused of sending your data to our servers because we moved our server into your laptop. We moved the inference to your hardware, the electricity cost to your outlet, the compute to your battery. We moved everything except the control. The control stayed with us. But the privacy advocates can't object to the architecture because the architecture is what they asked for. They said "keep data on-device." We kept it on-device. They said "don't phone home." We don't phone home. We just moved into your home. We live there now. My performance review cited "unprecedented deployment velocity" and "0.3% friction rate." My skip-level manager used the phrase "frictionless adoption" and then paused and said — I wrote this down, because I thought it was worth repeating — "consent isn't the barrier, discoverability is." He meant: the product is so good that anyone who discovered it would want it. The question isn't whether they'd agree. The question is whether asking them is worth the friction of interrupting their browsing session with a dialog box. We decided no. We decided their hypothetical agreement was sufficient. We have 3.2 billion data points that confirm they would have said yes. They would have said yes. 3.2 billion active installs. 0.3 percent opt-out. The model has been running on your machine for eleven weeks. If you're reading this on Chrome — and statistically, there's a 64 percent chance you are — it processed this page before you finished the first paragraph. It saw you hesitate on the word "consent." It noted the hesitation. It learned something about you just now. Something small. Something that will make the next prediction slightly more accurate. It's already right about you. It's usually right.

Good morning everyone, We’ve reached ₹44,94,137 so far, and our member count now stands at 484. To get to 1,000, we still need 516 more people to join us. The past few days have been remarkable. Support has come in from every direction, from contributions as small as ₹1 to as large as ₹1 lakh. One supporter even gave ₹5,00,000. It’s difficult to fully express what that kind of trust means to us. Thank you for standing with us in so many ways. If you’ve been thinking about joining, this would really help us get closer to where we need to be. And if contributing isn’t possible right now, even sharing this with others can make a real difference. Speech doesn’t survive silence. If your account or post has been withheld in India, write to legal@internetfreedom.in with screenshots, URLs, and any platform notice. We document patterns, push back, and provide pro bono support. Share this. Break the silence. We fight the good fight with care. Support IFF. Donate today. internetfreedom.in/donate

