TikTok’s Owner Is ‘A Mouthpiece’ Of Chinese Communist Party : NPR

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New DOJ Filing: TikTok’s Owner Is ‘A Mouthpiece’ Of Chinese Communist Party : NPR

The Trump administration is accusing the chief executive of ByteDance, the owner of video-sharing app TikTok, of being "a mouthpiece" for the Chinese Communist Party and alleging that the tech company has a close relationship with Beijing authorities that endangers the security of Americans.

The Justice Department on Friday night filed the Trump administration's most thorough explanation of its push to ban TikTok in a legal filing in response to TikTok's lawsuit asking a federal judge to stop Trump's ban from taking effect on midnight Sunday.

Colorful Morning at Camp

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With it getting so dark, so early I've been going to bed early. Plus too much drinking makes me sleepy. 🤣

Taken on Saturday September 26, 2020 at Fawn Lake.

String cheese 🧀

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String cheese 🧀

The other day I bought some string cheese at Wally World. I hadn’t had string cheese in years, maybe because too many times as a kid it got kind of warm and the oils worked its way out of it. But I was reading that string cheese is just mozerella cheese and made from real milk and its actually a pretty delicious treat. I don’t like how it is individually wrapped in plastic but I figured I was going to have a fire so as long as I picked up the wrappers and made sure it got burnt it was fine.

414- The Address Book

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414- The Address Book

9/22/20 by Roman Mars

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/112831093
Episode: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/media.blubrry.com/99percentinvisible/dovetail.prxu.org/96/2c99e896-6ced-4d4c-93bc-2c39c8242132/414_The_Address_Book_pt01.mp3

An address is something many people take for granted today, but they are in fact a fairly recent invention that has shaped our cities and taken on great political importance. Deirdre Mask is the author of The Address Book: What Street Addresses Reveal About Identity, Race, Wealth, and Power, which looks at all the ways the world has changed since the popularization of street addresses during the Enlightenment. The book examines how addresses impact wealth and poverty, and how they serve as proxies for our most contentious debates. Mask also explores a digital future where we aren’t reliant on the numbers on our homes to tell us where we are or where we’re going. The Address Book Order The 99% Invisible City

First car at Watch Hill 🗻

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First car at Watch Hill 🗻🍂

This morning at 9:30 I was the first car at the Watch Hill Parking Area on this beautiful autumn morning. While I passed somebody walking their dog on Old Route 30, I haven’t seen another person. While I bet the Snowy Mountain parking lot is packed like much of the high peaks, I’m enjoying the solitude and beautiful views of Snowy Mountain and Lewey and Indian Lakes from this largely wilderness peak, that the state has put a lot of money into promoting and developing trails on but few people ever visit.