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Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton
In the series Prospects for Degrowth
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/10/29/minority-influence-how-can-degrow…

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, w…

"Having seen their claim to represent a “moral majority” disproved, this minority now seeks the brute power of an authoritarian administration to coerce the rest of us."
The new religious liberty: Intolerance for all but the few
https://religionnews.com/2025/10/28/the-new-religious-liberty-intolerance-for-all-but-the-few/

It would seem that colonialism and imperialism are also features of late stage communism.
https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/09/28/china-draft-ethnic-unity-law-tightens-ideological-control

Another year in which we've been making the climate crisis worse faster. And the role of aviation continues to grow nastier: probably good for 1/6 of the increase this year, caused by a small minority of the global population.
https://news.m…

Record fossil fuel emissions in 2025 despite renewables buildout, report says
Global carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion are projected to reach a record 38.1 billion metric tons in 2025, an increase of 1.1% from 2024, according to the 2025 Global Carbon Budget. The report, now in its 20th edition, was released Nov. 13 as a preprint. It compiles national energy and emissions data from […]

How Chip Kelly Defined the Raiders' True Underlying Concerns https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-chip-kelly-defined-true-underlying-concerns

Kiel oni savas malgrandajn lingvojn?
(angle:) https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/nov/26/kneecap-europe-minority-languages?CMP=share_btn_url
Uzu ĝin dum instruado, kaj popularigu ĝin inter la junularo.

CFP: Unfamiliar Neighbours: Empowering Minority Heritage in East Asian Port Cities
https://ift.tt/dAGIxgn
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Trump urged Republicans in the Senate to scrap the #filibuster,
saying it had become an obstacle to "effective governing" and removing it would prevent another government shutdown
and pave the way for his party to push through its legislative priorities.
“The filibuster is hurting the Republican Party,” Trump told Politico.
He called on Republican lawmakers to eliminat…

To Weaken Minority Voting Power, Republicans Push For Unprecedented Mid-Decade Census (Jim Saksa/Democracy Docket)
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/to-weaken-minority-voting-power-republicans-push-for-unprecedented-mid-decade-census/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251119/p109#a251119p109

General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

CFP: Unfamiliar Neighbours: Empowering Minority Heritage in East Asian Port Cities #acrel https://networks.h-net.org/group/annou

Texans minority owner Loya suspended, fined https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47279188/texans-minority-owner-javier-loya-suspended-fined-500k

Tom Brady's recent comments signal some changes coming for the Raiders https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/tom-bradys-recent-comments-signal-some-changes-coming-raiders/2124…

“‘Sending armed soldiers to suppress peaceful protests is what kings and dictators do — and Greg Abbott just proved he’s one of them,’ Texas House Minority Leader Gene Wu said in a statement.”
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/16/greg-abbott-…

Abbott to send National Guard to Austin for No Kings rally
Abbott’s deployments come as Republicans, led by House Speaker Mike Johnson, vilify the planned nationwide protests as a “hate America” gathering.

Worries grow about Black, Hispanic voter turnout for Sherrill in New Jersey governor's race (Caroline Vakil/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/5561741-new-jersey-minority-voters-sherrill-outreach/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251018/p49#a251018p49

Ukraine's language ombudsman calls for Russian to be stripped from list of protected 'minority' languages over mistranslation: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/15/ukraines-language-ombudsman-calls-for.html

"Surely the average neurotypical straight White people at least know the basics of stereotype threat, passing privilege, and minority stress, right?"
"And quartz, of course"
"Of course"
https://xkcd.com/2501/

Average Familiarity

Nazi Pleads Guilty In Plot To Poison NYC Minority Kids - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/nazi-pleads-guilty-in-plot-to-poison-nyc-minority-kids/

The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year,
affecting some 74,000 participants
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/halted-nih-clinical-trials-li…

Halted NIH Clinical Trials List Reveals Slashed Treatments for Cancer, COVID and Minority Health
The National Institutes of Health has canceled funding for at least 383 clinical trials in the last year, affecting some 74,000 participants

I'll never understand why they are so terrified of a tiny, tiny minority. So terrified that they would enact the emergency 'notwithstanding' clause
#RightWingBrainRot
https://www.<…

Alberta to invoke notwithstanding clause to shield 3 transgender bills from court challenges | CBC News
The Alberta government has tabled legislation that seeks to invoke the notwithstanding clause to shield a suite of bills that affects transgender youth and adults from legal challenges.

