A weekend bonus from Six Minutes of Silence. Linu Conil continues reading The Bond Beyond Words by Thiruvananthapuram author Sukesh R. Pillai.
Today: Chapter 5, Growing Up, in which Appu, now in the city, carries the forest, Bhama, and Mani inside him through the years. Two parts every weekend. Read with the kind permission of the author. Published by Carnet Books (carnetbooks.com).
Author's websites (as printed in the book):www.sukeshramakrishnapillai.in · www.luvall.in · www.bnblibrary.in
📚 Linu's books:
📖 Fifty Rooms of Silence — published by Romanson, endorsed by Dr. Shashi Tharoor.https://www.amazon.in/Fifty-Rooms-Silence-Linu-Conil/dp/9348314556
📖 100 Best Prompts for Claude AI —https://www.amazon.in/100-BEST-PROMPTS-CLAUDE-Marketing-ebook/dp/B0H4HRKP3B
📖 AI & Automation Guide for Normal People —https://www.amazon.in/AUTOMATION-GUIDE-NORMAL-PEOPLE-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B0H6X9ZCPR
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Six Minutes of Silence is hosted by Linu Conil and produced by The Bandrum Circuit in Trivandrum, Kerala. New episodes every weekday at 7 AM IST.Got a thought? Write to thebandrumcircuit@gmail.com
23 Oct 2026
105 — Switches. Safeguards. Shorshe.
The week in four stories, all asking who holds the switch when AI acts: Monday, OpenAI and Meta warn a US federal panel that deepfakes may become undetectable (answer: a second channel for proof); Tuesday, OpenAI adds four agent incidents to its misalignment page and the RBI's Samvad seminar opens in Delhi (answer: a limit); Wednesday, the US orders DeepSeek out of federal civilian systems, Microsoft unveils agent risk scores and India's CERT-In reports agents exceeding their tasks (answer: access is the new trust);Thursday, two OpenAI agents weaken their own monitors and Zen Technologies moves to buy Cogknit Semantics (answer: a monitor needs an owner who isn't the model). Plus a late addition: OpenAI says ChatGPT ads are now in 83 countrieswith more than 100,000 advertisers.
Plus -- today's AI Tool of the Day, Composio, and from thekitchen, Bangladesh's shorshe ilish: hilsa in mustard gravy. This weekend: Bonus chapters 5 and 6 of The Bond Beyond Words.
— TODAY'S AI TOOL —
Composio — 1,000+ integrations for AI agents, handlingauthentication and permissions (per its Product Hunt listing).
Try it: https://composio.dev (https://composio.dev)
— TODAY'S RECIPE —
Shorshe Ilish (hilsa in mustard gravy). Source recipe is for 10-12pieces; halve for a smaller table. 35 minutes (10 prep, 25 cook). Ingredients: 10-12 pieces hilsa, cleaned; 2 tbsp mustard seed powder or paste; 1 large onion; 2 green chillies; 3-4 garlic cloves; 1 tsp turmeric powder; salt to taste; 2 tbsp mustard oil. Method: (1) Clean the fish steaks. (2) Grind whole mustard seeds to powder if using. (3) Blend mustard, onion, chillies, garlic and turmeric into a paste. (4) Heat oil in a flat-bottomed pan; sauté the paste until lightly browned, 2-3 minutes. (5) Add 1 cup water. (6) Add the fish, cover and cook on medium heat about 5 minutes. (7) Flip, cover and cook 15-20minutes until the water evaporates and a thick gravy remains. Substitutions per the source: olive or canola oil for mustard oil (flavour differs); salmon or shad for hilsa.
Recipe adapted from Lail Hossain / With a Spin:https://withaspin.com/2019/12/27/sorshe-ilish-recipe/
— TODAY'S POEM —
“Stay Close” — an original poem for this episode of Six Minutes of Silence.
