But China has national champions in DRAM and NAND of its own, and these companies have every incentive to catch up to their Western competitors. They are also being restricted and sanctioned by the U.S. government, further bifurcating China's chip industry from the world's. https://t.co/V9y9DPEVuy #ChinaTech #Semiconductors #ChipIndustry #CN #US
The media universe is an intelligent artificial virtual reality that has replaced human nature and our access to it. The media universe contains news, social media, education, monetary system, industry, public spaces. It cannot be controlled by humans, it controls humans. You are #MediaUniverse #ArtificialIntelligence #VirtualReality #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
One of the flagship companies of the German car industry, yes the one that is in deep crisis because it didn’t realize that we were at the verge of an e-Vehicle revolution, spends 1 billion to buy back its own stocks instead of investing in catching up with Chinese companies. #EVRevolution #GermanAutoIndustry #InvestmentChoices #DE #CN
THE RED TSAR TURNED CHINA RED. 1945 changed everything. Stalin’s Red Army smashed Japan’s Kwantung Army and occupied Manchuria. That gave Mao something he had never possessed on this scale before: TERRITORY. INDUSTRY. RAILWAYS. WEAPONS. ARTILLERY. AMMUNITION. A STRATEGIC https://t.co/O9XjdBmzxt #Stalin #China #KwantungArmy #CN #JP
The Downward Spiral of Gender Polarization The growing divide between men and women resembles less a debate than a divorce involving millions. Both sides escalate, talk past each other, and blame the other gender amid a mental-health crisis. Depression among Americans under thirty has doubled in eight years, while anxiety continues to rise. Each gender has failure modes and one successful path. Carl Jung called it individuation; a simpler term is integration. The integrated are not leading the conversation. The disordered are. Every man carries an inner feminine—the part that feels, intuits, and creates meaning. Jung called it the anima. Cut off from it, he becomes cold and contemptuous; overwhelmed by it, passive and moody. Every woman carries an inner masculine—the part that decides, asserts, and holds the line. Jung called it the animus. Cut off from it, she defers to stronger people; possessed by it, argumentative and rigid. I believe the four failure modes pair off. The cold, contemptuous man finds a timid woman who cannot challenge him; the red-pill industry calls this manhood. The passive man finds a domineering woman who can run his life; the feminist industry calls this liberation. A 2025 Nature Human Behaviour study of 14.8 million people in Taiwan, Denmark, and Sweden found that disordered individuals consistently marry one another across cultures and generations dating back to the 1930s. My theory is that integrated people increasingly date within a pool dominated by the disordered. They try, fail, and get hurt, then drift toward the same patterns. The pool corrupts those who might have healed it, creating a feedback loop. We are in a downward spiral: integrated people encounter disordered partners and become disordered themselves, while the already disordered grow worse. Reversal requires enough people to reject cynicism. When every encounter feels like proof that the other gender is broken, our own drift toward disorder begins to feel justified.
However you feel about him, Ricky Gervais is one of the most prominent animal rights advocates in the entertainment industry. He donates profits from his stand-up comedy tours to fund animal welfare groups: nearly £2.5 million from his last "Mortality" tour. Good man. #RickyGervais #AnimalRights #ComedyForACause #GB
The Left Didn’t Replace Religion… It Became One Many leaders in the West may reject God, but they often believe with near-religious fervor in something else. The progressive worldview mirrors religion: people still crave meaning, so it gets redirected. Science is treated like scripture interpreted by an expert priesthood; capitalism becomes the fallen world; revolution is purification; climate change is apocalypse with repentance; gender identity is the soul, the “true self” trapped in a betraying body. Without metaphysics, evil must be placed in the material world. For many on the left, Hitler functions as a secular Satan, so anything tied to him can be treated as morally contaminated—nationalism, borders, ethnic identity, masculinity, Europeans, industry, and Western traditions. Jung’s “shadow” is projected onto an enemy, letting adherents feel morally pure while avoiding the harder work of facing their own capacity for evil. Where Christianity locates sin inside every heart (“original sin”), the secular version relocates the flaw into the world—into whiteness, the West, nationalism, borders, or any chosen symbol. This framework makes moral judgment easy and singular: if Hitler is evil, then opponents become “fascists,” “Nazis,” or “Hitler.” Disagreement turns from political to moral and existential. This isn’t a claim that progressives can’t see evil elsewhere—it’s that this framework has become an instinctive moral compass. The ruling class isn’t truly secular: it has its own faith, and increasingly expects you to live by it.
