The development will allow the Chinese unit, which declared itself independent of Nexperia's European management two months ago, to continue manufacturing Insulated-Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) power chips and modules, switches that regulate current in electric vehicles and industrial equipment.

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Please note that this site is only about US law; the copyright terms in other countries are different.[2]

On January 1, 2026, thousands of copyrighted works from 1930 enter the US public domain, along with sound recordings from 1925. They will be free for all to copy, share, and build upon

Mine has to be the kind of laws that get passed. Where they are titled in such tongue-in-cheek fashions that just slaps you in the face in a metaphorical way. Like how laws such as the Patriot Act and Freedom Act got to be passed the way they are. They sound like they're to uphold the values of what the USA should be about.

However, you take a closer look into the wording and intent of the laws themselves, they are anything but against what those values should be about. We see this all of the time when bills get drafted and they come up with all of these similar-sounding names to pass them with. And there are still people out there who probably believe that there is good intent just by the name alone.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/40557525

Juan Cole
12/16/2025

The disdain for mindless violence exhibited by most of the world’s 2 billion Muslims is exemplified by Ahmed al-Ahmed. He interrupted the negative stereotypes of Muslims so powerfully that white nationalists spread false allegations that he was actually a British IT specialist with a Christian name. Others attempted to maintain that he was a Christian Lebanese, which his name makes impossible. The New York Times declined to mention his religion. That there should have been a Muslim Schindler, a hero who followed the toleration promoted by the Prophet Muhammad, was so insupportable to Islamophobes that they felt constrained to make up fantasies and obscure reality.

The Gaza genocide weighs heavily over the Bondi Beach attacks, but it shouldn’t. ISIL shot up Paris in 2015 before the recent Gaza conflict, and massacred Shiite cadets in Iraq.

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cross-posted from : https://slrpnk.net/post/31668843

Europe has some of the world’s most ambitious climate goals, but in recent months it has backtracked on rules governing automobile emissions and deforestation.

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Hello all!

Thanks for all the interest and support you have shown for Journiv so far. If you don't already know about Journiv:

Journiv is a self-hosted private journaling application that puts you in complete control of your personal reflections. Built with privacy and simplicity at its core, Journiv offers comprehensive journaling capabilities including mood tracking, prompt-based journaling, media uploads, analytics, and advanced search. All while keeping your data on your own infrastructure.

CalDAV and VJOURNAL are pretty popular in self hosted world and it has been asked few times why Journiv does not use VJOURNAL. So I wrote a blogpost about it to share my research and learning from initial days of Journiv.

If you find anything technically incorrect or have any feedback/suggestion around this I will love to hear it! I think there are lot of experts/users of CalDAV and VJOURNAL here from whom I can learn more.

Thank you.

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/23191730

Even with LG’s concession, it may become more difficult to avoid chatbots on TVs.

LG says it will let people delete the Copilot icon from their TVs soon, but it still has plans to weave the service throughout webOS. The Copilot web app rollout seems to have been a taste of LG’s bigger plans to add Copilot to some of its 2025 OLED TVs. In a January announcement, LG said Copilot will help users find stuff to watch by “allowing users to efficiently find and organize complex information using contextual cues.” LG also said Copilot would “proactively” identify potential user problems and offer “timely, effective solutions.”

Some TVs from LG’s biggest rival, Samsung, have included Copilot since August. Owners of supporting 2025 TVs can speak to Copilot using their remote’s microphone. They can also access Copilot via the Tizen OS homescreen’s Apps tab or through the TVs’ Click to Search feature, which lets users press a dedicated remote button to search for content while watching live TV or Samsung TV Plus. Users can also ask the TV to make AI-generated wallpapers or provide real-time subtitle translations.

cross-posted from: https://no.lastname.nz/post/2050418

This month, OpenAI announced "up to $2 million" in funding for research studies on AI safety and well-being. At its surface, this may seem generous, but following in the footsteps of other tech giants facing scrutiny over their products’ mental health impacts, it's nothing more than grantwashing.

This industry practice commits a pittance to research that is doomed to be ineffective due to information and resources that companies hold back. When grantwashing works, it compromises the search for answers. And that's an insult to anyone whose loved one’s death involved chatbots.

OpenAI's pledge came a week after the company's lawyers argued that the company isn't to blame in the death of a California teenager who ChatGPT encouraged to commit suicide. In the company's attempt to disclaim responsibility in court, they even requested a list of invitees to the teen's memorial and video footage of the service and the people there. In the last year, OpenAI and other generative AI companies have been accused of causing numerous deaths and psychotic breaks by encouraging people into suicide, feeding delusions, and giving them risky instructions

Bonfire and Ben Pate's Emisaary (which powers Bandwagon) are the first two to implement.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/57149491

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/6205367

cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/6205366

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Canadian canola businesses, such as Richardson and Viterra, apparently dreamed that the 2018–2021 dispute was a one-off. After it ended, they ramped up and sold even more to China, only to now lose most of a $5 billion market. I hope they finally understand that, as long as they have excessive exposure to China, they’ll be targets anytime the Chinese Communist Party wants to coerce changes in Canadian policy and behaviour. As the saying goes: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me!”

