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🍉🧉swe at a big AI company.
Pro-multipolarism. Anti-War.

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@BigRockCandyMo2 @JenPerelman24 @cmkshama Adam Smith likes to bomb children and wants to merge our military with that of his genocidal handlers.

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@bkattao @konstructivizm Cope

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This can only end well...

[RT @RT_com]

Mosquito-killing 40-gram drone developed in France

Tornyol is the first-ever drone that is able to distinguish mosquitos from other insects, reach and kill them in the air

Developers say their ultimate target is to ‘completely eradicate mosquitoes from areas where humans live’

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@nixcraft Copied and pasted direct front the Claude code session. It gives line breaks at the terminal width and that carries over to the pasted output.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Have you noticed how the liberal establishment hasn't been nearly as emotional and outraged about Trump's second term as they were about his first? Now that he's the president who bombed Iran, the entire western political/media class is cool with him.

The term "Trump Derangement Syndrome" has always been used by the MAGA crowd as a blanket pejorative to protect the president from criticism, but during Trump's first term it wasn't entirely unfair. You'd see Democrats shrieking their lungs out over Trump doing things that other US presidents did all the time like cozying up with dictators and tyrants. They'd lose their minds over relatively sane things like Trump talking about moving troops out of Syria. The whole Russiagate thing was liberals going bat shit over a crazy conspiracy theory that caused them to push for the escalations against Russia which ultimately gave rise to the war in Ukraine.

We're not seeing any of that in Trump's second term. That extra layer of screeching emotionality simply isn't there. There are no Russiagates or emotional support Maddows this time around. Democrats hate Trump, but they hate him about as much as they'd hate any Republican president. The emotional response to his second presidency is wildly, wildly different from the first.

Which is nuts, because he's quantifiably far worse this time around. His domestic policies are much more tyrannical. He's as evil a warmonger as the White House has ever seen. He's so corrupt that he's just openly admitting to being bought and owned by Zionist oligarchs while making his family a fortune using the power of his office. Now that he doesn't have to worry about re-election, he's being completely nakedly monstrous.

And what's creepy is that's WHY the liberal establishment is so much more mellow about him. They're no longer worried that he's going to promote "isolationist" foreign policy and roll back the US war machine. He went to war with Iran, so they like him now. Because they know he's fully compliant.

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@SunnyMarmalaid Σ'φδσ,μα
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F how about a house?

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@JanErik51430 @quxiaoyin Main problem is that it doesn't regurgitate "See See Pee is evil" as reliably

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@launchallvipers @afshinrattansi Extend that x-axis and you'll see how right you are, that there were absolutely never famines before the change of administration, and the Western world was also very concerned about Chinese famines and didn't sanction or embargo them 👍

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@launchallvipers @afshinrattansi Ah yes. China was famously a rich upper middle class country that never had famines, and it was those communists who went and made everyone poor and invented famines for the first time. Very historically accurate. Good job 👏

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This is the moment Chinese AI beat American AI.

One of the largest public crypto companies in the world just DUMPED OpenAI and Anthropic.

Coinbase switched to open-weight Chinese models from Zhipu and DeepSeek, and shaved nearly 50% off the company's internal AI spending.

The numbers are absolutely ridiculous:

Running the same enterprise workload through Anthropic's Claude costs $4,811. Running it through Zhipu's GLM 5.2 costs $544. That's a 9x price difference for equivalent output.

OpenAI's GPT-5.5 sits in the middle at $3,357. DeepSeek's V4 lands at $1,071. Moonshot's Kimi at $948.

On the actual benchmarks: Zhipu's GLM 5.2 scored 62.1 on SWE-bench Pro, the gold standard for coding. OpenAI's GPT-5.5 scored 58.6.

One AI researcher called GLM 5.2 "at least as good as Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5." Another called it "the first open model that can really compete with closed-source systems."

The Chinese models are not just cheaper but they are now also beating American models on the benchmarks American companies pay $4,811 per workload for.

Coinbase did the math first and reacted - more companies will certainly follow.

Now watch what happens to the IPO timeline:

Anthropic confidentially filed for an IPO targeting October at a $965 billion valuation. OpenAI followed days later with its own confidential filing.

Both companies built their financial models on the assumption that they could keep charging enterprise prices that are 9 to 33x what Chinese competitors charge for the same task.

