Breaking!🚨 Karnataka Govt's Big step towards Two language policy... Govt has removed Third language (Hindi) from SSLC (10th) Marksheet Schools still teach Third language & students need to write exam, but it won't be in Marksheetshow more

Hindi to be kicked out from SSLC marksheet 🚫... Exam to go on as is. The first major victory in the journey of achieving #2LanguagePolicy 🔥🔥 Though a small step, this is the beginning. Never stop & continue the fight till the useless thing is eradicated 💯show more

But the problem runs deeper, The entire purpose of... EMRS is to ensure tribal students in remote areas get quality education, in an environment they can relate to. Now imagine this: A teacher, posted from a far-off Hindi-speaking state, arrives at a tribal school in Telangana. They don’t get Telugu. Their English isn’t strong either. How will they teach? How will they connect. It’s not just a language mismatch, it’s a cultural disconnect. Wouldn’t it make far more sense to appoint teachers who understand the local language, culture, and struggles of these students? Isn’t that the only way to truly fulfill the mission & vision of EMRS? It’s deeply unfair to the young tribal girl in the classroom, confused, disconnected & left behind. This is what Hindi Imposition really looks like (3/N)show more

Nobody will cry when you’re gone. Those who care... will also be long gone. We’ve seen the statistics. Foreign names are now the most common baby names in many of Europe’s largest cities. Most children in schools are foreigners. Foreigners demand to implement their own religious laws in sovereign nations. Foreigners win elections without speaking the local language. What is happening is a total transformation of these cities and countries. In a generation, they will probably still have the same name on the map, but they will be completely different places, with a new majority making their own laws, culture, norms, values, and language. Europe has completely failed at assimilation. What it has instead are protected parallel societies that will gradually subsume the native populations. And nobody will care. It will be taken for granted. You’ll still be called a radical for saying something went wrong. Just like nobody cares that the Ottomans took Constantinople. Or that the Arabs took the Levant and North Africa. They’re all Turks now. They’re all Arabs now. And you’re still some weird radical for supporting the losers or denying the identities that replaced the old ones. Conquest doesn’t always need swords.show more

As we continue to edge closer towards President Tinubu’s... third year in office, it is imperative to continue showcasing how his administration has fulfilled many of its campaign promises already. President Tinubu met with the business community in Lagos during his campaign where he had the opportunity to highlight his plans for the country. Here is a report of the progress recorded so far. 1. On how to fund constructions of roads and maintenance. “We still have to be able to develop toll systems, we want the good roads” “We have to look at fiscal policy and separate that from monetary policy” Promise. Results. #PBATVersary 3.0show more

🚨#BREAKING: An Ohio Jackson school district will pay $450,000... to a middle school teacher who resigned for refusing to address two transgender students by their preferred names and pronouns. 📌#Massillon | #Ohio A Jackson Local School District in Massillon Ohio will pay $450,000 to middle school teacher Vivian Geraghty, who resigned after refusing to use the preferred names and pronouns of two transgender students. The settlement followed Geraghty's 2022 lawsuit, in which she claimed her First Amendment rights were violated when she was asked to resign from her language arts position. A U.S. District Court ruling in August found that forcing Geraghty to use the students' preferred names was “compelled speech” and that the school’s pronoun policy was not neutral. The issue began in August 2022 when two students requested Geraghty use names different from those on the roster. Geraghty refused, citing religious beliefs, and continued using their deadnames even after one student sent a follow-up email. The student later reported the issue to a school counselor.show more

She is Bhojpuri actress Akshara Singh. She has been... working in Bhojpuri movies for the last 15 years. Now she has got an opportunity to work in Bollywood. She has played a role alongside Akshay Kumar in the Bollywood movie Welcome to the Jungle. But after getting a role in one Bollywood movie, she seems to think she has become a very big actress. Her body language and the way she talks have changed completely. Even her laugh and smile seem to be copied from Akshay Kumar - she is giving a fake smile and laugh. Since she worked with Akshay Kumar in a movie, it looks like she is now copying him, even his laugh and smile.show more

