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For years, Shaoping Wu was part of an increasingly endangered group of human rights lawyers in China.
His work culminated in 2019, when he attended a meeting with other prominent lawyers and activists.
Within days, the Chinese government began to detain the participants.
Mr. Wu quickly fled to the United States, where in 2020 he applied for asylum.
🔥On Wednesday, Mr. Wu was detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Pennsylvania, where he had been living wit…

Chinese Human Rights Lawyer Seeking Asylum Is Arrested by ICE
Shaoping Wu was working as a contract delivery driver for Amazon when he was pulled over in Pennsylvania. He had championed personal and religious freedom for Chinese citizens.

Patentstreit: InterDigital fordert 101,7 Millionen Euro von Disney
InterDigital fordert von Disney 101,7 Millionen Euro Schadensersatz. Es geht um HDR-Streaming bei Disney von März 2020 bis Ende 2025.
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Patentstreit: InterDigital fordert 101,7 Millionen Euro von Disney
InterDigital fordert von Disney 101,7 Millionen Euro Schadensersatz. Es geht um HDR-Streaming bei Disney+ von März 2020 bis Ende 2025.

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020) - Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats... - https://www.earth.org.uk/bats-at-16WW-1.html

Bats Around our Home aka 16WW (2020)
Learn how I became active observing and recording the various local bats...

from my link log —
A list of LD_PRELOAD hacks.
https://github.com/gaul/awesome-ld-preload
saved 2020-01-27 https://dotat.at/:/K9MQB.h…

GitHub - gaul/awesome-ld-preload: List of resources related to LD_PRELOAD, a mechanism for changing application behavior at run-time
List of resources related to LD_PRELOAD, a mechanism for changing application behavior at run-time - gaul/awesome-ld-preload

Two Atlanta-based FBI intelligence analysts were fired last week
after refusing to participate in the Trump administration’s investigation of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election.
The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the investigation was justified under FBI and Justice Department policies,
The couple was escorted out of their office. The FBI neither confirmed nor denied that the two analysts were fired.

FBI analysts fired after refusing to join Georgia 2020 election probe
The analysts, a husband and wife, told colleagues they did not believe the Trump administration’s investigation was justified, sources told MS NOW.

Why The Giants Will Beat the Cowboys, Why They Won't and a Prediction https://www.si.com/nfl/giants/onsi/why-the-giants-will-beat-the-cowboys-why-they-won-t-and-a-prediction-01m25r96r48y

8 ce n'est pas assez
https://ludovic.hirlimann.net/2020/12/8-cest-pas-assez.html

The ballpark is having their throwback Thursday night and the decade they are focusing on is....the 2020's
I'm not sure how to respond to that. It feels like a decade since 2020, but I'm still stuck in them...

"However, a US intelligence report in 2021 ... conducted under John Ratcliffe, Trump’s then-director of national intelligence and his present CIA director, found China attempted to collect information on US voters, public opinion and political parties going as far back as 2008. Typically, such data is publicly available and cannot be used to alter votes."
Did China steal 2020 US election data, as Trump claims? | US Elections 2020 News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/17/did-china-steal-2020-us-election-data-as-trump-claims?traffic_source=rss

Heute vor 25 Jahren: Am 10. August 2001 wurde Reaktor 2 im #Kernkraftwerk #Philippsburg nach einer Abschaltung mit zu niedrigen Wasserständen in den Borwasser-Tanks gestartet. Trotz Alarms ignorierte das Personal die Gefahr, die Tanks wurden erst am 12. August befüllt.

from my link log —
Faster asynchronous WAL archiving with pgBackRest to avoid PostgreSQL WAL backlog.
https://www.percona.com/blog/2020/12/01/how-pgbackrest-is-addressing-slow-postgresql-wal-archiving-using-…

How pgBackRest is Addressing Slow PostgreSQL WAL Archiving Using Asynchronous Feature
How pgBackRest is addressing slow PostgreSQL WAL Archiving using its Asynchronous archiving feature.

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

Las Vegas Raiders Mailbag: Fans Buy Into Klint Kubiak's Staff https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-mailbag-fans-buy-into-klint-kubiak-staff

FBI analysts fired after refusing to join Georgia 2020 election probe
https://www.ms.now/news/fbi-kash-patel-trump-georgia-2020-election

Democrats have accused the US House of Representatives judiciary committee of a
“baseless” and “vindictive” attack on former special prosecutor Jack Smith
after it referred him for criminal prosecution for allegedly lying to Congress over his investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
Committee chair Jim Jordan, an Ohio Republican, wrote to acting US attorney general Todd Blanche on Wednesday night,
asserting Smith “made willfully and int…

Republican-controlled committee refers former Trump prosecutor Jack Smith for criminal investigation
Committee accused of trying to ‘weaponize’ justice system via ‘laughably weak and vindictive criminal referral’