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Following several months of interesting articles from various quarters in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series, we've written a summary and reflection on it all.
Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far. – degrowthUK

Prospects for Degrowth: the story so far.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton1 In the series Prospects for Degrowth Overviews of the current conjuncture – openings and risks We opened the series with Mark’s stock take, Prospects for Degro…

Evaluating the Predictive Value of Preoperative MRI for Erectile Dysfunction Following Radical Prostatectomy
Gideon N. L. Rouwendaal, Dani\"el Boeke, Inge L. Cox, Henk G. van der Poel, Margriet C. van Dijk-de Haan, Regina G. H. Beets-Tan, Thierry N. Boellaard, Wilson Silva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03461

Evaluating the Predictive Value of Preoperative MRI for Erectile Dysfunction Following Radical Prostatectomy
Accurate preoperative prediction of erectile dysfunction (ED) is important for counseling patients undergoing radical prostatectomy. While clinical features are established predictors, the added value of preoperative MRI remains underexplored. We investigate whether MRI provides additional predictive value for ED at 12 months post-surgery, evaluating four modeling strategies: (1) a clinical-only baseline, representing current state-of-the-art; (2) classical models using handcrafted anatomical f…

Filings: SoftBank increased its Nvidia stake to ~$3B in Q1 and bought $330M worth of TSMC stock; a source says Vision Fund monetized ~$2B of assets in H1 2025 (Min Jeong Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

In 10 Minutes, UN’s Tsunami Warning System Notified Millions in East Asia Following Russian Earthquake https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/in-10-minutes-uns-tsunami-warning-system-notified-millions-in-east-asia-follo…

In 10 Minutes, UN's Tsunami Warning System Notified Millions in East Asia Following Russian Earthquake
Thanks to this global monitoring system, which has been deployed for more than 20 years, millions of people in Japan and Russia were warned.

Multiple NFL Executives Link Cowboys to Blockbuster Trade for $30 Million Pass Rusher https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/dallas-cowboys/trey-hendrickson-nfl-trade-rumors-news-2/?adt_ei=[email]

CPJ says Mario Guevara was deported early Friday to his native El Salvador, after spending months in custody following his arrest while covering a protest (Liam Reilly/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2025/10/03/media/mario-guevara-journalist-deported-ice-el-salv…

Live-streaming journalist deported to El Salvador after months in ICE custody
The reporter was arrested while reporting from a “No Kings Day” protest in June and was deported on Friday — a major blow to press freedoms, say groups including the ACLU.

Learning Optimal Crew Dispatch for Grid Restoration Following an Earthquake
Farshad Amani, Faezeh Ardali, Amin Kargarian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04308 https://

Learning Optimal Crew Dispatch for Grid Restoration Following an Earthquake
Post-disaster crew dispatch is a critical but computationally intensive task. Traditional mixed-integer linear programming methods often require minutes to several hours to compute solutions, leading to delays that hinder timely decision-making in highly dynamic restoration environments. To address this challenge, we propose a novel learning-based framework that integrates transformer architectures with deep reinforcement learning (DRL) to deliver near real-time decision support without comprom…

From my LinkedIn post: “Telling your dev team to use AI coding tools is like telling your 2010 ops team to use AWS. They didn’t know how to code, they were ticket and click-it VMware people… developers who don’t have product management mindset or have never managed a dev team will fail by trying to micromanage the output of the tool rather than specifying the outcome of the product and managing the agent team to deliver that outcome.”

Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing… | Adrian Cockcroft
Back in 2010 when we first started using AWS to run Netflix, the AWS services were very incomplete, somewhat unreliable, had scaling issues, but were super fast to provision compared to filing tickets and waiting for data center ops teams to do what we need. We worked around the issues, built a new cloud native developer driven architecture and scaled Netflix at speed. At the time many people said we were crazy to run a large enterprise on cloud and would be back in datacenters when it failed. …

Jets erase 20-point deficit in final minutes before falling to Buccaneers in latest gut-wrenching loss

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/jets-er

How California rushed to expand the state's film and TV production tax credits in eight months, uniting union leaders, lawmakers, top filmmakers, and workers (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/california-tv-film-tax-credits-ne…

As California Dishes Out $256M In TV Tax Credits, Here’s How Lawmakers, Union Leaders & Production Workers United To (Hopefully) Revitalize Hollywood
As California dishes out $256M in TV tax credits, we dug into how lawmakers, union leaders and production workers united to help bring production back