the president of nigeria is about to fuck boko haram up and cut his own salary in half and criminalized female genital mutilation
the president of guinea built/is building infrastructure and school and wells all over the country and is decreasing youth unemployment exponentially
the president of cote d’ivoire made school mandatory of children ages 6-16 and banned plastic bags while also building ultra modern trasportation infrastructure
the future is for real in africa
I think this should have a hell of a lot more notes on it than it does. This is what good news looks like folk, and the continent of Africa surely deserves a shed load of it.
“Do not tell everyone your story. You will only end up feeling more rejected. People cannot give you what you long for in your heart. The more you expect from people’s response to your experience of abandonment, the more you will feel exposed to ridicule.”
gosh but like we spent hundreds of years looking up at the stars and wondering “is there anybody out there” and hoping and guessing and imagining
because we as a species were so lonely and we wanted friends so bad, we wanted to meet other species and we wanted to talk to them and we wanted to learn from them and to stop being the only people in the universe
and we started realizing that things were maybe not going so good for us– we got scared that we were going to blow each other up, we got scared that we were going to break our planet permanently, we got scared that in a hundred years we were all going to be dead and gone and even if there were other people out there, we’d never get to meet them
and then
we built robots?
and we gave them names and we gave them brains made out of silicon and we pretended they were people and we told them hey you wanna go exploring, and of course they did, because we had made them in our own image
and maybe in a hundred years we won’t be around any more, maybe yeah the planet will be a mess and we’ll all be dead, and if other people come from the stars we won’t be around to meet them and say hi! how are you! we’re people, too! you’re not alone any more!, maybe we’ll be gone
but we built robots, who have beat-up hulls and metal brains, and who have names; and if the other people come and say, who were these people? what were they like?
the robots can say, when they made us, they called us discovery; they called us curiosity; they called us explorer; they called us spirit. they must have thought that was important.
and they told us to tell you hello.
So, I have to say something.
This is my favorite post on this website.
I’ve seen this post in screenshots before, and the first time I read it, I cried. Just sat there with tears running down my face.
Because this, right here, is the best of us, we humans. That we hope, and dream of the stars, and we don’t want to be alone. That this is the best of our technology, not Terminators and Skynet, but our friends, our companions, our legacy. Our message to the stars.
I’m flat out delighted, and maybe even a little honored, that I get to reblog this.
listen if Snorlax can suddenly awaken and transform into something powerful and useful after 20 years of lying around doing fuck-all then maybe there’s hope for me yet
Emily: I agree, I mean having this amazing working friendship with David, and the rest of the cast as well, but I mean thats something I will dearly miss.
twenty years ago there was a big to-do all about this new website called Ask Jeeves. back then, if you wanted to search the web, you used yahoo search, and back then, search indexing was SHIT
if you didn’t use the exact correct phrasing in your query, you didn’t find anything you wanted. and this was hard for humans to handle, because we’re used to asking questions, not parsing pieces of information into the most efficient phrases that will relate to larger banks of information
i was 8. i still read zoobooks. yahoo search was both dazzling and monumentally frustrating to me
so the thing about askjeeves.com was… you ask the search engine a question, and it uses algorithms to interpret your query to gather information, and respond to you in a human way. it was groundbreaking
two years later, google hit the web. i still remember being in the computer lab doing a research project and having a teacher tell me, “try this new search engine, its better than yahoo”
im telling you this because i know there are kids who were born into the age of Google… how good it got and how fast
because back then, search indexing still fucking SUCKED. back then there were people you knew who were “good at google” because you still needed to plug in the right words to find the right pages
today, i could reach into my pocket and pull out a device that both sees and hears me, and slur into the microphone “when was the sun born” and google will deliver me its age and all the theories and information surrounding the creation of our solar system
thats a lot of power to have. and when its that easy to get answers i want the comfort of knowing that you’re all taking the time to ask questions
This actually does work
Kids these days will never know the experience of asking Jeeves if he’s gay
