Fear Of Economic Collapse Forced China To Negotiate With Trump
May 9th, 2025Via: ZeroHedge:
According to the Reuters report, “since U.S. President Donald Trump imposed steep tariffs on China last month, Beijing had responded in kind. On state and social media, it posted images of Mao Zedong, lambasted “imperialists,” and sent a message: capitulation to bullies is dangerous, and it wouldn’t back down.”
But behind closed doors, China was quietly preparing to do just that, and Reuters reports that according three sources, officials had grown “increasingly alarmed about tariffs’ impact on the economy and the risk of isolation as China’s trading partners have started negotiating deals with Washington.”
China’s reasons for deciding to negotiate, Washington’s letter on fentanyl, U.S. diplomatic challenges in Beijing, and the early outreach between the two sides are reported by Reuters for the first time, based on interviews with nearly a dozen government officials and experts on both sides.
More: Inside China’s decision to come to the table on Trump tariffs
Large Hadron Collider Transmutes Lead Into Tiny Particles of Gold
May 9th, 2025Via: CERN:
In a paper published in Physical Review Journals, the ALICE collaboration reports measurements that quantify the transmutation of lead into gold in CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC).
…but the total still amounts to trillions of times less than would be required to make a piece of jewellery. While the dream of medieval alchemists has technically come true, their hopes of riches have once again been dashed.
Definitive Covid Vaccine Myocarditis Paper
May 9th, 2025Via: International Journal of Cardiovascular Research & Innovation:
We urge governments to remove the COVID-19 mRNA products from the market due to the well-documented risk of myocardial damage, a risk that is strongest for younger males (<40 years old).
Amazon’s Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than Humans
May 9th, 2025Robots are going through the same ramp in capability that large language models went through a couple of years ago.
Via: IEEE Spectrum:
At an event in Dortmund, Germany today, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most concerned with is its warehouses, and Vulcan is designed to assist (or take over, depending on your perspective) with stowing and picking items in its mobile robotic inventory system.
Andreas Kling On The Ladybird Browser
May 8th, 2025Via: FUTO:
Weinstein on Trump and Disastrous Covid Shots Still Being Given to Children: “There’s No Way Forward by Reaching President Trump, He Can’t Hear It”
May 7th, 2025President Pfizer Warpspeed Pope Trump Gaza Number 1!
Clip:
Weinstein on Trump and Disastrous Covid Shots Still Being Given to Children: "There's No Way Forward by Reaching President Trump, He Can't Hear It" pic.twitter.com/UsNh22lJQa
— cryptogon (@cryptogon) May 8, 2025
Via: Tucker Carlson:
A thoroughly civil debate with Bret Weinstein over the existence of God.
(0:00) Introduction
(1:18) Debating Evolution
(10:54) Is Human Sacrifice Evidence of Something Supernatural?
(19:33) Consciousness vs. Intuition
(28:02) How Does Weinstein Explain the Creation of All… pic.twitter.com/Nr2qkhxNck— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) May 7, 2025
The High-School Juniors With $70,000-a-Year Job Offers
May 7th, 2025Besides the valuable trade related courses, schools should include entrepreneurial courses as well, at least as an option.
I’ve been looking at other options besides pushing pixels and after watching only one Youtube video about starting a business, it began recommending countless other videos along those lines.
One of the most interesting videos I’ve watched was about a guy who created a dog poo cleanup empire:
Even if you have no interest in dealing with dog poo, that video goes into a lot of fascinating details about how the business operates, information systems, how they get customers, profit margin, etc. which could apply to many other types of businesses.
Also, I thought it was hilarious that the guy scoops the dog poop wearing a Rolex Batman (GMT-Master II) worth about $15,000.
Via: Wall Street Journal:
Elijah Rios won’t graduate from high school until next year, but he already has a job offer—one that pays $68,000 a year.
Rios, 17 years old, is a junior taking welding classes at Father Judge, a Catholic high school in Philadelphia that works closely with companies looking for workers in the skilled trades. Employers are dealing with a shortage of such workers as baby boomers retire. They have increasingly begun courting high-school students like Rios—a hiring strategy they say is likely to become even more crucial in the coming years.
Employers ranging from the local transit system to submarine manufacturers make regular visits to Father Judge’s welding classrooms every year, bringing branded swag and pitching students on their workplaces.
“Why would we spend a record breaking $1 trillion on the military budget?”
May 6th, 2025Because war is a racket. It always has been.
We are over $36 trillion in debt.
We have a $2 trillion deficit.
We are not at war with anyone.
Why would we spend a record breaking $1 trillion on the military budget?
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) May 7, 2025
Will Supercapacitors Come to AI’s Rescue?
May 6th, 2025Musk had to use expensive Tesla Megapacks to handle the massive power fluctuations at xAI:
AI datacenters, especially during training, bring extreme power fluctuations due to the nature of neural networks (gradient descent).
xAI has the largest AI data centers. xAI is using Tesla Megapacks to handle millisecond power fluctuations.
Supermicro provided the racks and systems for the xAI 100,000 GPU data center. They installed 64 H100 GPUs in each rack.
Elon Musk has said that they are adding 50,000 H100s and 50,000 Nvidia H200 GPUs to double the compute power of the data center.
In an interview with Lex Friedman, at 14:53, Musk said, “If you suddenly see giant shifts, 10, 20 megawatts, several times a second, this is not what electrical systems are expecting to see.”
Via: IEEE Spectrum:
Because training is orchestrated simultaneously among many thousands of GPUs in massive data centers, and with each new generation of GPU consuming an ever-increasing amount of power, each step of the computation corresponds to a massive energy spike. Now, at least three companies are coming out with a solution to smooth out the load seen by the grid—add banks of huge capacitors, known as supercapacitors, to those data centers.
“When you have all of those GPU clusters, and they’re all linked together in the same workload, they’ll turn on and turn off at the same time. That’s a fundamental shift,” says Joshua Buzzell, vice president and data center chief architect at power equipment supplier Eaton.
These coordinated spikes can strain the power grid, and the issue is promising to get worse rather than better in the near future. “The problem that we’re trying to solve for are the language models that are probably 10 to 20x maybe 100x larger” than the ones that exist today, Buzzell says.
Related: Inside the small town where Elon Musk’s supercomputers have left residents struggling to breathe
Whatever James O’Keefe Is Releasing Tomorrow, Alex Jones Is His Dead Man’s Switch
May 6th, 2025Update:
WORLD EXCLUSIVE: 'Prince Andrew Was F*ing Underage Girls' — Tape of Royal Family Advisor Exposes Prince Andrew’s Sexual Relations with Minors and Deep Ties to Jeffrey Epstein pic.twitter.com/NS517Kob18
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) May 7, 2025
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Breaking Exclusive: James O’Keefe Set To Release The Most Dangerous Story of His Career Tomorrow
Alex Jones Gives A First Look At What To Expect Tomorrow pic.twitter.com/L2sUicuhRT
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) May 7, 2025
