But then, a wail cuts through the waves. It’s as if baby tarantulas crawl down my spine.

“Don’t look away, human.”

My own voice bounces back at me, sending fresh icy shivers down to my toes.

What the actual?

It speaks in my voice. That can’t be right. Instinct kicks in, screaming for me to move, run, hide, yell out, but the egg has other plans for me. It keeps me glued to the sand, mute as a glass doll, unable to do anything but bear witness to what’s unfolding.

This isn’t real. I squeeze my eyes shut again, but my eyelids disobey. It’s as if something—or someone—is controlling my every move.

I must bear witness.

“What the fuck?” I call out in my mind, thoughts cloudy from fear.

“We came when we heard what you were doing.”

If I could move muscle and bone, I would step closer. But as it turns out, I am held hostage by an oval-shaped object, so I stand still as a corpse.

“Who are you?” I call out in my mind.

“We are timeminders.”

Huh?

“That’s right.” The egg laughs back at me. “You are wasting time. You whine and complain and spend all your days in your head thinking about things that will never happen.”

“No, I don’t!” I bite back at my voice.

The egg cackles.

“When was the last time you saw a sunset?”

I pause, racing through my catalogue of memories, but only come back with a vague glimmer of an overpriced beachside watery cocktail I consumed a few months back in Ibiza. Even then, I was focused on capturing the perfect selfie because the afternoon light was waning, and I had to get the shading just right. I am always waiting for the right moment, but nothing arrives. Could it be that the egg is right?

I do the one thing I always do when I’m wrong. I change the subject.

“Who sent you?” I throw the question into the gust of wind, and the egg tilts to the left as if absorbing the impact of my words.

“We are connected, wall to wall. You can’t see the line, but we can. And we see everything.”

“That sounds like some Sci-Fi voodoo crap.”

The egg ignores me. “Don’t act like time is infinite. It’s not. Remember that Before I Die list?”

Another shudder envelops me. The egg has been watching my every move. Studying me studiously behind a looking glass I can’t reach or see.

Every year, right before Christmas, I produce my sodden Before I Die List and tack on a bunch of goals that never get crossed off. The list takes up a page and a half now. Corners of the paper have curled and smudged against the stain of time, and yet here I am, two days before Christmas, talking to a floating egg that appears to be time itself.

I hug myself into my arms and nod.

“Go write that book. Backpack across Nepal. Wake up for that sunrise. Quit gluten. Read 52 books. And get off Instagram.”

“And what if I don’t?”

“You humans are all the same. You act like your life is permanent. But it’s not. It can be over in a flash.”

“Ok, now you are starting to scare me.”

“We have to go. What you do with this information is entirely up to you. Goodbye now.”

And just as suddenly, the egg arrives, it evaporates into thin air.

I am left with the perfect Christmas gift. Time itself to do as I please. I contemplate my next move. I could dive into the icy cold water and battle the Atlantic currents in the hopes that the egg would come to my salvation again and explain itself. I could call my estranged mum and sob into the phone like a dazed and confused five-year-old. Or. I could keep walking down this beach and feel the sea air bite my cheeks and caress my insides. But that involves doing.

It’s as if my knees cave at that realization. I slide down until I am sitting on the moist sand, legs tucked underneath me. From some dark corner of my soul, a scream erupts. I scream and scream, letting my gut-filled cries get snuffed out by the bite of wind.

An elastic band snaps back into place. I am me again. Whole and pure, and alive. Calmy, I get up and walk on, gliding down the beach. For the first time, my thoughts slow to the beat of my heart.

…..

My smartwatch vibrates and wakes me up abruptly. Darn it, I hit snooze again – I hate evening shifts! Feeling anxious, I quickly get up and start looking for my shirt. Today is a big shift for me, and I am fully prepared for it. I turn on the TV just for some background noise and prepare a quick milkshake. I grab my badge, place it in my coat pocket, and head down the stairs, leaving my bed messy and the TV on. Who knows if I’ll be able to return home later on tonight?

