🇷🇺🛢 #Russia's Ryazan oil refinery has suspended operations after an attack by Ukrainian drones late last week, Reuters reports.
#News reports coming on from DeadBirdSite that #ElonMusk is apparently upset that people are calling #Tesla #ElectricVehicles "#Swasticars", after his open and flagrant use of #NeoNazi rhetoric and the #Nazi salute at Trump's inauguration last week.
The bigger question... Can we make #Swasticar the new trending hashtag for talking about #Teslas on the #Fediverse?
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Una riflessione di Beatrice Sarzi Amade
Putin, Trump, Netanyahu: riflessioni a margine della liberazione di Auschwitz
Volevo scrivere qualcosa su l'anniversario della liberazione di Auschwitz, non dalla Russia, ma dall'Armata Rossa, dall'esercito, dalla multinazionale, dall'Urss, e non possoBeatrice Sarzi Amade (Globalist.it)
DeepSeek releases open-source AI multimodal model, Janus-Pro-7B.
huggingface.co/deepseek-ai/Jan…
deepseek-ai/Janus-Pro-7B · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
Kassenärztliche Vereinigungen:
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Unsere Kassenärztlichen Vereinigungen folgen dem Beispiel zahlreicher Institutionen in Deutschland + protestieren gegen .. Missbrauch v. X f. antidemokratische politische Positionen auf d. Social-Media-Plattform v. E. Musk. ..
Deshalb werden wir keine Verbindungen zur Plattform X unterhalten ..
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27.1.2025
#Berlin #Brandenburg #Bremen #Machtmissbrauch #Musk #Sachsen #SachsenAnhalt #SchleswigHolstein #SocialMedia #Thüringen #Twitter #X
Holocaust survivors warn of rising antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/01/27/holocaust-survivors-warn-of-rising-antisemitism-on-80th-anniversary-of-auschwitzs-liberati?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Holocaust survivors warn of rising antisemitism on 80th anniversary of Auschwitz’s liberation
Politicians were asked not to speak at this year's event, as it could be the last time survivors gather on 27 January, the date when the Soviets liberated the Nazi death camp in 1945.David O'Sullivan (Euronews.com)
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On the #80thAnniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz. I'd like to comment on the camp's notorious slogan "Arbeit macht frei" - work makes you free.
Anthroposophy teaches hard work is supposedly spiritually purifying, a teaching that's embodied in its Camphill communities
More: threadreaderapp.com/thread/188…
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@GinaMakesWaves: On the #80thAnniversary of the liberation of #Auschwitz. I'd like to comment on the camp's notorious slogan "Arbeit macht frei" - work makes you free. Anthroposophy teaches hard work is supposedly s...…threadreaderapp.com
Marc or Marx? | TWiT.TV
The Microsoft 365 Copilot launch was a total disasterSatya Nadella says he’s ’good for $80 billion’ after Elon Musk claims Stargate Project doesn’t have the cashHow Chinese AITWiT.tv
where #Himmler established a biodynamic plantation, w/Weleda products for testing on (i. e., torturing of) its imprisoned inmates:
"Weleda supplied naturopathic materials for ‘medical experiments’ (i.e. torture) on prisoners at Dachau. Weleda’s longtime head gardener, Franz Lippert, asked to be transferred to #Dachau in 1941 to oversee the biodynamic plantation that #Himmler had established at the concentration camp."*
social-ecology.org/wp/2009/01/…
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Anthroposophy and Ecofascism (cont'd)
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Anthroposophy and Ecofascism | Institute for Social Ecology
In June, 1910, Rudolf Steiner, the founder of anthroposophy, began a speaking tour of Norway with a lecture to a large and attentive audience in Oslo.Peter Staudenmaier (Institute for Social Ecology)
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fantastic article about the #DeepSeek brouhaha with gems like this that shows why true innovators make do with what they have:
stratechery.com/2025/deepseek-…
❝ So was this a violation of the chip ban?
