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Cake day: March 23rd, 2020

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  • There’s a lot of problems with Wikipedia, but in my years editing there (I’m extended protected rank), I’ve come to terms that it’s about as good as it can be.

    In all but one edit war, the better sourced team came out on top. Source quality discussion is also quite good. There’s a problem with positive/negative tone in articles, and sometimes articles get away with bad sourcing before someone can correct it, but this is about as good as any information hub can get.




  • Prof Kerry Brown, the director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College London, said an official of Cai’s level having a line of contact with a foreigner, even in cases of intelligence gathering, was “very, very, very unlikely”.

    Members of the politburo “really aren’t accessible”, Brown said. “Particularly under Xi Jinping, [they] don’t really have any liberty to do anything too entrepreneurial.” skip past newsletter promotion

    Brown said the case “raises questions about how British security services assess information in China”.

    I find this story to be the most likely. Even I don’t have time to talk to two random foreigners about gossip