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The Weekly: Technology and Art, a conflict in purpose
It has taken me longer to get this edition of The Weekly out. It’s partly because I have been organizing my thoughts around art and technology. I am starting to worry that tech is doing art dirty. I also suspect that technology’s impact on art, is a precursor to tech’s troubling impact on humanity at…
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🎭🗡️🕵️ Just watched Rian Johnson’s Wake Up Dead Man. It is an excellent movie. If you have a Netflix sub, it’s worth a watch. The movie adds to the existing slate of Knives Out movies. I am loving Craig as Benoit Blanc, as much as when he played James Bond – maybe more.
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🏏 Not a lot you can do when de Kock shows up to the game. 90 out of 46 is mind numbing. Wonderful hitting by South Africa over all! Imagine if this were the T20 World Cup Semi-finals. To India, I will simply repeat: you are only as strong or weak as your bowling is.
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🏏 Finally a string of resounding wins by Team India. Both wins had in one thing common: the bowlers took 10 wickets in a single innings. In both – the 3rd One Day International and the first T20 International – batters did not have to show heroics because the bowlers did their jobs. Going to…
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The Weekly: The Indignity in Flying Commercial
The meltdown with IndiGo across multiple airports all over India was a sobering reminder of how delicate the airline business really is. This episode also reminded me of the misery that passengers endure when flying commercial. My rants against that misery, are not new. But IndiGo’s debacle in 2025 made me list down things that…
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Well played South Africa! Chasing down any score over 300 in 50over cricket is commendable. No matter where you are playing and whom you are playing against. 300+ in 50 overs is a test of skill, focus and effort. Well done. And then we have India. Team India needs some soul searching. For starters ask…
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It is impressive how bad Indian bowlers are in 50-over cricket. If this team cannot defend 358 runs over the course of 50 overs, what can they defend?
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The Weekly: AI Eats AI Research
I am earnestly trying to think and write about anything but AI these days. I was honestly going to write about cricket this week. The recent drama that is engulfing Indian Cricket at the moment is worth talking about. But that will have to wait for something a little more consequential. AI Eats AI Research…
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The Panels app by MKBHD is shutting down. Interestingly, in their shutdown announcement/letter, they talk about open-sourcing the app’s source code: Once the app shutdown is complete and all user data has been securely deleted, we will open source the Panels app code under the Apache 2.0 license. This will allow anyone to build on…
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🏏 😬 India won by the skin of their teeth. This is a team that cannot play cricket. And it is run by a cricketing administration that is hellbent on driving away its senior players (who are actually performing). smh. SA might have lost this one. But I expect them to come out strong in…
Winter Rant 