Nations that bet on China's supply chains are faring far better than those who took a chance with the US, writes @mihirssharma (via @opinion) https://t.co/jAT6vkGjSQ
There is an Indian family in Lira, they sell tyres, these guys speak pure langi, bro I was like WTF?? Accent clear, facial impression clear, pure langi🤣🤣🤣🙌
February comes: "School fees time! Parents are paying fees, uniforms, books... no one has money for land now."
We swallowed it.
Then March: "Fasting season! Christians doing Lent, Muslims in Ramadan... people are praying, not buying property."
At this rate, I'm waiting for someone to tell me "It's end of financial year, accounts are closing!"
This story and headline is a perfect example of how racist politics and narratives are subtly deployed in media. Blink and you miss it. On Thursday, a man killed four children in an attack inside a nursery school in the Ugandan capital of Kampala on Thursday.
It was the most horrific attack on a kindergarten school in Uganda in recent memory. The attacker “brutally stabbed and killed four juveniles,” with a knife police said. Nearly all Uganda media reports said the murderer used a knife. However, in AP’s telling, he became a “machete wielding” attacker.
It doesn’t make the tragedy any less, but the
the word "machete" often carries cultural baggage in Western (and sometimes global) media framing. It often evokes images of chaotic violence in tropical or African settings –think the "wild savage" trope from colonial-era storytelling –more readily than a "knife" does for similar attacks elsewhere. And thus it conjures up an image of Kampala, or Uganda for that matter, as a place with menacing “natives” walking around with deadly machetes, rather than an individual who might be been mentally ill. Surprising how strong the instinct to fall back on these tropes remains.
#NEWS 🚨: Artemis II crew experienced issues with Outlook this morning and had to ask ground crew for assistance
"We have two Microsoft Outlooks and neither one is working"
In recent weeks, US-born Pope Leo has emerged as a sharp critic of the Iran war. He named Trump, for the first time publicly, in a direct appeal urging the president to end the expanding conflict https://t.co/GBHehnB4mE
1/ Interesting. YouTube's leaderboard is basically a digital nursery. Because young children watch the same videos over and over, simple cartoons and nursery rhymes have completely taken over. Big music stars now struggle to compete with videos meant for toddlers.