Many great public issues as well as many private troubles are described in terms of the “psychiatric” — often, it seems, in a pathetic attempt to avoid the large issues and problems of modern society.
— C. Wright Mills, The Sociological Imagination
Tag: presumptions
Former Google CEO Wants to Build AI Drone Army for Ukraine
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Why Russia is Winning the Drone War in Ukraine
Ukraine is losing the drone war. This isn’t a claim made by the Russian Ministry of Defense or by Russian state media, but rather the headline of an article appearing in Foreign Affairs magazine, written by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt who now heads a think tank, the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP), advising the US government regarding artificial intelligence and other emerging technology.
Why Russia is Winning the Drone War in Ukraine
China’s SMIC Allegedly Violated U.S. Sanctions Selling Chips to Huawei

SMIC should not have supplied Huawei Kirin 9000s processor, says U.S. lawmaker.
China’s SMIC Allegedly Violated U.S. Sanctions Selling Chips to Huawei
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Credibility and the ‘Xinjiang Police Files’
by Patrick Macfarlane | Jul 14, 2022
Since at least February 2018, a German-born anthropologist named Adrian Zenz has alleged that China is persecuting the Uyghurs, a Turkic Muslim minority that inhabits Xinjiang, China’s westernmost autonomous region.
Credibility and the ‘Xinjiang Police Files’ (archived)
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Xinjiang Police Files: Zenz’ Reality Warping
Xinjiang (Updated to include the above links)
Mishel Kondi, also worked as research assistant for the VOC and was an analyst for Foreign Brief. “Foreign Brief is an industry-leading source of open source geopolitical intelligence focused first on the Indo-Pacific.” They’re an Australian company with offices in the US, Europe, and Australia.
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