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Saturday, February 07, 2026

Thursday, February 05, 2026

5: United States

Codex is now over 1 million active users!
— Sam Altman (@sama) February 5, 2026

Drop 4/14: Introducing Sarvam Vision: a state-space based 3 billion parameter vision language model that is competitive with the best results in digitisation in English, and defines a significantly higher bar for Indian languages. See the details in our blog:…
— Pratyush Kumar (@pratykumar) February 5, 2026

This is revolutionary. The key insight is the human element.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) February 5, 2026

I am working to launch a leading AI Newsletter and need you (Anthropic) to come in as a sponsor. 10K. Can I get you interested? My tech blog https://t.co/4tF5jVpoaP My books: https://t.co/vscQM4cCzZ My podcasts: https://t.co/c3Vc2JvK94 Thanks.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) February 5, 2026

Friday, January 30, 2026

30: United States

President Trump just nominated Kevin Warsh to be the next Chair of the Federal Reserve.

Here’s what you need to know. pic.twitter.com/KJ1jzDl8ws
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) January 30, 2026

If you’re puzzled by anti-Indian hate – prejudice against a group that only brings benefits to America and no downsides – read this article. Don’t flinch from just how terrible the right has become. https://t.co/hGeFRWCEVC
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) January 30, 2026

Anthropic just released the receipts on a fear everyone’s been hand-waving.

52 junior engineers learning a new Python library. AI group scored 50% on comprehension tests. Manual coding group scored 67%. That’s a 17% gap on foundational skills, and debugging showed the steepest… https://t.co/TAiaruhzpo
— Aakash Gupta (@aakashgupta) January 30, 2026

Grok Imagine is improving super fast!

What are the highest priority improvements you want? Please reply below. https://t.co/mpiCZydvRI
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 30, 2026

As a @SenateForeign member, I’m proud to stand with the people of Iran.

That’s why I joined @SenJackyRosen to introduce the FREEDOM Act to boost internet freedom in Iran by directing US agencies to assess direct-to-cell tech that can expand access to info and free expression… https://t.co/CEJDfsrG9S
— Senator Dave McCormick (@SenMcCormickPA) January 30, 2026

Immigration debates would get a lot smarter if we focused on the actual immigrants arriving from a country, not the "average" person in that country.

For example, the typical Indian immigrant to the US is worlds apart from the average Indian in India.
— John J.S. Soriano (@JohnJSSoriano) January 30, 2026

you will NEVER own a home in san francisco pic.twitter.com/0rtcQ51YWU
— Matthew Zeitlin (@MattZeitlin) January 30, 2026

I firmly believe that the purpose and promise of developing artificial intelligence is to help humanity achieve what we wouldn't have been able to achieve on our own.

Partnering with NASA on the first AI-planned drive on Mars is a very tiny step towards a vision to advance human… https://t.co/BCdA30L8HR
— Sasha de Marigny (@sashadem) January 30, 2026

A more precise statement: All modern humans have an unbroken lineage of about 300,000 years going back to Africa. All Indians carry a genetic lineage going back about 60,000 years to the arrival of the Out of Africa migrants. All Indians also carry the genetic lineage of the… https://t.co/Msnqhzlr7U
— Tony Joseph (@tjoseph0010) January 30, 2026

If you are born a Hindu, you have a unbroken lineage of 5000+ years.

Be Proud 🔥 pic.twitter.com/hDwJfFohoL
— Kashmiri Hindu (@BattaKashmiri) January 29, 2026

The Untimely Death of Civil Rights in America And what can be done to resurrect them. ............. “Every election brought changes, but the fundamental mission of our work remained the same. That’s why most of us planned to stay at the Division following the 2024 election. But after witnessing this Administration destroy much of our work, we made the heartbreaking decision to leave — along with hundreds of colleagues, including about 75 percent of attorneys. Now, we must sound the alarm about the near destruction of DOJ’s once-revered crown jewel.” ....... Rather than the federal government forcing state and local governments to recognize the civil rights of Black Americans, it’s now up to state and local governments to force the federal government to recognize the constitutional rights of all Americans.

The Lowdown on Debasement How seriously has investors’ confidence in America been shaken? .............. At current prices the value of the world’s above-ground gold reserves is around $36 trillion, more than a dozen times the combined value of all cryptocurrencies. ............... The skyrocketing gold prices we are seeing now are a consequence of what finance types call the “debasement trade.” While the effect of the debasement trade is shown most spectacularly in sharply rising gold and silver prices, it’s also visible in the falling value of the dollar and in rising long-term interest rates. ............. Now we have an administration that casually ripped up three generations’ worth of solemn trade agreements, has threatened to seize allies’ territory, and more. Who’s to say that one of these days Trump might not declare a Liberation Day on U.S. debt? It may not be the most likely outcome, but it’s no longer in the realm of the inconceivable. ................. the dollar is now significantly weaker than it was in the last two years of the Biden administration. ............... the debasement trade signals that financial markets are losing faith in the United States. It’s not a full-blown panic, at least not yet, more of a gradual erosion. And it doesn’t amount to an imminent crisis. In particular, fears of debasement would have to get much worse to dethrone the dollar’s role as the world’s preeminent currency .......... other forms of erosion, as the world signs trade agreements without America, as U.S. scientific preeminence is undermined by budget cuts and anti-science ideology, and more. .......... The diminishing band of Trump loyalists may believe that he is making America great again. But it’s not just liberals who realize that he’s doing the opposite. International investors are reaching the same conclusion.

