Writing & field notes
Essays on data investigations, tech and the questions it raises, plus slower notes on football, travel, and the things I point a camera at.
Daisy and Dandi: Honey's Chicks Hatched on My Daughter's Birthday
Honey the hummingbird's two eggs hatched into chicks named Daisy and Dandi, on our daughter's birthday. A short follow-up on watching them grow and getting ready to fly.
Who stops first? Anthropic just asked the hardest question in AI
Anthropic says the world should have the option to slow down AI before it starts building itself. The idea …
Google is releasing millions of mosquitoes. Here is what that actually means
Alphabet's Verily wants to release up to 32 million lab-bred mosquitoes across Florida and California. A …
Meet Honey: A hummingbird built a home on our patio
A tiny hummingbird named Honey built a walnut-sized nest in the Christmas lights on our patio. A short story …
A season of two halves: Manchester United 2025/26 review
Manchester United's 2025/26 season was defined by a managerial implosion in January and an unlikely redemption …
TN 2026 Explorer: Every seat, every party, every region in one dashboard
An interactive dashboard for Tamil Nadu's 2026 Assembly election. 234 constituencies, 12 parties with seats, …
How DMK lost Tamil Nadu, region by region
DMK went from 133 seats to 59 in one cycle. The collapse was not uniform. Their strongest regions in 2021 fell …
The Thalapathy bench: 12 TVK MLAs who share Vijay's name
Twelve of TVK's 108 MLAs in the new Tamil Nadu Assembly share the founder's name. A short note from the floor …
Tamil Nadu just elected its youngest, most-educated assembly ever
The new Tamil Nadu Assembly's median MLA age is 52, twelve years younger than the cohort it replaced. 41 MLAs …
The chief minister lost his seat: How TVK knocked out 56 sitting MLAs in 2026
M.K. Stalin lost Kolathur by 8,795 votes to his own former associate. He was one of 93 sitting Tamil Nadu MLAs …