The US uses Falun Gong as one of their many propaganda operations against China. They even gave Falun Gong their own entire town in New York to build their cult city in: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Springs

Here’s the original article: https://nypost.com/2024/04/27/us-news/nyu-professor-says-hamas-loving-students-need-to-have-more-sex/

Somehow, he makes an even worse take one paragraph down. Scott thinks these protests against Zionism will lead to the rise of Nazism again, and blames the original rise of Nazism on socialists in Germany in the 1930s.

Quote:

Galloway said American society would not survive if its people could not rally behind noble causes — adding that much of what he was seeing reminded him of the early rise of Hitler.

“It’s easy to poke fun at these kids, but history has a way of repeating itself, and this is how it starts. In ’30s Germany, a progressive community, a thriving gay community, excellent academic institutions. And how it started, was it was fashionable to wear a brown shirt and mock students at the University of Vienna,’ Galloway said.

He seems to think that the socialists turned into Nazis, and not that the Nazis were created by capitalists in reaction to the socialists.

We are already starting to see liberals like Scott co-opt the righteous anger of young people and redirect them toward useless electoralism and antisocialism.

Scott recently made a viral TED talk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEJ4hkpQW8E) where he points out all the problems that young people face, but of course proposes solutions that will never be implemented without changing the political system entirely.

Instead of blaming rich capitalists for squeezing us more, he just blames all old people, and makes sure to also knock affirmative action along the way for “reasons”.

Fighting misdirection from people like this is why we organize and educate.

This pivot against FOSS in the West will just hurt themselves. The strength of FOSS is its huge potential for reach, while its drawback is that it’s harder for FOSS devs to make a living.

In the West, FOSS devs all live on donations. While a few FOSS programs become huge enough to sustain themselves, most fail. Western governments have deliberate policies of not finding much FOSS development, exacerbating this issue.

Socialist countries’ (e.g. China’s) policies of government investment in development invariably leads to more investment in FOSS, providing FOSS developers more stable incomes. For example, China has multiple government-funded Linux OSes (UOS, Kylin, Deepin), OpenHarmony OS, etc.

This will ultimately snowball into more and more FOSS programs, creating a vibrant socialist-developed software ecosystem the developing world can quickly plug into at low-cost.

This article is incredible, he managed to hit every Westoid gotcha in the book. Uyghurs, Rohingya, antisemitism, CRT, blah blah.

We could host leftist bingo sessions crossing off each gotcha.

Kyle’s definitely showing tons of regret today about shooting those protestors /s. He even cried in his trial!

It’s so fucking easy to become a conservative pundit. All you have to do is go to the nearest leftist protest and shoot some people in “self defense.” You do have to be white though.

Soon we will see some crazy Zionist shoot people at an anti-genocide protest and be celebrated for it.

Soylent or Huel?

I certainly hope Iran has nukes by now. They should have learned from North Korea that nukes are the best guarantee of your nation’s future existence. Israel needs someone in the area who can threaten mutual destruction and keep them in check.

This is technically true. China currently only has DUV machines, which don’t have enough resolution to produce 5nm chips directly. Only more advanced EUV machines are able to produce this directly or in one-two patterning steps.

However, China can still produce 5nm chips via multiple patterning. Basically, by overlaying lower resolution patterns offset from one another, you can form higher resolution structures in between the lower-res patterns. By repeating the multi-patterning process, you can “technically” get infinitely small resolutions.

The drawback is that you have to use several more steps. Each step takes more time, reducing throughout, and is a possible area for error. As a result, multi-patterned yields are lower than directly produced yields, and are more expensive as a result.

Thus, the real benefit going from DUV to EUV is reduced costs and increased throughput. Until China gets EUV, multi-patterned DUV is sufficient, since the state is willing to accept higher costs of production and provide subsidies to chipmakers in exchange for self-reliance.

The stumbling block right now is that the tech jump from DUV to EUV is large. DUV (deep ultraviolet light), which has a wavelength around 250nm, can be produced directly via lasers.

On the other hand, EUV (extreme ultraviolet light), which has a wavelength of 13.5nm and is almost an X-ray, cannot currently be produced directly right now. Current machines make it by using a giant laser to zap a molten drop of tin, turning it into a plasma which emits the desired EUV light. In the process, only ~6% of the original laser power is converted to EUV, resulting in an output of around 350 watts.

All in all, it took ~20 years to master this convoluted process. It will take China time to develop this EUV production tech, probably around 5-10 years at most.

In the process, China might be able to leapfrog some lingering issues with the tech. For example, the dogshit conversion efficiency means that a ridiculously large starting laser is needed to produce a paltry amount of EUV light, with the process output capping out around 500 watts.

Instead, China is starting work on oscillating electrons in a particle accelerator to generate EUV light directly, with much higher power output, called steady-state micro-bunching (SSMB). Using SSMB, China can use one accelerator to power dozens of EUV machines, and can scale output to be superior than current EUV machines. China is beginning work on a facility dedicated to SSMB research in Xiong’an this year.

