Shanghai Jiao Tong University Chip Hub for Integrated Photonics Xplore begins producing 6-inch wafers for thin-film lithium niobate photonic chips, with an annual capacity of 12,000 6-inch wafers.

This is China's first production line for photonic chips, but it already shows gains in terms of technical performance.

TFLN is a high-performance optoelectronic material known for its ultra-fast electro-optic effect, high bandwidth, and low power consumption.

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#technology

#Israel
#Gaza

Worüber wir niemals in unseren deutschen Nachrichten hören

-Wir haben so viele Kinder getötet – das lässt sich kaum bestreiten.“

"Seit März beteiligen sich Hunderte Israelis an stillen Mahnwachen für die getöteten Kinder im Gazastreifen und halten Fotos von ihnen hoch, um die Mauer der Apathie zu durchbrechen. "

in english below

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in reply to Megan Lynch (she/her)

Please no more "have you tried". I have tried many things. Folks here do not care, largely. There are some folks in the special assistance office who've tried a bit, but they say they cannot do much for me, including helping me call the store in town to make sure they have what I need before I pay for a taxi there.

This request was purely on the off chance that some Icelanders were on Mastodon, close to Keflavik, and willing to help.

I can't make too many replies to "have you tried".

Speaking of political violence on this #NoKings protest day:

Two Minnesota lawmakers were shot by someone impersonating a police officer this morning.

Sen. John Hoffman and Rep. Melissa Hortman, as well as their spouses, were shot. They are both Democrats.
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Times reports that a US-China trade deal de-escalates tensions but largely mirrors a prior agreement, with the US conceding more. Experts are skeptical of a full resolution, noting ongoing challenges and the need for incremental steps.

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#usa #china #tradedeal

A lot of companies seem to misunderstand the role of pay in hiring and retaining smart people. In my first year at Microsoft Research I listened to a (normally sensible) member of the lab’s leadership team explain that the bonus structure was there to incentivise good research. I looked around the room and wondered who had ever thought ‘well, I was going to do some mediocre research, but for 20% more money this year I will do something world leading!’ My guess: no one.

If you want to hire the best people, you are looking for the people who, if money didn’t matter, would do the job for free because they believe it’s important and care about the outcome. You don’t pay them well to persuade them to work. You pay them well so that they can afford to work on the things that they think are important. If smart people don’t think the things you’re doing are important then you should consider why you’re doing them.

This is especially true for executive compensation. The best CEOs are ones that care about the company’s products and want everyone to use them, not the ones that want to make the most money. This is especially true for non profits where your pool should start with people who care a lot about the organisation’s mission. Paying more (above a certain level) won’t find more of those people it will simply dilute the pool with people who are there for the money, not the mission.

EDIT: A lot of people seem to be misunderstanding this and think this is an argument to pay people badly. It absolutely isn't. If you pay people badly, they will spend a lot if time thinking about money. Your job as a manager is to remove problems. Money removes a lot of problems. But a lot of problems cannot be removed by applying money. If someone competent is being told to do nonsense work that they know will cause problems in the long run, no amount of money will make them motivated. The problems that can be solved with money are the easy ones.

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Report from the Amsterdam protest: there are a few hundred people here and two uniformed Dutch cops at a respectful distance very casually chatting with each other while they wait for nothing to hurry up and happen.

A lot of people are tourists (American or otherwise) who happened to see the protest because the US consulate is between several museums. They’re all like “hell yeah I’m stopping for this.” Passing bikes ring their bells (some of them might even be in support and not because Americans are standing on the bike path). I don’t know where someone in Amsterdam found an enormous California bear flag on such short notice

And yes, everyone loves Odin, who randomly decided to put his paws up on my shoulders when we were very visible to the crowd

#nokings #Amsterdam #protest #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #netherlands

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UPDATE: Minnesota Senator John Hoffman (D) and State Rep. Melissa Hortman (D) have been shot at their homes. Condition unknown. Their spouses were shot as well, according to FOX 9. Details soon.