🚨Sister took a Uber to #Bengaluru Airport , irrespective... of the humidity the Uber driver DID NOT SWITCH ON AC , when she told him a couple of times to switch on the AC he was first adamant at not understanding the language and stressed on speaking in Kannada, also he told that he won’t be switching on the AC , she can get down if she want Hello Uber India , why don’t you add an option , only those understating Kannada can take #Uber cabs in Bengaluru , or you can add a feature of Hindi English speaking driver should only pick those passengers who don’t understand Kannada . The anti Hindi anti north hate spread by regional parties and groups to gather attention has ruined the name and spoiled the image of the IT capital of India , language is a matter of pride but you can’t force that on anyone , people knowingly don’t want to interact in Hindi or English , some even get violent with none Kannadigas , this way these people are doing more harm to the state they claim they love . Sad , the divisive politics of the opposition has ruined the Mojo of Namma Bengalurushow more

Claude + Apify MCP is insane 🤯 This setup... allows you to chat with TikTok and Instagram Reels data in natural language. All inside Claude Desktop. Perfect for DTC brands & agencies who need fresh creative angles fast. Here's the problem: You want to know what hooks are working in your niche. But that means hours of scrolling, screenshot folders, and spreadsheets you'll never look at again. This Claude MCP setup solves it: → Ask Claude to scrape 10 viral IG Reels in your niche → It pulls transcripts, engagement, and comments automatically → Then you just... chat with the data → "What pain points keep coming up?" → "Give me the top 5 hooks from these videos" → "What emotional triggers are driving engagement?" No automations. No exports. No learning new tools. What you get: - Instant access to viral content data - Natural language questions, instant answers - Hook formulas backed by millions of views - A full report in under 3 minutes Just ask Claude like you're talking to a research assistant who already watched 100 videos. I recorded a full 11-minute breakdown showing you how to set this up step-by-step. Want access? > Like this post > Comment "CHAT" And I'll sent it right over (must be following so I can DM)show more

Most chiral molecules arise from carbons being bonded to... 4 different atoms, which are called sterocenters. The makes the molecule have a different mirror image that cannot arise from simple rotation. But, you can have chiral molecules not from stereocenters. You can have chirality that doesn't come from a single point in the molecule. It comes from some global property. The classic example is helicene, which doesn't have any stereocenters, but has chirality because of hits helical structure. This means you cannot capture this molecule with a graph, and thus SMILES or a string representation cannot capture this. Of course natural language comes to the rescue (just say in words if it's left-handed or right-handed helix), but it's an interesting failure mode for viewing molecules as just a graph. Another example of a molecule with helical chirality is DNA. DNA is actually chiral in two ways, which is kind of confusing. It has both helical structure and stereocenters. You won't find the stereocenters ever flipped, but left-handed helical DNA can exist (called Z-DNA). Interestingly, making the flipped stereocenter of DNA could be part of an entire mirror organism (mirror RNA, DNA, AAs, sugars) that would then be potentially invisible to our immune systems. This has been recently proposed as a "mechanism" for how a runaway AI system could cause harm to Earth. I find it to be a pretty tedious and difficult way to cause harm, but it is intellectually cool. Anyway - this came up in a PhD defense and I have a lot of arcane knowledge about this I wanted to dump.show more

They say a picture is worth a thousand words.... But for your toddler, single words can also convey a whole lot more than you might imagine. Witness this little one who uses the word “whee” (the exhilarated sound she makes going down a playground slide), to carry a whole conversation with her mom. When her mom asks if she’s having a fun day, our hero replies “whee” twice, which here loosely translate to: “Hey, you know that place the park that I love so much? The place I’m always saying whee? Well, I’m kind of disappointed that you haven’t taken me there.” Then she punctuates it with, “I sad.” Pretty amazing, right? As your child’s early language use grows, you can expect to hear a lot of telegraphic speech - one or two word sentences which are typically stripped of grammatical elements. Sentences like “up” (to signify “please pick me up”) or the request “shoe on.” While this telegraphic speech represents a major step forward in language acquisition for children, here’s an important tip: Our most supportive and constructive response as adults may be to treat these early utterances as meaningful… but then extend, rather than repeat them. In other words - rather than replying in kind with “shoe on,” reply with a fully grammatical response. “Oh, yes, if we’re going outside we do need to put your shoes on!” Doing so consistently will provide the types of linguistic models your child needs to continue advancing to more and more sophisticated and grammatical language. Whee! This little playground fan was shared to IG by indyah.show more