Making my way down the street, I feel once again desolate. The number of tents that have taken up the pavement is increasing every day and now I have to walk on the main road, where self-driving cars have plagued the roads. I can’t even flip the drivers off, because they are likely snoozing behind the wheel – heading up to their corporate masters and catching every ounce of sleep they can. The air feels heavy – decades of pollution, despite the warnings have made the air look dense, like a perpetual fog. Through the fog, I see the cafe and I make my way across the street.

I walk in to be greeted by a touchpad asking me what I want to order today. Can’t even sit down and relax for a second before ordering, anymore. I tap in twice for an espresso and take my number to wait in line. Only two other people in this café, who would’ve thought after all these years we would not even be able to afford a cuppa? I never thought affording an espresso would be the definition of privilege. The humanoid shouts my number and I approach the till to pick it up.

“Would you like to donate to …”

“Ah shove it, Wall-E.” I respond in disgust, picking up my coffee. They don’t care – can’t hurt their feelings.

These things have taken over. One day, they were just some useful web chat to hack your way into an essay deadline or a work presentation, now they’re everywhere – from baristas to teachers or police. Police AI – as if human racial profiling wasn’t enough, why not give that algorithm all of our knowledge and bias on crime and humans too?

I sit down and wait for Jonas, I hope he’s not going to stitch me up. I already feel paranoid enough about this, the last thing I want is to worry about him too. And this coffee is cold! So much for your intelligence, you can’t even boil some water! He finally arrives, walking in a rush and wearing a baseball cap and sunglasses. He looks odd, and if being inconspicuous was his aim, he missed the target. He sits down scanning the café:

“All right! I was afraid you wouldn’t show up!”

“Says the man who’s 20 minutes late, what took you so long?”

“This is precious cargo, Oli. I saw the police outside my flat. Luckily, they were just terrorising some tenters.”

Tenters were the homeless. The term was coined by real estate agents, to describe an area as desirable or not, based on the amount of tenters it had.

“Ok, how much do you have of it? If it all goes well, we might make a big statement here, Jonas.”

“Enough to make sure it sticks. Just be careful with it and don’t open it until you’re ready to apply it. Use gloves and keep your distance, this is dangerous stuff.” He says as he passes me a closed tin under the table. “Dip it and hold for a few seconds, that should do it”.

I nod and place the tin in my backpack, making sure nobody sees me. And nobody did, all two people here are just as exhausted as the rest of us. Constantly chasing nothing. Being replaced at the convenience of the rich who found a way to have microchipped slaves on the chains of production, leaving us to fend for ourselves in a world that we were not ready or trained for. As soon as the first wave of AI came in I knew I had to act and thus managed to learn machine robotics maintenance. I was sure, that one day, we would transform that friendly chat box into a human-like, walking piece of software. I just didn’t think it would be in my lifetime.

I leave Jonas and make my way to work. The city feels eerily empty. The sound of wind blowing through tents and the occasional passing of a self-driving car breaks the silence. I miss the music, the shouting, the cheering, the drunks. The humanity I despised at times so much I yearn for it now with every fibre in my body. Shops are closed and are being replaced with screens where you can see photos of products and order them straight home, where a humanoid will deliver you whatever thing you can afford. Restaurants are a privilege of the rich and don’t exist anymore. The most you may find is a burger van, selling cheap synthetic-protein burgers and milkshakes – the real ones. I stop by to grab something for the shift ahead. It only cost me an hour’s wage, but sod it, might be my last meal, who knows?

I arrive at the facility and scan my badge at the turnstiles. I do the usual routine controls and checks and answer some emails before I have to head down to the pods. Another “business change” email from the boss. Guess we’re in for a few more redundancies, the norm. I get up and head to the lunchroom to have my burger in peace. On the wall, I see the latest announcements – Fundraiser for Julie – her husband lost his job and now she’s forced to raise money from colleagues to avoid being a tenter. We used to be one of the first people working here, me and her. And like everyone else, we are sure that some of the new generations are going to be trained to replace us as well. After all, why shouldn’t the machine look after the machines? I eat my crappy burger contemplating the task ahead and the anger that I’ve bottled for so long. This is all the rich’s fault and I shouldn’t feel guilty, no. There is so much you can beat one down before it starts fighting back. Throughout this time all they did was shift the blame onto the poor for not educating themselves or getting on with the times. Their tall fences can’t always protect them. One sip of a real milkshake and I’m ready to go.

