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Outset, which develops AI agents that help Microsoft and other companies conduct customer research and surveys, raised a $30M Series B led by Radical Ventures (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/202…

Exclusive: Customer research startup Outset raises $30M
Radical Ventures led the round.

In 1920, Charles Garland,
the wealthy heir to a banking fortune, made newspaper headlines for doing the unthinkable:
he declined to accept an inheritance of more than a million dollars from his late father’s estate. 
Garland was disillusioned by the era’s gross #inequality
— the top 10 percent of American income earners took in half the country’s annual national income.
Garl…

‘The Radical Fund’: How a spurned inheritance fueled progressive change
In his new book, Yale’s John Fabian Witt details how a little-known foundation funded by a wealthy banking heir sought to bring about a more just society in the first half of the 20th century.

'the focus on creating is just the little capitalist devil sitting on our shoulders telling us to produce more.
...
the most radical act today is to just make something. Especially if you are not good at it or if it’s a bit of a struggle. Draw if you’re not good at it. Play the piano even though you’re not great. Make something just for the fun of being in this world, touching it, being in it. Becoming you. Let this radicalize you a bit.
Fuck creation. Love making.'<…

Something from nothing
I am not a talented person, I’ve never been called “gifted” or anything like that. Anything I can do, anything I achieved took a lot of work and stubbornness to achieve. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that I’m “selfmade” and that my position in society, my access to resources, etc. had nothing […]

Hasn't this been the case for a few thousand years already?https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/11/uk-immigrants-man-utd-sir-jim-ratcliffe-tax-monaco?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Starmer tells Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK ‘colonised’ by immigrants
PM calls comments by Man United co-owner, who also hit out at people on benefits, ‘offensive and wrong’

More radicale goodness on :nixos: NixOS: services.radicale.git can now sync regularly and on change via radicale with multiple remotes. Currently, it'll prioritise the remote's state in case of conflicts. It's so amazing to have a git history of your calendar and addressbook! 🤩
https://

🔄 Add services.radicale.git.sync (3668d66b) · Commits · Yann Büchau / ❄️ yannix · GitLab
Yann's nix library, packages, utilities, etc.

Uudet kuvat paljastavat sikojen kärsimyksen ruotsalaisilla tiloilla https://animaliamedia.fi/uudet-kuvat-paljastavat-sikojen-karsimyksen-ruotsalaisilla-tiloilla/

Uudet kuvat paljastavat sikojen kärsimyksen ruotsalaisilla tiloilla | Animalia-media
Ruotsalaisissa kuvissa näkyy sikoja ahtaissa ja likaisissa karsinoissa kovilla betonilattioilla sekä loukkaantuneita ja kuolleita eläimiä. 

For those who aren’t local / don’t have an encyclopedic memory of 2020:
Keith Ellison and the MN AG office are the folks who successfully prosecuted Derek Chauvin. They are a crack legal team who know how to win. I’m making no bets about the short or long term outcomes of this lawsuit — especially not with a radical right-wing SCOTUS completely off the rails — but I’m confident these are some of the very best people to be leading it.

"Socialdemokraterna kan inte längre agera som ett obekymrat stödparti när regeringen steg för steg förverkligar en migrationspolitik som bygger på Sverigedemokraternas radikalnationalistiska grundsyn", skriver Lisa Pelling och Rickard Olseke. https://tidningensyre…

Sverige behöver en socialdemokratisk migrationspolitik - Syre
Migrationspolitiken i Sverige ska underlätta integrationen, och människor ska kunna lita på den, skriver Lisa Pelling och Rickard Olseke.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115888706236829264
hey @…! maybe there will be some recipes for ridiculously large cakes!

Flip, which offers an Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, raised a $20M Series A, bringing its total funding to $31M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/vertical-ai-based-customer-service-flip-raise/<…

Flip Raises $20M Series A For Its Verticalized Approach To AI-Based Customer Service
Flip, a startup that claims to offer an Amazon Alexa-like voice AI experience for businesses, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round, it tells Crunchbase News exclusively.