Civilization is drowning in mediocrity and starving for Beauty.
It is one of the things which reminds a civilization that life is worth living.
Cathedrals, poetry, music, sculpture, architecture, gardens, great stories are civilizational necessities.
A society which stops striving for beauty eventually forgets what it is striving for at all.
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At this U.S. visit to China dinner banquet, the most eye-catching figure in the prime center seat between Musk and Cook was Lansi Technology founder Zhou Qunfei—from a rural factory girl to China's richest woman, with absolutely no background to rely on, building everything from scratch through her own grit. She was born in a small village in Hunan Province. At age 5, her mother passed away, and her father became disabled and blind from a work injury, leaving the family in dire poverty with nothing to their name. At 16, unable to afford school fees, she was forced to drop out and head to Guangdong to work in a factory, grinding glass on the assembly line—working days away during the day and furiously self-studying at night, earning certifications in accounting, computer operations, and other skills. That's how she spent a few years, until she scraped together 20,000 yuan from her wages, rallied eight relatives including her brother, sister, sister-in-law, and brother-in-law, and started a small workshop in Shenzhen doing watch glass processing. She handled machine repairs and sales runs single-handedly, grinding away like that for another four years.
By the 2000s, the mobile phone industry began booming on a massive scale. By a stroke of luck, her watch glass factory landed an order for TCL phone screens. She spotted the huge potential in the phone glass market and quickly founded Lansi Technology, specializing in the production, R&D, and sales of phone glass. At first, they only handled domestic phones and knockoffs, but everything changed when she went after a Motorola order—foreign companies had insanely strict quality standards. She bet nearly all her resources to meet Motorola's demands and snagged the V3 order, which sold over 100 million units worldwide, catapulting Lansi Technology straight to industry leadership. From there, she smoothly secured deals with Nokia, Samsung, and other foreign giants.
The pivotal turning point hit again in 2007, when Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, revolutionizing phones toward full-glass touchscreens. Jobs' obsessive craftsmanship demands left the whole world scrambling for a supplier that could meet them. Zhou Qunfei keenly sensed this was another massive opportunity, so she led her team in a three-month joint push with Apple engineers, breaking through key processes to mass-produce the first-generation iPhone glass panels. That locked in a long-term Apple contract, and soon after, nearly all Apple gear—from iPads to MacBooks—went to Lansi Technology for production. It also propelled Lansi to become the world's top player in touch glass panels.
That's why she got to sit next to Cook. But why was Musk right there beside her too?
After dominating global glass panels, Lansi Technology branched into more diverse smart devices, including car cockpits and robots. In autos, they've already locked in deals with 30 carmakers like Tesla, BMW, Mercedes, and Li Auto for windows, center consoles, and more. In robotics, they handle joints, sensors, and other components—areas with deep overlap in Musk's businesses.
A girl who dropped out at 15 with just a junior high diploma, emerging from rural Hunan to build an empire from nothing and become China's richest woman—forty years later, stepping into U.S.-China talks, seated between Musk and Cook. That's Zhou Qunfei's story.
- @hihongjie
🚨 Después de 2 años de trabajo colectivo, concluimos el Protocolo de Protección a Personas Alertadoras de Corrupción.
Un paso histórico para que en México nadie vuelva a callar frente a la corrupción.
#PRONUNCIAMIENTO
@vaniadelbien Presidenta del Comité de Participación Ciudadana del Sistema Nacional Anticorrupción emite el siguiente pronunciamiento respecto de la detención del exdirector de PEMEX.
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El resultado práctico de intentar generalizar el progreso desde arriba es el fracaso. Se desdeña el progreso en bicicleta, y nunca se alcanza la utopía de que todos suban al avión. Por Gabriel Zaid.
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Cuelgo este texto por aquí a propósito de los pendientes, vacíos y vulneraciones de la nueva Ley en materia de Telecomunicaciones y Radiodifusión en México. La propuesta buscaba ser aprobada en el actual periodo de sesiones, !atentos!
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Practica tu voto las veces que quieras, confidencialmente y con los mismos modelos de boletas que recibirás en tu casilla el #01DeJunio.
Conóceles, practica y ubica #ElecciónJudicial.
@INEMexico
Ingresa:👉🏼 https://t.co/B1t33Vicnt
Gracias @INAImexico por enseñarnos que la transparencia no es un favor, sino un derecho.
Hoy te despides, pero no lo hace nuestra memoria ni nuestra exigencia.
Estaremos vigilantes: lo ganado no se olvida, y lo que viene, solo debería de ser mayor beneficio para nuestro derecho a saber.
👁️ #Transparencia
🫵🏽Proteger a las personas denunciantes (#whistleblowers) es clave para reconstruir la confianza en las instituciones y garantizar los derechos de las víctimas de corrupción.
Les comparto este importante análisis realizado por el @VanceCenter donde colaboré desde el @ComiteCPC
Gracias siempre a @JaimeChAlor por compartir esta iniciativa
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Ayer, 25 de febrero de 2025, se llevó a cabo la 2ª sesión extraordinaria del órgano de gobierno de la @SESNAOficial. Las autoridades del SNA, incluida la representación ciudadana que me corresponde, aceptamos por unanimidad la renuncia del Secretario Técnico y nombramos como encargado de la oficina al director de administración José Antonio Aguirre.
Seguiremos trabajando en la prevención, detección y combate a la corrupción.
📄 Aquí el comunicado: 🔗 https://t.co/uvpIg3V39z
Última Hora: Queda definida la terna finalista para la Fiscalía Anticorrupción de la CDMX:
1.Adriana Greaves
2.José Huerta Alcalá
3.Cesar Mejía Silva
Sobre Huerta Alcalá, candidato de Ernestina Godoy, @EnriqueEnVivo publicó esto en @RevistaFortuna :
https://t.co/tLmCR4M6y0