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Automation Engineer. Working on IoT based Data Viz products. Pythoneer by day and JavaScripter(?) by night. Tweets/Posts probably shouldn't be taken too seriously! github.com/navchandar linkedin.com/in/naveenchandar

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Naveenchandar @navchandar.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
My parents are in the middle of nowhere and today I heard an AI generated remix song from a nearby temple festival. Mind you this is in the middle of absolute bumfuck nowhere, and the song had multiple languages and sounded like existing popular artists.
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
was excited to go on Today Explained to talk about our Flock reporting and the backlash to this type of surveillance: www.vox.com/podcasts/499...
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Flock cameras are everywhere — and people really, really hate them
How AI traffic cameras sparked a vigilante vandalism movement.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 03/08/2026
Today on Scroll: - Modi government boasted about the NEET re-exam. But students say it was full of glitches - Delhi unrest: Police conduct can never be equated with that of a protesting crowd - In Maharashtra’s Dahanu, picking up the pieces after a devastating flood without warning More ⤵️
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Daily Brief: Modi government boasted about the NEET re-exam. But students say it was full of glitches
Your morning dose of news, stories and insight from Scroll.
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article-14.com @article-14.com · 03/08/2026
A 1951 NRC extract Electoral rolls from 1966 to 2017 A 1973 land deed A school certificate A PAN card An election card None were enough to convince the Gauhati High Court that Assam labourer Aminul Hoque was Indian, reports Sanskrita Bharadwaj article-14.com/post/15-docu...
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15 Documents, 3 Generations Of Records: Why An Assam Labourer Was Still Declared A Foreigner
The Gauhati High Court upheld a foreigners’ tribunal order against a daily-wage labourer despite records stretching from the 1951 NRC to recent electoral rolls. The ruling came days before the Supreme...
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 03/01/2026
All three statements are true at the same time—
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Our World in Data @ourworldindata.org · 05/05/2026
Low-carbon electricity sources grew faster than demand in 2025, pushing fossil fuels into decline— Solar and wind energy have grown quickly in recent years, but global electricity demand has grown faster.
Bar chart of change in global electricity generation by source from 2024 to 2025 where low-carbon sources met all of the 850 terawatt-hours increase in total generation. Solar and wind provided the largest increases (solar about 636 TWh, wind about 204 TWh), with smaller rises from nuclear and other renewables and a modest increase in gas, while coal and oil declined (coal about minus 67 TWh, oil about minus 12 TWh). Data source: Ember (2026). License: CC BY.
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Justin Jackson @justinjackson.ca · 07/03/2026
“Will Claude Code ruin our team?” justinjackson.ca/claude-code-...
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Will Claude Code ruin our team?
AI coding is blurring the lines between engineers, PMs, and designers. In the short-term, it's going to cause havoc. What happens long-term?
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
A post so smart I'm almost afraid to share it. www.garbageday.email/p/the-only-t...
The question of our time is how do you artistically rebel — and win — against a totally flat cultural landscape? And before my readers, who I assume are all approximately 36 years old and very tired, say, “so what, who cares?” This does matter. I mean, just look around right now lol. You know things are bad when even OpenAI President Greg Brockman is posting stuff, like “Taste is a new core skill.” If people had taste, your company wouldn’t exist, Greg.

But if everything is just attention now, and attention is completely commodified by algorithmic tech platforms, how can you push back against that? Well, I am slowly coming around to a theory on the new cool: You have to essentially pre-deplatform yourself. 

Culture right now is determined not by human teams of editors and producers picking and choosing what youth culture gets the spotlight, but, instead, by the unthinking algorithms that power YouTube and TikTok. Which means the only things that have the level of scarcity and danger required to be seen as cool by young people will, slowly, but surely, be whatever is unacceptable on those platforms.
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Naveenchandar @navchandar.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What third world country is this from? youtu.be/oh7DPSP65JA
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Why CBS Didn't Broadcast Stephen Colbert's Interview With James Talarico
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
Let me just make a few little adjustments to that title… “How a scientist with a PhD in Geology and 25 years of experience is helping lead California’s earthquake work” Way to devalue my experience.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 15/02/2026
The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration. Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net. This is what oligarchy looks like.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.
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Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases
Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.
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Rebane @rebane2001.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll xikipedia.org
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 31/01/2026
It should not take a court order to get a toddler out of a prison.