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Dozens of lefty groups behind the country’s supposedly “grassroots” May Day protests have been largely bankrolled by two billionaires and a dark-money network of progressive nonprofits.

More than $500 million from Swiss billionaire Hansjorg Wyss’ organizations, hedge-fund tycoon George Soros’ Open Society Foundations and the dark-money Arabella network flowed to the progressive groups between fiscal years 2016 and 2023, according to an analysis shared with The Post.

For No Kings Day, I've chosen to walk with the military burial flag of my father-in-law, who was a WWII veteran. I was there as upon this flag, William Edward Stiles Jr. received his final salute: three volleys from the rifles of the honor guard before it was folded and presented to my mother-in-law by two Navy men. Later, at his memorial, I was astonished to discover that a white man of his era had so many Black friends.

You see my father-in-law's fight against injustice did not end when he returned from the second World War. His fight continued in the civil rights movement negotiating for teachers unions in the shadow of Brown v. Board of Education America. Out of prejudice or fear of the Klu Klux Klan, few white people were willing to do what he did because it meant also representing Black teachers unions.

#NoKingsDay

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FM strongly condemns Zionist aggression against Iran en.ypagency.net/359299

With all the protests going off & discussions of taking a mobile phone or not

There will be some people who will have to take their phone

So for those people is there any way to beef up it's security

So far I've heard of disabling biometric access & putting a "Get a warrant" screensaver/wallpaper on the phone

Is there any way to add a "Duress password" to the lock screen of phones that don't already have it, that bricks the phone if it's entered ?

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @faab64 for being antisemitic:

Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

#israel #genocide #ethnicCleansing #apartheid #settlerColonialism #germany #mastodonDotSocial #complicity

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Ich vermute, ich bin Extremist.
Wo soll ich mich melden?

"Die extremistische Agitation richtete sich aber auch gegen deutsches Regierungshandeln zur Unterstützung Israels sowie gegen die Verbote und Maßnahmen von Versammlungsbehörden und Polizei, welche als unzulässige Repression, Zensur und Unterdrückung legitimer Proteste bezeichnet wurden."
Verfassungsschutzbericht 2024

#IchbinExtremist - wenn der Staat Engagement gegen Kriegsverbrechen und für #Menschenrechte zum Extremismus stempelt

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@bifouba
Es scheint der Regierung jedenfalls leichter zu fallen, die halbe Welt als extremistisch zu bezeichnen (und sich so selbst als Opfer darzustellen) als anzuerkennen, was ist.

Das geht ja weiten Teilen der deutschen Gesellschaft so.
Gestern im Entwurf einer "Stellungnahme" einer deutschen Einrichtung zu Nahost gelesen: bitte nicht polarisieren, keine schlimmen Worte benutzen (Genozid, Rassismus), in anderen Worten wieder: lieber nichts sagen, als das, was ist.
@stephie_hamburg

Use it or lose it: lessons for Mr. Putin from the Israeli attack on Iran gilbertdoctorow.substack.com/p…

Hellfire Chaos in China - $70 BILLION LOST Overnight - Chinese People Flood Streets - Episode 267
The #China #Show

6/13/25

"Factory fires tear across China. Unrest is out of control. 70 billion lost overnight. #People take to the streets and fight the #government. New insane #food trends are truly disgusting."

Source: youtube.com/watch?v=qpEPCyy2W7…

Studie: FC Bayern bringt Stadt und Land 4,5 Milliarden Euro jährlich


Der deutsche Fußball-Rekordmeister beschert der Stadt München und dem Freistaat Bayern einen jährlichen volkswirtschaftlichen Nutzen in Milliardenhöhe. Die regionalökonomischen Effekte des FC Bayern belaufen sich auf insgesamt 4,5 Milliarden Euro. Dies ist das Ergebnis einer Studie der Unternehmensberatung SLC Management im Auftrag des Clubs.

