The US is taking a cut from chip sales (Nvidia and AMD) to China - what does it mean?

Unusual. Quid pro quo. Unprecedented.

That is some of the reaction to news that two of the world’s tech giants will pay the US government 15% of their revenue from selling certain advanced chips to China. Industry watchers, former government advisers, policy makers and trade experts have been giving their views on the deal.

The news comes mere months after the Trump administration banned the sale of these chips to China, citing national security concerns.

That ban was lifted in mid-July. And now it seems the US government will go a step further - becoming a part of these American firms’ business with China.

And critics argue that is both confusing and worrying.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2ppgg0zvlo

also known less formally as rant

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatribe

Again, I’m not saying it doesn’t happen, it probably does, but that story doesn’t prove it either.

Why are you writing diatribes then?

The deck does not say where CMG allegedly sources this voice data, be that a particular brand of smart TV, a smart speaker, or smartphone loaded with a particular app. It says that once it has used the voice data to identify an audience that is “ready-to-buy,” CMG builds a list of those audience members and uploads it to ad platforms to then target advertisements. It says for $100 a day, CMG can target people in a 10-mile radius, or $200 a day for a 20-mile radius.

https://archive.is/ckFB2

You might be partially right, but I can’t find what is meant by the “recorded conversations” part. I guess I gotta look further in.

“Each of the Defendants had their own purpose for collecting and using Flo user data,” the brief said. “Flo used this information to acquire new app users through advertising and marketing, including advertisements based on Flo App users’ reproductive goals (e.g., getting pregnant). Flo also sold access to the CAEs sent through SDKs to other third parties for profit. Google and Meta separately used the data they intercepted for their own commercial purposes, including to feed their machine learning algorithms that power each of their respective advertising networks.”

We’ve got a lot of really smart people here, some are journalists. These people go around telling other people and now have links to sources. Why do you think the trolls come here?

It’s good to have this as a back up when the techbro trolls try to say they don’t really listen for ads or data farming. This happened just a few weeks ago, but I couldn’t find a link.

Nonetheless, the jury ruled against Meta. Along with the eavesdropping decision, the group determined that Flo’s users had a reasonable expectation they weren’t being overheard or recorded, as well as ruling that Meta didn’t have consent to eavesdrop or record. The unanimous verdict was that the massive company violated the California Invasion of Privacy Act.

Such as?

This is not about just the data, they were found guilty of fucking eavesdropping. I can’t wait to see people defending this as not being true for advertising. Please bookmark this article everyone. That headline is crap.

Plaintiffs in a class-action case proved by a preponderance of evidence that Meta intentionally eavesdropped on and/or recorded conversations using an electronic device, said a verdict form released yesterday in US District Court for the Northern District of California. Plaintiffs also proved that they had a reasonable expectation of privacy and that Meta did not have consent from all parties to eavesdrop on and/or record the conversations, the jury found.

This is great satire, but unfortunately you can replace microwave with AI and CEO’s are actually saying this shit fr.

One of my chefs mentioned that if they could cook the steak on the grill they could get it right the first time. This is not an acceptable attitude in the microwave era. Chefs have fragile egos and they all seem to enjoy cooking (???) so it’s obvious they’re just too attached to the food. Also they’re worried I’m planning on firing all of them. That’s true but not relevant here.

Second – you need to realize I’m an idea person. Ok? Who else would have thought about putting pepperoni on a pizza? And if I didn’t have a microwave no one may have delivered that idea at all. With a microwave I was able to deliver that idea much faster. The new economy will be purely idea based. Is the quality of a microwaved pizza worse? Sure. But by 1960 cooking pizzas in ovens will be a thing of the past. I don’t have any evidence to back that up. But any rational person can see in a few short years ovens will be gone.

What are you trying to say with this information?

That’s what I mean, wouldn’t it being a different subset of users? Maybe these are the hardcore drinkers that already existed, but were overshadowed by the huge numbers of drinkers.

Isn’t drinking way down in young people overall? I think the comparisons wouldn’t be one to one then.

“There have been increases in solitary drinking among young women, in particular, over the past 25 years. Solitary drinking, or sometimes drinking when they are alone, was reported by about 40% of young adults who drank in the past year.”

So you’re saying they’re cleaning up the site?

Nah, I meant the editors can be biased occasionally. Articles can be edited like a see saw from biased to unbiased to biased the other way, etc.

I can see that, but I disagree. If Bernie Sanders wrote an editorial about cleaning up politics, I would want to read that. I probably wouldn’t want to read about /u/ilovetits’s take on it.

I don’t mind editorials with a name or names behind them because you then look them up and see what kind of intentions they have. This is no bueno.

This is wikipedia, so it’s probably a little biased. Biased in what way is something I don’t know enough to say. This does tell us something though, they want to hold everyone’s feet to the fire. I understand why journalists want to do this is normal times, but when there is a war going on, you need people to be behind you. Also, most people are ignorant and need to be spoon fed, especially during war time. They have other shit on their mind and they need a hero in their lives.

The Kyiv Independent

In October 2021, disputes arose between employees of the Kyiv Post and the owner of the newspaper. Journalists at the newspaper believed that even under the presidency of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, their previous critical reporting was adversely affecting the business of the owner, who had bought the barely-profitable newspaper from Mohammad Zahoor in March 2018, and invested significant funds in it. The owner of the Kyiv Post at the time was the Syrian-born investor Adnan Kivan (Kadorr Group, which owns Channel Odesa 7). Brian Bonner, the former CEO of the Kyiv Post, said in April 2022 that the newspaper’s “fragmentary reporting” had brought it into conflict with every Ukrainian government it dealt with so far, including Zelensky’s. According to Bonner, Zelenskyy had tried to portray himself as a reformer to Western governments, and alleged that critical reporting had been seen as undermining that message. The government, Bonner said, had begun to lean on Kivan, who had seen ownership of a “crusading media outlet” as more trouble than it was worth.[2][3]

The president’s office denies it, the prosecutor’s office denies it, Kivan denies it - but I know we were under pressure … The Kyiv Post survived [former presidents] Kuchma, Yushchenko, Yanukovych, and Poroshenko, but died under Zelenskyy. That was a big surprise to me.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kyiv_Independent

Edit: I’m going to add this, they are owned by journalists and a media company apparently

The Kyiv Independent is an English-language Ukrainian online newspaper founded in November 2021, three months before the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, by former staff of the Kyiv Post and media consultancy Jnomics Media. The online newspaper is also active on Twitter, Bluesky and Reddit.[1]

So, unnamed journalists, or perhaps the owner, or…? No leader is perfect, but wartime and holding your own against Putin is no easy feat. You could do 1000x worse than him and now you’re nitpicking during war time? I guess I’m jealous that you feel like you can when our trainwreck is still building concentration camps to enrich his buddies.

The last few lines are getting closer,

Ukraine’s democracy can still be salvaged. In peacetime, that responsibility would fall on the Ukrainian people.

But today, Ukrainians are fighting — and dying — for Europe and the whole free world.

Will the West hold the line for them?

This is an editorial though, it has nothing to do with their journalists.

Did I miss something, what are they referring to?

CoMaps was launched after governance concerns emerged within the Organic Maps project. The creation of a new initiative was to have principles of transparency, open collaboration and community empowerment.