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Japan literally got nuked into submission... Then got their economic independence cut out from under them by the Plaza Accord.

RISC-V is so cool and it's not seeing much traction in the US because of the resources of established players (Intel, AMD, ARM). There's a lot of opportunities for efficiencies when you're building something from the ground up with essentially infinite resources and no "good design" ground state to bias development.

Try Canada? Canada has been pretty open to skilled worker immigrants and asylum seekers. It's particularly easy if you speak French.

(There's also a bunch of diploma mills that will give you a student visa that you can translate into a PR after graduating)

More likely to support them than the French.

Isn't a key motivation for oil producers joining BRICS to help guide economic expansion for countries that are currently almost entirely dependent on fossil fuels exports?

The Indian and Chinese international tourism markets are ripe for the picking.

Russian telegram has enough copium to power the next election.

Emergency first aid is usually used to get the guy to a medic that can take care of them, isn't it?

So Meta recently released their Adversarial Threat Report... Am I right to be cautious about the rather high density of ex-US intelligence as authors on the report?

Argentina banking on a BRICS bailout?

I'm going to take the adversarial position on Fukushima fears and point out that according to this paper published in Science, the variance of concentration of other radioactive isotopes is rather high between tanks... And while on average they do meet legal guidelines, there are tanks that exceed the legal limit for discharge. For what it's worth, the concentrations allowed for discharge also seem to not entirely be coupled with the bioaccumulation factor of these radioactive isotopes in fish... which isn't great when the goal is to avoid eating toxic fish with radioactive isotopes that will accumulate in the human body.

Plus, Tepco has a record of cutting corners in the name of profit and the Japanese government has a strong incentive to stop bleeding hundreds of billions of dollars into the cleanup... So the incentives aren't really lining up to give confidence in Tepco's ALPS system.

Since the article didn't link the report, I have it attached here: https://transparency.fb.com/integrity-reports-q2-2023/

As we always should do with these reports, let's question the source:

1. The lead author is Ben Nimmo, a senior fellow for Atlantic Council. According to testimony, "the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab, and [others] all have inadequately-disclosed ties to the Department of Defense, the C.I.A., and other intelligence agencies. They work with multiple U.S. government agencies to institutionalize censorship research and advocacy within dozens of other universities and think tanks." According to this internal CIA memo (accessible via FOIA), Atlantic Council fellows are almost all controlled by various US intelligence agencies and report to the director of the CIA.

2. Ben Nimmo's track record of identifying state-sponsored misinformation is spotty at best. A few years ago, the DFR wrote a hit piece that implicated Ian Shilling (a British retiree) as a Russian bot disinformation account. This led to the takedown of his account by Twitter... Which was rolled back soon after after he went to the news... He was then suspended under X, so go him I guess.

3. Looking at the authors, we have Ben Nimmo (discussed above), Mike Torrey (previous NSA and CIA analyst), Margarita Franklin (has conspicuous 3 year gap between her masters graduation and her first job, quickly rising to the role of Director... which could be a coincidence), David Agranovich (ex-DOD, ex-National Security Council), and Margie Milam/Lindsay Hundley/Robert Claim (for all intents and purposes legitimate people focusing on IP and DNS). Given the large number of actual, non-government-affiliated cybersecurity researchers, the prevalence of ex-US intelligence on this report is rather startling.

Overall, there's a stronger claim for this report being US propaganda (as shown above) than there is for some barely-intelligible sentences that look like they were written literally by idiots being Chinese propaganda... But who knows, maybe they're both propaganda?

You mean... People are jerking off by posting stupid bullshit online during work hours? No way!

Must be a state sponsored mission man.

China's intelligence apparatus isn't stupid and they do possess basic technologies líke machine translation (which has gotten really good nowadays).