Yuritopiaposadism

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8768696

I visited the largest electric truck charging site I have ever seen, located in Beichuan, Sichuan, around 150 km north of Chengdu, China.

The site is planned for 100 MW scale. In stage one, around 51 MW is already installed from 72 Huawei 720 kW power units. I counted 108 charging spots with dual dispensers, meaning 216 plugs, plus 18 megawatt charging positions. Stage two is planned to add 33 more 1.44 MW charging systems, bringing the site close to 100 MW.

I visited the largest electric truck charging site I have ever seen, located in Beichuan, Sichuan, around 150 km north of Chengdu, China.

The site is planned for 100 MW scale. In stage one, around 51 MW is already installed from 72 Huawei 720 kW power units. I counted 108 charging spots with dual dispensers, meaning 216 plugs, plus 18 megawatt charging positions. Stage two is planned to add 33 more 1.44 MW charging systems, bringing the site close to 100 MW.

I somehow got my hands on a very early ALPHA build of the Under A Killing Moon Remake and... well, I livestreamed it, of course.

This is a full political and historical analysis of Disco Elysium's Ultraliberal ideology (or Neo-Liberal) through Joyce Messier. I trace the tradition from Thomas Paine and John Stuart Mill through Hayek, Thatcher, Reagan, Blair, and Clinton, to the Chilean coup of 1973, Smedley Butler and the Business Plot of 1934, the 2008 financial crisis, and the present moment. The argument: what we call "liberalism" in contemporary political life is not the liberalism of the Enlightenment. It is something counter-liberal that emerged from within that traditions unresolved contradictions and intensified its most extractive tendencies, stripped away its emancipatory commitments, and kept the language of freedom as like a wolf in sheep's clothing. The game calls it Ultra. We should too. In addition to Joyce, we talk about the Ultra class' role in the pale eating the world. The Hegelian cosmological framing of the world of Elysium and gloss by Fukuyama's end of history, Slavov Zizek's Less than Nothing and the 2014 article which inspired Joyce's portrayal.

• Tony Blair, dread creature of the forbidden swamp by Sam Kriss

Is China actually winning... or are they winning at propaganda?

In this week's vid, we dive into the feeling many Americans are having lately. Looking at China's infrastructure, manufacturing, social media, tech, and economy and wondering if China is really living in the future while we're stuck in the 20th century.

Why is this Chinese propaganda so effective? Is it because the American institutions have lost public trust? Are theirs really any better?

The most heartbreaking part of Wolf Children isn’t what happens to the characters on screen... but the painful reality hidden behind it.

Director Mamoru Hosoda revealed that the perfect mother, Hana, was based on his own mother—or more accurately, "the mother he wished she could have been". It's a statement that sounds cold, but buried across a decade of obscure interviews lies a heavy, deeply personal confession. This video dives into the grief, regret, and hidden real-world parallels that transform this fantasy masterpiece about parenthood and love into something much more.

If you’ve found your way here, thank you. Watching the videos already means a lot. And if you’d like to support the channel a little further, it would genuinely help me keep making these essays with the time and care they need.

During a House Science, Space, and Technology Committee hearing on June 10, 2026, Representative Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) delivered opening remarks calling out Energy Secretary Chris Wright for misrepresenting science, peddling lies about renewable energy and commissioning a "widely debunked, error-filled" climate science report.

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