Sri Chakradhar Varanasi

[Shesh Paul Vaid @spvaid]

Tehseen Ji you are absolutely right. The Nation is with Dr Doolla Prof in IIT Mumbai.

[Pravesh Biyani @pravesh]

did my https://t.co/zANOEvvHvH at IIT Bombay and my PhD at IIT Delhi. I've been a professor for 14 years now. In 22 years of watching the IIT/IIIT system closely, I have never once witnessed a teacher discriminate against a student on the basis of caste.

During my https://t.co/zANOEvvHvH, most of us had no idea what caste our batchmates belonged to. Many of my close friends were SC/ST. We never discussed it. It never entered any conversation or decision. Not once. Our exposure to the humanities department was limited, though — the term "Brahmanical patriarchy" didn't even exist back then.

As a teacher, I don't ask a student's name before solving their doubt. Often I don't know their name at all — some of my classes have 300+ students. We treat them all the same. So does every colleague I know. So did every professor who taught me.

Social media has now filled vulnerable students' heads with a lot of manufactured grievance about caste discrimination that, in my experience, doesn't exist.

[Department of War 🇺🇸 @DeptofWar]

Last Thursday, we welcomed Logan and Jake Paul to the Pentagon to meet with our warriors.

[Sri Chakradhar Varanasi @snuglydonks]

@KhalidAlNumi 1 million dollars

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀

Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.

History is made. 🇮🇳

#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace

[NoLimit @NoLimitGains]

Uhoh. China.

[cнєєкυ⋆｡🪐˚ ⋆ @Okay_Bye___]

Me refusing to sleep because i didn't get enough me time after work

[Shambhav Sharma @shambhav15]

Millions of Chinese bots cannot undo the nuke this tweet just dropped

[Sri Chakradhar Varanasi @snuglydonks]

@IndianTechGuide ABOLISH INCOME TAX

[𝗦𝗮𝗶𝘇𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗼 @Saiztico]

Y si sí... y si the last titan....

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a senior vice president at a $68.7 billion gaming company.

Activision-Blizzard.

We have a 30-year-old franchise.

Warcraft.

Millions of players. A subscription model that prints $15 a month per user. A cash shop on top of the subscription. Paid expansions on top of the cash shop.

Our former creative director just told the press he wishes we hadn't called it "Warcraft."

He said the name sounds intimidating.

He helped create the name.

We ran focus groups. The focus groups said the brand needed to be "more approachable." We asked the focus groups if they played the game. They did not. We took their advice anyway.

Our VP told an interviewer we want players to experience "weddings, raids, and new adventures." She listed weddings first. Before raids. In a game called Warcraft. Nobody in the room flinched.

She also said "No one thinks the same about Warhammer."

She compared our franchise unfavorably to a competitor. On the record. As a defense of the franchise.

The forums are on fire. Twenty-year veterans are writing goodbye posts. One thread is titled "Think I'm done with WoW." Another calls our pre-patch a "player purge."

We called our GDKP raiders "delusional."

We timed a cash shop bundle to launch during the Trading Post anniversary -- the one event where players earn free cosmetics. We offered 200 discounted items but kept the monthly currency cap at 1,000. The math doesn't work unless you open your wallet.

The community noticed. We described their concerns as "feedback we're monitoring."

We are always monitoring. We have never once changed course because of monitoring.

The players say we're "Disneyfying" the game. Turning gritty into cute. War into weddings. Orcs into mascots.

They're not wrong.

The data says approachable properties have wider TAM. Total addressable market. That's the metric now. Not "subscribers who love the game." Not "community that built this franchise." TAM.

TAM doesn't post on forums. TAM doesn't write goodbye letters. TAM doesn't have 20 years of muscle memory and lore knowledge and raid nights that turned into real friendships.

TAM is a number in a slide deck that makes a board feel comfortable.

We added player housing. Players have asked for it since 2004. We launched it in 2026. Twenty-two years. We described this as "listening to our community."

We are very good at listening. Eventually. When the feature aligns with a monetization roadmap.

Here is what I know and cannot say in a meeting:

The name was never the problem. The name built this. The name survived server crashes and subscription drops and an activision merger and a harassment scandal and a $68.7 billion acquisition.

The name is "Warcraft" and for 30 years nobody was confused about what it meant.

The problem is not that new players find the name intimidating.

The problem is that old players are starting to find us unrecognizable.

And we don't have a focus group for that.

