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A Digital Flâneur in Athens
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Pooh, AI, and the Man with a Red Flag
How you feel about the impact of AI on society depends largely on your personality.In...
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Marxists, Beards and Follies
Sri Lanka has elected a Marxist president. He is described as a neo Marxist, which is wha...
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Sri Lanka – in the news for the wrong reason
First Published in May 2022.I’ve just returned from an unsettling trip to Sri Lanka...
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Algorithms and traditions – a Christmas story
I met a Thai woman called Sugarplum on the rooftop bar of the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo....
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Crazy Rich Asians in London
I would have been around 11 years old when I first flipped through my father’s day-old ...
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Farah Fawcett and the Tesla Cybertruck
I like cars but find it difficult to get excited about electric vehicles. They are alle...
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