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    We can move to a post-privilege era. Who's first?

    News, Published on 06/09/2023

    » Privilege is often carved into walls and etched into the landscape.

  • News & article

    Time for a new look

    Oped, Postbag, Published on 02/12/2022

    » Re: "Fame at last", (PostScript, Nov 27).

  • News & article

    Thailand's Big Brother is upping the ante

    Oped, Thana Boonlert, Published on 06/08/2022

    » In the late 18th century, British philosopher Jeremy Bentham visited his younger brother, Samuel, in Russia, who arranged unskilled factory workers in a circle so that he could supervise them. Inspired by this principle, Bentham developed "the panopticon", an inspection tower surrounded by cells. Its uniqueness was that it enabled a watchman to monitor prisoners without them knowing they were being watched.

  • News & article

    Khashoggi and MBS's blunderers

    Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 03/03/2021

    » If Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, were a burglar, he wouldn't be George Clooney in Ocean's Eleven. He'd be a cartoon burglar in a carnival mask and a top with black-and-white horizontal stripes, carrying a sack labelled "SWAG".

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    US presidential poll and implications

    Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 06/11/2020

    » It is surprisingly unsurprising. Contrary to most polls and pundits, incumbent United States President Donald J Trump did not lose by a landslide in the presidential election this week. The final results are so close that both candidates, Mr Trump and Democratic Party rival Joe Biden, have claimed victory. Despite ongoing rancour and acrimony until the next US president is sworn in next January, several outcomes and implications are already clear.

  • News & article

    Warren Buffett gives up on newspaper business

    Business, Published on 31/01/2020

    » Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc agreed on Wednesday to sell its newspaper business to Lee Enterprises Inc for $140 million in cash, abandoning an industry the billionaire investor had long defended even as its financial prospects deteriorated.

  • News & article

    Don't call AI bigoted

    Life, James Hein, Published on 06/11/2019

    » Despite what some claim, Artificial Intelligence is not racist. Google built a system to detect hate speech or speech that exhibited questionable content. Following the rules given, it picked out a range of people with what some try to claim was a bias toward black people. Wrong. The AI simply followed the rules and a larger number of black people and some other minorities, as defined in the US, were found to be breaking those rules. It didn't matter to the machines that when one group says it, it isn't defined as hate speech by some; it simply followed the rules. People can ignore or pretend not to see rules, but machines don't work that way. What the exercise actually found was that speech by some groups is ignored while the same thing said by others isn't. As the saying goes, don't ask the question if you're not prepared to hear the answer.

  • News & article

    Fanatics make a mockery of our democracy

    News, Atiya Achakulwisut, Published on 18/06/2019

    » Is hegemony an option for a military regime on the verge of establishing a new government?

  • News & article

    Not fake -- it's true

    News, Postbag, Published on 17/06/2019

    » Re: "Justice is approaching", (PostBag, June 16).

  • News & article

    The glue doesn't stick

    News, Postbag, Published on 16/06/2019

    » The excuse that the "skewed scales must have been due to poor glueing during its making" offered by the director of the Chumpholphonphisai School in explanation for the controversial Wai Kru flower arrangements as reported in the Bangkok Post's June 15 edition, is priceless.

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