38 now 🤣

They’re not even that behind in semiconductors at this point. https://pandaily.com/huawei-kirin-9050-surpasses-apple-a18-may2026

Nah, authoritarian is basically a term for any system of governance that’s different from western liberal capitalism originating in Europe. Russia has never been seen as truly European in the west, this is basically what the whole untermensch narrative nazis embraced is based on. In the Nazi racial hierarchy, being “white” or “Aryan” was not a given for all Europeans. Instead, an internal hierarchy existed where Nordic peoples were at the top, and Slavs were placed at the bottom, akin to non-European races. And these are the values Europeans very much embrace to this day.

I think what’s happening here is that the US is transitioning into mask off fascism stage of capitalism. It’s just going to be naked repression going forward. There’s already mass surveillance and militarized police force in place, and the state will simply start breaking up any attempts to form a labor movement, they will jail or murder organizers, violently put down protests, and so on.

right on schedule too

the whole orc narrative and Russian hordes narrative has very much been embraced by western media over the past four years https://web.archive.org/web/20260414080035/https://spectator.com/article/why-are-ukrainians-calling-russian-invaders-orcs/?edition=us

yeah but Russians are considered Asiatic mongrels by the Europeans, they’re the orcs and aren’t really white you see

I’m optimistic about seeing the fall of the dread empire in my lifetime.

^ when you’re a victim of western ‘education’ system

Gene manipulation hasn’t helped against this non coding RNA attack because scientists only just discovered it exists. Before this study nobody knew the rice blast fungus could send a long non coding RNA molecule into the plant to hijack its natural microRNA immune guard. Traditional genetic modification focused on protein based resistance genes or boosting general defenses, not on this kind of cross kingdom RNA trickery. Even if you tried to engineer a rice plant to overproduce that microRNA, you might mess up other important processes in the plant because microRNAs have multiple jobs. So it’s not that making GM rice is impossible, it is just that you need to know exactly what you are targeting first. Now that the mechanism is exposed, scientists are working on a synthetic RNA spray as a faster fix while also considering breeding rice with naturally high levels of that protective microRNA. Permanent GM solutions are possible but require careful design to avoid collateral damage to the plant’s own systems.

It does illustrate how the whole moral high ground the west claimed over the Soviet bloc was always just a veneer.

Sounds like somebody skipped their history class, back in the 30s you would’ve had Gestapo or Abwehr because Germany was fascist at the time.

The Ministry for State Security (German: Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, pronounced [minɪsˈteːʁiʊm fyːɐ̯ ˈʃtaːtsˌzɪçɐhaɪt]; abbreviated MfS), commonly known as the Stasi (pronounced [ˈʃtaːziː] ⓘ, an abbreviation of Staatssicherheit), was the intelligence service and secret police of East Germany (the German Democratic Republic or GDR) from 1950 to 1990.

A 1930s what now?

You know it’s bad when fucking google says it’s too much spying.

Oh yeah, I agree completely. It’s more of an acknowledgement that the crisis has already happened rather than a warning.

because now it’s around the same level as it was during the major financial crash

At the rate things are going, Europe just might.

Chimps will gang up and murder tyrannical leaders, we could learn so much from them. https://www.newscientist.com/article/2119677-chimps-beat-up-murder-and-then-cannibalise-their-former-tyrant/

ATLAS has some benchmarks in the repo, and it’s comparable to opus 4.6, you don’t actually even need 128gb model for that. An 8 bit quantized model will run with around 32gb and still perform quite well.

Yeah that’s true, depending on the electricity costs, you could be better on a subscription. Especially with DeepSeek, which is incredibly cheap now.