• protist@retrofed.com
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      12 hours ago

      Yes. This story has the potential to be huge. Now that all of media is aware of it, they’re going to start pulling at threads.

      Rough summary for others: Rubio straight up told Trump that Huang’s girlfriend was a Chinese asset, Trump dismissed that and invited them both on Air Force One with him. Trump’s old friend and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick also dropped her company, Megaspeed, off any blacklists or investigations, and Nvidia sold them chips. All this is happening at the same time Trump is bellowing about how we can’t regulate AI companies for fear of Chinese competition.

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        9 hours ago

        This demonstrates, btw, how Trump is technically not a Russian agent, or a Chinese agent, or an Israeli agent… He is just very good at being bribed by organisations who bribe people for a living. You gotta bribe correctly, but if he’s bribed, he is worth it.

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      13 hours ago

      Wow, mirrors of Covid (where he basically killed the pandemic response team of GWB/Obama a few years before).

      Dude breaks everything he touches.