Distressing news articles that probably won't get attention in the US - The echos of these #racist acts are heard around the globe, with the continuing normalization of atrocious, abhorent behavior.
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’

Distressing news articles that probably won't get attention in the US - The echos of these #racist acts are heard around the globe, with the continuing normalization of atrocious, abhorent behavior.
New Slovenian law treats entire Romany minority ‘as a security threat’

CFP: Unfamiliar Neighbours: Empowering Minority Heritage in East Asian Port Cities
https://ift.tt/5ETVy7F
H-Diplo Roundtable XXV-12 on Fall, _Dien Bien Phu: Un coin d’Enfer_ H-Diplo Roundtable…
via Input 4 RELCFP

In a letter, Rocket Internet minority shareholder Scherzer & Co accuses the company of marking down startup valuations to buy out backers at "bargain prices" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/cbe24118-1c60-4f3c-acb8-9ace586246fa

InsideOut: An EfficientNetV2-S Based Deep Learning Framework for Robust Multi-Class Facial Emotion Recognition
Ahsan Farabi, Israt Khandaker, Ibrahim Khalil Shanto, Md Abdul Ahad Minhaz, Tanisha Zaman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03066

InsideOut: An EfficientNetV2-S Based Deep Learning Framework for Robust Multi-Class Facial Emotion Recognition
Facial Emotion Recognition (FER) is a key task in affective computing, enabling applications in human-computer interaction, e-learning, healthcare, and safety systems. Despite advances in deep learning, FER remains challenging due to occlusions, illumination and pose variations, subtle intra-class differences, and dataset imbalance that hinders recognition of minority emotions. We present InsideOut, a reproducible FER framework built on EfficientNetV2-S with transfer learning, strong data augme…

Attack-Specialized Deep Learning with Ensemble Fusion for Network Anomaly Detection
Nisith Dissanayake (University of Moratuwa), Uthayasanker Thayasivam (University of Moratuwa)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12455

Attack-Specialized Deep Learning with Ensemble Fusion for Network Anomaly Detection
The growing scale and sophistication of cyberattacks pose critical challenges to network security, particularly in detecting diverse intrusion types within imbalanced datasets. Traditional intrusion detection systems (IDS) often struggle to maintain high accuracy across both frequent and rare attacks, leading to increased false negatives for minority classes. To address this, we propose a hybrid anomaly detection framework that integrates specialized deep learning models with an ensemble meta-c…

Texans minority owner Javier Loya suspended indefinitely, fined by NFL for violating personal conduct policy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/texans-minority-own…

Humans are now the minority online | Euractiv
https://www.euractiv.com/opinion/humans-are-now-the-minority-online/

Improving Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Detection through Ensemble-Based Models and Synthetic Oversampling Techniques
Jieun Yu, Minjung Park, Sangmi Chai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00836

Improving Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Detection through Ensemble-Based Models and Synthetic Oversampling Techniques
This study aims to detect pump and dump (P&D) manipulation in cryptocurrency markets, where the scarcity of such events causes severe class imbalance and hinders accurate detection. To address this issue, the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) was applied, and advanced ensemble learning models were evaluated to distinguish manipulative trading behavior from normal market activity. The experimental results show that applying SMOTE greatly enhanced the ability of all models to dete…

Chernin Group agrees to take a minority stake in Entangled Publishing, a publisher of romance-fantasy books; sources say the deal values Entangled at ~$400M (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/chernin

“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”

Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…

Thanks to @… for republishing our piece on resilience org:
Minority influence: how can degrowth step up? - resilience
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Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth: ecosocialism vs. horizontalism.

PyCFRL: A Python library for counterfactually fair offline reinforcement learning via sequential data preprocessing
Jianhan Zhang, Jitao Wang, Chengchun Shi, John D. Piette, Donglin Zeng, Zhenke Wu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06935

PyCFRL: A Python library for counterfactually fair offline reinforcement learning via sequential data preprocessing
Reinforcement learning (RL) aims to learn and evaluate a sequential decision rule, often referred to as a "policy", that maximizes the population-level benefit in an environment across possibly infinitely many time steps. However, the sequential decisions made by an RL algorithm, while optimized to maximize overall population benefits, may disadvantage certain individuals who are in minority or socioeconomically disadvantaged groups. To address this problem, we introduce PyCFRL, a Python librar…

"Labour has also won every time the Senedd has been contested, as it will be again in May. Yet, if the most recent Wales-wide poll holds good, that is set to change. Plaid will instead be the largest party, just ahead of Reform UK, with Labour third. Though still a minority, Plaid would be in government. In Welsh terms, that would be a political earthquake. Perhaps in Britain-wide terms too"
#UKPol

NFL owners put to rest concerns over Tom Brady’s role with Fox, Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/nfl-owners-put-to-rest-concerns-over-tom-bradys-role-with-fox-raiders-3511516/

#ListeningClub Might be in the minority but this is adorable and hilarious.

