Climbing Mountains We Cannot Name

Denying AI progress won't stop our ascent

Apr 5 • Tharin Pillay

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March 2026

Project Hail Mary Is Already Outdated

Nostalgia, timidity, and a lack of imagination make for more cargo-cult cinema

Mar 30 • Tharin Pillay

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Five Poems from Winter

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Mar 13 • Tharin Pillay

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February 2026

No Other Choice and the Poverty of Cargo Cult Satire

Another entry in the growing genre of films that mistake the aesthetics of critique for critique itself

Feb 17 • Tharin Pillay

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January 2026

Getting Personal with Claude

After several thousand hours ensconced in private whispers, look, I’m ready to talk

Jan 25 • Tharin Pillay

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October 2025

Density, Destiny, Manhattan to the West of Me

on the end of prelude

Oct 12, 2025 • Tharin Pillay

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March 2025

Brain Rot as Culture-Bound Illness

on digital disorders, ancient pathologies, and post-ironic posting

Mar 10, 2025 • Tharin Pillay

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January 2025

Platforms Rule Everything Around Me

how tech platforms remade the world

Jan 12, 2025 • Tharin Pillay

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December 2024

My Brilliant Lonesome Runaway Year

On travel, art, and the state of my heart in 2024

Dec 31, 2024 • Tharin Pillay

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May 2024

Digital Agents: The Future of News Consumption

This piece was written as a contribution to the Open Society Foundations’ AI in Journalism Futures Project. It speculates on how people will consume…

May 2, 2024 • Tharin Pillay

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April 2024

How large language models work

AI chatbots are improving at pace

Apr 29, 2024 • Tharin Pillay

November 2023

Three Poems from October

Furthering efforts to kill the part that cringes

Nov 1, 2023 • Tharin Pillay