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Varun @mkvarun.com · 23/08/2026

As a cherry on top, Facebook has suspended my account instead citing "our technology has found your account has violated commerce policies". The irony of letting scammers free but suspending innocent account is pathetic. Clearly, Facebook is the scam that should be boycotted.

A post on Facebook by me that says:
As a cherry on top, Facebook has suspended my account instead citing "our technology has found your account has violated commerce policies". For genuinely selling mattresses, bed frames, routers, and other household items on Marketplace. And there is no option for appeal, its all automated responses and agents asking you to respond to "Was this is joke?", "Was it for awareness?" and only to say "sorry access has been restricted". The irony of letting scammers free but suspending innocent account is pathetic. Clearly, Facebook is the scam that should be boycotted.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 31/07/2026

If you're a neurologist, neuroradiologist, neurosurgeon or a similar neuro specialist, I'd love to get your input. I'm conducting a quick 3-min survey to understand the clinical workflow bottlenecks in neurological care. Survey: tally.so/r/OD9Zxk

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Neurological Care Workflow Survey

Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 19/07/2026

End-to-end encrypted AI assistant, built by Moxie Marlinspike, Founder of @signal.org Hoping this is as revolutionary as the E2EE algorithm developed at Signal and gets integrated by other AI chat platforms. Works pretty good so far! Confer blog: confer.to/blog/ Confer AI: confer.to

A snapshot from confer.to landing page that contrasts the features of Confer with the fine print of other AI models.

With Confer:
1. A frontier open model
2. Image understanding
3. Web search with sources
4. Tool use
5. MCP
6. Memory you control
7. ChatGPT import
8. Folders

The usual fine print (of other models)
We may review your conversations.
Your chats may train our models.
We may share your conversations with partners
Employees can access your content
A subpeona can reach your conversations
We can still read chats you've deleted
We value your privacy

All of the product, none of the fine print - because we can't read your data.
Encrypted on your device, and it stays that way at every step. Open source, so anyone can check.
Shows links to its blog page for: 1. Encryption 2. Private inference

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 19/06/2026

@owoolnough.bsky.social @bsky.app The Neurojobs feed only shows 2 posts for me now. At one point I got a message saying “This feed is offline, contact the owner” and I couldn’t see any posts. Any clue what’s the issue?

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 07/06/2026

Any tips on how to combat executive dysfunction?

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 28/05/2026

I recently exported my photos from Google to Proton and one of the issues I faced was was Google Photos Takeout completely messes up the timestamps on these photos. So here's a GitHub repo I built to fix metadata of photos and videos: github.com/MKVarun/goog... @proton.me @github.com #GooglePhotos

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GitHub - MKVarun/google-photos-metadata-fix

Contribute to MKVarun/google-photos-metadata-fix development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 20/05/2026

“Just let it go, enjoy the ride. Without the low, there ain’t a high” ~ High, Young Rising Sons

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High by Young Rising Sons on Apple Music

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 21/04/2026

“Keep on running Keep on running Keep on running Till there’s no where to go/run” ~ Nineties Kids, Julian 🎵

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Nineties Kids by Julian on Apple Music

Song · 2020 · Duration 3:28

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 14/04/2026

Is skeet the official “tweet” equivalent on this app? Am I skeeting this!?

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Proton @proton.me · 10/04/2026

Stop retyping your personal info everywhere. Save time, stay organized, and protect your data with Identities in Proton Pass. Fill forms out in seconds, while keeping everything secure and in one place.

A General ID Identity entry for John Proton who has a Swiss phone number and an email address that starts "john.proton"

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 20/03/2026

@proton.me I’m having issues with Lumo. It logs me out everything I close the app on my phone and takes a long time to open the chat interface.

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Signal @signal.org · 09/03/2026

We also want to emphasize that Signal Support will *never* initiate contact via in-app messages, SMS, or social media to ask for your verification code or PIN. If anyone asks for any Signal related code, it is a scam. We make this clear when users receive their SMS code during initial signup. 5/7

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 06/03/2026

@brainking.bsky.social I thought you were the Dr. Philip Low who passed away.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 23/02/2026

@germnetwork.com I keep getting “repair key” error on germ app and when I try reconnect Bluesky to it keeps saying “login failed please try again”

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 13/02/2026

Bluesky is the new science Twitter, new study by @whysharksmatter.bsky.social and Julia Wester concludes! "Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter."

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky

Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 23/01/2026

The most important part of every plan is planning on your plan not going according to plan. ~ The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 29/04/2025

But If Not (November 5th 1967) Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“AND ONE DAY SOME GREAT OPPORTUNITY STANDS BEFORE YOU
AND CALLS UPON YOU TO STAND UP FOR SOME GREAT PRINCIPLE
SOME GREAT ISSUE, SOME GREAT CAUSE

AND YOU REFUSE TO DO IT BECAUSE YOU ARE AFRAID
YOU REFUSE TO DO IT BECAUSE YOU WANT TO LIVE LONGER
YOU'RE AFRAID THAT YOU WILL LOSE YOUR JOB
OR YOU'RE AFRAID THAT YOU WILL BE CRITICIZED
OR THAT YOU WILL LOSE YOUR POPULARITY
OR YOU'RE AFRAID THAT SOMЕBODY WILL STAB YOU OR SHOOT AT YOU OR BOMB YOUR HOUSE (YEAH)

SO YOU REFUSED TO TAKE THE STAND

WELL YOU MAY GO ON AND LIVE UNTIL YOU ARE 90
BUT YOU’RE JUST AS DEAD AS 38 AS YOU WOULD BE AT 90
AND THE SENSATION OF BREATHING IN YOUR LIFE IS BUT THE BELATED ANNOUNCEMENT OF AN EARLIER DEATH OF THE SPIRIT

YOU DIED WHEN YOU REFUSED TO STAND UP FOR RIGHT (YEAH)
YOU DIED WHEN YOU REFUSED TO STAND UP FOR TRUTH
YOU DIED WHEN YOU REFUSED TO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE”

~ BUT IF NOT, NOVEMBER 5TH 1967, DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 18/01/2026

It takes about 66 days on average for a behavior to become a habit. Its all about frequency and consistency of repetition for a habit to become automatic and effortless.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 18/01/2026

"The more knowledge you seek, the less you will understand." - Tao Te Ching (47), Lao Tzu

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 05/01/2026

I’m currently looking for full-time roles in Machine Learning, Data Science, or Computational Neuroscience. If you know of any relevant roles or teams hiring, I would greatly appreciate a connection. Portfolio: www.mkvarun.com #MachineLearning #DataScience #AI #JobSearch #NeuroJobs #STEMJobs

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WIRED @wired.com · 26/12/2025

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

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A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 14/12/2025

Banana bread!! It was a very good idea to add choco chips to it. #baking #bananabread

A piece of banana bread showing the inside.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 08/12/2025

My first time baking a sourdough bread! Underestimated how loooong it actually takes to make it xD

Baked sourdough bread with wheat stalks scoring.

Inside of baked bread. Bread stands on a wire mesh for cooling.

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TrishEM @pematson.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

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Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out

A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 21/11/2025

Done REWATCHING Season 3 and Season 4 of Stranger Things! Two more seasons to go before the final season drops. Wish me luck Mike, I’m going in.

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a close up of a man 's face with netflix written on the bottom

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with netflix written on the bottom

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Graze Social @graze.social · 31/10/2025

40 million strong! Congrats to @bsky.app!

https://bcounter.nat.vg/ crossing 40 million accounts!

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 30/10/2025

Fall… Falling… Falling in love with the fall colors :)

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 28/10/2025

I just hit a 100 followers 🥳

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 28/10/2025

Okay I’ve heard this is where you come to make friends germs…uh germ friends. - A friendly germ.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 27/10/2025

Okay, I’m finally off the @germnetwork.com waitlist! But I can’t find anyone to text and try the app. Does anyone wanna slide into my DMs :) Germ DM link in bio.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 24/10/2025

I am genuinely elated to share that the work I did as an undergraduate intern at BEES LAB, Indian Institute of Science (IISc) on building an Epileptic Seizure Classification system was awarded a patent. Journal publication: doi.org/10.1016/j.bs... Patent granted: Indian Patent No. 558139

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 23/09/2025

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Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 27/08/2025

Paris cleaned up the Seine by fixing sewers, building stormwater basins, and pulling out trash—enough that people can swim there for the first time in 100 years. Social media needs the same: infrastructure fixes, not cosmetic tweaks.

The Seine River at night w the Eiffel Tower in the distance

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 19/06/2025

RIGHT to decide WHO can access information about oneself!

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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

BioFase has developed biodegradable cutlery and straws made from avocado seeds, and they can fully break down within just 240 days. Using discarded avocado pits from food processors, BioFase transforms what would otherwise be waste into durable utensils

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dame @dame.is · 11/06/2025

I’m excited to finally share a project I’ve been working on for several months… I’ve published a long-form guide for how companies, communities, and creators can use Bluesky to grow their brands — you can check it out on @atpota.to. It’s not perfect, but it’s a solid start that I’ll keep updated!

