Edition-133 of Delicacies. As usual, max 5 articles that I found interesting and worth re-reading. Handpicked, no robots. Minimalism in curation. Enjoy!

• About human imagination. Nick Cave answers to a Slovenian fan named Peter, but it felt like he was talking directly to me. Very much enjoyed this. It is about our potential as humans, and a sense of awe: https://www.brainpickings.org/2019/01/24/nick-cave-music-ai/
• About billionaire Masayoshi Son spending hundreds of billions of dollars to realise an AI-powered utopia: https://www.fastcompany.com/90285552/the-most-powerful-person-in-silicon-valley
• A long read on the hypocrisy of today’s elites: they claim to want to solve the world’s problems, as long as the solutions never, ever threaten their own wealth and power: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2019/jan/22/the-new-elites-phoney-crusade-to-save-the-world-without-changing-anything
• Opening keynote by Albert Wenger at DLD19, showing how for every doom scenario there is an optimist’s view possible. Some of the examples are a bit simplistic IMO: https://continuations.com/post/182220831445/reasons-for-optimism
• About the cozy relationship between big tech and the surveillance state. Think “Social Credit” is not possible in the Western World? Think twice: https://www.wired.com/story/is-big-tech-merging-with-big-brother-kinda-looks-like-it/

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