Can we automate how AI models “understand” (see, know, identify, contrast) “culture” the way humans can? That’s the agenda for today. Slides by Diyi Yang captures some of the challenges and thinking.

I just got copies of my first book 🥹

Closer and closer .. Next they will be boxed and shipped to the UK ☺️

They assure me it’s real and happening somewhere in a press in the Netherlands. Thank you to so many of you who pre-ordered. It’s coming! artezpress.artez.nl/books/auto-c...

Touring the three living temples - Airavatesvara, Brihadisvara, Gangaikondacholapuram- built by Chola kings at the height of their powerful empire circa 1003-1100 CE. Breathtaking. Many learnings about Tamil history and culture, devotion, religiosity, and the temple industrial complex in TN

Home.
The parents have stocked the house with my favourite food and fruit; I’m finding old stuff still knocking around after so many moves; and we’re playing Mahjongg obsessively.

So happy to be back

I saw this ad in Heathrow yesterday, for a hair product that promises to make your hair look expensive. I am completely fascinated by such signifiers and the signs (hah) of the times

The living? The miraculous task of it?
Love is for the ones who love the work.”

I hate this gimmicky thing GLAM sector and adjacent institutions are doing of wall text created by prompting a LLM. I don’t like it because that text was created by people who have lost work and citations to it.

Some excellent people I work with got me this book for my birthday and I have a feeling nothing will be the same again 🥹💕

On holiday in the Nilgiris at my sister’s forest farm. In the mid 1800s, the Brits established tea plantations here, changing the ethnobotanical profile of these ancient mountains. Now, people like her are asking what it means to live wild, re-wild, to build community and prosperity without settling