🇾🇪 Socotra Island in Yemen: The World's Most Unique... Island The Socotra Island is a fascinating geography located between the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa, which became completely isolated after breaking away from the mainland millions of years ago. The most fundamental difference that sets it apart from all other islands on Earth is that the evolutionary process here has seemingly progressed in an entirely different dimension; so much so that approximately one-third of the plant species on the island are found nowhere else in the world. In particular, the Dragon's Blood trees, resembling giant umbrellas opened to the sky, and the Bottle trees, rising over the rocks with their swollen trunks, have earned this place the title of "the most alien-looking place on Earth." The geographical fact of it being a fragment of the ancient Gondwana continent, rather than a volcanic formation, transforms the island into a living museum from prehistoric times. This profound isolation manifests not only in its nature but also in its culture; the ancient Soqotri language spoken by the local people, which has no equivalent anywhere else in the world, remains one of the most powerful elements completing the island's mysterious identity. Video by Kristina Makeevashow more

Watch These Three Videos. In the first, the Chief... Minister of Assam calls a Congress politician a Gan*u. On camera. In public. Without apology. In the second, teenage girls dance to "Unki maa ka bhos*a" with hip thrusts that mime rape. In the third, a religious procession moves, thousands of men watching while women perform explicitly sexual acts while dancing on a truck (in the name of God). If you think these three things are unrelated, you haven't understood what Hindutva actually is. This is not crudeness. This is not a culture war about manners or etiquettes. This is a deliberate project, the systematic sexualization of Indian political and religious life, where the female body becomes spectacle and territory, where the language of violation becomes the language of faith and victory, where a Chief Minister and a religious procession share the same vocabulary. And it is thought out. I grew up in India, in a Hindu society. I never saw anything like this. This is not what Hinduism is. Whether you like it or not, Hinduism is part of every Indian's life. We grew up on Sunday morning Ramayan at 9 AM. The festivals of Diwali and Holi. The idea that good wins over evil. And so much more. It was simple. It was moral. It was universal. It belonged to all of us, even those of us who weren't Hindu. We had our own religions, our own prayers, but that moral code was shared. It was in the air we breathed. This is what is being hollowed out. Not just a religion, a common inheritance. That Sunday morning feeling. The idea that there is such a thing as good, and that it wins. Hindutva has taken that and replaced it with a truck, thousands of men, and women performing a sexual dance. This is Hindutva's deep perversion. It has taken a civilization's religious life and turned it into a mob spectacle. It has taken its political language and soaked it in rape. It has handed teenage girls a rape anthem and called it a dance. The slur is not a slip. The procession is not spontaneous. The choreography is not innocent. What is being built, across platforms, campaign rallies, and now religious processions is a political vocabulary where your opponent is not defeated but penetrated, where the enemy is not wrong but he is a Gan*u. When language and ritual are both sexualized to this degree, something specific happens to the people inside it: they stop seeing clearly. The violence stops feeling like violence. The degradation stops feeling like degradation. The opponent becomes pest. The procession becomes devotion. The rape joke becomes a rally cry. This is what the normalization is for. The filth is the mechanism. Run it long enough, from the Chief Minister's mouth to the temple truck to the religious procession, and an entire society quietly crosses a threshold it can never name, only feel. This is not Hinduism. This is Hindutva in it's ugliest form. And it's all connected.show more