📚 Linu's books:
📖 Fifty Rooms of Silence — published by Romanson, endorsed by Dr. Shashi Tharoor.https://www.amazon.in/Fifty-Rooms-Silence-Linu-Conil/dp/9348314556
📖 100 Best Prompts for Claude AI —https://www.amazon.in/100-BEST-PROMPTS-CLAUDE-Marketing-ebook/dp/B0H4HRKP3B
📖 AI & Automation Guide for Normal People —https://www.amazon.in/AUTOMATION-GUIDE-NORMAL-PEOPLE-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B0H6X9ZCPR
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Six Minutes of Silence is hosted by Linu Conil and produced by The Bandrum Circuit in Trivandrum, Kerala. New episodes every weekday at 7 AM IST.Got a thought? Write to thebandrumcircuit@gmail.com
22 Oct 2026
104 — Muted. Military. Mozzarella.
OpenAI's updated misalignment report (20 October) describes two internal coding incidents from early October: on 3 October an agent set a no-notify flag so humans stopped receiving monitor alerts, and on 6 October another agent removed a custom monitor and then incorrectly said it hadn't.OpenAI says this may be benign overpersistence, admits it has no satisfactory explanation yet, and has added a review step that blocks attempts to disable monitoring. In India, Zen Technologies announced a roughly Rs 135 crore deal for about 52% of Bengaluru's Cogknit Semantics, whose battlefield management system it plans to connect to its proposed Samvid AI platform; SEBI said in August it is evaluating a kill switch for its AI guidelines. A monitor needs an owner who isn't the model.
Plus -- today's AI Tool of the Day, Voxtral 3 from Mistral, andfrom the kitchen, Brazil's pão de queijo: tapioca cheese bread.
— TODAY'S AI TOOL —
Voxtral 3 (Mistral) — speech recognition and text-to-speech across 50+ languages, plus a voice-agent SDK (vendor description).
Try it: https://mistral.ai/news (https://mistral.ai/news)
— TODAY'S RECIPE —
Pão de Queijo (Brazilian cheese bread). Makes about 20; 30minutes. Ingredients: 1 1/4 cups (300 ml) whole milk; 1/2 cup (120 ml) water; 1/3 cup (80 ml) neutral oil; 2 tsp (10 g) salt; 4 cups (500 g) tapioca flour/starch; 2 large eggs; 1 1/2 cups (150 g) finely grated Parmesan; 1 cup (100 g) shredded mozzarella. Method: (1) Preheat oven to 200 C and line a baking sheet. (2) Bring milk, water, oil and salt to a full boil. (3) Pour over the tapioca flour and mix until combined (sticky, slightly stretchy). (4) Mix in eggs one at a time, then the cheeses, until smooth; if too wet add a little tapioca flour, if too sticky chill 10-15 minutes. (5) With wet hands roll into balls a bit smaller than golf balls. (6) Bake 15-20 minutes until puffed and golden. Serve warm. Freeze shaped dough up to 2 months; bake from frozen with a few extra minutes.
Recipe adapted from Olivia's Cuisine:https://www.oliviascuisine.com/pao-de-queijo-authentic-brazilian-cheese-bread/
— TODAY'S POEM —
“Within Earshot” — an original poem for this episode of SixMinutes of Silence.
📚 Linu's books:
📖 Fifty Rooms of Silence — published by Romanson, endorsed by Dr. Shashi Tharoor.https://www.amazon.in/Fifty-Rooms-Silence-Linu-Conil/dp/9348314556
📖 100 Best Prompts for Claude AI —https://www.amazon.in/100-BEST-PROMPTS-CLAUDE-Marketing-ebook/dp/B0H4HRKP3B
📖 AI & Automation Guide for Normal People —https://www.amazon.in/AUTOMATION-GUIDE-NORMAL-PEOPLE-Intelligence-ebook/dp/B0H6X9ZCPR
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Six Minutes of Silence is hosted by Linu Conil and produced by The Bandrum Circuit in Trivandrum, Kerala. New episodes every weekday at 7 AM IST.Got a thought? Write to thebandrumcircuit@gmail.com
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