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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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Abigail Nussbaum @abigailnussbaum.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.
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Corbin Davenport @corbin.io · 13/01/2026
I'm excited to release Just the Browser! It helps you remove AI features, ads, shopping integrations, and other annoyances from desktop web browsers. This project includes configuration files, a simple setup script, and guides for manual installation. It supports Chrome, Firefox, and MS Edge.
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Just the Browser - Just the Browser
Remove AI features, telemetry data reporting, sponsored content, product integrations, and other annoyances from web browsers.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/12/2025
Funny Numbers xkcd.com/3184/
Comic. [Banner: Mathematical Society: 2025 Meeting.] PERSON 1 with bun: Any other new developments from the year to cover before we wrap? PERSON 2: Oh, the teens picked a new funny number. PERSON 3 with short hair: Aww, I’m glad to hear they’re still doing that. PERSON 4 with ponytail: I’ll add it to the list. [List: 23 (skidoo!; 42; 69; 420; 1,337; 58,008; [circled]: 67]
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
The segment seems to contradict Bari’s assertion that the Trump administration didn’t respond to request for comment. Per the report, 60 Minutes reached out to DHS who declined a request for an interview and referred all questions about CECOT to El Salvador.
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Here it is
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
The number of immigrants in detention without criminal records has surged by over 2,000% since Trump reentered the White House. Nearly half of all detainees have no criminal charges or conviction. Trump was always lying about going after the “worst of the worst.”
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Kagi HQ @kagi.com · 24/11/2025
Kagi gives you the power to block domains, filter out AI slop, and keep search clean, relevant and human. All with no ads or manipulative algorithms.
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Sean Hollister @seanhollister.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Here is our Steam Machine, Steam Frame and Steam Controller ultimate FAQ. @jaypeters.net and I put our heads (and some extra Valve answers) together. If you've got more Qs let us know! www.theverge.com/games/820293...
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Steam Machine and Steam Frame: your questions answered
There’s a lot to dig into.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I remember when there was a discussion on Twitter about Shein's manufacturing practices and some apologists invented all sorts of fantastical machinery and technology to avoid facing the more horrifying truth. Reminds me of this comedian's joke. IG bscomedian
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 23/11/2025
Trump, war, absent media: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30
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Trump, war, absent media: five threats to climate progress that dogged Cop30
Did the talks succeed or fail? The verdict must take account of the geopolitical minefield they took place in Cop30 in Belém wrapped up on Saturday night more than 24 hours later than planned, and with an Amazonian rainstorm thundering down on the conference centre. The United Nations structure just about held, as it has done these past three weeks despite fire, savage tropical heat and blistering political attacks on the multilateral system of global environmental governance. Dozens of agreements were gavelled through on the final day, as the most collective form of humanity worked to resolve the most complex and dangerous challenge that our species has ever faced. It was chaotic. The process very nearly collapsed and had to be rescued by last-ditch talks that lasted into the early morning. Veteran observers told me the Paris agreement was on life-support. Continue reading...
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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
New blog post up: I spent a lot of time researching Nano Banana, Google's new generative AI model, and not only is it substantially better than ChatGPT, it is capable of taking extremely nuanced prompts even thousands of tokens long to generate exactly what you want. minimaxir.com/2025/11/nano...
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Nano Banana can be prompt engineered for extremely nuanced AI image generation
Nano Banana allows 32,768 input tokens and I’m going to try to use them all dammit.
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Graham Stark @graham.loadingreadyrun.com · 08/11/2025
Seven *more* families? And this is only the families who have the means to sue, and (critically) the families who FOUND OUT. How many more vulnerable people has ChatGPT convinced? Will we ever know? Fuck all this. techcrunch.com/2025/11/07/s...
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Seven more families are now suing OpenAI over ChatGPT's role in suicides, delusions | TechCrunch
In one case, 23-year-old Zane Shamblin had a conversation with ChatGPT that lasted more than four hours.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Sometimes I see people like 20 tweets deep into an argument with Grok. Like, what are you doing brother? You are trying to win an argument with a vending machine.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
It shouldn’t be forgotten that a big piece of Mamdani’s campaign was simply “cities are cool and lots of people enjoy living in them” which in and of itself dismantles alot of rightwing talking points
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The Fig Economy @figgityfigs.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
This is what I’ve been saying, re: “you voted for this” discourse. Whatever I think people should have known, what I think they have no excuse not to have known, for whatever reason they seem not to have known it.
