mind-meld, brainstorm, Brainwashing, also called Coercive Persuasion, ‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong

紐約時報：現在中國處理香港方式是一種洗腦，要求人互相監視，檢舉，要公務人員簽效忠宣誓，香港日益與內地城市類似……哀哉


‘A Form of Brainwashing’: China Remakes Hong Kong


Neighbors are urged to report one another. Officials must pledge loyalty. Each day, the boundary between Hong Kong and the rest of China fades faster.

TABLE FOR THREE The Mind Meld of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker By PHILIP GALANES The entrepreneur-turned-philanthropist and the best-selling author discuss their surprising bond, the challenge to improve the human condition and the quest to create the perfect toilet.

mind-meld

NOUN

Science Fiction 

• A (supposed) technique for the psychic fusion of two or more minds, permitting unrestricted communication or deep understanding (originally from the United States television series Star Trek); also in extended use.

VERB

Science Fiction 

• no object To engage in a mind-meld (also with object); (hence) to pool ideas, to brainstorm.

Origin

1960s<br>1980s; earliest use found in The Washington Post.

Brainwashing, also called Coercive Persuasion, systematic effort to persuade nonbelievers to accept a certain allegiance, command, or doctrine. A colloquial term, it is more generally applied to any technique designed to manipulate human thought or action against the desire, will, or knowledge of the individual.

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Brainwashing (also known as mind control, menticide, coercive persuasion, thought control, thought reform, and re-education) is the concept that the human mind can be altered or controlled by certain psychological techniques. Brainwashing ...

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The Chinese term xǐnăo (洗腦，"wash brain")^[9] was originally used to describe the coercive persuasion used under the Maoist government in China, which aimed to transform "reactionary" people into "right-thinking" members of the new Chinese social system.^[10] The term punned on the Taoist custom of "cleansing / washing the heart / mind" (xǐxīn，洗心) before conducting ceremonies or entering holy places.^[a]

The Oxford English Dictionary records the earliest known English-language usage of the word "brainwashing" in an article by a journalist Edward Hunter, in Miami News, published on 24 September 1950. Hunter was an outspoken anticommunist and was alleged to be a CIA agent working undercover as a journalist.^[11] Hunter and others used the Chinese term to explain why, during the Korean War (1950-1953), some American prisoners of war (POWs) cooperated with their Chinese captors, and even in a few cases defected to their side.^[12] British radio operator Robert W. Ford^[13][14] and British army Colonel James Carne also claimed that the Chinese subjected them to brainwashing techniques during their imprisonment.^[15]

The U.S. military and government laid charges of brainwashing in an effort to undermine confessions made by POWs to war crimes, including biological warfare.^[16] After Chinese radio broadcasts claimed to quote Frank Schwable, Chief of Staff of the First Marine Air Wing admitting to participating in germ warfare, United Nations commander Gen. Mark W. Clark asserted:^[17]

Whether these statements ever passed the lips of these unfortunate men is doubtful. If they did, however, too familiar are the mind-annihilating methods of these Communists in extorting whatever words they want... The men themselves are not to blame, and they have my deepest sympathy for having been used in this abominable way.

Beginning in 1953, Robert Jay Lifton interviewed American servicemen who had been POWs during the Korean War as well as priests, students, and teachers who had been held in prison in China after 1951. In addition to interviews with 25 Americans and Europeans, Lifton interviewed 15 Chinese citizens who had fled after having been subjected to indoctrination in Chinese universities. (Lifton's 1961 book Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism: A Study of "Brainwashing" in China, was based on this research.)^[18] Lifton found that when the POWs returned to the United States their thinking soon returned to normal, contrary to the popular image of "brainwashing."^[19]

In 1956, after reexamining the concept of brainwashing following the Korean War, the U.S. Army published a report entitled Communist Interrogation, Indoctrination, and Exploitation of Prisoners of War, which called brainwashing a "popular misconception". The report concludes that "exhaustive research of several government agencies failed to reveal even one conclusively documented case of 'brainwashing' of an American prisoner of war in Korea."^[20]

"Anorak"

Little red look: 100 years of Chinese Communist Party style

From Mao suits to Xi Jinping’s anorak

The Party is having a party. Who’s invited? About 1.4bn people. Is there a dress code? Not quite. In its centenary year, the Chinese Communist Party (ccp) has lost some of its zeal for sartorial regulations. As anyone with TikTok can see, the blue or khaki Mao suit is rather less in vogue now than the punky plaid minidress or flame-print bell bottoms. Is this ideological deviation? If we can conceive a turbo-capitalist, hypernationalist China administered under the red flag, we can imagine one that also tolerates 20-somethings in yellow tartan.