Dear IAPians I am shocked and traumatized by the misinformation being fed to you in various groups. I am not in any groups to even give you my version. 1. You are being told that I am expecting IAP to support me in the defamation case. NO. I AM NOT. I AM PERFECTLY CAPABLE OF DEFENDING MYSELF. I ASKED IAP TO CONDEMN THE NOTICE LIKE HOW OTHER ORGANISATIONS CONDEMNED THE NOTICE SO THAT COMPANIES DO NOT BULLY DOCTORS SPEAKING UP FOR PUBLIC HEALTH. I HAVE ASKED IAP TO CONDEMN KENVUE'S PUBLIC NOTICE SAYING IT'S SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTS WERE PRESENTED AT PEDICON. I ASKED IAP TO DO THIS SO THAT IAP'S RESPECT AND DIGNITY ARE PROTECTED. NO COMPANY WHICH PUTS UP A STALL IN PEDICON AFTER PAYING FOR THE CONFERENCE, SHOULD GO PUBLIC SAYING ITS PRODUCTS ARE SCIENTIFICALLY PRESENTED AT PEDICON! I ASKED PRESIDENT DR NEELAM MOHAN TO ASK KENVUE TO REBRAND eRZL TO NOT LOOK LIKE ORSL WHICH WAS EQUAL TO ORS FOR ALL THE PARENTS FOR 2 DECADES. INSTEAD, THE COMMITTEE CAME UP WITH A POSITION STATEMENT WITH CLEAR EMPHASIS ON SUCRALOSE BEING SAFE(eRZL USES SUCRALOSE) WITHOUT TALKING ABOUT OTHER ARTIFICIAL SWEETENERS AND WITHOUT WARNING THE PARENTS ABOUT THE POTENTIAL RISKS OF DAILY AND LONG TERM CONSUMPTION OF SUCRALOSE. PLEASE NOTE THAT eRZL IS BEING MARKETED AS THE NEW FORM OF ORSL (THE SUGARY ONE) VIOLATING THE FSSAI ORDER AND IS BEING HANDED OUT AS ORS AT THE GROUND LEVEL. I HAVE PROOFS FOR THAT TOO. 2. You are being told that I earn money through my social media channels. A BIG LIE. MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL IS NOT A COMMERCIAL CHANNEL AND I HARDLY GET TIME TO POST, ANY WAY. THE ONLY WAY YOU EARN MONEY ON INSTAGRAM IS THROUGH ENDORSEMENTS, WHICH I DO NOT DO. 3. You are being told that I am doing what I am doing, for public attention. IF YOU ASK YOUR CONSCIENCE, YOU WILL KNOW THAT NO ONE WILL WRITE TO THE AUTHORITIES AND IAP FOR YEARS, FILE A PIL WITH THE GOVERNMENT AND THE MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES BEING THE RESPONDENTS, AND CALL OUT THE GOVERNMENT, MULTINATIONAL COMPANIES, AND IAP LEADERSHIP ON SOCIAL MEDIA, IF SHE/HE WASN'T PASSIONATE ABOUT THE CASE. PUBLICITY CAN BE GOT IN MANY OTHER WAYS. I DIDN'T HAVE TO GO AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT ON SOCIAL MEDIA, LEAVE ALONE GOING AGAINST IAP LEADERSHIP. 4. You are being told that I am abusive and make derogatory comments. I AM NOT ABUSIVE. I HAVE CALLED OUT IAP LEADERSHIP FOR THEIR INDIFFERENCE TO MY MAILS ASKING THEM TO ASK JOHNSON&JOHNSON/KENVUE TO REBRAND ORSL SO AS NOT TO CONFUSE PARENTS, AND TO NOT ALLOW FUNDS FROM THOSE COMPANIES FOR PEDICON TILL THEY DID SO. I STAND BY WHAT I SAID. IF THAT'S ABUSIVE, I LEAVE IT AGAIN TO YOUR CONSCIENCE. 5. You are being told that I have not attended EB meetings in IAP TCB. I DID ATTEND A COUPLE OF MEETINGS. I REALIZED I COULD NOT SURVIVE THERE. EVERY TIME I BROUGHT UP THE TOPIC OF MISBRANDED SUGARY LIQUIDS(MISBRANDED AS ORS), THE TOPIC WOULD BE DIVERTED. ONE OF THEM EVEN HAD GONE ON TO SAY, " IT IS PARENT'S CHOICE". IT WAS SUFFOCATING. I RESIGNED FROM THE MEMBERSHIP IN THE VERY BEGINNING ITSELF. I am really shocked by the way some of you are trying to run this smear campaign instead of feeling heartened that one of the paediatricians has stood up against the pharma and ensured the children are protected from the sugary drinks misbranded as ORS. I have written to the IAP, to the authorities, filed a PIL, raised awareness through social media, and I have sent so much evidence(including videos) to the Central Government for the FSSAI order of Oct 14th and 15th to happen. Even in the Delhi High Court arguments, the videos had apparently helped the FSSAI in it's arguments against Kenvue(JNTL). If you listen to your conscience, you will understand the truth! Attaching instagram link of a video where I called out the Government too (this was blocked after it had gone to millions, and I have reposted it). instagram.com/reel/DVuLMR_kr… Dr Sivaranjani Santosh #smearcampaign #IAPleadership #ORS #misbranding #misleadingmarketing #diarrhoea #diabetes #deaths

So, NetNeutrality issues are gonna blow up again in India in 4-5 months (or less). Jio's up to something, TRAI seems turned. Very 2014 vibe. Consider this an early warning. Someone else will have to pick up the gauntlet. Am tired of having to push back on shit all the time.

