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The sheer scale of the Nepal-Tibet flood would have overwhelmed even the most well-equipped governments.
"Melting glaciers and high seismic activity make the Himalayas a high risk zone. The tragedy in Nepal is a lesson for the world," writes Sonia Awale. time.com/article/2026/09/01/…
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“Nepal is paying an extraordinarily disproportionate price for a crisis it did not create,” a member of the nation’s Parliament said, about last week’s flash floods. “We contribute a negligible share of global emissions, yet we sit downstream of some of the fastest-warming glacial systems on Earth.” newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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“We used to say that the glaciers are melting in the Himalaya. Now it seems like the mountains are cracking up,” says Nepali journalist @kundadixit, who speaks to Democracy Now! in the wake of the catastrophic floods that hit Nepal and Tibet last week after a glacier collapsed in the Himalayan mountains.
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Friends! We bought the domain NepalRelief.Fund!
Now there is one easy to remember and easy to share link with all the relevant information you need to support the OFFICIAL Disaster Relief and Rebuilding efforts in Nepal 🇳🇵.
NepalRelief.Fund has
→ The link to the OFFICIAL Government of Nepal @NepalGov Disaster Relief Fund led by the Office of the Right Honorable Prime Minister!
→ Information on our dollar-for-dollar match drive supporting those efforts thanks to SecurityPal AI @security_pal and Renegade Insurance @RenegadeIns via Mission Rebuild Nepal (100% of the proceeds go to the PM's Disaster Relief fund!)
We just crossed $15,000 which means a minimum of $30,000 is headed to the Prime Minister's relief efforts!
But we are NOT STOPPING now!
🌟If your companies have $ for $ matches or CSR teams, I would love to increase the impact of our fundraising drive through your corporate giving programs. Please DM me. 🌟
I am personally in touch with the highest levels of Government in Nepal to ensure that the funds we raise go straight to the OFFICIAL Disaster Relief accounts and any administrative or fund transfer fees will be personally covered by me!
Let's keep the momentum going.
I also want to shout out the founders and builders of the Nepali Tech Mafia, in and around the valley 🌁 and beyond, for the incredible work they're doing in and for Nepal:
@RashikAdhikari @RenegadeIns
@UpretyMd @missionbuildnp
@sudiprokaya @mk314k @laminalabs
@namibaral @niuralHQ
@aadityasubedi_ @architectlabs
@dileepdhakal @veel_app
@niteshpant56 @ai_evals
@AlpenLabs @simanta
@ksubedi @echowinAI
@kshitizh
Please tag anyone that I may have missed🇳🇵🇺🇸
Hi friends! I come to you with a heavy heart today ❤️🩹.
Nepal is grieving right now. As you may have heard, and seen in the footage across your feeds, Nepal is experiencing the worst floods in living memory. They have wreaked havoc across precious river and mountain communities nestled throughout this beautiful Himalayan nation.
Firstly, I am so grateful to all of the friends, partners, customers, investors, and well-wishers who have reached out. It is deeply reassuring and reinforces my belief in our ability as humans to come together for each other in times of need.
As many of you know, Nepal is a part of the world that means so much to me and to the company we have built together here at SecurityPal AI @security_pal. In fact, alongside our home in San Francisco, our company considers Kathmandu, Nepal our second HQ, and it is home to so many on our team.
We of course cannot undo this horrific tragedy. However, we can choose to show up.
That's why we're partnering with Nepal's tech community, Silicon Peaks; @RashikAdhikari , the CEO of @RenegadeIns; and Dr. Madan Uprety and his U.S.-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Mission Rebuild Nepal, to raise funds for Nepal.
We are making it easy for people in the United States 🇺🇸 to give through a local nonprofit governed by U.S. laws and regulations, with U.S. tax advantages for those who are able to contribute. We have made it super easy to give, you can do it in 5 seconds and even use Apple Pay.
100% of what you donate will go to the official Government of Nepal relief effort led by the Right Honorable Prime Minister Balen Shah and Finance Minister Dr. Swarnim Wagle.
