Big Win For Centre In Antrix-Devas Case: Delhi HC Sets Aside 15,000 Cr Arbitration Award

Twitter In Peril

A whistle-blower complaint from Twitter Inc.’s former head of security, claiming severe shortcomings in the social media company’s handling of users’ personal data, will have wide ramifications for the business.

Twitter Faces Legal, Political Peril in Whistle-Blower Case

Twitter Misled Regulators

Quick notes: Overtreating | Mantra meditation...

• “Doctor, is this really necessary?”: Prevent unnecessary medical care — by asking your Doctor these 4 questions first: "Is this really necessary? What are the risks? Are there other options? What happens if I don’t do anything?"



• Doctor's dependency on Big Pharma: The medical industry spends a great deal on marketing to physicians directly, with the majority of the “physician-focused marketing budget” spent on “detailing.” Detailing is when “pharmaceutical representatives talk directly to physicians to ‘promote and market their companies’ drugs.’


• Fastest-charging EV: China's Xpeng G9 SUV claimed to be world's fastest-charging mass-produced EV



• Self-driving tractor: Foxconn to make self-driving electric tractor in Ohio



• Chinese Exascale Supercomputer: OceanLight, operated by the University of Science and Technology of China, races neck and neck with crowning jewels of Western supercomputing achievement such as Frontier and Summit, as well as Japan's Arm-based Fugaku.



• The science behind Mantra meditation:




• Alcohol is a neurotoxin: Stop drinking, keep reading, look after your hearing: A neurologist’s tips for fighting memory loss and Alzheimer’s. “Alcohol is a very, very weak neurotoxin – it’s not good for nerve cells.”



• Afghanistan exit looks even worse a year later: Taliban 2.0 was a mirage, and the Taliban today is Taliban 1.0 with one major difference; they are far better armed than the Taliban that ruled over most of Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Now they ride into battle with American armored vehicles and M-16 rifles that were left behind as the US military rushed for the exits last summer. The Taliban today also face a far weaker opposition movement in Afghanistan than was the case for the pre-9/11 Taliban.



• Bride trafficking along the China-Pakistan economic corridor: Cases of fraudulent marriage between Pakistani women and girls — many of them from marginalized backgrounds and Christian families — and Chinese men who had travelled to Pakistan. The victims were lured with payments to the family and promises of a good life in China, but reported abuse, difficult living conditions, forced pregnancy, or forced prostitution once they reached China.

deeply disappointing decision: rohingya are NOT india's problem

and there is whole non-refoulement treaty india never signed. how many rohingya did a) china, b) arab states take?

why isn't the plight of hindus being genocided in bangladesh and pakistan (of course there are none left if afghan), and

the moribund CAA a higher priority to the GoI than these people? after all rohingya were merrily killing hindus in myanmar, too.

this makes no sense whatsoever.

send them to ilhan omar's house, or to britain.

https://twitter.com/jsaideepak/status/1559763714290630656?s=20&t=O4H95J3B_OncdjevCsPGVQ

michilot madhavan, executed by the nazis. unknown and unsung.

https://www.thebetterindia.com/262757/michilotte-madhavan-mahe-executed-nazi-germany-france-world-war2-forgotten-hero/

tulsi is an object of hatred because she's a hindu. ilhan omar, on the other hand, is 'one of us liberals'

from my co-blogger 'san' on our joint blog.

https://rajeev2004.blogspot.com/2022/08/liberals-triggered-after-tulsi-gabbard.html

deepstate assets

two untimely deaths: anshu jain and rakesh jhunjhunwala

Two sad deaths: Anshu Jain at 59 and Rakesh jhunjhunwala at 62. Big time finance guys (marwari). india has the talent in finance, and certainly in fintech. 

china is now the owner of 'south asia' per the deepstate

https://twitter.com/RajeevSrinivasa/status/1559705336360996864?s=20&t=O4H95J3B_OncdjevCsPGVQ

Quick notes: Jizya lives on | Price of defeat...

• 21.5% Jiziya tax:




• The price of defeat: The US fled Afghanistan exactly a year ago, but the real consequences are yet to come.. The US military left up to 650,000 weapons to the rapidly advancing Taliban forces.
  
  Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani: "The government of the United States became the enforcer of the Taliban agreement on us, threatening us with cut-off of aid, with every conceivable form of pressure to release 5,000 of the most hardened criminals, et cetera”.



