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Foundry Fabrications Has a New Home!
Hey folks! I am incredibly excited to announce the launch of something I’ve been working on the last couple of weeks: Foundry Fabrications now has a dedicated website!
For a long time, I’ve wanted a place away from Tumblr that I can call my own, where I can make all of my content easily accessible for everyone, and that can grow and change alongside me. A long time ago, I tried something like that, but it didn’t go well for a multitude of reason. Mistakes were made during that transition that I don’t intend to make again.
The new site will now be my main base of operations going forward, but I’m not going to outright abandon Tumblr like I did before, and Patreon isn’t going anywhere either. As some of you maybe saw, I have the new site set up to automatically send new posts here when I post them, so you’ll all still be kept in the loop should you decide to just stay here and not engage with it, which is totally understandable. And I still plan to check in every once in a while and make posts that are relevant to the platform should I need or want to, as well as respond to comments or questions when they happen.
Speaking of being kept in the loop, something the new site allows me to do is newsletters. Anyone who subscribes to it (which is free) will be notified by email when something new goes live. Eventually down the line I’d like to add more too it like TTRPG news or other content I want to shout out, stuff like that.
The site itself right now is nothing fancy, though I put a lot of work into making it as professional and user-friendly as I can. I’ve no experience in web design and a lot of it was existing templates I tweaked to suit my needs, as I do, so whether I accomplished that is up to y’all. The main goal was to make it easy to find a piece of content one might be looking for, or easily browse everything to see what I’ve made thus far, and that was easy do to with automatic categorization and a search function. It’s basic, but it works.
Because God has cursed me for my hubris and my work is never finished, I have a lot of plans for ways to upgrade the site with new features, various integrations, and ways to monetize my work. Gotta keep the lights and pay for the domain and service somehow. Initially, that means ads, but I’ll be looking into ways to remove them for regular supporters and I bet most of you use adblockers anyway, which I totally get, no judgement here.
That’s about all I have to say. I hope you all like the new site and I would love any feedback you have on it. Anyway, stay safe, don’t forget to love each other, and I’ll see you soon.
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Fabrication Foundry
Artist: Racrufi
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#Foundry Consultant#Machinery Consultant#Foundry Experts#Hydraulics Consultant#Steel Fabrication Consultant#Injection Moulding Consultant#Hydraulics Engineering Consultant
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"A MASK REVEALS IN THE EYES, THE FACE THAT LIES HIDDEN WITHIN."
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21 Oct 23
President Joe Biden is making a new case to the American public for shipping arms, ammunition and other military supplies to the wars in Ukraine and Israel.
His argument: many of those supplies are made in America — and that’s good for American jobs.[...]
That argument — which namechecked 2024 battleground states Pennsylvania and Arizona — comes as Biden makes a reelection pitch centered on his efforts to create jobs and revitalize domestic manufacturing in sectors such as clean energy and semiconductor fabrication. [...]
And now that message includes arms manufacturing. The administration is pushing to ramp up the defense industrial base to pump out more artillery shells, missiles and other weapons for the U.S. and allies. The newest aid proposal, released Friday, includes $61.4 billion for Ukraine, of which $30 billion is for direct Ukrainian military aid.[...]
For Democrats who have been eager to see Biden more actively selling the war supply effort to weary voters, the made-in-America angle is a welcome sign of political vigor. They acknowledge, though, that it is not a sure-thing political wager.
“To anybody that actually wants to, in good faith, make the decision, it’s certainly a really important and, I think, persuasive argument that this is about American jobs. It’s about helping actually bolster our entire defense manufacturing enterprise,” said Rep. Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.). “But I fear, and past behavior has shown, the MAGA extremists aren’t actually making this decision in good faith. They’re making it based on Russian propaganda that’s been propagated by Trump and everybody else.”[...]
While Biden’s message might resonate with some voters, it’s not getting much traction with House Republicans who oppose more aid [to Ukraine] at least not yet. Interviews with House GOP lawmakers on Friday showed that even those who feel Ukraine aid is justified aren’t buying Biden’s argument.[...]