The CCP has a history of using access to China’s vast market as a disciplinary tool.

And it’s getting more aggressive. More than a dozen countries have been targeted in recent years: Japan suffered consumer boycotts due to a maritime dispute with Beijing, as did South Korea because it installed an American missile defence system. Norway was no longer able to export salmon to China after a Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to a Chinese dissident, and Australian agricultural products were banned because its government called for an investigation into COVID-19’s origin. Lithuania was excised out of China’s customs clearance system over its relations with Taiwan, and now Japan, again, is the target of economic coercion for stating that its security is intricately linked with that of Taiwan.

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For the past decade, the CCP has been hardening China’s own self-sufficiency and cutting dependence on imports, while trying to make others asymmetrically dependent on China. It’s “you have to buy from me, but I don’t need you.” Massive subsidies and other market distortions incentivize many Chinese firms to overproduce and export the surplus, which is subjecting the rest of the world to a Second China Shock. Other countries now face a choice: be relegated to deindustrialized, middle-income suppliers of energy and commodities to the PRC’s manufacturing juggernaut, or band together to maintain a tech stack and industrial ecosystems largely decoupled from China’s.

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If Canadian governments do nothing, our export profile with China will increasingly resemble that of Russia and other subordinate natural resource economies, plus some services. So far, China’s various trading partners have employed different, and not entirely effective, tactics in response. A coordinated and comprehensive effort is necessary.

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The CCP is exploiting the situation to pressure Ottawa into making three strategic adjustments.

• First, abandon efforts to align with American and European attempts to defend domestic industries and workers from Chinese overproduction.

• Second, roll back the Indo-Pacific Strategy, which prioritizes ties with others in the region, particularly Taiwan.

• And third, stifle Canadian opposition to a host of harmful PRC actions, such as aggressive moves in East Asia, support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, ongoing massive human rights violations, efforts to subvert global governance institutions, espionage and IP theft, transnational repression, foreign interference, and elite capture. Tariffs on agri-food are just one means toward the end of conditioning behaviour.

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If you think canola is a problem now, imagine if China were able to integrate Canadian manufacturers into its production and supply chains for advanced technology, like green energy and electric vehicles. It could then align the economic interests of industrial ridings with the CCP’s. It already has leverage over Western provinces through energy and commodities and Atlantic provinces through seafood. Mining could do the same in the North. Manufacturing integration plus further Canadian financial sector investments in China would grow pressure points in Ontario and Quebec and help capture Laurentian elites.

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Experience shows that, if the targeted country holds to a clear, consistent policy line, diversifies economically, and hardens politically against foreign interference, Beijing tends to quietly de-escalate and roll back once its officials internalize that the punishment is not only failing to change policies but also making them look bad. That’s more likely to happen if Party-state officials have an off-ramp and a face-saving narrative in which they can say the other guys “corrected their mistakes.”

China’s import tariffs hurt its own businesses and consumers too. Chinese companies buy Canadian commodities, unless their government blocks them from doing so, because they’re competitively priced. They can find alternative sources for canola, wheat, barley, pork, and pulses, but often at higher prices, which can affect food security and drive up inflation, especially when markets are tight.

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Chinese manufacturers—particularly electric vehicle makers—really want access to the Canadian market, particularly as tariff barriers rise elsewhere. Granting BYD, Chery, Geely, and others access would legitimize the PRC’s narrative, which denies that its EV makers benefit from massive market distortions, and provide an example for other countries. Conversely, blocking these national champions, just as with Huawei and Hikvision, causes a loss of face for the CCP. Its opposition to Canadian tariffs on Chinese steel and aluminum is likewise more about symbolism than economic impact.

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For Canadian exports, the way to reduce Chinese leverage and increase our own is diversification. The government needs to treat that as not only trade promotion but also a key element of national security policy, just as China has been doing for decades. Businesses need to invest in capacity to serve new markets. Resilience doesn’t come from autarky—with that, you end up like North Korea. It comes from having multiple, deeper relationships with more reliable, trustworthy partners that share most of your values and agree on following the letter and the spirit of common rules.

Canada’s other sources of leverage are political, not economic. They require coordinating with allies and like-minded partners to apply consistent collective limits on Chinese dumping, shared safeguards for supply chains, as well as common anti-coercion tools and technology restrictions.

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A critical mass of middle powers coordinating their economic policy on China is a real problem for Beijing. With the US and EU on board, it’s a nightmare scenario. The G7, EU, and members of Trans-Pacific Partnership have important roles to play in crafting institutional mechanisms to overcome obstacles to collective action.

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Every time China applies a punitive measure on Canada, take material steps in the other direction, like enhancing ties with Taiwan and other Indo-Pacific partners. Take measures that complicate PRC access to the Arctic, where it’s trying to expand its presence and influence. Incentivize pension funds to reweight their exposure away from China.

Steps like those are most effective when applied by multiple countries in coordination. Forming and hardening coalitions would help curtail backfilling in cases where China blocks imports from one country, like Canada, and then buys more from others, like Australia. Beijing uses bilateral leverage to achieve submission. Multilateral responses can thwart that.

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