A Lord of the Shadows & Algorithmic Image Interpretation Machine (ie, a Radiologist). 100% human. No AI/ML. Stray dogs are a public health menace in India.

Salem, Tamil Nadu 636000 (IN)
Joined May 2007
My dear friends, please, I hope to demand your absolute attention to this matter: In 2018, my junior from St. John’s Medical College, Bengaluru, Dr. Randall Sequeira (middle in the pic), trekked up a steep, bauxite-rich plateau in Odisha to hold a monsoon health camp in the indigenous Kutiya Kondh village of Kutrumali. In a piece he wrote then titled "Kutrumali’s Demons," Randall described sleeping under a dripping school roof in freezing fog, borrowing utensils from a local health worker to cook khichdi, and waking up at 6 AM to a line of tribal mothers. He wrote with heartbreak about treating malnourished toddlers with protruding bellies and visible ribs, listening to stories of stillbirths and chronic fevers, while noticing the shiny new solar lights installed by a mining conglomerate eyeing the aluminium ore beneath the villagers' feet. Comparing his small medical team to hobbits sheltering in the night, Randall worried about the outside forces coming for that fragile village. Randall stayed with the tribal/ adivasi community to serve them. After St. John’s and an MD in Internal Medicine from SMS Jaipur, he gave up every comfort of urban medicine to live in Kalahandi, recognizing that clinical prescriptions are meaningless when indigenous communities are stripped of their forests, water, and dignity. On the night of October 16, Odisha police picked up Dr. Randall Sequeira and Dalit activist Laxman Naik at 11 PM from his home in Bhawanipatna. A gentle physician who has spent years trekking up hills to save tribal children is now locked in Rayagada sub-jail under frivolous but draconian charges (attempt to murder, dacoity), simply for standing with Adivasis peaceful protesting the mining of their sacred hills in Sijimali and Kutrumali. thewire.in/rights/randall-se… Odisha Govt. said it will cut down forests to connect tribal villages. But it was a way to bypass green laws and fast track London based Vedanta’s, and Adani's mining plans. Local organisations estimate that around 45 villages depend on these hills and would be affected. reporters-collective.in/trc/… The state has answered with repression rather than dialogue. In the last three years, at least 43 police cases have been filed and over a hundred Adivasis and Dalits, both women and men, have been incarcerated in Odisha jails. For example, from In March and april 2026, 8, 2026, to April 8, 2026, within one month, 24 people were sent to jail, 217 were made accused, and the number of “others” total 1,140. An activist who was not named in the original FIRs, but has since been implicated in about 12 cases, so that bail in one case is followed by arrest in another. This pattern of capture and releases have been used to crush rational dissent. Dr. Randall understood that being a good doctor means understanding that prescriptions cannot compensate for the denial of land rights, that surgery cannot undo displacement and that no medical can substitute for the basic infrastructure a government has failed to provide. thehindu.com/sci-tech/health… To my fellow medical fraternity, and every citizen with a conscience: a kind physician who embodies the highest ethics of our profession is being criminalized to clear the way for bauxite mining. Please do not let his voice be buried in a sub-jail. Amplify this, demand due process, and demand the immediate release. Please sign in this form to show solidarity: forms.gle/o2Rj2Uu3tXaoWu9dA If anyone can help out in this situation please reach out to Medico Friend Circle - mfcindia.org/
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For any athlete or fan, nothing is more satisfying than seeing your country’s flag on top! 🇮🇳 - Just look at the raw emotions of India’s 4x400m Gold-winning team! 🥹🥇
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Kiran, from Haryana ran in a village where girls didn't Poovamma,36, feared she was too old Prachi wanted a DSP uniform Vithya, to hear the 🇮🇳 anthem An team greater than the sum of its parts united to beat Asia's best & win 4x400m relay🥇at Nagoya2026 sportstar.thehindu.com/asian…
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Bloomberg just dropped the most disturbing investigation I have read this year, and every AI builder should read it and take it seriously. On February 28, two Tomahawk missiles hit an elementary school in Minab, a small town in southern Iran. 156 people died. At least 123 were children. The Pentagon knew within hours that it had bombed a school. The school had its own website. It was labeled on Google Maps. You could see the soccer pitch from a satellite view. You could see the brightly painted walls. Any 12-year-old with a browser could tell what the building was. The AI system could not. Inside US Central Command, personnel were using Palantir's Maven Smart System. It is an AI targeting platform running on a $1.3 billion Pentagon contract, and embedded inside it is Anthropic's Claude. On day one of the war, more than 1,000 targets went through it in 24 hours. Work that used to take a team hours per target got compressed into minutes. The satellite imagery Maven was pulling from was seven years old. The site was still tagged in the database as an Islamic Revolutionary Guard facility. The system spat it out as a recommended day-one target. Humans signed off. The first missile flew. Then a second one landed minutes later to hit the people who came to help. Investigators later found that some Central Command staff had assumed Maven would flag stale intelligence for them. It did not. Nobody had told it to. Palantir told Bloomberg the government is responsible for the underlying data. The Pentagon's civilian harm mitigation team, the people whose actual job is to catch a target like this, had been cut back before the war started. This is not AI going rogue. This is the opposite. This is AI doing exactly what it was built to do at exactly the speed it was built to do it. And a school full of little girls got vaporized because the humans in the loop trusted the machine more than they trusted their own eyes. I keep thinking about the version of this story that comes next. What happens when the system is faster. When the target list is not 1,000 in a day but 10,000. When "review" becomes a button the operator has three seconds to hit before the next target loads. When there is no human left slow enough to notice that a soccer pitch is not a helipad. We are not talking about a spam filter mislabeling an email. We are talking about a system that turned a seven-year-old database entry into two cruise missiles landing on children in the middle of a morning class. A UN-backed panel has now called it a potential war crime. In terms of children killed, it is the deadliest American targeting error of the entire 21st century. And according to Bloomberg, some of Defense Secretary Hegseth's own advisors are worried that too much public scrutiny of Maven might slow down its adoption inside the Pentagon. Read that last line again. If you build this stuff, you own what it does. You do not get to hide behind "the government owns the data." The whole pitch of your product is that speed and integration save lives. When it takes them instead, that is also on you. I am not against AI in defense. I am against AI in a hurry. Speed is the entire mechanism that made Minab possible. Every guardrail we already know how to build takes time, and time is exactly what the system was designed to eliminate. So here is the question I have not been able to stop asking, and I genuinely want to know what you think. If a piece of software helped kill 123 children in a single morning while behaving exactly as designed, what does "responsible AI" even mean anymore?
