Consultant-turned-product-manager who posts about music, film, maps, geopolitics, and hikes in California
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Few singers can do comedy/parody in songs with conviction, but Sunidhi Chauhan mastered the art in this relatively unknown banger featuring Rani Mukerji. 8/10
Sava Dollar - Aiyyaa (2012)🎨
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Elon, you've officially run out of arguments. Now every Indian who disagrees with you is "Ambani's shill."
Nobody said Starlink is too strong. Nobody's scared of your competition. India's problem is you. A Pentagon contractor building Trump's Golden Dome wants to run internet over Indian soil, and he throws a tantrum every time someone asks who holds the off switch.
Ambani's de facto monopoly?
You SIGNED A DEAL with that monopoly in March 2025 to sell Starlink in India. You didn't have a problem with Ambani when he was your reseller.
You only discovered his monopoly when Jio announced its own satellites.
And let's talk about hypocrisy.
Tesla's biggest factory is in Shanghai. Starlink is banned in China. Have you ever called Xi Jinping a monopolist?
Called Chinese critics shills? Written a sarcastic letter to Prime Minister Xi?
No.
Because Beijing would shut your factory by Monday. India can't, so India gets the insults.
now the math your own fans keep posting starlink could add 100–200 million Indian homes. Starlink is approved for 600 Gbps over India. Split across 100 million homes, that's 6 kilobits per second each. Your revolution is slower than a 1998 dial-up modem. 🤡
If it's too expensive, no one will buy it.
Your own India website showed ₹8,600 a month. A Jio plan costs ₹349. Indians already ran the numbers.
Five days of meltdown. Crime against India. Prime Minister Ambani. collages. And now shills.
The richest man on earth, crying on his own app because a sovereign country wants a security check.
Sit down, elon. Finish the paperwork. India isn't a tesla shareholder you can bully on X.
The ridiculous arguments by Ambani’s army of Internet shills make no sense
On the one hand, they say Starlink couldn’t possibly compete with the amazing low prices offered by Ambani’s de facto monopoly in India and then, in the same breath, they essentially claim that Starlink would be too strong of a competitor! This is absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole.
The reality is that competition would greatly benefit the average citizen in India by giving them more choices, as it always does. Ambani’s profits will be lower, but he is not going out of business. And, obviously, if Starlink is too expensive in India, no one will buy it, so SpaceX will need to make pricing affordable.
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There's a lot to admire about Elon Musk, as a founder, an inventor, even as a human being.
But make no mistake, his highest loyalty is to winning. Everything else is secondary. He'll sell porn through his AI, topple democratically elected governments, stoke unrest in peaceful societies. Whatever it takes to win. He's the enemy you don't want, because he will win.
If we stand any chance, the first step is calling him what he is - an enemy. He doesn't care about free and fair competition like he's pretending here. He just wants to win. And we shouldn't let him.
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Welcome to the #TheBracketOfFruits. Here are the 32 fruits across 16 polls. Seeds decided by me based on 𝚎̶𝚡̶𝚝̶𝚎̶𝚗̶𝚜̶𝚒̶𝚟̶𝚎̶ ̶𝚛̶𝚎̶𝚜̶𝚎̶𝚊̶𝚛̶𝚌̶𝚑̶ what I think is popular. Finals on Sunday.
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"there is an ontological difference even before an aesthetic one". This is key. It does not matter how good your machine is at regurgitating a simulacrum of human imagination, how skilled it is at fooling people, or how efficient it is at that subterfuge. It is a priori fucked up
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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I hate what AI is doing to publishing. I hate what it's done to the job market. I hate how it's ruined the internet. It's wrecking students' education and making people question every piece of content. I miss the world before AI more than I miss the world before the pandemic.
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She’s so mad that the jihadist didn’t crash the plane
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HERO PILOT, Captain Smit Machchar, stabbed mid-flight on flydubai FZ1073, reportedly FOUGHT OFF the co-pilot and helped save 174 people.
One year ago he talked about how people often don't treat the cabin crew properly.
"When things are going wrong, you need them."
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instagram needs to understand that i’d rather jump off the chrysler building than download threads
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I don’t have fear of missing out, I have a fear of being included in some bullshit.
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Good evening from Mumbai.
For a moment, this almost feels like Italy.
But those terracotta rooftops, the harbour and the Taj remind you… this is Mumbai.
