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If New Yorkers are unflappable, impervious and stoic on the sidewalk, we are raging, delighted, terrified, dancing, sobbing messes in the subway tunnels. How unsurprising, then, that the subway should be a pool of our collective pain amid the pandemic.
Opinion | I Treasure the Life I Live in the Subway. And I Am Afraid of Losing It.
nytimes.com
These new, young players had novel ideas for how to play classic Tetris more efficiently. Before the 2020 CTWC, Christopher “Cheez” Martinez told Saelee that he had something in the works. It was a new method of playing classic Tetris that he called “rolling.” Instead of hypertapping, which was rather difficult to learn and punishing on the body, Martinez’s new method of rolling involved drumming his fingers on the back of the NES controller, putting pressure on the buttons on the other side.
Teens Are Rewriting What Is Possible in the World of Competitive Tetris
polygon.com
The first intra-Party conflict to be fought through the press occurred in the mid-1950s, when Mao was eager to harness the wave of popular enthusiasm that had emerged with the new nation’s founding to drive through a rapid industrialization plan. The Party apparatus was opposed to this idea. In its capacity as the Party’s mouthpiece, People’s Daily published an article expounding the need to “oppose impetuosity and adventurism” and set targets that were in accord with China’s objective conditions (quoted in Cheek 1997, 172). Provoked by this and other signs of his increasing marginalization within the Party, Mao began to advocate the famous Hundred Flowers policy, which invited intellectuals and writers to publicly criticize the Party’s bureaucratism (MacFarquhar 1974). Still controlled by the Party apparatus, however, People’s Daily adopted a lukewarm approach to reporting on Mao’s efforts and even published an article arguing against the Hundred Flowers policy. Although Mao immediately criticized this article, People’s Daily did not report either on his response to it or on his efforts to further promote and expand the campaign. Blocked from conveying his views to the masses, Mao became openly irate and hostile to the newspaper and its editor-in-chief, Deng Tuo. Mao exerted the weight of his status as the Party’s charismatic helmsman to personally remove Deng from his editorship, and overrode the objections of the Party bureaucrats to have the Hundred Flowers movement scaled up to a major Party rectification campaign.
The Currency of Truth
Emily H. C. Chua
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