I believe (notwithstanding the catcalls of "Conspiracy theorist!") that DEI is funded by the CCP and is being implemented by bribing stupid and gullible U.S. officials as a way of taking down the U.S. economy and thereby strengthening the Chinese economy. The CCP has declared its intention of global political and economy hegemony and they hope to achieve this with Sun Tzu's clandestine non-violent strategy of inducing their opponents through trickery to self-destruct. They've had a good deal of success, but thanks to Bud Light on the one hand, and Silicon Valley on the other, their plan is not proceeding as well as they would have liked. They'll be back with plan B. Count on it.
I follow the semiconductor industry mostly out of curiosity. Modern photo lithography techniques are at least an order of magnitude more complex than the Apollo program.
Just for an example, the EUV light source is generated by blasting tiny drops of tin with high power lasers - 100k times/second. The most reflective mirrors known have to be completely defect free and still absorb ~30% of incident light energy - each. In addition to having ~20x tighter smoothness tolerances than the most advanced orbital telescope mirrors. A whole 0.02% of the power consumed actually reaches the wafers.
The material science and physics of the thing is entirely beyond my comprehension. The field could only ever be populated by the absolute smartest, most capable people. Anything less would be relegated to complete failure.
“Major League Baseball pledges diversity initiative due to 'historically low numbers of African American participation'. Will there be the same diversity initiative due to ‘historically low numbers of White American participation’ in basketball?
Time. All resources are scarce. If corporate executives keep having focus areas added to their incentive plans, that reduces the time and other resources available to spend on each. The Human Being will then devote most time and resources to those foci which will bring him the greatest benefit, being those which meet with the most approval of higher management. Safety or diversity? Which gives the greatest personal pay-off? Not a hard question to answer.
I know, I know, most americans already know this but both this Breaking911 and the MLB itself seems to have forgotten about it?
Reading about the history of the Negro Leagues and how they came about, isn't that will and drive and determination something to be proud of? I feel that this "representation"-schtick denigrates all the accomplishments made by black players, turning them into skinsuits representing nothing but their racial heritage and pigmentation, instead of their accomplishments as athletes and positive examples.
The "anti-racists" are more zoomed in on race than actual racialists were back in the day.
"Anyone less than the best of the best simply cannot play on this field"? Gato, not on any field. In South Africa we are streaks ahead of you on this road. Please try to imagine your land after 30 years of CHIPS, with a broken rail system, broken electricity supply, broken water supply, broken national airline, no public transport, broken health system, strangled economy so more than 50% jobless, families broken by emigrating children. DEI ... more like Damned Egregious Idea.
I work in a German Semiconductor company in USA and we just turned down the CHIPS Act money due to the DEI requirements which would have led to hiring of numerous people to comply with the regulations of the Act.
US government support is critical to make sure that manufacturing is done in USA to maintain its technological lead and this critical underpinning of all US Technology. It is far better for these manufacturing sites to build and manufacture in USA than internationally. It is in our National Economic and Security interest.
“They built a team that’s incredible. Two hundred people …”
Yep, that’s what it’s all about for them: building their little fiefdom completely oblivious to even the slightest scintilla of self-awareness that might come their way. The only outcome bureaucrats now care about is a bigger budget for next year that will, naturally, increase their “importance”.
I used to work for a semiconductor manufacturer, Linear Tech, who got bought by a much larger competitor. Believe me, there are plenty of woke people running around at the larger semi company that drove me nuts. Example- when controllers control something, they have always been called "master"; and the device that's being controlled is called a "slave". They've been called this ever since electrons were discovered (LOL. I'm sure you know where this is going. At the larger company that bought us, the BiPOC group within the company started an initiative to change those terms to less triggering terms. As an engineer, I and other engineers bristled at the notion that a small group of people could change these terms. HR got involved and backed the BiPOC group; and the rest is history.
I'm old enough to remember the OceanGate submersible whose CEO refused to hire "50-year-old white guys". Not inspirational enough, apparently (but probably quite good at implementing vital safety measures).
Little by little the DEI and ESG laden boats will slow down and one by one they’ll sink like the enormous fecal matter buckets they are.
I’d rather run my small business 100% the way I want than get a few bucks to hire Incompetent and Mr. Excuses to sit around and poison the rest of the company.
Great piece. Thanks for doing the digging through the crap. Even reading it is nauseating. Cats must have iron stomachs.
This is why we can’t have nice things. Glad the adults are back in charge!
The precursor to full blown DEI came about in the late 90s, early 2000s with the advent of participation’ trophies.
Not dissimilar to how the plea that “we just want to get married” morphed into an alphabet soup of total degeneracy.
Change my mind.
