The Verge – "Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold"
via @vladsavov
Sunday, February 24, 2019
The Foldable Phone
The Verge – "Huawei’s Mate X foldable phone is a thinner 5G rival to the Galaxy Fold"
via @vladsavov
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
Monday, February 18, 2019
John Jeremiah Sullivan's Next Book
February 4, 2020
"The forgotten history of a colonial-era Utopia resonates to the present day in this epic of narrative nonfiction in the tradition of David Grann's The Lost City of Z and Rinker Buck's The Oregon Trail
In 1735, charismatic German lawyer and accused atheist Christian Gottlieb Priber fled Germany, under threat of arrest, bound for colonial South Carolina. When he arrived, he sold his possessions and hiked 400 miles west, into the woods of what is now Tennessee. There, in the Cherokee village of Grand Tellico, Priber created a utopian society that he named Paradise.
For six years, Paradise was governed by a set of revolutionary ideas that included racial equality, sexual freedom, and a lack of private property. Most troublingly for the English, Priber spoke against colonialism itself. Many of his ideas - which he chronicled in a mysterious manuscript he called Paradise -- went on to inform the American and French Revolutions, as well socialist theory.
Priber's ideas were so subversive that he was hunted for half a decade and eventually captured by the British - making headlines in London -- and was imprisoned until his death. At that point, the only copy of his book was apparently burned.
John Jeremiah Sullivan brings this lost history to vivid life, immersing readers in the world of the colonies, 18th-century Native American life, and Enlightenment-era Europe with a vast body of research and his singular narrative gifts."
Previously on WDA:
Great Read - Pulphead by John Jeremiah Sullivan (January 2012)
John Jeremiah Sullivan - "My Debt to Ireland" (February 2012)
Big Air Snowboarding (February 2018)
21 Savage On Being Detained by ICE
New York Times – "21 Savage on ICE Detention, the Grammys and His Uncertain Future"
Q: I’m sure you were spending a lot of time in your head.
A: I could have made myself go crazy. I think they really try to break you. It’s like we gonna put you in jail and we gonna make you fight your case the slowest you can fight it so that you just want to go home. Nobody want to sit in jail, especially if they don’t have the money to fight it and they ain’t been to court in three months.
Q: What do you think has happened in your life that gave you a different perspective?
A: It was what was at stake. It’s like, I got three kids, my mama, everything that I know is here in Atlanta. I’m not leaving Atlanta without a fight. We gon’ fight all the way till the last day even if that mean I sit in jail for 10 years.
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