Ukraine has been striking Russian logistics hubs using Lockheed Martin’s Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System, or GMLRS, that are partially made in Lufkin, Texas — a city of 34,000 people that saw its paper mill and foundry close over the last two decades.
It’s represented by Republican Rep. Pete Sessions, a Ukraine aid supporter, who said Friday that the U.S. has an obligation to protect Ukraine under its post-Cold War security commitments. [...]
The U.S. has awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in contracts for the High Mobility Artillery Rocket System launchers that fire GMLRS and are made in Camden, Ark., a town of about 10,000 people that’s 100 miles south of Little Rock.
Republican Rep. Bruce Westerman, who represents Camden, said critics of government spending can be surprised to know some of that spending is going back to communities like his.
“I actually had some constituents text me last night and say $100 billion is a lot of money to give away, and I made the point that a lot of that equipment is made in my district,” Westerman said. [...]
A bigger driver for House Republicans to back Ukraine aid may ultimately be whether they can extract border security concessions from Biden and Senate Democrats. Biden’s supplemental request includes $13.6 billion for security efforts at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Republicans are also seeking border policy changes from the administration, and see a Ukraine funding request as an opportunity for leverage.
“I’d be really surprised if Republicans wanted to let Russia win more than they wanted our own border secure,” Crenshaw said. “So I think that is the grand bargain that needs to happen.”
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Putrefaction
High res versions of the art, a Foundry VTT module, and other formats, as well as a full compendium of our 100+ items can be found on our Patreon
Those who deal in dark magics often do so in shrouded caves or deep within long forgotten crypts far away from the prying eyes of the public. Seeking to twist and pervert the very fabric of the magics we rely on leads them to studies of disease, sickness, necromancy, and many other dark persuasions. When this everburning torch smelling slightly of death showed up on my counter and the robed figure in front of me seemingly desperate to get rid of it, I knew I had something interesting in my hands. Now, normally I wouldn’t just show this to any client, but you seem to be a person with discerning tastes.
If you want to see more of our items you can check us out on our Website, Twitter, Pinterest, Tumblr, Bluesky, Threads or Instagram where we post them regularly. You can also find us at our Discord server where you can hang out and chat with the community.
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Planescape Factions by Magic Color
I hope to get some responses on this, because I’m not super familiar with Magic lore. But here’s some of the Planescape organizations - the philosopher gangs and guilds who run Sigil and clash across the multiverse.
The Athar say that the gods aren’t truly divine and should be subject to the same rules as anyone, despite their power. They represent Blue/White with their focus on logic over faith and their organized printing presses and alchemists.
The Believers of the Source say all things are being tested and eventually, with enough determination, we mortals can achieve reincarnation into a higher state. In their foundries, they build tools and vehicles and fine trade goods. They represent Black/Green with the focus on growth and personal development, and the drive to become something new.
The Bleak Cabal says there’s no meaning or purpose to existence, and even accepting this lesson is just a temporary distraction from the endless, hopeless mess. In the Gatehouse, they care for the many poor and unhealthy citizens of Sigil. They represent a very odd flavor of Black/White as they turn their empty lives to a social mission.
The Doomguard say everything is going to end eventually, so why not enjoy the view of all the destruction? They push the entropic process forward by forging all kinds of weapons in the Armory. They exemplify Red/Black in their reckless disregard for the fabric of reality.
If this sparks some interest I will keep it going - there’s fifteen factions, so there might be color overlap between them. And keep in mind, there’s all kinds of alignments and ideals within these groups to inspire NPCs and adventure hooks!
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Nintendo Switch 2 may still launch in the second half of 2024
Samsung Foundry will fabricate the SoC on Samsung's 7LPH process node. Samsung will provide the NAND storage for both the cartridges and internal memory. Samsung will supply the display.
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Happy 5-Year Anniversary!
Hey folks! 5 years ago to the day I posted my first ever homebrew creation for the masses to enjoy (or ruthlessly tear apart), a little brew I lovingly called The Goo of Primordial Chaos. It would be fitting to have gone and reworked it for such an occasion (it certainly needs it), but alas, I haven't. I could have, and I've tried a few times, but honestly I don't really know what to do with it. So, I'm just not going to, and it shall remain a relic of the past and a reminder of humble beginnings.