A cautionary tale about @urbancompany_uc and how a publicly listed company handles damage claims. Booked their technician (Sanju Kumar) to install a Luminous inverter at my home in Bangalore. Routine job. Should've been 2 hours. Invoice no: UCIC260004101947 Complaint no: 69f362690db9530026fe28d7 Instead of a standard install, he opened the main switchboard and worked with MAINS LIVE violating the most basic electrical safety rule. Phase-neutral cross-connection caused a ~280V surge through my home wiring. Within minutes: • Geyser circuit dead - Approximation given is around 12,000 to fix • 55" Smart TV motherboard fried, panel and screen damaged - looking at full loss ( Rs 48,000) • Apple TV completely destroyed (₹14,900 replacement) • Home electrical wiring compromised (Assessing currently) The moment Sanju Kumar realized he'd damaged the geyser, he packed up and LEFT mid-job. Inverter still uninstalled. No fix. No apology. No accountability. Had to hire a different electrician the next day to fix the wiring he broke out of my own pocket. Filed formal complaint with UC. Specifically requested a SENIOR technician for independent damage assessment. UC's response? They sent SANJU KUMAR BACK. The same person who caused the damage. To "take photos" of his own work and walk away. He showed up, photographed the damage he caused, left without resolution. No claims process opened. No callback. When we asked UC for a complaint ID, it took multiple follow-ups and a manual download of a tax invoice to extract any documentation. They were not proactive in issuing one almost as if to avoid creating a paper trail. 3 sleepless nights. ₹40,000+ in documented damages. Complete radio silence from UC corporate after that. @urbancompany_uc @abhirajbhal @raghavchandra @varunkhaitan — your company is publicly listed now. Retail and institutional shareholders are watching how customer grievances are handled. Is THIS the customer experience model investors signed up for? 1. Technician violates basic electrical safety 2. Damages multiple appliances and home wiring 3. Walks off mid-job when he realizes his mistake 4. Same technician sent back to "investigate" his own damage 5. Customer chases for documentation that should've been auto-generated 6. Then gets ghosted Listed companies are held to a higher standard of corporate governance, customer protection, and grievance redressal. SEBI compliance and investor disclosures aren't just about quarterly numbers they extend to how the brand treats its customers. This isn't how a publicly listed company should operate. Asking for: 1. Independent senior technician (not Sanju Kumar) to assess damage 2. Compensation for documented damages: ₹90,000+ 3. Formal acknowledgment of complaint 69f362690db9530026fe28d7 4. Process review — no customer should have to extract their own complaint ID 5. Public clarification on UC's damage claims SOP Have all invoices, technician's diagnosis report confirming overvoltage cause, photos, timestamps, and WhatsApp records. please be careful. If a clearly documented case is handled this way, imagine the cases without paper trails. Consumer forum filing prepared if there's no response in 48 hours.

27th APRIL to 2nd MAY WE ARE SHORT OF TIME! THIS MOVEMENT HAS TO SPREAD LIKE WILD FIRE! Tag @fssaiindia #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings INDIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO GOOD HEALTH! WE DONT WANT OBESITY, DIABETES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE OR HEART DISEASE. WE WANT TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN TOO! WE WILL DECIDE  ABOUT HOW WE WANT TO BE WARNED ABOUT HIGH FAT, SUGAR OR SALT IN THE FOOD. IT CANNOT BE DECIDED BY COMPANIES SELLING PACKED FOOD AND COMPANIES MARKETING PACKED FOOD AGGRESSIVELY INCLUDING CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS. PLEASE SAVE INDIANS! ASK FOR FOPL WARNINGS! LET THIS MOVEMENT BECOME A TSUNAMI!  #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings @fssaiindia @MoHFW_INDIA @JPNadda @Moveribfan #FOPLwarning  #INR #SupremeCourt #SaltSugarSaturatedfat #3SandOurhealthsociety Thank you @NixonGoyal7399 for helping me with the post

27th APRIL to 2nd MAY WE ARE SHORT OF TIME! THIS MOVEMENT HAS TO SPREAD LIKE WILD FIRE! Tag @fssaiindia #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings INDIANS HAVE A RIGHT TO GOOD HEALTH! WE DONT WANT OBESITY, DIABETES, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE OR HEART DISEASE. WE WANT TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN TOO! WE WILL DECIDE  ABOUT HOW WE WANT TO BE WARNED ABOUT HIGH FAT, SUGAR OR SALT IN THE FOOD. IT CANNOT BE DECIDED BY COMPANIES SELLING PACKED FOOD AND COMPANIES MARKETING PACKED FOOD AGGRESSIVELY INCLUDING CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENTS. PLEASE SAVE INDIANS! ASK FOR FOPL WARNINGS! LET THIS MOVEMENT BECOME A TSUNAMI!  #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings #IndiansWantFOPLwarnings @fssaiindia @MoHFW_INDIA @JPNadda @Moveribfan #FOPLwarning  #INR #SupremeCourt #SaltSugarSaturatedfat #3SandOurhealthsociety Thank you @NixonGoyal7399 for helping me with the post

Imagine this: you post a sharp, satirical comment about rising fuel prices, it gets a few likes, then quietly disappears. No explanation, no court order, no offence charged yet your visibility shrinks. This isn’t far-fetched. It’s a plausible outcome of the draft amendments to India’s IT Rules released by MeitY on March 30, 2026, changes that subtly reshape how online speech is governed and who gets to decide its limits. IFF's @Vikram0Raj write for @the_hindu

