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@thias@mastodon.social · Feb 27, 2026

For me the most interesting part of the article is the fact that the Atlantic openly and clearly compares the US to other nations…

#uspol

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/02/elite-accountability-powerful-impunity/686134/

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@mirrorwitch@awful.systems I note that China is on the verge of producing their own EUV lithography tech (they demo'd it a couple of months back) so TSMC's near-monopoly is on the edge of disintegrati

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@cstross@wandering.shop @mirrorwitch@awful.systems i feel like the semi conductor race is a bit like the race to make the fastest passenger train in the 30s, makes sense in a consumer economy, once yo

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@thias@mastodon.social @mirrorwitch@awful.systems Turns out you don't need much more than early 90s chips to build effective combat drones. What you need is trained troops, tactical doctrine, and a su

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@thias@mastodon.social · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @mirrorwitch@awful.systems so it boils down to the question if China can switch to wartime economy - where growth is limited to military industries - and stay stable.

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guess the USA invasion of Venezuela puts a flashing neon crosshair on Taiwan. An extremely ridiculous notion that I am forced to consider right now is that it matters whether the CCP invades before or

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@thias@mastodon.social · Jan 03, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @mirrorwitch@awful.systems i feel like the semi conductor race is a bit like the race to make the fastest passenger train in the 30s, makes sense in a consumer economy, once you have a large conflict it does not matter, are the chips in the drones in Ukraine that advanced?

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