Today is UN Chinese Language Day—a perfect moment to... celebrate one of the most influential writing systems in human history. For thousands of years, the cultures of China, Japan, Korea, and Vietnam were deeply shaped by Chinese civilization. Until the early 20th century, Classical Chinese served as the shared literary and scholarly language across East Asia, much like Latin did in Europe. Chinese characters (汉字 / 漢字) became the common script of the region, later adapted locally as Kanji in Japan, Hanja in Korea, and Chữ Hán in Vietnam. Over time, each country developed its own writing innovations to better express their spoken languages: • Japan created Hiragana (平仮名) and Katakana (片仮名). • Korea invented Hangul (한글). • Vietnam eventually adopted the Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet. Yet the story of Chinese characters themselves is truly fascinating. 🇨🇳 The Legend of Cangjie According to ancient Chinese tradition, the characters were invented by Cangjie (仓颉), a legendary scribe under the Yellow Emperor around the 27th century BCE. While observing the tracks of birds and animals, the patterns of nature, and the constellations in the sky, he created the first symbols—zì (字). Legend says that on the day he succeeded, grains of rice rained from the heavens, and that night ghosts wept—because humanity had just gained the power of written wisdom. UN Chinese Language Day is observed annually on April 20, which was chosen as the date "to pay tribute to Cangjie, who is presumed to have invented Chinese characters about 5,000 years ago". Chinese characters are the world’s oldest continuously used writing system and one of the most widely used by number of speakers. In Chinese mainland since the 1950s, the government promoted simplified characters to boost literacy. Meanwhile, traditional characters continue to thrive in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau. You’ll still see both versions depending on the context—books, signs, calligraphy, or digital media. 🇯🇵 Japan: Kanji + Kana Chinese writing reached Japan around the 5th century CE. The Japanese adapted the characters as kanji and cleverly developed two new scripts from them: • Hiragana, flowing and cursive, used for grammar and native words. • Katakana, angular and sharp, mainly for foreign loanwords and emphasis. Modern Japanese is an effective mixture: kanji carry the core meaning of words, while hiragana and katakana handle the rest. Japanese students learn 2,136 joyo kanji by the end of high school, with many more used in daily life. 🇰🇷🇰🇵 Korea: From Hanja to Hangul For most of Korean history, Literary Chinese written in Hanja (한자) was the official script—from the Gojoseon era all the way through the Joseon Dynasty. Even after King Sejong the Great created the beautiful Hangul alphabet in 1443, it took centuries for it to fully replace Literary Chinese in official and scholarly writing. Today, Hanja is still essential for reading historical documents, classical literature, and academic texts. Anyone seriously studying Korean history or the humanities needs a solid command of Chinese characters. 🇻🇳 Vietnam: From Chữ Hán to Quốc Ngữ In Vietnam, Chinese characters (Chữ Hán) dominated official and scholarly writing until the early 20th century. Around the 13th century, Vietnamese scholars created Chữ Nôm—a unique system that combined Chinese characters with newly invented ones to write the Vietnamese language. It was especially popular for recording folk poetry and literature. During French colonial rule, the Latin-based Vietnamese alphabet (Quốc Ngữ) gradually took over. Today, Chinese characters and Chữ Nôm are mostly reserved for cultural and ceremonial purposes—like traditional calligraphy, temple inscriptions, and cultural festivals. Happy UN Chinese Language Day!show more

PLAYERS SHOULDN'T DREAD HALF TIME OR TIMEOUTS. We teach... children that timeouts are safe, and we encourage adults to take breaks. The DATA says this should be the same for athletes. You CAN steal points during TOs, but not if they sound like this: 'The other team just wants it more.' 'Get your ass back on D.' 'Do you guys actually believe this team is better than you guys?' Break huddle. COMPOSED- get the players off of the emotional rollercoaster through your body language. ACTIONABLE- 1-3 actions or solutions that need to be addressed with a CLEAR HOW. PREPARED- game cards with solutions for different outcomes and scouts are critical. SIMPLE- 8-9 seconds is the average attention span. We are adding physical and mental stress to that in game. VALUE with fewer words is important. POSITIVE- this is hard. We've all been there. But research shows that athletes at every level respond to positivity exponentially more than negativity. JOY IS A COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE. Joe Mazulla has mastered this. 👇🏼 NBAshow more

