Opinion Dominion

Let me bore readers, as I do the people I live and work with, by once again extolling Singapore as a destination. Last night, in one side st...

I'm guessing that the rise of AI and LLMs might have something to do with this. I've long known that the statistics on Google Blogge...

Of course I watched the Jimmy Kimmel return, and then have been reading some of the MAGA reaction on Twitter.  (Not spending a lot of time o...

An interesting opinion piece here at the New York Times:  The New Buzzword That's Scaring China  Here's the start:  Competition in C...

I've watched two good videos and read one essay in the New York Times which make excellent points about political violence in America. F...

I can't say that (unlike my late mother) I was ever a huge fan of Robert Redford as an actor.  If you ask me, there was something that f...

Nice of one of the mainstream media outlets to say it clearly , but it was so obvious anyway: The first few minutes of President Trump’s Ova...

Seems to be something about my birthday that attracts momentous news - not that (hopefully!) Charlie Kirk's assassination is going to b...

Tomorrow's my birthday, and it feels like I've got to mentally travel back to the 1970's to feel the same level of unease, war, ...

David Brooks never seems to be able to get through a whole column without saying something dubious.   His latest is interesting, though:  Wh...

A good column by Gary Marcus about the overhype of LLMs: The Fever Dream of Imminent Superintelligence Is Finally Breaking  

Graham Lineham being arrested when getting off a flight for being mean to some trans activist types on Twitter is all over the British media...

  As you see, I was sitting up close and personal with the QPAC concert hall's pipe organ on Sunday, as it was the 40th anniversary of t...

I watched last year's update of Nosferatu , directed by Robert Eggers, on Netflix over the weekend. It looks absolutely fantastic - the ...

I don't know anything about the guy who wrote this opinion piece in the Washington Post , but here is his take on why Chinese mythical s...

*   Why the hell does anyone care about a old timey restaurant chain changing its logo????    Sure, masked employees of the government are ...

As gleaned from my very recent internet consumption: *   LLMs and AI, and AGI, have all been massively overhyped.   The impetus for the sudd...

I was listening to a podcast on the weekend from the Tricycle podcast channel featuring a guy talking about the key Buddhist idea of "n...

David Brooks wrote a column last week which feels half wrong, and half right:  The Rise of Right-Wing Nihilism. He starts with what most peo...