A young woman working as a butcher in a Taiwan market inadvertently became a viral star

Vice:

In 2015, then 25-year-old Charlene Zhang was working at her family’s pork stall selling meat when a customer secretly snapped a photo of her. That image was immediately plastered online, with tabloids crowning her Taiwan’s pork princess

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she quickly became one of the most popular Taiwanese livestreamers, and sales skyrocketed. But she was forced to stop when stalkers would show up at the market and try to follow her home. 

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The obsession with Zhang as a beauty icon is not a one-off, but instead part of a larger phenomenon in which photogenic strangers—mostly women—are unknowingly photographed and sexualized online. 

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Women who work at markets are especially vulnerable. “People can just go to the market and find them and take more photos. They can’t refuse. For those girls in the market, they have to just deal with the harassment. They become a landmark,”

"Meet The Murky Russian Network Behind An Anti-Pfizer Disinformation Drive In Europe"

RFERL:

A French investigative news site called Fact & Furious, along with other outlets including The Wall Street Journal, the Associated Press, and The Guardian, reported that French bloggers had received e-mails from a person claiming to work for a marketing firm called Fazze.

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a veteran of political campaigns and event planning for the ruling United Russia party

An interview with the courtroom artist from the Epic vs Apple trial

The Verge interviewed Vicki Behringer (and featured several illustrations): 

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is the one that started this whole case, so I knew his testimony was going to be interesting. I just loved listening to how he started the company and what the game Fortnite is all about. I had no idea. Once again, I realize there is another entire world that I know nothing about. The programming, creativity, and talent it takes to create these games absolutely amazes me.

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Craig Federighi was a wonderful subject with his perfect white hair and dark eyebrows. People with subtle features are far more difficult, but Craig was a joy.

After being exposed by a former employee, "Sustainable meat darling Belcampo admits to mislabeling meat at a Southern California location"

SFChronicle:

Allegations surfaced on social media on Sunday from a former employee claiming that the Santa Monica store was selling non-organic, corn-fed beef and chicken and turkey from other companies as Belcampo products. Word quickly spread, sparking online outrage among fans of a brand with cult favorite status for its highly conscious meat ethics.

Co-founder Anya Fernald said in an emailed statement that the Santa Monica location failed to follow “strict” protocols for sourcing and communicating to customers where non-Belcampo products come from.

LAMagazine:

A former employee of Belcampo Restaurant & Butcher Shop on Wilshire Boulevard posted a series of Instagram stories Sunday from within the restaurant. “They are lying to your face and charging $47.99/lb for Filet that is either USDA choice and corn-fed or from a foreign country,” he writes in a caption overlaying footage of him speaking into the camera as he walks through the kitchen pointing out the mislabeled meat.

Wild drama breaks out a Pennsylvania school board meeting

A board member stopped attending meetings, but it's not clear whether the board member is dead. There's more:

Things grew heated when [the mayor] connected on line to comment. He pointed out the board had the legal right to vacate [the missing member's] seat after he missed two consecutive meetings, giving [the missing member] a chance to respond before filling the seat. Then [the mayor] flatly contended a threat had been made to keep the seat open until after the November election.

“Why has [the board president] or somebody acting on his behalf threatened the employment of a Wyoming Valley Sanitary Authority member to keep the death of their family member a secret to avoid an opening on the board?” [the mayor] asked.

“On the advice of my attorney, that statement is being checked on and you will get an answer on that in time,” [the board president] replied.

Today's funny posts

lafin at peter falk as twilight zone castro pic.twitter.com/Dw7B5ZGDlW

— Josh Sawyer (@jesawyer) May 20, 2021

(The Mirror.)

Grim Pokemon fan fiction; Grimmer story about a Disney art book; Grimmest story about video game development

Gary twists the shrunken Pokeball from his belt and jams it in his opponent’s bubbling mouth, whites of his eyes stained red, cheeks patched with indigo. The defeated trainer shakes as Gary pushes the button, Pokeball expanding, shattering and tearing away ligaments of his jaw.

— SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity) November 18, 2017

We had a Gravity Falls art book all lined up w Dark Horse in 2020, it was going to be amazing, hardcover, filled w exclusive never before seen art. Diz Publishing approved the contract. Then Diz Channel canned it with zero explanation. I still have no idea why. We were all ready https://t.co/B2F33bBWo9

— Alex Hirsch (@_AlexHirsch) May 25, 2021

The crazy thing is, Disney wouldn’t have had to do *any work.* All they had to do was say “sure” & we would have produced it, they’d get free money, fans would get the book & it would help the brand. Zero downside. We gave them a layup and they puked on themselves & passed out

— Alex Hirsch (@_AlexHirsch) May 25, 2021

If it’s any consolation, this year Disney made a GF book without me where all the illustrations were just screencaps and one of them- I kid you not- still had a QuickTime player bar on it. This is a *published book in actual stores* pic.twitter.com/DCCxzaQqEj

— Alex Hirsch (@_AlexHirsch) May 25, 2021

she's gotta be talking about Bioware, and Anthem. Brin and Dax were two Asian women in that game, both looked different and had completely different personalities. https://t.co/3uAndox48E

— gene park (@GenePark) May 26, 2021