Other than that, I have nothing special planned to celebrate, at all. So instead, I'd just like to take a moment to look back at my time here and take a trip down memory lane.
2018-2019
When I first got started doing homebrew for the Foundry, I hadn't been doing it for very long. Hell, I hadn't been playing 5e for long either. But inexperience didn't stop me from taking a stab at it. At the time, I had boundless creative energy and all the time in the world. I committed to doing one brew a month and that came pretty easy. Most of what I was making were conversions of other things, so they were easy to churn out at a regular pace. But I did quite a bit of original stuff too. The Medic was my first ever released class, and my Hellraiser supplement kicked off my now yearly tradition of doing a big project for spooktober. Around that time, I started a Patreon and got my first commission in the Awakener class. The first version of my Mourner was also released. I also hit 2k followers, which is insane to me still. Oh yeah, and I totally tried to jump to another platform when Tumblr became a dumpster fire for a bit. Forgot about that. Other than that, pretty good for my first year!
2019-2020
Kicking off my second year, my Corpseweaver class was released for Halloween, which is still one of my favorite things I've made. For much of the year I was still going strong with monthly releases and even putting out some pretty big projects. But the biggest project I put out that year, or at least the one that took the most effort, was a commission for John Carpenter’s The Thing. It was around this time that I started kicking around the idea of opening up commission to the public, not just my patrons. Spoiler alert, I shouldn't have. I also hit 4k followers that year. Still wild.
2020-2021
This was a huge year, but things did not begin well for me. The year began with Flesh and Bone, my Necromorph supplement, which was an utter train wreck. That monstrosity came together in a panicked 3 weeks after October blindsided me and was the first time I had ever tried to make a custom style for the Homebrewery. The mad dash to meet a frankly arbitrary deadline yielding a worse brew started to show the cracks in my process and was an ill omen for things to come. I kept up the monthly releases for a while longer, and put out some great stuff in that time if I do say so myself, but in July I hit a wall and just couldn't do it anymore. Since then, I've had a “post it when it's done” policy, and I don't intend to change that. I also stopped taking commissions from patrons after getting super overwhelmed and not handling it as well as I should have, BUT then proceeded to start taking commissions from the public. Other notable events included changing my name from 5e Foundry to Foundry Fabrications in an effort to expand into other games, not just 5e, I updated my logo to fit the rebranding, and I started a Discord server that burned hot, died fast, and is a desolate wasteland now. Otherwise, it was pretty much business as usual.
2021-2022
Year 4 began innocently enough, aside from the cultural faux pas regarding a certain Native America spirit that shall not be named that I later had to apologize for. Other than that, it was pretty much business as usual. But then in April came my crowning achievement. After 6 years of development, I finally released my Engineer class! I still can’t believe that this thing I've been wrestling with for years is finally real and for all the world to see. Kind of hard to top that
2022-2023
Another year, another spooky project, this time a much-needed rework of my Corpseweaver. And all was great, for a time. But then January rolled around and WotC dropped the shitstorm of the century on us with the whole OGL debacle. I, like a lot of people, did not take very well and went so far to abandon everything D&D, a rash decision I still regret making, even if I did come back to the game I love so much. But I bounced back pretty easy and jumped right back into making stuff, not that I’ve released much this year. But that’s future talk! We’re here to reminisce!
So yeah, that’s my history here in a nutshell. If you’re still here, thanks for listening to me ramble. What a wild ride it’s been, and I’m so glad I could have you all at my side and along for the journey. Thanks for sticking with me for 5 years, and here’s to 5 more! As always, stay safe, don’t forget to love each other, and I’ll see you all again soon.
Oh, one more thing, I’d love to hear from y’all in the replies! How long have you been with me, and what’s your favorite piece of content I’ve produced?
#yall i cant believe its been 5 years#anniversary#dungeons and dragons#5e foundry#foundry fabrications#thank you#yall are the best#5 years
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200 followers fic "raffle"
from this post and for @laughingpunk
Morning came too early, as always. But evil never slept, so justice (and Justice) apparently could only be afforded the occasional catnap. Anders yawned and rolled out of his bed as the pounding outside continued. "I'm coming, I'm coming!"
