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Investigation into the BBC's civil war over Palestine coverage here.
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Investigation into the BBC's civil war over Palestine coverage here.
Q: How did the AI hype start? A: OpenAI became the first American company to demonstrate that if you take a snapshot of the whole known internet and all digitized books in existence without worrying too much about copyright law, you can create a model so good that its output would be almost indistinguishable from that of a DC bureaucrat with mediocre intelligence.
Khan warned that enabling protectionism for tech monopolies wouldn’t just hurt all of us, it would hurt them too. Now they’re getting wiped
Q: How is China involved? A: As a part of its larger effort to contain China, the U.S. government has been on a mission of stopping Chinese companies from becoming leaders in different areas of technology. It has done so by wielding control over global supply chains and protecting American tech companies from competition in the process. The U.S. blocked Huawei’s entry into the United States just as it was overtaking Apple to become the second biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world; it stopped European countries from installing Huawei manufactured 5G infrastructure when it was clearly more economical; and most recently, it passed legislation banning TikTok, a Chinese social media app that had become massively popular in United States and whose recommendation algorithm no American social media app had been able to outperform. The U.S. claim that Huawei and other Chinese tech companies are inextricably linked to China’s geopolitical strategy and put Western companies and people at heightened risk of surveillance and corporate espionage is, of course, grounded in reality. DeepSeek isn’t shy about how much data it collects on its platform, including even your keystrokes ... However, because DeepSeek is open source and can run locally on a separate device, Chairman Xi Jinping’s prying eyes can be shielded. Maintaining global technological dominance is one of the key concerns U.S. policymakers have repeatedly cited, and have identified AI as a crucial technology in maintaining that dominance. In 2018, when the U.S. government was in the process of banning Huawei, it realized that it would need to do the same with downstream technologies like semiconductor chips, the main component used in CPUs and GPUs. The severe chip shortage due to global supply chain disruptions during Covid-19 showed that advanced chips are a global supply chain bottleneck and a scarce resource. By 2022 the Biden administration had put comprehensive sanctions on China, stopping the export of these chips to the country and preventing Chinese AI companies from accessing the latest and most efficient GPUs. At the same time, it passed the CHIPS act, subsidizing national semiconductor manufacturing with over $50 billion.
Drop Site / May 20, 2025 at 06:34AM / https://ift.tt/FxSdJ2f image/video: https://ift.tt/HxgI50Q LIVE: Netanyahu’s final solution for Palestinians of Gaza: hospitals bombed, civilians slaughtered, aid reduced to optics. @jeremyscahill & @ryangrim break down the assault—and Europe’s too-late diplomatic discomfort. #Gaza #DropSiteNews #CeasefireNow x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Drop Site / May 20, 2025 at 06:32AM / https://ift.tt/DfB2lX8 image/video: https://ift.tt/pgj1ikw LIVE at 9:30 AM ET on @DropSiteNews @JeremyScahill & @RyanGrim break down Israel’s Final Solution for the Palestinians of Gaza: “Operation Gideon’s Chariots.” Plus: aid as cover for genocide, Gaza’s collapsing health system, on-the-ground reports from Drop Site contributors, and more.
Drop Site / May 20, 2025 at 06:23AM / https://ift.tt/iBjmNb5 image/video: https://ift.tt/htdS46D Ryan Grim: Drop what you’re doing Drop Site: LIVE at 9:30 AM ET on @DropSiteNews @JeremyScahill & @RyanGrim break down Israel’s ‘Final Solution’ for the Palestinians of Gaza: “Operation Gideon’s Chariots.” Plus: aid as cover for genocide, Gaza’s collapsing health system, on-the-ground reports from Drop Site contributors, and more.
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Drop Site / May 19, 2025 at 11:52PM / https://ift.tt/AwCQgcj image/video: https://ift.tt/HxgI50Q Netanyahu: Aid Resumed to Avoid International Pressure and Finish (Genocidal) War Plan 1. In an interview on Monday, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu openly admitted that limited humanitarian aid to Gaza was restored only to prevent international backlash. “We must not reach a state of famine,” he said, “neither from a practical standpoint nor from a political standpoint… Our best friends in the world… won’t be able to support us” if images of starvation spread. ▪️He warned that Israel is “rapidly approaching the red line, a situation where we could lose control, and then everything falls apart.” U.S. senators, he said, told him: “We are giving you all the aid to complete the victory—weapons, support for your operations to eliminate Hamas, defense at the Security Council… [but] we cannot accept images of starvation, mass starvation… we won’t be able to support you.” ▪️“To achieve victory,” Netanyahu said, “we must somehow solve this problem.” Until new systems are in place, Israel will allow “some bridging solution… a minimal, basic one, so there is no famine.” ▪️The plan, he explained, is to set up aid distribution points controlled by the Israeli military and staffed by U.S. private companies—ensuring that anyone Israel believes is Hamas or Hamas-affiliated “gets nothing.” ▪️”Eventually, to reach a situation where we have an area entirely controlled by the IDF, and the entire civilian population of Gaza can go there and receive aid…” ▪️Netanyahu cast this not as a concession, but as part of a broader war strategy. “We are going to win, and we are going to achieve absolute victory.” ▪️Pressed on whether Israel’s military campaign is stagnating, Netanyahu bristled. “What are you talking about?” he said. “We have immense fighting… we are going to take control of all areas of the Strip.” ▪️He repeatedly tied Hamas’s defeat to captives release, calling the two goals “intertwined” and only achievable through continued military pressure paired with tightly controlled humanitarian optics. ➤ Drop Site’s @JeremyScahill breaks down Netanyahu’s remarks and the broader strategy behind Israel’s aid scheme in his latest report: “Gaza Aid Scheme Offers Israel Symbolic Cover to Finish the Genocide.” Link in reply.