Decades ago, some Chinese swam to freedom in Hong Kong. Now the tyranny they escaped from has recaptured them.

I read that the UK agreed to try to stop refugees from arriving in Hong Kong so that Chine would not invade. It would have been impossible to defend Hong Kong militarily against a Chinese invasion.

Oxford University's measures to protect students studying about China from repression by China: they submit their homework anonymously, and recording those classes is forbidden.

The precise extent and depth of this anonymity are not clear in the article. If it means that their teachers don't know their real identities, that is surprising but may be necessary — I won't argue with it.

If it means simply that their identities are not associated with their work in some corporation's cloudy data base that the school uses, all students deserve that kind of anonymity, on general principles. Don't dox anyone to a company.

The prohibition on recording classes seems to be necessary in this case, but it has the unfortunate effect of blocking the one way you can fully participate in a Zoom class without running Zoom: find someone willing to make a recording of it, one way or another, and watch that video (either in real time, or later). (You can participate in audio by phoning in.)

This could still be done if your friend sets up a webcam on another computer pointing at the screen, and transmits a stream to your machine. But that is extra hard since webcams are expensive these days.

Adani, the company that wants to construct a giant coal mine in Australia, is prosecuting an activist for doing what Julian Assange did: asking for leaks about the plans. Now the company apparently wants to go further and prosecute the people who did what Glenn Greenwald did: prosecute the journalists who received the leaks from the activist.

(satire) *Biden Removes ‘Defeating Trump’ From Platform To Avoid Alienating Swing Voters.*

Robert Redfield, head of the CDC, was overheard condemning one of the bullshitter's advisers, saying that "Everything he says is false". The adviser in question was Scott Atlas.

He may be misleading the bullshitter as well as the public. However, getting bullshit as advice from advisers he chose cannot excuse the corrupter's campaign of bullshit.

I hope that the training of radiologists is not so narrow that they escape learning basic medical facts about infectious diseases and epidemics. However, no amount of education can overcome a determined partisan intention to expose bullshit.