Heard his video on Xinjiang though?

Same. I also still have my placenta and even though my umbilical cord has long ago withered and fallen off, I keep it with me just in case.

I’m sure this would still have worked without needing to put a giant sign saying “CHINA” (in stereotypical Chinese Takeaway packaging font) on the Great Wall

The guilt of carrying eyewitness testimony incriminating so many of society’s luminaries must have finally been too much for her?

This kind of behaviour in cats can only be resolved by a lifetime of cosy snuggling and head scritches while whispering Langston Hughes poetry to him. Also known as mewlag.

Humans all over the global South will sleep just a little easier.

I think it’s a type of dinosaur? Short for allosaurus.

I have no idea either. Anyway, enjoy getting downvoted for not being completely up-to-date with Western idpol I guess.

Yeah. Whenever I teach newspaper reading to students I go into local digital archives and grab an article from the day 100 years ago. At first I thought it would just be interesting for students to see a snapshot of their city in the past, but the articles back then were just generally shorter and more information-dense.

Their articles are often a lot shorter, too. A lot of their press releases just state the facts, the actual news. No colouring, no editorialising, no agenda. Sometimes just a couple paragraphs.

It’s interesting to compare it to English-language newspaper archives from 100 years ago, before Western Media got weaponized.

It’s the same neural network technology, yes, and a different application, yes. But the generative applications require much more complex neural networks and push the same technology a lot further in ways that have affected more traditional uses of neural networks as well.

manufacturing consent

It’s a disruptive new technology that disrupt an industry that already has trouble giving a living to people in the western world.

Yes, and the solution to the new trouble is exactly the same as the solution to the old trouble, but good luck trying to tell that to liberals when they have a new tree to bark up.

The messaging from the anti-generative-AI people is very confused and self-contradictory. They have legitimate concerns, but when the people who say “AI art is trash, it’s not even art” also say “AI art is stealing our jobs”…what?

I think the “AI art is trash” part is wrong. And it’s just a matter of time before its shortcomings (aesthetic consistency, ability to express complexity etc) are overcome.

The push against developing the technology is misdirected effort, as it always is with liberals. It’s just delaying the inevitable. Collective effort should be aimed at affecting who has control of the technology, so that the bourgeoisie can’t use it to impoverish artists even more than they already have. But that understanding is never going to take root in the West because the working class there have been generationally groomed by their bourgeois masters to be slave-brained forever losers.

Trump was Wario all along

I wonder how this will play out in the eyes of the European public if they continue to re-establish and develop ties?

China is not, per its non-interference policy, going to do anything to halt Europe’s descent into fascism. Not on the government policy level, anyway. But if the agreements they start making include an end to the promotion of Sinophobia, people having a unfiltered view of the quality of life in China might have a significant effect on European attitudes.

It is generally agreed that Holt’s disappearance was a simple case of an accidental drowning, but a number of conspiracy theories surfaced, most famously the suggestion that he was a spy for China and had been collected by a Chinese submarine.

Wikipedia never gets old

Breaking News: Iraqi Muslim Doctor Marxist-Leninist has a different view on casual sex than Anglosphere Internet Marxist-Leninists; Anglosphere Internet Marxist-Leninists are compelled to opine that he’s wrong.

That first and second sound exactly like what happened in Hong Kong.

Also remember that a lot of people, including Chinese, are boycotting this movie because of actress Gal Gadot’s pro-Zionist views. That is definitely a good thing.

If I have any criticism to level at Andy’s video, it’s that he didn’t mention this. The rest of his piece I feel in agreement with.