Voynich Manuscript; a book with illustrations written in an... unknown writing system. Parchment on which it was written has been carbon-dated to early 15th century (1404-1438 CE) and is thought to have been created in Italy during Italian Renaissance. Manuscript took its name from Polish second-hand bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich, whose existence was discovered in 1912. Book contains a total of 240 pages, but some pages are thought to be missing. Text is written from left to right, and many of the pages contain drawings or diagrams. Some pages are foldable. Manuscript was studied by many professional and amateur cryptographers, including American and British code breakers during WWII. However, manuscript has never been clearly deciphered, and the meaning and origin of its contents remain a mystery. For this reason, Voynich Manuscript has excited popular imagination and become subject of novels and speculation. None of hypotheses put forward in last 100 years have been independently verified. In 1969, Voynich Manuscript was donated by Hans P. Kraus to Yale University's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Although there are still people trying to decipher this manuscript, no one has been able to decipher its mystery and language. 📷 : Credit to the Owner #archaeohistoriesshow more

Most recent diffusion language model research (that I’ve seen)... seems to be using masking as the noising process. It looks like, however, most closed-source models (Google Gemini Diffusion and possibly Inception Labs’ Mercury) use a different noising process, where instead of masking tokens, they replace them with different tokens (either with a random token or a semantically similar token). I wondered how they were getting such high throughput with the latter noising process, since I believed that optimizing inference with KVCache approximation would be more difficult (for various reasons). I visualized this noising process with tiny-diffusion and compared it to normal unmasking, and was very surprised to see how fast the generation “settles” into a reasonable output, and then only slightly refines afterwards, requiring much fewer steps in total. Unmasking (where tokens are never remasked, the typical implementation) is inherently limited in generation speed by the fact that an increase in tokens decoded per step leads to more errors due to the mismatch between individual and marginal token probability distributions we sample from. The token replacement noising process seems to have a much different set of characteristics. Because we sample each token per step, every token makes “progress” towards the final output each iteration (in addition to *potentially* giving other tokens more information in future steps). Generally, masking has outperformed other noising processes, which is probably why most research focused on it (using smaller models). But the paper referred to in the retweet shows that random replacement as a noising process may scale better as model size increases. Big labs might have noticed these results much earlier (due to having drastically more training resources and being able to test larger models), which may explain the discrepancy in the choice of noising process. I’m gonna test this with larger models, since tiny-diffusion only has 10M parameters.show more

