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The Hard Truths Of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Reaching Nerdvana, And Other News, Stop Drinking Shitty Wine, The Real Threat Posed By Powerful Computers, Everything You Need To See From This Year's San Diego Comic-Con, How El Chapo Escaped Again The Daily Digg Monday, July 13, 2015 'BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME' The Hard Truths Of Ta-Nehisi Coates nymag.com Ta-Nehisi Coates has written a brutal 176-page meditation on the lie of racial progress. Every American should read it, though few will like what it has to say. WHAT YOU MISSED THIS WEEKEND Reaching Nerdvana, And Other News digg.com A small comics convention took place, we learned what the best sunscreen is, and we met a real-life master of disguise. WINE WE DIGG SPONSORED Stop Drinking Shitty Wine clubw.com Dear valued Digg user: Because we love you (and we love you even more after a glass of wine) we want to introduce you to your next delivery obsession: Club W. Plus, get a bottle on us. Wine not? (See what we did there?) BIG DUMB BRUTES The Real Threat Posed By Powerful Computers nytimes.com If the human race is at peril from killer robots, the problem is probably not artificial intelligence. It is more likely to be artificial stupidity. TRAILERS GALORE Everything You Need To See From This Year's San Diego Comic-Con digg.com This past weekend was nerd Christmas, and underneath the tree are teasers, trailers and exciting announcements. Here's everything you might have missed from this year's event. THE HUNT BEGINS, AGAIN How El Chapo Escaped Again newyorker.com Mexico's most secure prison, Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1, is home to the country's most violent narcotraffickers. Nobody had ever escaped from the facility, until Saturday night. Get more stories on Digg.com → FOUNTAIN OF YOUTHS ​A woman walks through fountain spray with children as they cool down in a fountain beside the Manzanares river in Madrid, Spain, Sunday, July 12, 2015. One person has reportedly died of heat stroke in Spain and Madrid's emergency service says it has seen 11 other cases in the last 24 hours as Spain swelters under a prolonged heat wave. Spain's meteorological agency issued a warning Saturday saying temperatures would continue to be as high as 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees centigrade) until at least July 16, describing the heat wave as "unusually long." Credit: AP Photo/Oscar del Pozo Digg iOS app   •   Digg Android app Twitter   •   Facebook   •   Tumblr   •   YouTube Advertise on Digg digg.com   •   Unsubscribe © 2015 News.me Inc. 416 West 13th Street #203, NY, NY 10014