more than a decade of the US trying to "pivot to Asia" to contain China , and it all ends with the US disembowling itself while China watches and wonders why the fuck they did that.

CIA agents in hell watching trump thinking USAID is purely government handouts.

Trump To Tariff Chips Made In Taiwan, Targeting TSMC

trust the plan

AP - Staffing was ‘not normal’ in the air traffic control tower at Washington’s Reagan National Airport

That’s according to a report by the Federal Aviation Administration that was obtained by The Associated Press.

The report says one air traffic controller was working two positions at the time of the crash.

“The position configuration was not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” the report says.

We already knew it, but now it's confirmed.

The citrus harvest in California's Central Valley is “virtually unviable”. The information was reported by NBC Los Angeles, with data from the California Farm Bureau. The measure is due to a lack of workers for the harvest, which is mainly carried out by immigrants, often undocumented. As a result, the price of citrus fruits in much of the country could rise, since California is one of the largest suppliers of fruit in the country.

With Trump threatening to tariff TSMC chips (if he actually ends up doing that), pausing federal grants and loans, fucking with a fellow NATO member, etc, it honestly seems like he’s just really leaning into the mad man negotiating tactic, which only works if you show you’re genuinely willing and able to take things into new territory. It’s all so outlandishly against the interests of stabilizing US hegemony that it’s the only angle I can think of that he’s working here. Building up MadMan Capital™️ to spend later on his coming hallmark ground war with China

https://x.com/Sturgeons_Law/status/1884294162180362559

One of the criticism I see of Assads from pro-HTS clowns was that he "sold" Golan Heights to Israel. What is this then? Not even bothering with fighting for your territory.

We finally found out what Trump's demand is in exchange for removing tariffs on Canada. The demand is... Annexation LMAO.

We pay hundreds of Billions of Dollars to SUBSIDIZE Canada. Why? There is no reason. We don’t need anything they have. We have unlimited Energy, should make our own Cars, and have more Lumber than we can ever use. Without this massive subsidy, Canada ceases to exist as a viable Country. Harsh but true! Therefore, Canada should become our Cherished 51st State. Much lower taxes, and far better military protection for the people of Canada — AND NO TARIFFS!

Donald Trump Truth Social Post 08:26 AM EST 02/02/25

That guy in Sweden who was known for burning qurans has apparantly been shot dead

PFLP leader Mohammed Ghali feed from prison, welcomed home by Gazans

https://x.com/MiddleEastEye/status/1885073428513767767

The Short Case for Nvidia Stock

This is not a finance article nor is it financial advice despite the title (I do not condone any gambling nor do I hold any positions on Nvidia, just obligatory disclaimer here), but genuinely an excellent breakdown of the DeepSeek “breakthrough”.

To quote from a summary I read from Twitter:

• Use 8 bit instead of 32 bit floating point numbers, which gives massive memory savings
• Compress the key-value indices which eat up much of the VRAM; they get 93% compression ratios
• Do multi-token prediction instead of single-token prediction which effectively doubles inference speed
• Mixture of Experts model decomposes a big model into small models that can run on consumer-grade GPUs

That’s it! There is nothing groundbreaking about DeepSeek. There is no fundamentally new invention here (compared to the original transformer architecture). It’s simply a bunch of Chinese interns looking for shortcuts to bypass the tech sanctions, and stumbled upon a simple yet elegant solution to the problem.

What is groundbreaking though is that apparently none of the OpenAI engineers getting paid >500k per year managed to come up with a solution like this.

And this really is an indictment of the entire field of “AI”, the kind of people who are getting paid a fortune, and how overhyped, bloated and unrealistic it is to burn through $500 billion to chase their AGI scam which is never going to work. (The real AGI is as far as you can get from the current iterations of artificial neural networks based architecture, and we barely have any idea what it would look like).

The question is will it burst the AI bubble? Are we getting another AI winter? Or the US government will find a way around it like it did with all the crypto scam bullshit or the trillion dollar F-35 project?

One Republic became the first ever American band to perform on the CCTV New Year’s Gala (春晚), live from the Wuhan stage

Why? Because during Covid lockdown, frontman Ryan Tedder came out in support of Wuhan amidst waves of anti-China sentiment, livestreaming himself enjoying the Wuhan hot dry noodle, and promised that one day he would visit the city of Wuhan!

