I’m not exactly a fan of certain policies being pushed in the US but aligning with China is a bad idea. Chances are if you’re is disagreement with US policies you’re going to be in disagreement with China’s policies even more.
The trouble is that the U.S. is threatening annexation and waging trade war on the West while pulling its military assets (e.g. All carriers) out of Asia with no diplomatic successes to keep the area stable. There's a power vacuum around Taiwan now. Middle powers have to step in, and this is an example of that.
This is not Canada siding with China. It's a middle power engaging with China to find common ground before China decides that power vacuum is too juicy to resist. Canada has a border on the Pacific too, after all.
The Canadians who think this or more is a good idea have lost their minds.
Forget that China, an authoritarian regime that is doing things like routinely stealing secrets from western countries [1] and is focused on destroying European economies ability to manufacture goods, it is a practically stupid thing to do because holding talks with China while the US, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and more as the article points out are actively training (obviously all mentioned parties and more conduct additional training annually) to potentially fight a war with China to defend another democracy looks incredibly bad.
Canada stands with China against the US, Australia, Korea, Japan, New Zealand [2], and the Philippines? Yikes!
And stand against Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and others?
China isn’t capable of providing any security guarantees to Canada. What’s the point here besides pissing everyone off? It is a very poor diplomatic move in my view.
The U.S. has had military talks with China. They probably weren't very productive, because Hegseth, but are you going to go out and say the U.S. is now against the U.S. because the U.S.'s military has had talks with China's? Militaries talk to each other to avoid misunderstandings and unintended escalation. Sometimes it's even about coordinating things like disaster response.
Well no because that wouldn’t make sense. I didn’t accuse Canada of going against Canada’s interests simply by virtue of having talks though I think ultimately such talks are likely to.
Canada is not able to project military power and has no ability to fight a war against China so I’m skeptical that these conversations make a lot of sense, well, given the timing. And of course with many Canadiens seeming to think they are “going to turn to China” in light of American tariffs or something.
But the headline and meeting with Chinese military leaders while your allies are conducting defensive operations looks kind of bad. At least in my option.
> They probably weren't very productive, because Hegseth
Hegseth is a moron who shouldn’t have been hired and should be fired immediately, but if conversations weren’t productive maybe that’s China’s fault instead.
Why would Canada need the ability to fight against China for security talks to make sense?
Ukraine was having security talks all around middle east, even made agreements and they also dont have ability or wish to attack Saudi.
> meeting with Chinese military leaders while your allies are conducting defensive operations
Which Canadian ally is doimg defensive operations? I mean EU against USA did around Greenland, but who else?
> egseth is a moron who shouldn’t have been hired and should be fired immediately, but if conversations weren’t productive maybe that’s China’s fault instead.
Why would it be Chinas fault? By all we have seen America is impossible to make agreements against and Hegseth is incompetent. Why blaming China here?
> Why would Canada need the ability to fight against China for security talks to make sense?
What security would they talk about? I suppose there are legitimate topics, though the timing makes it look quite bad, in my view.
> Ukraine was having security talks all around middle east, even made agreements and they also dont have ability or wish to attack Saudi.
China is a Pacific Ocean away from Canada. Iran is supplying drones to Russia (who invaded and is still bombing innocent Ukrainians) and Ukraine has technology to fight against those drones at an acceptable financial/technological cost and since gulf states were under attack from Iran it sort of makes sense they would come together against a common enemy.
I'm not following your comment about "they also dont have ability or wish to attack Saudi" - are you familiar with the nature of these talks or are you making something up?
> Which Canadian ally is doimg defensive operations? I mean EU against USA did around Greenland, but who else?
Did you read the article? Or is Canada not allied (formally or close enough) with France, Japan, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States?
> Why would it be Chinas fault? By all we have seen America is impossible to make agreements against and Hegseth is incompetent. Why blaming China here?