The Austrian Critique of Marx followed a line from value theory to economic coordination. 1) **Menger:** Value is **subjective**. People value goods because they think they satisfy wants; water in a desert can be far more valuable than water at home, with production labor unchanged. 2) **Böhm-Bawerk:** Marx’s surplus value is flawed. **Time and capital** matter: wages and costs are advanced before revenue arrives, so interest/profit reflect time preference, risk, and production structure—not unpaid labor. 3) **Transformation problem:** Marx’s labor-values should imply different surplus values by industry, but competition pushes toward equal profit rates. Marx tried to convert values into **prices of production**, yet the inconsistency with his earlier theory remains debated. 4) **Mises:** The key issue is whether socialism can **calculate**. Rational planning needs prices for **capital goods**, which only markets under **private ownership** can generate. 5) **Hayek:** Knowledge is **dispersed** and local. **Prices** transmit that information so coordination can occur without everyone knowing the full cause. 6) **Rothbard:** Profit isn’t necessarily exploitation. Capitalists bear uncertainty, organize production, and pay wages upfront; workers get an agreed wage, while profit is what remains if the venture succeeds. So the deepest split is not only about profit source, but about coordination: Marx asks who appropriates value; Austrians increasingly ask how millions coordinate exchange, knowledge, and expectations at all.
Where the Money Goes When the Problem Grows The worst evil is identifying a problem—addiction, illness, hatred—then building an industry to “solve” it. Organizations grow, the problem worsens. Many call this wasted money. Some argue for more funding or stricter oversight. After decades of the same results, a reasonable person should ask whether it’s failure—or the system working as designed. Call it the Caretaker’s Incentive. Three conditions keep problems managed forever: status (praise for “tending” the afflicted), money (budgets rise with the problem and shrink when it improves), and conscience (moral framing shields caretakers from questioning their role). Economist Bruce Yandle described a parallel in “Bootleggers and Baptists.” In Prohibition, moral reformers and profitable bootleggers backed the same policy for different reasons, with virtue providing cover. Today, reformers and funded interests may be the same institution, making corruption harder to spot. When the mission is caring for the elderly, it’s easy to hide fraud behind compassion. Costs spread across millions, benefits concentrate among insiders. No one loses enough to unite against it; insiders gain enough to defend it. The people being paid are awake. The people paying are asleep. C.S. Lewis warned in 1948 that torment for “our own good” can continue endlessly because conscience approves. Corruption is dressed as virtue—and those who object are shamed.
🇩🇪 🇨🇳 German industry presses Merz for tougher China policy – Reuters https://t.co/D0NbRaNT0r https://t.co/SJ6ohTgLin #Germany #ChinaPolicy #Industry #DE #CN
It's time that the AI industry compiles the 100 most influential people in News Media list, starting with Joe Rogan, Mr Beast, Scott Alexander, Sabine Hossenfelder and Linda Yaccarino, Aella, Christopher Poole but also inclusive of diverse voices like Clavicular and Pmarca #AI #MediaInfluencers #DiversityInMedia #Therearenospecificcountriesmentionedinthetweet.
I met today with the leaders of key Nordic companies in the defence and technology sectors in Mäntyniemi. Nordic cooperation is currently making strong progress in the defence industry as well. https://t.co/FFYayuB0UB #NordicCooperation #DefenceIndustry #TechnologyLeaders #FI #SE #NO #DK #IS
If things get serious, this is will be the basis of a future North and South Europe. Those willing to defend Europe and those who just want subsidies and to block sanctions on the aggressor lest their tourist industry, some bank or shipping tycoon make less money. #Europe #Solidarity #Sanctions #EU #NO #SE
🚨 I think this news around Ox Alpha is much more important than it looks because its emergence says something much deeper about the actual state of the AI industry. 📈 Ox Alpha appeared anonymously on OpenRouter with around 1 million tokens of context, multimodal capabilities https://t.co/rft3YB92Td #AIIndustry #OxAlpha #OpenRouter #Nospecificcountrycodesarementionedinthetweet.
We will defend capitalist democracy. We will not sacrifice freedom, prosperity, industry and growth on the altar of a climate cult #Capitalism #Freedom #ClimateDebate #Nospecificcountriesarementionedinthetweet.
Europe’s defense industry is no longer protected by geography or passports. When a quiet engineer in Bavaria must write his will and live underground, the war has already arrived inside our borders. This is the new normal Moscow is testing. How many more names before we treat #Defense #Europe #WarCrime #DE #RU
