Rahul Arora
@rarora7.bsky.social
HCI Research Scientist at Meta. PhD in Graphics/VR/HCI from the University of Toronto.
https://rahularora.xyz
https://rahularora.xyz
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you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
August 3, 2025 at 7:24 PM
you don't understand. as someone who isn't inherently good at art, stealing paintings from the museum is the *only* way i'm able to express myself creatively. i wouldn't be able to paint beautiful portraits. but by breaking into a museum and stealing the paintings, now i am
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2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs
It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀
You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀
You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A generic non-invasive neuromotor interface for human-computer interaction - Nature
A high-bandwidth neuromotor interface offers performant out-of-the-box generalization across people.
www.nature.com
September 5, 2025 at 8:28 PM
2026 Internships at CTRL Labs at Meta Reality Labs
It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀
You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
It's intern application season for summer 2026 with the CTRL Labs (Electromyogram (EMG)) team at Meta Reality Labs! 🚀
You can see our latest work covered in this Nature article.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Trump: "I think we're gonna be very successful fairly soon. We'll have drug prices coming down by 500, 600, 800, even 1,200 percent."
August 2, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Trump: "I think we're gonna be very successful fairly soon. We'll have drug prices coming down by 500, 600, 800, even 1,200 percent."
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Trump’s megabill will
strip 14 million Americans of access to healthcare care. Here’s why our top story today is something a neo-Nazi sent us about a college application from 15 years ago.
strip 14 million Americans of access to healthcare care. Here’s why our top story today is something a neo-Nazi sent us about a college application from 15 years ago.
July 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Trump’s megabill will
strip 14 million Americans of access to healthcare care. Here’s why our top story today is something a neo-Nazi sent us about a college application from 15 years ago.
strip 14 million Americans of access to healthcare care. Here’s why our top story today is something a neo-Nazi sent us about a college application from 15 years ago.
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Schumer and Jeffries should condemn this and demand an apology from the President - or they should resign, or be primaried.
Trump threatens to arrest Mamdani and then adds, "a lot of people are saying he's here illegally"
July 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Schumer and Jeffries should condemn this and demand an apology from the President - or they should resign, or be primaried.
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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
June 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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easy isometric pixel art is still coming... with a ton of new features!
create anything with easymetric soon on @aseprite.org
create anything with easymetric soon on @aseprite.org
June 4, 2025 at 2:05 PM
easy isometric pixel art is still coming... with a ton of new features!
create anything with easymetric soon on @aseprite.org
create anything with easymetric soon on @aseprite.org
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We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
May 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
We're living through the Who Cares Era, where completely disposable things are shoddily produced for people to mostly ignore, while the government stomps its uncaring boot on our necks. But there's an easy way to fight back: Care.
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
I wrote about it: dansinker.com/posts/2025-0...
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Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
May 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Trump to UAE president: "We have a term 'groceries.' It's an old term but it means basically what you're buying, food, it's a pretty accurate term but it's an old fashioned sound but groceries are down."
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"Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished"
It's become fashionable for even progressive politicians to diss the 'Abolish ICE' movement. I make the political and moral case for abolition in my latest for @GuardianUS, with receipts:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's become fashionable for even progressive politicians to diss the 'Abolish ICE' movement. I make the political and moral case for abolition in my latest for @GuardianUS, with receipts:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
May 13, 2025 at 3:53 PM
"Ice has become Trump’s private militia. It must be abolished"
It's become fashionable for even progressive politicians to diss the 'Abolish ICE' movement. I make the political and moral case for abolition in my latest for @GuardianUS, with receipts:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It's become fashionable for even progressive politicians to diss the 'Abolish ICE' movement. I make the political and moral case for abolition in my latest for @GuardianUS, with receipts:
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
@matt-levine.bsky.social Securities fraud?
Hey @glaucomflecken.bsky.social I'm not sure how to process this. Can Jimothy help?
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...
UnitedHealthcare sued by shareholders over reaction to CEO's killing
The group of investors alleged that the company misled them by not adjusting its forecast after Brian Thompson's killing.
www.nbcnews.com
May 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
@matt-levine.bsky.social Securities fraud?
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THIS IS INSANE.
I know Trump is a liar but in this case he actually believes the photoshopped picture his staff gave him of Alberto Garcia’s knuckles was real. That it had the letters and numbers ‘MS13’. And the interviewer keeps trying to move on, but Trump is the one insisting on repeating it.
I know Trump is a liar but in this case he actually believes the photoshopped picture his staff gave him of Alberto Garcia’s knuckles was real. That it had the letters and numbers ‘MS13’. And the interviewer keeps trying to move on, but Trump is the one insisting on repeating it.
I had to upload the clip here because it's frankly insane. Possibly the most insane trump clip yet. His brain is pudding
April 30, 2025 at 2:02 AM
THIS IS INSANE.
I know Trump is a liar but in this case he actually believes the photoshopped picture his staff gave him of Alberto Garcia’s knuckles was real. That it had the letters and numbers ‘MS13’. And the interviewer keeps trying to move on, but Trump is the one insisting on repeating it.
I know Trump is a liar but in this case he actually believes the photoshopped picture his staff gave him of Alberto Garcia’s knuckles was real. That it had the letters and numbers ‘MS13’. And the interviewer keeps trying to move on, but Trump is the one insisting on repeating it.
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Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
April 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Sen. Jim Banks told a laid off U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) employee who approached him that they “probably deserved it” and they “seem like a clown.”
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Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
March 22, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back.
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008.
Also bigger than the 2024 DNC.
And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
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“Despite judge’s order” is the line. There are no other boundaries to cross. This is the difference between a republic and a dictatorship in a single phrase and they walked over it not just knowingly, but eagerly.
Brown University professor deported despite judge’s order, defying US court
US prosecutors allege Rasha Alawieh had ‘sympathetic photos and videos’ related to key Hezbollah figures
www.theguardian.com
March 18, 2025 at 10:59 AM
“Despite judge’s order” is the line. There are no other boundaries to cross. This is the difference between a republic and a dictatorship in a single phrase and they walked over it not just knowingly, but eagerly.
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REPORT: Marco Rubio makes argument for why he’s a shrimp-dicked flunky
Marco Rubio in Canada: "The president has made his argument as to why he thinks Canada would be better off joining the United States."
March 14, 2025 at 11:02 PM
REPORT: Marco Rubio makes argument for why he’s a shrimp-dicked flunky
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you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
March 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.
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Opinion | The government needs to run like a business. Fire nearly everyone, destroy revenue so that you're losing more money than before, then force advertisers to start giving you money again with threats of retaliation.
by Elon Musk
by Elon Musk
February 11, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Opinion | The government needs to run like a business. Fire nearly everyone, destroy revenue so that you're losing more money than before, then force advertisers to start giving you money again with threats of retaliation.
by Elon Musk
by Elon Musk
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February 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.
January 30, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Apparently all the PhD researchers holding prestigious NSF-funded research fellowships are having their salaries withheld until some unspecified time when the leadership figures out how to eliminate any grant funding that doesn’t align with the president’s political ideology.
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January 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM