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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
That's a brilliant title, but here are 70 even better, more refined versions below.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I am currently on leave. For any urgent matter: wait
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Our mission-driven team is looking for someone who can use #ChatGPT and Claude for everything they do.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
Timely and thoughtful @economist.com piece on running effective panel discussions. www.economist.com/business/202...
economist.com
The three rules of conference panels
One unfiltered moderator, three panellists and a universal experience
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Tweets vs streets in #NYC? “Let’s be clear: They have a record of tweets,” Mr. Adams said at the launch of his general election campaign last week. “I have a record on the streets.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/06/29/n...
nytimes.com
How Social Media Videos Fueled Zohran Mamdani’s Success
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Thank you for your attention to this matter. #TYFYATTM
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Mary Menton @marymenton.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
"We need storytellers who can translate devastation into empathy & urgency. We need narratives that cut through the noise & saturated social timelines – that can really highlight why the crisis deserves attention." www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025... by @uiqtidar.bsky.social
thenewhumanitarian.org
A world in need of poets
Beyond devastating numbers on need and impact, it is important to highlight the humanity of those in crises.
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The New Humanitarian @newhumanitarian.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Beyond devastating numbers on need and impact, it is important to highlight the humanity of those in crises. Read more: ⬇️
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A world in need of poets
Beyond devastating numbers on need and impact, it is important to highlight the humanity of those in crises.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
“Maybe when the world seems to be ending it needs poets.” My op-ed in @newhumanitarian.bsky.social explores why crisis comms must be more human. It's inspired by Pulitzer-winning poet @mosababutoha.bsky.social's essays on #Gaza. A world in need of poets 👇 www.thenewhumanitarian.org/opinion/2025...
thenewhumanitarian.org
A world in need of poets
Beyond devastating numbers on need and impact, it is important to highlight the humanity of those in crises.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Temperatures of 45°C\113°F with relative humidity of 50%. These conditions are expected to become far more common than they already are in South Asia. @economist.com www.economist.com/interactive/...
economist.com
If India chokes less, it will fry more
Pollution may have shielded it from the worst of global warming. That will change
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WIRED @wired.com · 29/05/2025
A glacier partially collapsed in Switzerland, burying the village of Blatten in a huge landslide of ice, rock, and mud after residents had been evacuated. Scientists called the collapse of the glacier “unprecedented” in the Swiss Alps.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don't have jobs." Interesting. @axios.com www.axios.com/2025/05/28/a...
axios.com
Behind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbath
Hardly anyone is paying attention.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Strategize a strategy like nobody has ever strategized.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Robust knowledge of robustness is highly desirable.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
If #Lahore can make a Food Street in order to connect to one of its traditions, why can’t it have a ‘Book Street’ in the city as well? www.dawn.com/news/1897811...
dawn.com
‘Book Street’?
Attendance at literature festivals, sales at book fairs indicate there is demand for such spaces, a yearning among the young to engage.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
If you read only one post today make sure it’s not this one!
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
"It’s the neck-up version that I can see #AI being capable of...The body and soul part will be harder." Will computers get there in a few years? Great @nytimes.com piece on whether animated characters can truly come to life without humans. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
nytimes.com
Opinion | A.I. Is Coming for Hank Azaria’s ‘Simpsons’ Voices
Soon enough, artificial intelligence may be able to recreate the sounds — but there will be something missing.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
"The whole origin story of this was a rejection of central banks and traditional finance." #bitcoin @financialtimes.com ig.ft.com/trump-bitcoi...
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Can Trump make bitcoin useful?
The US president is embracing the cryptocurrency, exciting enthusiasts and concerning sceptics
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
There should also be an analysis of how @anthropic.com is helping people with back pain spend less time hunched over their laptops. (By letting them finish work faster.) #AI www.anthropic.com/news/the-ant...
anthropic.com
The Anthropic Economic Index
Announcing our new Economic Index, and the first results on AI use in the economy
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"On today’s #internet, I am classified, no matter what I do, as a consumer, rather than a human who’s intrigued by other people’s lives." @alissawilkinson.bsky.social on the similarities and a key difference between Reels and (Frederik Wiseman) documentaries. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/m...
nytimes.com
What an Instagram Reel Has in Common With a 4-Hour Documentary
Humans love to watch other humans, whether it’s movies by Frederick Wiseman or vertical videos on your phone. In a way, we’re all documentarians.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Feel like a @harvard.edu mba www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
wsj.com
Even Harvard M.B.A.s Are Struggling to Land Jobs
The latest crop of elite business-school graduates is taking months to find new jobs.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
Frog in a pot of water 🐸🔥 @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/2305...
ft.com
Young people are hanging out less — it may be harming their mental health
Could the decline of face-to-face interaction tie together several modern mysteries?