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.
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Jonathan Bernstein @jonathanbernstein.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
I think the Reagan ad is most effective not by the topic but by reminding everyone that presidents don't have to sound like insane morons.
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onion person @junlper.beer · 25/10/2025
it’s wild that this is just sort of the most openly corrupt administration of all time and they’re just allowed to do that and most media doesn’t say a word about it
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 24/10/2025
A president who can tear down 1/3 of the White House can tear down the entire White House. A president who can steal $230M from the treasury can steal $1T from the Treasury. We have both legalized and tolerated Trump’s crimes, so they will only get bigger.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Consider how few anecdotes it took for the media to declare a Free Speech on Campus crisis. Every day we get more evidence that the Republican Party is teeming with white supremacists yet elite institutions refuse to frame this as a crisis that needs the nation’s attention.
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Justin Garrison @justingarrison.com · 22/10/2024
This is how Bluesky works
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n8n @n8n.io · 20/10/2025
n8n has passed 150,000 stars on @github.com ⭐ Thank you to everyone who contributes, gives feedback, reports issues, and shares their ideas. Stars are a public signal that this work matters to many. Monday is off to a great start.😊
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10/10/2025
Breaking News: The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to María Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader, for her work promoting democracy.
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María Corina Machado Is Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize: Live Updates and Video
The Norwegian Nobel Committee praised “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela.”
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Lars Lofgren @larslofgren.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
A Reddit mod has spent years tearing down the coding bootcamp space, relentlessly attacking the leading bootcamp: Codesmith. This is, by far, the most fucked up thing I've seen on Reddit: larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...
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The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator
Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...
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Scroll @scroll.in · 04/10/2025
Eight children, aged between one and seven, died in the past month in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The authorities have suspected cough syrup poisoning as the common cause. Read more: scroll.in/latest/10872...
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/09/2025
Premium newsletter: Based on my estimates and analysis, OpenAI needs one trillion dollars in the next four years to build 17GW of data centers and other commitments, with at least $500 billion needed for company operations. There is not enough capital to do this. www.wheresyoured.at/openai-onetr...
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OpenAI Needs A Trillion Dollars In The Next Four Years
Shortly before publishing this newsletter, I spoke with analyst Gil Luria, Managing Director and Analyst at D.A. Davidson, and asked him whether the capital was there to build the 17 Gigawatts of capa...
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Morelle: Here’s the problem whenever the president speaks—and I hate to make light of this because he’s the president—but it’s almost always just fantasy. This week he’s suddenly a scientist, telling us what we should do for a fever if you’re a pregnant woman. It’s an endless series of baloney.
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Dare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
The article echoes what I’ve seen and heard from peers: AI makes it easy to produce slick but shallow work that looks plausible on the surface, yet riddled with errors or bad assumptions underneath. Your coworkers end up having to fix or redo it. It’s workslop, and it’s spreading fast.
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AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
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Scroll @scroll.in · 07/09/2025
#SlowLane | India has always been a flawed democracy. Many of its citizens were never allowed to exercise their right to protest without consequences. scroll.in/article/1086... But in Modi's era, the question is who is powerful enough to protest and go home unscathed, writes Supriya Sharma
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 04/09/2025
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
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RFK Jr. is living in a pretend anti-vax world
Unfortunately, he is wreaking havoc in the real one.
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Phillips OBrien @phillipspobrien.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
One of the most remarkable things of the last 9 months is how many Americans seem to believe the President is all powerful and Congress has no say. Actually Congress has been ineffective by choice. It has immense power if it had the courage to use it.
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Scroll @scroll.in · 05/09/2025
Any process that declares someone a non-citizen or removes them from the territory of a country must adhere to procedural justice and non-arbitrariness. The Indian government’s “pushback” policy fails on these counts. scroll.in/article/1085... ✍ Mansvini Jain
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ceej @ceej.online · 30/08/2025
my father-in-law is a “I know a guy” Guy. sadly all the old Guys are aging out of the Guy Economy. Guys are fundamentally incompatible with Hustle Culture because it’s not about “winning” a deal, it’s about collecting favors and goodwill in a mutually-beneficial cycle. protect your local Guy Economy
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Kate from Kharkiv @kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
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