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Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto, on DegrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/12/degrowth-as-an-essential-part-of-an-eco-socialist-transition/
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Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto* In the series Prospects for Degrowth Many thanks to Mark Burton for encouraging me to write this article and offering so many helpful suggestions. Thank you also to my comrades …

Large Language Models for History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science: Interpretive Uses, Methodological Challenges, and Critical Perspectives
Arno Simons, Michael Zichert, Adrian W\"uthrich
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12242

Large Language Models for History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science: Interpretive Uses, Methodological Challenges, and Critical Perspectives
This paper explores the use of large language models (LLMs) as research tools in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science (HPSS). LLMs are remarkably effective at processing unstructured text and inferring meaning from context, offering new affordances that challenge long-standing divides between computational and interpretive methods. This raises both opportunities and challenges for HPSS, which emphasizes interpretive methodologies and understands meaning as context-dependent, ambigu…

SocialCredit
Thabassum Aslam, Anees Aslam
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12099 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.12099

SocialCredit+
SocialCredit+ is AI powered credit scoring system that leverages publicly available social media data to augment traditional credit evaluation. It uses a conversational banking assistant to gather user consent and fetch public profiles. Multimodal feature extractors analyze posts, bios, images, and friend networks to generate a rich behavioral profile. A specialized Sharia-compliance layer flags any non-halal indicators and prohibited financial behavior based on Islamic ethics. The platform emp…

The US Senate passes the Genius Act, which establishes a regulatory framework for stablecoins; the bill now heads to the House (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/17/genius-stablecoin-bill-crypto.html

Senate passes GENIUS stablecoin bill, giving crypto industry first major legislative win
This is the first legislative victory for the digital asset industry, which put around $250 million in the 2024 election cycle.

Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the w…

Sable Shade🇦🇺 ☮️4️⃣🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@Sable_Shade@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @aral@mastodon.ar.al And holocaust free, according to mastodon.social #Palestine #GENOCIDE #HOLOCAUST #childMurders #siegheilisrael #abomination #disgrace #evilAsItGets #theHumanVirus #whatsWrongWithUs

freshmen: Zeggelink's freshmen (1999)
Snapshots of friendships among freshmen majoring in Sociology at the University of Groningen, collected five times over the 1998-1999 year. The direction of an edge indicates that student i is friends with student j, and the edge weight gives their friendship level from 1 (best friend) to 5 (troubled relation). Metadata include gender, age, program type, and smoking behavior.
This network has 34 nodes and 1156 edges.
Tags: Social, O…

Heute 19:15 Uhr im DLF: Feature
Das Attentat auf Hugo Bettauer im März 1925
Chronik eines Journalistenmordes
Von Christine Marth
ORF 2025
Vor hundert Jahren sorgt die Ermordung des österreichischen Journalisten und Schriftstellers Hugo Bettauer international für Schlagzeilen. Der erfolgreiche Autor war durch seine konfrontativ-sozialkritische Haltung in der Ersten Republik zum erklärten Feindbild nicht nur rechtsradikaler Kreise erklärt worden.
In seinem bek…

Israel-Iran conflict could last only as long as their missiles hold out
The intensity of Iran’s barrages seems to be waning nas it uses up its stock of missiles.
Israel, meantime, is running through its supply of expensive missile interceptors.
The Marker, a leading Israeli financial newspaper, reported that missile defense costs Israel as much as 1 billion shekels,
or roughly $285 million, a night.

Israel-Iran conflict could last only as long as their missiles hold out
The intensity of Iran’s barrages seems to waning as it uses up its stock. Israel, meantime, is running through its supply of expensive missile interceptors.

Viele Menschen glauben, Antikapitalistys wären gegen sie und ihren Lebensstil. Dabei sind Kapitalistys gegen sie und die Verbesserung ihres Lebensstils.
(früher hätte man dazusagen müssen, daß die Alternative nicht der real existierende Sozialismus sein muß, aber das ist glücklicherweise inzwischen obsolet)

New article,
Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto, on DegrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/12/degrowth-as-an-essential-part-of-an-eco-socialist-transition/

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto* In the series Prospects for Degrowth Many thanks to Mark Burton for encouraging me to write this article and offering so many helpful suggestions. Thank you also to my comrades …