I make my way down the stairs and into the charging room to grab my maintenance tools. So many of these copy-clone creatures just casually sucking volts before carrying on with their mundane tasks. They are all the same. Non-feeling, ritualistic pieces of software only capable of performing what their masters set them to do. I guess we are not so different, in the end. Only we get to be angry about it. I check every one of their status for tomorrow. Some are going to the milkshake powder factory, others to the food processing one. I do an eeny, meeny, miny, moe amongst them and settle for one: XA781 seems to be the lucky fella. Food processor, 3^rd generation – perfect. Means he’s on the line for the steaks tomorrow morning.

I grab some gloves from a locker and rest my backpack next to the humanoid. I bring the tin up and carefully open it, keeping a distance to not inhale any of it. Anthrax is no joke and the mission would be pointless if it were to kill me. I take the tin and dip it upwardly into the humanoid’s fingers, making sure not much of the substance stands out, but enough of it remains on its hands for it to be contaminated. I carefully move on to the next one: SD428. I repeat this about 60 more times to ensure the mission will be a success. And if I don’t get caught, maybe I will get to enjoy my bed one more night, whilst some of these rich devils get to enjoy it for one last time.

What is the secret to survival?

A Jew, owner of one of the most famous bakeries in Germany, often said: “Do you know why I am alive today?

I was still a teenager when the Nazis in Germany mercilessly murdered Jews. The Nazis took us to Auschwitz by train. Last night in the ward it was deadly cold. We were left for many days in the car without food, without a bed, which means no possibility of warming ourselves in any way. It was snowing everywhere. The cold wind froze our cheeks every second. There were hundreds of us on those cold and horrible nights. No food, no water, no hiding places. The blood is frozen in the veins. Next to me was an old Jew who was very loved in my town. She was shivering and looked terrible. I wrapped my hands around him to warm him. I hugged him tightly to give him some warmth. Rubbed his hands, legs, face, neck. I begged him to stay alive. I cheered him up. This is how I kept this man warm all night, I was tired and freezing myself, I kept my fingers crossed, but I continued to massage this man’s body to warm him up.

So many hours passed. Finally morning came, the sun began to shine. I looked around to see other people. To my horror, all I could see were frozen corpses. All I could hear was the silence of death. The freezing night killed everyone. They froze to death. Only two people survived: the old man and me. The old man survived because I didn’t let him freeze, and I survived because I warmed him up.

Let me tell you the secret of survival in this world. When you warm the hearts of others, then you will warm yourself. When you support, strengthen and encourage others, you receive support, strengthening and encouragement in your life.

Rednote EXPOSES the Truth: Americans Say China Lives Better… And the US is a 3rd World Country!

https://youtu.be/By59BYjEMUg

What was the relationship between Philippines and China before the South China Sea disputes?

When Duterte was president, he realised it is better to be friends with China than enemy and trade and co-operation boomed.

He said war with China is a disaster Philippines cannot win and he is right

Bong Bong like his US master, reverseed all that in pursuit of the lure US held before him and his mother for regaining his father’s stolen wealth stolen by the thieving US.

The Adage:

Thieves of a feather lie together!

The US is NOT Ready for War with China: DeepSeek AI Triggers Chaos in US Tech Sector

https://youtu.be/8pC92KPrcFY

What is daily life like for foreigners living in China who create content on Xiaohongshu?

I just saw an article by an American creator.

She followed the recipe from Xiaohongshu and made Chinese food for 4 people, which cost a total of $13.5.

She said that she would never go to a Chinese restaurant in the United States again.

For right-wing libertarians: Why should a factory owner receive more profit than the workers who constructed and maintain said factory?

