BL’s sheep

they don’t know me son

[Angelo Giuliano 🇨🇭🇮🇹 @angeloinchina]

Strongly agree with this.

There is something very dishonest about the way the China/WTO story is being rewritten today. When China entered the WTO in 2001, Western leaders were not simply talking about trade. They openly believed that economic integration would eventually change China politically.
That was the bet.
China was supposed to become richer, more capitalist and, eventually, more like the West. Instead, China used the opening of the global trading system to develop its own economy, lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and become a major industrial and technological power without giving up its political system.
That is where the real problem began for Washington and Brussels.
Now we are told that China is responsible for the destruction of European industry. Really?
European governments and corporations spent decades moving production to China because it was cheaper and more efficient. They built enormous supply chains around Chinese manufacturing and happily benefited from the arrangement.
And now that China has become too successful, the same people who promoted globalisation are suddenly discovering protectionism.
This is not really about “saving free trade”. It is about what happens when the country that was expected to remain subordinate becomes a serious competitor.
China did not force Europe to deindustrialise.
European policymakers made that choice.
The mistake was believing that economic integration would eventually bring China under Western political control.
It didn't.
And rather than admit that the strategy failed, they are now trying to blame China for the consequences.

[voxium @v0xium]

I am done with this shit. It is over. The state of engineering right now is horrible. It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code. Nobody on my team likes this. They are being forced to ship as much as they can. I have heard multiple times from higher management that pushing code is not a bottleneck, so why are we slow? People are working 12 to 13 hours a day just to press enter. Nobody is reading anything. Humans in corporate are doing nothing on their own. Everyone, literally everyone, from an L1 to an L7 engineer here is doing the same thing. Talk to Claude. There is no sense of victory. Nobody is resolving bugs. In reality, nobody is thinking anymore. Everything is done by LLMs. It is so soul-sucking. I would not mind it, to be honest, if we were at least given the time to check out the code and see what is going where. But no, the goal is to just ship. No matter what happens.

[Linus Tse @linustse30]

They dont know how good fable 5.1 is

[BL’s sheep @eclyptis]

@linustse30 @madprizm0 @yacineMTB dawg i’ve been on the carney bandwagon since the election

[Zhuang, 庄 @0x_Zhuang]

spoke to enough people at the top, you realize the game is actually pretty simple

once basic needs are met, everyone starts chasing the same things

good sleep, a stable relationship, regular workouts, time alone, books, deep focus, eating on time, and freedom from other people’s opinions

funnily enough, you don’t need to reach the top to start optimizing for any of them

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

My wife is furious with the Lindsay Clancy case. She says it’s the worst thing possible for women. If women are so hormonal they can’t keep from killing their own children, how can women argue they deserve any positions of high responsibility? It’s anti-women to favor not guilty.

[The Globe and Mail @globeandmail]

America rigs the World Cup, then bows out as a laughingstock https://t.co/g00iDXzwEv

[Brian Lui @brianluidog]

I'm Chinese but I don't have the fundamental Chinese strength of willingness to grind. My strengths are more Western: doing the minimum at work, playing videogames, shitposting, blogging

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

Dear US government,

Since you've just blocked Fable and Mythos on critical national security grounds, here are some other tools that pose a similar threat to the American people:

- Microsoft Teams
- SAP
- Salesforce
- Jira
- Outlook

Please do what you must to save America 🇺🇸

[willo2 @willo2_Poly]

I was just scammed for $500K by Polymarket.

I am "willo2", the top holder of YES on "MicroStrategy sells Bitcoin by May 31st".

Here's what happened:

[goodalexander @goodalexander]

if you want to win, you have to take responsibility for outcomes in your life

even if it's not your fault, it's your problem

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded.

At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him.

It worked. He had a seizure on the spot.

They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing.

When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline.

He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later.

Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language.

The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief.

That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness."

He earned the right to say it.

its never over. never give up fren.

[CSPAN @cspan]

Q: "Why didn't you tell U.S. allies…about the war before attacking Iran?"

President Trump: "We wanted surprise. Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

[The Poll Lady @ThePollLady]

People don’t fully realize how bad things are going to get for everyone.

Israel and the U.S. (which denies involvement) struck Iran’s South Pars gas field. In response, Iran targeted Qatar’s North Field.

These are two halves of the same reservoir the largest natural gas field on the planet.

This single shared field spans about 9,700 km², roughly the size of Qatar itself, and contributes close to 20% of global LNG supply.

It took decades and around $70 billion to build the infrastructure.

And now, both sides of it have been hit.

Even more concerning this field is only about 10% depleted. That means 90% of its gas is still underground.

In simple terms, a huge portion of the world’s future energy supply has just become impossible to access.

Roughly 35–50% of India’s LNG imports come from here.

We are not talking about a short-term disruption. Damage at this scale could take years, possibly a decade, to fully recover from. And the bigger truth is, the global energy landscape may have just been permanently altered for the worse.

From an energy perspective, this is dangerously close to a worst-case scenario.

Rationing and energy export bans may start appearing in many countries soon. India could follow likely after upcoming state elections pass.

Trump knows he messed up. You can believe his denial of involvement in hitting Iran’s South Pars if you want, but realistically, there is almost no chance a strike of this sensitivity happens without full visibility from U.S. Central Command. Operations in that region don’t happen in isolation.

At this point, it looks like the U.S. has lost control of its own foreign policy direction.

The greatest miscalculation for Trump may not have been the strike itself but allowing the situation to escalate into this war in the first place.

He thought Iran, weakened by sanctions, internal pressure, and prior U.S.–Israeli strikes on its nuclear infrastructure, would quickly fold and unconditionally surrender after initial shocks, including high-level assassinations.

But that assumption now looks flawed. Instead of collapse, Iran responds with escalation.

That is why a bully like Trump is posting “NO MORE ATTACKS WILL BE MADE”

But it will be extremely difficult for Iran to return to any meaningful dialogue with US since they have repeatedly shifted from negotiations to military action.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Lebanese die, Israelis are killed

[Megatron @Megatron_ron]

JUST IN:

🇷🇺🇮🇷 Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov says not just Iran but now many countries will start to develop nuclear weapons:

This war that they have now unleashed against Iran, it, firstly, can stimulate movement in favor of creating nuclear weapons, and not only in Iran.

Such a movement will immediately appear in the countries—Arab countries that neighbor the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Therefore, paradoxically, an announced noble goal to start a war so that there is no proliferation of nuclear weapons can stimulate completely opposite trends."

[Jason Selvig @jasonselvig]

The USS Jeffrey Epstein en route to Iran.

[Aporia @0xaporia]

Life is fucking electric bro. Don’t fall for the doomer shit. That’s for losers and normies scared of their own shadows. Walk around like God sent you and smile at everyone you see. Spread light and abundance. Build things and take chances. This is the best time in history!

[Z @ZeeContrarian1]

🚨 Breaking News:
German shipping giant Hapag-Lloyd and the FIMI Fund are acquiring $ZIM for more than $3.5 billion.