When life imitates art https://rifters.com/real/shorts/PeterWatts_Malak.pdf
This is one of the big advantages of using open platforms that operate over a common protocol. Commercial companies are engaged in a zero sum game fighting for users, so they want to create silos for their content. On the other hand, Fediverse is a positive sum game where all the platforms benefit from users being able to see content from other platforms.
this same Ukraine? https://twitter.com/paulius60/status/1611148483859255296
People in the west are getting increasingly salty seeing China outpace the west in science and technology. After decades of being told that China isn’t able to innovate and it’s just stealing western tech the fact that China is rapidly outpacing the west technologically is a hard pill for them to swallow.
The reality is that everybody knows that US bans Chinese companies in order to hobble China technologically and economically. US officials say this openly. China is retaliating in kind now and turns out US can dish it out but can’t take it. At the end of the day US can’t dictate to China what technology China will use or what companies they will work with. Deciding that is China’s sovereign right.
If you just need a file sharing solution then something like SparkleShare might be a good option https://www.sparkleshare.org/
Sounds like China’s had enough shit from US at this point. Likely China is also calculating that they’ve decoupled their economy sufficiently that they’re not worried about economic war from the west at this point. That would explain why China’s become a lot more assertive than they used to be this year.
Kinda, there was also similar idea in Hungary with goulash communism. Seems like China managed to make the concept work the best though.
it’s the result of the selection pressures inherent in the capitalist system because profitability is the sole fitness function that the company is evaluated on. Capitalism rewards psychopathic behaviour since people have to be willing to exploit others to become successful. Anybody who would try to run an ethical company would quickly find it impossible to compete with business owners who are willing to brutally exploit their workers.
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These findings have major implications for understanding the ‘Euromaidan’ and the origins of the violent conflict in Ukraine and the conflicts between Russia and Ukraine and between Russia and the West. This false-flag massacre led to the de facto Western-backed violent overthrow of the Ukrainian government, which spiraled into the annexation of Crimea by Russia, the civil war, and Russian military interventions in Donbas.
Ah yes, the same tech that killed over a thousand animals in horrific ways just recently is going to be implanted in humans. What could possibly go wrong.
What’s really wild is that two-thirds of Americans who file for bankruptcy cite medical issues as a key contributor to their financial downfall. The “richest” country in the world.
about that https://archive.ph/f29cb
I got into nature photography a few years ago, and it’s been a really fun hobby. It gets me out of the house, and I’ve discovered a lot of local wild life that I didn’t know about. I post some pictures here.
Yup, US has been running around and trying to get all its vassals to stop selling chips to China.