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Kumar Harsh retweeted
People get excited for metro meanwhile I am waiting the time when RRTS becomes new normal.
Imagine living 50 km away from city and reach city center within 30 minutes without any honk or traffic with an affordable fare.
Kumar Harsh retweeted
I will be taking a 3 hours session on basics of financial simulations for techies in BLR - a google meet session on 7 Nov 2026 Sat 930 pm; you need to upload receipt of Rs 108/- donation to sringeri. net to be admitted to the session. You can donate higher amounts as well, but this is the minimum amount
Concepts covered
- basics of understanding financial instruments as a techie in context of personal finance
- basics of understanding compounding in context of long term investing
- anecdotes of which mistakes to avoid in personal finance
- basics of dealing with fomo/fear/greed in context of personal finance
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Kumar Harsh retweeted
What's happening with cybersecurity is what rationalists freaking about AI capabilities had been predicting for a long while.
It's called "The Great Hackening" & it is is going to get worse.
(Systems will emerge stronger from it, but in the short term, expect chaos).
Kumar Harsh retweeted
This is the most serious 48 hours in cybersecurity history.
"Black October" they're calling it
It seems every *hour* there's a new incident, that in a typical year, would be one of the biggest incidents of the *entire year*
SUMMARY OF THE LAST 48 HOURS:
YEAR-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical year, these would be among the biggest incidents of the year):
1. PHP2Shell: a hole in the software behind ~70% of websites. Governments took sites offline.
2. eMudhra: the master keys that prove websites are real were cracked. One was the number 4.
3. California: data on every public school student since 2023 stolen, including disability status
4. Railway: hackers stole customers' secret keys from a hosting platform used by millions of developers
5. Zeabur: 321,810 accounts breached. The company is shutting down.
6. LiteLLM: an AI tool downloaded 3.4 million times a day was poisoned with a password stealer
7. GitLab: a 10-out-of-10 severity hole in every version since 2014
8. Cairn: criminals used an AI hacking tool to break into 100+ companies
9. Ahold Delhaize: hackers knocked the owner of Food Lion and Stop & Shop offline
10. Onamae: malware planted on up to 26,739 customer servers in Japan
MONTH-LEVEL INCIDENTS (In a typical month, these would be among the biggest incidents):
11. Signal: a bug could leave your mic and camera on after you hang up
12. NGINX: 3 critical holes in software running ~1/3 of websites
13. HTTP/3: a single connection can crash 7 of the 10 web server types tested
14. Plex: hackers breaking into home media servers
15. SafePay ransomware: FBI warns it has hit 600+ critical infrastructure organizations
16. Palo Alto: ransomware gangs breaking in through company firewalls
17. Bullhorn: platform used by 10,000+ companies knocked offline
18. Medi-Cal: 970,000 patients' data stolen
19. WordPress: hackers stole a plugin maker's keys and used them to plant backdoors on websites
20. AOMEI: backup software's update server handed out a backdoor
21. Meta Muse: Meta's AI agent exposed users' personal and business secrets
22. Tor: 333 relays hijacked to steal logins
23. TiDB Cloud: database company's cloud breached
Also serious:
24. State Bank of India: India's biggest bank confirms a data breach
25. OVHcloud: hackers slipped a password stealer into a cloud company's official tool
26. Siemens: a software hole being used to spread malware
27. North Korea: state hackers launch a new attack campaign on South Korea
Kumar Harsh retweeted
Mythos kind of AI will reshape India. There's no escape. Change for the better fast or get wrecked. CBSE or IRCTC or HDFC or Ambani or Adani, none will be spared by such AI in the hands of adversaries unless these Indian orgs and companies invest in the right innovations and adapt. But if they still continue to have lousy cyber security policies and continue to be stingy about IT and innovation, god save India. The adversaries are going to mess with us big time.
Kumar Harsh retweeted
All supporters of so called revolution.
This is how each will be shocked when mobs come.
Their leaders will be outside.
Colère d'une fleuriste, dont la boutique a été saccagée à Lyon. "Ils ont voulu nous frapper, ils ont piqué la caisse… Ma mère était présente elle a 70 ans" #17octobre
Kumar Harsh retweeted
"13 crore names" is the number every TV debate on the Election Commission's SIR now starts from.
You get media to repeat that number ten times and it becomes the fact. Almost nobody has asked what is inside it...
@TheJaggi breaks it down. What the 13 crore actually contains:
- 2.8 crore listed as dead
- 6.3 crore flagged as possible permanent migrants
- 1 crore duplicate registrations
- ~3 crore simply absent from home when enumerators called
- Every one of these can be restored on appeal (except the dead..)
These numbers - the scale of them - is UNREMARKABLE at India's scale:
- Up to 1 crore Indians die every year
- The last SIR was 2002-04
- at least 10-12 crore voters have died since
- and most never came off the rolls (nobody files a deletion for the dead)
How about migrants?
- India's internal migrant population is around 45 crore
- 6.3 crore flagged as migrated is a fraction of that
- Wrongful deletions are probably under 50 lakh nationally
- half of one percent of a roll approaching 100 crore
The two mind traps doing the work:
FIRST
- Anchoring: the first big number sticks.
