YouTube — 2026-04-14#

Watch First#

In a deeply moving and sobering TED Talk, Malala Yousafzai reflects on the collapse of her youthful optimism following the Taliban’s return to Afghanistan. She urges us to stay ambitious and fight the systemic erasure of women, proving that genuine leadership is forged in our darkest moments.

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News & Business#

Global markets are reeling from the new US military blockade on Iranian ports, with The U.S. Warships Poised to Enforce Trump’s Blockade detailing the naval deployments designed to choke off Tehran. This geopolitical shockwave is crushing California’s oil market with massive price spikes at the pump and complicating Nissan’s global export strategy. If you want to know how Wall Street is digesting this, 市场会继续看穿战争噪音吗？ is an excellent Chinese-language deep dive on market resilience and Goldman Sachs’s recent earnings. Also historically notable: Viktor Orbán has finally been unseated in Hungary after a 16-year run, and Trump has escalated a vicious public feud with Pope Leo over Washington’s growing militarism.

Learning & Ideas#

Sal Khan just dropped a massive announcement: the Khan TED Institute, an ambitious new partnership aiming to create radically low-cost, competency-based higher education degrees for an AI-driven world. For context on the Middle East, Yuan Sir’s 袁Sir聊伊朗40天哀悼日 offers a fascinating historical breakdown of the 40-day mourning period following Khamenei’s death, tracing this Islamic tradition all the way back to the 1978 Iranian revolution. Finally, Stanford’s Mo Fiorina gives a sobering lecture in Unstable Majorities Continue: The Trump Era on why our current era of oscillating government control is unprecedented and actively exacerbates political conflict.

Tech & AI#

The standout tech insight comes from a market breakdown by 美投侃新闻, which highlights Morgan Stanley’s belief that current AI models are advancing much faster than theoretical predictions, setting up a massive structural shortage in global compute power. If you’re tired of the AI hype cycle and want practical facts, check out 電車的碳排放依然比油車低嗎？ by GQ Taiwan, which decisively explains why charging an EV off the electric grid is still vastly cleaner than burning gasoline.

Everything Else#

Don’t miss 晓松聊一认识的台湾共谍, where Gao Xiaosong tells a wildly cinematic true story of an old friend who acted as a KMT-CCP double agent in Taiwan and even plotted to assassinate Chiang Kai-shek. He also dropped a highly nostalgic episode on Beijing’s old cultural circles and the origins of spicy boiled fish (水煮鱼). Lastly, a grim New York Times report contrasts Mexico’s heavy drone security preparations for the World Cup against the desperate, unprotected families digging for the remains of missing cartel victims in Jalisco.