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Jensen Huang seems unwilling to admit that his primary goal is profit, even if it ends up strengthening a strategic rival. He contradicts himself by claiming that providing China with more advanced chips somehow benefits the U.S., which doesn’t make sense. His logic is like arguing that giving the Soviet Union better tools to build more advanced weapons, potentially increasing its ability to threaten the United States, would somehow strengthen U.S. leadership in defence. Anyone with basic common sense can see that this argument doesn’t stand. He’s also on shaky ground when he claims that China will develop its own chips anyway. The evidence suggests otherwise: export controls have pushed China to rely on smuggling and other workarounds to obtain advanced U.S. chips, precisely because it still cannot produce them at the same level and remains dependent on them. When pressed by the host, he appeared to contradict himself again: at one point acknowledging that “they are an adversary,” and later questioning the very idea of treating China as one, even suggesting that the U.S. should avoid “turning them into an enemy.” But in doing so, he seems to ignore the long-standing strategic rivalry between Communist China and the United States dating back to 1949. In any case, export controls remain essential to preserving the U.S. technological edge.

Overheard in Silicon Valley: "UBI is for farm animals."

This is Judge Tracey Lloyd-Clarke, she has sentenced an ex-soldier with PTSD, Daffron Williams, to two and a half years in prison for Facebook comments. She also sentenced someone for posting a video on social media to 12 months. But that exact same judge let off a child rapist called Reese Newman because she said the prisons were overcrowded This is British Justice.

Love My Thursday Mornings. Always have one of these. A Great British tradition.

Jonathan Majors falls out of a window on set of his new Daily Wire action film. When Deadline reached out for comment about unsafe conditions on the set, the producers said they “don’t negotiate with communists.” (Source: Deadline)