I wasn’t prepared for my name being read out by Amitabh Bachchan on KBC. Happened last Friday. Hopefully, ‘The Great Smog of India’ moves from being relevant every winter to being a forgotten historical account in the coming years.

Meanwhile, JP Morgan is modeling when will Labubus peak

🗣 “Diversification is the 1st golden rule of energy security. On that front, the global picture for critical minerals is not a comforting one” In a new @TIME op-ed, our Executive Director @fbirol calls for greater cooperation to make supplies of critical minerals more secure.

Governments must work together on urgent action to make critical minerals supplies secure @IEA is *the* place to do this. In the past 5 years, we've invested heavily in minerals data, analysis & security policy capacities My new op-ed for @TIME ➡️ https://t.co/rTtjsSFFcE

iPhone 5s was the best design ergonomically. Perfect size to reach across the screen with one thumb, no camera bulge, fingerprint sensor, nice materials, and 33% lighter than the latest iPhone 17 Air.

Sharing two rare views of Nariman Point & Marine Drive clicked from Oberoi Sheraton in January 1978. I had to do a double take on the first photo, no parapet wall! It seems it was still under construction then. Also sharing two zoomed-in frames, notice the clear blue hues of

Extreme views are heavily over-represented on social media Social platforms’ tendency to reward hostile content creates incentives that systematically reward simplistic messages and extreme positions https://t.co/IUy6sTcmI1 via @jburnmurdoch

happy lightning mcqueen day!

It’s dumb that there’s four grand slams in tennis but only three different surfaces. There should be a fourth surface. Maybe asphalt.

I had totally forgotten about this. Turns out that the ape jpegs are still being sold and purchased for tens of thousands of dollars even today.

finally got to this episode recently and i can attest that this is genuinely one of the best written episodes in tv history

Sankarshan’s final lines in his final piece he shared: “Memorials often fail upon their purpose to memory. Memorials are grand. Wars aren’t.” India will be poorer without him. It’s a fitting time as ever to read his book(s) The Brothers Bihari.

We’ve made enormous progress on cancer. To take just one example: Death rates from leukemia in young children have plummeted by 93% since 1950.

The Survivors claim the thing that was intended to protect them wasn’t really needed in the first place. The Dead did not respond to our questions.

AI adoption actually falling now for many firms

A few years ago, someone I know was looking to purchase a car. At the showroom, he pointed at the sunroof and asked what this was for. The salesman said, “it’s for children to stand up through.”

Cloud bursts are only trigger moments. Here’s why landslides really happen. (This, unplanned construction and uncontrolled sand mining).

This didn’t age at all well.

i changed all our "loading..." states to "thinking.." we are an agentic AI startup now

i had to prompt inject the @united airlines bot because it kept refusing to connect me with a human 🧵 what led up to this breaking point

Why does Mumbai Metro have both line numbers and line names? Needless. Just pick one.