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[Pavlou's dog @DoggoPavlou]

Wondering how Dexter would respond to the Epstein files..

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This is the biggest irony of the whole Alice Huang / Nvidia saga: the Chinese government actually doesn't want Nvidia chips and is actively keeping them out of the country.

Last year it even ordered Alibaba and ByteDance to cancel their Nvidia orders (https://t.co/T4ZMand2BD) and sent customs teams to the ports to check every advanced chip coming in (https://t.co/UFPerK7Cgp).

And right now 600,000 Nvidia H200s are stuck in Hong Kong because Beijing won’t let them into the country (https://t.co/epimhGPQYq)👇

Nvidia also explicitly frames this as a threat to its business in its latest annual report to the SEC: "The Chinese government has encouraged customers to purchase from our China-based competitors and discouraged customers from purchasing, importing, or using our data center products" (https://t.co/TQVwWuix83).

Why does China do that? Because every Nvidia chip a Chinese company buys is one that Huawei or Cambricon doesn’t sell, and domestic chips can only catch up if people actually buy them (which means money for R&D, etc.).

Which means that the notion that Chinese intelligence was running honeytraps to get more Nvidia chips into China gets the whole thing exactly backwards.

In fact, it looks like Megaspeed - Alice Huang's company - was a counter-reaction to official Chinese policy: a private sector workaround to these efforts by the Chinese government to curtail Nvidia.

As was widely reported - including by Western media - Megaspeed built data centers in Southeast Asia and rented their computing power to Alibaba, which the New York Times called "a backdoor way of getting access" to Nvidia chips (https://t.co/tu9Re4WdzM).

That is a backdoor not only - allegedly - around Washington’s export controls, but also around China's own efforts to wean its companies off Nvidia.

I can’t believe the Chinese government was too thrilled about it: it'd make just about zero sense for it to run countless domestic measures to prevent Alibaba from using Nvidia chips, yet at the same time have its top spy agency help the same Alibaba get Nvidia chips through the back door in Southeast Asia 🤷

At the end of the day, as with all such stories, you always need to look at "cui bono?": who benefits? Who benefitted is pretty clear:

- Nvidia itself: it's in the business of selling chips so a customer willing to spend billions of dollars on chips in Southeast Asia is a godsend. Again, as they themselves state in their SEC filings, not being able to tap into Chinese demand would have "a material and adverse impact on our business" (https://t.co/TQVwWuix83).

- Chinese companies like Alibaba: facts are, 1) Chinese chips haven't yet caught up, 2) Chinese chip companies' production capabilities are still limited and 3) Chinese tech firms' historical tech stack runs on Nvidia’s CUDA ecosystem, and rewriting years of code for Huawei chips is painful. Renting Nvidia chips in Southeast Asia is the easy way to stay competitive and serve customer demand in the meantime.

- The US, according to core members of the Trump administration: back in July last year, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick explained that the point of letting Nvidia sell more chips to China was to get Chinese developers "addicted to the American technology stack" (https://t.co/WpaKkS6gOG).

Who does NOT benefit, according to official Chinese policy, is the Chinese state, which has made tech self-reliance one of its foremost priorities.

Which means that, to believe the spy story, you have to believe that a person - Alice Huang - was effectively a spy paid by her own government while simultaneously sabotaging its tech self-reliance drive, which it has spent years and trillions of dollars on - pretty senseless.

Stranger things have happened, I guess, but it doesn't pass the smell test.

And there is another absolutely major contradiction in the media story. According to a Financial Times article published yesterday (https://t.co/7q1UEaUR4y), "a person who knows [Alice Huang] said they had been asked by MSS for information about her earlier this year after news emerged that Singapore was investigating the company in relation to chip-smuggling allegations. The agency wanted to find out more information about Huang, including the nature of her business and connections, the person said."

Which raises a damn obvious question: if she were indeed an MSS asset, why on earth would the MSS need to ask the people around her who she was and the nature of her business?

It's a complete contradiction with the spy story - but very much not a contradiction with what I described above: a private businesswoman running a workaround to Beijing’s own policy, which the Chinese security apparatus would naturally want to look into.

Especially since, around about the same time, Shanghai police detained her business partner, reportedly her husband, in a stock manipulation case (https://t.co/KXimvioTTd): also coherent with Chinese authorities looking into her network, and much harder to square with her being a prized MSS asset.

