When the Steel Outlives the Startup: Inside UPSIDE’s $50M Bid for Believer Meats
UPSIDE Foods has bid $50 million for Believer Meats' North Carolina plant. The interesting question isn't the price — it's which parts of a dead cultivated-meat company are actually worth buying: the steel, the biology, or the process intelligence.https://kemal.yaylali.uk/when-the-steel-outlives-the-startup/
Technology and dominance in the recent
First Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas, 15 May 2026
* Chapter 3: TECHNOLOGY AND DOMINANCE
Some of the topics discussed are:
Automation, dignity of work
Protecting freedom against dependencies and commercialization
Breaking the chains of new forms of slavery
The normalization of war
Force without limits
The military-industrial complex
Weapons and artificial intelligence
The crisis of multilateralism
The need to disarm words
Justice >>
https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/encyclicals/documents/20260515-magnifica-humanitas.html#CHAPTER_THREE
* Existential risk from artificial intelligence >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existential_risk_from_artificial_intelligence
* Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology, 1954 >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Question_Concerning_Technology
#humanism #human #performance #enhancement #RemainingHuman #transhumanism #PostHumanism #AI #algorithms #machines #governance #regulation #humanity #fallibility #automation #commercialisation #transformation #dehumanisation #slavery #CommonGood #war #multilateralism #justice #TechnologyAssessment #TA #TechnologicalWorldview #techne #technologies #ScientificConsensus #PublicSphere #FLI #risks #existence #nature #RawMaterials
The Ovalbumin Patent Fight and What It Tells Us About Where Precision Fermentation Is Going
The Every Company and Onego Bio are now fighting over recombinant ovalbumin in courts on two continents. The way this case resolves will shape how broadly IP rights can be enforced in precision fermentation, and what that means for the rest of us building this industry.
#mwgic #2026 #Fusion #Commercialisation #LLNL
@euspa* says they have no idea about the #Ariane6 costs 🤔🙈 https://fragdenstaat.de/dokumente/275068-replytoaccdocrequest-2026-1_geschwaerzt/
Such as
• Standard launch costs for Ariane 6 (per variant)
• The launch price for #Amazon
• The amount of #subsidies 💰 per launch, including and excluding development costs
* "charged with advancing the #commercialisation and market uptake of #EU 🇪🇺 Space data and services" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_Agency_for_the_Space_Programme#Overview
A chunk of prime real estate inside public national parks
An emerging threat to some of the last wild places
"Australia is at the forefront of private tourism development inside national parks and reserves – the trend ... is changing the nature of the country’s protected natural places."
“What has happened, just in the last few years, is that particular individuals have been granted rights by the state national parks agencies to build lodges inside national parks...Australia’s national parks became a battleground between conservation and commerce."
"Nature is disappearing at the greatest rate in human history...Public land in wild places should never be handed over for private development." >>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/mar/08/australia-national-parks-eco-toursim-glamping-lodges
#conservation #NPWS #NationalParks #biodiversity #wildlife #PublicGood #PrivateInfrastructure #TourismIndustry #tourism #resorts #commercialisation
"The commodification of knowledge and the commercialisation of the higher education sector hinder attempts to reduce inequity. The higher education system needs to transform to be more open and responsive to societal needs, offering the opportunity to increase knowledge equity."
Dr #AdrianGonzalez, Professor Emeritus #RichardHeller, 2026
https://www.hepi.ac.uk/2026/01/25/calling-for-a-bold-new-vision-for-higher-education/
Join HEPI for a webinar on Thursday 29 January from 1.30pm to 2.30pm examining the findings of Student Working Lives (HEPI Report 195), a landmark study on how paid work is reshaping the student experience in UK higher education amid rising living costs and inadequate maintenance support. View our speakers and sign up here. This […]
#Geneva has finally given in to the #commercialisation of #Christmas.
As of this year, businesses are allowed to ask permission to play #ChristmasMusic during the three weeks before Christmas, between the hours of 10am and 8pm. So long as it is not louder than 75 dB.
https://www.geneve.ch/document/noel-terrasses-musique-communique
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