The first part of The Guardian article put the onus on the racial part of DEI, which gives the false impression this concerns only minorities and is thus unumportant. It also puts the onus on specific topics of academic research which give the -again, false- impression that it touches "those left-wing topics" and is thus not that bad.

But i have talked with other researchers and it is absolutely everyone who is in the crosshairs. Grants for Ph.D and postdocs for subjects that sound as politically safe as theoretical mathematics or physics have been axed. This is not a problem of "those left wing people". Or, as i have heard "those gender studies and sociology people with funny hair colours"

Maths, science, engineering. Stuff with obscure jargon names that do not sound political. Axed. This is the problem of everyone who depends of the public sector that is, everyone in the long run. Because my private sector research depends on the fundamental science that is done by public research.

I work on private research so i am one of the last to be fed to the alligators but it doesn't mean anyone is safe.

The rest of the article is more general and interesting but often people just skim trough the first paragraphs. Once again, left wing press talks only to the left wing of the left, which leaves the others uninterested, too passive and late to the fight against fascism. And talking about the racial part of DEI is very clumsy because it is a hugely unpopular topic. A few weeks ago i stumbled on a poll that said that a majority of Americans thought the democratic party was defending the interest of "other people". This needs to change. All people who are not pro-fascist must find a way to talk to everyone. Not just some pet powerless niche public.

A friend of mine made a killing shorting Trump social and gave the money to Ukraine.

If i could short the company that own that service i could do something useful. Taking money from MAGA idiots and help a good cause.

It comes from Latin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Titktok is used by the CCP to destabilize competing economical blocks.

They promote small educational science vids in China while they promote far right parties (in Europe) or Black Lives Matters (in the USA) alongside pop stars.

I wonder if they will go after satirical sites or the kiwi farms. They have pages and threads on MAGA people including Trump and they are not flattering.

I like it but i prefer this version:

First they came for the journalists
Then we don't know what happened next

They have net assets of more than 200 million dollars. Plus some endowments. And an awful lot of people all around the world who use and like wikipedia and are out of reach of the orangutan and his army of inbred brownshirts. So, if the need arises, i guess they can move their infrastructure outside the USA after at worse a donation campaign.

And the MAGA who do not like how wikipedia covers their repulsive movement will go back to pounding sand or making another child with eleven toes to their sisters.

That must be my Latin upbringing but the weird thing for me is he doesn't seem to be embarrassed to hit on a computer image but he seem to deem inappropriate to hit on a colleague. I for one find very rude not to compliment beautiful women.

MAGA, sincere, intelligent. Pick two.

Another vote for Doom. The game which made the PC mainstream, made "3D" popular, started the computer arms race (Before you did not need a powerful computer to run eye of the beholder). Finished the home computers in Europe. Made sound cards compulsory. And popularised the FPS genre.

Not the game which makes ME the most nostalgic, though.

Their replacement by French ASMP/A missiles fired by rafale planes is in talks in some countries. For example Germany. The ASMP/A has a range of 500 km and flies at mach 3. An improvement in regard to the B61 freefalll bomb.

Don't expect the talks to go fast.

There are reports that Trump had a code name of Krasnov, but even if he's not a turned agent in the legal sense of the word and is just a convinced one, he's what Lenin called a useful idiot: he's very stupid and very useful. Even if he acts like that out of personal conviction, the Kremlin is running Washington today. Général de Corps d'armée Michel Yakovleff, ex second in command of the SHAPE, in front of the French senators today.

As explained in this article: https://www.theguardian.com/us...

This article is 4 years old, by the way and the books by Craig Unger are written now.

To use a G.W. Bush expression, we have joined the axis of evil. So we are allied with Russia. And what's left of the free world is our enemy. Or rather, we are their enemy now. Trust in the U.SA. is plummeting and soon everything that depends on that trust will go down like for example my U.S. dollars.

Isn't all this just psychological warfare ? To make investors panic. We have no proof that model was trained for as cheap as the Chinese claim. We do not know if they really used a so small number of H800 GPU.