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from my link log —
'The goal is to automate us': welcome to the age of surveillance capitalism.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/jan/20/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-google-facebook

PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50% ; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024 (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/07/pitch…

PitchBook: AI dominates global venture capital as 2025 deal value nears record - SiliconANGLE
PitchBook: AI dominates global venture capital as 2025 deal value nears record - SiliconANGLE

Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism https://theconversation.com/why-openai-is-a-prime-example-of-the-ethical-limits-of-capitalism-270407

Why OpenAI is a prime example of the ethical limits of capitalism
Money and morality are a challenging corporate combination.

In capitalism, the hungry are jailed for taking bread, while the rich feast untouched, and call it justice.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism

After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area (Adam Mahoney/Capital B News)
https://capitalbnews.org/data-center-south-carolina-black-community/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p86#a260107p86

What Parler Saw During the Attack on the Capitol
@https://projects.propublica.org/parler-capitol-videos/?id=JmnaAbNVz3nl

Capitol rioters rage over "fedsurrection" statute of limitations expiry - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2026/01/06/capitol-rioters-anguish-as-statute-of-limitations-expires/

Sources and US tax lawyers: the IRS's planned audit of private equity and VC firms is faltering under President Trump, as many senior leaders leave the agency (Jesse Drucker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/business/irs-private…

Push to Audit Private Equity and Venture Capital Falters Under Trump
Specialists have left the I.R.S. and audits have been abandoned since the president returned to office.

Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,
the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found.
It’s not on display at the Capitol
-- as is required by law.
Its whereabouts aren’t publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage.

Jan. 6 plaque absent from Capitol around fifth anniversary of attack
Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy is nowhere to be found. It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by law. Its whereabouts are not publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has yet to formally unveil the plaque. And the Trump administration’s Justice Department is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit asking that it be displayed. In…

Lux Capital raised $1.5B for its ninth fund, the largest in its history, to back companies focusing on fields like breakthrough science and national security (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20