Some headlines just smack you in the face. This was the one that hit me today: “Why Saudi Arabia Might Be the Next Silicon Valley,” from TechCrunch.
My first thought was, “That’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen.” But I didn’t want to be hasty, so I looked back through a lifetime of reading, and when I was done—yup, that’s definitely the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen. To be fair, the worst offender was whoever wrote that headline. I guess that in his enthusiasm for the vision of Saudi silicon, he missed this recent headline: “Twitter, Saudi Arabia’s Top Cleric Says, Will Damn Your Soul.”
Great read, thanks again for unlocking these for us all. This is new terrain for me so I'm not sure about etiquette. I want to share this with friends outside of Hubski, is it wrong to direct them to this link you posted here? It would definitely expose more people to nsfwcorp
I love it when you read about some sh*thole third world dictatorship goes to build a city that's 100% solar, or 100% renewable, or 100% carbon neutral, or whatever. Because that's going to make up for everything else that's wrong in the country and culture. How'd that work our for Brazil and Esperanto, eh? _XC