2014

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Safe jobs (2029)

A prediction that no job will be safe from computers and robots later this century, followed by extracts from CareerCast’s Best Jobs of 2014 report, where data and mathematics roles…

Brown Pundits Archive1 May 20142 comments
Apollo babies (hackers) recover earth-rise

A short comment celebrating hackers who recovered the 1966 Lunar Orbiter earthrise images, with a long extract on the NASA Ames project that revived the old tapes and the people…

Brown Pundits Archive1 May 20140 comments
The (im)moral Maharajah

The poster argues that adultery between a journalist and a politician is a private matter, that paid news already undermines neutrality in Indian media, and that it is nonetheless amusing…

Brown Pundits Archive1 May 20141 comment
Maoists driven back (by women voters)

A comment with a news extract on record turnout in Chhattisgarh, with women voters prominent, despite a Maoist boycott call; the poster says democracy needs devolution and fair delivery of…

Brown Pundits Archive30 April 20140 comments
“million-woman” against Boko Haram (an appeal)

BP appeals to readers to publicise the Nigerian schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram, with a news extract on the planned million-woman march in Abuja; the poster doubts the girls can…

Brown Pundits Archive30 April 20140 comments
India before Japan (World Bank)

A comment on the World Bank’s International Comparison Program ranking India third by purchasing power, with an extract; the poster calls gross figures somewhat meaningless and says India would do…

Brown Pundits Archive30 April 20143 comments
Messing about with the site

A short housekeeping note: the blog is staying on Blogger for now, so the right-hand column and the quiet comments section have been revamped.

Brown Pundits Archive30 April 20142 comments
Subverting the discourse; using the colour card

A short comment, written from Africa, saying the author is tired of sanctimonious mainstream attitudes on rights and identity, which he thinks breed public hypocrisy and a private culture where…

Brown Pundits Archive30 April 20140 comments
Do what I say not what I do

The author observes that Western NGO expatriates in Uganda are reliably liberal, yet their gatherings are strikingly homogeneous, whereas Tory and UKIP events he has seen were more diverse, which…

Brown Pundits Archive30 April 20143 comments
Save Our Servants (leaders)

A comment on Andhra Pradesh’s last vote as a united state, with extracts from a Dalit Christian activist on church leaders’ charter of demands to the parties; the poster sees…

Brown Pundits Archive30 April 20140 comments