Image is from the Wikipedia article on the Sudanese Civil War.
Al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur (a little east of that deep red zone in the west of the megathread map), is the last major holdout of the Sudanese government in that state, and is currently under siege by the RSF. Losing it would be a significant blow to the SAF, though given how the conflict lines are shaping up, it seems increasingly plausible that there will be a de facto - if not de jure - partition of Sudan, unless the military situation substantially changes. This is because the RSF have been pushed out of central Sudan, while the SAF are being pushed out of Western Sudan - although, the situation is pretty complex and has been known to change rapidly before.
As has been a constant feature of the Sudan Civil War - perhaps the single worst humanitarian crisis on the planet right now when measured by numbers - the civilian situation pales in comparison to the military situation, with hundreds of thousands of children dead from famine, and tens of millions of people experiencing extreme food insecurity.
Al-Fashir has been the destination of many thousands of refugees fleeing genocide, and food and aid supplies into the town are being explicitly blocked by the RSF, resulting in scenes similar to what is happening in Gaza right now. The big difference is that fleeing from major battle zones is at least somewhat of an option, though people are often caught and robbed or enslaved or trafficked while moving to neighbouring towns and cities - and these cities are often experiencing similar conditions to places that refugees are leaving.
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Israel's Genocide of Palestine
Sources on the fighting in Palestine against the temporary Zionist entity. In general, CW for footage of battles, explosions, dead people, and so on:
UNRWA reports on Israel’s destruction and siege of Gaza and the West Bank.
English-language Palestinian Marxist-Leninist twitter account. Alt here.
English-language twitter account that collates news.
Arab-language twitter account with videos and images of fighting.
English-language (with some Arab retweets) Twitter account based in Lebanon. - Telegram is @IbnRiad.
English-language Palestinian Twitter account which reports on news from the Resistance Axis. - Telegram is @EyesOnSouth.
English-language Twitter account in the same group as the previous two. - Telegram here.
English-language PalestineResist telegram channel.
More telegram channels here for those interested.
Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Examples of Ukrainian Nazis and fascists
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Sources:
Defense Politics Asia’s youtube channel and their map. Their youtube channel has substantially diminished in quality but the map is still useful.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have interesting analysis. Avoid the comment section.
Understanding War and the Saker: reactionary sources that have occasional insights on the war.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict. While he is a reactionary and surrounds himself with likeminded people, his daily update videos are relatively brainworm-free and good if you don’t want to follow Russian telegram channels to get news. He also co-hosts The Duran, which is more explicitly conservative, racist, sexist, transphobic, anti-communist, etc when guests are invited on, but is just about tolerable when it’s just the two of them if you want a little more analysis.
Simplicius, who publishes on Substack. Like others, his political analysis should be soundly ignored, but his knowledge of weaponry and military strategy is generally quite good.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent and very good journalist reporting in the warzone on the separatists’ side.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Pro-Russian Telegram Channels:
Again, CW for anti-LGBT and racist, sexist, etc speech, as well as combat footage.
https://t.me/aleksandr_skif ~ DPR’s former Defense Minister and Colonel in the DPR’s forces. Russian language.
https://t.me/Slavyangrad ~ A few different pro-Russian people gather frequent content for this channel (~100 posts per day), some socialist, but all socially reactionary. If you can only tolerate using one Russian telegram channel, I would recommend this one.
https://t.me/s/levigodman ~ Does daily update posts.
https://t.me/patricklancasternewstoday ~ Patrick Lancaster’s telegram channel.
https://t.me/gonzowarr ~ A big Russian commentator.
https://t.me/rybar ~ One of, if not the, biggest Russian telegram channels focussing on the war out there. Actually quite balanced, maybe even pessimistic about Russia. Produces interesting and useful maps.
https://t.me/epoddubny ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/boris_rozhin ~ Russian language.
https://t.me/mod_russia_en ~ Russian Ministry of Defense. Does daily, if rather bland updates on the number of Ukrainians killed, etc. The figures appear to be approximately accurate; if you want, reduce all numbers by 25% as a ‘propaganda tax’, if you don’t believe them. Does not cover everything, for obvious reasons, and virtually never details Russian losses.
https://t.me/UkraineHumanRightsAbuses ~ Pro-Russian, documents abuses that Ukraine commits.
Pro-Ukraine Telegram Channels:
Almost every Western media outlet.
https://discord.gg/projectowl ~ Pro-Ukrainian OSINT Discord.
https://t.me/ice_inii ~ Alleged Ukrainian account with a rather cynical take on the entire thing.
Can you explain some of these like I dont know anything about this industry? How can a company like this go fables?
14a vs 18a?
Progressive node?
“Already on arm”?
Im so lost but Im just rooting for the failure and collapse of big US companies.
“Fabless” means the company doesn’t own the fabrication facility. They design a processor but it’s manufactured in another company’s facility, usually TSMC or Samsung. ARM64 is a modern processor architecture that is more power-efficient and is used in all smartphones, newer apple macs, and many servers. About 20% and growing of servers are on ARM64, the remaining ones are on amd64/x86_64, based on Intel’s legacy x86. Intel will have less and less influence with big companies that no longer buy their processors due to using ARM64. The home and office PC market continues to use amd64 processors made by either AMD or Intel, mostly because the majority of PC software doesn’t support ARM64.
A lot of big tech companies like Google Facebook etc are stockpiling small ARMs, which TSMC produces and Intel doesn’t. Apple is even selling arms directly to consumers.
Like amd, just order “make it so according to this design” at tsmc, like they are currently doing for some chips already, instead of their own foundry.
They doing ångstroms (one tenth of a nm, so 20a is 2 nm, 14 is 1.4 etc; nb very allegedly 18a was around densest tsmc 3 nm, so it’s not like you can compare them, it’s all marketing terms). I mean, tsmc does like n3a, n3e, n3p - same node with some alterations, where they learn and improve some stuff, or optimize for something. Tsmc plans to do, i think, first 2nm, and then integrate gate all around design (basically more power efficient transistor at small size, but much more involved in the making), and then add backside power delivery (currently the wires carrying power and signal come from the same plane, so that creates some issues as well) at their 16a. Both samsung and intel claim to have done gate all around at 18a/3nm, but their yields are bad, and intel integrated backside power delivery as well (maybe? they planned to at least) . Intel and samsung both do these weird jumps, where you make both new node, and introduce complication simultaneously, and eat shit as a result, cause you change a lot of things at once.
Now, tsmc might also eat shit with gate all around, but i think their approach is much safer and quicker.
They use arm processors, not x86 so why would they bother with intel as a whole, and as a fab it’s not that great price wise.