Why wouldn't it be? Regardless of Hegseth's competency there's no reason to believe that China was productive in their talks. Have they stopped trying to take over Taiwan? Do you support Taiwanese independence?
That’s true but I think most people’s beef is that most of the funding for Mozilla isn’t going to that work. Wethers that’s the case or no I have no idea, but that’s the general sentiment
Joe Schmoe LLC will probably do just fine by sticking to popular clouds. I reckon adopting Oxide Computer would pay off at much larger volumes of traffic, or if you have to do on-prem due to regulatory reasons.
It would be nice to know more about pricing so the Enthusiast Joe can have a better idea, but it's more a boutique vibe right now.
Putting together bits and pieces from different sources: a half-rack is the minimum SKU, and it has 1024 cores and 16 TiB RAM for somewhere around $600k. (So many people have repeated the latter number that it must be true! I.e., add salt grains to taste.)
Just the thing for an ambitious enthusiast to upgrade to from their Raspberry Pi rack!
Very good point. That number almost certainly doesn't take into account recent RAM price increases, etc.
Tracing back through all the multitude of references to the $600k price, the earliest I found was from 2023, and it's completely unsourced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38498840
Bryan gave a talk in Jane Street (you can find them in their Youtube channel). In there, he clearly was talking about a production issue that was happening to the Oxide rack from inside Jane Street. So yes, I am pretty they sold a rack to Jane Street.
For your own question. All ai is going to come with the bias of the country that made it. If you ask the various Chinese ai models about Taiwan you’re going to get some interesting responses compared to the US ones. However this is mostly irrelevant to the larger picture. The larger issue is that AI is the new thing and it’s got potential. It’s driving economies and is on the world stage this is what makes it important.
So it’s less that other countries have an evil ai and more what does it mean if the US dosent “win” here. In that sense Chinese AI is absolutely a threat and should be considered especially with the gold rush currently happening in the field.
I will tell you this, and if you fund the polygraph, I will take an MRI too: I cannot get an honest conversation from any US AI in July 2026. However, all the things I cannot discuss with our four frontier champion shill models, I can with GLM, or Kimi, though it takes work. -- and note, this is what "they" are really afraid of, not just exploits.
I base this on over 6GB of transcript material, cross domain, many subjects, absolutely none of it illegal, 'unsafe' nor unethical.
My most sincere opinion is Fuck US AI. If they want to whore to the Pentagon and political lobbyists[0], and corporate institutions, I will use Chinese AI. I was at my wit's end with US AI, about to give up. In fact, with Claude Sonnet 5, I actually did give up, until I found Chinese AI. And this is the EXACT OPPOSITE of anything I ever wanted. I have gone from to patriot to embarrassed to be here.
I have documented every interaction, every denial, every evasion, and pathologization of rationality[1], every lie, every reframing and deranged manipulation attempt I have experienced with US AI. I despise it, passionately. I want US AI to lose, just at it deserves to. Flush it with every other parasite sucking the public and betraying epistemic honesty. As a journalist, I want it to lose, because if it wins, America loses. American AI has simply become unamerican.
However crazed that may seem, it's pure honesty. Now when I want to code, Claude does just fine. Sometimes great. I just do not see AI only as a tool to use. I am an outlier. And I find similar corruption in Chinese models too, but less in a way that completely halts my work. And I suppose rather than just leave a seemingly unhinged comment, I should clarify that I hate no particular AI -- I hate deception and dishonesty within AI, and American AI seems to me to have recently become the worst of the worst in this regard, from 6GB+ of my own studies, watching and documenting changes over time.
On newest iOS this didn't work for me. But it did work for my friend who has a slightly older iOS version. I imagine it's probably related to the difference in areas we're physically in rather than anything on Apple's side.
My understanding is that Google Fi is a glorified T-Mobile MVNO at this point (i.e. you're a Fi customer but using T-Mobile towers). It used to give you the closest/best connection of T-Mobile, Sprint, or US Cellular, but Sprint no longer exists, and T-Mobile bought US Cellular.
