Reminder:

Not MP’s job:
- Local roads, parks. Corporator.
- Schools, hospitals, water, electricity: MLA
- MP LADS too minor

MP’s job:
- National laws, LS interventions
- National budget allocation+spend
- GoI projects in state+constituency: central schemes, Metro, highways ..

After forcing everyone to distribute #aadhar photocopies liberally and compulsorily- govt wakes up to danger! Techie billionaires don’t have all knowledge ⁦Nandan Nilekani⁩ See the havoc you caused by REFUSING to listen!

One of the objectives of #Demonetization was to finish fake currency.
Rise of counterfeit notes detected as per RBI annual report.
Rs 10: 16.4%
Rs 20: 16.5%
Rs 200: 11.7%
Rs 500: 101.9%
Rs 2000: 54.6%

Pink Floyd come back from the dead (with Nitin Sawhney !) to release a song for Ukraine. V moving video

youtu.be/saEpkcVi1d4

Many of us know people who order and prefer to have their food within 10 minutes. Many of them are us, in some situations at some times. Focus should be on labour and safety in assessing the feasibility of such business models rather than irrational venting against founders.

Why can't we have a 10-minute ambulance service?

1. An advanced life support ambulance costs 30 lakhs
2. With a 3 km radius of operations (remember 10 mins), such an ambulance will find one ride a day, tops
3. Not including profits, the price of a ride will be >₹12,000

As someone working on this space, there are three things that I can tell you.

What do they say about mutually assured destruction?

What can game theory tell us about the war in Ukraine? In this essay, I shall use basic concepts of game theory erroneously, pretend that everything is a prisonner’s dilemma, and misinterpret rationality repeatedly (1/456).

The bar for Indian standup comedy is so low that you can punch down at working class people all you want, but even liberals will applaud if you throw in two boilerplate Modi jibes and some references to mental health. Kapil Sharma is proof of this.

Reminder that Djokovic 1) could’ve gotten vaccinated, 2) could’ve chosen to leave voluntarily, 3) could’ve spoken out against the treatment of those in immigration detention given he had both the experience and the platform, 4) could’ve denounced the riots by his supporters.

I’d love to know how many pain-killing injections (with contents unknown to him) Djokovic has had over the years to enable him to get out on the court.

God, he’s a stupid fucking dick.

#AusOpen

Absolutely ridiculous that Australian Open bends over backwards to allow an unvaccinated player through a loophole. Disgusting and shameful.

Manu Joseph's #Decoupled seems to be going for the 'Curb your enthusiasm' vibe. Unfortunately it's not nearly as funny tho.

Thread: today covid19indiaorg winds up operations. No words are enough for what this team of deeply committed volunteers did - for now, I'll just say thank you. There are lessons for the future of data in India, but that's for another day. Now: what happens next to covid data?

This thread is about the SUTRA model, a epidemiological model funded by the DST (India) to describe the Indian COVID-19 pandemic. In recent weeks it has been suggested that it provides an explanation for the “success” of the UP government in handling COVID-19 (1/n)

Trade with China in 9 months of 2021 has grown at whopping 50% over last year inspite of Modi govt’s repeated policy claim that imports from China are being discouraged in the name of “Aatmanirbharta”, post Ladakh intrusions. MEA flags trade deficit concerns with China!

India celebrating 1B jabs.

Today I paused and reflected in remembrance. The lives that we lost to the Delta surge in April & May that could have been saved, had we been more cautious till vaccines became abundant.

We must follow science and proceed with humility in the future.