RedBird Capital drops its £500M bid for the Telegraph Media Group, after intense pressure from the Telegraph newsroom and allies over the group's links to China (Mark Sweney/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/14/redbird-ca…
Trump is modeling Chinese state capitalism and there's no going back (Long Le/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/5501098-us-china-state-capitalism/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250914/p45#a250914p45
From 8 years ago.
The limits of the best of the reformist approaches, exhausted capitalism and ecosystem crisis, societal collapse and a localist, ecosocialist resurgence. England's northern postindustrial towns as the backdrop.
After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version | Uncommontater
#TIL there are capital variants of small capital letters.
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Sources: Apptronik, a humanoid robot maker backed by Google, is in the process of raising at least $400M led by B Capital at a $5B pre-money valuation (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-backed-apptronik-tal…
The more I study capitalism, the more I realize it is a system structured to divide people. It uses the state and economic institutions strategically to keep the working majority fragmented and powerless, preventing them from uniting against their common exploitation.
It’s wrong, deeply wrong, that capitalism enslaves people not only economically but socially and politically. It steals freedom and dignity, forcing the overwhelming majority to serve the selfish interests of a tiny rulin…
Politico is using SMS to send news updates that sound "personal and urgent" to a select group of lawmakers, staffers, and lobbyists working at the US Congress (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/north-ameri
A look at Cybathlon, an event by ETH Zurich where researchers team up with people with disabilities in a competition to test brain-computer interfaces (Oliver Whang/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/scien…
Snufkin is often seen as a free spirit who values personal freedom and dislikes material possessions or hierarchical control. He is a carefree, anti-establishment character who despises private property and the trappings of capitalism, as evidenced by his habit of tearing down "private property" signs.
He embodies a philosophy of simplicity, independence, and living in harmony with nature, making him appear anti-hierarchical and anti-capitalist in spirit. This aligns with hi…