An easy personal story. I bought a company, had 155 employees. The company was in construction we had several buildings 2 for storage, 1 a workshop, 1 a metal fabrication shop and the other an office. In the 2009 the construction industry took a severe downturn. I’ve seen this happen before and saw a recovery so I decided to stick it out.

Let me explain what stick it our means. The buildings and property had taxes, electric, natural gas. The fleet of vehicles had license, insurance, maintenance, and gas. The employees needed paychecks, or they would leave and there is no construction without employees. My wife and I went without paychecks for several months at a time. We took out loans to make payroll so employees wouldn’t leave. We had to guarantee those loans with our personal assets, house and vehicles.

Well, the construction industry came back and there was a severe storm causing massive amounts of residential damage. This gave us substantial amounts of work. We made enough money to hire more employees and pay all of our loans back. We got out of debt and made a lot of money.

What people like you see is the owner buying new car, maybe a boat or a UTV. Taking some time off to enjoy their new toys. What you never saw was the owner in jeopardy of losing their business, home, cars, all the money they initially invested, AND if those assets were not enough still being in debt to the bank for the remainder. The only recourse is personal bankruptcy.

So, as an employee would you be willing to throw in 50% of your net worth, then go several months without pay so your employer could stay in business? Even if your employer promised to double your pay IF the company made it full well knowing, that you also have to rely on the other 149 employees to help or they could tank the company, and you lose everything.

Sorry bud, but you know nothing.

TikTok Refugees Share Their RedNote Experience That Will Blow your Mind.

Have a good prediction now! Is the US going to kidnap CEO of Chinese DeepSeek like what the US & Canada did to the CEO of Huawei or ban or force Chinese DeepSeek to sell their technologies/company to the US like what the US has been doing to TikTok?

Here is my prediction: Yes. So be careful Mr. Liang Wenfeng, founder of DeepSeek, and make sure to watch your AI product carefully. If you become the target of the US government, you will be either be arrested by the US/Canadian police, like Meng Wanzhou of Huawei, or be forced to sell you DeepSeek app to an American citizen by the US government, like Shou Zi Chew of TikTok; or maybe both. The US government will take all measures possible to deal with any company that dares to be better than its US counterparts.

With its highly efficient algorithm and powerful capacity, Chinese AI app DeepSeek rises rapidly these days. It’s newly released open source AI model DeepSeek V3 immediately becomes popular in AI industry. It outperforms other open source models and achieves performance comparable to leading closed source models. More importantly, the training costs for the model is $5.58 million, about one-twentieth of GPT-4o. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said in an interview that DeepSeek is “super impressive in terms of both how they have really effectively done an open source model that does this inference-time compute, and is super-compute efficient.”

But this will also probably provoke envy from the US government. After all, any country or company that outperform the US will be sanctioned, which has been proved by what happened to China’s companies like Huawei, Dji and TikTok. DeepSeek represents China’s strong innovation capacity that the US government does not want to see. “National security” has become a weapon for the US government to sanction those companies that dare to challenge the positions of US companies.

Ironically, the more the US government sanctions Chinese companies, the stronger the Chinese companies will be. For example, the US government forbids NASA to have cooperation with China, and the result is that China has successfully developed its lunar and space exploration programs and launched its own space stations; the US government banned advanced chip export to China, and the result is that China’s SMIC is now the world’s third largest advanced chip manufacturer. There are many of such examples.

So, will DeepSeek be sanctioned by the US government? Let’s wait and see.

A key driver of BRICS expansion: lower prices for everything

Do the Chinese know the Tiananmen protest and killing Uyghur?

Chinese people all know about the Tian’anmen incident and none know about killing Uyghurs.

Because we know what happened and is happening in China. You cannot convince us of something that goes completely against our everyday reality. I lived through the Tian’anmen protests and I met my wife while on tour as a volunteer educator in Xinjiang. We simply know the truths better than you do. It’s like how we can not convince the Americans that their healthcare is free.

The problem with American propaganda is the same with major American companies. Many of them fail in China, like Ebay, Amazon, Linked-in, because they are unflexible and one-sidedly take orders from their headquarters in the US. But the people in the US are too limited by their own understanding of the world, their bias and their short history, which may have been enough in some banana republic, but is totally outclassed by the vibrancy and complexity of a 5000 year civilization. OTOH, the people who understand the situation on the ground in China, are not given enough voice. For the same reason, they will fail in India too.

