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All of latam is going to be BRICS members by the end of this term.

When Google did this with the recent Gemini paper, no one had any problem with calling it out as credential stuffing, but when Deepseek does it, it’s glorious unity and camaraderie.

Yea, I’m sure they’re devastated by my comment

Because that’s the way China presents itself and that’s the way China boosters talk about China.

It’s credential stuffing.

Trump just ceded the biotech sector to China.

Pro tip:

x.com → xcancel.com

The meshes generated by the huggingface demo definitely look like the product of marching cubes.

Meanwhile the US life expectancy has been decreasing.

That was a blip due to covid and has been slowly recovering to pre-pandemic levels.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/12/19/health/us-life-expectancy-202...

The big question is if ceasing a medication can restore cognitive performance.

I'm not sure what conclusions can be drawn when there's only 2 data points.

Many such cases

https://x.com/dkaushik96/status/1881383961030807599

Subsection (a) of this section shall apply only to persons who are born within the United States after 30 days from the date of this order.

Well, at least they aren't trying to enforce this retroactively.

Withdrawing diminishes the WHO China controls.

Unless they decide to step up their funding as a soft power play.

This is a better page for viewing the WHO's sources of funding, at least for 2022-23[0][1]. There are three separate categories of voluntary funding and only 6.6% of funds come from Core Voluntary Contributions as displayed in your graph.

[0] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/contributor

[1] https://open.who.int/2022-23/contributors/top25

Not quite, it’s renamed to United States DOGE Service. This will surely help attract top talent.

“China has too much political influence over the WHO, so we’ll withdraw, giving them even more influence over the WHO”

I was skeptical that race played a role, but after Musk’s Hitlergruß today, I can see it.

You too may be a big hero

Once you've learned to count backwards to zero

"In German, und Englisch, I know how to count down

Und I'm learning Chinese!" says Wernher von Braun

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

Anyone who has payed attention to his Twitter feed will not be surprised by this.

Ok, this is just very funny. I literally lol'd.

No, they absolutely export malware still. All of DJI's apps need to be sideloaded on android because the obfuscated data collection they do is not allowed in Play Store apps[0]. TikTok uses an obfuscated VM to do user tracking[1]. Then there's the malware that the US government has to routinely delete from compromised computers [2][3]

Chinese software deserves the reputation it has.

[0] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/07/chine...

[1] https://www.nullpt.rs/reverse-engineering-tiktok-vm-1

[2] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/fbi-forces-chine...

[3] https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/01/chinese-malware-rem...

To my understanding, most people, even in tech, disregard and look down on Chinese software

Historically, if Chinese software has been installed on your computer, it's been malware.

Yep, it's a national strategy.

It's a national embarrassment that they were able to deny passage as long and as effectively as they did.

China is Tesla's second-largest market and the company is granted special privileges there that other foreign-owned companies don't receive thanks to Musk's warm relationship with China. He will not rock the boat that hard.

https://web.archive.org/web/20230813015210/https://www.nytim...

It gave people all of Sunday to react to the shutdown on TikTok ahead of Monday where the focus will be the inauguration.

When a person gains weight, the number of fat-storing cells in their body doesn’t change; instead, each one expands to store more fat within it by changing the way it responds to and stores nutrients.

Is this true? I thought the number of fat cells increase when you gain weight but don't decrease when you lose it.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29991030/

A decrease in body weight only changes fat cell size (becoming smaller), whereas an increase in body weight causes elevation of both fat cell size and number in adults.

If TikTok was concerned that Biden’s statement wouldn’t be honored, they wouldn’t have turned service back on today while Biden is still president. They’ve had months to work out some sort of deal with Trump, this whole show they’ve put on the past couple days is propaganda.

Everyone got played by what is effectively joint CCP/Trump propaganda and they’re cheering about it. Bleak, bleak, bleak.