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Michael Roberts on why 'Rentier Capitalism' is a misleading understanding.
EU companies: a ‘capitalism of rent’? – Michael Roberts Blog
https://thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2026/07/20/eu-companies-a-capitalism-of-rent/

EU companies: a ‘capitalism of rent’?
Why is Europe falling behind in investment and growth compared with the US, let alone China and India?  In a new report, Labour Squeezed, Investment Stalled – the renowned economist Mariana Mazzuca…

I‘m sure the laid off stuff is glad they are still considered human 🙄🤮
StanChart To Cut Over 7,000 Jobs, Boost AI To Replace 'Lower-Value Human Capital' - Slashdot https://slashdot.org/story/26/05/19/1640224/st…

Joshua Baer, the founder and CEO of Texas accelerator Capital Factory, died on Tuesday night in a business jet crash in Laredo, Texas (Ryan Merket/RuntimeWire)
https://runtimewire.com/article/joshua-baer-capital-factory-founder-dies-laredo-plane-cr…

Joshua Baer, Capital Factory founder, dies in Laredo plane crash
Joshua Baer, founder and CEO of Capital Factory, died in a Laredo plane crash, KXAN reported. He was a central figure in Austin and Texas startup investing.

7News cameras capture brawl, chairs thrown inside Navy Yard Chipotle (Christian Flores/WJLA-TV)
https://wjla.com/news/local/navy-yard-chipotle-fight-washington-dc-brawl-crime-teen-takeover-caught-on-camera-mpd-investigation-jeanine-pirro-juvenile-curfew-violence-breaking-news-se-violent-restaurant-public-safety-chairs-thrown-in-incident-metropolitan-police-department-zones
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p111#a260518p111

Hey folx! You probably see a lot of stuff from other social networks mirrored to Mastodon, how about we do it the other way around?
Recently, I've starred to mirror my posts to Instagram, Reddit, and other platforms, and I've had quite the success. My biggest post on Instagram, which is just one screenshot of a Mastodon post, has 44.5k likes and 256k views. My

Erik Uden on Instagram: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to intact brains from deceased donors, the startup Bexorg hopes to create a better drug development test bed for neurodegenerative diseases, written by Sara Reardon, published on the 20th of May 2026. Though, reading this Science article made me think: aren't we the brain? Am I missing something here? Now, of course the devil lies in the detail and the article makes it clear that this startup only restores “some functions”, which is certainly more complex in action than it is in theory written here, but certain language of the article makes me question the author's understanding of what is a human. The article writes: “Just a day ago, the brain was in a living person. Now, hours after its owner died, it sits on a cart draped in tubes [...]” What do you mean “it's owner” — isn't the brain it's owner? Isn't that where it's owner is? I mean, certainly the brain had no more activity, the person must've been declared brain dead by all standards before being sent to this startup, still it's odd hearing someone donated their brain instead of saying they've donated... themselves? Also “using a set of proprietary brain-sustaining machines” is a terrible sentence I always thought the people who don't donate their full body to hospitals are religious lunatics, but this is the first time I wrote something on my organ donor card. They can take my brain, but not as one piece."
45K likes, 971 comments - erik.uden on May 21, 2026: "Babe, wake up. New man-made horrors beyond comprehension dropped!! In the end of the day, these companies probably realized that, just like with AI, they can somehow use scare tactics to attract venture capital. It's still a horrifying thing to think of, but possibly overblown to get money. The headline of the Science article reads: Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing By restoring some functions to inta…

Scores of drones ⁠targeted Moscow overnight, hitting the Russian capital’s oil refinery for the second time this week, Reuters reported.
“We don’t ⁠want this war, we never did, and everyone knows it, and our partners ‌know it,”
Zelenskyy ‌said in a voice message sent to reporters on a ‌WhatsApp group, quoted by Reuters.
🔥But if Ukraine burns, your Moscow will burn.
Zelenskyy also called on Europe and ⁠the United States to increase pressure on Russia
through sanc…

50 years ago tonight, the grateful dead in passaic, the middle of 3 gigs at the other capitol theatre. spring ’76, show #10, with video!
released as part of the download series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4Xlxekmcbk&list=PLNAPL1oAkR81sgq5b4OCp…

Sources: APEC, a derivatives exchange founded by the 22-year-old son of pro-crypto Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, raised $30M led by Lux at a $300M valuation (Ben Weiss/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/06/18/theodor

Exclusive: Son of pro-crypto New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand raises $30 million to launch a derivatives exchange
Lux Capital led the investment, which values the Stanford graduate’s exchange at $300 million.

Trump's $1.7 billion fund sparks rush to capitalize: "All J6ers will apply" (Gabe Kaminsky/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-anti-weaponization-fund-january-6-capitol-riot/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p103#a260519p103

Sigma, which sells a cloud-native analytics platform that sits on top of data warehouses, raised an $80M Series E led by Princeville Capital at a $3B valuation (Cristian Dina/The Next Web)
https://thenextweb.com/news/sigma-computing-series-e-80-million-3-b…