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Shaheryar Popalzai

@spopalzai

PubTech @ the Plus alliance. I do stuff with AI I guess. I hate it here.

shaheryarpopalzai.com/
Joined May 2010
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average sunn 0))) show
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16 speakers two subwoofers with megaphones full volume and microphone direct feedback loud bass challenge
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Shaheryar Popalzai@spopalzaiJun 5
I finally brought together my love for content design, data visualization, and extreme metal. Third World Thunder is an archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground. At the core are the dispatches - long-form pieces I'm writing from interviews. Around them are eight interactive ways into the scene: timelines, a map of who played with who, every release ever made, the whole thing rendered as a night sky. First two dispatches are up here: thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…
Third World Thunder

Third World Thunder

An archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground — the bands, releases, lineage and stories of the scene, 1994–2026. Metal music in Pakistan, told by the people who lived it.

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Shaheryar Popalzai@spopalzaiOct 16
Forgot to share this here but I've started publishing band histories on Third World Thunder. First up is a one of Pakistan's first death metal supergroups Hell Dormant. One album and they were done. Full album uploaded too. Read here: thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…
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vx-underground
@vxundergroundJun 13
Literally the worst cable management I've ever seen in my life
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Sana Shah@shaahsanaJun 6
Slick and data focused, this is the shit that one wants to be known for. You can write a paper on this; publish it in a journal.
Shaheryar Popalzai (@spopalzai) profile pictureShaheryar Popalzai@spopalzaiJun 5
I finally brought together my love for content design, data visualization, and extreme metal. Third World Thunder is an archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground. At the core are the dispatches - long-form pieces I'm writing from interviews. Around them are eight interactive ways into the scene: timelines, a map of who played with who, every release ever made, the whole thing rendered as a night sky. First two dispatches are up here: thirdworldthunder.shaheryarp…
Third World Thunder

Third World Thunder

An archive of Pakistan's extreme metal underground — the bands, releases, lineage and stories of the scene, 1994–2026. Metal music in Pakistan, told by the people who lived it.

thirdworldthunder.shaheryarpopalzai.com
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Justine Moore
@venturetwinsMay 28
Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file
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Internet of Shit
@internetofshitMay 20
please just keep my food cold
Polymarket (@Polymarket) profile picturePolymarket
@PolymarketMay 11
JUST IN: Samsung upgrades its smart refrigerators with Google Gemini to recognize more than 2,000 foods.
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doomer
@uncledoomerApr 27
(me after accidentally deleting everything) "yeah dude i dont know what happened, claude just like, went rogue"
R A W S A L E R T S (@rawsalerts) profile pictureR A W S A L E R T S
@rawsalertsApr 27
🚨#BREAKING: According to reports, a Claude powered coding agent using the Cursor tool allegedly went rogue, wiping a company’s production database along with its backups in just 9 seconds, raising serious concerns
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ClaudeDevs
@ClaudeDevsApr 23
Over the past month, some of you reported Claude Code's quality had slipped. We investigated, and published a post-mortem on the three issues we found. All are fixed in v2.1.116+ and we’ve reset usage limits for all subscribers.
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Gene Meyer@GeneMeyerLOLApr 15
“Fuck yeah dude.” -Me agreeing with someone in order to get out of a conversation
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Gene Meyer@GeneMeyerLOLApr 13
Never posting Deftones on my story ever again:
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FinancialJuice (@financialjuice) profile pictureFinancialJuice
@financialjuiceApr 11
Iran and US expert teams are exchanging texts - Tasnim
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Saaqa Don@PehalwaaanApr 10
About this week
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@Le_Sabre54Apr 11
Pakistan right now.
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Tamkenat@TamkenatMApr 11
Chachu’s opening speech at the Islamabad Talks! 🤌🏽
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Ryota Kanai
@kanairApr 10
Great to see this on X. This is something I created during my PhD time 20 years ago.
DaVinci (@BiancoDavinci) profile pictureDaVinci
@BiancoDavinciApr 1
This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.
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Simon Owens@simonowensApr 8
Nieman Lab analyzed the tweets of major news organizations that link back to their websites and compared them to a handful of “breaking news” accounts that almost never include links. It found that tweets with links almost definitely are being suppressed niemanlab.org/2026/04/do-lin…
Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes

Do links hurt news publishers on Twitter? Our analysis suggests yes

Engagement for tweets from @nytimes (53 million followers) is dwarfed by engagement for tweets from @GlobeEyeNews (866,000 followers).

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bilal tanweer@bilaltanweerApr 8
bohat nonserious qaum hai hamari
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@iffiViewsApr 7
Final clause added by Pakistan in ceasefire agreement
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Lissa♥️♥️
@lizzkelly7Apr 7
what does HB stand for in pencils, High Befinition?
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naiive
@naiivememeApr 7
Traders trying to predict the markets Trump :
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