Gongol.com Archives: October 2019

Brian Gongol


October 26, 2019

Threats and Hazards Human rights are universal, whether China's authoritarians belive it or not

A meeting with the EU surfaced an opinion that, as a matter of government policy, China does not believe in the universality of human rights. Nothing about this story is surprising, and yet everything about it is disturbing.

Computers and the Internet 10.5 petabytes

The Internet Archive just got a whole bunch of new storage space, as well as the pictures to prove it. This is storage on a scale that would have baffled the prehistoric residents of ancient Compuserve.

News Brace yourself

Stand by: We are merely a few dozen days away from the onset of a year's worth of insufferable puns about "vision" and "seeing clearly"


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