So, it was originally more than a joke.

More a heuristic to verify whether the venue manager had bothered to read and comply with the contract for a pyrotechnics heavy performance.

in the past ten years, human flesh searching most often targets those perceived to make anti-nationalist comments.

Is there any actual evidence of this?

instead, they do non–party-threatening punditry. i’m talking people like zhang xuefeng and yuan tengfei or tankies like guyanmuchan

Chinese social media platforms have tried to rein in online nationalists by periodically suspending their accounts.

Well-known nationalist influencers Sima Nan and Guyanmuchan have been censored without warning. So was the blogger who tried to sue Mo Yan, whose lawsuit was also rejected by the courts.

One vlogger, who shot to notoriety this year after he posted a video accusing a shopping mall of putting up decorations that resembled the Japanese flag, was similarly shut down. A scathing state media commentary denounced his video as “a malicious report that rides on the online traffic of patriotism”.

:-/

Again, that doesn’t seem to be the case. These influencers are consistently at odds with state media and censors.

The WTO was always a modern form of merchantilism, predicated on the theory that Wall Street financiers would functionally control the global stock of capital in the end.

The China Problem is, at its root, that too much capital is owned by Chinese nationals. We had similar problems with Japan and Korea in the 80s and 90s, and solved this by forcing them to devalue their currencies and take on loads of foreign debt - both private and public - while hooking themselves up to the Saudi well-head for their energy needs.

But the Seattle protesters never really got a head of steam behind them, because Americans did benefit from all these cheap imports more than they suffered. Like, its hard to talk to a guy making high-six figures in the Bay Area or at Microsoft or Apple campus that they’d have been better off working the textiles or lumber industries or making low-margin electronics.

This was a real J. Sakai “Read Settlers” moment. Very hard to convince colonial settlers to vote/organize against what was their generation’s own best interest. If anyone should have been protesting (and quite a few did but certainly not enough), it was folks in Bangladesh or Malaysia or the Philippines, since they were the ones who ended up eating most of the global industrial era shit sandwich.

Now we’re faced with Chinese economy that gets to both make a bunch of high value high demand components and domestically consume it, though. And that’s not nearly as good a deal as what the post-'08 US economy has to offer.

“Hey, you’re not doing this DDoS from a Microsoft office are you?”

“Nope! No no no. Definitely coming from Iran.”

there is. it’s just not translated as doxxing for some reason i can never understand:

An early human flesh search dated back to March 2006, when netizens on Tianya Club collaborated to identify an Internet celebrity named “Poison” (simplified Chinese: 毒药; traditional Chinese: 毒藥; pinyin: dúyào). The man was found out to be a high-level government official.

That doesn’t sound like a campaign of independent agents backed by the CCP to harass dissidents of the government. Just the opposite.

In December 2008, the People’s Court in Beijing called it an alarming phenomenon because of its implications in “cyberviolence” and violations of privacy law. Human flesh searches are banned under the law.

This is a radical departure from the American mainstream social media organizing that has often been encouraged, facilitated, and collaborated with by state and national government agencies.

these already exist…

Again, I’m sure there are folks on the internet with bad takes. I’ve yet to see an Alex Jones equivalent on the scale of “Mainstream, high profile internet show dedicated to denying the existence of school shooters as a pretext for imposing gun regulations”. When that kind of personality pops up on the Chinese internet, authorities tend to move quickly to censure and de-list their content.

And a Chinese Tucker Carlson? What would that even look like? A Reagan-Era Maoist with family ties to the PLA who maintains an enormous following of Millennial / GenA viewers built on the back of qigong enthusiasts criticizing Xi Jinping from the Left? Seriously, name some names. I’d love to learn more about this individual.

I’ve dipped my toe in the waters of Chinese media and you just don’t find these kinds of firebrand figures anywhere in the mainstream. If anything, my experience has been with very baby-brained paternalistic bullshit. Hour long shows that have people cosplaying as historical figures and a crowd of academics and talking heads all just nod along agreeing with one another. Entertainment idols and rising political stars jerking each other off to some banal socio-economic milestone or hagiographical rendition of past glories.

