Angela Merkel, Bubbles, Safe Spaces and Fidel Castro. WILTW: Dec. 4 — Dec. 10, 2016.
Up until now, I have never bothered to find out who Trevor Noah is, with his videos spewed all over my timeline accompanied with LOLs and any of your favourite smiling/laughing emojis, I just assumed he was a comedian - and I was right. (don’t blame me, I’ve never sat down on my own to watch comedies. Yup, most are funny, and I laugh whenever I end up watching them, but they do not appeal to me).
Anyway, Trevor Noah wrote this.
And then this thread happened.
Out of curiosity, I decided to look for the Malcolm Gladwell essay, and unsurprisingly, it wasn’t hard to find.
As you were…
On Bubbles, safe spaces and how bad our way of thinking is getting negatively affected because of them.
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For the religious, knowing that life on Earth is not unique may demand radical new ways of thinking about ourselves: How special and sacred are we? Is Earth a privileged place? Do we have an obligation to care for beings on other planets? Should we convert ET to “my” religion? These questions point to a deeper issue about whether our religions can adapt to the idea that humans are not the only sentient beings in the universe capable of worshiping God.
Now is the time to resist the slightest extension in the boundaries of what is right and just. Now is the time to speak up and to wear as a badge of honor the opprobrium of bigots. Now is the time to confront the weak core at the heart of America’s addiction to optimism; it allows too little room for resilience, and too much for fragility.
“…One of the secrets of the success of Angela Merkel is that she knows how to deal with vain men. She knows you shoot a mountain cock best when it’s courting a hen. Angela Merkel is a patient hunter of courting mountain cocks. With the patience of an angel, she waits for her moment.”
Longread
What happens when computers get MUCH better at managing our existence than we ever were? Will they start passing down instructions for us to follow? Will we follow them mindlessly… they will be obviously “better”?
Nokia is (or wants to be) back, this time around running Android OS. They’re 4 years too late, and it’ll be difficult to penetrate a market predominantly owned by Apple and Samsung. This article looks into an alternative method of going in (this method is working for Xiaomi and One Plus).
Fidel Castro’s name has been all over the place since his death, mostly praises, but as this article says, “if you feel the urge to praise a brutal dictator, there are plenty of them who managed to leave their countries much better than they met it. Take your pick from Lee Kuan Yew, Paul Kagame, Park Chung-he and General Franco.” I’d call this The Bad side of Fidel Castro (if there ever was a good side).
Earlier this week, Amazon released an ad about its wholly virtual store to be opened to all its users next year. This is basically Amazon go 101 — Whag it is, how it works.
Till next week.
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Nsuaha.