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

Dear @ICC,

It is with a heavy heart that we now announce our unavailability to replace Pakistan in the upcoming T20 World Cup. Regardless of whether they now withdraw, the short timescales ensure it is impossible for our squad to prepare in the professional manner necessary to compete effectively in this global cricketing spectacle. We are not like Scotland and able to turn up on a whim, with no kit sponsor.

Our players are from all walks of life and cannot simply drop their occupations to fly halfway around the world to experience temperatures only normally felt in Finnish saunas. Our captain, a professional baker, needs to attend to his oven, our ship captain needs to steer his vessel, and our bankers need to go bankrupt (again). This is the harsh reality of cricket at the amateur level of the game.

This news will be extremely disappointing to our fans. Despite being the most peaceful nation on Earth, we maintain an army of online followers, and are the world's 14th most followed national board on X. We were ready to give the Dutch the biggest shock they have experienced since William of Orange lost the Battle of Landen in 1693. And the Americans were looking forward to taking on Greenland, or so their orange-dyed leader thought.

Our loss is likely Uganda's gain. We wish them well. Their kits cannot be missed unless you have epilepsy, in which case they are probably best avoided.

The future is always ice, until it isn't.

Yours sincerely,

Icelandic Cricket Association

[Tulsi Gabbard 🌺 @TulsiGabbard]

The United States needs to stay out of Venezuela. Let the Venezuelan people determine their future. We don't want other countries to choose our leaders--so we have to stop trying to choose theirs.

[Anurag @Jhunjhunuwala_]

> be Indian National Congress

today is 140th anniversary
look at the political map of India in 2025

realize they don't exist in half the states anymore
start wondering where it all went wrong
checks history logs
oh no
it was the Dynasty all along

> 1951
Nehru vs Acharya Kripalani
Kripalani wants Party President to have a check on the PM
Nehru says "No, I am the State, I am the Party"
Kripalani leaves
Precedent set: One Family > Internal Democracy

> 1967
Indira Gandhi in charge
Charan Singh in UP represents the massive peasant vote
He wants more say in state leadership
Indira refuses to share power with a regional strongman
He leaves to form BKD
Result: Congress lose the UP peasantry forever, haven't seen power in UP since 1989.

> 1969
Indira vs The Syndicate (Kamaraj, Desai)
They try to hold her accountable
She splits the party, nationalizes banks just to flex on them
"Indira is India, India is Indira"
Result:
The organization breaks. Congress lost Tamilnadu for eternity.
Sycophancy becomes the only qualification for promotion.

> 1982
Rajiv Gandhi (General Secretary)
Lands in Hyderabad
Publicly insults his own CM (T. Anjaiah) at the airport for bringing a crowd
NTR watches this and screams "Telugu Self-Respect"
Forms TDP
Result: Congress create their own nemesis in the South. Andhra dominance cracks for the first time.

> 1987
Rajiv Gandhi vs V.P. Singh
VP Singh (Finance/Defense Minister) starts asking questions about corruption (Bofors)
Rajiv fires him to protect the inner circle
VP Singh unites the entire opposition
Result: Congress lose the 1989 election and the Hindi Heartland mandate collapses for real.

> 1998
Sonia Gandhi takes the reins (via proxies initially)
Mamata Banerjee in Bengal is fighting a literal war against CPM
She begs High Command for support and autonomy
Delhi ignores her to keep CPM happy at the center
Mamata throws her shawl at the leadership and leaves
Result: Trinamool takes Bengal. Congress are reduced to 0 seats in a state.

> 1999
Sharad Pawar questions Sonia Gandhi’s foreign origin as PM candidate
"How dare you question the Family?"
Kicked out immediately
Forms NCP
Result: Congress never win a simple majority in Maharashtra again. Always forced to be a junior partner to the man INC kicked out.

> 2011
YSR dies in a crash. He was the only reason INC won 2004 and 2009.
His son Jagan Mohan Reddy asks to be CM to keep the legacy alive.
Sonia and Rahul say "No, we don't do dynasties (unless it's us)."

> They jail Jagan to teach him a lesson.
Jagan forms YSRCP.
Result: In 2014, Congress gets 0 seats in Andhra Pradesh. A state that gave 33 MPs is wiped off from Congress map forever.

2015
Himanta Biswa Sarma in Assam
The strongest leader in the Northeast asks Rahul Gandhi for a meeting to fix state issues

Rahul is busy feeding biscuits to his dog 'Pidi'
Ignores Himanta.
Himanta walks out, joins BJP.

Result: He hands the entire Northeast (7 states) to the BJP on a silver platter. Congress today stands erased from the region.

