My weekly digest 29/12/19
Weekly digest, is hopefully a series of weekly(duh) posts, summarizing what I've read during that week
Interesting articles
Putin’s Killers in Europe: How Russian Agents Hunt Down Kremlin Opponents - SPIEGEL ONLINE - International
A secret Russian death squad appears to be killing Moscow’s enemies in the West in an effort to destabilize Europe. Perpetrators with connections to the Russian government appear to be responsible for the slaying of a Georgian national in Berlin. By DER SPIEGEL Staff

It Seemed Like a Popular Chat App. It’s Secretly a Spy Tool.
ToTok, an Emirati messaging app that has been downloaded to millions of phones, is the latest escalation of a digital arms race.

A Science-Based Case for Ending the Porn Epidemic
They say the first step is admitting you have a problem. I think many readers of this article will respond with outrage, and many will see it says things they already knew to be true—and I think these two groups will largely overlap. The most powerful obstacle to confronting a destructive addiction …

China Uses DNA to Map Faces, With Help From the West
Secret speeches and leaked government documents reveal how Chinese officials carried out the systematic internment of as many as a million people.

Funny tweets
“PICK HIM UP!”😂🤣😭💀💀 pic.twitter.com/xZHY3kwR8v
— Rex Chapman🏇🏼 (@RexChapman) December 26, 2019
Gonna tell my kids this was Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi pic.twitter.com/zmER4X67nu
— Murtaza Mohammad Hussain (@MazMHussain) November 24, 2019