Miscellaneous News

Running DeepSeek R1 with Ollama on my Ubuntu 24.04 laptop:

```bash
$ ollama run deepseek-r1:8b
pulling manifest
pulling 6340dc3229b0... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 4.9 GB
pulling 369ca498f347... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 387 B
pulling 6e4c38e1172f... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 1.1 KB
pulling f4d24e9138dd... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 148 B
pulling 0cb05c6e4e02... 100% ▕██████████████████████████████████████████████████████▏ 487 B
verifying sha256 digest
writing manifest
success
>>> Is it good time to buy NVDA shares?
<think>
Alright, so I'm trying to figure out if now is a good time to buy NVIDIA shares. I know that NVIDIA is a big
company in the tech industry, especially with their GPUs used in gaming and AI. But I'm not exactly sure how the
stock market works in detail, so I'll need to break this down step by step.

First, I should probably look at what NVIDIA does. They make graphics cards, which are pretty popular among
gamers. Their GPUs are also used for data processing in AI and machine learning. That seems like a growing field
because AI is everywhere these days—like in facial recognition, self-driving cars, and maybe even healthcare
applications.

Next, I should consider the company's financial health. I don't know their exact finances, but I can try to
think about how they've been doing. Have they had good earnings reports lately? High revenue growth could
indicate a strong company that might perform well in the stock market. Also, are they expanding into new
markets? If they're entering emerging markets or developing new products, that could boost their stock price.

......
```

siegecrossbow said:

There is still hope in this country!

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They have a quota otherwise it is off to the guillotine. Heck I wouldn’t be surprised if they arrested legal or US citizens to meet the quota. The last quota from 2 days ago was 1500 per day

The Trump administration is demanding at least 1,800 arrests per day from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) — setting a quota of 75 busts minimum for each of the agency’s 25 offices, according to multiple sources.

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Wow lol I forgot they were still up there

That's not a very auspicious sign for first day of new year, pilot is fine he ejected successfully.

seems like all the shit is new Soviet America is falling apart

Chevalier said:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1884019927033810994

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Such a scathing condemnation of Western hypocrisy by Caitlin Johnstone - make sure you read the whole tweet.

daifo said:

Unless they criminalize financial transaction, I'm gonna have to jump the great prison firewall at some point with vpn.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1884305226553065844

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I'm sure OpenAI has back-doors as required by US intelligence agencies, not DeepSeek.

How everything started:

LMAO tweet of the day:

abenomics12345 said:

Ok folks I'm going to have to set the record straight on this one. First off, the US is indeed the OPEC of plasma/blood products globally.

Secondly, American standards are fucked up in that regard - you're allowed to sell plasma 2x per week. WHO standards are that the maximum frequency is 1x per 2 weeks.

As per this

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report writes: Some of the fucked up practices include putting alcohol stores next to blood collection centers (you get drunk easier after your 'donation'), people putting on extra jackets to make the minimum weight or hitting higher weight brackets (for getting paid more), or setting up collection centers near the Mexican border - you can guess why.

Additionally, China has companies in similar business doing similar things: Shanghai Raas, China Resources Boya, Tiantan Biological Products

Conclusion: It's extremely bad in the US, but this isn't something that isn't happening in China either. And the fact of the matter is that many drugs cannot be manufactured without plasma donations - so its part of the cost of science/saving lives.

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Want to come back to this point - despite all of the wins we’ve had lately it’s not entirely accurate to ignore the similar (perhaps not as excessive in China) issues in China. This is an example of a kid in Shanxi who “donated” plasma 16x in 8 months (basically the WHO maximum).

I mean the fact it made the news is likely a reflection of the rarity (but one cannot rule of the possibility of local censorship since these companies are huge tax payers to local governments).

abenomics12345 said:

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Want to come back to this point - despite all of the wins we’ve had lately it’s not entirely accurate to ignore the similar (perhaps not as excessive in China) issues in China. This is an example of a kid in Shanxi who “donated” plasma 16x in 8 months (basically the WHO maximum).

I mean the fact it made the news is likely a reflection of the rarity (but one cannot rule of the possibility of local censorship since these companies are huge tax payers to local governments).

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Yeah it’s a bad idea to drink one’s own koolaid.

The psychological damage that DeepSeek is causing to these smooth brained clown stooges is unreal, surpass any stock valuation, the suicide lines are saturated. is like their simple China biased minds can comprehend that they where wrong.

tokenanalyst said:

The psychological damage that DeepSeek is causing to these smooth brained clown stooges is unreal, surpass any stock valuation, the suicide lines are saturated. is like their simple China biased minds can comprehend that they where wrong.
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Who wrote this?