I like how direct John Mearsheimer is when analyzing 🇺🇸U.S. foreign policy.
When explaining why not letting Taiwan region reunify with Chinese mainland is a top priority for the U.S., he just said the truth: cuz Taiwan is a strategic asset for the U.S., it's all about containing China.
It's not about protecting democracy or the people of Taiwan at all.
The very same Hongkongers who vilified Mainlanders and China are now abandoning their beloved HK for cheap meals and entertainment in China. Whatever happened to “Liberate Hong Kong, the revolution of our times" 🤣🤣
Western politicians telling us TikTok is so dangerous that it needs to be banned. Also boasting about joining TikTok as a huge thing that will win you elections. So is it dangerous or not?
The anonymous imperialists at neoliberal bible The Economist referred to Latin American workers as "useless" and blamed them for supposed "unproductivity", while ignoring how US neocolonialism (which The Economist strongly supports) has violently attacked and often overthrown any government in the region dedicated to an independent national project of economic development.
The reality is that US imperialism has intentionally underdeveloped Latin America, preventing the region from developing, because US corporations need Latin American countries to remain resource extraction hubs, for cheap exports of agricultural goods, minerals, and other commodities.
In addition to overthrowing dozens of democratically elected governments in the region, US imperialism has economically subordinated Latin American countries, destroying any indigenous industrial competitors (de-industrialization at the barrel of a gun), and forcing the region to remain dependent on imports of high value-added products, technologies, and capital goods from the wealthy core capitalist countries.
If they are so "useless", why do so many US corporations rely on exploiting extremely low-paid Latin American workers, using them for highly labor-intensive, low value-added production (of garments and agricultural products, for instance)?
The reality is the exact opposite: Latin Americans are often forced (by poverty, as a product of underdevelopment) to work much harder in much worse conditions than relatively more comfortable workers in the Global North, grueling in labor-intensive (read: back-breaking) industries that have been outsourced to the South.
But The Economist blames the victims, like always. It is fulfilling its class role.
An exciting announcement:
“LaMP: When Large Language Models Meet Personalization”
We study how to personalize the output of LLMs. It comes with a public benchmark, consisting of 7 tasks.
https://t.co/Hu7olToD9C
cc @SalemiAlireza7@MSheshera@bemikelive
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Newly surfaced video of the Dalai Lama and Lady Gaga shows the spiritual leader, who is currently facing backlash for sexually assaulting a young boy, tickle and touch Lady Gaga’s legs before she places her hand on his to block him from touching her.
In 2009 the Dalai Lama was paid $1 million to do a speech for NXIVM Sex Trafficking Cult.
Pictured here with the sex cults leader Keith Raniere.
The NXIVM grew to infamy after it was exposed for sex trafficking women and girls and branding them with cattle branding irons.
After 6 months of hard work, happy to share JAXopt: hardware accelerated, batchable and differentiable optimizers in JAX https://t.co/PyHX081tMe We ambition to cover many use cases in ML: stochastic optim of DL models, constrained/non-smooth optim, bi-level optim, optim layers...
What a triumph! The West so wished that the Winter Olympics was going to be a flop. But the big flop was Biden's diplomatic boycott: barely any countries supported it - and no one talked about it. China faced two huge challenges: Covid and US hostility. China conquered both. 1/4