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If you have evidence of Israeli crimes and atrocities that you wish to preserve, there is a thread here in which to do so.

Sources on the fighting in Palestine against Israel. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:

UNRWA daily-ish reports on Israel's destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.

English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news (and has automated posting when the person running it goes to sleep).
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis.

English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.

Various sources that are covering the Ukraine conflict are also covering the one in Palestine, like Rybar.

The Country of the Week is still Palestine, though we will switch next week to a new country.

Here is the map of the Ukraine conflict, courtesy of Wikipedia.

The weekly (biweekly?) update is here.

Links and Stuff

The bulletins site is down.

Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists

Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict

Add to the above list if you can.

Resources For Understanding The War

Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.

Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.

Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.

Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don't want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it's just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.

On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists' side.

Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.

Telegram Channels

Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.

Pro-Russian

https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR's former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR's forces. Russian language.

https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.

https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.

https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster's telegram channel.

https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.

https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.

https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.

https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a 'propaganda tax', if you don't believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.

https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.

Pro-Ukraine

Almost every Western media outlet.

https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.

https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.

Last week's discussion post.

  • zephyreks [none/use name]
    ·
    1 year ago

    Looks like I'm going to cover the SiFive/RISC-V drama. RISC-V is an instruction set architecture (like ARMv8 or x86) that's unique because it's an open standard. Unlike ARM or x86, you don't need a license to develop a core that implements the RISC-V ISA. SiFive is one of the pioneers of RISC-V and was founded by, well, the creators of the RISC-V ISA. They develop cores that implement the RISC-V ISA, which you can then license and integrate into your chips.

    Amid intensifying tech war, 1 US chip design firm sees opportunity in China

    It's not exactly a secret that RISC-V has gained significant traction in China and that SiFive has been trying to court Chinese customers.

    RISC-V technology emerges as battleground in US-China tech war

    Representative Mike Gallagher, chairman of the House select committee on China, said in a statement to Reuters that the Commerce Department needs to "require any American person or company to receive an export license prior to engaging with PRC (People's Republic of China) entities on RISC-V technology."

    Jack Kang, vice president of business development at SiFive, a Santa Clara, California-based startup using RISC-V, said potential U.S. government restrictions on American companies regarding RISC-V would be a "tremendous tragedy." "It would be like banning us from working on the internet," Kang said. "It would be a huge mistake in terms of technology, leadership, innovation and companies and jobs that are being created."

    However, recent US political decisions are screwing over SiFive's expansion plans... And, judging by the comments made by Congress, nobody knows what they're talking about.

    The Risk of RISC-V: What’s Going on at SiFive?

    Through multiple sources, SiFive has instigated a large number of layoffs. Numbers vary, from 100 to 300+, but multiple sources confirm that most of the engineering team, especially the physical design engineers, sales, and product team. The management team have also been fired from what I’ve been told, leaving the founders and CEO Patrick Little at the helm.

    It's been reported that SiFive will no longer be providing predesigned cores (think like ARM's X1, A55, A76, etc.) and will be shifting their business model entirely to custom cores. In general, custom = less money because of poor scalability.

    I don't think this is a coincidence. The loss of the Chinese market is a massive reduction in serviceable addressable market, which VCs pay a lot of attention to. I think this is a sign that VCs are derisking from their SiFive investment and forcing SiFive to adopt a leaner business model. I think this is also an indication that lobbyists from ARM, AMD, and Intel are working hard behind the scenes to spread FUD among Congress.

    • plinky [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      china should do purely open cores, let all the nerds on the internet tinker with them

    • Dull_Juice [he/him]
      ·
      1 year ago

      Because the standard is open I guess Chinese can pick up development/ contribute to the instruction set still? I suppose you could create further walled gardens by forcing western tech companies to not make anything be able to use it?

      Excellent post by the way

      • zephyreks [none/use name]
        ·
        1 year ago

        Yeah, there's really nothing stopping Chinese companies from continuing to do what they're doing.

        It's not like China's lagging far behind in RISC-V core development anyway. Alibaba showed off the Xuantie 910 (ARM A73-equivalent) back in 2020... In fact, I think it's open source so they probably have more cool stuff brewing internally.