This needs to go far and wide.

https://t.co/t9mOT3VeVi
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Highlights of this thread:
1. China is the aggressor
2. Iran is the proxy bogeyman - the excuse to launch WWIII (look here not there)
3. Their aim is to divide the country against itself and they feel they succeeded
4. They use crime (poisoning) + law to protract the crisis
5. They are throwing low level operatives under the bus and distancing themselves from them
6. They are projecting their own crimes onto the victims of their crimes (eg blaming General Flynn’s “digital soldiers” for election interference - that is all of us, folks)
7. The war is going to intensify
8. We must stick together and pray if we are going to win
9. There are a lot of people who silently live in panic and fear for trying to do the right thing
10. Know that when Patriots speak of the true evil of the enemy we are fighting, that they are not making stuff up.

**THEY NEED TO COMPROMISE SCOTUS TO FINISH THIS — EYES ON!**
From me: Why in the last two days am I “suddenly” seeing Chinese social as a “share” item on YouTube; Chinese payment methods at CVS; and the Chinese non-social-distanced, New Year’s celebration online? Economy tops?

WAKE UP WAKE UP WAKE UP
WAKE OTHER PEOPLE UP
WHITE SQUALL!
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Also, I am suddenly getting tons of recommended or promoted accounts that are blue checkmark Chinese.

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SolarWinds follow up. Very good tweet explaining what happened.


Basically what this means is that SolarWinds itself was exploited. Someone posted an infected update as legitimate (digitally signed), leading customers to download a bad update.

“Multiple trojanized updates were digitally signed from March - May 2020 and posted to the SolarWinds updates website” https://t.co/8e3bMFWXYu


FireEye then explains that infected organizations were approached and exploited. This is a separate Step 2.

At this point, information is already going to “malicious domains” without extra intervention, after the malware does nothing for “up to two weeks”

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I just finished Eric Adler's The Battle of the Classics, and wanted to say something about Joel Christiansen's review linked below. I am not sure what motivates the review (I speculate a bit below), but it gives a very misleading impression of the book. 1/x


The meat of the criticism is that the history Adler gives is insufficiently critical. Adler describes a few figures who had a great influence on how the modern US university was formed. It's certainly critical: it focuses on the social Darwinism of these figures. 2/x

Other insinuations and suggestions in the review seem wildly off the mark, distorted, or inappropriate-- for example, that the book is clickbaity (it is scholarly) or conservative (hardly) or connected to the events at the Capitol (give me a break). 3/x

The core question: in what sense is classics inherently racist? Classics is old. On Adler's account, it begins in ancient Rome and is revived in the Renaissance. Slavery (Christiansen's primary concern) is also very old. Let's say classics is an education for slaveowners. 4/x

It's worth remembering that literacy itself is elite throughout most of this history. Literacy is, then, also the education of slaveowners. We can honor oral and musical traditions without denying that literacy is, generally, good. 5/x

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MDZS is laden with buddhist references. As a South Asian person, and history buff, it is so interesting to see how Buddhism, which originated from India, migrated, flourished & changed in the context of China. Here's some research (🙏🏼 @starkjeon for CN insight + citations)

1. LWJ’s sword Bichen ‘is likely an abbreviation for the term 躲避红尘 (duǒ bì hóng chén), which can be translated as such: 躲避: shunning or hiding away from 红尘 (worldly affairs; which is a buddhist teaching.) (
https://t.co/zF65W3roJe) (abbrev. TWX)

2. Sandu (三 毒), Jiang Cheng’s sword, refers to the three poisons (triviṣa) in Buddhism; desire (kāma-taṇhā), delusion (bhava-taṇhā) and hatred (vibhava-taṇhā).

These 3 poisons represent the roots of craving (tanha) and are the cause of Dukkha (suffering, pain) and thus result in rebirth.

Interesting that MXTX used this name for one of the characters who suffers, arguably, the worst of these three emotions.

3. The Qian kun purse “乾坤袋 (qián kūn dài) – can be called “Heaven and Earth” Pouch. In Buddhism, Maitreya (मैत्रेय) owns this to store items. It was believed that there was a mythical space inside the bag that could absorb the world.” (TWX)