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What the database actually shows is how politics bends Chinese science, making it untrustworthy, and infecting everything it touches with its lust for conquest.

extraordinary, contemptible cowardice from @sheffieldhallamuni.bsky.social , directed against one of their own staff on behalf of the Chinese government.

WIRED headline reads: Trump's FBI pick Kash Patel Took Up to $5M in Stock from Chinese Ecommerce Giant Shein

$5M in Shein stock is crazy. to put it in perspective, a child would have to work three billion hours in a Shein factory to earn a 1/10000th of this

What is the likelihood that the cars would be bricked if the company were to collapse? Are there laws mandating a continuous operations of the needed servers for a pre-defined duration so that people can use their cars for an economically sound number of years?

This Is How Tesla Will Die The vultures are circling the tech giant.

Interesting piece: if Tesla collapses Musk’s entire empire could come crashing down because of the way he’s structured the companies’ finances.

Social media inaction is directly enabling the war atrocities in Sudan. An RSF commander who was filmed multiple times executing civilians in videos shared online has an active account in TikToK where he boasts about and celebrates his actions.

The bigger ones would probably go for long-range missions.
Wondering how they can handle underwater long distance Machine to Machine communications, which usually require a significant amount of bandwidth.

I’ve been giving talks on this topic to naval audiences since the earliest indications. My predictions/warnings are coming true. I don’t think many took it seriously, and now it’s likely too late

Scientists? Everyone opposes this except the tech bruh nutter who came up with this.

AI-led growth in data centres is fuelling global rush towards gas turbines
• In US roughly half of electricity that data centres consume comes from natural gas
• By 2030 global data centres’ electricity use could reach equivalent to Japan’s power consumption today

Today is Netfix premier day for "A House of Dynamite." Here's what I wrote about it (and why you should see it)

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

a16z-Backed Startup Sells Thousands of ‘Synthetic Influencers’ to Manipulate Social Media as a Service Andreessen Horowitz is funding a company that clearly violates the inauthentic behavior policies of every major social media platform.

So an a16z-backed startup called Doublespeed promises clients can “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.”

It's basically a spam operation then

www.404media.co/a16z-backed-...

Russia’s ‘human safari’ in southern Ukraine is a warning to the world Russia's escalating campaign of drone attacks on the civilian population of Ukraine's Kherson region highlights the destructive power of modern drone technologies, writes Oleksandr Tolokonnikov.

“For local residents, Russia’s human safari has made sudden death from above an everyday fact of life. During the first nine months of 2025, more than a hundred people were killed and over one thousand were wounded in drone attacks.”

www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrain...

La France est le second marché d'Airbnb, après les États-Unis.
Pensez-y quand vous réserverez vos vacances.
Poke @slpng-giants-fr.bsky.social @slpng-giants-fr-2.bsky.social

A $60 Mod to Meta’s Ray-Bans Disables Its Privacy-Protecting Recording Light Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses usually include an LED that lights up when the user is recording other people. One hobbyist is charging a small fee to disable that light, and has a growing list of customers ar...

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not
www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

Sortie française des Veilleurs de nuit, roman du jeune auteur taïwanais Tiunn Kah-siông, Taiwan Info La traduction française des Veilleurs de nuit, premier roman du jeune auteur taïwanais Tiunn Kah-siông [張嘉祥], sort ce mois-ci aux éditions L’Asiathèque, en France...

Sortie française, chez @asiatheque.bsky.social, des "Veilleurs de nuit", roman du jeune auteur taïwanais Tiunn Kah-siông, traduit par @ggaffric.bsky.social.

Great article/interview overall but for US audiences the (machine translated) takeaway:

Il faut lui dire que l'univers est accidentel, et que rien n'a de sens en soi...

Il est toutefois possible que cela amène d'autres questions ;)

'The Dutch government said it is taking control of Dutch chipmaker Nexperia, which manufactures computer chips for the car and consumer electronics industries, due to worries about the possible transfer of crucial technology to its Chinese parent company, Wingtech.' www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

“The earth has reached its first catastrophic tipping point linked to greenhouse gas emissions, with warm water coral reefs now facing a long-term decline and risking the livelihoods of hundreds of millions of people, according to a new report.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error

Seeing a lot of celebration of this as a win.

But at NIH we have seen this exact play before.

It looks like it is the Vought strategy -and to stop the lawless firings we have to see the bigger picture.
A 🧵:

The dumbest possible people are making decisions that are causing incredible reputational harm to the US, and actual harm to its citizens.

Extrait Le Parisien Trump boudé, les États-Unis divisés NOBEL DE LA PAIX | Le président américain est passé à côté du prestigieux prix. L'accord arraché à Gaza est arrivé trop tard et la figure clivante de l'ex-magnat n'a rien arrangé à sa candidature.

Voici la réussite de Trump : réussir à faire considérer l'hypothèse d'un Nobel comme réaliste, alors qu'elle n'est que loufoque, est déjà une ouverture béante de la fenêtre d'Overton.

How Huawei came in from the cold after being blacklisted by the EU The powerful Chinese company is back at one of the bloc’s most influential lobbies, raising questions over its impact on watering down policies aimed at limiting Beijing’s ability to hack key infra…

Lobbying group Solar Power Europe reinstates Huawei after corruption scandal and revises policy paper to no longer clearly point to dangers of relying on Huawei inverters.

Beautiful.

www.politico.eu/article/huaw...

Need a laptop? This retiree refurbishes laptops, gives them away to those in need Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them.

Craig Clark, 79, calls himself the "Tech Fairy." Clark spends his time refurbishing old laptops and giving them away for free to people who need them. n.pr/48ihZvq

China unveils sweeping rare earth export controls to protect ‘national security’ Beijing is leveraging its dominant position in the critical minerals supply chain

FT: Under the new rules, foreign companies will need Chinese government approval to export products that contain even trace amounts of Chinese-sourced rare-earth minerals, or that were manufactured using the country’s rare-earth extraction, refining or magnet-making technology

on.ft.com/4714pdE

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

“‘We must stop expecting carbon offsetting to work at scale,’ said Stephen Lezak, a researcher at the University of Oxford’s Smith School. ‘We have assessed 25 years of evidence and almost everything up until this point has failed.’” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

E-bikes have evolved into e-motorcycles. Law enforcement is lagging behind. Serious injuries are on the rise in emergency rooms around the country, as electric cycles become bigger and faster. Lawmakers and police departments are scrambling to address the problem.

My unpopular urbanist opinion is that big, hyperfast two-wheelers are a menace and should be banned from bike lanes/paths (with enforcement).

These things endanger everyone riding a bike or legal e-bike. Worse, they deter some from even trying.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX Took Money Directly From Chinese Investors, Company Insider Testifies The newly unsealed testimony marks the first time direct Chinese investment in the company has been disclosed, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of America’s most importan...

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese investors, according to previously sealed testimony, raising new questions about foreign ownership interests in one of the United States’ most important military contractors www.propublica.org/article/elon...

Excellente analogie !