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.
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 41 MLAs under 40, the most in 20 years
41 of Tamil Nadu's 234 new MLAs are under 40, the most in the 20 years of age records, and 35 of them are …
The chief minister lost his seat: How TVK knocked out 64 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 …