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"Capital has been here before with chintz—by which I mean real chintz, an artisanal craft from India. “Chintz” is originally a Hindi word, and if you’re like most people, you’ve probably got the term all wrong."
Informative, sweet, a great read. Re #aislop #ai

To Get Abundance, We Need to Discipline Capital (Brian Callaci/Jacobin)
https://jacobin.com/2025/06/abundance-profits-capital-public-sector/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p184#a250617p184

Nabla, which offers an AI copilot for doctors and other medical staff, raised a $70M Series C led by HV Capital and says it now supports 85K clinicians (Judy Rider/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/ai/nabla-ai-copilot-agents-healthcare-fundin…

Nabla Lands $70M To Build AI Agents In Healthcare Settings
Paris-based Nabla, which has developed an AI copilot for doctors and other medical staff, announced Tuesday that it has raised $70 million in a Series C funding led by Germany’s HV Capital.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Capitols:
🎵 Cool Jerk
#TheCapitols
https://sfbdhq.bandcamp.com/track/the-capitols-cool-jerk
https://open.spotify.com/track/1CQHMHRCDs1qioeseVTbaR

US lawyers set up own firms to lead legal fightback in face of Trump onslaught;
Several law firms have capitulated to Trump pressure leaving but some lawyers have left to fight government cuts
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/18/trump-administra…

Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the w…

Sable Shade🇦🇺 ☮️4️⃣🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@Sable_Shade@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @aral@mastodon.ar.al And holocaust free, according to mastodon.social #Palestine #GENOCIDE #HOLOCAUST #childMurders #siegheilisrael #abomination #disgrace #evilAsItGets #theHumanVirus #whatsWrongWithUs

The Ultimate Injustice of The Death Penalty: You can open the cell door, but you can’t open the grave.
#JusticeReform #CapitalPunishment

Similarly, hostility to education cloaks itself as support by saying that education should be useful, should be practical, should be focused only on what students need, should be narrowed to what students need, should narrow students, should narrow students into being only what capitalism needs.
I wrote extensively about this dangerous line of thought here:
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto
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Israeli observability startup Coralogix raised a $115M Series E led by NewView Capital at a $1B valuation, and plans to invest ~$100M in India over five years (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/obse

Observability startup Coralogix becomes a unicorn, eyes India expansion | TechCrunch
Coralogix, an Israeli startup offering a full-stack observability and security platform, has raised $115 million at a pre-money valuation of over $1

The arts and education — when they are at their best, anyway — have in common this deep root: they ask us to see and to think and to feel, to see with fresh eyes, to be aware of our own seeing, to be •active• in our seeing.
In that way, both the arts and education are antidotes to the AI hype cycle, and similar endeavors of capitalism run amok.
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