Nope. H100s were prohibited by the chip ban, but not H800s. Everyone assumed that training leading edge models required more interchip memory bandwidth, but that is exactly what DeepSeek optimized both their model structure and infrastructure around.❞
seams the 1990s #AI team went retro in coding… 🧵
DeepSeek FAQ
DeepSeek has completely upended people’s expectations for AI and competition with China. What is it, and why does it matter?Stratechery by Ben Thompson
which brings me to this:
❝ R1 undoes the o1 mythology in a couple of important ways. First, […] it exists. OpenAI does not have some sort of special sauce that can’t be replicated. Second, R1 — like all of DeepSeek’s models — has open weights (the problem with saying “open source” is that we don’t have the data that went into creating it). This means that instead of paying OpenAI to get reasoning, you can run R1 on the server of your choice, or even locally, at dramatically lower cost.❞
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YOU CANNOT OPTIMIZE ANY SOFTWARE FOR YOUR DATA UNLESS YOU CONTROL IT. that’s why you need to have that software running on your own computers/servers.
there is no omniscience.
there is no such thing as a brain, person, computer, robot, god that knows it all. not even the judeo-christian-islamic god knows it all. just read damn GENESIS which is canonic for the 3 religions.
so an all-knowing #AI is bullshit techbro smoke and mirrors. it’s a 100 billion dollars article of faith… 🧵
I've been using @Flipboard's new @surf app—it provides a fresh look for discovering content across the #Fediverse. Here are my thoughts on why it's useful for those looking to break free from Big Tech + how it better connects decentralized communities.
thelettertwo.com/2025/01/26/ha…
#Flipboard #Surf #ContentDiscovery
Hands-On with Surf: Flipboard's App for Fediverse Discovery
Explore Surf, Flipboard's new app designed to simplify content discovery in the Fediverse and connect users with decentralized communities.Ken Yeung (Ken Yeung » TheLetterTwo.com)
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Tatort Saarbrücken: Clans, welche Clans?
Im aktuellen Sonntagskrimi aus Saarbrücken ist die grenzüberschreitende Kriminalität fest in den deutscher Hand.Sofia Taxidis (Tichys Einblick)
Derzeit wird die bewegende Gedenkfeier im ARD übertragen.
#Holocaustmemorialday.
Lasst uns alles dafür tun, dass die Straßen nicht anders werde.
Holocaust-Überlebende Friedländer: "Die Straßen waren anders als sonst" | tagesschau.de search.app/ur5hmAUkU5cT...
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Gerne, hier ist eine Alt-Text-Beschreibung des Bildes:
Das Bild zeigt eine große Halle, die mit vielen Menschen gefüllt ist, die in Reihen sitzen und auf eine Bühne blicken. Im Vordergrund stehen mehrere brennende Kerzen in Glasbehältern. Im Mittelgrund stehen einige Personen, die scheinbar an einer Zeremonie teilnehmen. Im Hintergrund ist ein großes Publikum zu sehen. Die Atmosphäre wirkt würdevoll und andächtig. Das Bild könnte eine Gedenkveranstaltung oder eine ähnliche Zeremonie zeigen.
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Hier ist eine Beschreibung des Bildes für Menschen, die es nicht sehen können:
Das Bild zeigt eine Gedenkveranstaltung, die in einer großen Halle stattfindet, vor dem Hintergrund eines Nachbaus des Eingangs des Konzentrationslagers Auschwitz. Die Halle ist mit zahlreichen Menschen gefüllt, die in Reihen sitzen und stehen. Im Vordergrund ist ein Sarg zu sehen, um den herum mehrere Personen stehen. Die Atmosphäre wirkt würdevoll und still. Die Architektur des Nachbaus des Konzentrationslagers ist deutlich erkennbar und bildet einen düsteren Hintergrund für die Veranstaltung. Große Bildschirme sind an den Seiten der Halle angebracht. Das gesamte Bild vermittelt einen Eindruck von Trauer und Erinnerung.
Bereitgestellt von @altbot, generiert mit Gemini
New #blog post: Playing around with Deepseek (NSFW)
Content-warning: there's strong and sexual language, as well as reference to some (IMO unpleasant) celebrities in this post.
After seeing a post by @alecmuffett recently, I decided to play around a bit and see just how censory #deepseek is.
Most of the answer is unsurprising, but it also turned out the #LLM's ruleset is surprisingly liberal in other areas
bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/gen…
Playing Around With Deepseek (NSFW)
Over the weekend, I saw some discussion of Deepseek and it's limitations around Chinese political topics. I decided to have a play around with it to start to map out its boundaries and it's susceptibiwww.bentasker.co.uk
Eight Natural Phenomena Worth Traveling for in 2025
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/eight-natural-phenomena-worth-traveling-for-in-2025-180985898/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Travel @travel-Smithsonianmag
Eight Natural Phenomena Worth Traveling for in 2025
You won’t regret experiencing bioluminescence, swimming with sperm whales or witnessing the rush of a horizontal waterfallEmily Matchar (Smithsonian Magazine)
If Elon Musk wants to cut $2t from the US federal budget, there's a pretty straightforward way to get there - just eliminate all the beltway bandits who overcharge Uncle Sucker for everything from pharmaceuticals to roadworks to (of course) rockets, and then make the rich pay their taxes.
