Sunil Nair

The Weather of Fear There is no peace anymore, only intervals between tremors. The world has become a vast, humming nervous system, a body tensed perpetually…

The world never stopped being at war. The weapons changed; the noise did not.

We live in a permanent Cold War, fought with attention, exhaustion, & data.

This one is about quiet tension in lives, and the small, stubborn acts of tenderness that still keep us human.

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@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for President!

The Butterfly Effect and Other Modern Catastrophes Edward Lorenz said one fine morning that a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and somewhere in Texas there’s a tornado. Which is exactly…

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The oligarchs are racing to build AI that replaces workers before workers wake up and replace them.

Fast Cars and Slow Lives: Listening to Tracy Chapman in Any City There are songs that belong to a decade, and there are songs that belong to the human condition. Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, released in…

Some songs age.
Others wait for us to catch up.

Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car was written in 1988 and yet it still plays like a map of modern life.

Wherever you are, the song always seems to find you first.

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King Charles 3 must be worried. What if the cousins from across the pond join in the fun.

The Salt of History There are times when one listens to the drumbeat of history , on podcasts, in books, through the prismatic retellings of conquerors and…

History remembers the lighthouses. But it’s the ships that keep the world moving.

What do you think — can ordinary lives leave extraordinary echoes?

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Mount Sinai Mid Autumn Festival celebrations #singapore

The Voice That Carried Kerala Across the World There are voices that refuse to remain contained within a body. They spill across regions, seep into rituals, and before long, they become…

For Malayalis, Yesudas is not a singer, he is a season. His voice is Onam mornings, Sabarimala songs, train rides, and the ache of home heard through a cassette hiss. One man’s voice became the sound of a people.

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I guess there is no news taking olacr anywhere else

Or else what?

Not the meek, not the bold, the freaks will inherit the world

The Long Way Home It began, as many things in Singapore do, with arithmetic. Taxi fares that leapt like startled fish, the omnipresent surge pricing of…

Life bends in circles: the hand that once led me now seeks mine. Parents grow childlike, and we, their children, become the guides. Tender, humbling, inevitable

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Nah tuckerism

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US today पकड़ो मारो काटो चीर दो
साफ़ सुथरी चमड़ियों पे गहरे गहरे नील दो
धीरे धीरे सारे ख़ुद्दार खुद ही मान जायेंगे
इनके पैरों के नीचे की धरती इनसे छीन लो

Jingostan Zindabad.

Asterix, Our Gallant Gaul in the Age of Algorithms The world has always divided itself into two tribes. Not Romans and Gauls, not left and right, not even cat people and dog people, though…

Forget AI think-tanks. The best guide to our world is still a druid, a bard no one lets sing, and a fat man obsessed with boars. #Asterix #currentaffairs #essay. My 32nd essay this year.

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What if they change the age of consent by a presidential order retrospectively? Na rahegi baans nah bajegi bansuri.

The Last Bow, or How We Forgot to Hold the Door There was a time when holding a door open for a stranger was considered good manners. Now, one hesitates. The act has become an ideological…

Once we laughed, now we litigate. Politeness is suspect, jokes are banned, patriotism is theatre. Outrage has replaced grace as our global currency.

My 30th essay this year. There is hope that I will win the bet of 52 essays in 52 weeks.

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Hasn't the true emperor of India asked the new emperor of amreeka kitne mein rafa dafa karega? It might actually work.

The Geography of Coffee and People I have always thought of cafés as terrariums. Self-contained worlds behind glass, where the climate is stable and the human fauna can be…

To watch a city, watch its cafés. Mumbai plays, Delhi flexes, NY rushes, Paris breathes, Shenzhen codes, Singapore choreographs. Segovia alone remembers the point: to do nothing over coffee.

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Yikes my chatbot is hallucinating. Lolwa

Aiyyo. Get better fast Karthik. Wish you speedy recovery.

Why does the perplexity ceo sound like a total arsehole in the Hard Fork podcast?

The Detectives Who Moved Into Our Heads and Never Left Detectives, you see, are not simply created. They are curated. Oh yes, Conan Doyle may have given Sherlock Holmes his brain, moustaches may…

Some detectives solve crimes. The great ones move into your head and never leave : Holmes, Poirot, Byomkesh, Jackson Lamb.

My 27th essay this year.

#fiction #spooks #essay

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100% Ai generated demo ad for a jewellery brand. The LVGM was able to maintain character continuity and trained to accurately place jewelery. Yay to clairva.ai

Repeat at me. OpenAI is not a startup.

Singapore Turns 60, and I am Just Here for the Jets Singapore’s National Day Parade! An event so flawlessly choreographed that even the most rebellious teenager finds themselves waving a flag…

Lost the NDP ticket lottery (again). Got jets, fireworks, origami picnics & an approving otter instead. #MajulahSingapore #sg60

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It will come back to 25% for india and both parties will claim a win.