Notices tagged with china

May is looking to be a great month for #FreeSoftware -- we already have meetups announced in #Livermore, #CA, #USA; #LeBlanc, #France; #Zurich, #Switzerland; and #Beijing, #China. https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FSF40/meetups

The carnival in Germany, especially in Düsseldorf #rosenmontagszug2025 is once again very biting.
#uspol #russia #china #putin #trump #elonmusk #xijinping #FuckElon #fucktrump #fuckputintrump #fuckxijinping

May is looking to be a great month for #FreeSoftware -- we already have meetups announced in #Livermore, #CA, #USA; #LeBlanc, #France; #Zurich, #Switzerland; and #Beijing, #China. https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FSF40/meetups

May is looking to be a great month for #FreeSoftware -- we already have meetups announced in #Livermore, #CA, #USA; #LeBlanc, #France; #Zurich, #Switzerland; and #Beijing, #China. https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FSF40/meetups

From #California to #Switzerland to #China, the month of May will see #FreeSoftware community meetups all over the world. Join one or organize one in your region: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FSF40/meetups

May is looking to be a great month for #FreeSoftware -- we already have meetups announced in #Livermore, #CA, #USA; #LeBlanc, #France; #Zurich, #Switzerland; and #Beijing, #China. https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FSF40/meetups

From #California to #Switzerland to #China, the month of May will see #FreeSoftware community meetups all over the world. Join one or organize one in your region: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FSF40/meetups

As JD Vance delivered his speech about “European overregulation” and criticized “endless compliance costs imposed on the US companies by GDPR” I have seen some voices from Europe who said something to the effect “I don‘t know a single EU company happy about #GDPR either”.

Well, it’s kind of obvious companies aren’t happy because GDPR was not made to make companies happy but to protect the privacy of consumers 😄

This regulation is based on fundamental differences between US and EU legal systems. In EU, you own and control your personal data. In US it’s owned by whoever managed to extort it from you, and then aggregate, personalise and resell to any other entity anywhere.

For example, if you want to pay higher insurance premium because you have genetic tendencies to diabetes or obesity - well, that’s the US way of doing business, but it’s not the only one, nor it’s somehow axiomatically “better”. And yes, high insurance premiums also have the effect of increasing overall country’s GDP, just as a house burnt and rebuilt also does this magic, yet somehow few people celebrate it 😉

Then someone asked me if I really “feel that my data is better protected thanks to GDPR”. And yes, as a matter of fact the most invasive behavioural profiling aren’t being rolled out by companies like Twitter or Facebook to EU specifically because of GDPR, while in US they just roll them out without asking anyone.

Anyone… of course except for the states which have regulations very similar or even more restrictive than GDPR, such as California. Yet, because California is “their”, these companies and their CEOs with high media presence simply shut up and make their apps compliant with CCPA without all this barking about “how GDPR kills out business”.

It’s the same with EU VAT, about which Vance also whined, whereas US sales tax accounting rules are not even harmonized across states. But hey, you know what? An US business that has to emply a tax consulting company to get multi-state accounting right also increases overall GDP! 😄

So effectively what in US is perceived as each state’s fundamental right, sign of their diversity and key part of their autonomy, in the EU is portrayed as something equivalent to Soviet Union style central planning. And when they post all the memes about “bottle caps” in EU, they of course never mention a gazillion of state-level archaic or absurd regulations which are nonetheless binding, especially if someone likes to build a class lawsuit around them.

And now as Tesla opened a new factory in #China, I’ve never seen Musk make a single critical remark about the overregulation in China, even though it’s even more complex than EU and US taken together due to its vast geographic and administrative diversity.

From #California to #Switzerland to #China, the month of May will see #FreeSoftware community meetups all over the world. Join one or organize one in your region: https://libreplanet.org/wiki/FSF40/meetups

I learned on #rednote that Chinese people are in the same predicament as Americans. They work 10 hour days 5 days a week. There's so much pressure put on them by parents and society to "succeed", that it's more accepted for someone to commit suicide than to drop out of school. 900 MILLION Chinese suffer from mental health issues! This is unacceptable and The CCP should be ashamed! Mental health is rarely talked about in #China as well: it's stigmatized. #xiaohongshu

The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Tibet has risen to at least 126, according to China Central TV.

@CNN reports: "Its epicenter, located in Tingri county high on the Tibetan plateau, was close to the border with Nepal, around 50 miles north of the world’s highest mountain."

https://flip.it/B.za6S

#Earthquake #Tibet #Seismology #China #Science

@arstechnica
So now we have an idiot and a state polluting leo...
Fun for astronomers. Fun for real science.
#elonmusk #china #leo

The Taiwanese language doesn’t sound like Mandarin Chinese. “[It] originates deep from the belly, creating rumbling sonorous tones that remind me of my dad’s laughter or my mom calling me for dinner, ‘ki jia buan!’” writes Josephine Lee for @TexasObserver. She explains the wave of migration from Taiwan to Houston, Texas, in the 1970s and ‘80s, why it’s difficult to quantify how many Taiwanese people are in America, and how organizations are supporting Taiwan’s independence.

https://www.texasobserver.org/houston-hotbed-taiwanese-nationalism/

#Taiwan #Taiwanese #China #Houston #Texas #Newstodon #NewstodonFriday #FollowFriday

COP29 ended with a last-minute deal struck that will have rich countries pay $300 billion to developing nations by 2035. Will that be enough to allow the developing world to cover expenses related to the damaging effects of climate change? “It’s a paltry sum,” India’s delegate Chandni Raina said. @BBCNews has 5 takeaways from the summit, including more on the bitter divisions that remain after the deal, negotiations to “Trump-proof” the climate, and more: https://flip.it/H2Jdu1
#Science #ClimateChange #COP29 #GlobalWarming #Climate #China #USA #Trump

China says it’s ready to launch the next crew to its orbiting space station this week.

@AssociatedPress reports: "The two men and one woman will replace the astronauts who’ve lived on the Tiangong space station for the last six months. ... China built its own space station after being excluded from the International Space Station."

https://flip.it/wMbS4l

#Space #China #Astronaut #Science

How could #elonmusk possibly keep his security clearance after this? #russia #china
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/musk-putin-secret-conversations-37e1c187

Scientists have extracted and sequenced DNA from a piece of 3,600-year-old cheese found in Bronze Age graves in what is now northwest China. The cheese, the oldest in the archaeological record, was preserved in the Taklamakan Desert’s dry conditions along with the mummified occupants of the graves. The DNA analysis revealed how the Xiaohe harnessed microbes to improve their food. Read more from CNN.

https://flip.it/9T3nX_

#Archeology #Cheese #China #Mummy #DNA

New evidence points to Wuhan market as source of COVID-19 outbreak.

From New Scientist: "A new study by an international team concludes it is more likely that the virus emerged from wild animals sold at the market and not from a lab escape. The researchers re-analysed data from 800 samples collected at the Huanan market by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention beginning on 1 January 2020, and also studied viral genomes from the earliest COVID-19 cases."

https://flip.it/gkExJQ

#COVID #COVID19 #Wuhan #China #Epidemiology #PublicHealth #Science

The U.S. has led on nuclear fusion research for decades. Now China is in position to win the race, CNN reports.

"Many countries have achieved fusion reactions, but sustaining them for long enough to use in the real world remains elusive."

https://flip.it/wOWlVs

#Fusion #Energy #ClimateChange #China #Nuclear #Science