He'd been up until almost dawn thanks to a foundry accident, and, if the water clock Hawke had given him was working correctly, he'd had only three hours of sleep in two days.
Varric's grin faded as Anders opened the door. "You look like shit, Blondie."
"Feel like it too," he agreed. "What’s Hawke done now?" Miraculously, the line of patients hadn't formed yet, but it was only a matter of time. Best to get whatever this was over with quickly, maybe catch a few winks on Hawke’s couch, then be back to the clinic by noon.
"No, they're fine," Varric assured him as he walked inside and started poking through his closet, if half of a cupboard that permanently smelled of elfroot could be called such. "But they do need you up at the mansion. Soon as possible."
He turned to grab his coat and staff. "That's not ominous at all."
"Leave the gear and put this on instead." A bundle of pale blue linen was shoved into his hands. "Time's money, and you're costing me a fortune."
Anders eyed it skeptically, then shrugged and pulled off his shirt to put this new one on. "What's this all about?"
"It's a surprise. A good one!" Varric amended hastily, then winced. "I hope. Ancestors know what they're up to without me."
"You're not selling this well." The fabric was luxurious and soft on his skin, but the sleeves were too short. Ridiculously so. “And this doesn’t fit.”
"I'm not selling anything. Not to you, at least. And we’ll fix the rest." Varric grinned. "Now, come on."
He stubbornly grabbed his coat and staff anyway. "Fine."
Apprehension dripped from Varric as they made their way through the tunnels to Hawke's cellar, and Anders couldn't stop worrying and wondering, no matter how many reassurances were offered.
When they stepped into the kitchen, nothing could've prepared him for the sight: Bels and Fenris were wearing aprons, smeared in flour, and...
"Are you baking a cake?" Anders asked incredulously.
"What of it, mage?" Fenris asked, brandishing a - was that a whisk? - at him menacingly.
Bels laughed and plucked it from his hand before going back to beating something in a bowl.
Freed of his burdensome cooking utensils, Fenris advanced on him, pulling his coat off his shoulders with disdainful noise and reaching for his belt. "I said this wouldn't match." He clicked his tongue in irritation.
"I did the best I could, Broody," Varric retorted. "He doesn't have a lot of options."
"What the fuck is going on here?" Anders demanded, yanking his coat back from Fenris and slapping his hand away from his trousers. "Is it ‘make fun of the sewer mage’ day? Some previous unknown holiday made up just to drag me up here and–"
"Not so loud!" Bels hissed.
The urgency of her tone shut him up immediately. Something terrible must be happening, or be about to happen that even Bels was serious. "Varric, you said this was a good surprise," he said with a glare.
"It is!" Varric insisted. "Just not... look, it's Hawke’s nameday."
Anders frowned. It’s not like I could’ve done something for them anyway. Still, not even getting the chance to wish them well? That stung. "They didn't tell -"
"Anyone," Bels sighed. "Their mother is doing that thing she does, and Hawke is doing that thing they do, and didn't want to drag us into it." She pointed toward the dining room. "Big fancy luncheon, full of big fancy hats and big fancy Leandra’s big fancy people, in about two hours. And they were just going to sit through it with a big fancy miserable smile."
"And we're going to fix that?" he asked, then added. “Without kidnapping them?”
Fenris grabbed his wrist and tugged him toward the pantry. "We're trying. But you need to look the part." He glanced at Bels. “Remember, fold the chocolate into the egg whites slowly. Don’t stir.”
“Yes, yes, I’ll be as gentle as a lamb.” She wiggled her fingers at him dismissively. “Don’t have too much fun without me.”
Fenris shook his head in irritated amusement as led Anders inside, then closed the door behind them.
Well, this is new. He fluttered his eyes coquettishly. “You know, if you wanted to get me in bed, there are far simpler ways to do it.”
Fenris snorted. “Take off your shirt.”
Anders tugged off his borrowed not-quite-finery and pretended not to notice the brightness in Fenris’ eyes as he handed it over. In return, Fenris didn’t acknowledge the blush spreading down his chest. They’d been in this strange orbit for weeks, drifting ever closer before something or someone pulled them away. Usually it was the clinic: an urgent pounding on his door, or shouts at odd hours, but it could just as easily be Hawke themself, hauling them off together into absurd danger. He’d resented the interruptions at first, but the more they occurred, the more grateful he was for them, simply because they’d kept him from doing something foolish.
