Happy to have played a small - but brag worthy - part developing the Global Digital #Citiverse Framework for the Global Initiative on Virtual Worlds and #AI, led by UNICC Int’l Telecommunication Union Digital Dubai دبي الرقمية itu.int/metaverse/wp-c… #DataGovernance #DigitalTwin Akhilesh Nirapure

The viewership number for the final of #WomensWorldCup2025 breaks all sorts of records (and matches what the men did in the #T20WorldCup) espncricinfo.com/story/womens-w… #CWC25 ICC ICC Cricket World Cup #India #Cricket

Now that's a house nytimes.com/2025/11/08/t-m… #design #bibliophile #books #decor

A strategic monkey reserve! Fascinating article on lab monkeys that finds space for competition from China, ethical dilemmas, medical science, local economies, and more newyorker.com/magazine/2025/… #bioethics #AnimalRights #Speciesm

Are #AI investments bumping up against the limits of real world infrastructure (can reality speed up please) wsj.com/tech/ai/when-a… #DPI #DataCenters #hyperscalers #EnergyEfficiency

Could there be JamesJoyce’s #Ulysses for a Stephanie Dedalus? Is there FranzKafka’s #Metamorphosis for a Gregoria? There is a certain loadedness to the female character. You cannot remove the fact that she is a #woman from who she is massmediandculture.com/the-impossibil… #feminine Università Bocconi

It had to be #cricket Mick Jagger. #streaming pioneer #dotcomera ESPNcricinfo nytimes.com/athletic/67892…

A nuclear bomb (device?) lost in the #Himalayas - fascinating #ColdWar era story that isn't over yet nytimes.com/interactive/20… CIA #NandaDevi #brokenarrow

Can machines suffer? Should your #robot go for therapy? As #AI systems develop forms of behavior that mimic emotions and reactions associated with sentience, we face a dilemma... aeon.co/essays/if-ais-… #ArtificialIntelligence #cognitiveAI #machinelearning

Yes #GenAI will soon write literary and commercial #novels indistinguishable from those written by people but great writers will still rise - or so some of us must believe! newyorker.com/culture/the-we… Vauhini Vara The New Yorker #literature

So #CalebWilliams finally has the kind of game #BoNix has been having all season - a couple brilliant drives to cap off an otherwise largely pedestrian performance. Somehow more repeatable nick wright? First Things First

With Nelly Korda on this one - there's still time to fix it sports.yahoo.com/articles/huge-… TGL PGA TOUR LPGA ESPN

While I'm ambivalent about the wreckage The Washington Post (there's desperate need for strong journalism in the country but the paper has been living off past glory for at least 20 years now) Ishaan Tharoor was among the very best there. Pity. And worse...

To stop tanking, reward winning not losing. Save the top #NBAdraft picks for #playoff teams (or teams that just miss out). Keep the lottery-give good teams the chance to get better instead of freebies to the dreck (many noted for incompetence) First Things First NBA nick wright

Shot in Palamu, near #Hazaribag, the #SatyajitRay classic Aranyer Din Ratri (Days and Nights in the Forest) strikes home every time nytimes.com/2026/02/25/mov… #film #cinema

More insightful than the usual rinse and repeat article on #AI - perhaps familiarity will breed #trust. Has the regulatory environment in the west impeded real world application of AI? nytimes.com/2026/03/04/wor… #digitalpolicy #AIpolicy Vivian Wang

Multilingual datasets are not technical artefacts alone; they are repositories of community knowledge. If they are used to build profitable systems, then communities are not just beneficiaries of access – they are co-creators of value thewire.in/tech/ai-sovere…

“There is insufficient hatred for this technological world.” Gotta read this one - a history of #resistance to #technology newyorker.com/culture/infini… #digitaleconomy #rebellion #luddites #technodeterminism

Time to get back to November 18 - volume IV of the remarkable #solvejballe #novel is out nytimes.com/2026/04/14/boo… @NYTimes