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On this day, 30 September 2014, Xu Lizhi, a poet and rural migrant who worked at the Foxconn factory in Shenzhen, China, died by suicide at the age of 24. He published poems in the factory newsletter, and on his website, which some friends of ours translated. This is one example:
“The paper before my eyes fades yellow/With a steel pen I chisel on it uneven black/Full of working words/Workshop, assembly line, machine, work card, overtime, wages…/They’ve trained me to become docile/Don’t know how to shout or rebel/How to complain or denounce/Only how to silently suffer exhaustion/When I first set foot in this place/I hoped only for that grey pay slip on the tenth of each month/To grant me some belated solace/For this I had to grind away my corners, grind away my words/Refuse to skip work, refuse sick leave, refuse leave for private reasons/Refuse to be late, refuse to leave early/By the assembly line I stood straight like iron, hands like flight,/How many days, how many nights/Did I - just like that - standing fall asleep?”
You can read an obituary and more translations of his poems here: https://libcom.org/blog/xulizhi-foxconn-suicide-poetry https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/2095168197334986/?type=3

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Webb, Hubble Capture Detailed Views of DART Impact | NASA
First: This animated GIF combines three of the images NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope captured after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally impacted Dimorphos, a moonlet asteroid in the double asteroid system of Didymos. The animation spans from 22 minutes after impact to 8.2 hours after the collision took place. As a result of the impact, the brightness of the Didymos-Dimorphos system increased by 3 times. The brightness also appears to hold fairly steady, even eight hours after impact.
Second: This animation, a timelapse of images from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, covers the time spanning just before impact at 7:14 p.m. EDT, Sept. 26, through 5 hours post-impact. Plumes of material from a compact core appear as wisps streaming away from where the impact took place. An area of rapid, extreme brightening is also visible in the animation.
Third: These images from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, taken (left to right) 22 minutes, 5 hours, and 8.2 hours after NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) intentionally impacted Dimorphos, show expanding plumes of ejecta from the asteroid’s body. The Hubble images show ejecta from the impact that appear as rays stretching out from the body of the asteroid. The bolder, fanned-out spike of ejecta to the left of the asteroid is in the general direction from which DART approached. These observations, when combined with data from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, will allow scientists to gain knowledge about the nature of the surface of Dimorphos, how much material was ejected by the collision, how fast it was ejected, and the distribution of particle sizes in the expanding dust cloud.