• China destroying Myanmar with Rare Earth mining: Illegal mining operations by Chinese-owned companies in Myanmar is destroying the natural landscape of Myanmar’s border region with China



• Novel synchronous reluctance motor designed by a 17-Year-old: Robert Sansone’s research could pave the way for sustainable EVs that do not require rare-earth magnets



• Russian-made laptop with homegrown CPU: The heart of the Titan is the Baikal-M1 SoC, which uses eight outdated Arm Cortex-A57 cores operating at 1.50 GHz and outfitted with an 8MB L3 cache accompanied by an eight-cluster Arm Mali-T628 GPU with two display pipelines.



• Satvik living in Mayapur:




• Meat and prostate health: A growing body of research suggests that meat and dairy products act directly on the prostate, in addition to their cancer-promoting effects. The prostate is directly adjacent to the end of the large intestine. This is where the droppings are collected, which contain remnants of decomposing animal proteins that contain various toxic substances. They can penetrate the lining of the intestine and also enter the prostate. That's why it's so important to limit the amount of meat you eat and to eat plenty of fruit, vegetables, and whole grain products rich in fiber and other toxin-absorbing substances.



• Social-media addiction: California lawmakers killed a bill that would have allowed suing social-media companies for features that allegedly harm children by causing them to become addicted.



• China opposes CHIPS Act: Only China can subsidize domestic players.

Liberals 'triggered' after Tulsi Gabbard hosts Fox's Tucker Carlson program

how not to use AI

https://www.wired.com/story/machine-learning-reproducibility-crisis/?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=wired&utm_mailing=WIR_Daily_081522_FastForward&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_content=WIR_Daily_081522_FastForward&bxid=5cc9e3122ddf9c1a7ae03a81&cndid=55280215&esrc=growl2-regGate-1120&source=EDT_WIR_NEWSLETTER_0_TRANSPORTATION_ZZ&mbid=mbid%3DCRMWIR012019%0A%0A&utm_term=WIR_TopClickers_EXCLUDE_Transportation

why the boycott of hateful cinemas is a perfectly rational response to bad behavior

https://rajeevsrinivasan.substack.com/p/ep-78-cinema-as-metaphor-enough-with?sd=pf

Quick notes: Vanadium batteries | Chips Act...

• Vanadium redox flow batteries: The U.S. made a breakthrough battery discovery — then gave the technology to China.. The Chinese company didn't steal this technology. It was given to them — by the U.S. Department of Energy.



• Decoupling from China: The new Chips Act passed by the US Congress provides USD 52 billion in support for the semiconductor industry. However companies that are accepting the funding cannot expand their chip production capacity in China.
  
  - Vehicles with China-sourced batteries ineligible for EV tax credit in the US in the future. . . China currently controls 81% of global cathode manufacturing capacity, 91% of global anode capacity, and 79% of global lithium-ion battery manufacturing capacity.



• Dr Bharat Karnad: "The Modi regime has so far done little to punish China by way of cutting off Chinese access to the Indian market in the hope that this show of moderation will dissuade Beijing from resuming offensive military activity in Ladakh and Arunachal Pradesh".
  
  "When this assumption is proved wrong. Modi will be forced to take conspicuously strong economic measures to severely restrict bilateral trade of nearly $126 billion in 2021 heavily favouring China".



• Biju Bhasker's Thannal: Reviving zero-cement mud buildings using traditional wisdom.




• Stop feeding the enemy: India seeks to block Chinese firms from sub-Rs 12,000 phone market. Exclusion from India's entry-level market would hurt Xiaomi and its peers, which in recent years have increasingly relied on India to drive growth



• China Using Sri Lanka's Indebtedness to Show Military Muscle: China has refused Sri Lanka’s request to reschedule project loans amounting to nearly $10 billion that have fallen due. Without China's cooperation, Colombo would be unable to obtain IMF financing and sink deeper into a financial mire.



• AI to help protect India's tigers: Uses the data collected by cameras and rangers, but in addition uses data gathered from satellites and information collected from the local population.



• Plastic pollution: Birds all over the world are living in our rubbish



• The purest food on Earth: "Ghee is the final and purest form of milk – the last extract. It was considered the purest offering to the gods and the medium by which prayers were carried to the heavens."



• Ragam Hamsadhwani: U. Srinivas - Paahi Paahi Bala Ganapathim




• Lobbyists and their superpowers: How Wall Street wooed Sen. Kyrsten Sinema and preserved its multi-billion dollar carried interest tax loophole

Quick notes: SMIC advance | Jamshetji Tata...

• China’s Top Chipmaker Achieves Breakthrough Despite US Curbs: SMIC has advanced its production technology by two generations, defying US sanctions intended to halt the rise of China’s largest chipmaker.



