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Black Louisiana Town Says Officials Downplayed Toxic Danger - Capital B News
https://capitalbnews.org/roseland-toxic-explosion-cover-up-health-risks/

Jan. 6 plaque installed at U.S. Capitol following yearslong delay (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/january-6-plaque-installed-us-capitol-delay-rcna262236
http://www.memeorandum.com/260307/p73#a260307p73

Israel-based Q-Factor, which is developing a quantum computer based on neutral atom technology, emerges from stealth with a $24M seed led by NFX and TPY Capital (Sophie Shulman/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bj0iyqbhzl

Stealth Israeli quantum startup Q-Factor emerges with $24 million in Seed funding and elite scientific team
Intel Capital-backed startup, founded by scientists from Weizmann and Technion, aims to move beyond current qubit constraints with neutral atom technology.

"Nurseries backed by private equity have sprouted up across the UK over the last five years, taking over independent businesses and merging them into gigantic chains. To an outside eye, many of these look the same as before, but they report profits that are as much as seven times greater than the surplus made by non-profit nurseries, spend up to 14% less on staff, and have far higher rates of staff turnover than nurseries run from schools."

The System Wants You Tired — https://www.brichapman.com/p/capitalism-wants-you-tired-perfect?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn

How the Carbon Footprint Made Us Small
We’re taught to shrink our impact to prove we care. But what if the point isn’t to disappear—it’s to become dangerous to the system, not to ourselves?

"Ábrego García should be sent to Liberia because the US has spent government resources and political capital negotiating with the west African nation to accept third-country nationals, Lyons wrote."
So because the #WhiteHouse has spent money and political capital to arrange something both stupid & brutal, they should have the right to do that? And continue to waste resources…

Bengaluru-based KreditBee, a digital lending service for personal and business loans and more, raised a $280M Series E at a $1.5B post-money valuation (Harsh Upadhyay/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/kreditbee-enters-unicorn-club-with-280-mn-ser…

KreditBee enters unicorn club with $280 Mn Series E round
The round was led by Motilal Oswal Alternates, Hornbill Capital, and MUFG-backed Dragon Funds. WhiteOak Capital, A.P. Moller Holding, Premji Invest, and Advent International also participated.

"See I had forgotten the one golden rule of capitalism. To thrive in capitalism one must be amoral. Now you can be wildly sickeningly successful with morals but you cannot reach that absolute zenith of shareholder value. Either you accept a lower share price and don’t commit atrocities or you become evil. There is no third option."

A profile of David Sacks, appointed as White House AI adviser in December 2024, who has a ruthless devotion to self-interest and helped pass the GENIUS Act (George Packer/The Atlantic)
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The Venture-Capital Populist
How David Sacks and the new tech right went full MAGA and captured Washington