Improving Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Detection through Ensemble-Based Models and Synthetic Oversampling Techniques
Jieun Yu, Minjung Park, Sangmi Chai
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00836

Improving Cryptocurrency Pump-and-Dump Detection through Ensemble-Based Models and Synthetic Oversampling Techniques
This study aims to detect pump and dump (P&D) manipulation in cryptocurrency markets, where the scarcity of such events causes severe class imbalance and hinders accurate detection. To address this issue, the Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) was applied, and advanced ensemble learning models were evaluated to distinguish manipulative trading behavior from normal market activity. The experimental results show that applying SMOTE greatly enhanced the ability of all models to dete…

Ordinal Label-Distribution Learning with Constrained Asymmetric Priors for Imbalanced Retinal Grading
Nagur Shareef Shaik, Teja Krishna Cherukuri, Adnan Masood, Ehsan Adeli, Dong Hye Ye
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26146

Ordinal Label-Distribution Learning with Constrained Asymmetric Priors for Imbalanced Retinal Grading
Diabetic retinopathy grading is inherently ordinal and long-tailed, with minority stages being scarce, heterogeneous, and clinically critical to detect accurately. Conventional methods often rely on isotropic Gaussian priors and symmetric loss functions, misaligning latent representations with the task's asymmetric nature. We propose the Constrained Asymmetric Prior Wasserstein Autoencoder (CAP-WAE), a novel framework that addresses these challenges through three key innovations. Our approach e…

"There is no such thing as ‘changing the world without taking power’, but the taking of power is a more complex process than storming the gates of government and implanting a new regime; ..."
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/10/29/minority-influence-how-ca…

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, w…

Alphabet's X is increasingly spinning out independent companies via a dedicated Series X Capital fund, which has raised $500M with a minority Alphabet stake (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/alph

Alphabet is increasingly launching "moonshot" projects as independent companies -- here's why | TechCrunch
Despite the emphasis on detachment from ideas, X employees do have significant skin in the game when projects spin out.

USpol
Was just having a conversation with someone about how "50%" of the country voted for Trump and in reminding them it's way less took the time to look up the numbers. In 2024 Trump got 77.3 million votes in a country of 340.1 million people. That's 22.7% of the people. ~21.5% of the people are under age 18, so 263.6 million adults. Trump got the vote of 29.3% of them. Some of those adults aren't eligible to vote, but when discussing social dynamics, they matter just as much, as do kids... Even of the people who voted for Trump, many were not at all MAGA fanatics (even if they at minimum had a seriously warped worldview and dangerous politics of one kind or another).
The truth is, almost no president has ever had a huge popular mandate, because our society is engineered to let a minority political class retain most of the power while giving the illusion of influence to the masses.

Trump's shutting down of projects because they had a minority/female CEO
or made the environment cleaner
or said something mean about him and assault on the rule of law
is slowing investment and job creation.
He's burnt the gift Biden left him.
https://mastodon.social/@SeanCasten/11…

Sean Casten (@SeanCasten@mastodon.social)
Attached: 2 images 8. At the same time, Trump's shutting down of projects because they had a minority/female CEO or made the environment cleaner or said something mean about him and assault on the rule of law is slowing investment and job creation. He's burnt the gift Biden left him.

Graney: Tom Brady might be the only person who can save the Raiders https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-tom-brady-might-be-the-only-person-who-can-save-the-raiders-3583062/

Reasoning Beyond Majority Vote: An Explainable SpeechLM Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition
Bo-Hao Su, Hui-Ying Shih, Jinchuan Tian, Jiatong Shi, Chi-Chun Lee, Carlos Busso, Shinji Watanabe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24187

Reasoning Beyond Majority Vote: An Explainable SpeechLM Framework for Speech Emotion Recognition
Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) is typically trained and evaluated on majority-voted labels, which simplifies benchmarking but masks subjectivity and provides little transparency into why predictions are made. This neglects valid minority annotations and limits interpretability. We propose an explainable Speech Language Model (SpeechLM) framework that frames SER as a generative reasoning task. Given an utterance, the model first produces a transcript, then outputs both an emotion label and a c…

Tom Brady Hit With Alarming Reality Amid Raiders’ Brutal Season https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-nfl-insider-mike-florio/

Why the Raiders Have Beef with Worldwide Leader https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/las-vegas-joe-buck-tom-brady-pete-carroll

Tom Brady to make appearance Monday in Las Vegas https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/raiders/tom-brady-to-make-appearance-monday-in-las-vegas-3595637/

How Raiders minority owner Tom Brady helped Seahawks sign Sam Darnold https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/seattle-seahawks/news/how-raiders-owner-tom-brady-helped-seahawks-sign-sam-darnold/f5ba300161560…

Pete Carroll Weighs In on Raiders' Struggles: A Harsh Reality Check https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/pete-carroll-las-vegas-mark-davis-tom-brady-john-spytek-geno-smith

Pete Carroll Weighs In on Raiders’ Struggles: A Harsh Reality Check https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/pete-carroll-las-vegas-mark-davis-tom-brady-john-spytek-geno-smith

Why Raiders' Tom Brady Missed the Broncos Battle https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-tom-brady-missed-denver-broncos-battle

How the 2025 Season Got Away From Brady, Raiders https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-how-2025-season-got-away-from-tom-brady