Shocking numbers here:

Almost one-third of children aged 0-4 in France are of non-European origin over the course of three generations, according to a recent demographic study by INSEE, the national statistics bureau of France.

Demographic replacement accelerates in France: New data shows more than two-fifths of young children in France are immigrants or the children or grandchildren of immigrants

^{Thomas Brooke (Remix News)}

많은 사람들은 챗GPT의 하드웨어를 궁금하는 것 같은데요...

GPU를 주력으로 생산하는 엔비디아는 챗GPT가 불러온 AI 붐에서 가장 큰 혜택을 입었기 때문이다. 챗 GPT 개발사인 오픈AI가 사용하는 수퍼컴퓨터에도 엔비디아의 1만달러짜리 GPU ‘A100′ 1만개가 사용된 것으로 알려져 있다. 챗GPT와 경쟁하는 기업들도 엔비디아의 GPU을 몇 개 썼는지 밝히는 것을 경쟁력으로 내세울 정도다. GPU는 원래 그래픽 처리를 위해 만들어진 반도체지만, AI에 필요한 병렬 연산에서 기존 CPU(중앙처리장치)보다 월등해 AI의 두뇌로 각광받고 있다.

여기서도 다른 재미있는 점은 지금 반도체 시장의 경쟁율 입니다:

엔비디아에 이어 GPU 시장 2위인 AMD는 지난해 2월 500억달러를 들여 미국 반도체 기업 자일링스를 인수했다. 자일링스는 용도에 따라 설계를 바꿀 수 있는 FPGA(프로그래머블 반도체) 분야의 세계 최고 기술을 갖춘 기업으로, AI반도체 개발에 최적화돼 있다는 평가를 받는다. 인텔도 2019년 말 이스라엘 AI 반도체 스타트업 하바나랩스를 20억달러에 인수한 후 지난해 5월엔 하바나랩스가 개발한 2세대 프로세서 ‘가우디2′를 출시했다. 시장조사업체 옴디아는 “대형 IT·반도체 기업들이 엔비디아에 AI반도체 시장을 잠식당하지 않기 위해 올해 최소 두 개 이상의 유망 AI 반도체 스타트업을 인수할 것”이라는 전망을 내놨다.

그래서 우리가 스타트업의 중용성이 여기서 확실히 보입니다. 대기업들은 계속 자기의 기술을 혁신하지 않으면 엄청 빠르게 시장의 점유율을 잃어버릴 수 있으니까 사내에 기술을 빨리 발달하지 못 하면 어쩔수없이 타사를 인수해야합니다.

이런 것 도박하는 것처럼 이죠. 만약에 성공하기가 힘들 수 있으니까 사내 R & D 많이 개발해야합니다.

링크에서 국내 반도체 사업의 현황에 대해 더 알게 될 수 있다.

“엔비디아, AI 독식 멈춰”… 한국이 승부 거는 반도체

엔비디아, AI 독식 멈춰 한국이 승부 거는 반도체 챗GPT시대 AI반도체 90%가 엔비디아 스타트업들 거센 도전

^조선일보

Posted on March 10, 2023

Upgrading Eskimo North server kernels to 6.1.16 this evening starting at 11PM. Should be finished by 11:30PM providing no physical server hangs.

This involves all of the servers so shell servers, mail servers, web server, virtual private servers, will all each be down about 3-10 minutes depending upon the machine complexity.

The free fediverse services, friendica.eskimo.com/, hubzilla.eskimo.com/, nextcloud.eskimo.com/, and yacy.eskio.com/ will also be down during this maintenance. Most will return in 3-10 minutes, the exception being yacy which rebuilds it’s database after reboot, a process that can take as much as 40 minutes.

These numbers are nuts:

Corporations such as "Cargill", "DuPont" and "Monsanto" (which is formally a German-Australian company, but essentially an American one) are among the most prominent owners of Ukrainian arable land. In addition, corporations like "Vanguard", "Blackrock" and "Blackstone" are among the largest shareholders in the aforementioned agricultural giants, owning trillions in assets. For instance, "Blackrock" is a fund that manages assets worth over $10 trillion, with "Vanguard" controlling at least six and "Blackstone" managing up to $1 trillion. Together, the three massive US multinational corporations ("Cargill", "DuPont" and "Monsanto") own over 17 million hectares of Ukraine's arable land.

In comparison, the whole of Italy has 16.7 million hectares of agricultural land. In short, the three American corporations own more usable agricultural land in Ukraine than what the whole country of Italy has. The entire area of Ukraine is approximately 600,000 square km. Out of that land area, 170,000 square km have been acquired by foreign corporations, the vast majority Western, particularly those based in or financed by the US. Since the new law on the sale of agricultural land passed by the Kiev regime entered into full force approximately one year ago, to this day, the three large multinational consortia financed with US capital have acquired well over a quarter of Ukrainian arable land. A report by the Australian National Review states that the three US corporations managed to acquire 17 out of the 62 million hectares of agricultural land in less than a year. This made it possible for them to control 28% of the total arable land in Ukraine.

Now you know why they fight.

US corporations own around 30% of Ukrainian arable land

The Ukrainian people have not only been quite literally robbed of the lands their ancestors gave their lives for, but now they're effectively dying in battle to make sure this theft continues unabated.

^BRICS

One of the great ironies that nobody wants to acknowledge is that even American globalists would have to concede that Georgia, the nation, has a better chance of retaining its identity and culture if it is incorporated politically into Russia..!

