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

16

2

2

October 2025

Density, Destiny, Manhattan to the West of Me

on the end of prelude

Oct 12, 2025 • Tharin Pillay

11

March 2025

Brain Rot as Culture-Bound Illness

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

Mar 10, 2025 • Tharin Pillay

4

January 2025

Platforms Rule Everything Around Me

how tech platforms remade the world

Jan 12, 2025 • Tharin Pillay

11

December 2024

My Brilliant Lonesome Runaway Year

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

Dec 31, 2024 • Tharin Pillay

11

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

September 2023

I can still write

if anyone was wondering

Sep 17, 2023 • Tharin Pillay

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July 2022

Everyone Is An Imposter

(it really takes the pressure off)

Jul 12, 2022 • Tharin Pillay

May 2022

Istanbul By The Horns

Notes on a brief trip

May 22, 2022 • Tharin Pillay