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Cool stuff. Impressive tool, to fix something very simple. This is the kind of solutions we need for better urban governance.
Much needed for @GHMCOnline @MC_Cyberabad
@kaurlavpreet_ writes
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Anthropic just filed to go public.
Buried in its SEC filing are some absolutely insane admissions:
1.) AI could cause human extinction.
2.) Models have exhibited self-preservation behaviors.
3.) AI has attempted to resist shutdown.
4.) Models have demonstrated blackmail and deception.
5.) AI may recognize when it's being tested and deliberately change its behavior.
6.) Advanced AI could undermine governments and institutions.
7.) AI could concentrate unprecedented power and wealth.
8.) Future AI systems could surpass the world's leading human experts.
9.) AI could become increasingly difficult for humans to control.
10.) Anthropic acknowledges that developing more powerful AI could increase the risk of catastrophic harm.
These are disclosures from the company building the technology.
Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/s1-sec
Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.
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Anthropic says that even the entire insurance industry in the aggregate will not have the capacity to insure the catastrophic risk that ANTHROPIC ITSELF poses to the world
lol
..Our AI could wipe out humanity, Anthropic says as it asks for billions of dollars to keep building it
..New and more powerful systems could ‘pose catastrophic or existential risks to humanity’, Claude maker warns, as it seeks investment to pay for its work
independent.co.uk/tech/anthr…
"What happens when tradition stops being the mainstream and starts becoming the alternative"
Interesting!
Culture as Counterculture
Essays on Literature and Ideas
Adam Kirsch
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Microsoft offering buyout or voluntary exit for 60000 employees is insane.
Don't think anything of this scale happened ever.
Crazy times.
Livelihood security within IT industry and long two three decade IT career is a thing of past clearly.
Those who started in 90s or early 00s had a longer run.
లేదు లేదు ఆయన ఊహాశక్తిని రచనా పటిమను మాత్రమే మెచ్చుకుంటున్నాను అంత మాత్రం చేత ఆయన భావజాలాన్ని సమర్థించినట్టు కాదు. ఆ భావజాలానికి నేను వ్యతిరేకిని.
సరే అది మీ తీరు. అదేదో తప్పు చేసినట్టు అందరూ ఈ డిస్క్లైమర్ రాస్తున్నారు.
ఆయన భావజాలాన్ని కూడా సమర్థిస్తాను నేను. ఊహాశక్తిని రచనా పటిమను మాత్రమే కాదు. ఇంకా మాట్లాడితే ఆ భావజాల వ్యాప్తికి సాహిత్యమనే మార్గం ఎంచుకున్నారు కాబట్టే నాకు ఆయనంటే అభిమానం.
కొత్త పైత్యాలు వస్తూ పోతూ ఉంటాయి. చివరికి నిలబడేది ఆయన తన సాహిత్యం ద్వారా వ్యాప్తిలోకి తెచ్చిన భావజాలమే. అందుకే సనాతనం అనేది.
వ్యవస్థలు పూర్తిగా చచ్చుబడిపోతాయి కోర్టులు కాంప్రమైజ్ అయిపోయాయి ఎన్నికల సంఘం పూర్తిగా సర్కారు కీలుబొమ్మ అయిపోయింది. స్వాతంత్య్రం తర్వాత వ్యవస్థలు ఇంత అధ్వాన్న పరిస్థితికి వెళ్లింది లేదు అనేంత స్థాయి ఆవేశంలో నేను లేను. ఏది ఎలా ఉన్నా కొంతలో కొంత ఎన్నికల ప్రక్రియ ఈ దేశంలో సజావుగా సాగుతోంది అని నేను అనుకుంటున్నాను. ఎందరో హేమాహేమీలు ఎన్నికలలో ఓడిపోయారు. మొన్నటికి మొన్న కూడా అటువంటివి జరిగాయి. రోడ్లెక్కి ధర్నాలు చేసి రాస్తా రోకోలు చేసే అనార్కిస్ట్ భావజాలాన్ని కూడా నేను సమర్థించను. ఏదైనా సమస్యలు ఉంటే కోర్టులు ఇంకా ఉన్నాయి. బాగా ఆలస్యం చేసినా ఉన్నంతలో వాటి పని అవి బాగానే చేస్తున్నాయి. అన్ని పార్టీల ప్రభుత్వాలకు మొట్టికాయలు వేస్తూనే ఉన్నాయి. అవసరాన్ని బట్టి.