Any fees associated with the transfer of funds to Nepal's government will be beared personally by me.
And to ensure your contributions go even further, SecurityPal AI and my close friend Rashik Adhikari's company, Renegade Insurance, are matching every dollar you give, up to $20,000.
Anything you give helps. The link is below.
With gratitude and love, thank you and Dhanyabad! 🇳🇵❤️
zeffy.com/en-US/donation-for…
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Priya Adhikari is Nepal's first female helicopter captain and she's flown over 100 rescue missions in the wake of the devastating flood. Anderson speaks with her about what she's witnessed.
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My friend and former Washington Post colleague @ishaantharoor has a piece in @NewYorker today that gets at something I've been trying to put into words all week: what happened this week isn't just a natural disaster story; it's a story about who pays for a crisis they didn't help create.
Ishaan traces how a catastrophic glacial collapse became a 500+ death toll, and threads it into everything else Nepal has been carrying in the past year: a Gen Z uprising, a new government trying to prove itself, and now a disaster that will likely set the country back a decade.
We spoke the other day about how my newsroom has been covering this and what this moment feels like from Nepal. Here's what I told him: a year ago the ground shook because of us -- our politics, our anger, our frustration. This week, it was the actual ground again. It’s as if Nepalis are having to alternate between the disasters we cause and the ones that just arrive.
Link to his piece: newyorker.com/news/the-lede/…
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The most chilling thing that I have read abt the Nepal situation is the clarification from the US Geological Survey that the 4.4 magnitude earthquake that they had reported earlier wasn’t an earthquake,the data is not indicative of seismic event. That reading was solely **due**..
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We’ve built a one-stop flood resource hub with everything you need right now: verified donation channels for flood relief, district-by-district emergency contacts, hospital & blood-bank numbers, live river monitoring, and how to report a missing person.
help.ekantipur.com
Please share it, bookmark it. Let us know how we can improve this.
(Concept and development by @dibbeshworr)
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Collapsed glacier likely caused devastating Nepal-Tibet floods, scientists say bbc.in/3UoZLDw
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Breaking News: Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old state lawmaker from Queens, will be the 111th mayor of New York. He will be the first Muslim to ever lead the city, as well as its first South Asian mayor and the youngest mayor in more than a century.
nyti.ms/4qK137J
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Given the amount of misinformation that is circulating, the GenZ negotiating team needs to immediately identify who they are and what their positions are. This is imperative for transparency and to build broader trust. Media too must take care not to publish news based on halla.
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One of the reasons that this ended up being the longest and possibly the greatest Roland Garros final ever is that Rafa Nadal won this trophy for almost the entire 21st century, 14/14 finals, and never even got taken to a 5th set ONCE.
He had completely monopoly over this thing.
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As AI and entertainment collide, there are huge opportunities, particularly for creators who are becoming fluent in AI tools, and for those who can distinguish themselves by having a high bar for taste.
That was one of the key takeaways from @andrewchen's conversation with @scottbelsky (partner at @A24) at #NYTechWeek, presented by @speedrun and @Adobe Ventures.
Scott called this concept “knowledge arbitrage.” Just as those who became fluent in social media had an early advantage in online content, creators who are using ChatGPT and other AI tools in their daily lives – for job interview prep, issues with friends, and other day-to-day tasks – are getting ahead.
“It's so native to them that they'll come into companies that we work at and teach us," Scott said.
And as compute comes in, taking away the advantage that technical skills once offered, taste will be what sets creators apart, he added.
At a time when you can build a website in an hour, or even in one minute, “the question is the taste of what you're building, and how you position it,” he said.
Scott is also bullish on the role of personalization, as companies increasingly use genAI.
In video games, for example, there may be a future where the land one player explores is entirely different from that of another player, Andrew and Scott said.
Personalization will help companies get ahead.
“The company that knows me best will win,” Scott said.
For more from #NYTechWeek, as well as the latest on the way entertainment is evolving in the world of AI, follow @Techweek_, @speedrun, and @andrewchen.
