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Michael Moritz is in the big club that we ain’t in, so I’m surprised his rag published this.


>BYD unveils battery system that charges EVs in five minutes > ><https://fortune.com/2025/03/17/byd-battery-system-charging-5-minutes-tesla-superchargers/> > >BYD Shares Jump to Record on Five-Minute EV Battery Charging > ><https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/byd-unveils-battery-system-that-charges-an-ev-in-five-minutes> > >Cheap Chinese Cars Are Taking Over Roads From Brazil to South Africa > ><https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-03-17/chinese-carmakers-threaten-ford-gm-stellantis-in-global-markets> > >Tesla Is Flailing in China and BYD’s Rapid Rise Is to Blame > ><https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-09/tesla-is-flailing-in-china-and-the-rapid-rise-of-byd-is-to-blame>
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They rolled out 5G and all we got was this lousy Havana Syndrome.



Are statements made by all countries to be blocked? Should this post from Brazil—which had 22 upvotes and 0 downvotes—have been removed?


Maybe @[email protected] was in the mood to write you a poem, or at least have an LLM write you a poem.


995 work schedule for the techies. The tech oligarchy will never give up their H-1B visa immigrant labor force, because they know they can work them like dogs.



And here I thought HP was stalwartly antidisenshittificationalistic.



The hegemonic liberal conceptualization of free speech is fairly stable, and it’s understood that it doesn’t mean literally all speech. That’s the free speech I mean. But even under that meaning—which is one of the pillars of liberal ideology—neither side is giving it anything but lip service. It’s still only rhetoric to appear to be upholding liberal ideals.


I should go without saying that neither side is the side of free speech, but for speech aligned with their agenda.








I like my games like I like my sex: casual, and over in five minutes.


They would be financially remiss not to seriously consider it.


As if you know communism from a ham sandwich. You and I have already been over this: https://lemm.ee/comment/11869887

Here’s another one, from Michael Parenti’s 1997 Blackshirts and Reds:

But a real socialism, it is argued, would be controlled by the workers themselves through direct participation instead of being run by Leninists, Stalinists, Castroites, or other ill-willed, power-hungry, bureaucratic cabals of evil men who betray revolutions. Unfortunately, this “pure socialism” view is ahistorical and nonfalsifiable; it cannot be tested against the actualities of history. It compares an ideal against an imperfect reality, and the reality comes off a poor second. It imagines what socialism would be like in a world far better than this one, where no strong state structure or security force is required, where none of the value produced by workers needs to be expropriated to rebuild society and defend it from invasion and internal sabotage.

The pure socialists’ ideological anticipations remain untainted by existing practice. They do not explain how the manifold functions of a revolutionary society would be organized, how external attack and internal sabotage would be thwarted, how bureaucracy would be avoided, scarce resources allocated, policy differences settled, priorities set, and production and distribution conducted. Instead, they offer vague statements about how the workers themselves will directly own and control the means of production and will arrive at their own solutions through creative struggle. No surprise then that the pure socialists support every revolution except the ones that succeed.

The pure socialists had a vision of a new society that would create and be created by new people, a society so transformed in its fundaments as to leave little opportunity for wrongful acts, corruption, and criminal abuses of state power. There would be no bureaucracy or self-interested coteries, no ruthless conflicts or hurtful decisions. When the reality proves different and more difficult, some on the Left proceed to condemn the real thing and announce that they “feel betrayed” by this or that revolution.

Ultras fear the scroll.


WHEN YOU DOWNLOAD DEEPSEEK
YOU’RE DOWNLOADING COMMUNISM



That’s a little worrisome as someone trying to transition from 18 years of iOS to GrapheneOS. It may not mean anything in terms of the phone’s continuation, though.


The US has been gunning for that ever since Obama’s “pivot to Asia”.

The terrorist attacks in Xinjiang and the subsequent “Uyghur genocide” narrative and Xinjiang cotton embargo didn’t come out of nowhere. The blueprint of regime change operations



(n.b. the maps are a bit dated, as the US has since pulled out of Afghanistan.)

Forward-defense ring: a perfectly normal and not at all Orwellian term of art.



The bourgeoisie has class solidarity.
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Cutting the cost by 97% will do the opposite of hampering proliferation.


If AI is cheaper, then we may use even more of it, and that would soak up at least some of the slack, though I have no idea how much.


How will DeepSeek affect the business viability of OpenAI?

As an AI assistant, I don’t have access to internal company information. For more details about DeepSeek, please visit the official website.

Don’t be coy, DeepSeek.


I had to read all the way to the bottom to know what the context is: Reddit’s r/antiwork.


Edit to add: Relatedly, r/neoliberal was created by a neoliberal think tank » BPR Interviews: The Neoliberal Project


Edit to also add: Anti-China feds have been spotted on Reddit before: A Reddit AMA Claiming To Be A Uyghur Quickly Exposes A CIA Asset Slandering China


Huh? “The algorithm” is just software. When you quit Excel and then later start Excel, it isn’t any different than it was before.


FYI, we’re considering removing some/most/all Musk 💩, or perhaps creating a Musk containment community.


As the meme implies, stop and think about how to change tactics.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
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What a dog’s breakfast. You’re so fully and completely propagandized that you probably don’t even know you’re being propagandized. If you think Lemmy has bots & bad actors, why don’t you go back to the safety of Reddit’s echo chamber of CIA bots?


What reason do you have to think they are? Who has a motive to suddenly flood RedNote with fake Americans?


This is the funniest thing about it all. ByteDance is mostly an American company with American & Singaporean executives, and the service is run on Oracle cloud services within the United States.


A torrent of Western chauvinist trolls does seem inevitable, if my experience as an Lemmy mod is any indication.