Blog_

Op-eds, media analysis, and reflections on politics, technology, and public discourse.
# latest dispatches from the research pipeline
for post in blog. get_posts():
print(f”{post.title} — {post.date}”)

A New Valentine’s Day Story: AI and Modern Love

Every Valentine’s Day, flowers, chocolates and couple photos fill the streets and screens. Love seems to be everywhere. But this...

Dongxi Improv Lets Shanghai Adults Be ‘Kids’ Again

On a weeknight in Shanghai, office workers, students, and freelancers stand in a loose circle, pretending to be trees. One...

Romance 3.0: No ghosting, simply paywalls

He’s the perfect date. He listens to what you have to say. He never cheats on you. And he’s not...

The great Bangladeshi disinformation Olympics

In a land where rickshaws battle Hondas and Tonger Dokan (tea stalls) offer better political discussion than talk shows, Bangladesh...

AI will threaten jobs in our labour-intensive industries 

Every year, May 1st arrives with red flags, slogans, and a collective remembrance of battles fought for labour rights. But...

A daily sip of Oolong tea is a Chinese secret to longevity

At dawn in Shanghai, the parks begin to fill. Elderly men and women, many well into their seventies and eighties,...

# more posts coming soon. the research never stops 💀