2025
140 years of existence
Every major regional party in India today exists because a Gandhi didn't want to share the spotlight

maybe the real Congress was the regional parties congress made along the way.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees.

$30 per seat per month.

$1.4 million annually.

I called it "digital transformation."

The board loved that phrase.

They approved it in eleven minutes.

No one asked what it would actually do.

Including me.

I told everyone it would "10x productivity."

That's not a real number.

But it sounds like one.

HR asked how we'd measure the 10x.

I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards."

They stopped asking.

Three months later I checked the usage reports.

47 people had opened it.

12 had used it more than once.

One of them was me.

I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds.

It took 45 seconds.

Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations.

But I called it a "pilot success."

Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail.

The CFO asked about ROI.

I showed him a graph.

The graph went up and to the right.

It measured "AI enablement."

I made that metric up.

He nodded approvingly.

We're "AI-enabled" now.

I don't know what that means.

But it's in our investor deck.

A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT.

I said we needed "enterprise-grade security."

He asked what that meant.

I said "compliance."

He asked which compliance.

I said "all of them."

He looked skeptical.

I scheduled him for a "career development conversation."

He stopped asking questions.

Microsoft sent a case study team.

They wanted to feature us as a success story.

I told them we "saved 40,000 hours."

I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up.

They didn't verify it.

They never do.

Now we're on Microsoft's website.

"Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot."

The CEO shared it on LinkedIn.

He got 3,000 likes.

He's never used Copilot.

None of the executives have.

We have an exemption.

"Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction."

I wrote that policy.

The licenses renew next month.

I'm requesting an expansion.

5,000 more seats.

We haven't used the first 4,000.

But this time we'll "drive adoption."

Adoption means mandatory training.

Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches.

But completion will be tracked.

Completion is a metric.

Metrics go in dashboards.

Dashboards go in board presentations.

Board presentations get me promoted.

I'll be SVP by Q3.

I still don't know what Copilot does.

But I know what it's for.

It's for showing we're "investing in AI."

Investment means spending.

Spending means commitment.

Commitment means we're serious about the future.

The future is whatever I say it is.

As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

[Aravind @aravind]

I have a hypothesis about why Indian CEOs are being selected in such large numbers by international boards.

Indian CEOs are, of course, smart, talented, and capable leaders. But plenty of Americans, Brits, Israelis, Europeans, Chinese, Japanese, and Koreans are too.

And it's not just about speaking English either, as some think, given immigrant Indians are chosen as being better than American or five eyes born native English speakers who are equal, or more in numbers in the western talent pool.

My theory is that they're chosen because they tend to be docile and servile along with all the great qualifications and qualities of a leader.

An Anglo-Saxon white, Chinese, or Israeli CEO might let their community's or birth country's interests creep in and interfere at some point. Or they will just be more brave and open about voicing their opinions and taking decisions which may affect shareholder value.

For example, in the recent H1B visa fee hike case, I saw so many Whites (including Elon), Jewish and Chinese Americans (including CEOs) openly come out against it and support hi-tech immigration, even directly support Indian immigrants.

Indian origin leaders, on the other hand, are a safe bet for keeping their mouths shut in silence. For instance, they haven't yet posted a single line condemning racial targeting, attacks, or killings of Indians, or speak out against H-1B visa policy changes that hurt their own community - or even their own company.

Indians, especially India born ones, can just be trusted to play it safe, focusing solely on their personal and company interests. In fact, they'll bend over backwards to serve their boards, companies, and the deep state, if any, dictating.

My hypothesis can be further proven by seeing that India born Indian origin leaders are picked for CEO jobs in US companies, and not many US born Indian Americans (not even close) who are as qualified with all the great credentials and just as good - if it is really the race or culture that makes good CEOs.

Because, even though they are Indians with similar achievements, qualifications from top schools, and capabilities, being born and brought up in the US, they tend to have a bit more of the independent American spirit and much less of the docility and spineless, servile attitude.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

🚨BREAKING: Pam Bondi has just fired a new software engineer hire that was working data analytics on the Epstein case: SOHAM PAREKH

[Geert Wilders @geertwilderspvv]

Free the brave Sharmishta Panoli!

It’s a disgrace for the freedom of speech that she was arrested.

Don’t punish her for speaking the truth about Pakistan and Muhammad.

Help her @narendramodi!

@AmyMek #Sharmishta
#IStandwithSharmishta
#ReleaseSharmistha
#FreeSharmishta

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS

Indian startup AgniKul Cosmos SUCCESSFULLY FIRES India’s first semi-cryogenic engine powered by an electric motor.