I sometimes sing to my border collie. She’s the only creature on the planet who will put up with my singing. She seems especially fond of “Loretta” (Townes van Zandt version). It seems to have a calming effect.
Got to be a way to tie this in with the Bee Gees.
“Stayin’ Alive”, maybe.
(The anthem for survivalists—of all species—across North America…?)
Juan has an updated video on the Korean crash. A lot of strange things occurred. Plane was on approach to Rnwy 01 when it had an apparent bird strike in the right engine. Video shows flaps extended. The crew then, for unknown reasons, now decide to go around and land on 19 in less than 7 minutes later. Juan notes it’s not enough time to run through all the checklists. Further, video shows landing on 19, no flaps, no gear which accounts for the high speed and subsequent runoff of the runway. He also explains due to redundancy there should have been hydraulic pressure available for flaps and gear. This is further given by the video which seems to show the crew had rudder, aileron, and elevator control.
Makes me wonder about inadequate crew training and poor decisions. We’ll have to wait on data and cockpit recorders, I guess.
Yikes! That’s a bad plane crash. 179 dead & two survivors, in what was something of a controlled flight landing on a runway. Great summary by the youtube guy.
I found a good article on US restrictions of AI chips to China. It’s from the CSIS, a bipartisan think tank.
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In summary, the United States does not want China to have advanced AI computing and supercomputing facilities, so it has blocked them from purchasing the best AI chips, which are all American. It does not want China designing its own AI chips, so it has blocked China from using the best chip design software (which is all American) to design high-end chips, and it has blocked chip manufacturing facilities worldwide from accepting entity-listed Chinese chip design firms (as well as any Chinese chip company building high-end chips) as customers. Finally, the United States does not want China to have its own advanced chip manufacturing facilities, so it has blocked them from purchasing the necessary equipment, much of which is irreplaceably American.
In weaponizing its dominant chokepoint positions in the global semiconductor value chain, the United States is exercising technological and geopolitical power on an incredible scale.
So, yes, we are serious about choking off China’s efforts to develop cutting-edge AI. Which for China is a very serious thing indeed.
Good.
China can find ways around this through third-parties. Still, this likely reduces the amounts of chips they can buy and increases the prices.
China does lead the world in AI facial recognition software.
Brrr.
In re the recent H1-B visa kerfluffle, Sarah Hoyt thinks it has been resolved peacefully and in favor of the “little people” who were calling out the “tech bros” with facts and figures. https://accordingtohoyt.com/2024/12/30/family-arguments/
As most of the Hoyt board pointed out, having the conversation at all was the most important part, after the years (decades?) of (elite/political/mostly Democrat/some GOP) censorship and definitely (leftist) Democrat lock-step conformity.
Some people want to concentrate first on deporting the blatantly illegal criminals, which is fine, and leave the more subtly illegal H1-Bs until later; others point out that Americans can do both concurrently.
I’m in the “do both” camp, because the cure for one is the cure for both: follow the laws first, whether you are hiring ditch-diggers or software geniuses. Then reform the laws.
And at the same time (because we are America), fix the educational system that artificially constricts the “supply” of Americans who can “do the work” that the (il)legals are imported for.
A phrase which, from now on, will haunt and inform American politics, “My word as a Biden.”
Thanks for the link. I read part of it but stopped when my credulity was strained. I do think it is important to understand India and Indians better, since the default PC attitude in USA is “thou must not criticize any group which is not white or Christian, because they are all as good (or better than) whites/Christians.” And Indians are a large, growing, and influential population here.
I suppose you know that American Renaissance is more or less a White Supremacist website. This doesn’t get my shorts in a twist, because most every group thinks it is better than all other groups; however, I find racialist obsessions tiresome. However, such sites may contain stories that are censored by both Right and Left. I used to check vdare.com daily, before they were driven out of business by Letitia James’ lawfare.
Dax, I lived in India for a couple of years. I have to agree with the ex-pat’s assessment of India in general, although, like many “ex” people, he comes down hard on the culture he left. And I don’t support white supremacists or read their websites, but I would say that India, as I experienced it, was far, far more obsessed with race and caste than anything I’ve seen in the USA.
I will say also that the higher-caste Hindus who immigrate here often assimilate into American culture and citizenship well — see Ramaswamy, or Usha Vance, for instance.
@ Dax > “I suppose you know that American Renaissance is more or less a White Supremacist website.”
I don’t read that site, I just follow links, but I started to get that impression from the comments — and I wonder if it is not a bit odd that an Indian author is publishing there (or else he doesn’t know what the site promotes).
However, the Democrats have called more than one black conservative the same thing, IIRC.
I sometimes sing to my border collie. She’s the only creature on the planet who will put up with my singing. She seems especially fond of “Loretta” (Townes van Zandt version). It seems to have a calming effect.
Got to be a way to tie this in with the Bee Gees.
“Stayin’ Alive”, maybe.
(The anthem for survivalists—of all species—across North America…?)
talented pets,
back of the book section,
https://odysee.com/@theduran:e/South-Korea-political-crisis-deepens:9
Juan has an updated video on the Korean crash. A lot of strange things occurred. Plane was on approach to Rnwy 01 when it had an apparent bird strike in the right engine. Video shows flaps extended. The crew then, for unknown reasons, now decide to go around and land on 19 in less than 7 minutes later. Juan notes it’s not enough time to run through all the checklists. Further, video shows landing on 19, no flaps, no gear which accounts for the high speed and subsequent runoff of the runway. He also explains due to redundancy there should have been hydraulic pressure available for flaps and gear. This is further given by the video which seems to show the crew had rudder, aileron, and elevator control.
