Tag archives for China
The Reg’s sinophobia is pathetic
I read The Reg for articles by Liam Proven and by SJVN. So far, I've used the global RSS, which includes the whole crap posted by all kinds of idiots:…
Random shitheads who use AI to monetize shit
As I logged in on GitHub, I was suggested one so-called trending repository. It was FujiwaraChoki/MoneyPrinterV2. I then discovered harry0703/MoneyPrinterTurbo, at some point “number one shit of the day”! GitHub…
George Yeo and Shaun Rein talking about China and the US
Yong-Boon Yeo, aka George Yeo Yong-Boon, aka George Yeo, was Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore between August 2004 and May 2011 (Wikipedia). Previously, he was Minister for Trade and…
Guess which of Copilot and DeepSeek is censoring critical thought about this war
My starting question was this one: Are the Academy Awards (the Oscars), organized and presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), pro-Trump or anti-Trump? Why didn't…
Colecționarul de Căcat
Matei Udrea, care din 1993 a avut o lungă carieră de jurnalist de sport, și care prin 2017 încă mai găsea că e interesant să pierzi timpul oamenilor vorbind despre…
Bolojan și oferta lui de nerefuzat
După ce am citit materialul avocatului Alexandru Mușătoiu „Asociații unui SRL răspund cu bunurile personale în fața ANAF”, m-am bășicat rău pe tovarășul Ilie Bolojan și m-am gândit să întreb…
Spusele și nespusele lui Rughiniș cu privire la AI
Cătălin Striblea mi-e extrem de antipatic. Răzvan Rughiniș nu mi-e nicicum, dar îi detest barba prinsă într-o codiță. Omul este extrem de knowledgeable, dar e cu pluta. Pe de altă…
The American Dream: being one crisis away from poverty
I recently discovered (so to speak) CGTN Radio, formerly known as China Radio International. Of course, I knew the CGTN mobile app, but I thought it's only TV and news…
Which one comes first, Greenland or Iran?
I bet on Greenland, even if “informed people” swear that the US will attack Iran within the next 12 hours (in the night or early morning of Jan. 15 local…
Quick reads—7 links exactly
To supplement my previous set of links on Linux and AI, here's a cursory selection from what I read this morning via my RSS subscriptions in Capy Reader. Plus a…
Operation ‘Emperor of the World’
The shit-orange infused Monroe Doctrine, dubbed “Donroe Doctrine,” was not invented in the last couple of days. The term that appeared on a January 2025 cover of The New York…
Plans for US Imperialism 2.0 predate Trump 2.0
I stumbled upon a video excerpt on X, and I wondered whether it's authentic or AI-generated. I googled “Laura J. Richardson lithium triangle” and Google's AI Overview spitted this: General…
The EU and Romania compete in dissing China
This is not the first adversarial or hostile gesture of the European Commission against China, even if the decision of the Council of the EU doesn't mention China by name,…
Mark Rutte just made a huge mistake
From the December 11, 2025, Keynote speech by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and moderated discussion with Minister for Foreign Affairs of Germany Johann Wadephul in Berlin: And how is…
eMag Marketplace: loc de luat țeapă de la chinezii din Lyon!
Un prieten a luat țeapă cumpărând de pe eMag o contrafacere ordinară vândută de un terț, dar expediată de eMag din depozitele proprii. Omul s-a gândit să inițieze un retur…
Trump’s Gaza success eclipses his China chaos
After having pampered Genocidal Bibi and praised the IDF in the Knesset, Trump went to the 2025 Gaza peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh. But what I found concerning is his…
A society by robots, for robots: very quick thoughts
I happened to read this article in SCMP, As China’s population falls, 300,000-strong robot army keeps factories humming, and the ending annoyed me: “By 2030, the country is projected to…
Some new AI shit: bric-à-brac
Nothing spectacular, and I wanted to report about all this stuff about a week ago, but personal issues prevented me from doing that. So here it is (better later than…
Dan Wang & Zhang Weiwei on China
In this comment, I quoted from Dan Wang’s piece in The Atlantic, A Nation of Lawyers Confronts China’s Engineering State. There is more from this guy, and not only from…
How is Putin really seen by Xi? Notes on the 2025 SCO summit
The Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in a nutshell Founded in 2001, when Putin didn't seem such an ogre, with two official languages—Chinese and Russian—the SCO included as members, alongside China…