For decades, a select group of organizations has published reports that shape public perception of India, Indian immigrants, and Hindus. Today, I'm launching a new project that scores these reports on their methodology. Read my twitter article and 🧵

🚨 BREAKING: Berkeley just proved that AI doesn’t save you time. It makes you work MORE. Researchers Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley’s Haas School of Business spent 8 months embedded inside a 200-person tech company. Twice-weekly observations. 40+ deep interviews across engineering, product, design, and operations. This wasn’t a survey. They watched what actually happens when a company gives everyone AI tools and says “go.” What they found contradicts everything AI vendors have been selling you. Employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day. Nobody asked them to. The company didn’t even mandate AI use. People just voluntarily did more because AI made “doing more” feel possible. One employee put it perfectly: “You had thought that maybe you save some time, you can work less. But then really, you don’t work less.” That quote should be taped to every monitor running Cursor, Claude, or ChatGPT right now. And a 2024 Upwork study backs it up: 77% of employees using AI said the tools had actually INCREASED their workload. Nearly half didn’t even know how to achieve the productivity gains their employers expected. The researchers found 3 patterns destroying work-life balance. First, task expansion. Product managers started writing code. Researchers took on engineering work. The scope of “my job” widened because AI made everything feel doable. Hiring got postponed because employees absorbed work that would have justified new headcount. Second, blurred boundaries. Workers sent prompts during lunch, before meetings, at 9pm. AI dropped the friction of starting any task to near zero, and natural stopping points in the workday just dissolved. Third, cognitive overload. People ran multiple AI agents simultaneously while reviewing code, drafting docs, and sitting in meetings. Both human and machine constantly in motion. Here’s the cycle that traps you. AI speeds up a task → expectations for speed rise → you rely more on AI → you take on wider scope → workload intensifies → repeat. The researchers call it “workload creep.” No manager told anyone to work harder. The tools just made doing more feel accessible and rewarding. So people kept going until they couldn’t. The most dangerous part: in the moment, it feels amazing. Workers described momentum, expanded capability, the thrill of building things they never could before. But when they stepped back and looked at the full picture, they felt busier, more stretched, unable to disconnect. By month 6 of the study, reports of burnout, anxiety, and decision paralysis had spiked. Short-term momentum. Long-term strain. There’s also a competitive dynamic nobody talks about. When your colleague uses AI to take on extra responsibilities, standing still feels like falling behind. Nobody formally raises expectations. But informal norms shift fast. Within months, doing what AI makes possible becomes what’s expected. The people who set healthy boundaries start looking like underperformers. That’s a toxic dynamic where sustainable work becomes career-limiting. The researchers propose something they call “AI Practice.” Not “use AI more” or “use AI less.” Intentional habits. Structured reflection intervals built into workflows, not “take breaks when you need to” because nobody does. Scheduled reviews where teams assess if AI-enabled expansion has crossed sustainable limits. Clear guidelines on when NOT to use AI and which tasks shouldn’t expand just because they can. I felt this in my own workflow. AI gives you superpowers. But superpowers without discipline just mean you never stop working. The fix isn’t to stop using AI. It’s to stop letting AI decide how much work you do. Set the scope BEFORE you prompt. Define “done” BEFORE the tool makes everything feel possible.

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The Indians are in many ways the new Jews, hated for their success rather than their perceived failings. Indians take away all the nativist excuses: legal, skilled, productive, law-abiding, family-oriented, English speakers.

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Ever wonder why sedans disappeared and every car is huge now? "Thanks, Obama!" His administration changed fuel economy standards in a way that had the perverse impact of making cars even bigger. Here are all the vehicles for sale by the 3 largest US automakers. 62 vehicles, 4 sedans (6%). 20 years ago this chart would have been ~50% sedans! What happened? Obama administration changed auto fuel efficiency rules to tie fuel economy targets to vehicle size. Under the new system: -The bigger the car's footprint, the easier the MPG target was. -Light trucks (including SUVs and crossovers) had far lower requirements than passenger cars. -Crossovers were quietly reclassified as "trucks," giving them a huge regulatory advantage. Instead of building lighter, more efficient cars, automakers simply made everything bigger, and made more trucks and SUVs. Notice that cars that used to be sedans are now crossovers? They do this so it counts as a light truck - they raise ground clearance, square off the rear for cargo capacity, and meet off-road approach minimums so they get qualified as a light truck. Think Subaru Legacy > Subaru Outback. As you can see in the chart, it's a LOT easier to meet MPG requirements if your vehicle is classified that way. So cars got LARGER to meet fuel efficiency goals. The new Honda Civic is 20 inches longer and 4 inches wider than it used to be, about the same size as an old Accord. By making the Civic larger, Honda slightly shifted it into a more favorable regulatory category. ...and smaller cars disappeared. The Honda Fit was a great little car, but would have had to hit 67 MPG in 2026, which would be nearly impossible... so instead, Honda stopped selling them. So, the only way to make small vehicles now is to make them EV's (Chevy Bolt). The Slate truck that is all the rage now is only possible because it's an EV... otherwise its footprint would have demanded an overly onerous MPG target. So in short - Obama era CAFE standards had the opposite of the desired impact: sedans died, vehicles ballooned in size, and America's streets turned into an SUV parking lot. All thanks to a policy that accidentally incentivized bloat instead of efficiency. Don't get me started on "cash for clunkers!"

