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Reporter Sarah D. Wire’s first-person account of the U.S. Capitol riot had me reliving the terror, disbelief and disgust that many Americans experienced on Jan. 6, 2021.
I say “many” because — impossible as it sounds — a large number of this country’s citizens do not believe what took place was an actual coup-driven attack on the seat of our nation’s democracy.
Meanwhile, a few pages away in a photo appearing in the same day’s newspaper, there he sits, the man responsible, as i…

Inside the Capitol during the Jan. 6 insurrection
Three years ago, Times reporter Sarah D. Wire wrote about her experience inside the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Now, with the aid of surveillance footage recently made available by the House and additional firsthand accounts, Wire provides a more expansive view of that day.

Good thread and discussion, way above my paygrade/expeience.
I’ll just echo Erin saying I hope these lead to even better tools for moderation.
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Now that’s capitalizing on the news cycle …
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https://press.coop/@NPR/112257440031203252

NPR :press: (@NPR@press.coop)
Attached: 1 image Ford expands a recall of thousands of its Bronco and Escape editions Nearly 43,000 vehicles are impacted by the recall, including the 2022 Escape and the 2022 and 2023 Bronco Sport editions that have 1.5L engines. #press https://www.npr.org/2024/04/12/1244267077/ford-bronco-escape-recall?utm_medium=JSONFeed&utm_campaign=news&utm_source=press.coop

After last week's book that I wanted nothing so much as to disintegrate, I'm really enjoying this week's reading. I'd like more political economy/history of capitalism - ahem, colonial economism - like this please. @…

Egypt's Occupation: Colonial Economism and the Crises of Capitalism - Aaron G. Jakes
The history of capitalism in Egypt has long been synonymous with cotton cultivation and dependent development. From this perspective, the British occupation of 1882 merely sealed the country's fate as a vast plantation for European textile mills. All but obscured in such accounts, however, is Egypt's emergence as a colonial laboratory for financial investment and experimentation. Egypt's Occupation tells for the first time the story of that financial expansion and the devastating crises that fo…

Since it came up in another thread I thought it'd be useful to quote W.E.B. Du Bois on the American Dream. This is from Black Reconstruction in America:
"Behind this extraordinary industrial development, as justification in the minds of men, lay what we may call the great American Assumption, which up to the time of the Civil War, was held more or less explicitly by practically all Americans. The American Assumption was that wealth is mainly the result of its owner’s effort and that any average worker can by thrift become a capitalist. The curious thing about this assumption was that while it was not true, it was undoubtedly more nearly true in America from 1820 to 1860 than in any other contemporary land. It was not true and not recognized as true during Colonial times; but with the opening of the West and the expanding industry of the twenties, and coincident with the rise of the Cotton Kingdom, it was a fact that often a poor white man in America by thrift and saving could obtain land and capital; and by intelligence and good luck he could become a small capitalist and even a rich man; and conversely a careless spendthrift though rich might become a pauper, since hereditary safeguards for property had little legal sanction.
Thus arose the philosophy of “shirt-sleeves to shirt-sleeves,” on which the American theory of compensated democracy was built. It asked simply, in eighteenth century accents, freedom from government interference with individual ventures, and a voice in the selection of government officials. The continued freedom of economic opportunity and ever possible increase of industrial income, it took for granted. This attitude was back of the adoption of universal suffrage, the disappearance of compulsory military service and imprisonment for debt, which characterized Jacksonian democracy. The American Assumption was contemporary with the Cotton Kingdom, which was its most sinister contradiction. The new captains of industry in the North were largely risen from the laboring class and thus living proof of the ease of capitalistic accumulation. The validity of the American Assumption ceased with the Civil War, but its tradition lasted down to the day of the Great Depression, when it died with a great wail of despair, not so much from bread lines and soup kitchens, as from poor and thrifty bank depositors and small investors."
#AmericanDream #WEBDuBois #Reconstruction #BlackReconstructionInAmerica

Mumbai-based Neysa, which offers a suite of generative AI tools to help clients manage their AI projects, raised a $20M seed led by Matrix, Nexus, and NTTVC (Jessica Rajan/The Economic Times)
https://economicti…

AI SaaS cloud platform Neysa bags $20 million from Matrix Partners India, others
Neysa, a Mumbai-based artificial intelligence (AI) cloud and platform-as-a-service startup, will utilise the fresh capital for expanding infrastructure required for strengthening its research and development team, and for sales and marketing.

YouTube channel Dude Perfect raised $100M from Highmount Capital to build out their business in new areas and expand their core programming (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business

YouTube Stars Dude Perfect Score $100M-Plus Investment From Highmount Capital
The Dudes plan to use the cash infusion "to pursue bold new opportunities and projects" beyond traditional channels.

Boston-based Overjet, which offers AI software that helps diagnose dental disease from scans, raised a $53.2M Series C led by March Capital at a $550M valuation (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

MIT Scientist Raises $53 Million to Deploy AI for Dentists
Overjet has raised $53.2 million from investors led by March Capital to develop and expand an AI platform that helps diagnose disease from scans and other data, aiming to make trips to the dentist easier for patients and insurers.

UK digital bank Monzo raised $430M led by Alphabet's CapitalG at a $5B valuation, up from $4.5B in December 2021, and plans to use funds to expand in the US (Financial Times)
https://t.co/OPNkJvAbDA

UK digital bank Monzo raised $430M led by Alphabet's CapitalG at a $5B valuation, up from $4.5B in December 2021, and plans to use funds to expand in the US (Financial Times)
https://t.co/OPNkJvAbDA