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AI set to replace most humans
News, Stephen Jen, Published on 22/08/2025
» Is technology more job augmenting or job replacing? This has been a long-standing debate. But recent academic work suggests that technology has been a net destroyer of jobs for decades.
Bolsonaro coup attempt won't land him in jail
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 05/05/2025
» Jair Bolsonaro, Brazil's former president and Trump clone, is facing trial for encouraging a plot that would have restored him to power after he lost the 2022 election, but it is unlikely that he will ever end up in court.
Remote work risks making low-wage jobs worse
News, Sarah Green Carmichael, Published on 10/08/2023
» The popular image of the remote worker is often of a highly educated, laptop-toting professional comfortably situated in a large suburban home or in some Instagrammable Airbnb. The reality is different. Of the roughly 10% of employees who say they always work from home, most are lower-paid workers in support roles -- wearing headsets and logging in from their apartments, probably in the cheaper outskirts of a large city. Their numbers are expected to increase in the years to come.
Let's save the world
News, Published on 15/11/2021
» Re: "Leaders vow new bid to save forests", (BP, Nov 3) and "Meta, FB's high-stakes bet", (Life, Nov 3).
Fear over sloppy mask disposal
News, Post Reporters, Published on 29/04/2021
» An estimated 1.8 billion face masks are being discarded nationwide each day, many of them improperly, raising fears among medics of a further spread of Covid-19.
House grills Nate over 'Boss' move
News, Aekarach Sattaburuth, Published on 14/08/2020
» Deputy Attorney-General Nate Naksuk was grilled on Thursday during a joint sitting of two House committees that demanded to know why he did not indict Red Bull scion Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya.
We need less 'content' and more journalism
News, Kong Rithdee, Published on 25/01/2020
» Content, as media gurus keep preaching, is king. But such PowerPoint pep talk is shallow: "Content" -- an increasingly bastardised term that has come to signify TV newscasts, podcasts, movies, viral videos, Netflix series, memes, news articles, editorial features, real advertising, covert advertising, tweets and Facebook posts, organic or boosted -- is also an anaesthetic. It dulls the senses and kills meaning, then proceeds to belittle essence, promote shallowness and eventually undermine the practice of journalism.
Trust and toxicity
News, Postbag, Published on 31/10/2019
» In her opinion piece "Stand firm against US on toxins" on Oct 28, Paritta Wangkiat lays out the issues surrounding the government's decision to ban glyphosate in Thailand.
Students launch campaign to impeach EC
News, Dumrongkiat Mala, Published on 29/03/2019
» Students from nine universities across the country launched a petition on Thursday to demand the impeachment of the Election Commission (EC), accusing it of mishandling Sunday's election, in light of reports of alleged poll irregularities.
Civil MPs preferred
News, Postbag, Published on 27/01/2019
» Re: "Bravo Prayut", (PostBag, Jan 26). It is nice that Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha still has his avid supporters, but 449,900 is not quite right in his letter, in which he insists that "the majority of those polled would prefer Prayut to be the next prime minister". The largest single percentage might still prefer Gen Prayut, but that number is far below a majority. And the poll statistics show a consistent downward trend.