Something foolish like getting dragged into a pantry and told to undress.
“H-How is this helping Hawke exactly?” he asked as he rubbed at his wrists to shop himself from trying to cover up. Focus on something else. “When did you have time to learn how to bake?”
A needle and thread appeared in Fenris' hand. “The shirt isn’t enough to keep you from looking like the Darktown healer. Also, I enjoy pastries.” A dark blue jacket was pressed to Anders’ arms, and he tutted under his breath. "This will have to do."
"Do what?"
"Why must you be so tall?" He complained as he started popping the seams at the shoulder. "I have plenty of robes in the mansion, but they'd look ridiculous on you. Too much ankle."
Anders had no idea what to say to that, so he just watched, dumbfounded at the speed that Fenris stitched strips of velvet between the detached sleeve and the shoulder. It was unsettling to be half naked with him, and certainly not how he imagined it could be. Not that he'd imagined it. Well, not often. Well, not too often. "Where did you learn how to sew?" He finally asked. "This, this quickly, I mean."
"Danarius expected his attendants to be able to assist with his wardrobe," Fenris answered flatly. "I must admit, it's come in handy more often than he or I could have anticipated."
Any mention of Danarius always made Anders' skin crawl with the need to apologize hand in hand with the urge to insist not all mages were like that. Over the years, though, he'd learned better. What had been done to him was unconscionable, but to argue against his legitimate fears and trauma by equating it to the struggles of mages in the South solved nothing. Even if he'd never admit it, Fenris had done plenty for Anders' kind, however grudgingly, and fighting with him over whether he'd done enough was a battle no mortal could win. There would never be enough, not until every man woman and child in Thedas viewed magic as a blessing, not a curse.
"Anders."
He blinked back to reality. Back to a pantry and Fenris giving him a look that seemed a mixture of fondness and exasperation. "Hmwhat?"
Fenris handed him the shirt. The cuffs were now longer, with bright blue silk stitched to the ends, and the tops of the sleeves were wound with black satin. "This will have to do. Your trousers are…" Fenris trailed off and glanced down. "They're lost cause, but if you hurry to your seat, no one will notice."
Before Anders could muster an indignant retort, Fenris pressed the jacket into his other hand. "The stitching is loose, but the black underneath should hide it. Don't make too many sudden movements or an entire sleeve might shear off. I'll do it properly when I have more time."
"Why?" It was for Hawke, of course, but they could've simply not invited him. The clinic occupied him at all hours, and he would never have noticed or known.
Fenris ducked his head and looked away as his ears took on a faint redness. "Perhaps Hawke deserves to have a party they'd enjoy." He licked his lips, then met his eyes. "Perhaps I wanted to see you dressed up, haphazardly though this may be. Perhaps crashing this luncheon was my idea, but it wouldn't be complete without you."
Something about his tone, so challenging yet so vulnerable, made Anders pause. He looped the shirt over his arm and reached out to touch Fenris' hand. "Is – Fenris, is this a date?"
He smiled softly and squeezed Anders' fingers. "Perhaps."
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Large, all-glass metalens images sun, moon and nebulae
Metalenses have been used to image microscopic features of tissue and resolve details smaller than a wavelength of light. Now they are going bigger.
Researchers at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a 10-centimeter-diameter glass metalens that can image the sun, the moon and distant nebulae with high resolution. It is the first all-glass, large-scale metalens in the visible wavelength that can be mass produced using conventional CMOS fabrication technology.
The research is published in ACS Nano.
"The ability to accurately control the size of tens of billions of nanopillars over an unprecedentedly large flat lens using state-of-the-art semiconductor foundry processes is a nanofabrication feat that opens exciting new opportunities for space science and technology," said Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace Professor of Applied Physics and Vinton Hayes Senior Research Fellow in Electrical Engineering at SEAS and senior author of the paper.
