Is there any merit to framing conflicts of the recent past in ideological terms?
For example, the events leading up to WWII could be described as #fascism vs #communism, until you learn about the economic and military pacts Bolsheviks made with Hitler and Mussolini.
Sure, Brownshirts were fighting communists on the streets of Berlin, but once each side captured their own state, differences were set aside for the greater project of making their respective nations stronger.
Similarly, the Cold War was supposedly about capitalism vs communism, until you learn about China embracing Kissinger and the Sino-Soviet split.
It feels like nationalism is the singular dominant ideology of the XX and XXI century and all other ideologies are incidental and need to align themselves with the ultimate goal of "how to make our country strong".
This week's feature guest is CISA's assistant director for cybersecurity Eric Goldstein. He'll talk about CISA ordering USG agencies to disconnect their Ivanti equipment, the Volt Typhoon campaign and a Politico report into CISA's Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative. Up later today
Military supplies delivered to Belarus aboard 4 Chinese flights, observers report.
"At the beginning of January, the Belaruski Hajun monitoring group recorded unusual activity by the Chinese cargo airline Air China Cargo at Minsk National Airport. Over a period of four days, the Boeing 747-400F registered B-2476 completed four round-trip flights between Ürümqi (airport code ZWWW) and Minsk (UMMS)...
We have reason to believe that the cargo plane transported military equipment from China to Belarus. The cargo likely bypassed customs clearance and was transshipped out of the airport immediately, as staging the freight in the usual military cargo area would have attracted additional attention with the consignment sitting out in the open."
(But reality check: #MikeJohnson said he doesn’t want to pass #BorderLegislation because he doesn’t want the Biden admin to be able to take credit for it & because he wants to keep the issue alive for the 2024 #election.)
@wndlb you know people / media totally skipped over President Biden’s enormous accomplishment re the #UnitedStates’ joint effort w/ President #Xi / #PRC (#China) on #fentanyl.
📖 The book "Consuls in the Cold War", edited by Sue Onslow and Lori Maguire, includes a chapter authored by Pedro Aires Oliveira dedicated to the diplomatic relations between Portugal and the People's Republic of China in the mid-20th century. 🇵🇹 🇨🇳
Palestinian medics react after several members of the Palestinian Red Crescent were killed when an Israeli strike hit an ambulance, according to the Red Crescent, in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip. REUTERS/Mohammed Al-Masri
Does your paper have this manipulative pro-China "advertisement" in your local paper?
This "China Watch" newspaper supplement has been added into the LA Times every Sunday for years - focusing on older, more gullible voters. And it's pretty insidious.
The PRC'd version of the Hall of Fame conversion Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon has been added to the Community Module Browser: https://nwn.ee/jaysyn
The PRC'd version of the Hall of Fame remake of the Icewind Dale Expansion, Heart of Winter is now available in the community module browser. https://nwn.ee/prc
The PRC'd version of the Hall of Fame remake of the Icewind Dale Expansion, Trials of the Luremaster is now available in the community module browser. https://nwn.ee/prc
@patrickcmiller Some say it's simple opportunism (see: IBM and 3rd reich) or lack of #ethics, but #geopolitics just sounds so much cooler.
#Apple may try pointing its partially bitten finger at other participants like #Microsoft, but they just happen to be #PRC's largest single funder, if not also technology provider, since the days before "people's republic"...
I'm sure '#empowerment" is listed somewhere as their key corporate value, but apparently no one explained that it should apply to individuals and not the regimes repressing them. 🤷🏻♂️
@arstechnica ☝️ It may not take any single scary subvariant to actually be a scary proposal.
Every infection — the #antivaxxers 'did their own research', so good on 'em 🤷🏻♂️ — attacks/lowers our defences and reactivates the prevalent #HSV and #EpsteinBarr viruses which appear to be behind lot of the #longcovid cases... we're approaching 100 million cases of long covid globally by the end of the year.
The best way to lower the risk of (long) covid to yourself and those you care about is by staying current on vaccinations and, yes, using a mask.
And thanks #CCP for demanding that in early 2020 flight had to be allowed to leave the #PRC and create this #pandemic it covered up.
Chinese law demands tech firms operating there report hackable (unpatched) bugs in their products to the government within 2 days. An Atlantic Council report shows how firms seem to be complying—and how that helps China's hackers target their customers. https://www.wired.com/story/china-vulnerability-disclosure-law/
Everyone who defends or apoligizes #KiwiFarms deserves to get blocked on sight.
If you think it's a "hill worth dying on" then get your facts straight:
KiwiFarms is literally the acid-filled openpit mine of hate and solely being used by people who get banned from 4chan, 8kun, MumsNet and other shitsites.
NEW: "Sham Signal App Tied to China Raises Alarms"
You're using your smartphone, scrolling through your favorite apps, sending messages, and staying connected. But what if some of those innocent-looking apps are not what they seem?
#China is building an open national chip plan around #RiscV
Chinese RISC-V Alliance was established in 2018 to build out a full open-source chip ecosystem by 2030.
Long-term goal is to create a platform with full chip development platform with open-source chip designs, electronic design automation, and verification tools.
Chinese institutions are currently developing open-source EDA tools to design RISC-V chips.
@yogthos the #PRC is #capitalist in that it never was communist, but operated on state-capitalism at most.
In fact, I'd argue it's worse in terms of investment and economy cuz unlike the USA or India one's success depends on being in good terms with Winnie Pooh and pissing him off is basically a death sentence to any serious business.
That makes it bad even for convinced hardcore capitalists...
PRC Presents ... Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon
The PRC'd version of the Hall of Fame conversion Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon has been added to the Community Module Browser: https://nwn.ee/jaysyn
PRC Presents ... Heart of Winter
The PRC'd version of the Hall of Fame remake of the Icewind Dale Expansion, Heart of Winter is now available in the community module browser. https://nwn.ee/prc
PRC Presents ... Trials of the Luremaster
The PRC'd version of the Hall of Fame remake of the Icewind Dale Expansion, Trials of the Luremaster is now available in the community module browser. https://nwn.ee/prc
PRC Presents ... Trust Lies Within
The PRC'd version of the Hall of Fame series Trust Lies WIthin is now available in the Community Module Browser.