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  • do indigenous ethnic groups count or no? china and India together have a few hundred indigenous populations that didn’t get genocided, and a few hundred that did (most before 1900 for stupid reasons). Canada succeeded at almost all of theirs, the west is really good at getting rid of things they don’t want, China tries to construct systems that please them without giving them real power, which is also evil but definitely beats ‘killing the indian and saving the man’

    it would take several classes to understand diversity in China because of their government system and long history but this English wiki article is a great start

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_minorities_in_China

    I’ve always found that it’s better to just focus on what people are likely to become invested in rather than expecting them to read everything. this is a much shorter article, read this one instead:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrgyz_in_China







  • oh, i forgot the tankie part. China’s recent quantization of deepseek v4 has basically made it impossible to monetize a token. they definitely have like, dozens of backdoors established in these AI companies as well as really good methods to manually scrape their weights just from clever interaction, and also just plain good scrappy techniques for utilizing old GPUs and RAM. the result? say you’re a rich idiot who wants access to powerful AI. you can just run a free Chinese model on your own computer, or, if you’re rich enough, your own data-center! and the AI companies get none of your money. China is undermining a critical revenue stream for AI and I’m pretty happy about it





  • story@lemmy.ziptoEh Buddy Hoser@sh.itjust.worksSuck it losers.
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    this is a big reason why I’m happy Trump won the second time. i am so fucking tired of hegemony, make me less relevant than Spain please

    Trump accidentally did exactly what communists had been hoping for for 25 years. we were never gonna give up our power, military acumen, and technological superiority willingly. this guy, though. he really can do anything