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Eco-lorful Living Room - Eco Lifestyle Recolors
Pardon the awful pun, sometimes I just can't help myself. 🤷😇
I really like a lot of the items from Eco Lifestyle, so I picked a few of my favorites for a little living room set to recolor in Fantasy Floss and The Woods are Lovely. Items included are the Fabricated Couch (plus living chair add-on), Foundry's Favorite End Table, Hepcat Coffee Table (plus three add-ons), Fabricated Floor Lamp, Fabricated Fine Wall Decor, and Ship in a Bottle. Details, swatches and download beneath the cut!
Here are all the meshes I recolored (add-ons not pictured, they wouldn't fit in the picture):
I was going to make some custom swatches, but the universe has other plans (turns out I need to go to the dentist tomorrow, which means I can't stay up half the night swatching stuff), so I'm including my default swatches instead of pretty ones. :/
Fantasy Floss
The Woods are Lovely
Meshes are included. I've also included the living chair add-on and coffee table add-ons. Many thanks to all the converters: @autumn-rosesims (who converted the couch, end table, floor lamp, and wall art, and also made the living chair add-on), @tony-veis (who converted the coffee table) @littlelittlesimmies (who updated the coffee table and made the add-ons) and @linacheries (who converted the plant vases)!
An important note about the Hepcat Coffee Table! I included littlelittlesimmies' meshes instead of tony-veis' because they have slots, a proper footprint and the add-ons. The master mesh uses the same GUID as tony-veis', so if you have that one, please make sure you delete it if you want to use the meshes in this download!
Swatches are also in the download and everything is neatly organized so you can easily keep just what you like. And of course, if I messed anything up, please give me a shout!
DOWNLOAD (SFS) Recolors are ~12.5MB
Lots of love,
Spacey
#s2cc#ts2cc#ts2 download#sims 2 download#ts2 custom content#sims 2 custom content#s2 cc#ts2 recolors#ts2#ts2 lighting#ts2 comfort#ts2 surfaces#ts2 plants#ts2 wall decorations
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Hey pointy hat
Trick🙀 or treat🍭
Hi there, thanks! [Had to work to figure out what this was let me tell ya...]
The generous Magi that I am, I'll keep this a Treat!
So... here's some Worldbuilding;
Author's Post-Writing Notes: To the shock of no one, this piece has gotten a helluva lot longer than I'd originally planned. Honestly, it might've worked as a good Worldbuilding Wednesday post, but oh well. Tagging @athenswrites @hessdalen-globe @caxycreations @theprissythumbelina @thatndginger @imslowlydisintegrating
L'Eglise: The Gollandiac Faithful
Early History
Long before Republic, Empire, or imperial dream, the far flung "Gollandiac" peoples were tied together by their common faith more than anything. Religion, like politics, was in those bygone times a highly localised affair, reliant on what pieces of scripture village or town churches possessed from the holy texts of "Premier Monde".
The Social Institution
As the decades and centuries rolled on, these disjointed and fiercely independent enclaves grew larger, and the role of organised faith grew with them. Not merely places of worship, a community's 'Church' functioned as arbitrators in disputes, keepers of the peace, and often managed pieces of local infrastructure. In a time when the rule of states and kings was weak everywhere beyond sight of their palaces, the church stepped in to provide stability and authority in manner that the ordinary Gollandiac could see and feel in their day to day lives.
The Estates
In the process, the various village and provincial clergy would amass for their parishes great wealth, privilege, and influence. They often side-stepped political regimes and governance to deal directly with their fellow holy men, and indeed many grew to see political authority as simply an obstruction. A parallel economy and system of politics came to be which ingrained itself into the fabric of Gollandiac society deeper than any of its petty kingdoms of the time could, and sovereigns and statesmen knew that they ruled with the consent of their bodies of churches, and would surely fall if they lost it.
To many within it, this arrangement was deemed tolerable, and the Church was often thought of as a steady and calming hand which acted to cool the tempers and avarice of dynastic rulers or other centers of power. While the balance of power would last for centuries, its fall would see the rise of the Goilac Empire, and the unification of the Gollandiac peoples under one King, and one chosen Church.