(I’ll leave the generational issue alone. Cause that could get ugly)
I believe (notwithstanding the catcalls of "Conspiracy theorist!") that DEI is funded by the CCP and is being implemented by bribing stupid and gullible U.S. officials as a way of taking down the U.S. economy and thereby strengthening the Chinese economy. The CCP has declared its intention of global political and economy hegemony and they hope to achieve this with Sun Tzu's clandestine non-violent strategy of inducing their opponents through trickery to self-destruct. They've had a good deal of success, but thanks to Bud Light on the one hand, and Silicon Valley on the other, their plan is not proceeding as well as they would have liked. They'll be back with plan B. Count on it.
I follow the semiconductor industry mostly out of curiosity. Modern photo lithography techniques are at least an order of magnitude more complex than the Apollo program.
Just for an example, the EUV light source is generated by blasting tiny drops of tin with high power lasers - 100k times/second. The most reflective mirrors known have to be completely defect free and still absorb ~30% of incident light energy - each. In addition to having ~20x tighter smoothness tolerances than the most advanced orbital telescope mirrors. A whole 0.02% of the power consumed actually reaches the wafers.
The material science and physics of the thing is entirely beyond my comprehension. The field could only ever be populated by the absolute smartest, most capable people. Anything less would be relegated to complete failure.
The crunching sound of reality meeting ideology. So good. Love your substack.
“Major League Baseball pledges diversity initiative due to 'historically low numbers of African American participation'. Will there be the same diversity initiative due to ‘historically low numbers of White American participation’ in basketball?
Time. All resources are scarce. If corporate executives keep having focus areas added to their incentive plans, that reduces the time and other resources available to spend on each. The Human Being will then devote most time and resources to those foci which will bring him the greatest benefit, being those which meet with the most approval of higher management. Safety or diversity? Which gives the greatest personal pay-off? Not a hard question to answer.
Not that we play baseball over here, but even I know about the Negro Leagues.
So does the MLB, who's got a special homepage for the Negro Leagues, called "The Negro Leagues":
https://www.mlb.com/history/negro-leagues/history
I know, I know, most americans already know this but both this Breaking911 and the MLB itself seems to have forgotten about it?
Reading about the history of the Negro Leagues and how they came about, isn't that will and drive and determination something to be proud of? I feel that this "representation"-schtick denigrates all the accomplishments made by black players, turning them into skinsuits representing nothing but their racial heritage and pigmentation, instead of their accomplishments as athletes and positive examples.
The "anti-racists" are more zoomed in on race than actual racialists were back in the day.
"Anyone less than the best of the best simply cannot play on this field"? Gato, not on any field. In South Africa we are streaks ahead of you on this road. Please try to imagine your land after 30 years of CHIPS, with a broken rail system, broken electricity supply, broken water supply, broken national airline, no public transport, broken health system, strangled economy so more than 50% jobless, families broken by emigrating children. DEI ... more like Damned Egregious Idea.
I work in a German Semiconductor company in USA and we just turned down the CHIPS Act money due to the DEI requirements which would have led to hiring of numerous people to comply with the regulations of the Act.
US government support is critical to make sure that manufacturing is done in USA to maintain its technological lead and this critical underpinning of all US Technology. It is far better for these manufacturing sites to build and manufacture in USA than internationally. It is in our National Economic and Security interest.
“They built a team that’s incredible. Two hundred people …”
Yep, that’s what it’s all about for them: building their little fiefdom completely oblivious to even the slightest scintilla of self-awareness that might come their way. The only outcome bureaucrats now care about is a bigger budget for next year that will, naturally, increase their “importance”.
This is what happens when you don’t know your Kipling.
“And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!”
I used to work for a semiconductor manufacturer, Linear Tech, who got bought by a much larger competitor. Believe me, there are plenty of woke people running around at the larger semi company that drove me nuts. Example- when controllers control something, they have always been called "master"; and the device that's being controlled is called a "slave". They've been called this ever since electrons were discovered (LOL. I'm sure you know where this is going. At the larger company that bought us, the BiPOC group within the company started an initiative to change those terms to less triggering terms. As an engineer, I and other engineers bristled at the notion that a small group of people could change these terms. HR got involved and backed the BiPOC group; and the rest is history.
I'm old enough to remember the OceanGate submersible whose CEO refused to hire "50-year-old white guys". Not inspirational enough, apparently (but probably quite good at implementing vital safety measures).
Yessir!
Little by little the DEI and ESG laden boats will slow down and one by one they’ll sink like the enormous fecal matter buckets they are.
I’d rather run my small business 100% the way I want than get a few bucks to hire Incompetent and Mr. Excuses to sit around and poison the rest of the company.
Yeah, nah!
CHIPS is like a woman with six kids from six different men, trying to get a date. She used to be really beautiful too, more’s the shame.