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2022-01-09 18:38:51 #西安 #封城：防疫中被夸大的人，和防疫中被无视的人

而这就是当前中国引以为傲的治理体系的另一个问题——整个体系建立在对「人」的能力的过度加压之上，与此同时，人又变得仅仅只是「治理」的工具和对象。

强调要「不怕疲劳」，恰恰意味着疲劳和泄气是当下的防疫实态。中国大陆的防疫也实际上开始疲劳了。

尽管 2020 年的成功防疫让中国政府产生了一种自身无所不能的感觉。但是在诸如西安这样的具体操作中，人们还是会发现，中国整体上仍然并非一个发达的高度富裕的社会。也不是每个地方的政府都有无限的财力物力和管理能力，来应对包括疫情在内的种种社会危机。

然而，对治理能力的迷信，对各地能够在疫情中实现精细管理的极大信仰，已经盖过了许多现实的问题。这种信仰之下，一些人被夸大了，一些人的位置消失了。

比如，中国的 #流动人口 从 2010 年的 2.2 亿增加到 2020 年的 3.7 亿。在这些人口中，许多人都居住在西安的 #城中村 或群租房一类的空间中。而在防疫管理中，他们是最被忽略，分到的社会资源最不足的一群。他们还会继续留在大城市吗？ 打开/如何

2022-01-09 18:37:22 mRNA technology: Vaccine biotech has helped repair broken hearts in mice

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2303617-mrna-vaccine-technology-has-helped-repair-broken-hearts-in-mice 打开/如何

2022-01-09 18:36:26 Managing privacy in the digital economy In this era of the digital economy, proper management of digital privacy is critical for end-users, service providers, platform vendors, and the government. Addressing the increasing privacy concerns expressed by the… 打开/如何

2022-01-09 18:34:58 异乡人：我出国前是新闻编辑，来 #加拿大 后做送餐员，酸爽又畅快

在中国国内，我做过 8 年记者和 4 年编辑。最近送餐三个月最大的体会，是编辑和记者虽见多识广，却总是隔着一层，不接地气，比不上送餐员能深刻体会真实生活的酸爽。 打开/如何

2022-01-09 18:31:35 Wordle Is a Love Story

The word game has gone from dozens of players to hundreds of thousands in a few months. It was created by a software engineer in Brooklyn for his partner.

Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, knew his partner loved word games, so he created a guessing game for just the two of them. As a play on his last name, he named it Wordle.

“I think people kind of appreciate that there’s this thing online that’s just fun,” Mr. Wardle said in an interview on Monday. “It’s not trying to do anything shady with your data or your eyeballs. It’s just a game that’s fun.”

While other games send notifications to your phone hoping you’ll come back throughout the day, Wordle doesn’t want an intense relationship.

“It’s something that encourages you to spend three minutes a day,” he said. “And that’s it. Like, it doesn’t want any more of your time than that.”

If he were optimizing the game to gain as many players as possible, he would have included a link at the end of the tweet that the tool generates, he said. But after looking into it, he said it would have looked “trashy” and not as visually compelling, and he liked the grid’s mysterious air, which he felt piqued people’s interest. 打开/如何

2022-01-09 18:24:20 Long Covid: why do some people have symptoms months after infection?

A meta-analysis of studies by Penn State researchers found more than half of the 236m people who had Covid-19 when the paper was published — which has since risen to 275m — had symptoms lasting more than six months.

Long Covid is defined as suffering symptoms 12 weeks or more after diagnosis.

While patients suffer a range of symptoms, the most commonly reported are fatigue and breathing problems.

A great deal remains unknown. However, the PHOSP study provided an important clue that lends weight to a hypothesis that long Covid is caused by a continued immune reaction. 打开/如何

2022-01-09 18:23:33 Favourite maps of 2021 – Cartoblography

https://cartoblography.com/2021/12/23/favourite-maps-of-2021 打开/如何

2022-01-09 18:22:38 Six books on China

China is an incredibly important topic, both in terms of its economic impact and its general importance to the world

Mostly, these books deal with two things: China’s hyper-capitalist economy and its pseudo-communist political system. They are not particularly up-to-date — some of them were written over a decade ago, and none of them is recent enough to cover the economic disruptions and international tensions that have confronted China over the past two years. But they’re useful nonetheless, because they provide helpful background to understand why those disruptions and tensions arose when they did. 打开/如何

2022-01-09 18:21:08 Chinese officials arrest Tibetan monks for sharing information of Buddha statue destruction

Chinese authorities in Sichuan province are arresting Tibetan monks and beating them over suspicion that they informed outside people about the destruction of the 99-foot tall Buddha statue in the country’s Luhuo county (Drago), a media report said.

The Buddha statue in the Kardze (Ganzi) 甘孜 Tibetan Autonomous Region was demolished in December by officials who said the statue had been built too high, reported Radio Free Asia (RFA) citing Tibetan sources. 打开/如何

2022-01-09 18:18:21 The pandemic’s true death toll

How many people have died because of the covid-19 pandemic? The answer depends both on the data available, and on how you define “because”.

Although the official number of deaths caused by covid-19 is now , our single best estimate is that the actual toll is people. We find that there is a 95% chance that the true value lies between and additional deaths. 打开/如何