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Lost_Sparrow retweeted
Panicked for a second wondering how we missed news of
large scale layoffs.
Turns out this India Tech handle picked it from IB Times, which in turn curated a story on Cognizant job cuts yesterday from a story we did way back in May 2026, combining it with Qualcomm, which happened this week🧐.
Crazy to do this belated curation now and cause widespread alarm.
Here's the original link to the story that @shaw_reshab and I broke earlier this year
moneycontrol.com/news/busine…
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
“Thus we find two great economic principles opposed to each other in the modern world. The Viking has become a free-tradesman; the Teutonic knight is now an administrative official. There can be no reconciliation. Each of these principles is proclaimed by a German people, Faustian men par excellence. Neither can accept a restriction of its will, and neither can be satisfied until the whole world has succumbed to its particular idea.
This being the case, war will be waged until one side gains final victory. Is world economy to be worldwide exploitation, or worldwide organization? Are the Caesars of the coming empire to be billionaires or universal administrators? Shall the population of the earth, so long as this empire of Faustian civilization holds together, be subjected to cartels and trusts, or to men such as those envisioned in the closing pages of Goethe’s Faust, Part II? Truly, the destiny of the world is at stake.”
— Oswald Spengler, Prussianism and Socialism
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
I wonder if the Microsoft Outlook engineers are stuck in their own vicious cycle of Authenticator prompts?
I don't think anything survives after losing public mandate .
What ever tools that are available to one CM are also available to the next CM
For eg :
This took nearly 20 years to over turn
What a fantastic move by @ncbn
Will go a long way in securing investment, both domestic and foreign, in the state.
Ideally, should be adopted as the national template to ring fence investments from motivated political mood swings.
Must say that the CM is a trend setter. Beginning with the makeover of Hyderabad many moons ago and making it a cyber hub.
via @EconomicTimes
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
Old political tactic:
Present award to hide embarrassment. But to turn the narrative to your advantage:
Mostly its to signal confidence. Shows he is secure enough to reward criticism. The public remembers the ruler’s generosity more than the original embarrassment
But its also neutralizes critics. Makes the acceptor seem loyal or even compromised. Why movements like the Houthis are reluctant to accept a pay off without humiliating conditions.
Respond according to political advantage.
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
Just let me know which one I should restart
We’re opening all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief. We found a core process on affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, causing capacity loss. To validate a potential recovery, we're isolating a portion of infrastructure, restarting affected components, and reintroducing traffic to confirm the services remain stable before applying the change more broadly. More info under EX1550543 and MO1550821 in the Microsoft 365 admin center, as well as status.cloud.microsoft if the admin center is not available to you.
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
If a historian in 3035 writes a political history of the 2020s, they will simply explain in a footnote that deindustrialization, fertility collapse, money printing, and other obvious late 20th c. lunacies rapidly impoverished societies far beyond any political ability to fix.
Imagine a historian in 2035 writing a political history of the 2020s, and he points out that every election, the out-of-power party won a cost-of-living election and then used their mandate to ignore or exacerbate affordability only to be destroyed in the next election, where voters again said “to be clear, I don’t want whatever bullshit you’re up to, I just want life to feel more affordable,” and then, once again, the winning politicians prioritized everything except affordability, and this story repeated itself over and over again.
One of my strongest held political opinions right now is: Democrats should do everything they can to avoid that history being written.
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
It’s almost Friday, so there’s really no point in Outlook coming back now.
And it’s November, so it’s almost Christmas. No point really coming back until January if you think about it.
Let’s circle back then.
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
The argument that MGNREGA caused wage inflation and thereby killed manufacturing is putting the cart before the horse. India's expansion of redistributive welfare programmes was a consequence of inadequate job creation, not the other way around.
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
Unsurprising to see many in India totally misread what this is about: centralising control over computing, coinciding with huge push for regulatory capture by a section of US natsec apparatus—to add more levers to restrict open source models and further expand export controls.
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
Sad about Jensen. Shakespearean. But as de Gaulle said, “The graveyards are filled with indispensable men.”
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
Did it hit you that a centibillionaire, Jensen Huang, is less free than a random plumber?
Lost_Sparrow retweeted
Jensen having a third affair might be enough for the French to give him a job at Mistral
Nvidia live updates: Jensen Huang had ‘intimate relationship’ with second employee, Reuters reports cnbc.com/2026/11/12/nvidia-j…
