How China’s DeepSeek Outsmarted America

SINGAPORE—Take a team of young Chinese engineers, hired by a boss with disdain for experience. Add some clever programming shortcuts, and a loophole in American rules that allowed them to get advanced chips.

That is the formula China’s DeepSeek used to shock the world with its artificial-intelligence programs.

Conventional thinking held that developing leading AI required loads of expensive, cutting-edge computer chips—and that Chinese companies would have trouble competing because they couldn’t get those chips. DeepSeek defied those predictions with a resourcefulness that led to a $1 trillion bloodbath on Wall Street and is spurring Silicon Valley to rethink its approach.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"AI - Artificial Intelligence", "China - Communist Slave State", USA

At federal inquiry, Canada Post blames workers leaving early and union points to mismanagement

With both sides entrenched in their positions, Canada Post management is blaming its problems on delivery staff leaving early. At the same time, its union says the Crown corporation’s problems stem from its own financial management.

Canada Post bosses and the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) squared off in a downtown Ottawa hotel on Monday, the first day of hearings at the industrial inquiry commission convened by the labour minister.

Time to go.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCanada, WTF?

‘The clock is ticking’ for 106,000 displaced Ukrainians in Canada

Iuliia Slabinska sent her son to study in Canada in 2021, months before Russia launched a war against their homeland, Ukraine. He was just turning 16.

In August 2022 — six months after the Russian invasion — she, her husband and younger daughter arrived in Langley, B.C., under the Canada-Ukraine Authorization for Emergency Travel program. The CUAET program offered temporary refuge to almost 300,000 displaced Ukrainians with work and study permits, before it shut down last March.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Ukraine - Russia"

Geoff Russ: Canada needs to scrap the Impact Assessment Act

After years of acrimony over the obvious, the Liberals and the NDP are finally embracing natural resources as a key prong of Canada’s economic future. BC Premier David Eby now unabashedly lauds LNG as crucial, while Liberal leadership contender Chrystia Freeland mentions natural resources as essential to strengthening the economy.

This was overdue, but one major roadblock stands in the way of a renaissance in the resource sector; Bill C-69, also known as the Impact Assessment Act (IAA).

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Environmentalists", "Net-Zero Tyranny", Canada, WTF?

Selena Gomez’s Crocodile Tears Were Not for Migrants

Selena Gomez just tried pulling off what she could not deliver in her latest box office flop: a convincing performance. In a now-deleted Instagram video, the entertainer sobbed over deportations under the new Trump administration. “I wish I could do something,” she whimpered, tears streaming down her face.

The problem with these theatrics is their glaring inconsistency. Americans can respect principled celebrity activism, even when they disagree with it, but not when it only surfaces to serve hyper-partisan narratives.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inCamp Of The Saints, Celebrity Idiots, USA

UK losing wind gamble A warning for world

On a frigid January morning, the fruit of the U.K.’s overreliance on wind energy was reaped when its contribution to the national grid plummeted to a pitiful zero. Solar output, meanwhile, was a paltry 1% of power generation.

This wasn’t just a fluke, but rather a stark illustration of the dangers of building an energy system around inherently unreliable sources like wind and solar. The British government’s gamble on wind energy to meet aggressive and unattainable net-zero targets is leading toward an energy crisis of unprecedented proportions.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Net-Zero Tyranny"

New York magazine shows progressives are losing the culture war

What began as investments by the likes of Peter Thiel in “anti-woke” art festivals and alternative media has evolved into a full-throated youth movement. As this week’s New York magazine cover story explores, this trend has particularly taken off among a subsection of educated urbanites who view progressive orthodoxy as the new establishment to rebel against. The scene today, housed in glamorous DC spots, marks a cultural shift every bit as significant as the transition from Sixties counterculture to Eighties yuppie excess.

As the New York dispatch, written by Brock Colyar, argues, these aren’t the stereotypical MAGA warriors of liberal imagination. They’re young, well-connected, and very online — crypto nerds, influencer e-girls, and what Colyar calls “gays of all stripes”. Many come from liberal backgrounds, including former Bernie Sanders supporters and Joe Biden voters who now see themselves as cultural rebels. They refer to themselves not as Republicans but as members of “the movement”.

h/t patthedog

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inTrump World

The great unwokening at Davos

A former corporate exec explains why the world’s CEOs are suddenly sucking up to Trump and ditching DEI.

Every January, world leaders and CEOs gather in the Swiss mountain town of Davos for the annual week-long meeting of the World Economic Forum (WEF). There they discuss the big issues of the day and present themselves as global agenda setters.

But there was something very different about this year’s confab. All the reports from the WEF suggest that the attendees have started to warm to US president Donald Trump and many of his policies. Which has come as a shock to those accustomed to Davos bigwigs talking up workplace diversity, promising to fight climate change and denouncing the rise of ‘authoritarian’ populism.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"Peak Woke"

Duo Involved In US Border Guard Murder Are Transgender Terrorists

Liberal media has been uninterested in investigating the couple involved in shooting dead a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Coventry, Vermont near the Canadian border on inauguration day. Why? Both in the duo are leftist trans militants.

One of the deceased armed militants is a German believed to be in the country on an H-1B visa.

The duo is allegedly connected to a trans terror cell.

h/t Mauser and DS

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inBig Tranny, WTF?

What Happened When DEI Came to the Military?

Retired Air Force Brigadier General Christopher Walker, 59, spent almost two years as a senior adviser to the Air Force’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion at the Pentagon, attending dozens of meetings about implementing DEI initiatives. This was an unusual role given Walker’s career path: He had over 400 hours of combat flights and, most recently, had overseen West Virginia’s Air National Guard.

But in 2021, when the Air Force established its Office of Diversity and Inclusion, staffers assumed that Walker would be on board with their belief that DEI was a “warfighting imperative.” Why? Because Walker is black. But that assumption was wrong.

Walker was a mole.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted in"DEI - Diversity Equity Inclusion", USA

Shoppers Drug Mart Cosmetics Campaign Viciously Insults Muslims & Jews … Oh wait it’s Christians so that’s OK

Shopper’s Lite? Beauty campaign featuring feminized Christ-like portrait draws backlash

Is it for real?

A supposed ad campaign for Shopper’s Drug Mart’s annual ‘beauty event’ was going viral on social media networks for featuring what appears to be a feminized version of Jesus Christ, replete with beard, false eyelashes and lip stick.

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by Blazingcatfur••0•Posted inChristian Persecution, Christianophobia, WTF?