The Schism
The first cracks in the old ways came with the rise of industry, commerce, and foreign influence into the largely agrarian society of the land. These influences brought about the single greatest movement of humanity Gollandians had ever seen, away from the pastoral country and towards those handful of might cities who sat on the lands natural bounty in coal and iron, or with coastal access to plentiful foreign markets. This period was known to the United Commonwealth as its 8th decade from the signing of its Charter, and the polity's victory over the Fuhrati Empire sent shockwaves across the 12 Worlds. ******
With their flocks much diminished, so went much of the power of those Churches with more agrarian domains. Those in urban centres, on the other hand, were quick to adapt and seize the chance to entrench their influence in this new order, swapping their holdings in farmland or vineyards for foundries, mills, and shipyards. Their wealth and sheer hold on public life would make these institutions key players in the political game to come.
L'Eglise Et L'Etat
While Gollandia had often seen sharp competition between the organs of Church and State, a small handful of shrewd actors in the region's history had at various points seized on the potential offered by mutual collaboration. Of these, Antoine d'Porlanger, scion of the House of Porlanger and ruler of the rapidly industrialising Duchy of Goilac, would be remembered as the most fiercely successful in wielding the tools of faith and state to unite the squabbling continent under his crown.
His house had long fostered amicable relations with the various clergy leadership within their holdings, but Antoine would take a more involved approach than his predecessors. The same political mind that had undone half a dozen plots against his ascension applied itself to the subordination of these holy men to Ducal rule. One the one Antoine used subtle pressure and backroom negotiations to topple those cardinals who undermined his expanding government, while through gifts of wealth and offices of state he won over enough supporters to shore up his internal legitimacy. After all, those were days when the only regular news that rural townsfolk often received from the happenings in the city came from their local priests and word of mouth.
Crusade Royale
With his internal position secure, Antoine turned beyond his Duchy's borders. A self declared believer in the dream of a common and singular Gollandiac people, he was pragmatic enough to know that it would be an uphill struggle against entrenched institutions who abhorred the idea of surrendering their positions and power.
The Duke first sought to win hearts and minds across the Gollandiac lands, especially leveraging his credibility amongst the body faithful. Aside from their organisational independence, it was not uncommon for different church establishments to maintain their own dogma and tenets around the faith. Antoine believed a unified people would need a common nucleus around which an identity could be forged, and a common scripture would serve that purpose well. His sponsorship of various religious schools across the land, operated by his own Duchy's clergy and according to its rulings. Opposition was, subtly but firmly, discouraged. The conflagration that burned down the mountaintop monastery of Courvey Abbey is considered one example, or to the clergy of the time a singularly unfortunate act of God.
The Century Long Trapeze
The Goilac Church would play an integral role in Antoine's quest for holy and national unification, and in that programme's continuation under his successors. That history, however, must wait for another time.
After the consolidation of the Gollandiac peoples under the rule of Goilac, its Church could rest comfortable in its position as a vital arm of the Empire's governance. As the Empire grew to extend its reach beyond the Gollandiac peoples to conquests of others, its clergy would remain a vital connection between the state and its masses.
This privileged arrangement would last for almost a century, but it would not do so unchallenged. The rising institutions of the Empire's bureaucracy would be its first challenger, who preached a more secular approach to statesmanship. More would come. The fabric of Gollandiac society had already changed greatly once so long ago, then in a way that set it on the path of unity and conquest. The second great wave of change and upheaval would take a very different form, where
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On Terra-Primo Artefacts
One notable item in the Goilac Church is the sacred text known as The True Book, or "Le Vrai Livre". The manuscript is estimated to be at least six centuries old, more ancient than any record of history on the continent and the oldest known bible in the 12 Words. Found on the grounds of the original Mortray Abbey, the text remains the Churches most prized possession, guarded under lock and key in the archives of the rebuilt monastery. With the scripture's age and its consistency with many texts on other Worlds, many content that it is in fact an original, Old World book, making it a major piece of evidence for subscribers to that theory.
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Chinese foundry SMIC may have broken the 5nm process barrier, as evidenced by a new Huawei laptop listed with an advanced chip with 5nm manufacturing tech — a feat previously thought impossible due to U.S sanctions.
