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Thursday, July 13th, 2017
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The Dread Gorgon http://www.metafilter.com/168189/The-Dread-Gorgon "To isolate the origin of the Gorgon's petrifying terror, it is necessary to pare back centuries of accretions reflecting terrors peculiar to each passing age and stare down the original Gorgonthe grotesque, bulging-eyed, disembodied head." Caroline Alexander writes of Medusa's head as an evergreen "talisman of terror" in her essay, The Dread Gorgon. | 5:18p |
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Liu Xiaobo, rights activist, 1955 -- 2017 http://www.metafilter.com/168192/Liu-Xiaobo-rights-activist-1955-2017 Liu Xiaobo, Chinese professor, political dissident, human rights and civil rights activist, prisoner of conscience, Nobel peace prize laureate (2010, previously), died from liver cancer while under state custody. Liu's death followed his early "parole" from the 11-year prison sentence while he was in a critical state from late-stage liver cancer.
A collection of links following he recent events, as follows.
From The Guardian:
From The New York Times:
Fan Jiayang writes for The New Yorker and on his prescience, and rests on the theme of indifference.
In Foreign Policy, James Palmer writes, with scathing condemnation, about China's cynical authoritarianism and the damage done to the citizens' psychological state.
Los Angeles Times, in a timely manner, has Prof. Bruce J. Dickson surveying how the Chinese view democracy and their own society.
The Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post, now in the control of Chinese tech tycoon Jack Ma (who denies political ambitions and dismisses the role of political connections in his success, but is noted for his company's role in China's push for a perfect surveillance state), publishes an op-ed titled "How can China become a tech leader if it's intolerant of free thought?" | 5:55p |
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September 1942 - Making the New York Times http://www.metafilter.com/168194/September-1942-Making-the-New-York-Times In September 1942, Office of War Information photographer Marjory Collins paid a visit to the offices of the New York Times, located at the iconic One Times Square and an annex on 43rd Street. There, she documented each step of the messy, physical process as news coming in over the wires was sorted, edited, rewritten, laid out, and printed, all under an ever-approaching deadline... ( Mashable) | 10:16p |
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