#protectionism — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #protectionism, aggregated by home.social.
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USA: Deutsche Firmen wurden gerade bei der Windkraft aus dem Land gedrängt, andere nun bei der Solarenergie.
Neue politische Strategien sind m.E. in der EU jetzt gefragt.
#Trump #USA #protectionism #isolationism #EU #Off-Shore #Windpark #Solarindustrie
Trump’s homegrown solar push risks widening green divide
japantimes.co.jp/business/2026…
Trump announced a plan to impose tariffs and minimum prices on imported polysilicon used in semicondictors and solar panels.
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Trump’s Sloppy, Incompetent Chinese Protectionism Expanded To Robot Vacuums, Lawnmowers
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Trump’s Sloppy, Incompetent Chinese Protectionism Expanded To Robot Vacuums, Lawnmowers
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The Cost of Trump Protectionism: Assessing the Economic Strain of 2025‑2026
By Winston Wendell It has been quite an eventful year – to be more precise, the economic policy of President Trump during his second term of office is turning ordinary everyday activities into a burden. Americans jokingly refer to the current situation as "Trumpflation". However, one might wonder what is causing the increase of prices? Let us examine the causes in detail. Tariffs and Price Surges In 2025, President Trump introduced the tariffs of 10% on imports and 60% on imports from […] -
The Trump FCC’s Chinese Drone Ban Continues To Be A Sloppy, Protectionist Mess
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The Trump FCC’s Chinese Drone Ban Continues To Be A Sloppy, Protectionist Mess
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@thekoreaherald editorial: “Washington’s rapid shift from temporary global duties to new Section 301 #tariffs shows that #protectionism is no longer a temporary negotiating tactic but an enduring element of economic policy. Tariffs now serve several objectives at once: generating revenue, encouraging domestic production and strengthening Washington's bargaining position. Future US administrations may alter the tools, but reversing the broader trajectory will only become harder.”
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@thekoreaherald editorial: “Washington’s rapid shift from temporary global duties to new Section 301 #tariffs shows that #protectionism is no longer a temporary negotiating tactic but an enduring element of economic policy. Tariffs now serve several objectives at once: generating revenue, encouraging domestic production and strengthening Washington's bargaining position. Future US administrations may alter the tools, but reversing the broader trajectory will only become harder.”
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Regulatory FUD and the China Label: Who Really Benefits From AI Panic
Stay curious — follow @1ban_news.
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Trump’s Tariff Tantrum: Why a One-Two Punch on Canada and Generic Drugs Hurts America and the GOP
by Winston Wendell I’ve watched the White House do the same thing over and over: grab a tariff, call it “targeted,” and insist it’ll only hurt foreign rivals. But now, they’re rolling out up to 50% tariffs on $20 billion of Canadian goods and threatening a 100% duty on generic pharmaceuticals starting in 2028. It’s familiar, sure except the risks are bigger and the fallout is faster. As someone who wants economic policy to help regular people, not steamroll them, I see this as a […] -
The Moose has Left the Woods!
OR when your business model is crumbling before your eyes - go BEG the government to "protect" your product!
AI Executives are shitting their pants given the release of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. I seem to recall a similar situation re DeepSeek-1 in Jan. 2025.
All the freaking out about "winning and losing" and whining about "distillation" re China are the WRONG things to focus on.
It is a fallacy to think US Frontier Labs would be successful in locking down AI models and charging high prices for access in perpetuity. It is inevitable that open weight models would catch up, and put SERIOUS pressure on pricing.
Welcome to software - It just happens that China is leading the charge on this one.
The magic is NOT about the model. The magic is creating the guardrails and infrastructure (ecosystem) around the model, and supporting practical use cases the model excels at, and making them so good to use that no user wants to switch to something "almost as good", even if it’s a touch cheaper.
Net-net, governments cannot stop software at the border. Import/Export controls will NOT be effective at stopping Chinese firms from distilling US models, even if the USA is successful at starving China of inference, which also will NOT happen. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-execs-quaking-boots-chinese-models #AI #LLMs #Kimi-K3 #Kimi #FrontierModels #USA #China #ImportControls #ExportControls #Software #Distillation #Open-Weight-Models #AIPloicy #Protectionism #AIRegulation #DeepSeek #Software #OpenSource #Moonshot
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The Moose has Left the Woods!
