Sadly, the US does a very efficient job of exporting their culture to the rest of the world, making it the global default. India has traditionally seen learning as high status, but that's changed a bit now. Imagine watching BBT as a teen - you'd never want to study physics

If a simple coffee shop has a bot farm with 100s of phones to amplify their message, please consider what a foreign agency or adversarial operator is running on your favorite social media platform. Especially today, please consider that the opinions you read, the calls to

How do you know he’s not doing this out of hate and spite? You don’t.

Me: that guy I met at the party was pretty cool, maybe we can shoot some hoops sometime That guy: *writing a letter to a former lover that years later will be included in a best selling curation of his correspondence* tonight I met a man without substance

🚨 India has doubled its Tiger population in just over a decade, now hosting approximately 3,682 tigers, about 75% of the World's Tiger Population. 👏🫡

Based af 🗿🗿🗿

The Sopranos - Nobody loves me but you. Holy shit

Ambrosia

I find it hard to accept that a song like Phoolon ke Rang Se can exist in the same world that has so much crudeness and cruelty

You can see here clearly how work during the industrial age was fundamentally different from today’s work regime Communities like this were dominated by single type enterprises. There was a shared destiny. You could see, viscerally, the step-wise progress of a given project

“I am Harambe the White, and I come back to you now, at the turn of the tide.”

Nostalgia is not a bad thing, but the Durga Puja pandals and idols nowadays just blow away the kind of the stuff we grew up with in the eighties and nineties. A lot of the traditional work then was excellent as well, but some of the theme pujas today are just unbelievably

When an elite performer emerges at a young age, people often mistakenly think they had a background like any other kid, and once they found the right talent domain, their latent superpowers emerge overnight. Like they got bitten by a mutant spider and woke up as Spiderman the

Such a pretty place

We were closer to 2030 than 2020 on New Year's Day 2021. Time only marches forward, and there is no Herculean effort that could have turned the clock back.

i'm chronically online in a different and more sophisticated way than you are

John Von Neumann, the smartest man to ever live, an incomparable polymath who died at just 54.

Wild bears are more compatible with high-trust pro-social culture than vast swaths of the global population

Flexing don’t gotta make sense