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China's tech crackdown cost over $1 trillion. But the economy is in such deep trouble that the country's cozying up to its tech firms again. (www.businessinsider.com)

China’s tech crackdown cost over $1 trillion. But the economy is in such deep trouble that the country’s cozying up to its tech firms again.::Local governments in China are wooing deals with tech giants to build on the so-called “platform economy,” per the SCMP.

Ecuador prison riot leaves 31 dead as gangs war in packed facility (www.cbsnews.com)

Guayaquil, Ecuador — Some 2,700 soldiers on Tuesday stormed a prison in Ecuador, retaking control of the facility as the death toll from a riot that started over the weekend rose to 31 inmates, authorities said. The latest battle between rival gangs at the overcrowded, violence-hobbled Guayas 1 prison in the port city of...

YSK Hubert Humphrey's name -- in 1948 (!), he gave a speech at the DNC in favor of civil rights. (www.americanrhetoric.com)

I read his name in “Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72,” but I never really understood who he was. This was back when the Democrats were the racist party and the Republicans were the party of Lincoln, decades before LBJ and Nixon tacitly agreed to exchange those positions. Here’s what he said in 1948:...

Our new neighbors suck CW: sad (fedia.io)

Our house abuts a wilderness area that’s been home to a colony of feral cats that the neighborhood has cared for for years (including spaying and neutering, and finding homes for the amenable ones). A couple of months ago a new family moved in across the street, and just now they had Animal Control out to gather up the cats....

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