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Raise Financial Services, the parent company of Indian stock trading and investment app Dhan, raised $120M led by Hornbill Capital at a $1.2B valuation (Kunal Manchanada/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/dhan-turns-unicorn-after-120-mn-f…

Dhan turns unicorn after $120 Mn fundraise led by Hornbill Capital
Dhan plans to deploy the new funds to scale its technology stack, expand its omnichannel presence, and roll out new financial products for retail investors.

"It has long been understood that the capitalist class has numerous means of functioning as a ruling class via the state, even in the case of a liberal democratic order. On the one hand, this takes the form of fairly direct investiture in the political apparatus through various mechanisms, such as economic and political control of political party machines and the direct occupation by capitalists and their representatives of key posts in the political command structure."

Monthly Review | The U.S. Ruling Class and the Trump Regime
John Bellamy Foster revisits and critiques the contention that the U.S. capitalist class is not a “governing” class, or indeed a class-conscious bloc in any sense. However, he writes…

Law enforcement officials on Sunday removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades
after Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of "homeless encampments" in the nation’s capital.
Philipos Melaku-Bello, a volunteer who has manned the vigil for years, told The Associated Press that the Park Police removed it early Sunday morning.
He said officials justified the removal by mislabeling the memorial a…

Decades-long peace vigil outside White House is dismantled
Law enforcement officials have removed a peace vigil that had stood outside the White House for more than four decades after President Donald Trump ordered it to be taken down as part of the clearing of homeless encampments in the nation’s capital. Philipos Melaku-Bello, a volunteer who has manned the vigil for years, told The Associated Press that the Park Police removed it early Sunday morning, He says officials justified the removal by mislabeling the memorial as a shelter. The White House…

AWARE, Beyond Sentence Boundaries: A Contextual Transformer Framework for Identifying Cultural Capital in STEM Narratives
Khalid Mehtab Khan, Anagha Kulkarni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04983

AWARE, Beyond Sentence Boundaries: A Contextual Transformer Framework for Identifying Cultural Capital in STEM Narratives
Identifying cultural capital (CC) themes in student reflections can offer valuable insights that help foster equitable learning environments in classrooms. However, themes such as aspirational goals or family support are often woven into narratives, rather than appearing as direct keywords. This makes them difficult to detect for standard NLP models that process sentences in isolation. The core challenge stems from a lack of awareness, as standard models are pre-trained on general corpora, leav…

The Authoritarian Stack.
This is brilliant – if you’re interested in human rights, democracy, and tech, and want to understand technofascism/corporatocracy bookmark and read this.👇
#AuthoritarianStack #tech

Former Jan. 6 defendant arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges (Ryan J. Reilly/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/capitol-riot-defendant-arrest-kidnapping-assault-banuelos-rcna242764
http://www.memeorandum.com/251108/p29#a251108p29

Un très court article sur l'agriculture urbaine Š Québec aux années 1970 (avec, en prime, un bref rappel des années 1930).
« Une mauvaise herbe est une plante qui a maîtrisé toutes les compétences de survie, sauf celle d’apprendre Š grandir dans le rang. Soyez une mauvaise herbe... »

QUÉBEC DISPARUE | Les enfants du premier jardin communautaire en 1977
À la demande générale, Le Soleil, en collaboration avec les Archives de la Ville de Québec, présente une série consacrée à des facettes disparues de la ville de Québec. Chaque semaine, elle rappellera le souvenir d’un immeuble, d’un commerce, d’un secteur ou d’un boisé disparu. À partir d’une image ancienne, un montage vidéo vous amène jusqu’à notre époque.

Meanwhile, a Bermuda-regulated bitcoin life insurance provider, raised $82M from Apollo, Bain Capital, Haun Ventures, and others, after a $40M Series A in April (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

Bitcoin Life Insurance Provider Meanwhile Raises $82 Million
Apollo, Northwestern Mutual, Pantera Capital and Stillmark are joining Bain Capital and crypto investor Haun Ventures to back the Bitcoin life insurance firm Meanwhile in a $82 million funding round.

Norway: the fossil fuel capital of Europe – Michael Roberts Blog
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/09/07/norway-the-fossil-fuel-capital-of-europe/

Norway: the fossil fuel capital of Europe
Norway has a general election today.  In a country of 5.6m people, some 4m are entitled to vote and there is usually a high turnout by international standards – over 75%.  Indeed, early v…

How VC firm 1789 Capital grew to $1B in assets with Donald Trump Jr. as a partner; its recent deals include investments in xAI, Neuralink, and Perplexity (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/trump-linked-venture-fun…