@RyanFedasiuk Unparalleled efficiency in joy generation, this particlar technology
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Tom Nunlist
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Tom Nunlist
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China Cyber & Data Policy Analyst Associate Director @triviumchina https://t.co/42b0JdvBXE Trying to be less wrong...
Shanghai เข้าร่วม Ekim 2010
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resolutely promoting the development of the low-altitude economy
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It's the most wonderful time of year in Shanghai...
The two weeks when you can open the windows, but the mosquitoes haven't yet arrived 🦟
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One softer element that should not go unnoticed: I read Chinese gov't documents for a living, and while the state never fails to highlight it's achievements, it is also consistently self-effacing, and sees itself as basically *behind.*
That is, it is a hungry competitor.
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Another specific point: the Ministry of Finance's 2026 budget explicitly designated sci-tech spending as a “prioritized guaranteed expenditure" - not only is science spending rising, it is basically *untouchable* 3/
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Adding to the relevance of @Scholars_Stage's piece:
Not only does China lead in research, and own a nation's worth of new labs - but the biggest recent sci-tech policy theme is to *transcend* the "paper's only" achievement paradigm by building lab-to-world industrial pipeline 1/
T. Greer@Scholars_Stage
New essay: China and the Future of Science
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When I finally fell asleep last night, I had a dream about insomnia...
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King of the Hill guys from a different multiverse
🛃@prolejacketgape
@NightlifeMingus this is a dutch man in traditional pijbroek trousers worn in volendam
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@NightlifeMingus @prolejacketgape Double dare you to post all the other drawings from that section
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@prolejacketgape Wow thank you, I knew it had to be something specific like this. I had guess Dutch based on the clogs but the rest didn’t match any of the other familiar stereotypes
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my girlfriend found a ‘how to draw’ book from 1939 and in the racial stereotypes section (seriously) we found this guy, and he’s got us stumped. what is this supposed to represent? apologies if this happens to be extremely offensive but I don’t know who I am offending
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According to ChatGPT, my Swiss-German surname means "extremely clever" 😉
... tho tbh I think that trait may have long since been diluted...
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@ClimbingCoachX @Camp4 @WSWayland My reaction here is to bringing in football players who clearly aren't training for climbing. "Haha, look at these state champs that can't climb 10a" ... This isn't surprising, probably does not reflect their level athleticism, and comes off like sneering elitism.
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One time I was working at a climbing wall when the high school football state champions came in for a group party to celebrate their season.
I got to watch 50+ athletes — all of whom had been lifting and training all season — struggle to climb a 5.10a. Fewer than 5 even made it to the top of the wall.
As their event wrapped up, they got to see a 14-year-old girl warm up on the same route.
Kevin Dahlstrom@Camp4
P.S. To further stir the pot: While benching a big number is impressive… Strength is not fitness. Strong enough is strong enough—beyond that it’s better to focus on staying lean and mobile. If you want a good laugh, take a meathead to a climbing gym, where you need bodyweight/grip strength, endurance, power, balance, coordination, and spatial awareness.
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Coincidentally, a friend of mine working at a Chinese EV OEM remarked to me in just this topic yesterday: "Extensive, not intensive, is the Chinese modus operandi."
Rhodium Group@rhodium_group
We’re often asked: Why are Chinese EVs so cheap? Comparing costs between Western and Chinese automakers in China shows that subsidies matter, but they’re only part of the story: rhg.com/research/why-a…
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@pretentiouswhat Someday, "which city is 闽D?" will come up in a pub quiz, and David Fishman will be there
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A thing I've given myself as a long term goal is to memorize which Chinese cities correspond to which license plates.
There's ~350 different ones, so it's going to take a while. Tourist sites have people from *everywhere* so it's a good place to practice.
For example...
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Tom Nunlist รีทวีตแล้ว
I'm coining a term today: Macco's Razor. That is, if given a choice between the straightforward/boring explanation, and a grand, mysterious, or arcane narrative, the mainstream discourse will pick the latter.
Kyle Chan@kyleichan
China does not have “hundred-year plans” for industrial dominance. Instead, China tries to identify key bottlenecks and then do whatever it takes to resolve them: - Infrastructure - Energy - Materials - IT & chips - Industrial equipment There are many, many failures & mistakes along the way. But they basically keep trying until they make it.
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@kyleichan More or less equivalent to "the secret to losing weight in consistently counting calories" ... And nobody wants to hear that either!
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China does not have “hundred-year plans” for industrial dominance. Instead, China tries to identify key bottlenecks and then do whatever it takes to resolve them:
- Infrastructure
- Energy
- Materials
- IT & chips
- Industrial equipment
There are many, many failures & mistakes along the way. But they basically keep trying until they make it.
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Robots will never beat humans in rock climbing, which is quite literally all "tricky edge cases"
Kyle Chan@kyleichan
The AlphaGo moment is coming for robotics. Across a growing range of well-defined physical tasks in closed environments, AI-powered robots will not only beat the best humans—it won’t even be a contest: F1 racing, drone racing, many sports, gymnastics, etc. Physical AI systems will basically “solve” these challenges in real time and then execute with a kind of speed, precision, and consistency that no human can come close to matching. The question will become: which physical domains will be “conquered” first by AI-powered machines and which domains will remain too messy and complex and full of tricky edge cases for AI to beat out humans—at least in the short-to-medium term?
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Frankly, it's a strong advantage in most roles...
derek guy@dieworkwear
Cannot stress how much of an advantage it is to be a normal, well adjusted, applicant for food industry roles. A friend runs an olive oil factory and an applicant listed "the global financial system" as an interest. That is not an interest. There will not be an interview.
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@kyleichan Nice. Grabbing onto the Manus thread: check out this piece from my colleague on how Beijing could intervene in the acquisition, and beyond triviumchina.com/research/will-…
Podcast discussion on same: triviumchina.com/2026/01/25/pod…
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My first op-ed in the Financial Times!
“We are witnessing a great reversal in global technology flows. For decades, China lagged behind the west… But the diffusion of technology between China and the west is increasingly a two-way street. Across a growing array of products — electric vehicles, batteries, drones, rare earth magnets — it is now China that stands at the global frontier. ft.com/content/785103…
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