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A few nights ago, I dreamt about someone who’s not in my life anymore. Random people make cameo appearances in my dreams all the time, but I hadn’t thought of the star of my nighttime film in ages.. ugly memories and such.

Anyway, I woke up, had a good chuckle, and went about my day, which at some point involved contacting my bank about some charging issue. Guess what the agent I was connected to was called? My dream star’s name!

And they want to convince us we’re not living in a simulation.

BTW, AI is coming for dream interpreters’ jobs, too.

My decision to study History in high school wasn’t super nuanced. I performed better in it than I did in Geography, and, as can be evidenced by this newsletter, I don’t mind writing ad infinitum.

I wasn’t particularly interested in learning about the past or pursuing a related field in the future. History was, to me, the “good enough” guy you get with because he’s alright and you’re bored.

It was one of my 2 As in KCSE, so I guess that worked out. But I only realized history’s (small h) importance way after school.

There’s an abundance of Euro-American stories recounting what happened in the 1800s as vividly as what’s currently breaking. It’s no wonder that the whole world has some familiarity with these stories. Of course, that can also be attributed to their goings-on indirectly influencing us.

Recently, I was thinking about my discovery that Martin Luther King Jr. (the guy who had a dream that actually helped people) was unfaithful to his wife, and his extracurricular activities were only discovered because the FBI was tailing him because the government was concerned about his escalating influence in the civil rights movement because…