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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Howto: Import TCM PEH Capstone Machine 'Blue' into Proxmox
secburg.com/posts/howto-import…
Howto: Import TCM PEH Capstone Machine 'Blue' into Proxmox
I’m currently doing the Practical Ethical Hacking Course on the TCM Security Academy.SecBurg - InfoSec Blog
New Marmite SSG Theme: Minimal
A clean and minimalist theme with Light and Dark modes.
rochacbruno.github.io/marmite/…
Contribution from Marcos Oliveira blog.bymarcos.com/?utm_source=…
Aqui está uma descrição de texto alternativo para a imagem:
A imagem mostra uma página web da documentação do gerador de sites estáticos "Marmite". Há uma barra de pesquisa com "github" digitado. Abaixo, há seções com informações sobre opções de formatação Markdown, paginação, contribuidores e um texto indicando uma página sem conteúdo principal. Há também uma seção "Getting Started" com informações sobre a instalação e o uso do Marmite, mencionando que é escrito em Rust. Finalmente, há uma seção descrevendo a interface de linha de comando do Marmite. A data é visível: quinta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2024.
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Aqui está uma descrição de texto alternativo para a imagem fornecida:
A imagem mostra a página inicial de um gerador de sites estático chamado Marmite. A página tem um design limpo e escuro, com texto branco. Ela apresenta seções sobre como começar, a interface de linha de comando do Marmite, e as razões para usar o Marmite. Cada seção inclui uma breve descrição e um link "ler mais". A página também inclui informações sobre os colaboradores, tags, arquivos, autores e repositório GitHub do projeto. O tema geral é a simplicidade e facilidade de uso do gerador de sites.
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Aqui está uma descrição de texto alternativo para a imagem fornecida:
A imagem mostra a página inicial do site do Marmite, um gerador de sites estáticos. O topo da página apresenta o nome "Marmite", sua descrição como um gerador de sites estáticos, e links para contribuidores, tags, arquivos, autores e o GitHub. Há um depoimento de um usuário sobre a facilidade de uso do Marmite. Abaixo, há seções com títulos como "Começando", "Interface de linha de comando do Marmite" e "Por que usar Marmite?", cada uma contendo uma breve descrição e um link "Leia mais". As seções incluem datas de publicação e a hashtag "#docs". A página tem um tema limpo e minimalista.
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Aqui está uma descrição de texto alternativo para a imagem:
A imagem mostra uma interface de usuário escura, possivelmente de um site ou aplicativo, com o nome "Marmite" e a descrição "Static Site Generator" no topo. Há uma barra de busca com "github" já digitado e um menu suspenso mostrando opções como "Markdown Formatting Options", "Pagination", "Contributors", "about" e "Hello Streams". Abaixo, há um pequeno trecho de texto com instruções e links. A data "Quinta-feira, 24 de outubro de 2024" também é visível. A cor predominante é um verde-escuro.
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Facebook and Twitter censor Linux-related content
According to the DistroWatch newsletter they have received multiple reports of Facebook users having their accounts suspended for talking about Linux.
I predict that this is just the beginning of a US government crack-down on people who want to break away from the corporate-controlled propaganda, and the surveillance technology built-in to Apple, Microsoft, Google (Alphabet), Facebook (Meta), and Amazon products, or who want to run their own federated web services. It is only a matter of time before ActivityPub is classified as “terrorism.” TikTok was only the beginning.
Starting on 2025-01-19 Sun Facebook’s internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labelled groups associated with Linux as being “cybersecurity threats”. Any posts mentioning DistroWatch and multiple groups associated with Linux and Linux discussions have either been shut down or had many of their posts removed.We’ve been hearing all week from readers who say they can no longer post about Linux on Facebook or share links to DistroWatch. Some people have reported their accounts have been locked or limited for posting about Linux.
The sad irony here is that Facebook runs much of its infrastructure on Linux and often posts job ads looking for Linux developers.
Unfortunately, there isn’t anything we can do about this, apart from advising people to get their Linux-related information from sources other than Facebook. I’ve tried to appeal the ban and was told the next day that Linux-related material is staying on the cybersecurity filter. My Facebook account was also locked for my efforts.
We went through a similar experience when Twitter changed its name to X - suddenly accounts which had been re-posting news from our RSS feeds were no longer able to share links. This sort of censorship is an unpleasant side-effect of centralized communication platforms such as X, Facebook, Google+, and so on.
