Paid ‘news’: China using Taiwan media to win hearts and minds on island

Quillette didn’t just fall for a hoax, they actively embellished the story!

Dos Niños

Tokyo subway’s humble duct-tape typographer

Hospital checklists are meant to save lives — so why do they often fail?

Supercentenarians and the oldest-old are concentrated into regions with no birth certificates and short lifespans

Chinese films banned from joining Taiwan’s Golden Horse Awards

China cares more about domestic consumption than US-China trade war

Dayton mass shooting: timeline proves “good guy with a gun” myth is just that

Even gangsters live in fear of Japan’s gun laws

Kashmir and India’s descent into authoritarianism

As best I can tell, the BJP’s plans for Kashmir are to encourage massive migration of Hindus from other parts of India, much like China has done in Tibet and Xinjiang. Scrapping Article 370, removes restrictions on property sales (Article 35A) which had prevented that.

And Kashmiris shall immediately cease to exist

Jammu and Kashmir: Move to scrap special status is an unprecedented attack on Indian Constitution

HBO’s ‘Succession’ Tries to Get the Merger-Mad Media Industry Right 《One of the best shows on TV. Looking forward to season 2.》

I assure you, medieval people bathed

Will Germany move into a situation with unsecured power supply? 《Hmmm. Maybe Germany’s renewal policy isn’t all that?》

Germany to close all 84 of its coal-fired power plants, will rely primarily on renewable energy 《If Germany can do this, why can’t everyone?》

How robots became a scapegoat for the destruction of the working class

DARPA Is Building a $10 Million, Open Source, Secure Voting System 《Better late than never?》

Yes, America Is Rigged Against Workers

What Hongkongers should know before going on strike on Monday

Data-mining reveals that 80% of books published 1924-63 never had their copyrights renewed and are now in the public domain

D.A. Pennebaker Dead: The Master Director Dies at 94

The other worst take is anyone who thinks Trump’s China policy is good for HK or Taiwan. Trump attacks ‘socialists’ at home, but in Hong Kong he just sided with the Communists - The Washington Post