Makes me wonder about inadequate crew training and poor decisions. We’ll have to wait on data and cockpit recorders, I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzmptA6s-1g
Yikes! That’s a bad plane crash. 179 dead & two survivors, in what was something of a controlled flight landing on a runway. Great summary by the youtube guy.
https://x.com/cspan/status/1144621211516903424?
Catherine Herridge is back—sharp and incisive as ever.
It ain’t pretty…but someone’s got to do it…
‘“ It’s A Cover-Up And It’s Terrifying”: CIA Whistleblower Says Foreign Adversary ‘Likely’ Responsible For Havana Syndrome’
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/its-cover-and-its-terrifying-cia-whistleblower-says-foreign-adversary-likely-responsible
Re; Chinese AI
I found a good article on US restrictions of AI chips to China. It’s from the CSIS, a bipartisan think tank.
______________________________
In summary, the United States does not want China to have advanced AI computing and supercomputing facilities, so it has blocked them from purchasing the best AI chips, which are all American. It does not want China designing its own AI chips, so it has blocked China from using the best chip design software (which is all American) to design high-end chips, and it has blocked chip manufacturing facilities worldwide from accepting entity-listed Chinese chip design firms (as well as any Chinese chip company building high-end chips) as customers. Finally, the United States does not want China to have its own advanced chip manufacturing facilities, so it has blocked them from purchasing the necessary equipment, much of which is irreplaceably American.
In weaponizing its dominant chokepoint positions in the global semiconductor value chain, the United States is exercising technological and geopolitical power on an incredible scale.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/choking-chinas-access-future-ai
______________________________
So, yes, we are serious about choking off China’s efforts to develop cutting-edge AI. Which for China is a very serious thing indeed.
Good.
China can find ways around this through third-parties. Still, this likely reduces the amounts of chips they can buy and increases the prices.
China does lead the world in AI facial recognition software.
Brrr.
In re the recent H1-B visa kerfluffle, Sarah Hoyt thinks it has been resolved peacefully and in favor of the “little people” who were calling out the “tech bros” with facts and figures.
https://accordingtohoyt.com/2024/12/30/family-arguments/
As most of the Hoyt board pointed out, having the conversation at all was the most important part, after the years (decades?) of (elite/political/mostly Democrat/some GOP) censorship and definitely (leftist) Democrat lock-step conformity.
One of her commenters (JohnS) linked to this post which is very long but informative on the subject, …
https://barsoom.substack.com/p/the-great-christmas-h1b-war-of-2024
… and it in turn linked to a post by an Indian ex-pat dishing on the citizens of his native land.
https://www.amren.com/features/2024/12/india-its-worse-than-you-think/
I’ve been trying to find some support for Sarah’s belief that Elon walked back his H1-B stance (no word on Vivek), and haven’t found many.
https://www.msn.com/en-in/lifestyle/whats-hot/elon-musk-admits-h1-b-visas-are-broken-and-need-major-reform-shortly-after-vowing-to-go-to-war-on-this-issue/ar-AA1wGi8z
This one is more general, and the author is not as well informed as his commenters seem to be, but it was the best one I saw at Salem media today.
https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/12/29/84-of-h-1b-visas-go-to-india-and-china-is-it-a-dei-scam-in-disguise-n4935510
This was a good post on the problem in general.
https://townhall.com/columnists/marklewis/2024/12/31/towards-a-sane-and-comprehensive-immigration-policy-n2649733
Some people want to concentrate first on deporting the blatantly illegal criminals, which is fine, and leave the more subtly illegal H1-Bs until later; others point out that Americans can do both concurrently.
I’m in the “do both” camp, because the cure for one is the cure for both: follow the laws first, whether you are hiring ditch-diggers or software geniuses. Then reform the laws.
And at the same time (because we are America), fix the educational system that artificially constricts the “supply” of Americans who can “do the work” that the (il)legals are imported for.
A phrase which, from now on, will haunt and inform American politics, “My word as a Biden.”
AesopFan wrote:
Thanks for the link. I read part of it but stopped when my credulity was strained. I do think it is important to understand India and Indians better, since the default PC attitude in USA is “thou must not criticize any group which is not white or Christian, because they are all as good (or better than) whites/Christians.” And Indians are a large, growing, and influential population here.
I suppose you know that American Renaissance is more or less a White Supremacist website. This doesn’t get my shorts in a twist, because most every group thinks it is better than all other groups; however, I find racialist obsessions tiresome. However, such sites may contain stories that are censored by both Right and Left. I used to check vdare.com daily, before they were driven out of business by Letitia James’ lawfare.
Dax, I lived in India for a couple of years. I have to agree with the ex-pat’s assessment of India in general, although, like many “ex” people, he comes down hard on the culture he left. And I don’t support white supremacists or read their websites, but I would say that India, as I experienced it, was far, far more obsessed with race and caste than anything I’ve seen in the USA.
I will say also that the higher-caste Hindus who immigrate here often assimilate into American culture and citizenship well — see Ramaswamy, or Usha Vance, for instance.
@ Dax > “I suppose you know that American Renaissance is more or less a White Supremacist website.”
I don’t read that site, I just follow links, but I started to get that impression from the comments — and I wonder if it is not a bit odd that an Indian author is publishing there (or else he doesn’t know what the site promotes).
However, the Democrats have called more than one black conservative the same thing, IIRC.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-08-20/recall-candidate-larry-elder-is-a-threat-to-black-californians
“Column: Larry Elder is the Black face of white supremacy. You’ve been warned”
https://www.jstor.org/stable/20064129
“Thomas Sowell’s Quixotic Quest to Denigrate African American Culture: A Critique”
Any relatively recent post about Justice Clarence Thomas.