Steve Yang

Software engineer w/ a knack for #CleanCode; MCSD, MSIT; find my mental comforts in coding &📚 and physical stimuli in 🎾 & ⛷️

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

Well worth your time to read through this extraordinarily informative and insightful article, if you’re concerned of how America can come back from behind in terms of manufacturing. Shenzhen, a once poor and sleepy fishery town next to Hong Kong, just less than 50 years ago, now is a Mecca of manufacturing and technology advancements.

But don’t ever forget, it’s not the Communism, as CCP would want to you to believe, that made it happen, it’s precisely the opposite of Communism, the Capitalism and free-spirited entrepreneurships, plus Chinese people’s intrinsic high respect for hardworking and educations, that has created and sustained the Shenzhen miracles.

America is the biggest house of Capitalism. It’s the broken and shortsighted policies that failed capitalism.

Dig deep into this article, you’ll find brilliant solutions and even investment opportunities.

[Aaron Slodov @aphysicist]

https://t.co/lQn2uxoV0S

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@ElPlayerONE1 @Unveiled_ChinaX I asked the same topic when DeepSeek first made a splash in US market last year, and got the same “politically correct (correct to the CCP)” answer.

Then I called it DeepShit and removed the app from my phone. Never again touched it.

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@Unveiled_ChinaX “Minority Report” CCP version 🥹

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@MiraVisnjic https://t.co/59zwh78Y12

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@DjokerNole @rolandgarros A truly amazing show you and Fonseca brought to us on Friday.

Absolutely top notched performance from both of you.

You walked away with a loss but more graces than anyone else🫡

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@DjokerNole @rolandgarros A truly amazing show you and Fonseca brought to us on Friday.

Absolutely top notched performance from both of you.

You walked away with a loss but more graces than anyone else🫡

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

Yes, the story you told from your viewpoint was true.

But I wish you can shed some lights to harder truth, considering the June 4 just in a few days:

- Why is June4 or any word related to 1989 #Tiananmen Square protests is still banned there?
- Why would CCP or Xi Jinping, with so much glorified accomplishments and absolute power, still so fucking sensitive to any criticism of the party, like, having to jail Jimmy Lai, an old gentleman in Hong Kong who just dared to speak the truths with some amplified megaphone?

Like a confident person, it’s natural that you would not be too sensitive to other people’s criticisms, because if you’re sure about yourself, you either welcome the critique to make yourself a better person or you can just ignore them as noises.

To me, this CCP person isn’t really someone I would hedge my bet on, despite his glitzy and fancy outfits that seem very impressive indeed.

Even my Chinese friends I met when I visited Shenzhen a year ago said this to me, “yeah, China has the greatest hardware, but our software needs to catch up” .

That software isn’t a secret, simply, it’s called Democracy.

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

I’m the citizen of the country you’re shooting your verbal bullets at. I felt the pain and my heart is bleeding.

But I felt so grateful, hopeful, and alive at the same time.

Truths are the hardest thing to digest, but bitter pills are needed to cure our illness.

Thank you for articulating the facts that too many people inside their own media bubbles have not been able to see or unwilling to face.

Understood, you criticize because you care. So do many of us here.

On the contrast, It only made me wanting to puke when every cabinet member at the monthly White House cabinet meeting competed to sing praises of their Orange Thin Skinned boss🥵

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@KseniiaBaziian Correction, the booking app isn’t Booking but https://t.co/ZywHtTZOJl

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

Yeah, for me it’s mixed feeling - especially frustrated with the firewall I had to climb even was just to pay my bills back in America or book a trip. They even blocked ExpressVPN that is one of the widely subscribed paid services🥵

The thing I liked most was the train - I could go some places that would take days to reach 20 years ago within a few hours now. With Booking app, I didn’t have to use AliPay which I didn’t have but with my Visa card. And high speed trains are mostly clean and quiet.

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@RepMcGovern Suggestion: fix our own fucking problem here at home first. Our tax money is for you to work for the people in United States, not Tibetans while so many of Americans being scammed and burned by this most corrupt and utterly incompetent President 🥵

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@NickKristof @danzwku “Insecurities” need not be if only Xi and the Party aren’t so focusing on holding to their absolute power.🤬

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

Have been accumulating shares of $IOT for 4 years now. People mistook it as a SaaS or SaaP player and the stock have been depressed as result of “AI Eating Software Flu” despite it reported 30+% growth and beating earnings estimates in every single quarter https://t.co/dEPupiPovy

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@DesireeAmerica4 Even it’s real, as humans we should be worried instead of celebrating, considering China’s youth unemployment rate is around 20%. But this seems too smooth to be not AI generated or enhanced.

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

For those who read books, here are two I came across in last 2 years - the disinformation pandemic not only infected people’s minds but also actually killed or threatened to kill innocent lives. Plenty of examples provided by these two awards winning authors, one Nobel Peace prize winner, one Pulitzer Prize winner.

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@BetancesAndrew @simonmaechling @brian_welsh https://t.co/Dzk5ypFN5B

[Dell Technologies @Dell]

Jensen Huang at Dell Technologies World on Dell Deskside Agentic AI: agents running securely in an OpenShell sandbox, local models on Dell infrastructure, and Dell Services to get you to production fast. Every model. No token anxiety.

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

@allenanalysis @SariArhoHavren But Trump: “We’re the hottest country in the world (because of me)”🤡

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

My wife and I visited Taipei two years ago, first time. Didn’t see a glitzy and fancy city with many skyscrapers as you would see in Shanghai or even a medium size city in China.

But we loved it, loved its cleanliness, kindest people, authentic culture, tasty foods, hot springs, and beautiful and quiet natural landscapes. Most of all, it’s the ethos of a free country where you found the exhibits of Taiwan Democracy Movement memorial right in the compound of Chiang Kai-Sheik Memorial Hall. Who’s Chiang? Chiang was the brutal dictator who murdered those brave Taiwanese democracy activists.

Taiwan’s darkest past was displayed in open. The heroes who were killed by the authoritarian regime are honored and remembered by generations of Taiwanese to come.

Can China do the same to Tiananmen Square massacre?

Taiwan and mainland China, same people but two different worlds.

Imagine a country that still ban its citizen looking for answer about June 4, 1989 to take a country that has never under CCP’s rule but transformed itself from an autocracy to a true democracy and become the heartbeats of today’s semiconductor-driven economy. Can you? ⁉️

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

Agree with your observations in most part. About the Great China Firewall, how is it? If you didn’t experience it, they probably put you in high end hotels where they would climb it for all their guests.

For me, a small time visitor, almost a short trip every 1-2 years in the last 10 years, I felt the Firewall had gotten more sophisticated and more annoying - my paid ExpressVPN worked in previous trips and in Taiwan, Hong Kong and everywhere else, stopped working inside a nice provincial hotel but not cater to Westerners.

[Steve Yang @yangsteve]

I believe he is a modernized and upgraded version of Churchill.

Churchill has crucial support from FDR to win.

Zelenskyy has tremendous pressure from DJT to capitulate.

Zelenskyy should be leading the NATO military actions and #Ukraine be a NATO member right now. Their actions deserve more than paperwork, their qualifications have been battlefield proven.