the current extremely negative sentiment is a result of Americans’ correct sense that they have been lied to.
............ Kyla Scanlon coined the term “vibecession” in 2022 for a situation in which people feel bad about an economy that doesn’t look that bad by the numbers. But the puzzle has intensified over time, both because the bad feelings have gotten worse and because the vibecession has been so persistent. ............ since 2022 Americans have felt much worse about the economy than conventional economic measures say they “should.” ........... consumer sentiment is much worse now than it was in 2023 and 2024. ................ it’s about the price level as opposed to the rate of inflation. ........ The U.S. experienced a bout of high inflation in 2021-22, largely because of disruptions to supply chains in the aftermath of Covid, plus fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. This inflation spurt ended as supply chains became unsnarled and oil prices stabilized, and inflation since 2023 has been only modestly higher than it was pre-Covid. However, prices have never come back down and have remained persistently higher than the pre-2020 trend would have predicted. ........... consumers aren’t fully mollified by the fact that inflation — the rate at which prices are rising — has slowed. They’re angry and upset that the level of prices remains much higher than they expected.
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— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
What's in the bag? :)
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
Making The Arithmetic Of Democracy Work https://t.co/SVwxahvofm
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
With this bus fares go down so low, it makes no sense to charge bus fares. Great for cities.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
What do the Chinese know?
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
I'll say it again: China doing their visa-free policy is the most underrated strategic decision they made in recent years.
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) April 17, 2026
Decades of Western propaganda painting the country as a dystopian hellscape, undone by people simply going there and using their own eyes.
And now China is… https://t.co/WhxT5NdSEh
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
Tech, Politics, Business And Faith on Spotify for Creators https://t.co/DB3doG50xS
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
When Water Becomes Steam: AI, Abundance, and a Practical Path to End Global Poverty https://t.co/S2kjky5qYU
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
Hot take:
— Andrew McCalip (@andrewmccalip) April 17, 2026
Python is just the vibe coded C++
Can't wait to try one! I wan't prepared to get Neuralink holes drilled in my head. https://t.co/i0lTDomeou
— Vinod Khosla (@vkhosla) April 16, 2026
AI has a serious branding problem
— GREG ISENBERG (@gregisenberg) April 16, 2026
Probably worse than web3/crypto/NFTs
if you ask the average person in the streets, they probably fear and hate AI
I'm featured in today's @WIRED piece on MAGA and Indian Americans.
— Sidharth (@Cloudwatch199) April 16, 2026
Everything I said, I stand behind. Every word.
Indian Americans helped build this country's tech backbone, its hospitals, its economy. We showed up. We contributed. We believed in the system.
What did we get?…
(1) Let's figure out ways to outdo AIPAC. The Israel lobby.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
(2) You should invest in my startup. Let me know if you want details.
When God has a plan…
— Vikas Khanna (@TheVikasKhanna) April 17, 2026
From selling bhatura chole at Vivek Public School in 1989,
to opening Lawrence Garden Banquet from the back of my house in Amritsar in 1990.
In 1991, I chose culinary arts—
a decision that embarrassed almost everyone except my grandmother.
There were years… pic.twitter.com/8j8dNSZni8
hey mom, so I did a thing... ๐ https://t.co/pGXAPlVDza
— Tanay Kothari (@tankots) April 17, 2026
This lecture by Randy Pausch just came on my feed.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 17, 2026
Long ago I got to meet him on a tour of Carnegie Mellon.
I really had no idea how memorable the visit with him would be.
Remember how he told me he got a new car once and his kids were scared of eating in it, so he took a… https://t.co/KXU8qZ0lzT
What made Shreyas Iyer’s catch so special was not just the athleticism, but the awareness behind it.
— Sachin Tendulkar (@sachin_rt) April 17, 2026
He had to judge the speed of the ball, the height, where the boundary rope was, how close he was to stepping on it, and get his jump absolutely perfect.
