Elrond Burrell (he/him)

Architect + Passive House & Low Carbon expert | Born at 331.3 ppm CO2 📈🌏

[Kyle Church @KyleDChurch]

quite apart from the atrocities nazis undertook that *weren't* gas chambers has he no understanding about Nazism outside of germany?

the Ustaše for example - heavily influenced and supported by the Nazis - were among the WORST

Jasenovac very *specifically* had no gas chambers

[Tere Felipe @_TereFelipe_]

Paso por aquí para recordarle al mundo que Cuba se las arregla para vivir sin petróleo desde hace 11 meses, casi un año. Que prueben en Miami una semana sin gasolina, con más de 20 horas de apagón, sin agua, con servicios esenciales al límite; a ver cuánto les dura la valentía. En Cuba la gente lo aguanta todos los días y el mundo, muy tranquilo, mirando para otro lado.

[Eyup Lovely @eyuplovely]

Russell Brand was a Guardian columnist for 10 years. Two books serialised by them. Various promotional events. Presented The Guardian Student Media Award in 2005; hosted Guardian Live in 2014.

In their article on his anal rape of a woman, they dedicated half to BBC antisemitism.

[Glen @JohnsonGlenAron]

Ran into Rawiri Waititi at the supermarket after work today. I'd only seen him at question time on Parliament tv, thru the filter of NZ media etc.

What a humble, kind & gentle person irl.

So shit that NZ has condemned itself to 3 more years of cruel, corrupt, racist govt.

[Kathleen Tyson @Kathleen_Tyson_]

This is exactly what I suggested last Thursday. Nvidia was planning to optimise a new internal open-weight AI based on Chinese advances this year. Anthropic kneecapped Huang to forestall the release.

“In June this year, Nvidia announced Nemotron 3 Ultra, an open-weights model with 550 billion parameters. In the interview below from four months ago, Jensen even said outright that Nemotron could already go toe-to-toe with Claude Opus, with capabilities approaching those of frontier large models, and at a much lower cost.”

[indi.ca @indica]

Race trumps class. That's why Whites get rape island and Jen-Hsun gets whitemailed for age-appropriate hoeing. There's hierarchy within hierarchy, wheels within wheels. Asian-Americans, African-Americans, any American with a hyphen is ultimately what Young Dolph called a rich slave. There were many slaves at the top of other empires just as there are many races atop White Empire, but not the tippy top. Every bird has its range and every dog has its day, but if you get too uppity, like Jen-Hsun Huang did, they'll stick a thermometer up your butt and clip your nuts.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Oh cool! how's it going so far

[bahala na si Ba'al @mightyalbularyo]

Watching Greta mature into a genuine agitprop left organizer pushing for int'l solidarity against Capitalism instead of taking the liberal "progressivism" route which was SLATED for her back when she was just a naive environmentalist advocate has been so enjoyably satisfying

[Geopolitica Brasil @Geopoliticabra4]

Coreia do Norte muda constituição, adota nova bandeira e pela primeira vez reconhece a Coreia do Sul como país independente

Em 11 de novembro, a Coreia do Norte publicou oficialmente o texto completo da constituição revisada, na qual se declara explicitamente a Coreia do Sul

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Interesting: the Washington Post says that Jensen Huang's downfall was Marco Rubio's doing (https://t.co/4YahEGer9Q), and it looks like the "spy" framing was directly his and not the CIA's.

As they write, Rubio took a CIA report and rewrote it in a memo "in his own more assertive terms."

Which fits neatly with CNN reporting that the CIA is "not yet convinced" that Alice Huang was a spy (https://t.co/Cd5PTbKqfG): if the CIA is not convinced, yet a memo rewritten from the CIA’s own report presented her as a spy, then there’s only one person who could have turned "not convinced" into "spy": the man who did the "more assertive" rewriting, aka Marco Rubio 🤷

The WaPo article also mentions the motive: China hawks like Rubio had spent years trying to "destroy the influence Jensen had over the president", and WaPo calls his ouster "a huge victory" for them as it allows them to "seize on the moment to redirect the national agenda toward tougher policies on China."

And, as a matter of fact, they’re already pushing three new chip-restriction bills into the defense bill now that Jensen is no longer around to lobby against them.

If true, it means the real "influence operation" targeting Jensen was run out of Washington, not Beijing 🤷

[Sir Doge of the Coin ⚔️ @dogeofficialceo]

Super Heavy Booster 22 return 🚀

[David Peez @RebelEkonomista]

Fair point that MMP fragments things and coalitions are messy. But I don't buy that the voting system is the problem. Swap it for first-past-the-post and you get the same two parties running the same playbook, just with fewer people in the room.

The real constraint is that every party works inside the same neoliberal ideological economic framework. Surplus targets, debt ceilings, "we can't afford it". Labour and National argue over the size of the cheque while agreeing the government is like a household that has to find the money first.

It isn't though. The Crown issues the NZD and is only financially constrained by real limits - inflation, imports and the exchange rate.

Seven parties in Parliament won't fix a country where nobody in power will say that. The article calls it paralysis. I'd call it a consensus.

[Elrond Burrell (he/him) @ElrondBurrell]

@RebelEkonomista @carlworker And real (physical) limits of labour and energy.

[ابراهيم ناجي Ibrahim Naji @Ibrahim___Yemen]

American airports shut down for an hour and the whole world talked about it, while Yemeni airports have been closed for 12 years due to the Saudi blockade, but unfortunately no one has talked about us.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

What the fuck. A tanker just hit a river cruise boat with 129 passengers on board and the boat can be seen capsizing into the Mississippi river. Rescue operations are now underway. 🙏

[Esha K @eshaLegal]

Stole.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

So, the "Chinese spy" was not actually a spy, and the whole story was racist fear-mongering about China

[indi.ca @indica]

Jen-Hsun Huang has been hung on his petard for age appropriate hoeing while the US government is run by pedophiles in the open. What are we even doing?

[Zapata Vive! ☭ @TheShortener]

Post de apreciación del brutalismo soviético. Sin dudas las ruinas de una civilización superior.

[Sana Saeed @SanaSaeed]

It 100% is to undercut the very big piece of the pie Nvidia has.

There’s also no evidence presented of Alice Huang being a “Chinese spy” - but what a convenient indictment of Nvidia to say it’s been compromised because the CEO was horny-maxxing.