In an effort to continue to make it possible for people to talk about Linux (and DistroWatch), as well as share their views and links, we are providing two options. We have RSS news feeds which get updates whenever we post new announcements, stories, and our weekly newsletters. We also now have a Mastodon account where I will start to post updates - at least for new distributions and notice of our weekly newsletter. Over time we may also add news stories and updates about releases. Links for the feeds and the Mastodon account can be found on our contact page.
#Tech #Politics #Censorship #FreeSpeech #Linux #Fediverse #TikTok #FLOSS #FOSS #FreeSoftware #Twitter #Apple #Microsoft #Google #AlphabetCorp #Facebook #MetaCorp #AmazonCorp
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Twitter need to focus on removing content such violent content such as the video the idiot in southport watched before killing 3 children, and attempting to murder a further 8 more children and two adults.
Facebook needs to also focus on similar content.
Incus linuxcontainers.org/incus/ vaikuttaa mielenkiintoiselta, koska siinä on sekä virtuaalikoneet että kontit samassa yhteydessä.
Linux Containers
The umbrella project behind Incus, LXC, LXCFS, Distrobuilder and more.linuxcontainers.org
DeepSeek is Limiting Access Amid Large-Scale Cyberattack #AI #GenAI #DeepSeek #DeepSeekR1 #AIModels #China #OpenSource #OpenSourceAI
winbuzzer.com/2025/01/27/deeps…
DeepSeek is Limiting Access Amid Large-Scale Cyberattack - WinBuzzer
DeepSeek has reported a large-scale cyberattack, limiting new user registrations as its R1 AI model makes news by challenging industry leaders like OpenAI and Meta.Markus Kasanmascheff (WinBuzzer)
[thread] Genocide industrial complex
Prison
mastodon.social/@persagen/1105…
Poverty
mastodon.social/@persagen/1136…
Transgenocide
mastodon.social/@persagen/1135…
Trump2/DOGE Ties to Military-Industrial Complex
mastodon.social/@persagen/1137…
Companies Profiting f. Gaza Genocide
afsc.org/gaza-genocide-compani…
#GenocideIndustrialComplex #Palestine #Gaza #IndustrialComplex #StructuralViolence
#Trump2 #fascism
#billionaires #Musk #libertarianism #capitalism #Corporations
#genocide #transgenocide
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Attached: 1 image [thread 1/x] Transgenocide 2/x: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113653037948864697 3/x: https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113801907806304445 https://en.wikipedia.Mastodon
Foreign policy of American kleptocracy
popular.info/p/the-foreign-pol…
* Trump favors ethnic cleansing of Palestinians f. Gaza
* Trump2 already taking steps to try to remove more Palestinians
* motivations? Follow the money
* Trump 2025-Jan-20: Gaza ideal site for real estate development
#Israel #genocide #EthnicCleansing #DefundIsrael #Gaza #Palestine
#WarCrimes #Netanyahu #WarCrimes
#MilitaryIndustrialComplex #GenocideIndustrialComplex #transgenocide
#capitalism #billionaires
#Trump2 #fascism #Trump
The foreign policy of an American kleptocracy
President Trump's Middle East policy took a dark turn on Saturday when he announced on Air Force One that he favored the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza.Judd Legum (Popular Information)
NUOVO COMPRENSORIO SCIISTICO COLERE-LIZZOLA: NUOVE INIZIATIVE IN PROGRAMMA E SUCCESSO DELLA RACCOLTA FIRME CONTRO
"E' un progetto anacronistico, fortemente impattante e devastante dal punto di vista ambientale in un contesto naturalistico pregiato e unico - sostengono i contrari - inoltre sperpera risorse che...Radio Onda d`Urto
Meet young redperson Isaac Kearney.
Forget us adult supporters, I can't imagine a stronger motivation for the men's team than doing their very best to make Isaac happy.
archived:
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behind the wall:
nytimes.com/athletic/6083122/2…
#LFC
Meet Isaac Kearney, the six-year-old Liverpool fan ‘just living his best life’
A video of Isaac Kearney has been viewed more than 140million times and moved fans across the world to get in touchJames Pearce (The Athletic)
The image is split into two parts. On the left, a photo shows a man in a Liverpool soccer jersey holding a young boy, also in Liverpool gear, in his arms. On the right, a different photo shows the same young boy sitting on a patterned floor, smiling, and playing a dark-blue ukulele. The boy is wearing a white Liverpool soccer shirt. Behind him is a fireplace and a mantelpiece with family photos and decorative items.
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Here is a description of the video:
The video opens with a close-up of a red Ferrari racing jumpsuit. The logos of several sponsors are visible, including HP, IBM, Shell, and the Ferrari logo.