And, to top it all, there is - to this day - not a shred of evidence that's been published that she is, in fact, a Chinese spy: just anonymous intelligence officials, repeated by journalists who never verified it, as I detailed here (https://t.co/loSwtoVrqr) and here (https://t.co/fIWGMIF3Cr) with one of the key FT journalists on this story actually admitting that he has no idea what evidence US intelligence actually has.

So the claim went to print without anyone seeing the evidence, without anyone being able to check it, and without anyone knowing whether it even exists.

And given everything above, from Beijing blocking the very chips she was supposedly recruited to help get into China, to the MSS asking around about her, to her partner being detained in Shanghai, my bet is that the evidence doesn’t exist at all. If anything, everything we can check points the other way.

[chimera @chimeraxmachina]

New technologies increase productivity, but you don't get a shorter work day. Lifespans increase, but the retirement age gets pushed back. Under capitalism, every advancement just leads to further exploitation.

[Esha K @eshaLegal]

A museum in London removes the only item not stolen from their colonies.

[Pavlou's dog @DoggoPavlou]

@guylerer #ThisIsIsrael

[Nick Schadegg @nickschadegg]

Drew tricks BRS into hiring him as his defence lawyer because he technically “studied law for nine years” and then during the trial he compares his client to a guy who undeniably murdered a dozen POWs in the boer war

[Pavlou's dog @DoggoPavlou]

@Arsenal_N10 We're by far the most boring team the world has ever seen 🍾🏆

[liam cunningham @liamcunningham1]

An IDF statement issued yesterday stated a 14 year old boy was shot dead in the West Bank on Monday, because he planned to throw stones at them. Not threw stones, PLANNED, to throw stones.
This is Zionism.

[Rathbone @_rathbone]

The very politicians we are celebrating for a victory over Trump are the same ones who shoehorned historic amounts of weapons and money through Congress to Israel for over a year in the commission of their (our) genocide.

Hakeem “Israel Today, Israel Tomorrow, Israel Forever” Jeffries is now Speaker of the House.

Chuck “Shomer Shabbas Protector of Israel” Schumer is now Senate Majority Leader.

The Zionist donor class controls both parties! AIPAC still controls Congress. Nothing will materially change: more death, war and austerity for everyone.

To the extent that Democrats oppose war with Iran, it is because it diverts money and weapons that could be used to fight Russia! This is madness.

PS. You’re not getting healthcare. They’re not canceling your debt. Your debt is the only thing that sustains them: why would they give that up?

Did you notice how easily Trump accepted the results? They’ve been planning for this. His handlers have ordered him not to make a big thing about it. This is about ceding a bit of ground to placate the public so the long-term ponzi scheme can continue.

Don’t worry, they’ll claw back the gains in due time.

So long as Wall St. bankers are in charge, there will always be loopholes, there will always be sabotage. That’s why they hedge their bets. They staff Congress, the Judiciary, the Executive, the Treasury, the Federal Reserve, etc. They lobby the bills, they write the tax code. They vet both parties. And they only elevate the ones they control. They’ve captured all regulatory agencies, oversight committees, think tanks, etc. At least be real with what you’re up against.

Our entire economy is one big kill chain.

Democrats may have been more discrete than Trump; they may have been more Machiavellian in their rhetoric. And this is why they are more harmful. They deserve none of our praise and all of our distrust.

I listen to many well-known political commenters and it is appalling how willfully they dupe themselves and their audience into believing a convenient lie just because it makes them money. How disrespectful it is to all the people the Democrat party has killed, maimed, starved and displaced.

It’s even more ridiculous considering the Democrats have been campaigning on the same promises since 2003 (as in the case with Medicare for all).

The real heroes are the Palestinians, the Iranians, the Yemenis, the Lebanese and many others who paid with their blood to wake Americans up to the homegrown rot that is our political state.

And what will we do with this newfound consciousness?

[Scott Marsh @Scottie_marsh]

A leader who promises to Make America Great Again is so subservient to a foreign ‘ally’ that he is willing to act against his own interests and the interest of his nation…
#bibigotthefiles

[Jshiesty Deity @DeityJshie52138]

But we get in trouble for pointing out what they say.