In China you must listen to the voice of the Chinese. KFC succeeds in China because they serve soybean juice and porridge instead of milk for breakfast. Tesla succeeds in China because it respects the Chinese researchers and engineers and have them train their American counterparts instead.

To wage propaganda war on China, you cannot just use the out of touch scripts from Washington. You need to listen to your foot soldiers on the ground in Beijing and make necessary adjustments. Like how the American embassy in China predicted years in advance that the Communist rebels holed up in remote mountains would beat the rich Nationalists armed with American weapons.

To drive up ethnic tension you cannot say that China persecutes Uyghurs which only gets laughed at, the right way to do it is to push the Chinese complaint that the CCP is too pro-minority and Han Chinese are left behind in university entrance exams and the right to have as many children etc, that in a few generations China may lose Xinjiang as the Uyghurs outreproduce the Han. Complain that China treats the Uyghurs too well, relocates too much money and resources from coastal provinces to Xinjiang, and that it should take care of Han first and enforce equality for all Chinese. That will connect with the average Chinese and drive up ethnic tensions.

To drive up people’s memories of Tian’anmen, you cannot just claim that it was about democracy vs authoritarian, which is pre-school fairy tale, but accurately tap into the anti-capitalist sentiment that was the very reason for the protest and is still alive and kicking today in China. You should raise the banner of “death to income inequality”, or “kill the Capitalists” to connect with the hearts and minds of millions of oppressed Chinese workers and students disillusioned with their future during Tian’anmen and are actively complaining online today. The US should shoot all the Boeing executives for the 787 crashes to establish itself as a beacon for democracy and justice, to encourage people in China to demand the death of people like Jack Ma and Elon Musk, because they earn more than the average workers, but doesn’t reinvest the earnings into wellfare for the workers, and instead live luxurious life styles like keeping yachts. That Chinese tech companies that advocate 996 schedules should be confiscated and nationalized. And honor chairman Mao as the greatest human being of the 20th century like Chinese people believe, and call for a return to the equality of Maoist days.

Or maybe the US isn’t serious about propaganding the Chinese against the CCP at all. That the people are just clocking in and clocking out of the office without any regard for results. Or that the capitalists funding their propaganda are secretly against the results, so they only funnel public budget to themselves.

• Teachers being overwhelmed with unrealistic expectations for their students with special needs. Every student with special needs has something called an IEP (Individualized Education Plan) or a 504, which is like an IEP-lite. Those are legally-binding forms which say exactly what teachers are supposed to do for that one student. Have five students with special needs in your class of 30 students? Good luck for those other 25 students getting any of the teacher’s attention.

No one really cares about the “D” part of DEI, when it comes to education, except the politicians and others in positions of power who like pictures of diverse groups of students for their websites and social media. If you’re the only kid in a wheelchair at your public school, congrats! You’re going to find your way into a lot of the district’s pictures.

TikTok Refugees Share Their RedNote Experience That Will Blow your Mind.

Rednote EXPOSES the Truth: Americans Say China Lives Better… And the US is a 3rd World Country!

What happens when Americans discover the truth about life in China? In this jaw-dropping Rednote compilation, we bring you raw and unfiltered reactions as Americans learn how the Chinese afford groceries, healthcare, and more—without drowning in debt. From shock to frustration, many even claim that America feels like a 3rd world country compared to China’s advancements.

Watch as they grapple with the reality of China’s thriving society and question their own situation back home. Will this change their perspective? You’ll have to see their reactions to believe it!

Is China really that confident that they can beat the U.S. militarily?

