Importantly, it looks like this is going to be China’s position going forward.

looks like they took it down, but they did release it under Apache license originally, so here’s a fork https://git.sr.ht/~yogthos/quelmap

The current right wing government will implode eventually, and communism being incubated in Kerala will be very valuable when that happens.

The drones don’t even have the range to go from Russia to Romania last I looked.

People in Africa are largely using phones from China which don’t run Android. For example, Huawei has its own HarmonyOS now, that was forked from Android a while back and it’s no longer compatible with it.

I do think that Linux based phones would be great, but it doesn’t seem like there are any viable options in the foreseeable future.

The whole notion that voting is the only action one can take to participate politically is absurd. You can join a union, educate people around you, organize strikes, do mutual aid, and a myriad other things that don’t involve voting for a party that’s simply less heinous than the alternative.

That’s not a lot by LLM standards. :)

It’s incredible to see how Europeans are looking at what happened to Ukraine and thinking yeah we want some of that at home too.

They’re not doing that, they’re using an alternative approach to EUV

• https://lilys.ai/notes/754616
• https://www.gizmochina.com/2025/04/24/china-quietly-cracks-5nm-without-euv/
• https://drrobertcastellano.substack.com/p/how-china-is-reaching-5nm-without

the 3B version should need fairly modest hardware

this might be of interest, it’s a model that generates svgs that work really great for stuff like icons https://github.com/OmniSVG/OmniSVG

I’ve found lots of great uses. I find LLMs are great for grammar and spellchecking, acting as a sounding board, doing translations, writing shell scripts, digging through unfamiliar code bases, figuring out configurations for tools, finding relevant stuff in large documents, and they can be helpful for coding in languages I’m not well versed in.

https://github.com/BICLab/SpikingBrain-7B

Right, I think the key part to keep in mind is that color revolutions do tend to have an organic component to them. You have to have existing discontent or tensions that are exploited. The trick is to direct the discontent towards political goals that favor the west. This is done through NGOs, western media, grooming young people, and so on.

As you point out, a spontaneous uprising isn’t going to have the necessary structures to create a functioning and independent government. When the dust settles, the existing power structures will reassert themselves, but under new leadership, one that’s likely to be favorable to the west.

this has been such a transparent regime change operation

Correct, they built their own infrastructure and aren’t dependent on US big tech by design. Other countries can do this too.

welcome to the resitance

The African Internet Exchange System project was launched by the African Union Commission to promote the exchange of intra-African internet traffic within the continent. Before the project, Africa was paying overseas carriers to handle this traffic, which was both costly and inefficient. The project is a key part of the Program on Infrastructure Development in Africa, which aims to establish an intra-African broadband infrastructure and has highlighted the importance of Internet Exchange Points.

The main difference between the AXIS project’s proposed system and the global internet is the way internet traffic is routed. The global internet often routes intra-African traffic through overseas carriers. The AXIS project’s goal is to keep this traffic within the continent by exchanging it locally or regionally through IXPs. This eliminates the need for international transit, which reduces latency and saves costs.

there’s some more info here

• https://au.int/sites/default/files/documents/32509-doc-axis-brochure_pida_-january_2017.pdf
• https://www.de-cix.net/en/africa
• https://af-ix.org/
• https://www.ujasusi.com/p/africa-launches-own-internet-system-breaks-european-control

Try to keep up.

• China’s carbon emissions have been in a structural decline since 2023 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/nov/13/chinas-carbon-emissions-set-for-structural-decline-from-next-year
• Clean energy was top driver of China’s economic growth in 2023 https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-clean-energy-was-top-driver-of-chinas-economic-growth-in-2023/
• China installed more solar in 2025 than rest of the world combined https://electrek.co/2025/09/02/h1-2025-china-installs-more-solar-than-rest-of-the-world-combined/
• China’s solar capacity surges; predicted to top 1 TW by 2026 https://www.rystadenergy.com/news/china-s-solar-capacity-surges-expected-to-top-1-tw-by-2026
• China is also building out nuclear at a breakneck pace https://www.economist.com/china/2023/11/30/china-is-building-nuclear-reactors-faster-than-any-other-country
• New energy vehicles account for 77.6% of China’s public transport system https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2403089981/

Finally, it’s also worth noting that China has a concrete plan for becoming carbon neutral, and short term coal usage has been found to be in line with China’s climate pledges

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/chinas-energy-transition-in-5-charts/
• https://www.carbonbrief.org/chinas-2060-climate-pledge-is-largely-consistent-with-1-5c-goal-study-finds

You don’t see google doing much in China or Russia nowadays.