I’m going to repeat this again, we have concrete and irrefutable proof that China is no longer dependent on the west. China was completely unaffected by Trump’s 140% tariffs which basically amounted to cutting off trade, and just now we saw that China is similarly unaffected by global oil disruption. The reality is that the world has changed, and developing economies are growing rapidly while the west is in an accelerating decline. The west isn’t the centre of global economic gravity anymore.

Outside Crimea, the shortages seem to be more a result of panic buying than anything else given that export volumes haven’t been affected. There is going to be a lot of pressure on Putin to do some major retaliation now though, and this time he might have to.

Even though they can force people to fight by dehumanizing them, this is not an effective tactic. Notice how Russian advance is accelerating now, and big towns towns like Konstantinovka that used to be fought over really hard are now falling mostly intact. There are no more fights to take very building like what we saw in Artemovsk.

It is absolutely sick what western backed fascists are doing to the people of Ukraine and how people in the west keep cheering for it.

And I think there likely will be a mutiny in the army sooner or later as well. We talked about this a long time go, but the dynamic is that they have to use actual trained and motivated soldiers to do important operations, and each time that happens the ones that are lost can’t be replaced. Russians know this and that’s why towns like Pokrovsk are always used as nazi roach motels. Ukraine has no choice but to defend them to the last because it looks bad to western sponsors when they lose them. So, they can’t just throw mobics there. And that depletes the core of motivated fascists holding the army together. Eventually there will be an inflection point where there just aren’t enough of them and the mobics will start taking revenge for all the abuse they suffered.

Also, when they flee to the west that’s when things are going to get really bad for Europe. They’ve already been smuggling a lot of weapons into Europe and establishing links with fascists there. Once you have a whole bunch of hardened, trained, and well armed fash running around, Europe might start looking a lot like Syria at that point.

Seems like what Russia is going to do is take Slavyansk and Kramatorsk at which point they will control all of Donbas and there’s going to be a big panic in the west. I personally agree with the analysis here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xgcv0PiLJTY

Basically, Russia is winning and right now situation is under control. Any type of escalation will introduce uncertainty, so there is little point to gamble by doing that.

It seems like Europe is better than the US, but also far behind China https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Waste_statistics_-_recycling_of_batteries_and_accumulators

Just spyware doing spyware things here.

the whole point here is that it’s fun to make though

Could be useful for minimally invasive surgery since the gripper’s small size and ability to operate through channels narrower than 300 micrometers make it ideal for delicate surgical procedures. Single cell biology research would be another since the device can grasp, transport, and release individual human cancer cells without damaging them. Potentially could enable microscale assembly and manufacturing. The team demonstrated the ability to assemble miniature mechanical components like bearings and gearboxes with micrometer precision. Drug delivery and targeted therapy would be another interesting use.

ah sorry, Poe’s law

yeah, better late than never as the saying goes

China’s LineShine supercomputer has dethroned El Capitan as the world’s number one supercomputer, going straight to the top of the charts after the National Supercomputer Center in Shenzhen (NSCS) submitted its results.

indeed

To be fair, is there any other way to be a NATO fan though…

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looks like I made eurofash mad again 🤣

Sure, I’m not arguing there isn’t a gap currently. I just don’t see the gap as being consequential in any way that matters already.

It seems like Tau architecture might close the performance gap even without EUV though. Similarly Huawei managed to get clever with optical connections in their Ascend clusters to actually outperform NVIDIA for AI training. https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3315068/how-huaweis-ascend-ai-chips-outperform-nvidia-processors-running-deepseeks-r1-model

So, the gap really isn’t that big in practice. Also worth noting that software side plays just as much role here as well. Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS, and even Linux all have a lot of legacy decisions baked into them for backwards compatibility needed to support existing software. Huawei building a fresh stack on top of HarmonyOS allows them to make a much leaner stack that’s not saddled with all the prior baggage. And that can make overall user experience a lot better even on slower hardware. Modern software is incredibly bloated, and addressing the bloat is a low hanging fruit that can be plucked right now without the need for EUV machines. The benefits will stack with faster chips as well just the same way Tau will stack with EUV.

In a way, decoupling from Western tech stack could actually provide a lot of benefits because it opens up the way for doing things differently without having to worry about the way existing legacy stack works.

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.

oh and here’s how relations between China and the west are actually like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVOS6RVr6H0

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.