This should be a warning shot for all middle powers: - Your access to frontier AI systems is not guaranteed. - You need to build and pool your leverage to secure access. - A failure to do so is a threat to your R&D, economic and defensive competitiveness

Today, among the goods that are universally intended for everyone, we must also include new forms of property, such as patents, algorithms, digital platforms, technological infrastructure and data. In a context where the wealth of nations depends increasingly on knowledge and technology, when these goods remain concentrated in the hands of a few, without adequate forms of sharing and access, a new imbalance is created that contradicts the universal destination of goods. In turn, it widens the gap between the included and the excluded, between those who can participate in the digital revolution and those who remain on the margins. #MagnificaHumanitas

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"Canada’s Defence R&D Capabilities are Built: Unlocking their full potential through expertise and coordination" Read new editorial for CSPC's 2026 Special Editorial Series: sciencepolicy.ca/posts/canad… #CdnSci #CdnInnovation

“Alright, Alright, Alright,” — Taylor’s Version. Taylor Swift follows Matthew McConnaughey’s Novel Approach to Using Trademark Rights... jdsupra.com/legalnews/alrigh… | by @OffitKurmanLaw

Congratulations to Westminster Council for their acceptance of Banksy’s brilliant statue near Pall Mall. Let’s hope it stays — a welcome note of calmness and humour at a time of growing extremism.

My country of birth Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 No cervical cancer cases detected in vaccinated women following HPV immunisation Zero. Zip. Nada. None. Not a SINGLE ONE!!! It's a modern medical miracle..because of a VACCINE! 🎉

From me: Innovation sovereignty needs open ecosystems, not isolation policyoptions.irpp.org/2026/…

New @nberpubs: "How Have Universities Survived for Nearly a Millenium" nber.org/papers/w35079

ZERO cases of cervical cancer diagnosed in women under age 25 in Australia 🇦🇺 None . Nada . Zip. For the first time since records began! How did this happen? One word VACCINES!!!!!

✨The Iranian man who saved more Jewish lives than Oskar Schindler.✨ In the dark days of 1940, Nazi tanks rolled into Paris. Most diplomats fled. But one man stayed behind. His name was Abdolhossein Sardari, an Iranian consul from a noble family in Tehran. He was a Muslim. He was alone in the occupied city, with no orders from home and no backup. Iranian Jews living in France were suddenly in mortal danger. The Nazis marked them for death like every other Jew. Sardari refused to look away. He started by issuing new Iranian passports that simply left out any mention of religion. That small change gave families a fighting chance to move freely. But he went much further. Sardari used every trick of diplomacy and law he knew. He wrote letters arguing that these Iranian Jews, known as Jugutis, were not "real" Jews in the Nazi racial sense. They were Persians. They were Aryans by blood, he claimed, who had only adopted the faith of Moses centuries ago. He twisted the Nazis' own twisted logic against them. The Germans bought it enough to grant exemptions. Thanks to Sardari, hundreds of families were spared the yellow star, the roundups, and the trains to the camps. When that was not enough, he began issuing Iranian passports to non-Iranian Jews as well, hundreds of them, often using blank documents from the consulate safe. He sheltered desperate families inside the embassy building itself. When embassy funds ran dry, he spent his own money. He risked his career, his freedom, and his life every single day. One wrong move and the Gestapo would have taken him. By the end of the war, Abdolhossein Sardari is believed to have saved between 2,000 and 3,000 Jewish lives. After the war he returned to Iran, lived quietly, and never bragged about what he had done. When asked years later why he helped, he gave a simple answer: "It was my duty." In a time of pure evil, one brave Iranian diplomat chose humanity. His story reminds us that courage and decency can shine even in the heart of darkness. Never forget the quiet heroes who stood up when the world looked away.

He gave the world his vaccine for free, he’s a moral hero.

