The simple answer is that "social credit" is a both a policy framework and broad initiative adopted by the Chinese government aimed at enforcing market regulations, implementing a corporate credit system, increasing institutional credibility, and ultimately becoming a building block¹ for the construction of a "harmonious socialist society". It's the evolving result of decades of (usually campaign-style) policies implemented to control and prevent corruption and corporate malfeasance. China's growing domestic consumption market also created the need for a centralized financial credit system.

Scope of social credit

• Businesses
• Individuals
• Government institutions

Examples of corporate SCS mechanisms

• National Credit Information Sharing Platform (NCISP). Operated by the state planning agency, meant to integrate all national/regional corporate regulatory data. Here's the website where you can search for specific entities and whether they have been penalized: https://www.gsxt.gov.cn/index.html. And here's a web portal for more: https://www.creditchina.gov.cn/
• Unified Social Credit Code. Number assigned to corporate entities.
• Blacklists. These are produced by government agencies according to their jurisdiction. These cover a range of violations and infractions. To my knowledge, no national blacklist (or analogue) exists at the present.
• Punishment/reward system. The entity is penalized by agencies connected to the NCISP within their powers. Here's a list of approved punishments (including punishments for individuals).

That should be enough for a basic overview of the current state of SCS. I didn't go over the experimental pilot programs because those have only ever been implemented at a municipal level and it seems that their methods (such as point scoring system) have been rejected by the national government. There is no indication that the national government is interested in tracking the violations of social norms by individuals.

You can find more primary sources on Chinalawtranslate and Stanford's DigiChina.

1. SCS planning document

wtf I come back to find my doppelganger... it's a bad omen

Fallout: New Vegas is that good, it just needs some mods to fix the bugs and it's easily one of the best games of all time.

Taiwan has been calling itself the Israel of Asia since the 70s , no surprise there

Updating with fun finds:

• Self described French anarcho-stalinists
• Instance for liberals lmao
• Cool cyberpunk instance
• The Catholic Church ????

Most radical Mastodon instances are dominated by anarchists, and not cool ones, more like raddle anarchists. I got yeeted from todon (back when it was todon.nl) for defending Cuba even though I'm neither an ML nor an anarchist. You can use https://instances.social to find others I guess.

This is right, the proletarianization of the petty bourgeoisie was already happening before COVID and has been greatly accelerated by it. Those affected by this process were Trump's most fervent supporters, and they will support any fascist down the line that represents their interests.

I like them because they are powerful machines that price competitively. I don't use the video drivers, but the N2 is marketed towards that crowd because it sports a pretty good GPU, so I imagine it's fine. The only problem I personally experienced was a bug that decreased USB throughput but that was fixed by patch.

For torrents I recommend rtorrent and rutorrent for client and webui. Rtorrent is fast and handles scale well, and rutorrent has a nice interface and features you would expect in a desktop UI. Unfortunately there's no docker container that has VPN, rtorrent, and rutorrent set up for ARM architecture, so either you have to do a setup with qemu, or you have to set up a separate VPN container, nginx container (to access the webui), and finally a rutorrent container. If are satisfied with a simpler UI then I recommend this Docker container as another user suggested.

I prefer odroid SBC to raspberry pi, I use an Odroid N2 to run my NAS, seedbox, VPN, soulseek, and deemix instances. I recommend using docker for these applications, it's not that difficult to attach containers to a VPN network (set up in another container) and it's not too hard on memory usage. I use a Pi 2 to run privoxy configured to use Tor and I2P, so all I have to do is connect my other devices to the proxy to access onion and i2p websites. Finally I recommend you install netdata (with telemetry off) on all your SBCs so you can monitor their performance.

Lots of loony stuff I could share, for example Christians are going crazy fasting and praying for Trump, they think God will come down and elect Trump personally. Lots of Cuban-American and Venezuelan-American cringe. Don't even know where to start.

My AirVPN session has been up for 2 weeks and I have seeded 666GB and downloaded 180GB. Very stable, no problems with downtime, and it maxes out both download and upload speeds.

I have been using AirVPN for a long time, and they currently have a sale. They'll have another sale for Black Friday and then Christmas.

Huh at the same time it's kind of surreal watching Intercept writers implode in real time over on Twitter.

I subscribed to his Substack but it still really annoys me that RSS feeds for substack pages are broken and don't validate in Thunderbird. I prefer to have all the news in one place and not have it mailed to my inbox. EDIT: Like seriously RSS was the perfect solution for mail and Atom feeds were the height of that. It's totally unnecessary for email to be involved in any way

I celebrated when Mehdi Hasan left the intercept, but I guess it was a rat fleeing a sinking ship

Eh the Grayzone is OK

I read a little of the report, and it was ridiculous per my expectations. Labour leadership had the unique task of fighting a crisis that didn't exist, a challenge that is impossible to win. If they stated the obvious and denied there was a crisis, this was only included as further evidence of anti-semitism (as it is in the report). If they decided to pursue the issue, they yielded no results and detractors called it incompetence. Labour leadership had no chance of winning from the beginning.

They are probably making a video about how leftists are horrible and want to kill everyone

Oh yeah? How did Obama/Biden's last proposal in 2009 go? That's right, only a fraction of the funding ($11bn) got approved, and only a fraction (15%) of it was spent at all. And none of it on high-speed rail.