Anand Balsubramaniam

VFX grunt. Wannabe Angrez & Filthy NRI, Slave to a Witch & and undisputed leader of a brood horde.

[Anand Balsubramaniam @frogstarB]

@MrRTBabel @Exploding_Heads has to be the Top right?
I was about to say the same thing. how have we never noticed it before?! haha

[Trades Union Congress @The_TUC]

You voted against scrapping zero hour contracts.

You voted against banning fire and rehire.

You voted against day one sick pay for workers.

You said the minimum wage was too high for young people.

Reform politicians openly say they don't like trade unions.

You will always put the interests of your offshore crypto billionaire donors ahead of workers.

[PlayStation Nostalgia @PlayStalgiaX]

Colin McRae: Dirt (2007)

[Josh RR Jokien @joshcarlosjosh]

The hobbits cheering for Gandalf after he sets off another round of fireworks:

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

The CEO of Take-Two, the company behind GTA, just said something the entire AI industry doesn't want to hear.

And he said it without being anti-AI.

Strauss Zelnick's argument is precise. AI is built on datasets. Datasets are backward-looking. Creativity is forward-looking. A model trained on everything that already exists cannot, by definition, produce something genuinely unexpected. And all hits, by their very nature, are unexpected.

Asset creation and hit creation are not the same thing. AI is getting very good at the first one. The second one is what actually makes money, builds franchises, and changes culture. Nobody has shown AI can do that yet.

The derivative property problem is real. You can clone GTA with existing technology. You could do it before AI. It would take 3 years and look identical. It still wouldn't sell. Because it isn't GTA. It's a clone of GTA.

And consumers, despite what the industry occasionally pretends, can feel the difference between something genuinely new and something assembled from the residue of things that already worked.

Thousands of mobile games ship every year. 0 to 5 hits get made. The same studios make them every time. The technology to make more games has been commoditized for years. It didn't democratize hit creation. It just flooded the market with more forgettable product.

The Silicon Valley thesis that AI unlocks game creation for everyone is true in the same way that cheap cameras unlocked filmmaking for everyone. They did. And the same 5 studios still make the movies everyone watches.

What Zelnick is saying, without quite saying it, is that the thing AI cannot replicate is taste. The instinct for what hasn't been done yet. The cultural antenna that detects the gap in the market before the data can see it.

Data tells you what people wanted. Hits tell people what they want next.

Those are different jobs.

[Robert Peston @Peston]

This from Jess Phillips’s resignation letter is devastating for the prime minister

“Over a year ago I presented solutions, long worked on by brilliant civil servants that would end the ability for children in the UK to take naked images of themselves. 91% of online child sex abuse is self-generated by children groomed, tricked and exploited in to abuse. The technology exists to stop children being able to take naked images of themselves. We could make this possible on every phone and device in the country. We could stop this abuse. It has taken me a year to get you to agree to even threaten to legislate in this space. Not legislate, just threaten. This is the definition of incremental change. Nothing bold about it. The announcement was meant to be in March, I'm still on a promise this will happen in June, I've given up believing it. How many children were left without a safety net in the time we dilly dallied and worried about tech bosses?
This is just one example.”

[The Exploding Heads @Exploding_Heads]

The common sense candidate in a local election

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Crazy isn't it Jeremy Corbyn's Labour party had an 'antisemitism crisis' and now Zack Polanski's Green Party does.

While Nigel Farage's Reform party, with Nigel Farage and loads of Nazi lovers, doesn't.

It's like it's some kind of scam used against Left Wing parties.

[Ian Raphael Bishop @irbishi]

To see negative comments about Mayank Yadav today is horrifying. The kid nearly lost his career & livelihood at 21yrs. Just to see him play again is huge boost. The fact that he clocked 150kph again is a miracle. At 23yrs just pray for him that he stays fit. The control will come

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

I bet this is going massive on the broadcast media #Rayner #DoubleStandards #FarageFreeRide

[Anand Balsubramaniam @frogstarB]

If there is ONE similiarity between Vaibhav Suryavanshi and Sachin; Once he gets out, I almost lose all interest in the rest of the innings.

Box Office!!
#IPL2026 #RCBvsRR #cricket

[Anand Balsubramaniam @frogstarB]

She has an eye for Camera tracking! Eh 😆

[Klara @klara_sjo]

Take me down to the parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly.

[edwn @edwiin]

Epic Games laying off 1000 people today should remind you of one thing

No amount of late nights, overtime, or genuine care for the company you work for will save you

Work for yourself, build for yourself

At least if it ends, you have control of it and it wasn't a surprise

[Anand Balsubramaniam @frogstarB]

huh learnt something new on twitter today!
Proof it's not always a shithole, if you follow good people.

[Chris Doyle @Doylech]

But it is an Arabic name .... Taraf Al Ghar. A hillside of laurel.

[Anand Balsubramaniam @frogstarB]

woah woah woah!
Are you saying that the rational Facts and common sense are being ignored in favor of rage baiting!?
I'm shocked I say, Shocked!!....

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

Oh boy! What a headline...

Ask yourself:

"What am I being asked to believe?"

"Who am I being told to blame?"

Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.

Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵

1/21

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Every now and then sport produces a moment that challenges an old assumption

This rocket-like free kick from Manisha was one of those moments

Challenged the assumption that raw football talent doesn’t exist in India

Our real challenge is to locate it early and build an ecosystem that can nurture it

Because the rockets are clearly there.

We just need more launchpads

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽

[Jarrod Kimber @ajarrodkimber]

🎬Sanju Samson and the Jimmy Neesham yorker

https://t.co/FiS3cUtBo0

[Anand Balsubramaniam @frogstarB]

@spidertiff Oh, sweet summer child!
In story terms, we're still wrapped up in warm blankets in a cushy bed at this stage of One piece.

[Lewis Goodall @lewis_goodall]

What they’re basically saying is that Starmer and the UK isn’t allowed to operate an even moderately independent foreign policy outside of the United States. That is both ahistoric, wrong and weird for people who constantly tell us how sovereignty is what matters most.

[Anand Balsubramaniam @frogstarB]

@SangitaMyska Basic google search shows about 30% of G&D's population is Muslim.
And Reform goes 'suprised pikachu face' after they've spent all their energy demonising that significant demographic, when they vote for someone else.