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Uzbek fintech and e-commerce company Uzum raised $65.5M led by Tencent and VR Capital at a ~$1.5B valuation, up from $1.16B in March 2024 after a $114M Series A (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/05/uzbekistans-first-unicorn-…

Uzbekistan's first unicorn, Uzum, leaps to a $1.5B valuation | TechCrunch
Uzbekistan's Uzum has raised $65.5 million in a new funding round co-led by China's Tencent and the New York- and London-based VR Capital, with participation from U.S.-based FinSight Capital.

Texas capital murder case aims to severely punish abortion pill use by treating a fetus as a person
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/7/5/2331145/-Texas-capital-murder-case-aims-to-severely-punish-abortion-pill-use-by-treating-a-fetus-as-a-person

It amuses me when protesters yell "who do you protect? who do you serve?" at police. The answer is "capital". The answer has ALWAYS been "capital." https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:f7utvjkqbgwfj…

Denise Wheeler (@denisedwheeler.bsky.social)
This is our nation's capital. This is what is going on in DC right now. Trump's armed masked thugs are everywhere.

Rep. Tim Burchett Shoves Protester on Capitol Hill (Amelia Benavides-Colón/NOTUS)
https://www.notus.org/congress/rep-tim-burchett-shoves-protester-on-capitol-hill
http://www.memeorandum.com/250904/p137#a250904p137

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it’s profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
– Frank Zappa
#capitalism

Human Capital Visualization using Speech Amount during Meetings
Ekai Hashimoto, Takeshi Mizumoto, Kohei Nagira, Shun Shiramatsu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02075 https://

Human Capital Visualization using Speech Amount during Meetings
In recent years, many companies have recognized the importance of human resources and are investing in human capital to revitalize their organizations and enhance internal communication, thereby fostering innovation. However, conventional quantification methods have mainly focused on readily measurable indicators without addressing the fundamental role of conversations in human capital. This study focuses on routine meetings and proposes strategies to visualize human capital by analyzing speech…

Rep. Tim Burchett and a protester got into a physical altercation outside the Longworth House Office Building in Washington on Thursday, just after House votes ended for the week.
According to multiple eyewitness accounts, the incident took place after a protester asking about Burchett’s stance on the war in Gaza bumped into him, prompting the lawmaker to shove back

Rep. Tim Burchett Shoves Protester on Capitol Hill
The incident occurred shortly after a protester, who asked about Burchett’s stance on the war in Gaza, bumped into him.

Founders Fund-backed Ondo Finance and Pantera Capital launch a $250M fund to invest in real-world asset tokenization projects via equity stakes and tokens (Lucinda Shen/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/07/03/ondo-…

Exclusive: Ondo and Pantera Capital earmark $250 million for real-world asset tokenization
Tokenization lags only stablecoins in crypto activity.

to no one's great surprise, the nyt continues to suck https://bsky.app/profile/capitolhunters.bsky.social/post/3lt4dmcwiic23

capitolhunters (@capitolhunters.bsky.social)
The point here isn't to beat up on Jordan Lasker. It's to ask how the NYT called a white supremacist hack an "academic" when his only academic work of note was so awful that its ethical and scientific awfulness was a national scandal. No one even Googled. No one fact-checked this story AT ALL. 5/