Wuhan hot dry noodle as imagined by Tedder using spaghetti noodles:

Wuhan (武汉) hot dry noodle tattoo:

He finally got his wish to perform in front of the entire nation today, straight from Wuhan itself!

Yes, this is news.

Trump executive order of cutting foreign aid may have partially crippled US regime change network

There has to be some kind of irony to such a terrible crash happening at Reagan National Airport, right? The guy who fired all the air traffic controllers?

Average senate confirmation hearing:

Democrat: "You've been on this person's show 8 times, he has ties with neo-Nazis."

Sen. Norm Respectable (R-MT): "He already had my vote, you didn't need to convince me more."

Today I'm also signing an executive order to instruct the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security to begin preparing the 30,000 person migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay. Most people don't even know about it."

https://xcancel.com/cspan/status/1884690347474727404

Jesus christ

This is pure speculation but I'm 90% sure that the NVidia drop had nothing to do with Deepseek R1 and was actually insider trading on the "news" that Trump was considering a tariff on Taiwanese chips.

First, R1 was released on the 20th, 5 days before the stock dropped. It wasn't at all a secret, basically it was the talk of the town that whole week and their capabilities claims were shown to be solid very early on by many many people running independent benchmarks. But the market didn't react.

Second, the big AI companies want all the compute they can get, they aren't satisfied with training 10 or 100 or 1000 times more quickly, this is why they're talking about trillion dollar data centers with nuclear reactors. Also of note, R1 was trained on Nvidia TPUs with the same amount of vram as the H100s. You couldn't cheaply train such a model on any other brand of hardware, demand for Nvidia products isn't going anywhere.

Third, if anything it's the AI software companies that would take a big drop, they're the ones who are supposedly spooked and scrambling to replicate R1 internally. The major software only players took only a small hit but recovered quickly, that would be Microsoft and Meta. Google is also a hardware company, they're trying to move some of their chip fabs to TMSC but their TPUs are made by Samsung. They took a small hit and have not yet recovered. AMD is a hardware company, they have fabs all over including sourcing from TMSC, same story. Intel, a similar company, no change whatsoever, they don't use TMSC at all. Nvidia took the big one, and they get ALL of their chips from... TMSC. All the action happened about simultaneously in after hours weekend trading.

Fourth, when the tariff news dropped the market seemed to be unaffected almost as if it had already been priced in over weekend trading.

The University of Michigan has suspended a pro-Palestinian group for 2 years

Boycott University of Michigan. They have a Huge college football presense. Blue and Gold.

Let it be known the University of Michgan is a ZIONAZI fascist organization that atands with genocide, aparthied, racism and bigotry. They used false anti semitism to shield their own fascist involvement and behavior.

Do not enroll. Do not watch their games. Do not buy their merch or themed merch.

Idk how to get a recall going but perhaps we can recall the board members and regents who are highly paid gifting zionazis. They are a public institution. They should be held accountable.

Trump is already blaming DEI and mental illness for the crash in the press conference

Finally can create an account to say:

FFS people Colombia didn't agree or surrender to Trump's terms on deportation. Petro wanted deportees to be treated humanly and not be chained like animals.

He got it. And didn't get any sanctions.

How is this a loss for Petro or Colombia? Or a win for Trump?

Qassam has released quite a lot of footage of their operations against the IOF during the last month or so, before the signing of the ceasefire. All I can say is that despite 15 months of relentless bombing and a full blown ground operation, the Resistance's fighting capacity is still there. It's not untouched though because I believe the Resistance has suffered tremendously, but they are more than able to fight back and even determine the pace of fighting. In the latest series of videos released by Qassam, named "Ambushes of Death", the picture couldn't look worse of the "israelis".., scores of their soldiers are killed or seriously wounded in elaborated RPG, IED and sniper operations in the last few months. In one such operation, a Qassam Brigades team detonates a BIG IED under a Merkava tank and flips it over, tossing the turret away from the chassis in the process, resulting in multiple dead for the "israelis" as well as gravely wounded.

Do check out Jon Elmer's twitter account if you haven't, it's a great archive of Qassam/PIJ footage that might be uh.. handy I guess.

