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Anthony Pompliano's ProCap raised $750M , including $235M in convertible debt, and is going public via a SPAC; the new firm aims to hold up to $1B in bitcoin (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/23/pompliano-procap-spac-bitcoin.html…

Pompliano’s ProCap raises over $750 million, goes public via SPAC as bitcoin treasury bubble grows
Led by investor and podcast host Anthony Pompliano, ProCap raised more than $750 million in its funding round, including $235 million in convertible debt.

Es wird nicht alles schlechter.
https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000274213/parkbesetzungen-freiheit-fuer-den-burggarten

Parkbesetzungen: "Freiheit für den Burggarten!"
Noch 1979 ist es in Wien verboten, öffentliche Rasenflächen zu betreten. Jugendliche besetzen den Burggarten und erkämpfen das Recht, in Parks auf der Wiese zu sitzen

Could Anything Be More Bigoted Than Trump's Travel Bans? (Harold Meyerson/American Prospect)
https://prospect.org/politics/2025-06-23-trumps-bigoted-travel-bans/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p57#a250623p57

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism by Richard Muscat
New article in the series "Prospects for Degrowth"
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/23/creatively-disrupting-capitalism/

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of bett…

Fast Training-free Perceptual Image Compression
Ziran Zhu, Tongda Xu, Minye Huang, Dailan He, Xingtong Ge, Xinjie Zhang, Ling Li, Yan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16102

Fast Training-free Perceptual Image Compression
Training-free perceptual image codec adopt pre-trained unconditional generative model during decoding to avoid training new conditional generative model. However, they heavily rely on diffusion inversion or sample communication, which take 1 min to intractable amount of time to decode a single image. In this paper, we propose a training-free algorithm that improves the perceptual quality of any existing codec with theoretical guarantee. We further propose different implementations for optimal p…

St. Prosper Kabarettpreis 2025
Die Gewinner: Markus Kapp, Der Wolpert & Joe Heinrich, Michael Eberle.
https://www.kabarett-news.de/News-vom-21.04.2025-st-prosper-kabarettpreis.html
Foto Copyright Markus Kapp

TrajSceneLLM: A Multimodal Perspective on Semantic GPS Trajectory Analysis
Chunhou Ji, Qiumeng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.16401 https://

TrajSceneLLM: A Multimodal Perspective on Semantic GPS Trajectory Analysis
GPS trajectory data reveals valuable patterns of human mobility and urban dynamics, supporting a variety of spatial applications. However, traditional methods often struggle to extract deep semantic representations and incorporate contextual map information. We propose TrajSceneLLM, a multimodal perspective for enhancing semantic understanding of GPS trajectories. The framework integrates visualized map images (encoding spatial context) and textual descriptions generated through LLM reasoning (…

From Press Progress
Ottawa Police Deny Inviting Convoy Figure to Help Them With Anti-LGBTQ Protest at Elementary School
Police face calls for investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was ‘invited’ to help manage aggressive protests
by Luke LeBrun, Editor
May 16, 2025

Ottawa Police Deny Inviting Convoy Figure to Help Them With Anti-LGBTQ+ Protest at Elementary School
Police face calls for investigation after ‘convoy church’ pastor tells city councillors he was ‘invited’ to help manage aggressive protests

From Croatia:
'Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery' – Mladen Domazet
In the series #ProspectsForDegrowth

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to u…

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of better phrasing, on “capitalism’s side”. First for a range of high-growth Silicon Valley software companies and their ilk; latterly directly in venture capital focused on climate change technology startups, aka “Climate Tech” or “Impact Investing.”

Creatively Disrupting Capitalism
Richard Muscat* In the series Prospects for Degrowth I am a degrowth activist. It’s not a career path I ever envisaged for myself. I arrived here after a couple of decades working, for want of bett…