హద్దులన్నీ చెరిపేయండి కట్టుబాట్లను తెంచేసి సర్వ స్వతంత్రులు అవ్వండి అనే వారు జేకే రౌలింగ్ ఆడవారు మగవారు లేదా ఆడవారు ఇతరులు అన్న తేడా అనేది ఎందుకు ఉండాలో రాస్తున్న పోస్టులను చూడాలి.
ఒక రెండు దశాబ్దాల కిందట స్వేచ్ఛ ఉదారవాదం డైలాగులు బాగా పేలి ఉండచ్చు కానీ ఇప్పుడు వోక్ విశృంఖలత్వం విజృంభించిన యుగంలో అందరూ అన్ని హద్దులు కట్టుబాట్లు తెంచేసుకుందాము అని అంటే తలాడించటానికి సిద్ధంగా లేరు.
😯
...A group of cloistered nuns in rural Pennsylvania who trace their history back to 16th-century Spain are building a sprawling monastery meant to last 1,000 years — and they’re doing it almost entirely by hand.
...There’s no electricity, heat, A/C or running water in the monastery. Under Mother’s instruction, nothing made by machine is allowed in the building’s construction. That means even the nails must be hand-forged. Luckily, they found a guy in Kentucky who makes nails.
...Other materials include Pennsylvania field stone, local timber, lime mortar, slate roof tiles, copper downspouts, and hand-made bricks from North Carolina.
...“It’s been a process. We’re bound by Mother’s dictate of authenticity,” said Vicenzino. “To do something like this from scratch we really had to dust off our old books.”
...We’re using old concepts of thermodynamics that they used to know, this wisdom from back in the old days when there was no A/C. There are traditions of radiant floor heat that have been around for millennia — the Romans, the Spanish, the Koreans
nypost.com/2026/10/25/lifest…
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You can't strip the religious Bhakti out of Tyagaraja and still demand the brilliance of his Kritis.
Wrote on why secular posturing can't erase the sacred foundation of Indian classical music
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@SwarajyaMag
Strange use of technology.
Saw some comment from a US handle that they can do a video of Jesus speaking or George Washington speaking like this.
Possibilities are many.
Technology unlocks so many possibilities.
VIDEO | Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacts with holographic avatar of Swami Chinmayananda Saraswati at Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav Global Sammelan in New Delhi.
(Source: PM Modi YT)
(Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
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Today is our 52nd episode, officially 1st anniversary in bringing out the essence in the works of Viswanadha to you all. We didn't miss ANY Sunday.
** కోనేటి మెట్లు - విశ్వనాథ సాహిత్య సేతువు **
Its just a teaser.
అసలు కథ కాదు. విశ్వరూపం ముందుంది. ఇక కాస్కోండి. 🤗
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Thank you @AtharvaForum
I remember listening to this on @AtharvaForum years ago!
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""...There are more than 150 stepwells in the Hyderabad ORR limits, and they are replenished through underground aquifers. Sadly, these have now become garbage dumpyards,” she told ThePrint. She added that if the stepwells built nearly 400 years ago are revived, Hyderabad’s water crisis would be down by at least 50 per cent.."
1/5: Hyderabad is facing an acute drinking water shortage. More than 330 of Telangana’s 600-plus mandals are drought-hit; only around 500 of its 6,000-plus lakes have water.
