You’re right about Greta’s leanings toward more radicalism. The previous poster’s point is that people like Greta are touted by media when they’re not radical, but get dropped once they do.

Thus you won’t find these excellent leaders by watching mainstream capitalist media.

Having listened to Eugene Puryear of the PSL speak, his ability to connect cross-cultural historical knowledge with today’s struggles make him a great one to follow: https://www.instagram.com/pslbayarea/reel/DGPasWHRf_h/

I’ve dabbled in this area as well. The problem seems to be that metal shops in the US are too small-scale and don’t have services to help walk customers through manufacturing. They expect you to know everything, and just tell them exactly where to punch, bend, and cut stuff.

Chinese factories don’t have this problem because they’re super used to dealing with unfamiliar customers. Unfortunately, there simply isn’t enough demand for most US manufacturing to support such services. It’s a chicken-and-egg problem. Not enough customers to afford baller customer service, and no good customer service to attract more customers.

There are some US companies that can do some of this. For example, SendCutSend is an all-online sheet metal fabrication company. By being online-first, they can get enough orders to support Design Services for customers. Unfortunately, they’re still not large-scale enough to help with assembly.

This is freaking awesome! The movie is quite explicitly anti-American, and is a veiled message about fighting back against imperialism: https://thechinaacademy.org/why-chinese-love-this-anti-us-movie-so-much/

As another example, take a look at how similar the palace of the oppressor gods in the movie is to the Pentagon:

This continues a recent trend in China of anti-American movies, most exemplified by The Battle at Lake Changjin Movie series.

Bloom into You is nice and fluffy

Even if Deepseek didn’t explicitly train on ChatGPT output, there’s so much of it pasted across the internet that just by scraping the web, Deepseek would’ve already faced that issue.

This distilling capability is super powerful. If any cutting-edge model can simply be distilled, there is literally no moat around AI. If OpenAI comes out with GPT-infinity, in a few months everyone else will just distill out an equivalent model. That means AI costs (and profits!) should drop to zero over time due to competition.

This matches both Jeremy Rifkin’s concept of zero marginal cost, and Marx’s predictions of the falling rate of profit.