Sunil Nair
@spuriousmallu.bsky.social
Remote customer support to a 19 year old daughter and onsite on demand slave to a 8 year old cat.
In my free time I help build www.clairva.ai
I have also written a few children's books https://www.amazon.in/-/hi/Sunil-Nair/dp/8193631803
In my free time I help build www.clairva.ai
I have also written a few children's books https://www.amazon.in/-/hi/Sunil-Nair/dp/8193631803
Who and when did we allow the western world to take the moral high ground when they are the villains of the last 800 years. Listening to Empire Podcast makes me wonder.
November 20, 2025 at 7:35 AM
Who and when did we allow the western world to take the moral high ground when they are the villains of the last 800 years. Listening to Empire Podcast makes me wonder.
I rewatched Birdman last week. It may be the most accurate midlife documentary ever made.
About ambition, ageing, ego, & the strange dignity of wanting more after 50.
If you have ever wondered whether u are flying or just dramatically tripping, this one might be for you.
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About ambition, ageing, ego, & the strange dignity of wanting more after 50.
If you have ever wondered whether u are flying or just dramatically tripping, this one might be for you.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Midlife Birdman Handbook
(Riggan Thomson was played by over the hill Micheal Keaton, who played the cinematic version of Batman once upon a time. Therein lies the…
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November 15, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I rewatched Birdman last week. It may be the most accurate midlife documentary ever made.
About ambition, ageing, ego, & the strange dignity of wanting more after 50.
If you have ever wondered whether u are flying or just dramatically tripping, this one might be for you.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
About ambition, ageing, ego, & the strange dignity of wanting more after 50.
If you have ever wondered whether u are flying or just dramatically tripping, this one might be for you.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The age of consent in the US to be lowered to 8 years. That's my prediction.
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
The age of consent in the US to be lowered to 8 years. That's my prediction.
The world never stopped being at war. The weapons changed; the noise did not.
We live in a permanent Cold War, fought with attention, exhaustion, & data.
This one is about quiet tension in lives, and the small, stubborn acts of tenderness that still keep us human.
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We live in a permanent Cold War, fought with attention, exhaustion, & data.
This one is about quiet tension in lives, and the small, stubborn acts of tenderness that still keep us human.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Weather of Fear
There is no peace anymore, only intervals between tremors.
The world has become a vast, humming nervous system, a body tensed perpetually…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The world never stopped being at war. The weapons changed; the noise did not.
We live in a permanent Cold War, fought with attention, exhaustion, & data.
This one is about quiet tension in lives, and the small, stubborn acts of tenderness that still keep us human.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
We live in a permanent Cold War, fought with attention, exhaustion, & data.
This one is about quiet tension in lives, and the small, stubborn acts of tenderness that still keep us human.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for President!
November 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social for President!
Read “The Butterfly Effect and Other Modern Catastrophes“ by Sunil Nair on Medium: medium.com/@spurious-ma...
The Butterfly Effect and Other Modern Catastrophes
Edward Lorenz said one fine morning that a butterfly flaps its wings in Brazil and somewhere in Texas there’s a tornado. Which is exactly…
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October 26, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Read “The Butterfly Effect and Other Modern Catastrophes“ by Sunil Nair on Medium: medium.com/@spurious-ma...
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The oligarchs are racing to build AI that replaces workers before workers wake up and replace them.
October 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
The oligarchs are racing to build AI that replaces workers before workers wake up and replace them.
Some songs age.
Others wait for us to catch up.
Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car was written in 1988 and yet it still plays like a map of modern life.
Wherever you are, the song always seems to find you first.
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Others wait for us to catch up.
Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car was written in 1988 and yet it still plays like a map of modern life.
Wherever you are, the song always seems to find you first.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Fast Cars and Slow Lives: Listening to Tracy Chapman in Any City
There are songs that belong to a decade, and there are songs that belong to the human condition. Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, released in…
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October 19, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Some songs age.
Others wait for us to catch up.
Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car was written in 1988 and yet it still plays like a map of modern life.
Wherever you are, the song always seems to find you first.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Others wait for us to catch up.
Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car was written in 1988 and yet it still plays like a map of modern life.
Wherever you are, the song always seems to find you first.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
King Charles 3 must be worried. What if the cousins from across the pond join in the fun.
October 19, 2025 at 4:33 AM
King Charles 3 must be worried. What if the cousins from across the pond join in the fun.
History remembers the lighthouses. But it’s the ships that keep the world moving.
What do you think — can ordinary lives leave extraordinary echoes?
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What do you think — can ordinary lives leave extraordinary echoes?
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The Salt of History
There are times when one listens to the drumbeat of history , on podcasts, in books, through the prismatic retellings of conquerors and…
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October 11, 2025 at 1:45 PM
History remembers the lighthouses. But it’s the ships that keep the world moving.
What do you think — can ordinary lives leave extraordinary echoes?
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
What do you think — can ordinary lives leave extraordinary echoes?
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Mount Sinai Mid Autumn Festival celebrations #singapore
October 4, 2025 at 10:11 AM
Mount Sinai Mid Autumn Festival celebrations #singapore
For Malayalis, Yesudas is not a singer, he is a season. His voice is Onam mornings, Sabarimala songs, train rides, and the ache of home heard through a cassette hiss. One man’s voice became the sound of a people.
