‘Am I my Spotify Wrapped? Spotify’s algorithm makes me query its validity.’
Kofi Mframa at USA At the moment
Spotify Wrapped has seen “main success primarily due to our cultural obsession with self-discovery,” says Kofi Mframa. However Spotify’s “user-specific algorithm can create echo chambers that feed and refeed the identical artists, songs, genres and total ‘vibes.'” When “our listening patterns are largely decided by algorithms” and the “echo chambers they create,” Spotify Wrapped can “turn into much less of a mirrored image of our personal private style and extra of a mirrored image of no matter Spotify permits in ear’s attain.”
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‘Wish to save your friendships? Take a web page from the Founding Fathers.’
Alexandra Hudson at The Washington Publish
The story of Thomas Jefferson and John Adams “illustrates the perils of permitting politics to supplant friendship and offers an vital answer: taking political dialog off the desk,” says Alexandra Hudson. A “reasoned, spirited debate is central to a free and flourishing democracy,” however “Jefferson and Adams discovered the laborious means that politics isn’t value ending relationships over.” So “this vacation season — and past — let’s bear in mind the key to speaking politics: Do not.”
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‘Trump ought to make Putin wince earlier than they sit down to speak’
Mark Montgomery at Overseas Coverage
Donald Trump “should change Putin’s perspective that he has the higher hand, or Trump’s diplomacy will backfire,” says Mark Montgomery. Trump “ought to due to this fact formulate a most strain marketing campaign to persuade Moscow to simply accept a very good and lasting peace deal.” By “maintaining his promise to revive ‘peace by means of power,’ Trump may give himself the very best probability of stopping the bloodshed for good.” However “any diplomatic effort should confront some unlucky details.”
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‘The UN has generations of Palestinian blood on its fingers’
Zena Tahhan at The Nation
Within the “case of Palestine, the U.N.’s position, opposite to what many imagine, has been catastrophic,” says Zena Tahhan. The U.N. has “traditionally operated as a software for the imperial and colonial ambitions of the worldwide powers that invented it.” Palestinians are “preventing for his or her survival in opposition to a complete postwar international political order.” The U.N.’s partition plan “served because the catalyst that set in movement the organized and systematic violent ethnic cleaning of Palestine.”
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