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How to use Bluesky to grow your brand - atpotato

A comprehensive guide for companies, communities, and creators looking to establish and grow their presence on Bluesky.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 10/06/2025

Okay I know you won’t believe me when I say I saw a room 2-222 exactly at 2:22 (PM) yesterday 😤 so here you go!! (Maybe I should have made a wish)

A photo of Room 2-222 clicked at 2:22PM :P

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Steve Parks @steveparks.me · 10/06/2025

ChatGPT finally achieves AGI and realises it’s nice out so downs tools and heads to the beach

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 09/06/2025

Why Sleep Is So Important: For Learning, Mental and Physical Health, Efficiency and Decision Making! There are several options available on Purdue campus for improving mental health from self-help resources to professional services. Check it out! Credits: Purdue University Student Life

WHY SLEEP IS SO IMPORTANT?

1. LEARNING: Sleep impacts your learning, concentration and creativity. Every hour of lost sleep is associated with a 0.7-point reduction in GPA!

2. MENTAL AND PHYSICAL HEALTH: Sleep helps your brain work properly, improves attention, supports healing and repairing and decreases your risk of health problems.
For optimum health, aim for 7-9 hours of sleep per day.
If proper sleep quantity cannot be achieved, try to nap 30-45 minutes in the earlier parts of the day.

3. EFFICIENCY: Healthy sleep helps you recharge. Consistently postponing sleep for other commitments can reduce your overall productivity and efficiency.

4. DECISION MAKING: Getting a good night's sleep improves decision-making and problem-solving skills.

CONNECT WITH PURDUE CAMPUS RESOURCES
There are many resources at Purdue to help students foster healthy sleep habits.

SELF-HELP/SELF-DIRECTED
TAO: Therapy Assistance Online - A free web and app-based mental health resource. Search for "Sleep" within TAO to see available self-guided information.
Steps to Leaps Sleep Module - In this self-guided course, learn more about this important activity and how you can improve your sleeping skills.
Download from Training@Purdue in your Brightspace to complete at your own pace.

Recreation & Wellness Sleep Handbook - This handbook is designed to give you the foundational tools needed to get the most out of a night's rest.

TREATMENT SERVICES
Medical Appointment - PUSH provides primary care for both acute and chronic medical conditions by appointment.
CAPS Sleep Hygiene Education - CAPS provides one-on-one sleep hygiene education appointments with a registered nurse.

CAPS Brief Screen - CAPS offers same day/next day access for anyone wanting to get started with services. Brief screen appointments can be scheduled online, by calling CAPS or by stopping by PUSH.

PREVENTION PROGRAMMING AND SUPPORT
Recreation & Wellness Sleep Presentation - Request a sleep wellness presentation from the Wellness Department in Recreation & Wellness.
This free service allows you to bring in a wellness staff member to talk about a wellness topic of your choice.

Wellness Coaching in Recreation & Wellness - Wellness coaching can take your sleep goals and turn them into action. Work with your coach to sculpt goals, overcome barriers and build a lifestyle that meets your sense of purpose.

CAPS Ambassadors - This peer support group helps provide education and outreach initiatives to destigmatize mental health challenges and promote inclusivity, understanding and self-discovery.

CAPS Let's Talk - Do you have a brief concern that you'd like to speak to a CAPS clinician about? Let's Talk is a confidential, informal drop-in consultation session.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 08/06/2025

What’s the solution to having all these different messaging platforms like Signal, Telegram, WhatsApp, Messenger? Is there something out there where users can directly communicate cross-platforms with E2EE or do we all have to switch to one app for E2EE to work?

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 08/06/2025

Can someone direct me to sources to understand what the ATProtocol is? I still don’t completely understand it. Does it mean anyone can move data between apps built on the protocol? Can we communicate between users using different apps?

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 01/06/2025

Happy Pride Month to EVERYONE! ♥️💚🧡💜💛🖤💙

A digital rainbow with people’s airplane colorings displayed on the screen.

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 01/06/2025

CONGRATS Taylor Swift on buying back the masters to your original 6 albums!! After 20 years of hard-work, the sadness and longing, the memories, the fights, the silent struggles, the conversations ignited, the re-recordings, the tour, you finally did it!! Now, all YOUR music is YOURS :) #TaylorSwift

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YourAnonRiots 🐈‍⬛🏴🇵🇸🇲🇲🇺🇦🇸🇦🦋 @youranonriots.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

Open your eyes to the beauty around you Open your mind to the wonders of life Open your heart to those who love you And always be true to yourself. - Maya Angelou #Quotes

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Riana @riana.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I'm an advisor to this startup, whose product is a trust & safety-minded E2EE messenger (two great tastes that taste great together). Having E2EE for Bluesky DMs is hella good - this is very exciting!

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Varun @mkvarun.com · 21/05/2025

“Do you HEAR the PEOPLE sing? Singing a song of ANGRY men? It is the music of a people Who will NOT be SLAVES again! When the beating of your HEART Echoes the BEATING of the drums There is a LIFE about to START When TOMORROW comes!“ ~ Do you hear the people sing, Les Misérables

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