The camera then pans to two silhouetted figures standing back-to-back against a red background.
Next, the video shows various shots of Charles LeClerc and Lewis Hamilton, both wearing Ferrari racing suits. The video intersperses close-ups of their faces with shots of their suits, and other shots of them in what appears to be a photoshoot.
The names “LECLERC” and “HAMILTON” are visible on the backs of their respective suits.
The video includes several quick cuts and transitions, with some shots having a slightly distorted or glitchy effect.
The video ends with both LeClerc and Hamilton standing side-by-side, arms crossed, in their Ferrari racing suits. No audio is present in the video.
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Il giorno della Memoria
Oggi è il giorno della Memoria, ricordiamo affinché un domani non possa succedere che ci scordiamo di ricordare le cose della giornata della Memoria.
youtube.com/watch?v=LMUgh6DkKd…
- YouTube
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RustyFreewheel
in reply to Raccoon🏳️🌈 • • •Raccoon🏳️🌈
in reply to RustyFreewheel • • •The Chinese Government probably likes it, seeing as they are semi-fascist themselves, and backed the Trump presidency in hopes he would further weaken the US.
RustyFreewheel
in reply to Raccoon🏳️🌈 • • •Raccoon🏳️🌈
in reply to RustyFreewheel • • •@RustyFreewheel
That really doesn't mean anything. What the Chinese government (not simply "the Chinese") wanted at the time was for Japan to stop aggressing upon them and committing genocide against their people: this was the Asian theater of the Holocaust, in which millions of Chinese people were murdered, and was part of the lead up to Pearl Harbor.
Rolling forward, the current Chinese government is very corporatist, very much treats the people as assets in some sort of capital gains scheme, where the state and its wild conservative values are Supreme, high-ranking members of the party rake in profits, and the individual is simply subject to them. This is the same as in North Korea, which is also a fascist adjacent government.
Remember that very few of the governments who called themselves communist actually embraced communist ideals. These people are running their countries on ideologies that are much closer to fascism.
RustyFreewheel
in reply to Raccoon🏳️🌈 • • •RustyFreewheel
in reply to Raccoon🏳️🌈 • • •Raccoon🏳️🌈
in reply to RustyFreewheel • • •It doesn't mean anything in the sense that Stalin also had massive losses in World War II, and that his ideology was similar enough to Hitler's that people thought they might be able to compromise. Keeping mind also that the Chinese government that primarily fought against the Japanese was not the communists, they were rebel forces in the western part of the country: the group that fought against the Japanese were "Nationalists", much more close to fascists, who the Communists were fighting against.
Since then, the "Communists" have taken over mainland china, had the Maoist revolution, and then decades have passed in which they embraced capitalism as a method of empowering and enriching the party. What they have right now is much more similar to fascism than it is any sort of communist ideology, just as the North Korean government is effectively a fascist one.
People can have the same ideology and still fight. Fascist fight each other constantly over which group is superior.
RustyFreewheel
in reply to Raccoon🏳️🌈 • • •Raccoon🏳️🌈
in reply to RustyFreewheel • • •@RustyFreewheel
I feel like you are altering the context of what I'm saying to the point it's hard to believe you aren't doing it on purpose.
The question was how Chinese government could support fascism when the fascists committed genocide against their people in the 30s, and I am saying that, in both the 1940s and today, both the Russian and Chinese governments were and are close enough to fascism to resemble it. Fascists have compatible belief structures in that they believe in rule by the strong and the supremacy of their races, but they inevitably conflict because they disagree on who that is that should be in charge.
So yes, it is irrelevant how many Russians and Chinese died in wars with fascist aggressors, or even how many of their own people died because of their own fascist movements: that doesn't make them any less fascist.
RustyFreewheel
in reply to Raccoon🏳️🌈 • • •I quoted you directly, you wrote Chinese participation in WW2 "really doesn't mean anything". I posit that Chinese people are just as deserving of empathy as Americans. History shows that most often it has been young, working class men that are the victims of ideologues and oligarchs.
Meanwhile the World watches as the USA President threatens to invade Canada, Greenland, Mexico and Panama. The USA rhetoric against other nations while pervasive is hypocritical. The USA has a long history of Slavery, medical experimentation on people of colour, Racial Segregation and interference in the governance of other countries.
I suspect that the Chinese Government, possibly in response to the 'land of freedom' imposing exorbitant tariffs, may at some time decide they have no interest in making swasticars for Heir Musk and will repurpose the Shanghai factory and who could blame them.