To be left on the outside would almost certainly damn it to being fully sucked into the NATO-sphere and thus becoming a rainbow colony of the West.

Liberals ultimately, though, do not have any concern about this: they view the destruction of the past as a necessary act to liberate the individual.

But we all know one thing... Only Christ can liberate a man - to enter further into sin will condemn him.

Sexual liberty is actually slavery.

LOL, the clarification here does not make me feel better:

The image being circulated includes links to a report in Newsweek, which discusses findings from a Russian NGO, and an article in the Times newspaper.

The two figures from the two sources are not directly comparable.

The report discussed by Newsweek – authored by Agora, a Russian human rights group – found that 411 criminal cases were brought against internet users in Russia in 2017. The article does not give a figure for arrests.

In 2017 The Times made a Freedom of Information request which found 3,395 arrests had been made by 29 UK police forces for “section 127” offences, which is used for cases of online abuse. According to the article, 1,696 people were subsequently charged. Section 127 offences cover harassment that takes place via an “electronic communications network”, and is not limited to social media posts – harassment via email or other forms of online communication can also fall under this definition.

A message scrawled on the walls of a Pennsylvania high school claimed five white teachers would die if more black staff were not hired.

The graffiti was found in a girl's bathroom at Upper Darby High School just outside of Philadelphia last month, alarming local parents who claim they were not informed.

'Y'all better start hiring some more black teachers or 5 white ones will die,' the message written on the wall of a girl's bathroom read.

The suspected teenage culprit will not be charged because they are developmentally challenged and there is a lack of evidence, police said.

I am not entirely against cutting some slack in these situations... But what do they even mean by developmentally challenged..? And to what extent is this kid getting the attention they need?

Why always throw the book.

Nonetheless, it's interesting and disturbing.

Graffiti in Pennsylvania school bathroom threatens white staff will die if black staff aren't hired

A note scrawled in the bathroom of a Pennsylvania high school suggested that five white teachers would die if more black staff were not hired.

^{By Neirin Gray Desai For Dailymail.Com (Daily Mail)}

아주 좋은 20-39세 사람의 출산 의지에 대한 설문조사....

물론 경제적 이유때문에 출산하지 않은 편인데 여성중에 10%가 양성 불평등 때문이다고 합니다.

애 없는 月천만원 부부, 애 낳은 月550만원 부부…이게 달랐다 [출산율 0.78의 나라]

스스로를 지난해 합계 출산율이 '인구 쇼크' 수준인 0.59명(전국은 0.78명)까지 떨어진 서울 2030 세대의 자화상이라 여기는 나씨는 '1000만원 정도 일시금을 주는 미봉책으로는 한계가 있다. 자녀의 삶에 대해 ‘매우 행복할 것’이라 예상한 이들의 출산 의향은 압도적으로 높았지만(89.6%) ‘전혀 행복하지 않을 것’이라고 답한 사람 중엔 ‘출산 의향이 있다’고 답한 사람이 26.0%에 불과했다.

^{김수민 (중앙일보)}

Which reminded me of another great classic from the movie...

Remember, POE...

Vera Lynn - We'll Meet Again

From the album: We'll Meet Again

^YouTube

Just brutal:

They removed the 69-year-old from her apartment, where they found her living in abhorrent conditions among piles of garbage, and took her down, undressed, to the garage where they hosed her down before placing her in the ambulance.

There absolutely needs to be accountability for these things.

Oropos mayor laments treatment of 69-year-old woman by private ambulance crew

The mayor of the East Attica town of Oropos has expressed regret over an incident concerning the treatment of a troubled 69-year-old resident by the crew of a private ambulance service working for the municipality, describing the incident “like somet…

^{Iliana Magra (ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΕΣ ΕΚΔΟΣΕΙΣ ΜΟΝΟΠΡΟΣΩΠΗ Α.Ε. Εθν.Μακαρίου & Φαληρέως 2)}

A lot of people are skeptical about the idea that video games will destroy your life but lol bro...

Kids are driven mad by them.

A lot of people are skeptical about the idea that video games will destroy your life but lol bro...

Kids are driven mad by them.

In other places I've done my best to follow the Sri Lankan economic crisis, particularly since it could be more geopolitically relevant than people realize as it simultaneously flushes out the roles of regional powers like China and India.

... and here we are with China taking the lead on restructuring the absolutely massive Sri Lankan debt:

The IMF bailout process made slow progress due to the need to restructure Sri Lanka’s nearly 50 billion dollar external debt.

A previous Chinese letter giving a two-year moratorium on debt repayment had been deemed inadequate by the IMF. Wickremesinghe said the IMF programme which will be there for over the next four years would be different from all of the previous 16 programmes with the Washington-based global lender. He said the government has to take many hard economic decisions in order to stabilise the economy and work towards growth. The government measures to order tax hikes, raise utility tariffs and end fuel subsidies had triggered political protests. “I would like to apologise to the people for the hardships”, he said. The IMF in September last year approved Sri Lanka a 2.9 billion dollar bailout package over 4 years pending Sri Lanka's ability to restructure its debt with creditors -- both bilateral and sovereign bondholders.

China owns about 20% of the Sri Lankan debt, so them having a big stay in how it is restructured makes sense.

China will be able to have Sri Lanka by the horns for the indefinite future, and maybe it is even the case that the Sri Lankans will get loans next time from the Chinese (and it'll be in Yuan!).

This is how you grow an empire.

India missed out on an opportunity to exercise more control over a nation traditionally in her sphere of influence - why they did that, I do not know.

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