The date to save for the big bash is July 1st. (Though the party was actually formed on July 23rd 1921, in a fortnight-long congress that started in the French concession of Shanghai and ended on a tourist boat on Nanhu, a lake in the nearby city of Jiaxing.) Medals will be pinned on long-serving members. President Xi Jinping will orate. A mass wedding will give couples a chance to tie the knot with the ccp as well as with each other.

anorak

Line breaks: ano¦rak
Pronunciation: /ˈanərak/

Definition of anorak in English:
NOUN

1A waterproof jacket, typically with a hood, of a kind originally used in polar regions.

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2 British informal , derogatory A studious or obsessive person with unfashionable and largely solitary interests:with his thick specs, shabby shoes, and grey suit, he looks a bit of an anorak

"Anorak" /ˈænəræk/ is a British slang term which refers to a person who has a very strong interest, perhaps obsessive, in niche subjects. This interest may be unacknowledged or not understood by the general public. The term is sometimes used synonymously with "geek" or "nerd", the Spanish term "friki", or the Japanese term "otaku", albeit referring to different niches.

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• 1Etymology
• 2Examples of use
• 3Background
• 4References
  
  

Origin

1920s: from Greenlandic anoraq. The British English informal sense dates from the 1980s and derives from the anoraks worn by trainspotters, regarded as typifying this kind of person.

ecocide

 If ecocide becomes an international crime, it will mark a turning-point in how the relationship between humans and the natural world is understood

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Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction

"But there’s a calculus I make in my head whenever I begin pursuing a story that requires scraping: 'Is this story worth going to prison for?'"



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Web scraping is a tool, not a crime
As a reporter who can code, I can easily collect information from website

Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. The web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. While web scraping can be done manually by a software user, the term typically refers to automated processes implemented using a bot or web crawler. It is a form of copying in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis.

Web scraping a web page involves fetching it and extracting from it. Fetching is the downloading of a page (which a browser does when a user views a page). Therefore, web crawling is a main component of web scraping, to fetch pages for later processing. Once fetched, then extraction can take place. The content of a page may be parsed, searched, reformatted, its data copied into a spreadsheet, and so on. Web scrapers typically take something out of a page, to make use of it for another purpose somewhere else. An example would be to find and copy names and telephone numbers, or companies and their URLs, to a list (contact scraping).

Web scraping is used for contact scraping, and as a component of applications used for web indexing, web mining and data mining, online price change monitoring and price comparison, product review scraping (to watch the competition), gathering real estate listings, weather data monitoring, website change detection, research, tracking online presence and reputation, web mashup and, web data integration.

Web pages are built using text-based mark-up languages (HTML and XHTML), and frequently contain a wealth of useful data in text form. However, most web pages are designed for human end-users and not for ease of automated use. As a result, specialized tools and software have been developed to facilitate the scraping of web pages.

Newer forms of web scraping involve listening to data feeds from web servers. For example, JSON is commonly used as a transport storage mechanism between the client and the web server.

There are methods that some websites use to prevent web scraping, such as detecting and disallowing bots from crawling (viewing) their pages. In response, there are web scraping systems that rely on using techniques in DOM parsing, computer vision and natural language processing to simulate human browsing to enable gathering web page content for offline parsing.

Contents

• 1History
• 2Techniques
  • 2.1Human copy-and-paste
  • 2.2Text pattern matching
  • 2.3HTTP programming
  • 2.4HTML parsing
  • 2.5DOM parsing
  • 2.6Vertical aggregation
  • 2.7Semantic annotation recognizing
  • 2.8Computer vision web-page analysis
• 3Software
• 4Legal issues
  • 4.1United States
  • 4.2The EU
  • 4.3Australia
  • 4.4India
• 5Methods to prevent web scraping
• 6See also
• 7References
  
  

Anglosphere

 Anglosphere這個詞是由美國科幻作家尼爾·史提芬森在他的書《鑽石年代》（1995年出版）中創造出的，但是最初並沒有詳細定義。 ^[1] 《韋氏字典》將其定義為「這個世界上英語語言及文化主宰的國家」。^[2] 《簡短牛津英語字典》的定義則是「英語是主要的本國語言的國家群」^[3]

Just published: front page of the Financial Times, international edition, Tuesday 9 February https://on.ft.com/36XqkEa