When I learned that U.S. soldiers have to pay to join the military, pay rent to live in barracks, and that 30% of veterans end up homeless, with most suffering from various mental illnesses, I couldn’t help but wonder: where exactly is the U.S. military budget being spent? It’s certain that it’s not being used on actual military capabilities. Does the U.S. military really have the strength to win a war against a true regional power? I’m not talking about China, but countries like Turkey, Iran, or India. My guess is no. The U.S. military is plagued by poor discipline, low training standards, outdated equipment, and maintenance difficulties, with most ships covered in rust. The U.S. has effectively lost its global military dominance, as well as its technological and舆论 hegemony. The last pillar, financial hegemony, is on the verge of collapse. All I can say is, the U.S. should tread carefully.

The controversy surrounding the use of U.S. military spending and its military capabilities requires a comprehensive analysis based on multiple sources of information. Below, we discuss the allocation of military funds, existing issues within the U.S. military, assessments of combat capabilities, and changes in global hegemony, incorporating specific data and context from search results.

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I. The Actual Use of U.S. Military Spending

1. **Structural Contradictions in Military Spending Allocation**

According to the U.S. defense budget for fiscal year 2025, out of **$895.2 billion in military spending**, the main expenditures include:

– **Operations and Maintenance (O&M)**: $339.6 billion (37.9%), used for maintaining existing equipment, base operations, and daily military activities;

– **Personnel Costs**: $181.9 billion (20.3%), covering active-duty salaries, benefits, and veteran安置;

– **Procurement and R&D**: $167.5 billion (18.7%) for procurement and $143.2 billion (16%) for R&D, primarily for developing new weapons.

This shows that **the majority of U.S. military spending is used to sustain the existing military system** rather than directly enhancing combat capabilities. For example, maintaining over 500 overseas military bases and high personnel福利 (e.g., an average annual cost of $100,000 per soldier) consumes significant resources.

2. Profit Distribution in the Military-Industrial Complex**

Systemic corruption and inefficiency plague U.S. military equipment procurement. Examples include:

– **Overpriced Equipment**: The U.S. “Arleigh Burke”-class destroyer costs $2 billion per unit, while China’s comparable 055型 destroyer costs less than half;

– **Supply Chain Waste**: The U.S. defense industry relies on oligopolies, with profit-driven practices leading to失控 costs, such as a bag of buttons being priced at tens of thousands of dollars when the actual cost is a few dollars;

– **Inefficient R&D**: U.S. think tank reports indicate that China’s equipment更新速度 is 5-6 times faster than the U.S., and U.S. defense production capacity struggles to meet high-intensity conflict demands (e.g., a 2-year production cycle for anti-ship missiles in Taiwan Strait scenarios).

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3. Existing Issues and Combat Capabilities of the U.S. Military

1. **Shortcomings in Training and Equipment Maintenance**

– **Insufficient Training**: Budget cuts have reduced training hours for基层 personnel, leading to frequent accidents (e.g., multiple recent aircraft crashes);

– **Aging Equipment**: Navy ships are rusting, and Air Force aircraft average over 30 years in age, with a severe maintenance backlog;

– **Ammunition Reserve Crisis**: The Ukraine war exposed vulnerabilities in the U.S. ammunition supply chain. Although procurement increased in FY2025, reliance on allied production lines remains a risk.

4. Controversy Over Capabilities Against Regional Powers**

The U.S. military has both advantages and disadvantages when facing countries like Turkey, Iran, and India:

– **Technological Superiority**: The U.S. leads in space, cyber, and stealth aircraft domains, but over-reliance on technology may be offset by asymmetric tactics (e.g., Iran’s drone and missile strategies);

– **Logistics and Mobilization Capabilities**: The U.S. military’s global deployment is分散, and prolonged conflicts could expose后勤 weaknesses (e.g., Guam’s defense system is not yet完备);

– **Political Will and Allied Support**: Domestic political divisions may weaken decision-making efficiency (e.g., delays in Ukraine aid bills), while allies’ reliance on the U.S. is declining (e.g., Europe’s shift toward strategic autonomy).

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5. Signs of Decline in U.S. Global Hegemony

1. **Erosion of Military Hegemony**

– **Weak Growth in Military Spending**: The FY2025 defense budget increased by only 1%, far below previous years, and the national debt ($34 trillion) constrains future investments;

– **Regional Deterrence Failures**: U.S. military operations in the South China Sea and Western Pacific have exposed tactical flaws, while China’s rapid shipbuilding pace (“shipbuilding spree”) has narrowed the naval gap.

