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How Huawei’s lobbying campaign in Europe went rogue.

Once a high-flyer in Europe, Huawei’s growth stalled due to concerns over its ties with Beijing.

As the Chinese tech giant fought for survival, its EU lobbying campaign took a dark turn.

mediafaro.org/article/20250313

An illustration of someone in a lit room receiving money from someone in a dark space behind a door. | © Eline Schipperen
Follow the Money · How Huawei’s lobbying campaign in Europe went rogue.By Alexander Fanta, Simon Van Dorpe, Lisanne van Vucht
#Huawei#EU#Lobbying

How Huawei’s lobbying campaign in Europe went rogue.

Once a high-flyer in Europe, Huawei’s growth stalled due to concerns over its ties with Beijing.

As the Chinese tech giant fought for survival, its EU lobbying campaign took a dark turn.

mediafaro.org/article/20250313

An illustration of someone in a lit room receiving money from someone in a dark space behind a door. | © Eline Schipperen
Follow the Money · How Huawei’s lobbying campaign in Europe went rogue.By Alexander Fanta, Simon Van Dorpe, Lisanne van Vucht
#Huawei#EU#Lobbying

Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people.

Each year, hundreds of potentially world-changing treatments are discarded because scientists run out of cash. But where big pharma or altruists fear to tread, my friend and I have a solution.

It’s repugnant, but it will work.

mediafaro.org/article/20250311

The Guardian · Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people.By Alexander Masters

Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people.

Each year, hundreds of potentially world-changing treatments are discarded because scientists run out of cash. But where big pharma or altruists fear to tread, my friend and I have a solution.

It’s repugnant, but it will work.

mediafaro.org/article/20250311

The Guardian · Many life-saving drugs fail for lack of funding. But there’s a solution: desperate rich people.By Alexander Masters

"Baker noted that "there's long been this very human-centric idea of intelligence that only humans are intelligent." That's fallen away within the scientific community as we've studied more about animal behavior. But there's still a bias to privilege human-like behaviors."
arstechnica.com/science/2025/0

A #longread by @arstechnica about the #anthropocentric #bias of #AGI and #AI companies - money versus nature.

Ars Technica · AI versus the brain and the race for general intelligenceBy John Timmer
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Long read: How a peripheral state can leverage its wealth, strategic geography and alliances to exert outsized influence on regional and global affairs

"How the UAE can simultaneously be both a subject of imperialism and an agent of imperialist practices within its spheres of influence while challenging traditional imperialist actors": tni.org/en/article/the-emergin

@israel @geography 🧵

Inside Porton Down: what I learned during three years at the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory.

My research took me into the heart of the mystery, as I studied its extensive historical archive. The reality was not as I expected.

I came across no aliens, but I did discover records of experiments that ran from the ordinary, through to the bizarre. And sadly, in one isolated case, the lethal.

mediafaro.org/article/20250220

The ConversationInside Porton Down: what I learned during three years at the UK’s most secretive chemical weapons laboratory
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Weekend #longread: Taking power, taking revenge: the asshole society strikes back.

Fascist assholes want to create a world where everyone is forced to act like an asshole, so the rest of us don’t remind them of their own abject failure to be human.

There’s no compromise with this.
steadyhq.com/de/friedlichesabo

SteadyTaking power, taking revenge: the asshole society strikes backFascist assholes want to create a world where everyone is forced to behave like an asshole, so the rest of us don’t constantly remind them of their own abject assholery.