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    Good quote: Gorky on exploitation
    • It is high time to understand that the source of all evil and grief, all misfortunes and deformities of life, this source is the greed of an insignificant minority of people who have gone wild, mad with a thirst for accumulation of money and lawlessly, senselessly command the life of the working majority, wasting its forces, destroying the treasures of the earth that belong to you ... The bourgeois press is an obedient instrument of the bourgeoisie, bourgeois journalists are bought people; they cannot tell the truth, and if they wanted to tell it, the owners of the newspapers will throw the journalists out into the street, just as the manufacturers will throw you out.

      Stupidity is an ugliness of reason, brought up and brought up artificially by means of pressure on reason by religion, by the church — the most difficult weapon of all that the bourgeois state is armed with to tame the masses of the workers. This is irrefutable, and I do not regret in the least that on this occasion none of the clever people is able to say a “new word”. A foolish person is absolutely essential for the "beautiful life" of the bourgeoisie. He is good because he is extremely convenient for the exploitation of his physical strength. It is precisely on the basis of the stupidity of the working masses that the rule of the world philistinism is rooted. The bourgeois system of educating the masses is a system of fabricating fools.

      (c) Maxim Gorky

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    China: Tracking Evergrande collapse
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      Up to 10 big Chinese Property Developers can crash within next two weeks, including largest of them - Evergrande.

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    Mordor: Image and video based total censorship coming
    • The Main Radio Frequency Center (GRCHTs), subordinate to Roskomnadzor, plans to launch the Oculus system for searching illegal content in images and videos on the Internet. It will work on the basis of artificial intelligence (AI), which, according to the department, will increase the efficiency of detecting extremist materials and pornography. But the introduction of such a system threatens to slow down the work of the analyzed resources, experts fear.

      The system will be called "Oculus", it is planned to launch it in 2022, it will detect the distribution of extremist materials and pornography, drug propaganda, calls for riots and suicide, described in the terms of reference.

      System will be linked to latest generation traffic filtering systems installed recently that had been used to attack VPN usage. Idea is to kill in real time access to any site or page in social network that is spreading image that is not liked by ruling class.

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    China: Tiktok for young is literally banned
    • According to the WSJ, Douyin’s “youth mode,” which follows the imposition of new limits on younger Chinese users’ access to online videogames, will restrict under-14s to using the app between 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. The app will be inaccessible to all users in that age group outside of those hours.

      While Douyin had introduced some of the features beginning in 2018 on an optional basis, the latest rollout will apply to all users registered with their real names and as being under 14 years old, Douyin said Saturday. It said that the mandatory measures were designed to protect younger users from harmful content, which however prompts a question: if the online content served by the platform is "harmful", which would it exist in the first place. In that vein, the up-to 40 minutes a day of Douyin for younger users will henceforth serve up "edifying content such as science experiments, museum exhibitions and history lessons, the company said."

      Tiktok is real black hole of shitty stuff, it is designed such.

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    Weekend sex: Nearly 42% of people would have sex with a humanoid robot
    • About 42% of our survey respondents would have sexual intercourse with a robot. Yet, only 39% believe they could have a romantic relationship with an AI. There is also a large discrepancy between men and women. Men are more open to both the idea of sleeping with a robot (48%) and falling in love with an AI (43% of male respondents).

      https://www.tidio.com/blog/ai-trends/

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    Weekend science: Hard evidence on soft skills
    • This paper summarizes recent evidence on what achievement tests measure; how achievement tests relate to other measures of “cognitive ability” like IQ and grades; the important skills that achievement tests miss or mismeasure, and how much these skills matter in life.

      Achievement tests miss, or perhaps more accurately, do not adequately capture, soft skills—personality traits, goals, motivations, and preferences that are valued in the labor market, in school, and in many other domains. The larger message of this paper is that soft skills predict success in life, that they causally produce that success, and that programs that enhance soft skills have an important place in an effective portfolio of public policies.

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3612993/

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    War: Amazon permanently banned 600 Chinese brands
    • Amazon has now permanently banned over 600 Chinese brands across 3,000 different seller accounts,

      Amazon says that’s the grand tally after five months of its global crackdown, and it’s no longer being shy about why: a spokesperson tells us these 600 brands were banned for knowingly, repeatedly and significantly violating Amazon’s policies, especially the ones around review abuse.

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      Amazon works hard to build a great experience in our store so that customers can shop with confidence and sellers have the opportunity to grow their business amid healthy competition. Customers rely on the accuracy and authenticity of product reviews to make informed purchasing decisions and we have clear policies for both reviewers and selling partners that prohibit abuse of our community features. We suspend, ban, and take legal action against those who violate these policies, wherever they are in the world.

      We will continue to improve abuse detection and take enforcement action against bad actors, including those that knowingly engage in multiple and repeated policy violations, including review abuse. We are confident that the steps we take are in the best interests of our customers as well as the honest businesses that make up the vast majority of our global selling community.

      Of course it has almost nothing with reviews that Amazon suddenly start being so caring for. But it has all to do to throw Chinese brands from all profitable sectors. But instead offer them to sell same product under Amazon own brands where almost all profit will go into Amazon pockets.

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    Good quote: On marriage
    • Marriage is like a tornado. Initially, there's a lot of blowing and sucking. Eventually, you end up losing your house.

      (c) Some unknown guy.

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