Jacob Navok

JUST IN: Maryland activist helps block a $5B AI data center planned for the site of an abandoned shopping mall that closed 24 years ago, after gathering over 25,000 signatures.

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Something that merits more discussion amongst those who believe it was a mistake by both the Biden and Trump administrations to allow the export of less powerful GPUs to China: Since the summer of 2025, it has increasingly been *China*, not just DC, blocking Nvidia GPUs in China. Within weeks of Secretary Lutnick saying the goal was to get Chinese developers "addicted" to the American technology stack, Beijing began pressuring its tech giants to stop buying the H20. Then it ordered them to stop buying the RTX Pro 6000D, sent customs teams to the ports to crack down on Nvidia chip imports, and barred foreign AI chips from new state-funded data centers. And as of last week, Reuters reports that roughly 600,000 H200s are sitting in Hong Kong because Beijing won't approve large-scale imports of a chip that is still better than anything China's own industry makes at scale. If allowing the export of these less powerful GPUs was a policy mistake that *advantaged* China, then why is *China* the one blocking them? From my perspective, China understands that if they are dependent on American AI hardware - either on the ground in China or accessed remotely via the wide range of southeast Asian clouds (which include SE Asian availability zones from the largest American hyperscalers) - then we have immense leverage over them in any future conflict. Being able to turn off the clouds instantly is actually the greatest leverage. Yes, Chinese AI labs still want Nvidia chips. Gray market prices for H200 servers have roughly tripled over the past year. But that is exactly the point. Beijing is willing to impose real costs on its own AI labs to avoid dependence on American GPUs, which tells you how Beijing views GPU imports: not as a gift, but as a threat to its own ambitions. Maybe, just maybe, selling China GPUs that trail our own state of the art, so that Chinese developers stay “addicted” to American GPUs and China doesn't build an alternative AI hardware ecosystem that we have no control or influence over *and* that China could share over time with our adversaries, was actually a smart, pro-American national defense policy. And letting them access southeast Asian clouds might be an even smarter policy as so easy to turn clouds off. I believed and still believed it was smart policy. And I say this as someone whose posts here are hawkish enough on China that I won't travel there anymore. And note that both the Biden and Trump administration allowed the export of less powerful GPUs to China for all of these reasons. It was only under the Trump administration that China woke up to the risk of what was actually a pretty smart, pro-national defense policy and then China began restricting GPUs. The lesson of the H20 is that a deliberately crippled chip doesn't keep China on our stack. Beijing moved against the H20 and RTX Pro 6000D as it concluded that domestic Chinese chips had caught up to them. So if China develops an alternative AI hardware ecosystem that it shares with Russia, Iran and North Korea, we will look back and think it would have been even smarter to offer China the B30A in 2025 instead of the H200s we eventually approved case-by-case. Especially given the H200 is not the frontier: with Vera Rubin now in full production, it is two generations behind what American labs are buying. All of this is to say that Jensen has been consistently lobbying for a position that was adapted by both the Biden *and* Trump admins *and* looks smarter every month that goes by as Chinese labs increasingly adapt their MoE architectures to domestic Chinese hardware. DeepSeek reportedly gave Huawei and Cambricon early access to V4 instead of Nvidia and AMD, and a Huawei-led team has since post-trained V4-Pro on Ascend chips. And if America *ever* falls behind China in AI, the China hawks here in America who helped accelerate the creation of this alternative Chinese AI hardware ecosystem will deserve a significant share of the blame.

I hope after this mini-season, that Fortnite never introduces a Pirate Token item again. This grind is draining the community and it's just going to get people more jaded towards Fortnite as a whole. It's a nice gesture, but it's obviously a ploy to get people away from GTA VI.

The new face of DC we are cooked. RIP Peacemaker and anything rated R

Yikes….

