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[โ€“] General_Effort@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We have our own local home grown cliques that capture gov contracts.

Yes. If you scroll to the bottom, you find that the project is led by Prof. Francesca Bria.

Looking her up on Wikipedia, one has 2 thoughts: 1) She has a lot of hustle. 2) Why haven't I heard about any of that?

This is just the Monorail Man doing the song. Except with disturbingly fascist overtones.

[โ€“] majster@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 days ago

yeah her bio looks like a lot of EU funds for various projects that are POC and then shelved. US big tech is basically her natural enemy in that regard.