White people need to shut the fuck up and sit this century out — White people (and those becoming white) need to stop hating. Hate China, hate Russia, hate Syria, hate Iraq, hate North Korea. Think yourselves better than them because ‘human rights’, it’s the new secular Christendom, justifying new Crusades. You’re a bunch of sheep, led by wolves. Back then your rich sold…

That long time before time — … Connection is our birthright. It’s also the first thing we lose. Before I was born for the first time I was really, really dead. So dead I was undead. Beyond even the possibility of living or dying. The Rig Veda explains that unexplainable time before the Big Bang best…

Connection is our birthright. It’s also the first thing we lose — …I will tell a history of everything in five rebirths. Because I was there for the whole thing. The crazy thing about being here is that every atom in your body goes back to the very beginning of time. Every letter of your DNA is part of a continuous line…

The End Of The World In Five Rebirths — My wife keeps telling me to write a book, Shehan is telling me to write a book, and even I find myself telling the same stories over and over again. I write at least 20 articles a week and have been batting at that pace for years. I’ve been blogging…

The life of an expat in Oxford — I don’t even remember which bed I woke up in. Immigrants used to all sleep in one bed and I still do, effectively. We have three beds, all shared. Sometimes we sleep with the kids, sometimes they sleep with us. Family visits and we pull out air mattresses. I like…

Stick a fork in the Metaverse, it’s done — Facebook’s Metaverse has maybe 200,000 monthly users. And it’s actually gone down. This is nothing. I had more monthly users on my startup (a Sri Lankan food website). For something Mark Zuckerberg is dumping Sri Lanka’s entire GDP into, this is an absolute disaster. Great products just put numbers on…

How Twitter today is like a Renaissance Carnival — Carnival was this release where people could wear masks, take over the public square, and mock authority. Also indulge in violent stone-throwing, extortion, harrassment, and plain old trolling. The latter describes Twitter on a good day, but by opening up blue checks, Elon Musk has unleashed a full-on Carnival on…

The new tactics of Empire — I think, not infrequently, about how we never got a public COVID-19 vaccine. US President Joe Biden announced something and public pressure let up, but it just never fucking happened. It was just a delaying tactic, and it worked. Then I think about how an unelected brown man from the…

The idea that money gives you the right to just run people over — There is no greater illustration of capitalism than the city street. Just look at it. The vast majority of space is devoted to people with capital (cars) and everybody else has to scurry for their lives on the edges. We live with these rivers of death amidst a rising ocean…