I have nothing but admiration for the military prowess of the Gazans, they're fighting in a small strip of land that is almost entirely flat and urban. There are no mountains or jungles to run away to, it's just a big city with smaller ones as satellites, the sea and the big border with "israel" and Egypt, completely at the marcy of their genocidal neighbors. Their only hope was to dig, dig and dig, study every single street and corner that exists and have a plan for each part of the city, strike only when necessary or when the enemy is completely distracted (like when these mfs just start posing for pictures or bulldozing buildings). Their way of conducting urban guerrilla warfare will be studied for generations, there have been urban guerrillas in the past but I think none is just as good as this one.

buh-bye construction

Chinese company DeepSeek enters the market and crashes stocks in the US and Europe. Losses in Western technology stocks could reach more than 1 trillion dollars.

NVidia alone lost more than 400 billion dollars in market value and its shares plummeted 13%. Nasdaq is down 3%, driven by losses in chip technology companies.

Meta, Alphabet (owned by Google), Oracle, Broadcom and other technology giants have also suffered losses. DeepSeek promises to be more efficient, faster and cheaper than Open AI's ChatGPT. Nvidia's loss exceeds 520 billion dollars. Apple retakes the lead as “world's most valuable company”; NVidia is now worth “only” 2.8 trillion dollars.

Im seeing a lot of people not getting their SNAP benefits after this government freeze

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/genz-dictatorship-survey-jordan-peterson-b2686927.html

A lot of blah blah blah in this, predictable differences between gender and these are the only parts I think that matter

Controversial influencers Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson were among those to command similar trust by 42 per cent of men.

I really don't like this line.

Really seems like Trump has no idea what the fuck he’s doing lmao

Reminds me of what my boss does when he’s trying to impress his boss

Another one to file under "not a surprise to the news heads but perhaps one to share with your libs"

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20250128-uk-has-been-active-participant-in-israels-genocide-in-gaza-new-report-claims/

Canada, Mexico and China should simply increase trade between themselves, leave the US in the dust. Build a belt and road around the US

A host at a German public broadcaster allegedly had visceral reaction of disgust, when a guest, an Israeli-German cyber-security professor, said her name was "from Israel". First of all, there is no such thing as being "from Israel", and what's an Israeli name anyway?

Only a Zionist would answer this way, I thought, and yeah, she has written an article about how "Israel must also defend itself on the Internet".

The host is probably going to get fired, she's Turkish-German so they'll count that against her.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/world/europe/north-korea-troops-ukraine-russia.html

Ghost of Pyongyang

Jon Stewart saying AI breakthrough in china is because of lack of labour laws and human rights. Funny TV men as political pundits in America I guess

So states are saying the funding freeze will in fact impact Medicaid

joker voice and here…. we…. Go…

Sheinbaum orders tariffs against the USA in response to Trump; "categorically" rejects criminal alliances

Sheinbaum ordered the Secretary of Economy, Marcelo Ebrard, to implement tariff and non-tariff measures for defenders of Mexican interests, after the United States imposed widespread tariffs on Mexican products.

The President of Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum, said this Wednesday that she does not believe that this week US President Donald Trump's threat to impose tariffs on the country and its neighbor Canada will come true.

President Claudia Sheinbaum ordered Economy Secretary Marcelo Ebrard to implement tariff and non-tariff measures to defend Mexico's interests, after the United States imposed widespread tariffs on Mexican products.

The president also "categorically rejected the White House's slander against the Government of Mexico of having alliances with criminal organizations, as well as any interventionist intention in our territory," responding to Washington's statement that Mexican drug trafficking organizations have a "intolerable alliance" with the Government of Mexico.

Trump is making some insane moves, implying that he is pausing hundreds of billions $$$ for various federal payments, without directly saying which payments exactly. And the markets are just not reacting to it. Yeah, he could be crashing the economy or just pausing already tiny payments to homeless shelters, we really can't tell. Whatever.