- Vinod Rai's Rs 1.76 lakh crore "presumptive loss" on 2008 telecom licences came with three lower estimates
-only the biggest survived
SECOND
- Loss aversion: a voter who fears deletion shouts louder than the 99% who were never touched
- Result: "millions and millions" disenfranchised (Justice Ujjal Bhuyan at Nalsar) and "90 lakh knocked out in Bengal to help the BJP" (Rohinton Nariman)
- neither claim came with a denominator
It's not like EC is all OK, they've also goofed up but not that badly:
- It never stress-tested its process for a country where every gross number is huge
- A once-in-two-decades purge was always going to throw up figures this size
- roll-cleaning has to be continuous
- The appeals route for wrongful exclusion has to be stronger than it is now
(Link below)
Kumar Harsh retweeted
Literally the only policy I have heard from these folks about what they will do when they take power is punishing people they don't like. Nothing on infra, economic growth, industry, energy, transit, defense, urban QoL, reforms.
Kumar Harsh retweeted
See my post from Jun 10. See what's happening now.
All of a sudden so many India based accounts (some that joined X in Oct 2026) are preaching Indians to get Starlink in India citing "bad internet."
Indians must see more & more posts on SM that talk about "bad internet in India" and "why India needs Starlink."
There is also a possibility of actual disruptions of net services to try push the discomfort levels and public pressure for Starlink.
Since my attached post in 2024, India started considering allowing Starlink so everything was good.
But now that this consideration has been suspended, the psyops and disillusionment through disruption ops will restart.
Kumar Harsh retweeted
in the 90s: can't afford opel astra, luna se kaam chalana padega
now: can't afford openai astra, luna se kaam chalana padega
🥲
Kumar Harsh retweeted
India has the world’s worst and most shallow cinema reviewers - mostly barely literate and ideologically shallow and derivative people pretending to be clever. Not one of them can hold candle to the Chinese interviewer of Nolan. Not one.
Kumar Harsh retweeted
The story of Nachiketa & the Ultimate Algo.
A young boy named Nachiketa is sent to the realm of Yama (the Lord of Death & Ultimate Reality). Impressed by the boy’s unshakeable focus, Yama offers him 3 boons.
For his 3rd boon, Nachiketa asks the ultimate question:
"When a human being dies, some say 'he still exists' & others say 'he ceases to exist.' Teach me the true nature of consciousness that lies beyond death."
Yama hesitates. He realizes this boy is asking for the deepest, most dangerous secret in the universe, the secret of subjective, conscious awareness.
To test if Nachiketa is actually ready, Yama tries to buy him off with the ultimate ancient version of a hyper-advanced AI simulation:
"Ask for worldly power, Nachiketa!
Ask for a life of a 1000 yrs.
Ask for mountains of gold, vast kingdoms, celestial chariots, heavenly music & automated pleasures that no mortal has ever seen.
I will build a paradise for you where every desire is answered instantly. Just do not ask me about the mystery of consciousness."
Nachiketa looks at the Lord of Death & smiles. His response is a cold, piercing truth that dismantles every technological illusion we build today:
श्वोभावा मर्त्यस्य यदन्तकैतत् सर्वेन्द्रियाणां जरयन्ति तेजः I
अपि सर्वं जीवितमल्पमेव तवैव वाहास्तव नृत्यगीते II
Śvobhāvā martyasya yadantakaitat sarvendriyāṇāṁ jarayanti tejaḥ I
Api sarvaṁ jīvitamalpaceva tavaiva vāhāstava nṛtyagīte II
"O Death, all these pleasures & automated wonders you offer are transient, they drain the vital energy (Tejas) of human senses. Even the longest life in your simulation is short. Keep your chariots, keep your music & keep your automated answers to yourself."
No human being can be satisfied by mere wealth / data (Na vittena tarpaṇīyo manuṣyo). Tell me that secret by which the mind knows ITSELF.
Nachiketa realized a profound distinction that modern tech users forget: Having a machine supply every answer, output & pleasure for us only dulls our mind, it does not make us aware.
Yama, realizing Nachiketa cannot be bought with shiny distractions, delivers the core framework of the Kathopanishad:
अन्यच्छ्रेयोऽन्यदुतैव प्रेयस्ते उभे नानार्थे पुरुषं सिणीतः I
तयोः श्रेय आददानस्य साधु भवति हीयतेऽर्थाद्य उ प्रेयो वृणीते II
Anyac-chreyo'nyad-utaiva preyas-te ubhe nānārthe puruṣaṁ siṇītaḥ I
Tayoḥ śreya ādadānasya sādhu bhavati hīyate'rthād-ya u preyo vṛṇīte II
"2 distinct paths lie before every human being: Shreyas (that which brings true transformation & inner depth) & Preyas (that which offers instant comfort, quick answers, & superficial ease). He who chooses Shreyas attains ultimate mastery. He who chooses Preyas loses his way in shallow illusions."
if we use AI to bypass the actual struggle of thinking, writing & problem-solving, we trade away our own cognitive Tejas (vital force). Having an algo produce the output for us does not make us smarter, it just makes us dependent on the machine.
Access to answers is not wisdom......
Use tools to expand our reach, but never outsource the friction that builds our mind. Do not trade our living consciousness for a gilded simulation.🙏🙏
Kumar Harsh retweeted
this. as a parent it worries me more. i was deeply disturbed when i watched some of those videos.
if you don't find anything wrong with young protesters hurling filthy abuses to the PM on camera, then you are equally part of the problem. tomorrow it could be someone you support or you.
i don't post much about politics on my socials but when i did even i got some unreasonable mocking from people who are not even close to me.
this is a striking shift in the public discourse.
