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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang was in #Hanoi #Vietnam last week, as he was in 2023, and he put on a decent street show. It’s thus easy to overlook that last year’s formulation that Vietnam will be Nvidia’s “second home” was a slightly misleading claim. Still promising #semiconductor miracles. 🍺
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Now that the seal is broken on scraping #Bluesky posts into datasets for machine learning, people are trolling users and one-upping each other by making increasingly massive datasets of non-anonymized, full-text Bluesky posts That’s the decentral reality, as 404 reports, your stuff is out there
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Both are blocked on #X, attacked by Elon, and both do a solid job of replacing #Twitter. The #Fediverse aka #Mastodon and #Bluesky play different cards, an open network filled by volunteers here and advanced sharing and moderation tools there. Team platform organizing! Also, consider linking the two
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Wenn ich irgendjemanden fragen würde, ‘Wünschen Sie sich, dass sich die weltweiten Einkommen einander annähern?’, dann wäre die Antwort: Ja, natürlich, das wäre doch toll, … Aber es führt zu Unzufriedenheit, wenn es dann tatsächlich passiert. Milanović zur Elephantenkurve. #Mittelschicht #China
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#blackfriday, und alle bemängeln individuelle Laster und fehlende Initiativen. Dabei passiert viel, wie ich in meinem Buch zu #Elektroschrott gezeigt habe, von Deutschland bis Indien. Hightech-Recycling, Regulation, Kooperation. Aber die Produktion bleibt ungebremst. hightech-am-ende.de
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This is perhaps the greatest takeaway of the book, that the prospect of ‘stranded assets,’ or fossil fuel projects rendered unprofitable before the end of their expected economic lives, are the primary force holding the world back from beating #climatechange. A comprehensive review of Overshoot.
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"… make full use of our natural advantage", the official says. Geopolitics returns, as described by @nielswerber.bsky.social‬. I enjoyed this (now unlocked!) #NYTimes piece on #Malaysia, #chips, #datacenter industries, and how to benefit from #Trump. #Vietnam tries to do similar things. #tradewar‬
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The nomination didn’t last even a full Scaramucci. So we’re back in that kind of era again. Funny, truly funny, of course. But I will not follow all the small scandals as was common during the last time. What are they thinking. As someone once uttered, You Banbury cheese! #us #trump