Lee Fang

I have a new feature on the history of neonicotinoids, a widely used insecticide that is pushing butterflies, dragonflies, bumblebees and other forms of insect life to the brink of extinction interc.pt/2NFwdMC

Heres a thought: Dell and Super Micro both sold server racks w/sanctioned Nvidia chips to Chinese fronts. But only Super Micro, a quasi Taiwanese firm, has been prosecuted. Dell is American, probably lawyered/lobbied for more sophisticated CYA to engage in the same alleged crime.

What are the odds American AI firms are playing some role in the Huang ouster? In the same way Cisco paid PR firms to spread fears about Huawei and Meta paid PR firms to stir demands for banning competitor TikTok? Huang singularly pushed cheaper Chinese open source models.

NYT news section is generally solid but when they are wrong, they fuel far-reaching confusion, like the article that suggested Code Pink has China funding (without proving a single $) and AI data centers using all the water (citing an outlier Georgia town).

I don't think the average California liberal understands the degree to which state environmental review laws are used to block/inflate the costs of solar build-out, high speed rail, even carbon removal tech x.com/rpyers/status/…