This year, SMIC shocked the world after it began mass production of Huawei's HiSilicon Kirin 9000S processor using its second-gen 7nm process technology. But the company seems to have at least one more trick up its sleeve: a 5nm fabrication process that is either already in use for high-volume manufacturing (HVM) or is in the final stages of its development. In fact, Huawei now lists a chip made on a 5nm-class process node — an eight-core Arm-based HiSilicon Kirin 9000C processor with Arm Mali-G78 graphics for laptops — on its website.
A posting on Huawei's website claims the Qingyun L540 laptop is "equipped with the Kirin 9006C chip, utilizing a 5nm process technology, eight cores, with a maximum clock speed of up to 3.13 GHz, offering higher performance, lower power consumption, and faster processing speeds."
The Kirin 9006C's general-purpose cores are listed at up to 3.13 GHz, which is only slightly lower than the clocks that TSMC and Apple could wring out of the original TSMC N5 process technology (the maximum frequency for Apple's M1 high-performance cores is 3.20 GHz). Meanwhile, the Kirin 9006C's peak clock rate looks similar to another chip, the Kirin 9000, which was produced for Huawei by TSMC.
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The Biden administration recently promised it will finally loosen the purse strings on $39 billion of CHIPS Act grants to encourage semiconductor fabrication in the U.S. But less than a week later, Intel announced that it’s putting the brakes on its Columbus factory. The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has pushed back production at its second Arizona foundry. The remaining major chipmaker, Samsung, just delayed its first Texas fab.
This is not the way companies typically respond to multi-billion-dollar subsidies. So what explains chipmakers’ apparent ingratitude? In large part, frustration with DEI requirements embedded in the CHIPS Act.
Commentators have noted that CHIPS and Science Act money has been sluggish. What they haven’t noticed is that it’s because the CHIPS Act is so loaded with DEI pork that it can’t move.
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Handouts abound. There’s plenty for the left—requirements that chipmakers submit detailed plans to educate, employ, and train lots of women and people of color, as well as “justice-involved individuals,” more commonly known as ex-cons. There’s plenty for the right—veterans and members of rural communities find their way into the typical DEI definition of minorities. There’s even plenty for the planet: Arizona Democrats just bragged they’ve won $15 million in CHIPS funding for an ASU project fighting climate change.
That project is going better for Arizona than the actual chips part of the CHIPS Act. Because equity is so critical, the makers of humanity’s most complex technology must rely on local labor and apprentices from all those underrepresented groups, as TSMC discovered to its dismay.
Tired of delays at its first fab, the company flew in 500 employees from Taiwan. This angered local workers, since the implication was that they weren’t skilled enough. With CHIPS grants at risk, TSMC caved in December, agreeing to rely on those workers and invest more in training them. A month later, it postponed its second Arizona fab.
Now TSMC has revealed plans to build a second fab in Japan. Its first, which broke ground in 2021, is about to begin production. TSMC has learned that when the Japanese promise money, they actually give it, and they allow it to use competent workers. TSMC is also sampling Germany’s chip subsidies, as is Intel.
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In short, the world’s best chipmakers are tired of being pawns in the CHIPS Act’s political games. They’ve quietly given up on America. Intel must know the coming grants are election-year stunts — mere statements of intent that will not be followed up. Even after due diligence and final agreements, the funds will only be released in dribs and drabs as recipients prove they’re jumping through the appropriate hoops.
For instance, chipmakers have to make sure they hire plenty of female construction workers, even though less than 10 percent of U.S. construction workers are women. They also have to ensure childcare for the female construction workers and engineers who don’t exist yet. They have to remove degree requirements and set “diverse hiring slate policies,” which sounds like code for quotas. They must create plans to do all this with “close and ongoing coordination with on-the-ground stakeholders.”
No wonder Intel politely postponed its Columbus fab and started planning one in Ireland. Meanwhile, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo was launching a CHIPS-funded training program for historically black colleges.
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This is the stuff declining empires are made of. As America pursues national security by building a diverse workforce, China does it by building warships.
The CHIPS Act’s current identity as a jobs program for favored minorities means companies are forced to recruit heavily from every population except white and Asian men already trained in the field. It’s like fishing in all the places you aren’t getting bites.
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