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individuality instead of conditioning, truth instead of engineered happiness, freedom instead of stability, emotional depth instead of contentment. In Brave New World, social control is achieved through pleasure, conditioning, and the suppression of individual thought, creating a population that willingly accepts its own oppression. By contrast, 1984 portrays a society maintained through fear, surveillance, and coercion, where citizens comply under constant threat. The true opposite of Huxley’s vision, however, is not merely a harsher dystopia, but a society grounded in individuality rather than conformity, truth rather than manufactured happiness, freedom rather than enforced stability, and emotional depth rather than artificial contentment. A new world where intellectuals are persecuted and prosecuted.

While staying at a longtime friend’s home, I noticed folks are walking around paying more attention to their smartphones than the people or the traffic around them.

Steve Jobs changed the world with the Smart Phone. If we want to be happy for the rest of our lives try spending less time on smartphones and unplugging because it can be dangerous.

SCOTUS unanimously upheld a federal law that could ban TikTok in the US unless ByteDance, its Chinese parent company, sells the video-sharing platform.

The justices (read the ruling) rejected TikTok's free speech challenge, allowing the law to take effect tomorrow—the deadline for ByteDance to divest its ownership. Congress passed the bipartisan legislation last year because of concerns about Chinese government influence, including potential manipulation of user content and sensitive data collection from more than 170 million American users of the app.

News of the hack began trickling out in September, but the American government waited weeks to confirm the reports.

Only this month did it begin briefing members of Congress and the media. Officials say a Chinese hacking group dubbed Salt Typhoon compromised at least eight of America’s telecoms networks.

The following is our holiday gift and a new call for a shift in the 5 Ws - How to do real news and current events. 

We challenge the common belief that to be effective in activism, we must constantly be weighed down by the world's pains. Instead, we emphasize the importance of channeling our energy into meaningful, tangible actions, without succumbing to pain.

Some say computer scientist Alan Kay envisioned a KiddiComp; and developed the concept as a Dynabook in his invention. 

A personal computer for children of all ages was developed in 1972 which outlines functionality similar to that supplied via a laptop computer, or (in some of its other incarnations a tablet or slate.