OR when your business model is crumbling before your eyes - go BEG the government to "protect" your product!
AI Executives are shitting their pants given the release of Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3. I seem to recall a similar situation re DeepSeek-1 in Jan. 2025.
All the freaking out about "winning and losing" and whining about "distillation" re China are the WRONG things to focus on.
It is a fallacy to think US Frontier Labs would be successful in locking down AI models and charging high prices for access in perpetuity. It is inevitable that open weight models would catch up, and put SERIOUS pressure on pricing.
Welcome to software - It just happens that China is leading the charge on this one.
The magic is NOT about the model. The magic is creating the guardrails and infrastructure (ecosystem) around the model, and supporting practical use cases the model excels at, and making them so good to use that no user wants to switch to something "almost as good", even if it’s a touch cheaper.
Net-net, governments cannot stop software at the border. Import/Export controls will NOT be effective at stopping Chinese firms from distilling US models, even if the USA is successful at starving China of inference, which also will NOT happen. https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-execs-quaking-boots-chinese-models #AI #LLMs #Kimi-K3 #Kimi #FrontierModels #USA #China #ImportControls #ExportControls #Software #Distillation #Open-Weight-Models #AIPloicy #Protectionism #AIRegulation #DeepSeek #Software #OpenSource #Moonshot
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The Corrupt, Xenophobic Hysteria Behind The ‘TikTok Ban’ Will Soon Be Mirrored Across U.S. AI Policy
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The Corrupt, Xenophobic Hysteria Behind The ‘TikTok Ban’ Will Soon Be Mirrored Across U.S. AI Policy
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Why Trump’s New Tariff Obsession is a Dangerous Gamble
The Tariff Trap: Why Trump’s Economic Obsession Risks a "Catastrophic" Reckoning by Winston Wendell Watching the latest news about Donald Trump and his planned wave of new tariffs, I can't help but feel like we've seen this before—and not in a good way. Trump likes to talk up these tariffs, spinning them as a way to force other countries to play by our rules and to shield the American economy. But truthfully, the reality looks a lot harsher. What we're seeing is a strategy built for […]https://bluepress.blog/2026/07/21/why-trumps-new-tariff-obsession-is-a-dangerous-gamble/
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Why Trump’s New Tariff Obsession is a Dangerous Gamble
The Tariff Trap: Why Trump’s Economic Obsession Risks a "Catastrophic" Reckoning by Winston Wendell Watching the latest news about Donald Trump and his planned wave of new tariffs, I can't help but feel like we've seen this before—and not in a good way. Trump likes to talk up these tariffs, spinning them as a way to force other countries to play by our rules and to shield the American economy. But truthfully, the reality looks a lot harsher. What we're seeing is a strategy built for […]https://bluepress.blog/2026/07/21/why-trumps-new-tariff-obsession-is-a-dangerous-gamble/
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Weekly output: Waze updates, Google Images turns 25, Samsung turns to more titanium, Frontier Airlines + Starlink, bill to ban Chinese cars
This week may have featured an unwanted import of smoky, hazy air from Canadian wildfires, but at least that miasma did not descend on the District until Friday–the day after I got to the one Fort Reno concert I’m likely to be able to see this summer.
Patreon readers got a bonus post assessing when I’m likely to need to replace my three oldest computers–and explaining why the oldest machine is not at the front of that list.
7/13/2026: Waze Gets AI, Personalization Options—Including One to Make It Less Chatty, PCMag
I have to admit that I had not used Waze in quite some time, so I downloaded a copy to refresh my memory. I’m glad I did, as this exercise reminded that Waze has yet to match Google’s ability to show which routing will be most efficient.
7/14/2026: Google Images Marks Its 25 Birthday by Adding AI Image Generation, PCMag
This was another Google item from an embargoed announcement. It was going to be an unusually short post, but then I realized that Google’s anniversary post didn’t mention the date the company launched Google Images. Some quick Googling surfaced a New York Times story apparently written on that day, July 12, 2001.
7/14/2026: Samsung Teases New Screen Substrate for Its Next Foldable: Titanium, PCMag
One of my editors asked if I could pick up this announcement; since I try to be the guy who solves problems for my editors and since I rarely get to cover metallurgical topics, I said I would.