The One Promise Trump Has Kept A Look at Trump’s 10 Biggest Campaign Promises

The World Files for Economic Divorce from America What you do when your (trading) partner is abusive ................... On Monday India and the European Union concluded negotiations on a breakthrough free trade agreement. Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission — the EU’s executive branch — called it “the mother of all deals.” That description is somewhat over the top. Yet the agreement is in fact historic and important in ways that go beyond economics. For it shows that the world is becoming ever more estranged from an erratic, abusive United States. In other words, other countries are moving, step by step, toward an economic divorce from America. .............. Unlike Donald Trump, who thinks of international trade as a zero-sum game, the Europeans and the Indians understand that a free trade agreement between them is a very good deal for both parties. They are two very big economies. Although Trump administration officials like to sneer at European economic performance, the economy of the European Union is roughly the same size as ours. And India, which a few decades ago had a huge population but a small economy, has made massive economic strides and is now a major player on the world economic scene: ..............

this is a real trade deal, not some vague expression of intent.

................ The EU’s pledge of $600 billion, in particular, is almost pure vaporware. This is in stark contrast to the EU-India deal, which is a proper, detailed trade agreement with all the i’s dotted and t’s crossed. ................ the EU-India deal: It’s a major step toward economic divorce from the United States by the major global economies. ............ While the economic case for an EU-India agreement has been clear for years, closing the deal required overcoming special interests on both sides. What tipped the balance, clearly, was the fact that both parties are looking for ways to pivot away from trade with America. ................. Europeans have multiple reasons to feel aggrieved with the Trump Administration, from fake claims that the E.U. has been taking advantage of the U.S. through economic trade, to bullying tactics on behalf of the tech broligarchy, to interference in Europeans’ domestic politics on the side of the European fascist right, to the recent threats to seize Greenland. ........... Trump has imposed high tariffs on its exports, with an average rate of 34.5 percent, almost as high as the average rate on Chinese exports. It’s a bizarre move in both economic and diplomatic terms. Previous American administrations deliberately cultivated a relationship with India as a counterweight to China, which is a dangerous rival. But that was when the U.S. president was sane. .............. Access to the U.S. market just isn’t as important to other countries as he imagines. .............. the world needs access to the EU more than it needs access to the US. .......... The world trading system as we knew it lasted for three generations after World War II. It was a rules-based system, in which everyone considered the U.S. a reliable, trustworthy partner. But now US economic relations with other nations have turned abusive, and the world is moving toward divorce. And this will make Americans measurably poorer.

Thursday, January 22, 2026

22: Naidu

Courageous Carney vs. Demented Donald Canada’s leader is a sane adult. America’s leader isn’t. .............
Canada is filing for divorce from the Pax Americana
........... more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons, tariffs as leverage, financial infrastructure as coercion, supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited. ........... You cannot live within the lie of mutual benefit through integration, when integration becomes the source of your subordination. ............... he urged other nations ... the nations of Europe in particular — to join Canada in a new alliance of democracies no longer willing to take orders from an abusive hegemon .............. [T]he middle powers must act together, because if we’re not at the table, we’re on the menu. .............. Canada’s population lies almost entirely within a narrow band on top of the U.S. Back when I was writing a lot about economic geography, I used to joke that Canada was closer to the United States than it was to itself. ........... Canada is arguably more exposed to the consequences of Trumpian wrath than any other nation. .......... democracies can no longer maintain close ties with the U.S. The day after Carney spoke, Donald Trump showed why. ................ I listened to Trump’s Davos speech with fear: How much damage will this demented, vindictive individual do to America and the world? I also felt a deep sense of shame: What is wrong with my country, that we put someone like this in a position of unprecedented power? ............. As the whole world watched, the president of the United States (God help us) repeatedly referred to Greenland, which he is willing to blow up NATO to acquire, as Iceland. Don’t dismiss this as trivial: if any previous president had been that befuddled, the whole press corps would have been howling about senility and demanding that he step down. ............... In reality, China accounts for almost 40 percent of total world generation of electricity from wind power, substantially more than Europe. ........... The whole Trump team seems to have gone to Europe with no goal other than to belittle and insult their hosts. ........... On Tuesday evening Howard Lutnick, the Commerce secretary, spoke to a private dinner at Davos — at which he belittled European economies and their lack of competitiveness. He was reportedly booed, and Christine Lagarde, the president of the European Central Bank, walked out. ................ Trump devoted much of his speech to portraying Europe as a hellhole, its economy destroyed by renewable energy and its society destroyed by immigration. .......... Official speeches aren’t supposed to be rants that provide red meat to your political base. They’re supposed to influence people who aren’t your supporters, in ways that serve the national interest. ......... Carney had a clear purpose: To rally other nations into solidarity against U.S. economic blackmail. .................. Trump, on the other hand, just wanted to swagger, whine, and mostly hear himself talk. And all he accomplished was to turn suspicions that he’s gone off the deep end into certainty. .............. There will be much more of this. American power and influence have always rested, much more than many people realize, on the perception of American trustworthiness. We didn’t always do the right thing, but we honored our agreements and were the least greedy imperial power in history. ......... That’s all over. At Davos, Mark Carney called for giving up hope that the Pax Americana can be restored, and Donald Trump proved him right.

