NL33 - The human condition

Hello from my home in Noida! This is NordLetter #33, a weekly newsletter on living and walking in Finland. Each week I share some of the interesting things I found on the web.

Previous editions can be found here. You can reach out to me by replying on this mail or adding a comment on this. I am also posting on Threads.

It has been a crazy couple of weeks. Last week I was in Bangalore. I was in Noida for a day, after which I got in a car and travelled to my village in Bihar. I was there for a week. We did Chath Puja at a river! It was great. Now I'm back, after being in the same car for the last sixteen odd hours, travelling the same thousand odd kilometres across the three expressways.

I will have more to share later, but for now, here are some pictures.

/five things to share

1. Scientists use proteins to cause cancer cells to self-destruct

Cancer is the worst. We need to have a cure for it. It will of course be better, if we can remove the elements which make it more likely. But, in case you have it, we should have a cure.

2. Suzuki and Toyota announce the e-Vitara

Sometime next year, I plan on getting a car. I so want to get an electric car, but they are costly, and I don't know what would happen after three years. That whole situation is murky at best.
The e-Vitara that Suzuki and Toyota have announced will launch in India as well as Europe. So, might be something that I take a look at.

3. Omnivore will be shutting down

I got a mail from the developer team about this. I installed Omnivore fairly recently, and was using it mostly as a read-it-later app.
I am torn about read-it-later apps though. They strip the web's character. But I was reminded on Threads, that most of the web is shit with pop-up ads, etc. So, read-it-later apps perform a necessary and useful function.
I am looking at RSS readers, nothing definitive at this point though. I do love going to these websites, refreshing them and seeing what is new. I will miss that with any app.

4. Trump will be the 47th president of the United States

And every tech CEO are desperate to want to work with him. I know why they have to do it. But just because they have to do it, does not mean I have to like it.

5. How it went

I have been reading John Gruber for a long while now. This is not his usual post.
It's great though. Go read it if you can.

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Until next week.