2. **Multidimensional Hegemony Crisis**

– **Hollowing Out of Technology and Industry**: U.S. manufacturing accounts for only 11% of GDP, with key industries like semiconductors依赖亚洲供应链;

– **Shaky Financial Hegemony**: The dollar’s dominance faces challenges from digital currencies and multipolar结算, while国债信用评级 is under pressure;

– **Public Opinion and Institutional Challenges**: Domestic social divisions and the military-industrial complex’s influence over policy have weakened strategic coherence.

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6. Conclusion: Structural Contradictions and Future Challenges

The high投入 of U.S. military spending has not translated into equivalent combat capabilities, rooted in **resource allocation imbalances, systemic corruption, and strategic overextension**. Although the U.S. military retains technological advantages, its global deployment model and domestic political-economic困境 make it difficult to应对 high-intensity局部战争. In conflicts with regional powers like Turkey or Iran, the U.S. military may find itself in a “win tactically, lose strategically” dilemma.

As acknowledged in U.S. Department of Defense reports, **the cost of “maintaining hegemony” has exceeded its承受能力**, and the rise of countries like China is accelerating this process. The key variable for the future lies in whether the U.S. can重塑 competitiveness through reforms (e.g., cutting冗余开支, rebuilding industrial bases), but this possibility remains slim in the short term.

How could China successfully develop the advanced AI model, the DeepSeek, under the US’s sanctions on chips? And from the news I heard, this Chinese AI Model is not a copycat from the OpenAI as it uses a different model, how is this possible?

Deepseek is the product from the quant arm of a hedge fund.

We need not concern ourselves with names, merely to note two features.

One. The quant team was primarily made up of local graduates.

Two. The reorganization in the financial sector engendered a shift in priorities from proprietary trading to LLM.

The team took stock of their situation. They had a limited budget and access to hardware, so they had to improve efficiency in order to build something competitive. This is akin to shaving weight off a race car and improving its CD or coefficient of drag to compensate for a less powerful engine.

Instead of a brute force attack, they found that rewarding or incentivizing desired output dramatically improved training efficiency.

In fact, this strategy draws strong parallels with positive reinforcement training in dogs, which is demonstrably superior to discipline and punishment.

Which goes to show the deepseek team used chatgpt as the standard bearer, but pursued its own ground up design to accommodate ground realities.

Or, necessity being the mother of all invention.

Deepseek implemented a series of clever ideas, such as treating phrases as vectors rather than scalars, compartmentalizing the parameter space into subjects (I.e. Solving a partial model), reducing precision to save on memory and so on as computational optimization.

I expect the team to blow us out of the water in the coming months and years ahead.

I have been mighty impressed thus far.

Gado Gado (Indonesian salad with peanut sauce)

Can I ask chatGPT to criticize Israel?

How will the USA government regulate chatGPT’s AI Assistant?

Since Deepseek is not interested in running for U.S. Congress, it does not need to rely on criticizing China to divert domestic conflicts, nor does it need to use anti-China topics to attract American votes, let alone cater to Americans’ “political correctness.”

Non-tech people view it as China against US. Tech people view it as open-source against closed source.

Remember Deepseek is not an AI or IT related company. Their major business is hedge fund quant. R1 is merely their “side project” developed for their stock market analysis use. Such a small entity with a few million$ as a side project has beaten the 5000 trillion$ of OpenAI, ms, google, meta combined. Can it be more hilarious?

DeepSeek was a Chinese quant dude’s side quest LOL…and STILL outperformed OpenAI, Meta, etc!

The better thing wins and now billionaires are annoyed.

The multi – trillion – dollar AI bubble in the United States is teetering on the brink of collapse. In contrast, DeepSeek, which has received only a few million in investment from China, has effortlessly shattered this seemingly impregnable bubble.

Chinese Showing American Tiktok Refugees How They Live Their Life On Rednote

A must watch!