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Fun, which builds fiat and crypto payment rails for platforms like Polymarket and Aave, raised a $72M Series A in January, co-led by Multicoin and SignalFire (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/05/01/fun-series-a-fundraise-multicoin-capital-signal…

Exclusive: Startup Fun raises $72 million for the serious business of converting crypto and cash
The crypto investor Multicoin Capital and the tech VC SignalFire led the Series A fundraise.

Capitol rioters clamor for payouts from Trump’s new #AntiWeaponizationFund despite backlash.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-capit

Capitol rioters clamor for payouts from Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund
Many of the convicted rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, are clamoring for payouts from the nearly $1.8 billion settlement that the Trump administration has set up for people claiming to be victims of a weaponized government. Whether they'll be eligible for any money remains an open question. The political and legal backlash to the administration's move hasn't dimmed the celebratory response from Capitol rioters. Some are staking claims to the money even though the government hasn…

"Karen Hao says that in 2025 resistance to data centers stalled over a $100 billion worth of these centers... This is class struggle, just like smashing the conveyor belts on the assembly line."
https://jodi7768.substack.com/p/ai-is-capital

AI is Capital
Provisional thoughts on the repercussions of this idea

Also, 0 days since someone claimed that I'm wrong to blame free-market capitalism, because obviously all you need is regulation.
My dear brother in myself, the whole point of free-market capitalism is that it's supposed to regulate itself. People just do what's in their own self-interest, and market mechanisms eventually make everything right and everyone benefits.
If you need governments to lean over backwards setting up regulations (and constantly closing up loopholes) in order to prevent capitalists from devouring everyone and the free market from collapsing upon itself, then you're not saying that free market capitalism works. You're proving the exact opposite: that it doesn't work.
#AntiCapitalism

I'm with The Guardian on this. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/31/the-guardian-view-on-israels-death-penalty-capital-punishment-is-always-wron…

The Guardian view on Israel’s death penalty: capital punishment is always wrong. This new law is doubly so
Editorial: Palestinians convicted of lethal attacks deemed terrorism face execution – while settlers enjoy impunity despite soaring West Bank violence

FBI investigated former Capitol Police officer in Jan. 6 pipe bomb case, filings say (Kaelan Deese/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/justice/4512735/fbi-investigated-former-capitol-police-officer-jan-6-pipe-bomb-case/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p123#a260401p123

Welcome to the war party:
The new Trump-tech alliance cashes in
The Andrew Mellon Auditorium is a gold-trimmed neoclassical landmark in Washington
known as the site where the treaty that formed NATO was signed.
But last week, it hosted a more hawkish crowd:
Silicon Valley venture capitalists eager for a piece of the Trump administration’s booming business of war.

They had come for the
"Hill and Valley Forum",
an event that started as…

Analysis | Welcome to the war party: The new Trump-tech alliance cashes in
At the Hill & Valley Forum, venture capitalists and Trump officials celebrate a defense spending shift, sending Pentagon money to a new generation of companies.

No, really?
Mike Pence: There’s ‘clearly” been an effort to ‘rewrite’ Jan. 6 history
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5903309-mike-pence-capitol-riot-rewrite/

Trump Can't Shake Claims Over Jan. 6 Capitol Attack Years Later (Zoe Tillman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/trump-can-t-shake-claims-over-jan-6-capitol-attack-years-later
http://www.memeorandum.com/260401/p67#a260401p67

Solstice, which uses clinical and compliance documents and AI to accelerate advertising approvals for pharma clients, raised a $21M Series A (Brock E.W. Turner/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/health-tech-deals/2026/05/27/transforma…

Exclusive: Solstice raises $21M for pharma marketing
Dealmaking in pharma advertising services remains strong, despite ongoing federal scrutiny of DTC drug marketing.