Congrats

The US is 3 car companies and 100 megafarms in a trenchcoat.

Supposedly Huawei is just about to announce their next Flip. Their last one came out in October last year. I think they focused on the Fold because they wanted to position it as the foldable iPhone competitor, plus it’s the flagship for their new chipset.

Google and Huawei also make them.

Absolutely devastating to have “Extremely Online” on the list.

Devoid of context, I think 1984 is an ok story with good concepts, bad worldbuilding and double plus ungoodly written characters.

With context, it’s a barely disguised anticommunist propaganda piece portrayed as as “anti authoritarian”

To be fair, he didn’t come up with it, Freud (who would have a field day analyzing Orwell’s books) had the concept of Verleugnung (“denial” or “disavow”). Scott Fitzgerald, of Great Gatsby fame, once wrote that “the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function”.

Heck, if we squint a little we could track back a lot of concepts of 1984 all the way back to Hobbes.