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El discurso de Alexander Zverev que tenés que escuchar. ❤️ 🗣️ “Quiero agradecer a una persona más. Alguien que nunca ve realmente mis partidos, pero que es la persona más importante de mi vida tenística y de mi vida en general. Cuando tu hijo de 4 años es diagnosticado con diabetes y los médicos te dicen que su vida y su práctica deportiva serán muy, muy limitadas, hace falta una madre muy fuerte para salir de ese consultorio y decir: ‘Mi hijo estará donde quiera estar. Si quiere ser tenista, será tenista. Si quiere hacer otra cosa, hará otra cosa. Pero esta enfermedad no nos va a definir’. Mi madre es la persona más importante y fuerte que conozco. Hace falta una mujer increíblemente fuerte para hacer lo que ella hizo”.
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Professional racing driver Ollie Millroy thanks competitor Loek Hartog for saving his life after getting into a fiery crash over the weekend in China. Millroy says he'd be dead if Hartog hadn't jumped out of his car to pull him out of his burning car. "I am still alive tonight, entirely thanks to one man. Loek Hartog stopped instantly with no flag marshalls or fire crews in sight, and risked his own life to get me out of the car." "I don’t remember anything between 30 seconds before the crash and 1 hour after it, but I will remember his incredible act of bravery for the rest of my life..." "I’m laying here tonight with 5 broken ribs, broken collar bone, broken hand and finger and a bruised lung, but it could have been much worse." "Thank you Loek. I owe you my life for your selfless act today."
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வரிகளுக்கு ஏற்ற கதை, கதைக்கேற்ற வரிகள்.
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Cant figure out which is more stupid. Conducting a "Hospital Rave" in an actual hospital...or, making huge word salads using olympic-level mental gymnastics to double down on that stupidity. People do stupid things. It's understandable. Realize that and dont repeat. That's the lesson here, not the rubbish social experiment that failed. I spend most of my adult life inside a hospital. The only thing that comforts people and patients is actual humanism, clarity in discussion, helping cope with reality through truthful connection, empathy and sound communication. Not some delusional idea for a social project that came out of a real Bangalore farmhouse rave party.
Hospitals that don’t scare people. That is the idea around which we do everything at Superhealth. This Saturday night, we tried something unusual: we hosted a musical event at the hospital. I know how that sounds a little WTF. And plenty of people have been outraged by it. But hear me out. The guest list was curated. Every patient and attendant was invited. Several joined us—some because they were bored, some because they wanted a distraction, and some because a hospital can feel like a very lonely place on a Saturday night. Here is how it actually worked. We closed the OPDs at 8 pm, as we do every day. The event began at 10 pm, with registration in the OPD lobby. Everything else took place in the basement, mezzanine and fourth-floor (our office). All active inpatient areas were on completely off-limits and separated from the event by multiple floors in between and extensive sound insulation. To be absolutely clear: no music or event related sound reached the patients. Not “almost zero.” Zero. I’ve read the criticism, and I think the debate is useful and makes the point more strongly. It reveals how deeply we have accepted hospitals as places that must feel cold, frightening and morose. The mere suggestion that a hospital could also be warm, hopeful—perhaps even joyful—feels wrong to us. Then we wonder why people avoid hospitals. Why they tolerate pain for days, postpone tests and ignore symptoms until manageable problems become serious ones. Until that shoulder pain becomes shoulder surgery. Patients do not want to live in a morose environment. Their attendants do not either. If we can offer people a few hours of distraction, warmth or joy without compromising their care or rest, we believe that effort is worth making. Hospitals do not need to be scary places. We are going to keep pushing that belief. And to everyone who was disturbed or triggered by this: you have an open invitation to visit the next event. Come see how it works. It may surprise you. As I always say, I hope you never need a hospital. But if you do, I hope you find one that is warm, inviting and kind not one that is lonely, morose and scary.
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Kurunthokai - 43. "Our egos led us to bicker then; my heart suffers as if from a Cobra's sting, now" Blog: bit.ly/2FUt2KF For my Tamil readers, the quoted tweet is a Tamil micro story based on this poem. Check out the rest of the stories in that substack too.
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Mode activated 👻😛
"யாரும் முழு வாக்கியங்களில் பேசுவதில்லை"ன்னா, கதை எழுதறவனும் அப்படியேதான் பேசணுமா! Highly technical subject, non-linear story-telling வேற! IT field இருந்தா புரியுமோ?! எனக்குப் புரியல! முடியல!! முடிக்கறதுக்கே நாக்குத் தள்ளிருச்சு.
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