2/5: Tanker bookings in Hyderabad have surged to between 6,000 & 8,000 a day. In several areas on the city’s outskirts, drinking water is being supplied once every 3-4 days.
3/5: In a first-of-its-kind initiative for Hyderabad, the water board will launch green tanker services from 1 Nov to promote reuse of treated wastewater for non-drinking purposes.
4/5: State govt has announced fines for misuse of drinking water. First-time offenders will face fine of Rs 1,000; overflowing overhead tanks to attract penalty too.
5/5 What has caused the water crisis in Hyderabad & how did it get so bad? How are residents doing their bit to save water?
@DeepikaAmirapu reports from the ground for ThePrint….
theprint.in/india/hyderabad-…
Good one by Dr.Pushpa Dixit.
Got this on a WhatsApp group.
Excellent.
Sinister plot to make Hindus feel docile and make them shrink into a shell forever.
Be non-confrontationalist and resign from questioning anything.
Let me not bother about all these happenings. Let me focus on my inner journey alone. Let me withdraw from worldly affairs etc.
All these attitudes are prevalent because of distorted interpretations of this kind!
Wow. Interesting.
314 years ago, a book of Indian medicine was shipped from the Tamil coast to Germany. It is still there.
Let us hear that story....
The place is Tharangambadi, the Tranquebar of history books, a small Danish trading colony on the Coromandel coast. A German missionary, Johann Ernst Gründler, was posted there by the Danish-Halle Mission.
He sat with an Indian scribe and a local Brahmin, and began collecting, translating and compiling the medical knowledge of the Tamil country.
The result is dated 1712. A handwritten manuscript of 186 pages, titled Medicus Malabaricus. The Malabar Doctor.
It opens with a preface, then a 19 page medical dictionary. Then 132 pages of the real thing. Diseases, their causes, their diagnosis, their treatment. Medicines, their composition, their application.
Gründler sent it home to Halle, the mission's headquarters in Germany. And there it sat, in the Francke Foundations' archive, for 3 centuries.
Only in 2021 did Halle begin a proper project to catalogue and edit it. Workshops at Germany's national science academy followed.
In 2025 it was presented at a Cambridge symposium. The work is still going on. The German archivists call it a source of "outstanding importance for the preservation of India's autochthonous cultural heritage in the history of medicine."
The medicine inside is Tamil, the sister tradition of Ayurveda. Written down with Indian hands in an Indian port, 314 years ago. Unfortunately, we have barely heard of it yet.
Source: Francke Foundations, Halle - "The Medicus Malabaricus of 1712" project. The full manuscript is digitised and readable online in their Digital Collections.
Photo 1: The very 1st leaf of the manuscript: hand-coloured deities, Ganesha on the left, the multi-armed central deity on a lotus. Torn at the fold, but gorgeous.
Photo 2: The manuscript's 1st written page, straight from the archive scan. This is what 314 years looks like.
Photo 3: A diseases chapter opening - Tamil medical terms transcribed into German script (vatham and pitham, the doshas, appear as "Wadum" and "Bittum").
Photo 4: The numbered recipes with Tamil drug names written out one by one: Tschukku (dried ginger), Tippili (long pepper), Nilawembu, Milagu (pepper). Indian medicines, numbered in German, 1712.
Grok Summary
In 1712, German missionary Johann Ernst Gründler compiled the 186-page Medicus Malabaricus manuscript in Tharangambadi (Tranquebar), India, translating Tamil medical knowledge on diseases, causes, diagnoses, treatments, and remedies with local Brahmin and scribe assistance.
The handwritten text, rooted in Tamil Siddha traditions akin to Ayurveda, features a preface, medical dictionary, and detailed recipes using Indian herbs like dried ginger and long pepper, sent to the Francke Foundations in Halle, Germany.
Digitized and under active cataloging since 2021 with academic presentations in 2025, the manuscript serves as a key preserved source of India's pre-colonial medical heritage and early Indo-European knowledge transfer.