Pointing out the obvious
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Why not use English?
Tengo con un socio un negocio de catering de paellas para eventos en Sídney.
Este año casi triplicamos ingresos y nos acercamos al millón de dólares australianos.
Lo que más nos diferencia es poco vistoso: los clientes van en un CRM y las cuentas en Xero, y en este sector mucha competencia va bastante menos organizada.
Ahora quiero llevarlo a otros estados, y para eso necesito gente muy buena.
¿Alguien en Australia que se anime?
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Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
Being a right wing tech bro is difficult because you work on teams of the smartest people from around the world - good people.
But we still have to be real - you guys are here to lower our wages.. you’re here because the culture your people create at home didn’t produce enough opportunity for you.
You are the outlier in a bell curve that the working class takes the brunt of.
Not all immigration is bad - but the whole project was never done in the service of the nation.
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
"to keep this Empire as a heritage of the British race...we must create an environment which will breed a virile people. Wealth will not save us if our crop of such men fail"
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
Hughes during WW1: national safety has been endangered through the policy of laissez faire, allowing German influence to permeate British industry
Impressive
I have a major result to share.
I’ve found conclusive forensic evidence that the top 4 Chinese AI labs—DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group—have built their newest models on NVIDIA’s most advanced Blackwell chips, which are barred from export to China.
This sounds insane, but I discovered that almost every AI model carries a hidden signature of the GPU that trained it. When a model is first set up, the starting values of its weights are laid out in a pattern that depends on the exact GPU. Each combination of GPU and seed number produces a unique pattern—a sort of fingerprint of the hardware used to create the model. Traces of that pattern survive training into the published model.
Again, this evidence isn’t based on any insider information or leaking. It’s based on a forensic analysis of the model weights released by the companies themselves.
I searched more than six trillion combinations of chip layout and seed number and matched them to open-weights models. In doing so, I found conclusive evidence that six Chinese AI models—including DeepSeek-V4-Pro, Kimi K3, and MiniMax-M3—were initialized on NVIDIA Blackwell systems. Four of the models match Grace Blackwell, the GB200 and GB300 parts in NVIDIA’s flagship liquid-cooled rack-scale systems.
I then verified these results on real hardware. Running unmodified PyTorch with the seeds I’d recovered, a Blackwell B300 reproduced DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s untouched starting weights bit for bit, and a rented GB200 reproduced Kimi K3’s to a correlation of 0.999995. A Hopper H100 reproduced none of DeepSeek-V4-Flash’s, and changing the seed by one broke the match. (DeepSeek’s seed is 953049583 by the way.) The method also was verified to match 24 known open-weights models to the hardware that developers said they used.
It is exceedingly unlikely that these results are a coincidence. Across six trillion combinations, the best accidental match should reach only about 8 sigma (i.e., eight standard deviations above what random chance would produce). The real matches range from 49 to 1,385 sigma, and even the weakest single test hits 20.
These were data-center-scale training runs. With some analysis of release schedules and model details, I estimate that the largest, Kimi K3 and DeepSeek-V4-Pro, used 2,000 to 3,000 Blackwell GPUs each. Clusters of this size cost on the order of $150 to $200 million each to buy, and across these labs alone would add up to more than half a billion dollars of export-controlled GPUs, not counting experimental compute or otherwise. It’s quite likely that we see multi-billion dollar expenditure on export-controlled GPUs.
I am highly confident in this result, and it has been independently verified by senior researchers at OpenAI and Anthropic. You can read the full report at unemploymentlabs.com/checkpo….
There is much more I’ve identified about these models through other forms of checkpoint forensics like this, and will have more to share soon.
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Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
On this day — 12 November 1894 — Lawrence Hargrave achieved his breakthrough box‑kite flight, proving that a man‑lifting, heavier‑than‑air machine was possible long before the Wright brothers made their famous powered flight in 1903.
Hargrave’s work at Stanwell Park demonstrated the principles of lift and stability that would underpin modern aviation. His pioneering designs and experiments earned him a place on Australia’s old $20 note, where his portrait appeared alongside his remarkable flying machines.
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
"We have lifted up on our topmost minaret the badge of White Australia, but we are, as it were, a drop in a coloured ocean ringed around with a thousand million of the coloured races. How are we to be saved? What arrogance and what futility it would be to emblazon White Australia on our banners if we are not prepared to fight for it, and how are five to fight a thousand, valiant though they may be?" — PM William "Billy" Hughes 🇦🇺🇬🇧
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Did California try to ban Chinese immigrants and was it eventually successful?
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
Yes. California repeatedly tried via taxes, an 1858 entry ban (struck down), the 1879 constitution’s Article XIX declaring Chinese “dangerous” and authorizing bans/employment restrictions/removals (mostly invalidated by courts), plus local expulsions.
State-level total bans failed legally due to federal supremacy and treaties. But California’s pressure produced the 1882 federal Chinese Exclusion Act, which halted most Chinese labor immigration for decades until 1943 and sharply reduced the population.
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
Primarily economic. California's 1849 constitution banned slavery unanimously to protect free white gold miners from competing with slave labor. Even Southerners like William Gwin supported it, as diggers refused to work beside slaves. Walter Colton noted free white diggers “won’t dig with slaves” and cared little for abolition in the abstract. Self-interest outweighed pure morality for most.
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Yes. In his diary on 29 November 1820, amid the Missouri Compromise, Adams wrote that if slavery became “the destined sword” severing the Union, it would also cut the bonds of slavery itself. A dissolution over slavery would bring a servile war in the South plus war between the severed sections, ending in slavery’s “extirpation” from the continent. He viewed the result as calamitous yet ultimately glorious. He repeated similar warnings later, including in an 1845 letter.
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
Yes. Several Founders explicitly noted slavery's economic distortions. Franklin observed it made white children "disgusted with Labour" and discouraged European immigration. Gouverneur Morris argued at the Convention that slavery "discourages arts and manufactures," leads the poor to "despise labor," and blocks white settlers who "enrich and strengthen a Country." These concerns about free labor's viability and western opportunity prefigured later Republican free-labor ideology, though the Founders compromised for union rather than resolve them.
Emperor’s New Clothes retweeted
Northern motives mixed economic, political, and moral factors. Free-labor ideology, central to Republicans, held that slavery undercut free white workers' wages and opportunities, especially by monopolizing western land. Moral abolitionism existed but was a minority stance among most Northerners. The war began to preserve the Union; emancipation developed later as military necessity and principle. Exact proportions cannot be measured.
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Yes for those interested here is a revealing chat with Buckley which shows some of the dynamics Tucker seems to be concerned about for people “two hundred years from now” — where Tucker accuses Trump of being an arriviste driven by ethnic resentment against WASPS at the B&T
