Angelina-Jolie-steak, pizza boxes, my year of reading female nonfiction books and what I learned along the way. All that in my latest newsletter...
Newsletter #15 | December 31st, 2022
"Eat me, I'm a celebrity!"
Even though we will have gone overboard over the holidays once again, and against our firm resolutions, as we do every year, we should still talk about food. Namely, the Future of Food, which I already reported on in the last newsletter. Because what the future of food makes possible also brings, for example, artificial organs, tissues or androids within reach, but also new foods that can come in new flavor combinations and be infused with vitamins and drugs. The nut-flavored chork (chicken-pork), perhaps? YUMMY! Bring it on!
Or perhaps rather the schnitzel made from your own body cells? For influencers, celebrities and wannabes, there are also new possibilities for merchandise and fan articles that can bring in money. How about an Angelina-Jolie-steak, or a Brad-Pitt-burger? Bono-bratwurst? Grown from the stars' own body cells of the stars, you can eat your idol in order to be even closer to them? Cannibalism thus takes on a whole new meaning. Would you eat your favorite?
More about this and with link to the Servus TV documentary here!
Andrew Tate, Greta Thunberg
and Toxic Masculinity
This week, we witnessed a toxic man tweeting his head off by attacking a woman online and now sitting in jail. What had happened?
Former kickboxer and influencer Andrew Tate (no, I didn't know him either), who had attracted attention in the past for misogynistic statements and violence and was subsequently banned from a number of social media platforms, unnecessarily instigated an online controversy with Swedish environmental activist Greta Thunberg. The 36-year-old tweeted a photo of himself at a gas station filling up his sports car, adding that he owned other sports cars that were all very polluting gas guzzlers and asking for Thunberg's email so he could send her the full list of his 33-car collection. The 19-year-old, not one to mince words, sent him an email addressing the inverted proportional relationship between horsepower and dick size, as well as his obsession with non-essentials: smalldickenergy@getalife.com
Five million likes for this humiliation later, the visibly offended Tate uploaded a video, which in turn made the Romanian police take notice and then action. The pizza boxes depicted in the video led police to believe that Tate was in Romania, which meant he could be taken into custody. Indeed, Romanian authorities had been investigating charges against him and his cronies of human trafficking, false imprisonment and extortion since April. Then, a few hours after the video, we saw Tate being taken away in handcuffs by the police. Karma! That's exactly why Germans invented the word "Schadenfreude", the joy of somebody else's pain and damage.
The reality is less funny and karma comes less often than one would wish. Online attacks by toxic men are unfortunately far too often the lived reality for women. In the process, as we see with Andrew Tate, physical attacks quickly occur as well. How toxic men go about such attacks and why, why this is bad for our society, and how us, other men, can help, this is what I talk about in my latest book CYBERF*CKED.
What is happening here is a problem for all of us and especially we men are called upon to become upstanders, allies or activists and as men confront these toxic men and make sure that our society, democracy and legal system finally take this toxic phenomenon seriously.
This book and all my other books are available at Amazon, at the publisher or in book stores.
Techno | Phil | oSophical
Future of Food Part 1:
Extinct Vegetarians and
Popular Cannibals
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The Future of Food, Part 2:
“I’m a Celebrity, Eat Me!”
Jeremy Clarkson, Meghan Markle
and a Non-Apology
CYBER*CKED: Wie Frauen
im Internet bedroht
und belästigt werden
Reasons for the
Stalling of Cruise Robotaxis
My Year of Reading
Non-Fiction by Female Authors
New Year
Next week, CES 2023 kicks off in Las Vegas, and my focus will be on automotive technology and AI. I will, of course, be reporting on this on my special blog, The Last New Driver's License Holder....
At the end of January - after the CES - I'll be back in Europe, and I'll be crisscrossing the German-speaking countries (here's the more detailed schedule). If you want to meet for a coffee (or beer) and even for signing one of my books, please contact me by e-mail.