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The Voice That Carried Kerala Across the World
There are voices that refuse to remain contained within a body. They spill across regions, seep into rituals, and before long, they become…
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October 4, 2025 at 3:50 AM
For Malayalis, Yesudas is not a singer, he is a season. His voice is Onam mornings, Sabarimala songs, train rides, and the ache of home heard through a cassette hiss. One man’s voice became the sound of a people.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
I guess there is no news taking olacr anywhere else
October 2, 2025 at 5:18 AM
I guess there is no news taking olacr anywhere else
Not the meek, not the bold, the freaks will inherit the world
September 28, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Not the meek, not the bold, the freaks will inherit the world
Life bends in circles: the hand that once led me now seeks mine. Parents grow childlike, and we, their children, become the guides. Tender, humbling, inevitable
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The Long Way Home
It began, as many things in Singapore do, with arithmetic. Taxi fares that leapt like startled fish, the omnipresent surge pricing of…
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September 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Life bends in circles: the hand that once led me now seeks mine. Parents grow childlike, and we, their children, become the guides. Tender, humbling, inevitable
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
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Frontier AI labs are relying on a small Israeli startup to run their AI through simulations to test its capacity for malicious hacking.
Anthropic And OpenAI Pay This $450 Million Startup To Test AI’s Capacity For Evil
Frontier AI labs are relying on a small Israeli startup to run their AI through simulations to test its capacity for malicious hacking.
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September 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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US today पकड़ो मारो काटो चीर दो
साफ़ सुथरी चमड़ियों पे गहरे गहरे नील दो
धीरे धीरे सारे ख़ुद्दार खुद ही मान जायेंगे
इनके पैरों के नीचे की धरती इनसे छीन लो
Jingostan Zindabad.
साफ़ सुथरी चमड़ियों पे गहरे गहरे नील दो
धीरे धीरे सारे ख़ुद्दार खुद ही मान जायेंगे
इनके पैरों के नीचे की धरती इनसे छीन लो
Jingostan Zindabad.
September 18, 2025 at 9:49 AM
US today पकड़ो मारो काटो चीर दो
साफ़ सुथरी चमड़ियों पे गहरे गहरे नील दो
धीरे धीरे सारे ख़ुद्दार खुद ही मान जायेंगे
इनके पैरों के नीचे की धरती इनसे छीन लो
Jingostan Zindabad.
साफ़ सुथरी चमड़ियों पे गहरे गहरे नील दो
धीरे धीरे सारे ख़ुद्दार खुद ही मान जायेंगे
इनके पैरों के नीचे की धरती इनसे छीन लो
Jingostan Zindabad.
Forget AI think-tanks. The best guide to our world is still a druid, a bard no one lets sing, and a fat man obsessed with boars. #Asterix #currentaffairs #essay. My 32nd essay this year.
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Asterix, Our Gallant Gaul in the Age of Algorithms
The world has always divided itself into two tribes. Not Romans and Gauls, not left and right, not even cat people and dog people, though…
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September 13, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Forget AI think-tanks. The best guide to our world is still a druid, a bard no one lets sing, and a fat man obsessed with boars. #Asterix #currentaffairs #essay. My 32nd essay this year.
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What if they change the age of consent by a presidential order retrospectively? Na rahegi baans nah bajegi bansuri.
September 10, 2025 at 7:54 AM
What if they change the age of consent by a presidential order retrospectively? Na rahegi baans nah bajegi bansuri.
Once we laughed, now we litigate. Politeness is suspect, jokes are banned, patriotism is theatre. Outrage has replaced grace as our global currency.
My 30th essay this year. There is hope that I will win the bet of 52 essays in 52 weeks.
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My 30th essay this year. There is hope that I will win the bet of 52 essays in 52 weeks.
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The Last Bow, or How We Forgot to Hold the Door
There was a time when holding a door open for a stranger was considered good manners. Now, one hesitates. The act has become an ideological…
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September 6, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Once we laughed, now we litigate. Politeness is suspect, jokes are banned, patriotism is theatre. Outrage has replaced grace as our global currency.
My 30th essay this year. There is hope that I will win the bet of 52 essays in 52 weeks.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
My 30th essay this year. There is hope that I will win the bet of 52 essays in 52 weeks.
medium.com/@spurious-ma...
Hasn't the true emperor of India asked the new emperor of amreeka kitne mein rafa dafa karega? It might actually work.
August 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Hasn't the true emperor of India asked the new emperor of amreeka kitne mein rafa dafa karega? It might actually work.
To watch a city, watch its cafés. Mumbai plays, Delhi flexes, NY rushes, Paris breathes, Shenzhen codes, Singapore choreographs. Segovia alone remembers the point: to do nothing over coffee.
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The Geography of Coffee and People
I have always thought of cafés as terrariums. Self-contained worlds behind glass, where the climate is stable and the human fauna can be…
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August 23, 2025 at 4:12 AM
To watch a city, watch its cafés. Mumbai plays, Delhi flexes, NY rushes, Paris breathes, Shenzhen codes, Singapore choreographs. Segovia alone remembers the point: to do nothing over coffee.
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Yikes my chatbot is hallucinating. Lolwa
August 22, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Yikes my chatbot is hallucinating. Lolwa
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