Then, while still in the…
My latest column in @the_hindu deplores the sluggishness of our judiciary and laments that the process is often the punishment. I call for urgent reform, in the interests of the human rights of ordinary citizens seeking justice. The people need a system that works, and is fast… pic.twitter.com/NPxJSoA3Ho
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 17, 2026
Seven critical miscalculations have left the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps reeling, while U.S. and regional forces tighten their grip.
— The Free Press (@TheFP) April 16, 2026
Many people are saying! https://t.co/3qmBU7Rf6e
— Marc Andreessen ๐บ๐ธ (@pmarca) April 17, 2026
Mango is called the “king of fruits”
— Samhita (@Samhitab4u) April 17, 2026
But much of what we eat today is artificially ripened using chemicals like calcium carbide.
Faster supply. Better appearance.
But at what cost?
How healthy is it really?
Revolutionary.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
Export controls on advanced chips are not a strategy, they’re a delay tactic. You can slow an adversary’s access to top‑end silicon, but a state with resources and resolve will reroute supply, optimize around constraints, and accelerate indigenous R&D.
— Sidharth (@Cloudwatch199) April 17, 2026
In practice, sweeping…
This is pretty cool https://t.co/ZNfPVUchG3
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 16, 2026
this is exactly why I moved back to china and I genuinely think most people reading this from the west have no idea what it actually feels like to build here
— Mehdi (e/ฮป) (@BetterCallMedhi) April 16, 2026
the thing about shenzhen that changed everything for me is the access, makerspaces everywhere open to anyone, components…
You are in the big leagues.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
Parliament is discussing a historic legislation that paves the way for women’s reservation in legislative bodies. The discussions, which began yesterday, lasted till around 1 AM and have continued since the House proceedings began this morning.
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) April 17, 2026
The Government has addressed all…
One danger of working just hard enough to get by is that you tend not to leave much margin for error when you do that. It's the effort equivalent of doing things at the last moment.
— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 17, 2026
When Water Becomes Steam: AI, Abundance, and a Practical Path to End Global Poverty https://t.co/S2kjky5qYU
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
My latest #TharoorThink column in the @IndianExpress yesterday argues that while I have supported India’s strategic restraint on the #IranWar so far, it’s time to move beyond the tactical manoeuvring of survival, toward the strategic clarity of diplomatic leadership. For the sake… pic.twitter.com/B9pWxj0JoX
— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) April 17, 2026
I met someone yesterday who works at a fairly sizeable company.
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 17, 2026
"Our boss bought everyone in the company a Mac Mini to run AI on."
"You have a smart boss."
Visionary leaders do exist.
"Read books, because the data rate of reading is much greater than when somebody is speaking. What’s the output rate of speech? A couple hundred bits per second, maybe a few thousand per second if you’re going full tilt. You can get several times that by reading. The main reason… pic.twitter.com/2RdnsJdgXH
— Eric Jorgenson ๐ ☀️ (@EricJorgenson) April 16, 2026
Anyone who understands the CCP’s strategy knows they will take U.S. tech when they need it and kick U.S. companies out of their market as soon as they can. Jensen is either naive or misleading us. Either way, handing our top tech to our greatest adversary is foolish and… https://t.co/OY0499zcuI
— Josh Rogin (@joshrogin) April 16, 2026
How big are your dreams? pic.twitter.com/VbVp0S47I3
— Dogan Ural (@doganuraldesign) April 16, 2026
. @SadhguruJV has bigger dreams. He calls it Inner Engineering. For the masses.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
X makes you angry at countries you’ve never visited.
— James Blunt (@JBlunt1018) April 16, 2026
Instagram has you comparing your life to a yacht in Mykonos and convinces you everyone is richer, fitter, and in Dubai.
Facebook wants you to know a tomato cures arthritis.
Where do normal people go now… just the backyard…
Trump trashes California.
— Gavin Newsom (@GavinNewsom) April 17, 2026
California pays his war bills.