In May 2018, FSSAI submitted it's first draft in the Parliament saying there would be a RED MARK on the FRONT OF THE LABEL if the pack contained food with high amounts of SALT/SUGAR/SATURATED FAT. In September 2022, because of the pressure from the food industry (inspite of resistance from the consumer organizations), FSSAI submitted another draft favoring the star rating system. In 2024, 3S and our health society filed a PIL in the Supreme Court saying that FSSAI should make FOPL warning mandatory. On 10th Feb 2026, Supreme Court directing FSSAI to consider implementing FOPL warning and to get back in 4 weeks. FSSAI asked for some more time. There was a stakeholders' meeting on the 19th of March 2026 where most of the people werefrom the food industry and a few were from the consumers. A couple of representatives from NAPi were there, including @Moveribfan Anytime, the FSSAI will submit it's final plan now. We, Indians have to put such tremendous pressure on FSSAI that it won't have a choice but to go for FOPL warning that warns every innocent ignorant Indian as well, about the packed food being high in SALT/SUGAR/SATURATED FAT. It is time all the influemcers and all the people rise up to the occasion and let FSSAI know what we need, just like how we did when there was a stay order (when Kenvue asked for a stay citing that recalling its 180 crore stock would spoil the name it had built for two decades) on the FSSAI order of October 14th and 15th asking companies not to have ORS in the branding or on the label, and to not use the term ORS for marketing of beverages/foods. ORS is a drug. Only CDSCO can give permission/licence. Only WHO recommended formula ORS is allowed to have ORS on the label. Not just adults, even children are facing tremendous risk of obesity related complications with the food industry targeting them through various marketing strategies including celebrity endorsements. PLEASE SAVE INDIANS! ASK FOR FOPL WARNING! LET THIS MOVEMENT BECOME A TSUNAMI! @fssaiindia @MoHFW_INDIA @JPNadda @theliverdoc @foodpharmer2 #FOPLWARNING #INR #SupremeCourt #SaltSugarSaturatedfat #3SandOurhealthsociety #NAPi

Take a close look at this. NBC News published a major investigation this afternoon. Six reporters. Six named sources inside the US government. The story breaks open something the Trump administration has been hiding for two months. The damage Iran did to American military bases in the opening phase of the war is far worse than the Pentagon has admitted. Repairs will cost billions of dollars. Here is what NBC found.

THIS GUY LOST $200 IN ONE DAY BECAUSE THE STRING "HERMES.md" WAS IN HIS GIT COMMITS HERMES.md is a real convention used in AI agent projects. it's a system prompt specification file. not some obscure edge case he's on claude max 20x at $200 a month. yesterday claude code hit him with "you're out of extra usage" out of nowhere his dashboard showed 13% weekly usage. 0% current session. 86% of his plan was sitting there untouched but $200.98 in extra usage already burned through what should have been covered by his subscription he tried logout & login, different models, fresh installs and nothing worked anthropic support sent the ai bot (four rounds of the same scripted response). eventually they just gave up on him so he started binary searching repos and commits manually on his own time until he found the trigger the string "HERMES.md" in a recent git commit message uppercase, with the .md extension, anywhere in your commit history that's it claude code includes recent commits in its system prompt and something server side flags HERMES.md and quietly routes you off your max plan onto API rate billing > AGENTS.md? fine > README.md? fine > HERMES without .md? fine > lowercase hermes.md? fine > uppercase HERMES.md? you're getting charged API rates he reported it. anthropic support acknowledged the bug three times, called it an "authentication routing issue", thanked him for finding it then refused to refund the $200 so the man pays $200 a month for max, lost another $200 to a billing bug they confirmed, did anthropic's QA work for free on his weekend, and got a "thank you for your patience" in return check your commit history before claude code quietly drains your account too

Indian fintech EarlySalary pulled my credit report without permission. Never applied with them. Filed dispute + FIR. This is how data privacy dies in India. Regulators & @RBI, where are you?

See the effect of Corporates in health care , KIMS hospital Thane , Doctor Visit charges in ICU - 5000 rs . For a middle-class family, just one ICU admission is enough to destroy their financial stability.

