Indiaโs ambition to build and export a sovereign AI template across the world is colliding with structural constraints: years of underinvestment in compute capacity, a late start in building the most advanced AI models, deep reliance on foreign cloud providers and a venture capital culture wary of the vast, risky bets that define the global AI race. https://t.co/0HhK3Iwzqw
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MK Stalin is 73 years old. He will be 78 when the next Tamil Nadu elections are held in 2031. Suffice to say, he will probably not be CM ever again.
Pinarayi Vijayan is 80. Will be 85 in 2031. Even if the Left continues to be a dominant political force in Kerala (it has been declining precipitously in India), he will probably not be CM again.
They join a long list of stalwarts of South Indian politicians who have probably served their last day in the CM's office, or are serving their term and will find it hard to get re-elected.
- KCR (K Chandrashekar Rao) : He is 72. He will be 75 come the next Telangana elections. Even if BRS manages to win that election, expect him to groom KTR to take over the reins very soon into his term.
- N Chandrababu Naidu : He is 76. Will be 79 during the next state elections. Even if TDP wins, will be very hard for him to serve the full 5 years from 79-84 years of age. Expect him to hand over the reins to Nara Lokesh in the next term.
- BS Yeddyurappa : He is 83. BJP will go gung-ho to win the 2028 elections in Karnataka come what may, but they are not going to back an 85 year old as CM face. He has had his fair share of conflicts with the BJP high command, so expect him to be pushed to the sidelines as well.
- Siddaramaiah: He is 77, going to be 80 by the time of the next elections. DK Shivkumar is dying to be CM of Karnataka, and he would have been had it not been for the Congress high command. He is also going to be "sunsetted" by the time the next elections arrive.
- EPS (Edappadi K. Palaniswami) - He is 72. He is not going to become CM this time. Vijay will never align with the BJP-AIAIDMK alliance. He will be 77 by the time the next elections take place in 2031. Surely the AIADMK dispensation would want a fresher, younger face to lead the alliance the next time.
We are entering unprecedented territory - several stalwarts of south indian politics who have defined the politics for decades, if not generations will go into the twilight around the same time. "Chaos is not a pit, it's a ladder" said one Petyr Bailish on Game of Thrones not so long ago. This is probably the time when we will see fresh faces emerge, unexpected political events happen, and see younger, talented politicians make hay when the sun shines. We've already seen a massive turnaround in Tamil Nadu with Vijay's superstar showcase. Expect to see even more of that in the coming few years.
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A man in India says he made thousands of dollars scamming 'super dumb' MAGA fans with a fake AI influencer named 'Emily Hart'
โข Helped pay for his medical school
โข Instagram's algorithm would blow up his fake content daily
โข Tried a liberal version but it didn't work
โDemocrats know that itโs AI slop ... The MAGA crowd is made up of dumb people ... super dumb people. And they fall for it"
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I understand Germans are upset but let me point out some realities for you.
It is really really hard to find young Germans with a STEM education in large numbers. Even for very well paying jobs you can only fill 30-40% jobs with Germans because it is not easy to find German software developers, statisticians, analysts, etc.
There is a very specific reason for this
which is not really discussed. Most back-office jobs are considered boring, unsexy, and uncool. They pay well but no one is going to think you are cool if you are a web developer. Go to a Berlin comedy club. You will find out which jobs are considered hip and trendy, and they are all in fashion, art or psychology.
Crunching numbers using code is a back office job that offers no visibility. You are not going to be the face of the company, you are not going to be doing podcast tours. You come in, write code, generate spreadsheets and collect your paycheck. Thatโs it. Thatโs the job.
And I have met so many young smart people who find this deeply repulsive and have actively walked away from these types of careers.
A common major I find young people in Germany take up is Business Administration. It offers a pathway to consulting, finance and management. Jobs where you sit in board meetings, get to wear fancy suits and maybe travel internationally.
Unfortunately in any economy consulting and management jobs are limited. You need a lot more people to do the actual dirty work, writing the codes, doing the analysis and building the product.
Germany obviously has very smart people. The market however doesnโt really care how smart you are. It rewards grit, perseverance and discipline far more than raw intelligence.
I kind of get it though. If I had grown up in a first world country I would have probably studied film studies, art history or psychology too.
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I was 20 when I first came to India with nothing but a restless mind and an old Enfield I bought from a friend in Delhi who taught me to ride in one dusty afternoon. He took my money, flew back to Florida, and left me with one rule: donโt hit a cow, and only ride between 2โ6 a.m. if you want to survive the heat and smog. Somehow, that became a philosophy for everything that followed.
I crossed the country like a kid inside a dream โ Calcutta to Delhi to Rishikesh โ sleeping on the bike when I had to, chasing chai stalls to stay awake, tossing the bike on trains when I could afford it. I swam in the Ganges, did yoga with elders who moved like water, bought vinyl in back-alley shops, fell in love the way only your twenties let you, and wrote long confusing emails to my mom from glowing village internet cafรฉs.
In Gujarat I stopped long enough to help with earthquake relief, eat thalis in strangersโ homes, and learn โKem Choโ and โMajama.โ India didnโt just teach me independence โ it cracked me open creatively. It showed me how improvisation is its own kind of discipline, how getting lost is a form of education.
I never imagined Iโd be invited back years later to collaborate with artists I once watched on cafรฉ computers โ working with actors like SRK, making videos like โLean Onโ that crossed billions of views, nearly dying during spiritual side quests in Leh and Varanasi, falling for Bollywood sweethearts, and still believing every strange turn meant something.
Twenty-five years later I returned to these roads, riding nine hours a day across the Himalayas on a much newer Enfield. And then โ perfectly โ I ended up performing at a massive Enfield festival in Goa and celebrating afterward in a motorcycle garage, as if time folded back on itself.
Two decades have changed India and me both. But every time I come back, I feel the same truth: growth happens when you surrender to the unknown, when the road teaches you more than any classroom could.
India was my beginning. And somehow, it still is.