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"EXCLUSIVE" @theglobeandmail.com

except for when The Economist wrote about it two weeks ago

Treatment of a teenager with an ultra-rare condition is a medical milestone It will change regulators’ rule books

EXCLUSIVE: A quiet revolution happened at Great Ormond Street Hospital last week. A girl with a rare fatal condition received a custom drug under a new MHRA protcol that is 1st step towards process approval, a shift that could one day save millions of lives. www.economist.com/science-and-...

it's worth noting that the shift from Wikipedia to AI for factual summaries also removes our ability to audit the information trail and reveal systematic manipulation like this. AI can offer sources, but nothing like the timestamped/IP address-linked edit history of wikis
bsky.app/profile/timb...

Europe has three options for defending Greenland Fending off Donald Trump may yet prove agonisingly difficult

Punting Greenland's security to a working group and sending a symbolic troop deployment is probably the best Europe can do, for now.

But in time a more considered strategy may be needed to counter Trump's covetousness.

My take on Europe's Greenland options www.economist.com/europe/2026/...

and if you are watching (I am), why on earth would you want to see this video??

Delcy Rodriguez: No humanitarian crisis in Venezuela The president of the new Constituent Assembly on allegations of abuse of power and Venezuela's economic crisis.

the whole interview is worth watching aljazeera.com/video/talk-t...

especially, if you can stand it, in the context of this report on the rape, torture and murder carried out by the regime ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

wild that Trump calls Delcy a "terrific person" when she's been running cover for a brutal regime for years

here she is with Al Jazeera in Sept 2017, right after the most vicious crackdowns in chavismo history

none of this was true. and she wasn't even asked about the torture

After kidnapping Maduro, Trump is as about as popular in Venezuela as the opposition leader, Maria Corina Machado. This according to our new polling

www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Photovoltaics fed about 16.9% of German-generated electricity into the grid in 2025, according to the Bundesnetzagentur (this excludes selfconsumption). Renewables at 58.8% overall.

www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/P...

In Donald Trump’s world, the strong take what they can. That will be bad for America—and everyone else: econ.st/4qcajRx

Canada’s armed forces are planning for threats from America They started rebuilding in 2025, before Donald Trump’s most recent bid for hemispheric dominance

here you go

You’ve been given free access to this article from The Economist as a gift. You can open the link five times within seven days. After that it will expire.

Canada’s armed forces are planning for threats from America
economist.com/the-americas...

Canada’s armed forces are now planning for threats from America They started rebuilding in 2025, before Donald Trump’s most recent bid for hemispheric dominance

The worst-case scenarios that Canada's military planners must account for now include incursions on Canadian territory by the Donald Trump's America

www.economist.com/the-americas...

Canada’s armed forces are now planning for threats from America They started rebuilding in 2025, before Donald Trump’s most recent bid for hemispheric dominance

www.economist.com/the-americas...

that’s in your section anyway

A German newspaper for Bolivian blondes For Mennonites from Bolivia to Belize, Die Mennonitische Post is often the only connection to the outside world

love this story by Tom Graham on Die Mennonitische Post, the newspaper printed in Canada and distributed to conservative Mennonites across Latin America www.economist.com/the-americas...

Ecuador’s crime wave demands a more sophisticated response, says its former attorney-general Diana Salazar explains why investigators need more help from abroad—as well as more Kevlar-clad protectors at home

Diana Salazar on dealing with gangs www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage? The government mulls making England’s daftest sport official

My take on England’s daftest sport: Should cheese rolling be protected as British heritage?
economist.com/britain/2025...

Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite! The rise of middle-class consciousness

Middle class consciousness is on the rise: Doctors, teachers and junior bankers of the world, unite! 
economist.com/britain/2025...

but there's not likely to be much volume here tbh, you're right. it's more that these bots are out in the real world now and that opens up opportunities to gather data and train software which can take deeper control of the bots. no?

well they can already balance autonomously right? I'd be surprised if the operators are controlling that. i meant more that intent and action is encoded in fight data, as well as how the bots perform in real physical environment

the big deal is that this environment can generate bootstrap training data for that autonomous controller

oh sorry i missed that

its writers appear to be american fwiw, as were 2/3 on original. and in general I'd say the whole story/theme is fairly heavily americanised

it really does

if/when a tool like this gets rolled out by gov.uk, do we have to keep PDFs in the backend forever, or can we eventually swap them out for a more sensible structured database

Donald Trump is right to go after metals in the deep sea Environmentalists should push the UN body that governs deep-sea mining to pass regulations to allow it

Trump is wrong about almost everything

But he's right to pursue deep-sea mining, even though he *probably* isn't motivated by the real reasons it's a good idea (a supply of essential metals with lower emissions and ecological harms than the largest sources today)

The strange success of snooker Immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going

Heroically spent this week at The Crucible. Please reward my shoeleather reporting with a click. The strange success of snooker: immigration, agglomeration and amorality keep the sport going
economist.com/britain/2025...

lol the replies. do these people all enjoy shopping in places that are being robbed simultaneously?

look i have a lot to do