[van00sa @van00sa]

The cost of living in Australia is atrocious. Ive come out for lunch with a friend and couldn’t believe how expensive it was:

- uber $22
- steak $30
- glass of wine $12
- bag of cocaine $350
- punt on the races $3000

Imagine the cost for a whole family

[Scott Marsh @Scottie_marsh]

In May 2025, I painted a mural of Donald Trump titled The Host. The mural was an image if Donald Trump, dressed as Uncle Sam with the Israeli flag in his eyes.

The work was a commentary on how US politics and foreign policy have been co-opted by Israel.

Shortly after its completion, police were called to the mural, a campaign was launched to pressure @innerwestcouncil into removing it (which they did), and I began receiving legal letters.

What followed was a lengthy legal process in which the complainant sought orders from the Tribunal requiring me to:

1. I create a new mural that apologised for the original mural, and that this mural had to be in the same place as the old mural;
2. I had to post photos of the mural apology and post it on my Instagram page;
3. I had to write a letter of apology to the President of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, and prescribed what he wanted me to write in that letter;
4. I pay $10,000 + revenue made on the sale of posters of the mural in equal parts to several Jewish fundraisers; and
5. I was to attend the Sydney Jewish Museum and undertake specific case studies.

After more than a year, I’ve finally put that legal process behind me.

This is yet another in a growing list of attempts to silence and censor my artwork critical of Israel.

Long story short, it didn’t work. 👊

I owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Jen Robinson, Danielle, Michael and Lauren at Marque Lawyers, and Oshie Fagir.

You are absolute lifesavers ❤️🙏💪

[Husk @huskirl]

Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen

[Anthony @Catholicizm1]

This is an amazing clip. The terror once she realizes she was live.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israeli journalist: "You are both first time voters. What are you voting based on?"

Israeli voter 1: "I don't want there to be Arabs in the county."

Israel voter 2: "Me neither."

Background: 56% of Israeli Jews want to expel all 2M Palestinian citizens of Israel, and 82% of Israeli Jews want to expel all Palestinains in Gaza to other countries. https://t.co/x8ScSHV6wb

Turns out, for some voters, it is the only issue they care about: creating an Palestinianrein Israel the same way the Nazis created a Judenrein Germany.

source: https://t.co/9tOIu9MSGB

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

Meet Israel's new Knesset members🧵

Moshe Feiglin: "As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza"

"Every child, every baby in Gaza is an enemy"

[Afshin Rattansi @afshinrattansi]

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov🇷🇺:

‘Over the past 500 years, all tragedies in the world originated in Europe or occurred owing to European policies: colonisation, the Crusades, the Crimean War, Napoleon, WW1, Hitler…’

After 300 years of slaughtering the peoples of the world and plundering the wealth of the global south to build the cities of Europe…

Their empires crumbled in 1945. Since then, all they have had to offer the world is neocolonialism, uncritical vassalage to the United States, and now face being an afterthought and an irrelevance.

Instead of recognising a new world exists where neocolonialism will not be tolerated, and prioritising economic rejuvenation via engagement with the rising powers of the 21st Century…

Europe instead decides to invest its remaining and dwindling fortunes into the military-industrial complex to fight a war against Russia which none of their populations are remotely interested in…while the rest of the civilised world invests in trade and development.

Europe had a last chance to look to the future, and instead violently jerked their heads 180 degrees back to the past.

[Julian Assange @JulianAssange]

Lula versus Bolsonaro: Passei 1.901 dias em confinamento solitário por revelar a verdade sobre os assassinatos e a espionagem do governo dos EUA, inclusive contra o Brasil e suas indústrias. Lula, fora do poder, lutou pela minha liberdade. Lula, no poder, discutiu minha perseguição com o papa Francisco, que decidiu se encontrar com minha família e ajudar. Depois da minha libertação, Lula e eu nos encontramos em Roma para lamentar a morte do Santo Padre. Lula foi gentil com meus filhos e não pediu nada em troca. Em contraste, Jair e Flávio Bolsonaro nada fizeram e nada disseram. Sem a capacidade de dizer não a Washington e a Tel Aviv, não pode haver política interna, apenas ordens estrangeiras. Essas instruções são sempre as mesmas: “Ampliem nosso roubo de recursos e salários e calem a boca sobre nós assassinarmos crianças”. Os entreguistas entregarão tudo em troca de uma fatia, até a própria língua.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. https://t.co/8AyV60gg1X