7/15/2026: Frontier Airlines Is Adding Starlink, But You Might Have to Pay for It, PCMag
I was going to write this Tuesday but had to set it aside for the Samsung news. But that delay gave me some extra time to send a further round of questions to Frontier’s PR office about their weird unwillingness to say what the service will cost (if an ultra-low-cost carrier that literally has “ULCC” as its stock ticker doesn’t say upfront that a service is free, it’s not going to be free) and whether they would finally add power outlets (apparently not).
7/18/2026: Bill Would Ban Chinese Connected Cars in the US—From Sale and on the Streets, PCMag
I could have written this post in fewer words if I hadn’t gotten into how Congress has done nothing to address people’s privacy concerns about non-Chinese connected cars, but I wasn’t going to do that. I will not stop reminding readers about how Congress keeps failing to pass any sort of comprehensive privacy legislation.
#AEI #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #BernieMoreno #ChineseEVs #connectedCarPrivacy #connectedCars #F9 #foldingScreens #FrontierAirlines #GoogleImages #JohnMoolenaar #protectionism #SamsungFoldables #Starlink #Waymo #Waze -
Weekly output: Waze updates, Google Images turns 25, Samsung turns to more titanium, Frontier Airlines + Starlink, bill to ban Chinese cars
This week may have featured an unwanted import of smoky, hazy air from Canadian wildfires, but at least that miasma did not descend on the District until Friday–the day after I got to the one Fort Reno concert I’m likely to be able to see this summer.
Patreon readers got a bonus post assessing when I’m likely to need to replace my three oldest computers–and explaining why the oldest machine is not at the front of that list.
7/13/2026: Waze Gets AI, Personalization Options—Including One to Make It Less Chatty, PCMag
I have to admit that I had not used Waze in quite some time, so I downloaded a copy to refresh my memory. I’m glad I did, as this exercise reminded that Waze has yet to match Google’s ability to show which routing will be most efficient.
7/14/2026: Google Images Marks Its 25 Birthday by Adding AI Image Generation, PCMag
This was another Google item from an embargoed announcement. It was going to be an unusually short post, but then I realized that Google’s anniversary post didn’t mention the date the company launched Google Images. Some quick Googling surfaced a New York Times story apparently written on that day, July 12, 2001.
7/14/2026: Samsung Teases New Screen Substrate for Its Next Foldable: Titanium, PCMag
One of my editors asked if I could pick up this announcement; since I try to be the guy who solves problems for my editors and since I rarely get to cover metallurgical topics, I said I would.
7/15/2026: Frontier Airlines Is Adding Starlink, But You Might Have to Pay for It, PCMag
I was going to write this Tuesday but had to set it aside for the Samsung news. But that delay gave me some extra time to send a further round of questions to Frontier’s PR office about their weird unwillingness to say what the service will cost (if an ultra-low-cost carrier that literally has “ULCC” as its stock ticker doesn’t say upfront that a service is free, it’s not going to be free) and whether they would finally add power outlets (apparently not).
7/18/2026: Bill Would Ban Chinese Connected Cars in the US—From Sale and on the Streets, PCMag
I could have written this post in fewer words if I hadn’t gotten into how Congress has done nothing to address people’s privacy concerns about non-Chinese connected cars, but I wasn’t going to do that. I will not stop reminding readers about how Congress keeps failing to pass any sort of comprehensive privacy legislation.
#AEI #AmericanEnterpriseInstitute #BernieMoreno #ChineseEVs #connectedCarPrivacy #connectedCars #F9 #foldingScreens #FrontierAirlines #GoogleImages #JohnMoolenaar #protectionism #SamsungFoldables #Starlink #Waymo #Waze -
@mitsuhiko wrote a great article on "Dangerous #Technology For Americans Only" https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/americans-only/
"Europeans need to believe in themselves enough not to surrender to American gravity. Moving to the US as a #founder or tech employee is rational and individually it is often the right decision. But if every ambitious person treats #Europe as a lost cause, then Europe becomes one. [...]
Europe needs more ambition, more ownership, more urgency, and more willingness to build. It needs less resignation. It needs to stop confusing regulation with strategy and dependency with virtue. We need to #deregulate where rules serve mostly as #protectionism. We need capital markets that can fund companies at the scale modern #technology requires. We need employee ownership to become normal rather than exotic. We need a real single market for services, not just speeches about one. We need countries to stop fighting each other while claiming to act in the European interest."