• EV leader: China’s BYD was written off by Elon Musk. Now it’s beating Tesla.. Beijing poured billions of dollars into battery and EV companies to research alternatives to the combustion engine. . . . Meanwhile, India built Sardar Patel statue and cleared Aarey forest



• How Jamsetji Tata created the Indian Institute of Science: Confronted with an arrogant viceroy who could not understand the greatness of the giver or of his gift, any other man than Jamsetji would have withdrawn the offer. In fact the British reckoned that he would. But Jamsetji was not easily deflected from the accomplishment of his purpose.
  
  In 1904, Jamsetji added a codicil to his will urging his two sons not to use this money set aside for the university. If need be, he requested they add to the university from the wealth he was leaving them. While the scheme was still being considered and a provisional committee was looking into it, Jamsetji died on 19 May 1904. In 1905, when Curzon was on leave, he finally gave the green light to Dorab Tata, by agreeing that the government would meet half the cost.



• Raga Shudh Kalyan: Ustad Shujaat Khan accompanied by Yogesh Samsi on tabla.




• Zomato and Swiggy squeezing the small guy: Over the years, several smaller restaurant owners have opposed commission rates running up to 25-30%. These platforms may be helping with discovery and logistics, but at what cost?



• Canada's unmarked graves: How the church carried out "cultural genocide" against indigenous children.
  
  Searches for more possible grave sites using ground penetrating radar continue after discoveries in British Columbia and Saskatchewan provinces. Meanwhile, tribes are trying to piece together old documents that might help identify the deceased in the unmarked graves and shed light on the fate of others who never returned home.



• Manisha Ropeta, Pakistan's 1st Hindu woman DSP: Ropeta failed by one mark to clear her MBBS entrance examinations. “I then told my family I was taking a degree in physical therapy but at the same time I prepared for the Sindh Public Services Commission examinations and I passed that getting 16th position among 468 candidates.”

a tribute to freedom fighters of the Gadar Party

centuries of struggle. 100 years of sacrifice. 75 years of formal independence, but not yet real freedom. 

my 1996 column. https://www.rediff.com/news/1996/0412raj.htm

Tweet from Naren Menon (@NarenMenon1)

Naren Menon (@NarenMenon1) tweeted at 9:13 AM on Fri, Aug 05, 2022:
Meme of the year! #RRR https://t.co/3O5bBAP4Aj
(https://twitter.com/NarenMenon1/status/1555398948159795200?t=OcgtoxIPyIeeMMtqJ2Kqfw&s=03)  touché

Tweet from Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)

Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) tweeted at 4:04 AM on Fri, Aug 05, 2022:
The primary purpose of isolating Trump as an unprecedented, singular evil is to allow the war criminals, corrupt scumbags and lawless and sociopathic monsters who preceded him to find absolution and redemption with the cheap tactic of opposing Trump. This one tweet shows it all: https://t.co/mX6WM8opDv
(https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1555321343108866048?t=qgPA6Aj4Yz9s-kod8Dmuug&s=03) 

Strong words 

chinese are escalating

https://twitter.com/akuhnNPRnews/status/1555166798621728769?s=20&t=XpSgj22wyP0ksfgv4Xb2qQ

could trigger the beginning of a pushback from japan too. the assassination of abe shinzo (likely by CCP) hasn't ended the move to arm japan.

Tweet from Brahma Chellaney (@Chellaney)

Brahma Chellaney (@Chellaney) tweeted at 4:53 PM on Thu, Aug 04, 2022:
China's live-fire drills, by effectively encircling and temporarily blockading much of Taiwan, are a dress rehearsal of what an invasion would look like. As I argue here, Xi sees the Biden presidency as offering a window of opportunity to move on Taiwan. https://t.co/jGAeTtcroi
(https://twitter.com/Chellaney/status/1555152419402633216?t=47MO_GQlCstthxpG3P2V9A&s=03) 

WW3 begins. Ukraine a piece of cake in comparison. 

Tweet from Financial Times (@FinancialTimes)

Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) tweeted at 4:42 PM on Thu, Aug 04, 2022:
Breaking news: Britain faces a protracted recession and the worst squeeze on living standards in more than 60 years, the Bank of England warned on Thursday, as it raised interest rates to their highest level since the onset of the global financial crisis https://t.co/VsarAGV85P https://t.co/00hBvlfuoK
(https://twitter.com/FinancialTimes/status/1555149633629949952?t=AeFZJDYbnUkCE-m69qbP_w&s=03) 

Well deserved for some of the biggest thieves in history.