Perhaps it’s time we look into cutting you off, @realDonaldTrump??? https://t.co/S68dS97zUJ
X has more info in real time. Way more.
— Paramendra Kumar Bhagat (@paramendra) April 17, 2026
This list is far better than anything you have in your following: https://t.co/wAjs9SAZfe
— Robert Scoble (@Scobleizer) April 17, 2026
And you don't follow all my robot and AI lists. Your fault. I keep telling you to follow them all: https://t.co/fasUz7PuHq
Engage on lists. That resets your feed.
And what you repost or…
My take: if the Modi govt is serious about women’s reservation ahead of 2029 GE , simple solution: just amend Article 334 A and go back to the 2010 bill formula that provided one third seats for women from existing 543 seats. Doesn’t need a link with census or delimitation. Can… https://t.co/lT7eZ1jYEc
— Rajdeep Sardesai (@sardesairajdeep) April 16, 2026
My column: By any reasonable strategic measure, the divergent nature of U.S. policy toward Iran and Pakistan defies logic.
— Dr. Brahma Chellaney (@Chellaney) April 16, 2026
Both are Islamic republics. Both are authoritarian in structure. Both have had links to transnational terrorist networks. And both have long had fraught…
Bachpan waala India.
— Mukul Dekhane (@dekhane_mukul) April 17, 2026
Regardless of the weather, our dinner time was at 7:00 PM and bed time was 10:00
Eating out at a restaurant was a huge deal, a rarity actually, that only happened when it was a birthday or a very special occasion to celebrate.
There was no such thing as…
https://t.co/pmjvBR58Ua pic.twitter.com/HFJHperhvn
— Marc Andreessen ๐บ๐ธ (@pmarca) April 16, 2026
China makes some of those most advanced electric vehicles in the world, and ensuring Canadians have access to affordable EVs means working with global partners.
— Maninder Sidhu (@MSidhuLiberal) April 16, 2026
That’s why I met with some of the largest EV manufacturers like BYD, XPeng and Aion in Guangzhou to discuss… pic.twitter.com/29YnHtOu2h
The “age verification app” the EU wants to impose on the world got hacked in 2 minutes.
— Pavel Durov (@durov) April 17, 2026
Step 1: Present a “privacy-respecting” but hackable solution.
Step 2: Get hacked (you are here).
Step 3: Remove privacy to "fix" it.
Result: a surveillance tool sold as “privacy-respecting”.
Indian influence on civilizations to the west is actually far stronger, far more pervasive and more ancient than the recent influence eastwards. But what is amazing is how thoroughly and powerfully the Greco-Eccelesciastical-Colonial-Marxist-Harvardian continuum of history… https://t.co/j5A9puDpUI
— Joseph T Noony (@JoeAgneya) April 16, 2026
A useful way to think about migration is to consider what kind of societies the migrants have built in their home countries and to what extent you would like those conditions replicated here.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) April 16, 2026
UAE executed while many in the west called it impossible. The UAE had no nuclear engineers. No regulator. No nuclear history. In 2009, it decided to build four nuclear reactors anyway.
— James ๐ธ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ณ๓ ฃ๓ ด๓ ฟ๐ฆ๐บ (@comical_engr) April 16, 2026
By 2024, all four were operating. Delivered on time, on budget, and cleaner than almost… pic.twitter.com/tsPgUBkdjT
You mean maybe all the “experts”everyone rushed out on every podcast or show possible about the U.S. in an unstoppable escalation trap, Iran becoming a super power, the U.S. not able to do anything about the Strait of Hormuz without putting tens of thousands of troops on the… https://t.co/SpvVFJtfMe
— John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) April 17, 2026
In fact programming is particularly good at teaching you how to think. Programs are literally built out of ideas. Which is one reason it's still a good idea to study CS in the AI era. It's still important to be able to think well. https://t.co/bsqBIy0P8c
— Paul Graham (@paulg) April 17, 2026
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