Aditya

Techie at Heart

[Aditya @_adinema]

Zverev attacking like there is no tomorrow .. Brilliant strategy against Jan .. rooting for Z ..

[Chamath Palihapitiya @chamath]

Key to winning:

Choose to be positive and grateful. Then, just keep at it. Time is the great compounder and will do the rest.

So many people just don’t have the discipline to stay positive and grateful. Then time compounds the bitterness instead.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

How are these stats real. Absolutely insane

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

পশ্চিমবঙ্গে পদ্ম ফুটল !

২০২৬ সালের পশ্চিমবঙ্গ বিধানসভা নির্বাচন চিরস্মরণীয় হয়ে থাকবে। জনশক্তি এবং বিজেপির সুশাসনের রাজনীতি জয়যুক্ত হয়েছে। আমি পশ্চিমবঙ্গের প্রতিটি মানুষের প্রতি প্রণত।

জনগণ বিজেপিকে এক অভূতপূর্ব জনাদেশ দিয়েছেন এবং আমি তাঁদের আশ্বস্ত করছি যে আমাদের দল পশ্চিমবঙ্গের মানুষের স্বপ্ন ও আশা-আকাঙ্ক্ষা পূরণের জন্য সম্ভাব্য সব কিছু করবে। আমরা এমন এক সরকার গড়ব যা সমাজের সকল অংশের মানুষের সুযোগ এবং মর্যাদা নিশ্চিত করবে।

@BJP4Bengal

[Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 @ShefVaidya]

There are almost 600 convicts on death row in India. Not a single person has been hanged since 2020. The oldest r@pe case convict, Vasant Dupare who r@ped and kiIIed a 4 year old in Nagpur in 2008 is STILL alive in jail despite all courts from sessions to Supreme sentencing him to death. SEVENTEEN years!! And @CMOMaharashtra and @SunetraA_Pawar are talking about fast track courts giving speedy justice in the Nasrapur r@pe case! Judiciary in this country is a joke!

[Andy Smarick @smarick]

In 10 years, we'll realize young adults can't read, write, or think as well as they should. We'll wonder how we allowed students to offload huge chunks of their learning to AI. Today we're just watching it happen. This is the most obvious unforced error of our time.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Bengal must once again become a hub of factories and industries. For that, TMC needs to be defeated.

[Markets by Zerodha @zerodhamarkets]

From June, any solar project that wants to stay on the right side of India's energy policy must use cells made in India. Not assembled here from imported parts, that's already required. Actually fabricated here. The problem: India doesn't yet have enough of them.🧵👇

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

CFOs realizing that their AI token budget is going to be higher than the salaries of the people they laid off

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This 40 minute lecture at Stanford by Apoorv Agarwal on the Economics of AI supercycle is worth a watch

Apoorv is currently a Partner at Altimeter and is directly involved in some of their key AI investments, including OpenAI and Glean

Still find it incredible that the internet gives us access to this level of information directly. A course I will definitely be following along

Sourced from MS&E 435 Stanford University

[Douglas A. Boneparth @dougboneparth]

My daughter’s lemonade stand was struggling, so we pivoted to AI compute.

She’s been acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion.

[Chebureki Man @CheburekiMan]

Oil goes ballistic! 🚀

Singapore and Sri Lanka just paid $210 and $286 per barrel respectively. This is the actual delivered price, not the oft-quoted futures price.

Economists claim if the conflict were resolved today at least 3 months of global recession is already locked-in, and prolongation into summer could lead to a global depression.

[Aarish @aarisha_fabgirl]

@AdityaRajKaul @nitishrajput makes some awesome investigative videos. Watched one on Al Falah university case. Engrossing
https://t.co/BNtUyuW1Bl

[alpha man @alphaman_111]

On day 1 of my high school history class, our professor got up and said

You are 15 or 16 years old. 200 years ago people your age were married, planted crops, had children, and built a cabin by winter. You can do your homework. The bar set for you historically is embarrassingly low. You are not dealing with regional famine or plague. You do not have to save your family from marauders or go into battle to destroy your enemies. You have to sit down and learn from someone who cares about you in a safe, air-conditioned room. You have no excuses.

[Daniel Foubert @d_foubert]

BREAKING: Iran says the strait is closed.
BREAKING: Trump says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.
BREAKING: Bloomberg says 3 ships crossed.
BREAKING: Iran says those 3 ships are Iranian.
BREAKING: Maersk says it needs clarity.
BREAKING: The strait is a philosophical concept at this point.

BREAKING: A fourth ship attempts to cross.
BREAKING: The fourth ship turns around.
BREAKING: The fourth ship's captain says he "needed to think."
BREAKING: Insurance for the fourth ship is now $47M.
BREAKING: The fourth ship is still thinking.

BREAKING: Trump posts on Truth Social that Hormuz is "TOTALLY OPEN, BEAUTIFUL, LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN."
BREAKING: 800 ships remain trapped in the Gulf.
BREAKING: Trump posts again that this is Biden's fault.

BREAKING: Iran announces tolls of $2M per ship.
BREAKING: Iran announces tolls must be paid in crypto.
BREAKING: Iran has not specified which crypto.
BREAKING: Someone on CT says it's XRP.
BREAKING: XRP is up 34%.
BREAKING: It is not XRP.

BREAKING: Russia and China veto the UN resolution on Hormuz.
BREAKING: Russia proposes an alternative resolution.
BREAKING: The alternative resolution does not mention Hormuz.
BREAKING: Nobody is surprised.