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@mitsuhiko wrote a great article on "Dangerous #Technology For Americans Only" https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/americans-only/
"Europeans need to believe in themselves enough not to surrender to American gravity. Moving to the US as a #founder or tech employee is rational and individually it is often the right decision. But if every ambitious person treats #Europe as a lost cause, then Europe becomes one. [...]
Europe needs more ambition, more ownership, more urgency, and more willingness to build. It needs less resignation. It needs to stop confusing regulation with strategy and dependency with virtue. We need to #deregulate where rules serve mostly as #protectionism. We need capital markets that can fund companies at the scale modern #technology requires. We need employee ownership to become normal rather than exotic. We need a real single market for services, not just speeches about one. We need countries to stop fighting each other while claiming to act in the European interest."
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Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine over tech tax as G7 meets: NY Post
Published Mon, Jun 15, 2026 · 03:30 PM PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday (Jun 15) warned that the US will “have no choice” but to apply 100 per cent tariff…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #FrenchWine #Frenchwine #donaldtrump #francais #france #French #frenchwine #Protectionism #tariffs #UnitedStates #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2699486/trump-threatens-100-tariff-on-french-wine-over-tech-tax-as-g7-meets-ny-post/ -
Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine over tech tax as G7 meets: NY Post
Published Mon, Jun 15, 2026 · 03:30 PM PRESIDENT Donald Trump on Monday (Jun 15) warned that the US will “have no choice” but to apply 100 per cent tariff…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #FrenchWine #Frenchwine #donaldtrump #francais #france #French #frenchwine #Protectionism #tariffs #UnitedStates #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2699486/trump-threatens-100-tariff-on-french-wine-over-tech-tax-as-g7-meets-ny-post/ -
Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine over tech tax as G7 meets: NY Post https://www.diningandcooking.com/2699486/trump-threatens-100-tariff-on-french-wine-over-tech-tax-as-g7-meets-ny-post/ #DonaldTrump #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #Protectionism #tariffs #UnitedStates #Wine
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Trump threatens 100% tariff on French wine over tech tax as G7 meets: NY Post https://www.diningandcooking.com/2699486/trump-threatens-100-tariff-on-french-wine-over-tech-tax-as-g7-meets-ny-post/ #DonaldTrump #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #Protectionism #tariffs #UnitedStates #Wine
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Oh my the conversation has now arrived at #DigitalSovereignty and of course they say how bad it is the things people use are "not European." 🙄
Well at least the #Zalando rep called for a "swift application of the #DMA."
#Bookingcom seems to be more concerned about #protectionism and instead says companies should become more resilient by keeping supply chain "optionality," aka stay flexible and avoid vendor lock-in.
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Oh my the conversation has now arrived at #DigitalSovereignty and of course they say how bad it is the things people use are "not European." 🙄
Well at least the #Zalando rep called for a "swift application of the #DMA."
#Bookingcom seems to be more concerned about #protectionism and instead says companies should become more resilient by keeping supply chain "optionality," aka stay flexible and avoid vendor lock-in.
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Macron rebuffs Trump’s threats of wine tariffs as G7 meets
Published Mon, Jun 15, 2026 · 09:32 PM FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron refused to drop the country’s digital tax after Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on wine, creating a…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchwine #FrenchWine #donaldtrump #EmmanuelMacron #francais #france #French #frenchwine #Protectionism #tariffs #UnitedStates #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2685683/macron-rebuffs-trumps-threats-of-wine-tariffs-as-g7-meets/ -
Macron rebuffs Trump’s threats of wine tariffs as G7 meets
Published Mon, Jun 15, 2026 · 09:32 PM FRENCH President Emmanuel Macron refused to drop the country’s digital tax after Donald Trump threatened new tariffs on wine, creating a…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Frenchwine #FrenchWine #donaldtrump #EmmanuelMacron #francais #france #French #frenchwine #Protectionism #tariffs #UnitedStates #Wine
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2685683/macron-rebuffs-trumps-threats-of-wine-tariffs-as-g7-meets/ -
Macron rebuffs Trump’s threats of wine tariffs as G7 meets https://www.diningandcooking.com/2685683/macron-rebuffs-trumps-threats-of-wine-tariffs-as-g7-meets/ #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #Protectionism #tariffs #UnitedStates #Wine
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Macron rebuffs Trump’s threats of wine tariffs as G7 meets https://www.diningandcooking.com/2685683/macron-rebuffs-trumps-threats-of-wine-tariffs-as-g7-meets/ #DonaldTrump #EmmanuelMacron #francais #france #French #FrenchWine #Protectionism #tariffs #UnitedStates #Wine
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"There is a bit of schadenfreude on Twitter right now about Anthropic being hit by the US government’s export control directive to suspend access to Fable and Mythos. Anthropic and their leadership have spent a lot of time and effort describing its own technology as dangerous and in need of strict controls and regulation. Now that the US government appears to have taken that framing seriously and told them to turn it off for foreign nationals I can see why people are making fun of that situation.