On April 22, 2025, the worst civilian terror attack in Kashmir since 2008 unfolded in broad daylight. 26 Hindu tourists were singled out and executed by terrorists. The Resistance Front—a Lashkar-e-Taiba proxy backed by Pakistan has taken credit for the horrific attack. But if you look at headlines from major Western media outlets, you wouldn’t even know Hindus were targeted. @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @CNN, @BBCWorld, @Reuters, and @AP - They downplay terrorism. Sanitize it. Hide the victims' religious identities. Call terrorists “militants.” Put “terror attack” in sneer quotes. This isn’t just a tragic story—it’s deliberate erasure. In this powerful breakdown, we expose: The selective language used to obfuscate the truth 👉The history media conveniently forgets 👉 The ideological agenda behind the violence it ignores 👉 How the victims and entire communities are being gaslit in real time Watch this to understand what really happened, why it matters, and how legacy media is failing us once again. This is more than a video. It’s a call to reclaim the truth.

In 2021 I ran for City Council because I didn’t like the direction Seattle city was going in. People felt unsafe taking their kids downtown, going to parks was troubling, and small businesses were leaving or shutting down at an alarming rate. In 2024, as Council President I passed 14 public safety bills because that is and will continue to be my top priority. We have a long way to go, but we certainly can’t go backwards. Can you like and share my message to help me get the word out about my campaign, so we can keep moving Seattle in the right direction?

“Sikhs for Aurangzeb” is right up there with “Queers for Gaza.”

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Consider two photos. The first is full of native-born Americans. These are the NYT Democrats who pushed for uncontrolled inflation, child castration, limitless taxation, illegal immigration, gun confiscation, and subway immolation. They also censored Republicans on social media. The second is full of recent skilled immigrants. These are the Elon technolibertarians who replatformed the president, freed AI, fought unbanking, raised money for Trump, and allowed the world to once again say that men and women exist. They also uncensored Republicans on social media. This isn’t some glib gotcha. It gets to the fundamental issue, which is that (ironically) Republicans are bad at visualizing borders. Because this is the true border of the American world: It is the digital border between Democrats and Republicans. Because America is not one country, it's two parties — and N tribes. And in this multi-sided tribal conflict, the Red Tribe simply does not win a 49-48 election without allying with Tech Tribe against Blue Tribe. Blue Tribe already gets this! They consciously ally with non-Americans and new Americans against Red Americans. That's why they import millions of illegals and put up 60 foot murals to Greta Thunberg in San Francisco: But will Red Tribe get this? Will they be smart enough to ally with non-Americans and new Americans, against Blue Americans? Will they understand that conservatives and libertarians around the world — Bukele, Orban, BJP, Bitcoiners, and especially Tech — are more friend than enemy? We'll see. The smart Republican already recognizes that while India is a different tribe, they are an important ally against Chinese Communists. So the smart Republican should understand that while Tech is a different tribe, it is an important ally against American Democrats. It's not about any one policy, not about immigration or taxation or whatever. That's open to negotiation. It's about the holistic relationship. Republicans just don't win on the Internet without Tech Tribe. And if you don't win on the Internet, you don't win.

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Critics of DEI have long pointed to its lack of empirical support, and the NCRI study adds weight to those concerns. As troubling as the study’s findings are, its suppression may be even more consequential. The decision to withhold this research from public discourse speaks to a larger issue: the growing entanglement of ideology and information. The public deserves to know if the tools being deployed to foster “equity” and “anti-racism” are instead causing harm. As DEI programs continue to expand across schools, workplaces, and governments, the stakes could not be higher. Whether this research sparks a broader reckoning or remains buried will depend on whether institutions—and the media that hold them accountable—are willing to confront uncomfortable truths.

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