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"So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand."
"Using AI is not about communicating. It’s about avoiding communicating. It’s about not reading, not writing, not drawing, not seeing. It’s about ceding our powers of expression and comprehension to digital apps that will cushion us from fully participating in our own lives."

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

Bei dem Begriff "AI Literacy" handelt es sich um ein Oxymoron:
https://open.substack.com/pub/themindfile/p/against-ai-literacy-have-we…

Against AI literacy: have we actually found a way to reverse learning?
So let’s get one thing out of the way: I think “AI literacy” is a dangerous device of neoliberal education and it deserves to be dismissed out of hand.

Optimal Coordination of Flexible DERs in Local Energy and Flexibility Markets to Ensure Social Equity
Niloofar Pourghaderi, Milad Kabirifar, Payman Dehghanian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02179

Optimal Coordination of Flexible DERs in Local Energy and Flexibility Markets to Ensure Social Equity
Local electricity markets offer a promising solution for integrating renewable energy sources and other distributed energy resources (DERs) into distribution networks. These markets enable the effective utilization of flexible resources by facilitating coordination among various agents. Beyond technical and economic considerations, addressing social equity within these local communities is critical and requires dedicated attention in market-clearing frameworks. This paper proposes a social equi…

Tansu Çiller, and the corruption of her neoliberal government, was one of the primary drivers of the neoliberalism-to-fascism pipeline* in Turkey that exacerbated inequality, alienated and marginalised huge swaths of the population, and eventually led to Erdoğan’s fascist/Islamist takeover.
Carve her name, indeed; right next to Margaret Thatcher’s.
* Sound familiar, Americans?
#tansuCiller

CarveHerName (@CarveHerName@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image #OnThisDay, 25 June 1993, Tansu Çiller wins a vote of confidence to become prime minister of Turkey. She was the first woman to hold the post. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

Generalized Krylov Complexity
Amin Faraji Astaneh, Niloofar Vardian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23739 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23739

Generalized Krylov Complexity
We extend the concept of Krylov complexity to include general unitary evolutions involving multiple generators. This generalization enables us to formulate a framework for generalized Krylov complexity, which serves as a measure of the complexity of states associated with continuous symmetries within a model. Furthermore, we investigate scenarios where different directions of transformation lead to varying degrees of complexity, which can be compared to geometric approaches to understanding com…

Mit neuartigen Tarifverträgen wehren sich #Pflegekräfte gegen die neoliberale Ausrichtung der deutschen #Krankenhauspolitik:
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Pflegekräfte: Der Kampf um die Krankenhäuser
An der Berliner Charité wurde im Sommer 2015 zum ersten Mal explizit für die Reduzierung von Arbeitsbelastungen gestreikt. Ein Gewerkschafter ordnet die hier beginnenden Kämpfe ein.

Exploring post-neoliberal futures for managing commercial heating and cooling through speculative praxis
Oliver Bates, Christian Remy, Kieran Cutting, Adam Tyler, Adrian Friday
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.19072

Exploring post-neoliberal futures for managing commercial heating and cooling through speculative praxis
What could designing for carbon reduction of heating and cooling in commercial settings look like in the near future? How can we challenge dominant mindsets and paradigms of efficiency and behaviour change? How can we help build worlds through our practice that can become future realities? This paper introduces the fictional consultancy ANCSTRL.LAB to explore opportunities for making space in research projects that can encourage more systems-oriented interventions. We present a design fiction t…

"the additional expenditure on the NHS is not about improving our living standards, but about correcting the physical consequences of the appalling food that the neoliberal food supply industry is delivering to us, which is grossly detrimental to our health. We are not, in other words, better off as a consequence of this additional expenditure" -- @…

Neoliberalism is consuming our well-being
As The Guardian has noted: Britain is on track to become a “National Health State” where half of all public spending is allocated to the NHS and social care by the end of the decade, according to a leading thinktank. They added: As the chancellor came under pressure on Thursday to defend her...

Lasso Penalization for High-Dimensional Beta Regression Models: Computation, Analysis, and Inference
Niloofar Ramezani, Martin Slawski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20079 https://

Lasso Penalization for High-Dimensional Beta Regression Models: Computation, Analysis, and Inference
Beta regression is commonly employed when the outcome variable is a proportion. Since its conception, the approach has been widely used in applications spanning various scientific fields. A series of extensions have been proposed over time, several of which address variable selection and penalized estimation, e.g., with an $\ell_1$-penalty (LASSO). However, a theoretical analysis of this popular approach in the context of Beta regression with high-dimensional predictors is lacking. In this pape…

Bob's Confetti: Phonetic Memorization Attacks in Music and Video Generation
Jaechul Roh, Zachary Novack, Yuefeng Peng, Niloofar Mireshghallah, Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick, Amir Houmansadr
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17937

Bob's Confetti: Phonetic Memorization Attacks in Music and Video Generation
Lyrics-to-Song (LS2) generation models promise end-to-end music synthesis from text, yet their vulnerability to training data memorization remains underexplored. We introduce Adversarial PhoneTic Prompting (APT), a novel attack where lyrics are semantically altered while preserving their acoustic structure through homophonic substitutions (e.g., Eminem's famous "mom's spaghetti" $\rightarrow$ "Bob's confetti"). Despite these distortions, we uncover a powerful form of sub-lexical memorization: m…