I understand the reaction, but I urge you to not entertain it for too long because it is a giant distraction. The important part is not that Anthropic’s safety language came back to bite them but the line the US government is drawing: this technology is apparently so powerful that only Americans should have it.
We are on a clear path towards a world of division. One should think that if a model is too dangerous for everyone, then it is too dangerous for Americans too. Instead the US is treating these models like weapons that need to be controlled. It is not just about capabilities, it is about racism and nationalism. If you have the wrong passport, you are not to be trusted. This is a very different thing from safety, and Europeans should pay close attention to it."
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/americans-only/
#USA #Protectionism #Trump #MAGA #DigitalSovereignty #AI #Anthropic #Claude #ClaudeFable #ClaudeMythos
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"There is a bit of schadenfreude on Twitter right now about Anthropic being hit by the US government’s export control directive to suspend access to Fable and Mythos. Anthropic and their leadership have spent a lot of time and effort describing its own technology as dangerous and in need of strict controls and regulation. Now that the US government appears to have taken that framing seriously and told them to turn it off for foreign nationals I can see why people are making fun of that situation.
I understand the reaction, but I urge you to not entertain it for too long because it is a giant distraction. The important part is not that Anthropic’s safety language came back to bite them but the line the US government is drawing: this technology is apparently so powerful that only Americans should have it.
We are on a clear path towards a world of division. One should think that if a model is too dangerous for everyone, then it is too dangerous for Americans too. Instead the US is treating these models like weapons that need to be controlled. It is not just about capabilities, it is about racism and nationalism. If you have the wrong passport, you are not to be trusted. This is a very different thing from safety, and Europeans should pay close attention to it."
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/6/13/americans-only/
#USA #Protectionism #Trump #MAGA #DigitalSovereignty #AI #Anthropic #Claude #ClaudeFable #ClaudeMythos
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Politicians in the US are deathly afraid that Americans might ever see a Chinese EV.
This is just priceless.
Free market economy. Capitalism and the mass propaganda about being superior in everything has come to this level of fearful protectionism.
#EV #ElectricCars #China #US #USpol #Protectionism #Capitalism #Fear #Idiocracy
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Politicians in the US are deathly afraid that Americans might ever see a Chinese EV.
This is just priceless.
Free market economy. Capitalism and the mass propaganda about being superior in everything has come to this level of fearful protectionism.
#EV #ElectricCars #China #US #USpol #Protectionism #Capitalism #Fear #Idiocracy
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* The Great Global Transformation
The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order, Branko Milanovic >>
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo269830239.html* The U.S., China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order
"After unprecedented economic growth during the 20th century, is the U.S. losing its place as a world power? How have China’s economic rise and its growing class of uber-wealthy elites shaken up its society? How are the seismic changes to both countries reshuffling the global economic order?" >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1zscNHeYI
#geopolitics #USChinaRelations #WorldEconomicOrder #SeismicShifts #US #China #growth #elites #UberWealthy #plutocracy #nationalism #NationalMarketLiberalism #degeneration #protectionism #inequality #SocialMobility #homoploutia #book -
* The Great Global Transformation
The United States, China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order, Branko Milanovic >>
https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo269830239.html* The U.S., China, and the Remaking of the World Economic Order
"After unprecedented economic growth during the 20th century, is the U.S. losing its place as a world power? How have China’s economic rise and its growing class of uber-wealthy elites shaken up its society? How are the seismic changes to both countries reshuffling the global economic order?" >>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr1zscNHeYI
#geopolitics #USChinaRelations #WorldEconomicOrder #SeismicShifts #US #China #growth #elites #UberWealthy #plutocracy #nationalism #NationalMarketLiberalism #degeneration #protectionism #inequality #SocialMobility #homoploutia #book -
US FOREIGN POLICY SHIFTS: PROTECTIONISM AND A NEW ALLIANCE DYNAMIC
US adds tariffs on China tech imports. Kamala Harris gains support. US-Pakistan relations improve under new military government.