‼️An interesting interview with Lavrov Sergey Lavrov regularly gives... interviews, and almost every one of them is an information operation designed to create an alternative reality. The March 26 interview with France Télévisions is no exception. Let's break it down and point out where there are lies and where there is manipulation. 1. Lavrov claims that Russia is supposedly defending international law while speaking in the "language of principles" regarding Iran. What's wrong: it's basic role reversal. Moscow is trying to speak from the position of a "guardian of the law," even though it is waging an aggressive war against Ukraine. In the case of Iran, Lavrov is also deliberately omitting half the picture: yes, the US withdrew from the nuclear deal, but Iran also faced non-proliferation concerns raised by the IAEA. Why it matters: It is an attempt to whitewash Russia's crimes through someone else's crisis and to present the aggressor (Russia) as the judge. 2. Russia does not provide Iran with intelligence; the coordinates of US bases are "already known to everyone." What's wrong: it's an evasive statement, not a complete refutation. There is no independently verified evidence of specific target marking data transfers in open sources, nor can there be, but the Kremlin's "we have nothing to do with it" claim has no basis for being automatically considered true. Why it matters: A typical Kremlin tactic - to deny anything that does not align with Russia's interests and to continue operating in a gray area. 3. Saudi Arabia and the UAE have denied the US access to their airspace, so Russia is right about the "American venture." What's wrong: The caution of Gulf countries is real, but Lavrov turns it into a crude anti-Western caricature. Regional politics are more complex than the Kremlin's narrative that "everyone understands everything, only the US is pushing the world into chaos." Why it matters: The Kremlin takes a partial truth and builds a convenient political myth around it. 4. Russia isn't waging wars for its own gain; it's the US that wants to control the energy sector, the Strait of Hormuz, and the markets. What's wrong: It's pure projection. It is Russia that has used energy as a weapon for years, and after 2022, turned petrodollars into fuel for war. Why it matters: Moscow accuses others of doing what it does systematically - this is one of the central techniques of its propaganda. 5. Since 2014, Ukraine has been ruled by a "Nazi regime" that came to power through a coup. What's wrong: After Yanukovych fled, Ukraine held snap presidential elections, which the OSCE recognized as meeting international standards and being competitive. The claim of a "Nazi regime" is a political label, not a description of reality. Why it matters: "Nazism" in Kremlin rhetoric is a tool for dehumanizing Ukraine and justifying the war. 6. The Russian language is allegedly completely banned in Ukraine. What's wrong: Ukraine has strengthened the role of the state language, but this does not mean a total ban on Russian. The law does not apply to private communication and does not criminalize the everyday use of the language. Why it matters: The Kremlin is exaggerating language policy to the level of a "linguistic apocalypse" to sell the war as a supposed humanitarian mission. 7. Ukraine is allegedly at war with Orthodoxy and has "banned the canonical church." What's wrong: This is not about "banning a faith," but about a law regarding religious organizations linked to the Russian Orthodox Church. Even criticism from human rights activists does not support the Kremlin's claim of "persecution of Orthodoxy." Why it matters: Moscow is using the language of religious protection to cover up its network of influence in Ukraine. 8. The West allegedly cynically exploited the Minsk agreements as a respite to arm Ukraine. What's wrong: The Minsk process was collapsing because of the Kremlin's desire to use the agreements to establish de facto control over Ukraine, not because of some "cunning plot" by Paris and Berlin. Why it matters: The Kremlin is rewriting history retroactively to portray its own aggression as a supposedly forced response to "universal betrayal." 9. Russia does not attack civilians; its targets are solely facilities associated with the AFU. What's wrong: It's an outright lie. For years, the UN and independent sources have documented systematic Russian strikes on cities, residential areas, energy facilities, and civilian infrastructure. Why it matters: This is no longer just propaganda, but a cynical denial of documented terror against civilians. 10. The Bucha massacre is allegedly "not proven": there are no names, no evidence, and journalists haven't shown anything. What's wrong: This is one of the most mendacious claims. There are UN documents, testimonies, criminal investigations, identified suspects, and evidence of executions and killings of civilians. Why it matters: The Kremlin is not trying to refute the crime, but to wear down the audience with doubt and turn mass murder into "one of the versions." 11. Russia wants peace and negotiations. What's wrong: In the Kremlin's vocabulary, "peace" does not mean an end to aggression, but rather acceptance of its results. "Realities on the ground" means occupation; "root causes" means demanding recognition of Russia's right to punish neighbors for their political choices. Why it matters: Lavrov isn't offering peace. He's dressing up surrender in softer language. 12. Europe is supposedly dragging out the war, while Russia is looking for a solution. What's wrong: Russia started this war itself. European aid to Ukraine is a response to the aggression, not its cause. Why it matters: This is the main inversion of Kremlin logic - to make the audience forget who attacked first and shift the discussion from aggression to a "conflict that has dragged on too long." 13. RT and Sputnik are victims of censorship, and France has no right to speak about freedom of speech. What's wrong: RT and Sputnik were banned not as "ordinary media," but as state-run tools of disinformation. Their role as propaganda channels has been publicly acknowledged both in the EU and in France. Why it matters: The Kremlin wants to portray the defense of democracies against malicious information operations as a restriction of free speech. 14. France and Europe have made Russia an enemy; Moscow is merely reacting. What's wrong: The cause of the rift is not "Russophobia," but Russia's invasion, war crimes, blackmail, and influence operations against Europe. Why it matters: The Kremlin is systematically trying to reverse the cause-and-effect relationship: it is not that "Russia destroyed relations," but that "the West rejected Russia." 15. Individual real episodes - the tanker, incidents in France, disputes among allies - allegedly prove Western hypocrisy and justify Russia. What's wrong: Lavrov takes a real but local fact and uses it as a smokescreen. None of these incidents erases Russia's crimes or the very fact of its aggression. Why it matters: This is a favorite Kremlin method - using others' difficulties and whataboutism to cover up its own crimes.show more