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PitchBook-NVCA: global VC investments hit $512B in 2025 with AI accounting for 50% ; VC fundraising fell to a 10-year low of $118.6B, ~$100B less than in 2024 (Duncan Riley/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2026/01/07/pitch…

PitchBook: AI dominates global venture capital as 2025 deal value nears record - SiliconANGLE
PitchBook: AI dominates global venture capital as 2025 deal value nears record - SiliconANGLE

The far-right influencer and
US Senate candidate Jake Lang
has been arrested after recording himself damaging an
anti-ICE-sculpture at Minnesota’s capitol
amid the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s crackdown there.
On 5 February, Lang,
who received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump over his role in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
posted a video on X of himself kicking down the sculpture,
which was made from ice

J'étais tombé sur cette émission (https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceculture/podcasts/la-suite-dans-les-idees/comprendre-le-capitalisme-autoritaire-8876658) : Marlène Blanquet explique les tenants de ce capitalism…

Comprendre le capitalisme autoritaire
Depuis quelques années, la seconde finance est venue transformer l'économie mais aussi remettre en question les fondements démocratiques de régimes politiques. La sociologue Marlène Benquet s'est donné les moyens de saisir ce phénomène. Elle est rejointe par l'écrivaine Fanny Taillandier.

In capitalism, the hungry are jailed for taking bread, while the rich feast untouched, and call it justice.
#Capitalism #AntiCapitalism

After a White Town Rejected a Data Center, Developers Targeted a Black Area (Adam Mahoney/Capital B News)
https://capitalbnews.org/data-center-south-carolina-black-community/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260107/p86#a260107p86

Who knew you could shove a brass plaque down the memory hole?
https://apnews.com/article/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2

Capitalism has convinced people that new always equals “better” so if you want to rebel against Capitalism start to recognize that “new” is often just a way to extract more money from you.
Existing (or “old”) things can be functional and beautiful, and often easier to repair.
The word “old” should not be an insult. Not to things or to people.

Five years after the deadly attackon the US Capitol, Donald Trump and other Republicans have engaged in a near-complete effort to #rewrite the history of the day and #erase it from the collective American memory.
On his first day in office, Trump #pardoned

Lux Capital raised $1.5B for its ninth fund, the largest in its history, to back companies focusing on fields like breakthrough science and national security (Lizette Chapman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol,
the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy that day is nowhere to be found.
It’s not on display at the Capitol
-- as is required by law.
Its whereabouts aren’t publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage.

Jan. 6 plaque absent from Capitol around fifth anniversary of attack
Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy is nowhere to be found. It’s not on display at the Capitol, as is required by law. Its whereabouts are not publicly known, though it’s believed to be in storage. Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson has yet to formally unveil the plaque. And the Trump administration’s Justice Department is seeking to dismiss a lawsuit asking that it be displayed. In…