Money Is an Iron: Oscar Movies, 2020 The Baffler
Oscars 2020 Times Literary Supplement
How do you dance like Fred Astaire? One ballet pro’s complicated quest for the answer LA Time Variety
US charges four Chinese military hackers in 2017 Equifax breach
The
hackers spent weeks in the Equifax system, breaking into computer
networks, stealing company secrets and personal data, Attorney General
William Barr said.
Everything we know about the pangolin — the scaly mammal that may have spread the coronavirus to humans Business Insider
Everything we know about the pangolin — the scaly mammal that may have spread the coronavirus to humans Business Insider
'Even death doesn't scare me': Virus storytellers challenge China's official narrative
Armed with smart phones and social media accounts, citizen-journalists in China are telling their stories and those of others from Wuhan and other locked-down virus zones in Hubei province.
For a man widely regarded as a cross between Machiavelli and Rasputin, Dominic Cummings has lost a lot of battles lately. The prime minister’s special adviser opposed both Huawei’s involvement in Britain’s 5g networks and the hs2 rail network (which he labelled “a disaster zone”). Boris Johnson has given the green light to the first and is shortly expected to approve the second. Mr Cummings’s plan to cut the size of the cabinet and create a super-department of business has been ditched. So have his schemes to turn Downing Street into a nasa-style mission-control centre and to ship Conservative Party headquarters to the north of the country
Dominic Cummings v the blob
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Coronavirus Updates: A Grim Landmark as Official Death Toll in China Tops 1,000.
UK ‘superspreader’ may have passed coronavirus to nearly a dozen people in 3 countries
COLLUSION: Number of professors allegedly in cahoots with communist China quickly mounts.
IN THE MAIL: Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer.
What Happens When QAnon Seeps From the Web to the Offline World
The New York Times
– “…What began online more than two years ago as an intricate, if
baseless, conspiracy theory that quickly attracted thousands of
followers has since found footholds in the offline world. QAnon has
surfaced in political campaigns, criminal cases, merchandising and at
least one college class…QAnon began in October 2017, when a pseudonymous
user of the online message board 4chan started writing cryptic posts
under the name Q Clearance Patriot. The person claimed to be a
high-ranking official privy to top-secret information from Mr. Trump’s
inner circle. Over two years and more than 3,500 posts, Q — whose
identity has never been determined — has unspooled a sprawling conspiracy narrative
that claims, among other things, that Mr. Trump was recruited by the
military to run for office in order to break up a global cabal of
pedophiles, and that Special Counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s
investigation would end with prominent Democrats’ being imprisoned at
Guantánamo Bay. The anonymous posts subsequently moved to 8chan, where
they remained until August, when that site was taken offline after the
El Paso mass shooting. They now live on 8kun, a new website built by
8chan’s owner. Some QAnon fans are hardened conspiracy buffs who
previously believed other fringe theories, such as the bogus claim that
the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were an “inside job.” But many QAnon
adherents are everyday Americans who have found in Q’s messages a source
of partisan energy, affirmation of their suspicions about powerful
institutions or a feeling of having special knowledge. Some are older
adults who discovered the theory through partisan Facebook groups or
Twitter threads, and were drawn in by the movement’s promises of inside
information from the White House (some QAnon devotees even believe that
Mr. Trump posts himself, under the code name “Q+”)…”
CORONAVIRUS UPDATE: Coronavirus Updates: A Grim Landmark as Official Death Toll in China Tops 1,000.
UK ‘superspreader’ may have passed coronavirus to nearly a dozen people in 3 countries
Chinese social media’s response to the coronavirus: finger-pointing in the post-truth era
Chinese social media has been dominated by a single topic: the coronavirus. Typically, misinformation walks hand-in-hand with memes and division.COLLUSION: Number of professors allegedly in cahoots with communist China quickly mounts.
IN THE MAIL: Chinese Communist Espionage: An Intelligence Primer.