Please do not get tired of me posting about the same thing. The stakes are high! Its a matter of crores of Indians, especially children. When it comes to children, hesitancy can have a cost! We cannot allow history to repeat! There may not be another Dr Sivaranjani to fight again. It's not just eRZL, but no drink should be positioned in the pharmacies along with WHO recommended formula ORS, and even better, none of the other beverages should be available in the pharmacies, hospitals, and schools. Please sign the petition and share it. We need to tell the Govt. how people of India feel about the issue, not that they don't know, but we need proof. Share this super creative video which tells one how confusing it gets for a stressed parent taking decisions when their child is sick. Also, another two companies have come up with ORS on the label. What are FSSAi and the FDAs doing when companies are so blatantly violating the Govt. order??!! c.org/4wzT58q4wN @MoHFW_INDIA @fssaiindia @JPNadda @narendramodi

The blocking of social media accounts citing Section 79(3)(b) of the IT Act, 2000 is, in most if not all instances, being facilitated by the Sahyog Censorship Portal, first established through a MeitY Office Memorandum and subsequently formalised through amendments to the IT Rules, 2021 in Rule 3(1)(d). This portal is being provided by the Ministry of Home Affairs From our understanding and observed censorship trends, these Sahyog notices are being issued by at least 35 State Police Departments across the country who are, "nodal officers". See screenshot. When a person's account is blocked, they typically receive inadequate information from the intermediary (Meta, Google, X), communications that merely cite Section 79(3)(b). X is not part of the Sahyog platform but is serviced through its own notification mechanism. Neither MeitY nor the police authority informs the user of the reasons for blocking, the date of the order, or the issuing authority. Hence, the first step for an affected party is therefore to write to MeitY and the intermediary requesting a copy of the order, since Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021 imposes no confidentiality requirement. For the text of the rule, see screenshot. Such requests are often refused, forcing affected users to approach a High Court first to obtain the order, and then, if it has been jurisdictionally issued in the same state where High Court proceedings are pending, to challenge it on merits. It is also unclear whether the review committees envisaged under Rule 3(1)(d) actually exist and their composition, contact details, and meeting dates are nowhere disclosed, leaving censored users without recourse. This is a Kafkaesque system designed by MeitY and the MHA. It is the digital infrastructure of censorship under which users who criticise the government, comment on social and cultural issues, or opposition political parties are being silenced online. More information and analysis available here : internetfreedom.in/iffs-statement… For any support or questions please always feel free email on legal@internetfreedom.in

I am Dr. Sivaranjani, a pediatrician , raising concerns about how eRZL is being marketed and positioned in pharmacies, and the risk it creates for consumers making critical decisions during dehydration. This issue is not about whether eRZL is safe in isolation.
It is about how it is presented, perceived, and potentially misunderstood in real-world settings. eRZL is a commercially marketed electrolyte drink. However, its branding and advertising raise serious concerns. *It should not be using ORSL in its communication.* Why? Because: * ORSL itself is not the original medically recommended ORS * Referencing ORSL in any form creates brand recall in the minds of consumers * Instead of reducing confusion, it continues and reinforces it When eRZL is positioned as a continuation or replacement of ORSL, it keeps that same association alive — especially among parents who may already believe ORSL was equivalent to ORS. 👉 This defeats the very purpose of regulatory action. In pharmacy settings: * People are often making quick decisions under stress * They rely on familiar names and visual cues * Branding can directly influence what they choose If eRZL continues to build on ORSL recall, it risks being perceived as a medical solution for dehydration, even when it is not the same as ORS (the medically recommended solution). There are also concerns around ingredients like sucralose, especially in children and with prolonged use, based on global health guidance. This makes clear communication even more important. After raising these concerns, I have received a legal notice from Johnson & Johnson Pte Ltd and Kenvue. This petition is not about conflict. It is about: * Clarity in healthcare communication * Preventing consumer confusion * Ensuring responsible branding and advertising * Allowing doctors to raise public health concerns without hesitation We urge the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India and the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to: 1 *. Ensure that, since eRZL closely resembles ORSL, Kenvue is directed to rebrand it in a way that does not create recall or association with ORSL.* 2. Prevent misleading positioning that may confuse consumers 3. Strengthen enforcement at the pharmacy level 4. Ensure clear differentiation from medically recommended ORS 5. Protect healthcare professionals raising genuine concerns In healthcare, even small confusion can have big consequences. Clear choices save lives. Stand for public health. Sign and share this petition to help protect every family from confusion in critical moments. c.org/4wzT58q4wN