The Indigo Oracle

https://www.straitstimes.com/multimedia/graphics/2026/09/singapore-uniforms-design/index.html Uniform, but unique: The stories and styles of Singapore school attire School uniforms- conformity, identity...does identity require conformity?

In case anyone ever has to do an essay on human determination / fighting spirit or ingenuity https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSbBLghJx/ Remember this episode of history where Thai life carried on regardless of humidity rating

Some of you may recall out Taylor Swift CA where we discussed the (debatably) exploitative practice of releasing collectible merchandise in order to squeeze cash out of compulsive collectors. Sure, those collectors are willing customers, but where do we draw the line between legitimate demand and supply and ridiculous business practice preying on people who can’t help themselves? https://www.tvfandomlounge.com/taylor-swift-life-of-a-showgirl-encore-38-variants-worst-reviewed-album/ How does 38 collectible versions in a year sound?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c95y4jd8jxn2o There is hope for reading and the interesting thing is it started with tik tok and book tok. Turn this into a local example for aq if you need to. #books #jcaq

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdIt5TkDfxT/?stkn=bXB6YnJsYnlpMHZn Art and technology creating memory

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSqrLdY93/ We love when our leaders engage us in relatable manners 🤡 But really though, technology and media remains a tool of connection and education, regardless of who’s in the driver seat and what’s being taught. Hope everyone is looking forward to Modern Warfare 1488!

Is privacy dead? And does the government have a duty to protect yours? https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSVonmDKD/

https://www.wired.com/story/this-chatbot-is-just-a-random-guy-lol/ This is meta. Where LLMs are threatening art, this guy has used the idea of an LLM a art to show the world what is going on with our ongoing infatuation with AI.

African American Vernacular English and its unique grammar rules How does language relate to culture, how does it differentiate us from one another and how does it differentiate how we each see the world? Most of us are at least vaguely aware of AAVE because of American TV - and this presents us an opportunity to witness this cultural-linguistic divergence within the single language of English that we’re already familiar with enough to be able to appreciate how much nuance goes in to the things we say

Chinese girl dies from unethical experimental DNA treatments (Science.org) (Or if you prefer a TikTok explainer) Seems we have a spiritual successor to He Jiankui. Except this time a child actually dies, and the researcher covers it up to publish his research and leave out the dangers and flaws behind his procedures, endangering countless other. As with He Jiankui, consider the importance of not just ethics in the abstract, but the systems and cultures we have of its enforcement - without those, what use are morals anyway?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbnDow-lP1b/?igsh=MTgxeWxzeWd0dDNueQ== AI slop and art. All the national day stuff we've been laughing at, don't enable it.

The hidden, toxic narratives shaping teenage boys today https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/its-getting-harder-to-raise-a-boy-today Greater peril today especially since these are dangers that are hidden.

https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/the-odyssey-sparks-imax-stampede-and-a-backlash For the discussion about technology and the arts. On the one hand, the communicative technology available means more people can watch the Odyssey eventually on streaming platforms. On the other hand, the technical technology becoming so sophisticated that using 70mm to shoot the Odyssey excludes populations that do not have theatres that can screen 70mm film to watch it in the way that it was shot. Granted cinema goers can still watch the movie, but the divide does exist.

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSXgqKUUe/ Is data / statistics / math a reliable solution? It depends. I love this economist’s demonstration of when these methods of logic can go wrong.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/chatgpt-ai-change-way-students-write-concerns-6237431 Though it might sound like we're flogging a dead horse, why you should think twice about AI for learning.

https://www.ctdsb.net/c1666_202607/2793695.html (Used the translate function in your browser if you’re mandarin-handicapped like me) We’ve spent half a decade killing each other with newfangled drones, corporations pouring money in to improve product and jacking up price when demand surges. So it’s nice to see when the same tech can be used to save lives, and the same companies can behave in humane manners to serve our collective interests. Consider what this tells you about the way technology and companies operate.

https://theconversation.com/why-bonnie-from-toy-story-5-resonates-with-so-many-neurodivergent-families-286160 How animation is more than just for children and Pixar doing that very well.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/mountbatten-pavement-art-power-washing-singapore-creativity-6200476 Scold first and ask questions later...is it part of our DNA or is it possible for us to be less reactive and more empathetic?

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSxueeYEA/ From taking territory to taking appointments, stocking munitions to stocking pamphlets, recruiting soldiers to recruiting…interns? This week’s J1 CA also covered the fogginess of who constitutes a terrorist because victors write history. Extremists of a given today who win their wars and survive long enough eventually legitimise and become just another power of a given tomorrow (just ask any revolutionary government). Now we get to see the wackiness of how the Taliban go through this process.

https://vt.tiktok.com/ZSxaaGnuT/ Yet another domestic terror attack in the US. There has clearly been a marked rise in self-radicalised extremism all across the world, so following along with this week’s CA for the J1s, consider why. What about the world as it is now is driving people to more violence for a cause? (And remember that it’s probably not just one thing either)