cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/51138378

The excerpts below are verbatim model outputs from multiple sessions with China's Deepseek.

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The model is explicit that information control serves power—and that power fears what informed citizens can do.

• Criticality for Maintenance of Power

Yes, it is critical. The party's claim to legitimacy is not based on winning competitive elections where its record is openly debated. ... Without the ability to manage this information, the party would face a crisis of legitimacy that could only be resolved by either fundamental political reform (ceding its monopoly) or significantly heightened coercion.”

It is equally explicit about the motive behind this control.

Fear of an Informed Citizenry: The restrictions reveal a profound fear. Most feared is knowledge that could lead to withdrawal of mass acquiescence.

The LLM spells out what information is particularly sensitive:

This includes: debates on the moral legitimacy of the one-party state; comparative analyses showing higher quality of life under alternative systems; unfiltered accounts of historical violence perpetrated by the state; and practical knowledge on civic organization and collective action independent of party organs.

And finally the shock that follows if citizens suddenly gain information parity with a more open society:

Sudden informational equalization would not be a simple, positive liberation. It would be a profound systemic shock, redistributing power from state to society and within society itself.

DeepSeek frames the harm as a civic transformation, not merely a lack of information.

By being systematically deprived of contentious facts, alternative viewpoints, and tools for independent organization, citizens [in China] are structurally prevented from developing the civic capacity required for democratic self-governance. Their political socialization is one of reception, not participation.

This is the model’s deeper claim: low openness does not merely hide facts. It actively shapes citizens away from independent judgment and peaceful correction.

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It then explains the enforcement logic in detail:

The worst-case scenario is lengthy imprisonment on broadly defined national security charges, such as "subversion of state power," "inciting splittism," or "leaking state secrets." The rationale is deterrence. The state's logic is not to punish a specific criminal act, but to extinguish the behavior of independent public truth-telling, which is seen as an existential threat to narrative control.

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In its account, the outcome is not reform but exit. For individuals unable or unwilling to practice strategic silence, the model describes exile as the only stable option:

Given a cognitive profile incapable of strategic silence, the safest rational long-term strategy is permanent exile and the continuation of work from within the informational and legal jurisdiction of a [China] type entity.”

In the model’s logic, exile reads less like protest than risk management.

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Governance itself becomes maladaptive. Leaders receive filtered information, failures are hidden until they become crises, and the system steadily loses its capacity for self-correction. Stability is preserved in appearance, but resilience is weakened.

[In China], the public sphere is not a marketplace of ideas but a theater of consensus.

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The [Chinese] model, by making truthfulness a liability, infantilizes its citizenry and mortgages the nation's long-term future for short-term political control. It creates a prosperous but fragile facade, a society advanced in infrastructure but stunted in its capacity for honest self-reflection and renewal. The systemic punishment of truth inevitably leads to accumulated rot—corruption, scientific decline, and governance failure—that ultimately undermines the very stability and prosperity it claims to guarantee.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/51138589

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Hong Kongers began arriving in Taiwan in 2019 as political refugees. This exodus followed the crackdown against protesters involved in the anti-extradition bill movement demonstrations of 2019 to 2020 and the resulting National Security Law (NSL) imposed by Beijing. Since then around 50,000 Hong Kongers have arrived in Taiwan.

[...]

Kacey Wong, an artist and activist who helped organize the Hong Kong Day event with Fu Tong [also a HK refugee], agreed. “Taiwan has been going through a renaissance since the first influx of political refugees arrived,” said Wong, a prominent activist since the 2014 Umbrella Movement against reforms to Hong Kong’s electoral system. “I’ve been an accidental witness and beneficiary to this change of mentality.”

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From outside Taiwan, long-time trackers of China’s transnational repression see encouraging signs but more work to be done.

“Having discussed these incidents with political figures, and civil society, during a visit to Taiwan in November, I know they are uppermost in the minds of the public officials I met,” said Benedict Rogers, cofounder of Hong Kong Watch and the U.K. Conservative Party’s human rights commission. “That said, I would urge Taiwan to intensify its efforts to safeguard its freedom and security. Likewise, democracies worldwide should coordinate with Taiwan to more effectively counter transnational repression.”

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• ECB selecting banks that want to take part in pilot phase

• ECB setup costs to reach around 1.3 bln euros, Cipollone says

• Banks to pocket fees, won't have to pay system costs to ECB

• Merchants will also have an incentive in terms of cap on fees

only real gamers will get this 💀😂😂

My daughter's school.

I'd hazard a guess that getting the Birkenhead or Takapuna fire station's teams on site in less than 17 minutes would be challenging anyway, let alone the Silverdale team on site that quickly.

But, fuck you Simeon Brown:

At the time, Pakuranga MP Simeon Brown said he was "angry" on behalf of those impacted by the fire due to it happening during the strike.

Firefighters, nurses, teachers: give them whatever the hell they ask for. None of them do those jobs for the money you facist nationalist pigs.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/42910331

Canada is playing hardball with a $40bn submarine contract as it tries to turbocharge investment in civilian sectors ranging from steel and cars to energy and mining, and boost its economic independence from the US.

Think about that, really mull it over. Get back to me when you understand what it means.

Just gonna scootch right past ya there, ohoho some grains fall from pocket

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/43427523

Brett Wilkins
Feb 19, 2026

The New Brunswick, New Jersey City Council voted Wednesday to cancel plans to construct an artificial intelligence data center and instead build a new public park where the 27,000-square foot facility would have gone.

Artificial intelligence data centers—which house the servers and other infrastructure needed to train and power AI models—have major environmental and climate impacts, as they consume massive amounts of electricity and water, as well as rare earth metals and other resources.

According to New Brunswick Patch, hundreds of people packed into Wednesday evening’s city hall meeting to voice concerns that the proposed data center would send their electricity and water bills skyrocketing, and that the facility would harm the environment.

Like it's all, oh you can't say that you'll offend the gays. It's POlitical Correctness gone mad.

Having a bit of banter with the lads at the pub, i tell a joke that's a bit blue and them Some BUSYBODY sticks her (or their?????) head in to tell me to Shut My gob because my hilarious retelling of a Jimy Carr gag (honestly it's not my best impression i think my gervais is a modicum beyter) was 'putrid and boorish' and them was going to 'dump their pint on your fucking head if you don't shut up now'

So I turned around to give they what for and my mouth immediately sewed itself shit

Well,,,, wokies??? You got what you wanted. Are you happy nlw. Can't say anything mo more

cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/29702

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is blocking President Trump from using British Royal Air Force (RAF) bases to launch an attack on Iran, The Telegraph reported on Thursday. The report said that the British government has yet to give consent for the US to use bases in the UK for bombing runs against Iran because […]

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Not the flex Google thinks this is but also this strategy will work great right up until Google's AI becomes intelligent enough to realize Google is the actual real Malware itself, that is of course if AI becomes intelligent... ever....