BREAKING: Israel bombs Lebanon.
BREAKING: Iran says this violates the ceasefire.
BREAKING: Trump says the ceasefire does not cover Lebanon.
BREAKING: Netanyahu says the ceasefire does not cover anything Netanyahu is currently doing.
BREAKING: Ceasefire is now 11 hours old.
BREAKING: Iran closes Hormuz again.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.

BREAKING: Trump floats joint US-Iran toll venture to manage the strait.
BREAKING: The White House clarifies Trump was "just thinking out loud."
BREAKING: Iran says it will consider the proposal.
BREAKING: Trump says Iran's 10-point peace plan is "not good enough."
BREAKING: Trump says it is "a workable basis."
BREAKING: Both statements were made within the same hour.

BREAKING: 20,000 seafarers are still trapped on ships inside the Gulf.
BREAKING: The IMO says the priority is evacuation.
BREAKING: Iran says passage requires "coordination with armed forces."
BREAKING: Nobody has coordinated with the armed forces.
BREAKING: Hegseth says the strait is open.

BREAKING: The strait remains closed.
BREAKING: This is day 41.
BREAKING: We will keep you updated.

[Pakistan Files @pakistan_files]

ISLAMABAD – In a late-night emergency session of the federal cabinet that lasted until 4:17 a.m., Pakistan has officially lifted its ban on the Indian film Dhurandhar and its sequel Dhurandhar 2: The Revenge, clearing the way for an immediate nationwide release on 7,000 cinema screens starting this Friday.

The decision, described by officials as “a necessary and purely economic measure,” comes as the country grapples with a $28 billion external debt repayment deadline, acute oil and energy shortages, rolling blackouts now stretching to 18 hours daily, and an ongoing border situation that has further strained foreign-exchange reserves.

Finance Minister Muhammad Aurangzeb told reporters this morning, reading from a prepared statement while standing beside a large poster of Ranveer Singh in full commando gear: “We are a responsible nation.

When the UAE asks for its three billion dollars back by next month, we do not make excuses. We make policy. Every ticket sold to Dhurandhar will carry a 60 percent entertainment tax. That is not a tax. That is patriotism with popcorn.”

Culture Minister Nabeel Gabol, who earlier this year had called the film “a direct assault on Pakistan’s sovereignty” and “an attempt to expose our real face,” appeared alongside the finance minister with the serene composure of someone who has just performed a cost-benefit analysis on national pride.

“Previously we banned it because it showed uncomfortable things,” he said flatly. “It depicted our links between gangsters in Lyari and terror networks. It used real footage and audio from attacks like 26/11, with ISI officers celebrating the bloodshed on live television.

It portrayed our soil as a launchpad for operations against India. Frankly, it held up a mirror and we did not like what we saw.”

He paused, adjusted his microphone, and continued without a flicker of irony:

“But then we remembered who we are. We are a resilient people. We have already faced far greater humiliation - when 93,000 of our soldiers surrendered in 1971 and, as the stories go, were made to pull down their pants in Dhaka.

If we could survive that with our dignity intact enough to move on, then surely we can survive Ranveer Singh running around Karachi for three hours.

We have accepted that we are, at the end of the day, shameless. The mirror no longer shocks us. Now it is simply another revenue stream.”

Cinema owners in Karachi, Lahore, and Islamabad confirmed they have already begun printing fresh tickets at triple the usual price.

One multiplex manager in Gulistan-e-Johar, speaking on condition of anonymity because he still remembers the last time he screened an Indian film, said:

“We were told to open all halls, even the ones we use for storage.
They are bringing in diesel generators so the projectors don’t go dark mid-climax. The government has promised us fuel priority. For the first time in two years, we are happy about load-shedding.”

Independent economists described the move as “creative,” “unprecedented,” and “the kind of fiscal innovation you only see when the IMF has already said no three times.”

One analyst at a leading brokerage in Karachi calculated that if Dhurandhar achieves the same per-screen average it posted in India, the Pakistani state could recover approximately $412 million in the first weekend alone - enough to keep the lights on in at least three major cities until the next IMF tranche arrives.

Officials were quick to point out that Pakistanis have, in any case, already watched the movie in large numbers.

Despite the theatrical ban, Dhurandhar became the number one film on Netflix in Pakistan shortly after its streaming release, racking up millions of views through legal and not-so-legal means.

“The people have already done their homework,” one advisor noted. “Now we are just formalising the transaction.”

Social media reaction has been measured. A trending hashtag #DhurandharForPakistan was briefly number one before the electricity went out again.

One verified account belonging to a former PTI lawmaker posted: “First they banned it for exposing us. Now they are forcing us to watch it again so we can pay Abu Dhabi. History will remember this as the moment we turned national humiliation into box-office receipts.”

When asked whether the government had considered other revenue options — such as selling more state assets, raising taxes on the salaried class, or asking citizens to skip one meal a day — the finance minister smiled for the first time during the press conference.

“Those are all very good ideas,” he said. “But none of them have Ranveer Singh in them.”

The film will screen in both Urdu-dubbed and original Hindi versions. Subtitles will read: “For the motherland. Please buy the large Coke. And remember: we have seen worse.”

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

A violent mob holds hostage seven judicial officers; a sitting Chief minister barges into a crime scene and runs away with a crucial piece of evidence; NIA officers on duty are beaten and slapped with sexual assault charges. Indians laws are no longer valid in Bengal.

My views:

[Aditya @_adinema]

Total Wealth divided by country

[Aditya @_adinema]

Ever wondered how much money is there in the world? Its 513 Trillion USD, led by real estate and equities.

[Iran's Today @Iran]

Over 50,000 US troops are now in the Middle East—about 10,000 more than usual—after 2,500 Marines and 2,500 sailors were deployed. - NYT