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I really don't understand why the Golden Skins have to be THAT rare. It makes no sense. The Zero Point Sprites was impossible to find but if a few people find it you could give it away and slowly everyone gets it. Here it is a skin, why to make it so rare that 99,9999% of the players wont get it. It's so rare that there is not a single person who even trys to find it. It's x11.36 harder to find from a Token that literally can give you EVERY skin in the Item Shop for 14 days.. TWICE. Make it make sense

There it is right there. The ridiculous #SaveMassEffect campaign is all about the devs. The fans spending all that cash just so this chick can build on to her access and keep awful devs making yet another terrible game. This Kayla Elizabeth is a massive access industry shill. She pushes for access in EVERYTHING and shills away for them. She did it for the awful Veilguard ffs. Now she has her claws in Exodus. This has always been what this is about for these people, and they're using the money of desperate fans to fund it. It's disgusting.

The "crimes" for which these Jewish businesses are being targeted in Philadelphia: Goldie, Dizengoff, and K'Far Café: Co-owned by chef Michael Solomonov and his business partner. Following the October 7, 2023 attacks, they donated $100,000 to United Hatzalah, an Israeli volunteer emergency medical services (EMS) organization. Their crime? Helping provide medical care. Schlesinger's Deli Hosted a fundraiser in October 2023 for the local Jewish Federation's Philly Stands with Israel emergency relief fund. Crime? Helping fund emergency services in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7. Huda A burger shop that has no publicly reported political donations; the owner previously trained in Israel. Crime? Training to cook in Israel. Mac Mart A macaroni-and-cheese shop that has made no political or international donations. Its Jewish co-owner stated she has never brought politics into her business and believes she was added to the boycott list simply for wearing a Star of David necklace. Crime? Not hiding her Jewish identity. (Interestingly, businesses not owned by Jews that support Israel aren't being targeted.)

Okay, let’s imagine someone who plays 24/7, sacrifices sleep, and is genuinely damaging their mental health just to find the Pirate Shop Token. The season ends, and they still haven’t managed to find it. Don’t you think they deserve to receive it through an alternative method at the very least? @EpicTofuChris I understand that playing this much is a personal choice, but seeing people, including KIDS, skipping school, neglecting work, and sacrificing their daily responsibilities just to hunt for this token is genuinely concerning. At this point, considering how many players have gotten it, maybe it’s time to simply reward everyone with the token or at the final days of the season. I’ve opened around 20,000 chests so far (THIS IS NOT OK), and I still haven’t received either the skin or the token. I’ve been playing for at least 12–18 hours a day since the beginning of the season. I know this isn’t healthy, but shouldn’t we also question why the game has become so addictive in the first place? Battle Royale has turned into nothing but Chest Hunt Royale. Winning doesn’t even feel rewarding anymore because the entire experience revolves around hunting for chests. Victories have become tasteless. 🫠

1) Jensen is one of the greatest entrepreneurs of this generation 2) he did something incredibly dumb 3) it was bad for America 4) but my guess is there was no bad intention 5) two mistakes don’t make a right, and I believe Jensen is irreplaceable for America’s AI leadership

There’s a bike rally in Philadelphia today specifically targeting Jewish and Israeli-owned businesses. They’re calling it a boycott of “Zionist establishments.” Tomorrow is the anniversary of Kristallnacht, when Nazis destroyed Jewish businesses across Germany. You can criticize Israel all you want, but organizing a mob to target Jewish businesses in America is absolutely disgusting. How is this being normalized in 2026?

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Musk-run companies like SpaceX and Tesla have flourished in Texas thanks to white-glove treatment from elected officials. But that is about to change, Texas Democrats say. on.wsj.com/48FLwxY

BREAKING NEWS: You could learn how to make a game before AI existed Just saying.

BioWare’s US parent company, EA, has decided to close the studio. These publishers buy developers, run them into the ground, and rip them apart for profit. There's a pattern of US companies buying Canadian businesses and shutting them down, costing Canadians their jobs. (2/3)