Most of the world’s diseases have been forgotten by commercial drug development. Patient advocacy groups must look to new types of partnerships to develop therapies go.nature.com/4d8aDx3 rdcu.be/fcEmY

🚨 BREAKING: The European Commission has urged people to work from home, drive and fly less, and for EU countries to urgently roll out renewables, as it warned of a prolonged energy crisis as a result of the conflict in the Gulf. Full story: politico.eu/article/european…

🚨Developing countries' ability to issue compulsory licenses for generics is now under serious threat. The non-violation complaints moratorium expires today & without it, countries can be challenged at the WTO for using rights TRIPS grants them. Read ▶️ twn.my/title2/wto.info/2026/…

You might have heard this number: 75%. You might have been told that it’s the share of Canadian exports going to the United States. Frightening, right? Wrong number. A new analysis by CIGI senior fellow Dan Ciuriak (@DanCiuriak) and CIGI president Paul Samson (@PaulRSamson), first published by @iPoliticsCA, unpacks what the headline statistics obscure, and the real figure changes everything. cigionline.org/articles/smal…

'Every two weeks we now generate more lead‑optimization structural data on #dengue than we did in the previous two decades combined. The pace of the ASAP open-source project is astounding,' said @griffen_ed, technical director @MedChemica . (1/3)

I've written several pieces about antisemitism in recent weeks. The antisemitic vitriol in response may no longer surprise, but it still leaves me stunned. My post on the barrage of hate and criticism that greets anyone who speaks out about antisemitism. michaelgeist.ca/2026/03/when…

Via @FT "The push for tech sovereignty comes amid growing concerns in parts of Europe over the possibility of a “kill switch” scenario...

I spent time in Shenzhen last year and when I saw Merz come back from China saying Germans need to work more I immediately knew what broke his brain because I lived the exact same cognitive shock my first week in Huaqiangbei I burned through 4 prototype iterations of a motor controller board for less than a thousand bucks total, back home a friend was working on something similar and spent over 12 thousand for a single revision that took almost two months to arrive when you live that contrast in your own hands with your own project something permanently shifts in how you see the world and it goes way deeper than speed & cost what Shenzhen actually built is a collective learning organism, imagine 20 PCB fabs 15 injection mold shops 30 component distributors and a hundred firmware freelancers all within a 2km radius, looks insanely redundant from the outside until you realize redundancy is actually information density in disguise I watched this firsthand with an injection mold supplier I was working with, this guy had seen a hundred founders iterate similar thermal designs over 6 months so he proactively modified his tooling before I even opened my mouth, he knew what I needed before I knew what I needed, the intelligence lives in the relationships between the nodes and it compounds daily the west thinks about manufacturing as a cost center you optimize by centralizing… China accidentally built a distributed neural network of manufacturing intelligence where knowledge diffuses horizontally across thousands of agents faster than any single western company can process internally so when Merz comes back and says we need to work a bit more I think he saw the problem but COMPLETELY misdiagnosed the solution, telling Germans to work harder is like telling a horse to gallop faster when the other side built a combustion engine the gap is ARCHITECTURAL it’s ecosystem density, you need a custom connector in Shenzhen you walk 200 meters, in Munich you send an email and wait 3 weeks it’s iteration speed, parallel search vs sequential optimization at the system level, it’s risk tolerance, Chinese founders ship something broken on Monday fix it Tuesday ship again Wednesday while European companies are still in the approval phase for the pilot program of the feasibility study… and Merz only saw the surface, what he missed is the tier 2 cities like Hefei Chengdu Wuhan replicating the Shenzhen model at scale right now BYD going from irrelevant to outselling every european automaker combined in roughly 5 years, Huawei building its own 7nm chip under maximum sanctions when every analyst said it was physically impossible & behind all of that a government that treats advanced manufacturing as an existential national priority while europe debates whether AI needs another ethics committee I think what we’re watching is the most asymmetric economic competition in modern history and most western leaders are still framing it as a productivity problem when it’s actually an ontological one Europe & America are optimizing variables that China stopped tracking years ago meanwhile China is compounding on dimensions the west has no framework to even measure Merz at least had the courage to name it out loud and I respect that genuinely but working a bit more inside a broken architecture just means you arrive at the wrong destination slightly faster