Adjacent this morning in my rss feed, I have @gruber / #DaringFireball at https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/05/14/fowler-youth-ai-safety-institute saying
“color me skeptical about the foxes funding the henhouse inspector” about the fact that Anthropic and the OpenAI Foundation are funders of the Youth AI Safety Institute, and @ZachWeinersmith / #SMBC with a sponsored version of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/hierarchy

#AI #Sponsorship #CorporateFunding #ConflictOfInterest #serindiptooty

Election, Rebels & Money : महाराष्ट्र में किसका आख़िरी चुनाव..हर सीट की क़ीमत !

Election, Rebels & Money : महाराष्ट्र में किसका आख़िरी चुनाव..हर सीट की क़ीमत ! #punyaprasunbajpai #rahulgandhi #narendramodi #amitshah #rebel #ajitpawar #maharashtraelection2024#aknathshinde #uddhavthackeray #sharadpawar #devendrafadnavis #corporatefunding #bjp #congress #politics #news @ravishkumar.official @RaviKumarofficial-bu8ed ravish kumar,ravish kumar official,nitish kumar,kanhaiya…

https://spinelessnews.com/election-rebels-money-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a4%b9%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b0%e0%a4%be%e0%a4%b7%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%9f%e0%a5%8d%e0%a4%b0-%e0%a4%ae%e0%a5%87%e0%a4%82-%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%bf%e0%a4%b8%e0%a4%95%e0%a4%be/

"Meat industry greenwashing has a new weapon: University scientists"

https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/357195/land-grant-universities-greenwashing-climate-methane-factory-farming

A long article, I'm not going to extract quotes, it's worth reading.

#BigMeat #BigDairy #animalIndustry #misinformation #disinformation #industryFunding #greenwashing #climate #climateChange #ghgs #profitability #sustainability #corporateFunding #corporateResearch #industryResearch #Mitloehner #ClearCenter #farming #farmers

@sim
Universities are increasingly dependent on #corporateFunding thus cannot be depended to change the dominant paradigm today.

Obey (2013, #FilmsFirAction) did a great piece on this, and on #stupidIndividualism (the cross section of #postModernism with #corporatism).

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RT @adrspeaks
Analysis of donations from Corporates & Business Houses to National Political Parties for FY 2018-19 (Known donations above Rs 20,000 only)

Full report: https://bit.ly/37uvRDg

#PoliticalParties #CorporateFunding
https://twitter.com/adrspeaks/status/1319272790785052672