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£100Bn or £20?
How much would water nationalisation cost initially?
If the companies are allowed to go bankrupt then the latter.
Of course then there will be more costs of investing properly in decent water infrastructure, water conservation and waste reduction and management.
But the public are being asked to pay for that, and profits and bonuses now.
Labour’s arguments on #WaterNationalisation

Labour’s arguments on water nationalisation reveal their total economic incompetence
This exchange took place in The Commons yesterday as Clive Lewis MP asked Steve Reed MP, the Environment Secretary, about nationalisation of the water industry: Clive Lewis (Norwich South) (Lab) I am afraid that the report feels like a missed opportunity for the Government to show the public whose side they are on....

I was just thinking about what you should do when you have a problem with an organisation you are part of, and so far (I've only just woken up) I think the steps are:
1. Wait - maybe it will pass
2. Act yourself to fix it - at the very least you will gain a better undertaking of the
3. