Right, and on top of it Huawei is coming up with new ways to arrange transistors with stuff like Tau folding architecture, which combined wtih EUV might actually allow Chinese chip makers to push far ahead of traditional chip designs.

They started destroying bridges across the Dnieper in the south. Where supplies come from Romania.

Amazed it took them this long to finally start cutting supply lines from Europe.

China does not yet have the technology to overtake Taiwan.

China absolutely does have the technology to overtake Taiwan, and if you look at the history of how fast Chinese technology develops, it should be obvious that it’s not going to take long. Look at what happened with solar panels, EVs, batteries, phones, etc. In every case, once China ramped up research and production, they leapfrogged the rest of the world within years. China sees chip production as a national security issue, they will be pouring state level resources into it.

Meanwhile here’s what Stanford has to say about AI https://hai.stanford.edu/news/inside-the-ai-index-12-takeaways-from-the-2026-report

Not only has China basically closed the gap already, but they’re doing it at a tiny fraction of the cost.

Calling a literal quote from Schmidt sensationalist is quite the hot take. Also, if you think technology is separate from politics then grow the fuck up.

He’s unquestionably a hero.

O7

What’s changed now though is that material conditions have deteriorated significantly from 15 years go. People didn’t really have a reason to question the system as long as they could make ends meet and have some hope for the future. Today, a huge chunk of population has been pushed to the brink, and young people have nothing to look forward to. And that creates disillusionment in the system which makes people a lot more aware of what’s happening.

the joy of open source

I mean once China starts pumping stuff in volume, then it has translated into cheap consumer goods historically. I don’t see why this would be different.

it’s really nice to have a decent and user friendly open source app

yup

lol no, I’m simply dismissing you

yeah, seems like getting a daily summary would make more sense

Plenty of tools can be dangerous when used improperly. For example, bleach is very useful for cleaning, but I would advice against drinking it.

What part of my argument is flawed, nothing I said is contrary to your statement.

Reddit does have the advantage of being a single site where search is easy to do in a shared db. Since Mastodon is federated, discoverability is going to be inherently worse as requests have to propagate through the network. But I think that for blogs it’s less of an issue since you tend to follow people for their writing.

In my opinion, Lemmy is already a great replacement for Reddit. So, it makes sense for Mastodon to focus on its core functionality which is blogging, while Lemmy can fill the Reddit niche in the fediverse.

I actually think substack format would be a better fit. It’s already a blogging platform at its core with good discoverability. That’s exactly what sites like substack provide and why they’re popular for blogging. Reddit/Lemmy is more of a news aggregator where people post links and discuss them.

Yeah, I think that’s exactly what happened as well. He was too big of a figure and that created an environment where there were no other strong leaders within the party. So, once he was gone, it created a huge power vacuum and squabbling.

China is actually quite independent from the US, and we have recent conclusive proof of that when Trump tried doing a trade war. Turns out, exports to the US are a tiny part of Chinese economy now. And I don’t know why you think China needs microchips from Taiwan when they have chip production entirely on the mainland. I think you need to spend a bit of time to actually research this subject because you’re very much misinformed here. https://www.huawei.com/en/news/2026/5/ieee-iscas-tau-scaling

by the way https://xcancel.com/upholdreality/status/2067629274765394368

I don’t think anybody takes what Trump says seriously at this point. He’ll say one thing than another, it literally changes day to day. What matters is that the US is exhausted now. They just lost a major war against Iran, their weapons stocks are depleted, and China has them by the balls. So, Trump is doing a bit of posturing right now, but it’s not going to translate into anything material because the coffers are empty.

And I can’t see Russia taking out the bridges because it’s almost certain they plan to use them. The goal of the Europeans is to provoke a big reaction right now so they can rally their public. The support for the war is at all time low in Europe right now, so they’re trying to put pressure on Putin to do something big to start scaring people how Russians are coming for them.

Artemov explains everything correctly, and reading his book really helped me see how American propaganda machine works a lot more clearly. The direct inspiration from the nazis and the evolution of the narrative was very interesting to read about as well.

sure kiddo