#USTariffs, #ChinaTrade, #PakistanUS, #KamalaHarris, #Protectionism
https://newsletter.tf/us-tariffs-china-tech-pakistan-relations-change/
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The US has placed new tariffs on high-tech goods from China. This is a major change in trade policy. Vice President Kamala Harris's support has increased significantly.
#USTariffs, #ChinaTrade, #PakistanUS, #KamalaHarris, #Protectionism
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Remember, cars are still the worst product the Mozilla Foundation as ever reviewed for privacy. This doubling down on pushing Chinese tech out of America over concerns of malware in their product is two-faced when one considers that America's own cars violate their drivers' privacy every day on the road.
#privacy #cars #China #hypocrisy #protectionism #tariffs #surveillance #USCongress
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Remember, cars are still the worst product the Mozilla Foundation as ever reviewed for privacy. This doubling down on pushing Chinese tech out of America over concerns of malware in their product is two-faced when one considers that America's own cars violate their drivers' privacy every day on the road.
#privacy #cars #China #hypocrisy #protectionism #tariffs #surveillance #USCongress
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You can spot bullshit journalism by scanning intent - and omissions.
First, intent: creating FUD to coerce #protectionism against #China, without calling it protectionism, because protectionism bad - unless it's there to protect US private interests, in which case protectionism good!
Second, omission: which goddamn toy manufacturer does NOT rely upon #sweatshops? All western toy producers do this in the east and global south.
https://www.thebureau.news/p/uyghur-forced-labor-imports-from
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You can spot bullshit journalism by scanning intent - and omissions.
First, intent: creating FUD to coerce #protectionism against #China, without calling it protectionism, because protectionism bad - unless it's there to protect US private interests, in which case protectionism good!
Second, omission: which goddamn toy manufacturer does NOT rely upon #sweatshops? All western toy producers do this in the east and global south.
https://www.thebureau.news/p/uyghur-forced-labor-imports-from
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@MikeElgan china is giving away the same information (and more) american big tech stole and want inflated fees for, why pay 10x token costs, for small biz it is make or break, it is a stagecoach robbery and a sham basically #fomo squared #protectionism #silly con glass houses
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@MikeElgan china is giving away the same information (and more) american big tech stole and want inflated fees for, why pay 10x token costs, for small biz it is make or break, it is a stagecoach robbery and a sham basically #fomo squared #protectionism #silly con glass houses
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Tuesday, April 14, 2026
Ukraine will unite with Europe's security system or some of Europe will become part of Russia -- Ukrainian forces withdraw from villages in eastern Sumy Oblast amid heavy fighting -- Investigation: Western companies miss deadline to exit Russia’s main drone production site -- Magyar rejects calls for Ukraine to cede territory, invokes Hungary's 1956 resistance ... and morehttps://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2026/04/tuesday-april-14-2026/
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I've always been leery of the AI debate over creative content – audio or visual media, including written material. A recent interview between Rick Beato and Justin Hawkins provided me with a frame.
https://philosophics.blog/2026/04/10/art-or-content/?utm_source=masto&utm_medium=social
It reminds me of the old argument between high and low art, another bollocksed argument in my opinion. Homey don't play dat.
#philosophy #music #art #ai #language #perception #popculture #popmusic #protectionism #psychology #society #taste #technology #video #virtue #writing
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Protectionism in the US heading in an interesting direction as The US bans foreign made internet routers
Which is particularly interesting because there aren't any US made internet routers really, certainly nothing like the number required for keeping all Americans online.
Routers are mostly insecure due to company negligence with updates and bugs which has nothing to do with nationality of course. American companies are just as likely to fail to spot a buffer overflow or abandon customers when they discontinue a product.
American companies aren't even less likely to want to spy on you and steal all your data and then be forced to give it up to government if they ask.
Hard to see how this goes well for anyone. Except many the people certifying products that evade the ban.