"The Gates of Hell Will Soon Open": IRGC Commander Vows Harsh Response to Israel iranpress.com/content/306477

Avec une taxe de 2 % par an, il faudrait un siècle pour les faire revenir à leur niveau de 2010, à supposer qu’elles ne gagnent aucun revenu dans l’intervalle.


D’après le magazine Challenges, qui n’est pas un repaire de gauchistes, les 500 plus grandes fortunes sont passées de 200 milliards d’euros à 1 200 milliards entre 2010 et 2025, soit une progression de 500 %. Avec une taxe de 2 % par an, il faudrait un siècle pour les faire revenir à leur niveau de 2010, à supposer qu’elles ne gagnent aucun revenu dans l’intervalle. Ce qui n’a pas beaucoup de sens vu qu’elles se sont enrichies de 7 % à 8 % par an au cours des quinze dernières années.


lemonde.fr/idees/article/2025/…

En s’opposant à l’impôt plancher de 2 % sur le patrimoine des 1 800 Français détenant plus de 100 millions d’euros adopté par l’Assemblée nationale, le Sénat vient de montrer à quel point il était déconnecté des enjeux de notre époque.


#ultrariche #millionnaire #billionnaire #impot #senat #isf #macron #budget #revenu #milliardaire #capitalisme

Thomas #Piketty

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Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends with No Console


Microsoft’s New Xbox Strategy Starts with Windows and Ends...
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Valve isn't making their next Steam Deck anytime soon because the technology doesn't exist yet. You can crank up the wattage and put in a bigger battery, but those things make the handheld larger, heavier, and hotter, so they're not interested. This is a bottleneck from AMD and their R&D.

But especially due to live service anti cheat and Game Pass, I agree that there's a potential market for this strategy. There's certainly no way they compete with Sony by doing what consoles have always done.

in reply to LandedGentry

"...we aren't thinking about new hardware until next year at least" doesn't mean that they aren't working on it now. And they seem to have low confidence that said new hardware will even make it out next year. Yes, we are likely years out from a new Steam Deck, and you shouldn't plan on one being imminent. That's not the same thing as them no longer working on it.

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Yes, I did. I also didn't read between the lines and take that to mean that they're not working on it, investing in it, etc. It just means that we can't predict the future, and what makes sense now might not make sense in a few years when the technology does exist. The Outlook section was the author's conjecture of what could come to pass, but he can't predict the future either.
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“We are working on Steam Deck 2,” Aldehayyat chimed in. “There is going to be a successor.”

That was seven months ago, and it's very clear. Successful gaming hardware usually starts prototyping the next one very quickly, even if it's years away. If they didn't, then they'd always lag far behind the latest technology. Valve don't know the year. With tariffs alone, trying to set a release date for a new piece of hardware could be a nightmare.

Magnifique témoignage

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Egyptian authorities halted demonstrators planning to march to the country’s border with #Gaza with the stated aim of breaking Israel’s blockade on the territory.

A separate convoy of protesters travelling from Tunisia to meet the larger group was also stopped on Friday by security forces in eastern Libya.

Men in plain clothes were seen in footage kicking and beating demonstrators and attempting to drag some away from the group.

I don't think this is the big one.

telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Before discussing politics, I like to administer The Test.

The Test is simple, and should be easy to pass:

"Which is more important:
1. Human Rights
2. Property Rights"

There is one unambiguous, simple, correct answer. If they fail The Test, I don't talk politics with them.

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With friends like Egypt, who needs enemies?

#egypt #israel #genocide #Palestine #Gaza #aid #blockaid #GlobalMarchToGaza mastodon.social/@EndIsraeliApa…

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Issam Al-Jashi, one of the activists of the Resilience Convoy, told Quds Network:

Egyptian security arrested us and deported us immediately upon our arrival at Cairo Airport.

We were beaten and insulted by the security forces.

A very limited number of activists were able to enter Egypt, while the remaining activists coming from Europe were deported to Sabiha Gokcen Airport in Turkey.

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