Seriously, what can we do about the fascist now loose upon America? We’re in a far more dangerous and violent stage of Trump’s regime. What should we do to stop it? ............ ICE agents have kidnapped a 5-year-old child to use him as “bait” to arrest his parents. The child and his father are now in a detention center in Texas, although no one knows their exact whereabouts. They were in America legally. ............ All this is being done in our name — the United States of America — with our authority, our tax dollars, and, seemingly, our acquiescence. ............ 1. Target a few Republican senators and House members to switch parties and thereby give Democrats a congressional majority in at least one chamber. ............ Republican majorities are razor-thin in both chambers, but as long as they’re in the majority, it’s extremely difficult to stop Trump. Yet some Republicans represent purple districts and states and are struggling to keep their Republican supporters behind them. They’re also struggling with their own consciences in continuing to support Trump’s authoritarian fascism. They’re “gettable,” I’m told. ............. I recall in 2001 when Vermont Republican Senator Jim Jeffords became an independent and caucused with the Democrats — thereby giving Democrats control of the Senate. Jeffords was a principled man who thought George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were destroying the GOP. Trump is far worse than Bush and Cheney. .......... 2. Undertake the largest demonstration against Trump in American history, aiming for at least 10 million marching in the streets, along with a national strike. ................. Some of the people I spoke with believe that the two No Kings demonstrations last year generated a powerful wave of solidarity and that a third, far larger, would shake the GOP and Trump to the core. They also cite research showing that when 3.5 percent of a population takes to the streets, even the most intransigent regimes begin to fold. ...................... They also recommend that such a demonstration be coupled with a general strike, lasting perhaps several days or a week, during which no one goes to work (if necessary, they call in sick) and no one purchases anything (stocking up in advance). .................. (Several people and groups in the resistance are aiming for May 1.) ................. 3. Let Trump overreach to the point where Americans are so disgusted they overwhelmingly repudiate him in the midterms — resulting in a Democratic takeover of both chambers of Congress by wide margins, which severely limits what he’s able to do after January 2027.

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My philosophy is curiosity & adventure https://t.co/Xag46NcrOB
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 22, 2026

last week @beehiiv launched Dynamic Content: low-key one of the most powerful features we've ever launched

here's a 5-minute video showcasing exactly how I use it for my newsletter 👇 pic.twitter.com/0QNAoSHuXe
— Tyler Denk 🐝 (@denk_tweets) January 22, 2026

Geeta Gopinath explains why India is not suitable for investment, sadly 18% of death annually is caused by pollution!!

Modi PR agencies will wake up now.. pic.twitter.com/FbvruLxiF6
— Vijay Thottathil (@vijaythottathil) January 22, 2026

Monday, December 01, 2025

1: US-China

The Great Subcontinent Uprising (novel)
The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Gen Z Kranti (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
The Drum Report: Markets, Tariffs, and the Man in the Basement (novel)
Trump’s Default: The Mist Of Empire (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)
Poetry Thursdays (novel)

Thursday, October 23, 2025

23: India-US Trade

Gen Z Kranti (novel)
The Banyan Revolt (novel)
Madhya York: The Merchant and the Mystic (novel)
Deported (novel)
Empty Country (novel)

Wednesday, October 15, 2025

15: United States

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— Balen Shah (@ShahBalen) October 13, 2025

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Try the Eve voice on Grok.

It is so beautiful. https://t.co/iMk3kLyzL0
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 13, 2025

I was quite literally radicalized by 60 Minutes.

I used to be like so many Americans, watching it religiously and trusting it.

But then as a young man I watched them do a report on something for which I am an expert.

Their reporting was wildly inaccurate and was obviously done… https://t.co/HnCYeLHNQq
— Cynical Publius (@CynicalPublius) October 7, 2025

Welcomed Canada’s Foreign Minister, Ms. Anita Anand. Discussed ways to strengthen cooperation in trade, technology, energy, agriculture and people-to-people exchanges for mutual growth and prosperity.@AnitaAnandMP pic.twitter.com/GCQfbJvBh4
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) October 13, 2025

Is it global? Does it have plans to go global? If it is older than Google Maps, why is it not bigger than Google Maps? I fear YOU are about to repeat that same mistake by refusing to scale globally fast. I can help. Hire me to help you scale globally fast.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) October 13, 2025