From the 25th to the 29th, in a period of 83 hours, the Deepseek server cluster was hit by more than 230 million DDos malicious requests per second. The total amount of attack was equivalent to the total network traffic in Europe for three days.

https://xcancel.com/MacaesBruno/status/1885417087994036511#m

https://xcancel.com/AliAbunimah/status/1883973272695627992:

I’m free! I wrote this on the plane and I’m posting it just after landing at Istanbul. On Monday evening I was brought to Zurich airport in handcuffs, in a small metal cage inside a windowless prison van and led all the way to the plane by police. This is after three days and two nights in a Swiss prison cut off from communication with the outside world, in a cell 24 hours a day with one cell mate, not even permitted to contact my family. On Saturday in a police interview in the presence of my lawyer they accused me of “offending against Swiss law” without ever telling me what crime I had committed in Switzerland or listing any charges. As far as I know I have not been charged with any crime whatsoever and I was held in “administrative detention.” On Sunday morning, they took me from my cell for questioning by Swiss defense ministry intelligence agents without the presence of my lawyer, and they again refused to allow me to contact her or my family. I refused to talk to them without my lawyer and told them take me back to my cell. During my imprisonment I refused every meal and every cup of coffee or tea they offered me except the last meal, after I knew I would be going home. I accepted only water, which is the right of every human being. All of this was after I was abducted off the street around 1:30pm on Saturday while on my way to the Palestine teach-in by undercover agents, handcuffed, forced into an unmarked car and sped straight to the prison. My “crime”? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it. I came to Switzerland at the invitation of Swiss citizens to talk about justice for Palestine, to talk about accountability for a genocide in which Switzerland too is complicit. But while I was hauled off to prison like a dangerous criminal before I even had a chance to say a word, the Israeli president Isaac Herzog, who declared at the start of the genocide that there are no civilians in Gaza, no innocents, received a red carpet welcome in Davos, a carpet soaked in the blood of the more than 47,000 known victims of the genocide and the thousands more still under the rubble, or who died of deliberately inflicted starvation and denial of medical care. And on this very day Netanyahu freely travels to Poland to make a mockery of the Auschwitz commemoration despite an outstanding ICC arrest warrant. That is the perverse, unjust world we live in. This ordeal lasted three days but that taste of prison was more than enough to leave me in even greater awe of the Palestinian heroes who endure months and years in the prisons of the genocidal oppressor. More than ever I know that the debt we owe them is one we can never repay and all of them must be free and they must remain our focus. The police gave me my phone back only at the gate of the plane so I’m only seeing now the extent of the overwhelming support and solidarity from all over the world. I’m deeply grateful to each and every person who stood up for me. I’m especially grateful to my lawyer Dina Raewel and her team, to our friends in Zurich who I learned afterwards demonstrated outside the prison, to my family and my colleagues at EI and so many others. I honestly had no idea what was happening outside that concrete room! Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I want to tell the whole story of what happened, perhaps in an @intifada livestream in the next day or two, because I think it’s important for people to know the depths to which their Western so-called “democracies” have sunk in the abject service of genocidal Zionism. Right now I’m glad to be on my way home. I’m looking forward to hugging my mom and dad, taking a shower and sleeping in my own bed. Journalism is not a crime! Speaking out for Palestine is not a crime! Standing against racist genocidal Zionism is not a crime! Say it with me:

From the River to the Sea Palestine Will Be Free! ❤️🇵🇸✌️

It's funny to see western liberal papers criticize R1 for "censoring" their models. True, it does censor some stuff by default like the June 4th events or Taiwan but I've had it saying Chinese economy only works because it's repressive completely unprompted.

Also says some crazy stuff Openai models would never, like quoting Mao, "Revolution is not a dinner party".

Italy has blocked the Chinese chatbot DeepSeek, Reuters reports. DeepSeek is blocked in the Apple and Google app stores.

The blocking comes after local authorities decided to investigate how exactly DeepSeek uses users' personal data. The regulator is demanding explanations about what data is collected, for what purpose and whether it is stored in China.

Companies linked to DeepSeek have until February 17 to respond to the Italian watchdog's requests. If found to be in breach of privacy laws, the chatbot could face significant fines or restrictions.

ChatGPT also collects data and sends to Sam Altman and Elon Musk.

Plane and helicopter collide in the air in Washington D.C. The aircraft exploded and crashed into the Potomac River, which runs through the US capital.

The American Airlines aircraft was bound for Kansas. The helicopter, according to sources, was a Black Hawk. Reagan Airport is closed and flights have been suspended.

https://bsky.app/profile/erininthemorning.com/post/3lgthupw73s22

Uhh apparently they just banned minors transitioning? Shit.

72 million new potential

~~Police~~ military helicopter involved in a tactically intercepted american airlines flight in Washington DC

Truckers be like: we support Trump’s border policies but we don’t like that you’re hurting our jobs and making our treats more expensive! Please re-consider!