#PinePhone Pro discontinued. #news
#USA Congress launches an investigation of biased #politics at #Wikipedia #news
#Indonesia is “in chaos” and just blocked access to Twitter and Discord and #VPN providers. One recommendation if you have a server overseas is to use #Wireguard with #wstunnel to avoid the sort of protocol blocking that, for example, Uzbekistan applies. #politics #news #censorship #privacy #human-rights
discussions of #VPN use for #privacy and #censorship circumvention (VLESS, Xray, v2ray, passwall2, etc.)
#news on #USA colleges: “At the University at Buffalo, the overall decline of about 15% of international students is happening mostly in graduate programs, especially in the STEM fields. But it’s not just Buffalo. Universities all over the country are experiencing similar drops. (...) The decline is also happening at a time when other countries, like the U.K. and South Korea have stepped up to fill the gap.”
“#China proved you can pair authoritarian politics with a market economy.” #news
debate between historian Frank Dikötter and Pankaj Mishra about the #Great-Leap-Forward. #China #history #toread
review of #Great-Leap-Forward book “Tombstone” (“Mubei”) by Yang Jisheng: “denied permission to publish on the mainland, but the book came out in Hong Kong in 2008 and went into eight reprints. (...) although the book is banned in China, Yang has not been arrested or made to disappear.” The translation is, however, “reduced” from a two-volume Chinese original. #news #history