If American media is All Red Meat All The Time, Chinese media is unseasoned tofu. It’s a totally different atmosphere.

Young people are kinda cooked I guess.

Always have been.

Probably no competition for a 5080 or 5090

Don’t blink or you’ll miss it when it comes.

Chinese Big Tech isn’t really known for innovation

Innovation under Pressure: China’s Semiconductor Industry at a Crossroads

For the first time among those watching these issues closely, the technological “choke point” strategy adopted by U.S. authorities across the late 2010s and early 2020s has now been shown to have failed, as Chinese government and R&D officials, as well as key state-backed and private sector firms, have been able to respond to the challenge forcefully and effectively. Leading the response are key policymakers: Vice Premier Ding Xuexiang, and the semiconductor team at the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), overseen by Vice Minister Xiangli Bin. A new AI-focused group at the NDRC overseen by Vice Minister Huang Ru is also increasingly important, as semiconductor and AI-related industry policies increasingly dovetail.

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Leading domestic foundry SMIC, for example, has faced pressure to manufacture Huawei’s most advanced chip designs by stretching existing foreign equipment to its limits. This includes deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography systems supplied by the Dutch firm ASML, which are being pushed beyond their intended capabilities, often resulting in low and inconsistent yields. The urgency stems from Huawei’s need for system-on-chip (SoC) processors for its consumer devices—especially smartphones, as well as for advanced AI chips in its Ascend 9XX series.

Remind me, again. Who else was experimenting with deep ultraviolet (DUV) lithography at scale prior to 2024? Who else was a front-runner in developing and deploying system-on-a-chip or AI embedding?

That’s before you get into the EV sector, SMRs for bulk shipping, or the Chinese airplane and aerospace development.

India, Korea, and Japan have all been in a scramble to keep up with the Chinese industrial programs. Meanwhile the US/EU don’t even seem to bother trying.

Sure. Second hand with a commensurate markup.

But, at this point, is China importing more GPUs than it exports? Having a hard time finding the numbers. But I wouldn’t be surprised if Nvidia is facing the same problem in a couple of years that US car manufacturers are facing today - Chinese competitor products selling for 1/5th the price of the US models globally, while the US manufacturers complain about raw materials constraints and labor shortages that Chinese firms don’t grapple with.

“We shouldn’t do business with China” is a bipartisan approach to foreign policy at this point. Like, cutting the Chinese economy off from high end processors and chipsets is a decision that goes back to the Bush 43 administration. And it’s worked, in so far as we’ve actively discouraged the largest chipmaker to sell to Chinese firms.

But the consequence has been a rapid proliferation of Chinese chipmakers and an explosion in Chinese tech R&D in the fields of chip fabrication and design. Turns out you can’t just cut 1.4B people out of a market forever. Certainly not 1.4B people with a sprawling university system and a massive home-grown tech industry hungry for microprocessors.

Don’t mind me, just eating this bowl of M&Ms with all the brown ones removed.

“Does he smell as bad as you?”

Personally I’ve never seen or heard about anyone’s disbelief in women being gamers.

Rule 30 of the “Rules of the Internet”

You can lose your DL in the US very easily

Reminds me of the US No Fly List.

No idea how your name gets on there. Impossible to remove. Every attempt to fly is a humiliation

Could they not also just selectively ban all Utah-based IPs?

No. Because VPNs redirect traffic from the site to a third party to Utah, in order to disguise the location of the original request

Which is why I’m suggesting they preemptively block everyone in Utah.

Pornhub and other porn sites already do this.

They would still be liable for transmitting content to a Utah resident using a VPN to appear as though they were in neighboring Arizona.

Web services and websites should block all Utah IP addresses

That won’t work on a VPN, though. The VPN will say the user is coming from outside the state. That’s the whole point of the VPN.

Family reunion

More holding the liquor store liable, which is what already happens.