It’s not that, it’s that I’d like to know more about this battery technology.

I wish this article weren’t so light on details.

There are a few China Bad Times stans who reliably downvote anything remotely positive about China.

What’s it got in its pocketses?

But at what cost?

Oh. really? that’s a bargain!

It’s hard to know how much their BYD relationship factored in to their scuttling of their self-driving/electric car project. They could have chosen to keep the “electric car” part and ditch the “self-driving” part, instead of throwing the baby out with the bath water.

Sometimes union take actions that are less severe than outright striking:

• Slowdown
• Work-to-rule

Never overestimate the intelligence of the wealthy: it’s like leaving money on the table.

Outside of the C-suite, that’s not really how severance works.

I hope this is just a rich people grift, because then who cares.

Yeah, I work in this industry, in the US. I’m familiar with the specific attacks you mentioned. I’ve been paid to lose sleep over these things. I’ve worked extra hours dealing with DDOS attacks and suspected intrusions and zero-day fire drills. I know.

But this isn’t unique to the US. It’s basically the same everywhere. And the US isn’t uniquely “behind.” Everyone’s behind. If the US is unique at all, it’s that we happen to own & run more internet services than anyone else.

We are pathetically behind in the cyber warfare sphere, though.

Not relative to other countries.

we are being obliterated by chinese/russian/anyone else troll farms

We are not; we are told we are. It’s propaganda coming from our own security state, pointed at us. Why? To manufacture our consent to censorship. They are telling us that other countries are doing to us what they are doing to other countries, and have been since even before the internet existed.

Listen to this complete inversion of reality from Biden: How would it be if the United States were viewed by the rest of the world as interfering with the elections directly of other countries, and everybody knew it?

• IT Pro: Cambridge Analytica models were exaggerated and ineffective, [UK Information Commissioner’s Office] claims
• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• Washington Post: Russian trolls on Twitter had little influence on 2016 voters
• Jacobin: It Turns Out Hillary Clinton, Not Russian Bots, Lost the 2016 Election
• Matt Taibbi: Move Over, Jayson Blair: Meet Hamilton 68, the New King of Media Fraud The Twitter Files reveal that one of the most common news sources of the Trump era was a scam, making ordinary American political conversations look like Russian spywork
• Jacobin: Why the Twitter Files Are in Fact a Big Deal On the Left, there’s been a temptation to dismiss the revelations about Twitter’s internal censorship system that have emerged from the so-called Twitter Files project. But that would be a mistake: the news is important and the details are alarming.
• MSNBC Repeats Hamilton 68 Lies 279 Times in 11 Minutes
• Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
• Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

definitely

Definitely, given the overwhelming mountain of evidence you’re sitting on 👍 Meanwhile, the US isn’t the largest intelligence/security state in the world by leaps and bounds. It’s just a little-bitty backward country whose military-industrial complex invented the internet.

It’s amazing that Westerners still think of China—or really any other state—before the US when it comes these things. Just oblivious to the propaganda you’re soaking in every day.
Not to imply that China has never or will never do anything of the sort.

I’m sure the NSA is more than willing to pitch in. It’s a team effort between the state and the capitalist class.

It was never about “countering dis-, mis-, and mal-information”. It was always about controlling the message, about censorship & propaganda. It was always top-down from the capitalist class and their government mandarins to shape public opinion. I’ve described real media literacy before, which you’ll never get from secondary or undergraduate schooling, nor from corporate media, nor from the new post-Trump/“post-truth” media literacy curricula.

In the fediverse we have some amount of freedom right now, but they’ve become aware of us.

There are dozens of us. Dozens! I think I may buy it just so I can finally stop thinking about it…

The next gen SE will be virtually exactly as large—which is too large—so there seems to be no getting around it. I mostly don’t care about the newer features, so for me it comes down to patience & price, and frankly I have the money to blow and would like to stop thinking about it.

Hopefully it will be my last iPhone, because I’d like to escape both the Apple & Google platforms for something FOSSy.

It runs counter to the genocide—“cultural” or otherwise—narrative, and counter to the “Han supremacy” narrative. The Uyghur people and other minority groups were excepted from China’s One-Child policy, and as a result the Uyghur population in Xinjiang has grown in proportion to the Han population. The Uyghur languages and religious* practices are protected and financially supported, not suppressed. People can go to Xinjiang and see for themselves. They can see & hear the languages in use and visit the mosques.

*The CPC is officially atheist, but their general policy on religion is tolerance, and an expectation that religions will eventually wither away on their own.

I guess my main issue with your argument is that I’m not convinced of the reliability of the sources you’ve cited regarding the situation in Xinjiang.

It seems the sources you deem reliable are largely the same sources that Wikipedia, MB/FC, AFM, and the RAND Corporation deem reliable. I have a lot of thoughts about the media and about media literacy.

Despite your criticisms of Wikipedia, I believe the users of the site do a good job of vetting the information that’s there.

They usually do a decent job, less so when reality rubs up against cultural hegemony.

I do think it’s valid to criticize the US broadly, and I likewise think it’s valid to criticize China

Sure, there are no sacred cows.

This video doesn’t seem to be necessarily wrong, it just doesn’t seem to be very useful/actionable. It’s like a teaser for a hypothetical documentary film.

So should the “paper of record” New York Times[1][2][3].