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Just like I think in Urdu. Maybe GPT’s first language is Chinese. @techcrunch.com techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/o...
techcrunch.com
OpenAI's AI reasoning model 'thinks' in Chinese sometimes and no one really knows why | TechCrunch
OpenAI's o1 'reasoning' model sometimes switches to Chinese and other languages as it reasons through problems, and AI experts don't know exactly why.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Thanks for amplifying 😊
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a man is squatting down holding a black amplifier that says ' peavey ' on it
ALT: a man is squatting down holding a black amplifier that says ' peavey ' on it
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Explains how those intermittent fasting people got so rich. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/finance/comm...
wsj.com
Why Breakfast Is Busting Your Food Budget
Coffee and orange-juice market prices recently hit record highs, fueling the sharply higher bills shoppers are paying for some grocery staples.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
When is East India Company moving into the broadband space? Internet in #London is terrible.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
No one is going to win here
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
👍
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Work smarter, not harder. @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/business/202...
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FTSE 100 bosses make more money in 2025 by noon today than average worker in a year
Bosses to hit milestone on third working day of 2025 with median hourly pay of £1,298, says High Pay Centre
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
This is actually pretty meta www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
rollingstone.com
Facebook and Instagram to Unleash AI-Generated 'Users' No One Asked For
Meta says it will integrate AI-generated characters into Facebook and Instagram with their own user accounts.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
What are the odds? @newscientist.bsky.social www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...
newscientist.com
The surprising maths that explains why coincidences are so common
From repeat lightning strikes to identical lottery draws, mathematician Sarah Hart explains why incredibly unlikely events happen all the time
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Basically without #coffee, we wouldn’t have had anything including the @bsky.app youtu.be/62wEk02YKs0?...
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Coffee and what it does to your body - BBC World Service
YouTube video by BBC World Service
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
"One fundamental difference I've noticed between creators and traditional news organizations is the lack of a rush to be so declarative.” Ironically, the lead spells out the conclusion here too. Great article, though. @cwarzel.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
theatlantic.com
The End of News
Legacy media has a trust problem, but it’s not too late to solve it.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
With flexible home working arrangements
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a man is smiling while lifting weights in a gym .
ALT: a man is smiling while lifting weights in a gym .
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Why does everything online look the same? Because it is. Most of what we read is by Claude & GPT. Most of what we see is put together by algorithms and Elon Musk. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/o...
nytimes.com
Opinion | Is Creativity Dead?
Or is the algorithm just hiding it from you?
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
So prescient, @theatlantic.com! I think it did! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
theatlantic.com
Is Google Making Us Stupid?
What the Internet is doing to our brains
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Don’t let good be the enemy of bad.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park
ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Skip add in 5 minutes… #ChatGPT techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/a...
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Ads might be coming to ChatGPT — despite Sam Altman not being a fan | TechCrunch
OpenAI is toying with a move into ads, per the Financial Times. CFO Sarah Friar told the newspaper it's weighing an ads business model, with plans to be
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Only fitting for the year when #AI took over most of our thinking and writing and supercharged the already trivial #socialmedia timelines.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Thanks to @bsky.app, #socialmedia managers now have to post the same post on one more platform.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Is your boss talking too much? #AI is jealous. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/53d8...
ft.com
Is your boss talking too much? AI can tell them
New tools will flag when someone is dominating a meeting
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Always a great idea to buy a $3,500 coffee machine when it’s $30 cheaper on #BlackFriday. Worth the wait.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Simple but helpful calculation by Google’s #AI
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Some other proposals include charging people for thinking of a vacation in Wales, saying the word Wales or reading social media posts about Wales.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
I don’t know who needs to hear this so I am not going to say it.
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
The #conservatives may be easier on the ear but #liberals cosplay with intentionality and have their own platform to talk about it. @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/cd01...
ft.com
Liberals speak a different language
‘Gaslighting’, ‘cosplay’, ‘intentionality’ — the American left doesn’t realise how odd it sounds to most people
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
No
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Followed by another mass exodus. Good to see you!
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Uiqtidar @uiqtidar.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hey @bsky.app, Is it blue sky 🌌 or blue ski ⛷️?
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