alt Hacker NewsPerfectly in agreement, but in many places politics were forced into geek spaces. Formerly nobody cared which country you came from.
I think anyone that used open models will have had contact with Qwen. China currently does the most work here, simple as that.
You might want to ignore politics all day long, but rather sooner than later it's politics that will creep into your life and take an interest in whatever things that politicians mis-understand about your little niche.