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When the Public Security Bureau sent a text message to Urumci residents' cell phones, it set in motion an episode of…

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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land

In 1934, laws were strengthened so that women deemed “inferior” were sterilized against their will, along with male juvenile delinquents.

Michael Booth • The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia

Fwd: AI Alignment Is Censorship

Simon Joliveau readwise.io

What’s puzzling, given how carefully people toe their respective party lines, is that there is no minister of propaganda nor a ministry of truth enforcing any explicit stances. We expect this degree of ideological conformity to be the product of a centralized power handing out punishments and rewards. But, as far as I know, there is no single autho... See more

Jonathan Bi • Johnathan at Limbo — 404

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Nassim Nicholas Taleb • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

The Secretum was a British Museum collection of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that held artefacts and images deemed sexually graphic. Many of the items were from pre-Christian traditions and covered wide ranges of human history and geography. Many of the early artefacts with erotic or sexually graphic images acquired by the museum we... See more

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The fact that supposedly reputable news organizations are openly working in concert with governments to craft narratives around Covid—and now to push vaccines and demonize the unvaccinated—is extraordinarily dangerous. And the fact that Twitter banned me at the open urging of the federal government is a betrayal of American values that is hard to b

Alex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives

Anti Social Century

Vikram Mekala • 1 card

This is where the labor issues of new media dovetail with those of warehouse workers and delivery drivers. Amazon's planned worker chat app, "Shout Outs," bans a long list of worker-friendly words, including "union," "harassment," "grievance," and "injustice."