For more info on this stuff, see:

• Asianometry on YouTube
  • Current EUV Lithography
  • EUV with free electron lasers (very similar to SSMB)
• China May Be Constructing EUV Lithography Machines on a Massive Scale by The China Academy

Good point. I’ve been dabbling with Khoj myself, which connects with Obsidian, the Markdown notemaking software I use. This lets the AI draw from my notes on the fly.

I’m waiting to build a PC with the RTX 5090 or something before diving deeper into local AI. The integrated GPU I’m using right now is just too slow.

The test tracks used for launch testing are the same ones cited as “for hyperloop testing” here (notice that the track mentioned in both is built by CASIC in Datong, Shanxi, is 2 km long, and is inside a low-vacuum tube). Space launch is a much more logical use for this kind of technology than rail transport. It’s nice to see that the same equipment can be used for research in such different fields.

This does mean that this track technically isn’t a “railgun”, as it uses magnetic levitation and not the Lorentz force for propulsion.

This isn’t really a significant player in the space yet. This field of local LLM frontends is extremely active right now, with many new projects popping up and user counts shifting around. Here’s a good article that reviews the most prominent ones right now, with rankings for different uses: https://matilabs.ai/2024/02/07/run-llms-locally/

TLDR from the article:

Having tried all of these tools, I find they are trying to solve for a few different problems. So, depending on what you are looking to do, here are my conclusions:

• If you are looking to develop an AI application, and you have a Mac or Linux machine, Ollama is great because it’s very easy to set up, easy to work with, and fast.
• If you are looking to chat locally with documents, GPT4All is the best out of the box solution that is also easy to set up
• If you are looking for advanced control and insight into neural networks and machine learning, as well as the widest range of model support, you should try transformers
• In terms of speed, I think Ollama or llama.cpp are both very fast
• If you are looking to work with a CLI tool, llm is clean and easy to set up
• If you want to use Google Cloud, you should look into localllm
• For native support for roleplay and gaming (adding characters, persistent stories), the best choices are going to be textgen-webui by Oobabooga, and koboldcpp. Alternatively, you can use ollama with custom UIs such as ollama-webui

First the 737 Max debacle, now this shit. Boeing could not provide a better welcome to China’s Comac C919 (which competes directly with the 737 Max line).

The fuck? The KMT lost the civil war, so even based solely on history this should be flipped.

I’m pretty sure waxing pulls at the hair root, which does sometimes damage it and cause the resulting hair to come out weaker than before.

You might have to try waxing. That should murder the hair roots. Laser is definitely the best solution if you’re sure about it.

The Biden campaign also suddenly brought up abortion rights again. They had 4 years to do shit about it and did nothing, so another 4 years will definitely fix it, right?

Next, let me sum up how to pull off this scam. First, buy a couple of commercial dehumidifiers. Next, put the equipment inside them into new, cool-looking equipment boxes. Third, call news stations saying you’ve solved water forever.

This tech is just a reskinned dehumidifier. The scientist Youtuber Thunderf00t has made a number of videos debunking these types of claims. Their issues can be summed up as the following:

• they extract very little water while using a shitton of energy. The amount of energy required to condense water from gas into liquid equals the amount of energy required to boil said water, which is a lot. This is dictated by the laws of physics.
• they work best in humid conditions. These conditions only exist in places where you would ALREADY be able to find water, or when it is right about to rain ( as the natural humidity condenses to form rain clouds), in which case you can just catch and drink that.
• the water they produce is not clean. Do you want to drink the moldy water out of your dehumidifier? Model and bacteria grow on the cold, wet metal fins where the water condenses.

I definitely agree that his views should be critiqued, I just think that we should do so while having productive conversations with said people so that they can become allies

In the above convo, ZephyrFrost could have had an interesting conversation with Darkmatter on the nature of the one-state solution that he tacitly proposes. Instead, Zephyr spends the entire time calling him a ‘genocide denier’ unless he says exactly what Zephyr wants, wrecking the convo and making all of us look bad.

While the positions we take must be principled, the conversations we have with others should be non-confrontational and understanding, so that we can turn them into allies and not enemies. After all, deprogramming capitalist propaganda is a delicate operation.

Darkmatter plays an important role in deconverting fascist evangelical Christians and making them ever even consider leftism, so it’s not like he’s an enemy.

Of course, if someone really wants to “kill all brown people”, there’s no point in having a conversation with fascists.

I think this one quote leaves out some important context on this conversation.

Here’s the full conversation: https://twitter.com/DarkMatter2525/status/1744855281735967130

Darkmatter takes a relatively neutral position (as compared to usual stances in the US):

Hamas needs to be dealt with, but I dislike how Israel is doing it.

I’ve always been against the idea of an ethnostate, regardless of who is doing it.

I’m also against Europeans kicking natives off the land that would become my home, the United States, but there’s no unringing either bell. New generations have been born & raised in both places. Today, it would be just as wrong to remove either.

His dislike of Hamas probably stands from it being a religio-political organization and his atheist stance. He basically seems to support a one-state solution where both ‘Israelis’ and Palestinians are welcome without stating so explicitly, which is not a bad position to take compared to most liberals.

People like him with this position are possible allies, so I don’t think they should be denounced outright.