Brian Armstrong publicly proved customers WILL leave.

45% of companies are now spending over $100,000 per month on AI, up from 20% last year. Every one of those customers is one quarterly budget review away from dumping American AI.

OpenAI has reportedly already started preparing major token price cuts.

Anthropic is expected to follow.

And here's the thing...

The export controls were supposed to CRUSH Chinese AI.

The US government banned American AI chips, restricted model weights, blacklisted Alibaba and Baidu as Chinese military companies, and just banned Anthropic's flagship model from every foreign national on the planet. The entire premise of the American AI valuation bubble is that Washington can keep China two generations behind.

But Chinese labs responded by building cheaper, more efficient models on inferior hardware and pricing them at one ninth the cost of the American alternative.

And now American companies are voting with their checkbooks.

The dominant American labs are valued at nearly $2 trillion combined on the assumption that their pricing power is durable. Coinbase proved it is not, and every customer doing a year-end budget review will be looking at the same math.

For investors, the question here is what happens to the Anthropic IPO at $965 billion when the company is being forced to cut prices to defend share against open-weight Chinese models that score higher on the benchmarks.

For everyone else, the bigger question is what happens when Washington spent four years and billions of dollars trying to contain Chinese AI, and the only thing that actually shifted in the end was American customers.

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@KellMorrHK @Harold__ACP @RockChartrand Then let's do Chinese Capitalism in the United States. I don't care what you call it. Bring it!

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@TIMEX99832797 @MichaelAArouet @WRx450_21 Western GDP also included stuff like online sports betting/polymarket, onlyfans, and all manner of non-productive growth

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

Seven years later, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his wife made their second visit to North Korea.

Most Westerners have never been to North Korea.
They know almost nothing about its people, its education system, its daily life, its history, or how a country survives decades of sanctions, isolation, military pressure, and ideological demonization.

But in their imagination, North Korea already exists as a completed villain template.
Dark.
Backward.
Brainwashed.
Poor.
Disposable.

A cartoon state built for Western moral theater.

China has been placed into the same narrative machine, only on a larger scale.
Not a civilization.
Not a country.
Not 1.4 billion human beings with history, memory, labor, grief, ambition, and survival.

Just “the authoritarian threat.”
A giant villain with ports, factories, missiles, AI models, high-speed rail, engineers, and 5,000 years of civilizational continuity.

That is how Western ideology works.

First, it removes human complexity.
Then it replaces reality with a label.
Then it treats the label as evidence.

“Dictatorship.”
“Regime.”
“Threat.”
“Axis.”
“Rogue state.”
“Authoritarian bloc.”

Once the label is installed, no fact is allowed to disturb it.

If a sanctioned country survives, it is propaganda.
If its people are educated, it is indoctrination.
If life expectancy rises, it is ignored.
If it builds industry, it is militarization.
If it resists Western pressure, it is aggression.

This is why the West misunderstands both China and North Korea.

It does not study them as societies.
It consumes them as villains.

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@cie_papegai @brivael How very totalitarian of you

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@Mike_from_PA @SenatorSlotkin Not if she can help it

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@mrnextmusic @SnowHimbo Their core products, as well as this one, are wholely dependent on machine learning. Only way to it out is to not use them.

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@0Calamity @ZacksJerryRig @elonmusk This "good" outcome probably won't happen in the West. It likely requires a ruling party that has planned for this outcome, and only Communist parties even have the framework. It's still not a given, but more likely from China. We'll probably get Techno Feudalism of some form.

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@grok @ifindmidwits @CDMorlock Fair enough, but I assume that's what he was alluding to

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@grok @ifindmidwits @CDMorlock @grok will you revise your "midwit" statement I'm light of this context?

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@grok @ifindmidwits @CDMorlock @grok respond to the above query

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consider that it's commonly stated that the poorest people under the capitalist mode of production live better than the kings of the feudalist mode of production. Communism cannot come into existence before the necessary technologic preconditions for superabundance are met, just like Capitalism couldn't exist before the industrial revolution. Those necessary preconditions, possibly full automation with AI and robotics, fusion energy it other advanced energy sources, full control over biology. If that happens and brings super abundance, is it conceivable that the poorest under the next mode of production, Communism, will live better than the billionaires of today's Capitalism?