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Sources: Thrive and Capital Group visited China to study its AI scene, joining a wave of US investors rekindling interest in China after DeepSeek's advances (Lulu Yilun Chen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam" –
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/05/31/degrowth-a-dead-end-or-the-way-out-capitals-future-scam/
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Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

Para el turno de mañana, ayer publiqué un segundo capítulo sobre XMPP en mi blog https://jdrm.info/introduccion-a-xmpp-capitulo-2-omemo.html

Sight Guide: A Wearable Assistive Perception and Navigation System for the Vision Assistance Race in the Cybathlon 2024
Patrick Pfreundschuh, Giovanni Cioffi, Cornelius von Einem, Alexander Wyss, Hans Wernher van de Venn, Cesar Cadena, Davide Scaramuzza, Roland Siegwart, Alireza Darvishy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02676

Sight Guide: A Wearable Assistive Perception and Navigation System for the Vision Assistance Race in the Cybathlon 2024
Visually impaired individuals face significant challenges navigating and interacting with unknown situations, particularly in tasks requiring spatial awareness and semantic scene understanding. To accelerate the development and evaluate the state of technologies that enable visually impaired people to solve these tasks, the Vision Assistance Race (VIS) at the Cybathlon 2024 competition was organized. In this work, we present Sight Guide, a wearable assistive system designed for the VIS. The sys…

Statement by YDS Dean Greg Sterling.
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We are relieved that two members of the YDS community, Rev. William Barber and Rev. Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove, are safe and unharmed following their arrest while praying in the Capitol Rotunda yesterday. We applaud them for their courage in standing up for Christian values and doing so in accordance with the venerable tradition of nonviolent action.

Rev. William Barber arrested in Capitol Rotunda after praying against Republican-led budget
(RNS) — While arrests of protesters at the Capitol is not unusual, the response to Barber’s prayer was unusually dramatic: After issuing verbal warnings, dozens of officers expelled everyone in the Rotunda — including credentialed press.

Marcus v. Marcus: in the Campidoglio on Capitoline Hill vs in the Brown campus on College Hill. #Italy25

Capitol agenda: New megabill text dropping this week (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/03/congress/republican-megabill-senate-timeline-thune-parliamentarian-trump-00381849
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p36#a250603p36

Neuralink raised a $650M Series E from ARK Invest, Founders Fund, G42, Human Capital, Sequoia, Thrive, and others; it was reportedly valued at ~$9B pre-money (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/02/elon-musks-neuralink-closes-a-65…

Elon Musk's Neuralink closes a $650M Series E | TechCrunch
Elon Musk's brain chip implant startup Neuralink raised a $650 million Series E funding round, the company announced.

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospects for Degrowth, of the original article: Decrecer ¿callejón o salida? La futura estafa del capital’ (2-5-2025) Translated by Mark Burton and Anna Gregoletto For a radically anti-capitalist degrowth that cannot be…

Degrowth: a dead end or the way out? Capital’s future scam
Aurora Despierta In the series Prospects for Degrowth This article by the Spanish writer Aurora Despierta is her adaptation (highly summarised for translation into English), for the series Prospect…

Aerones, which makes robots that can service wind turbines in about half the time of humans, raised $62M led by Activate Capital and S2G Investments (Virginia Furness/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cli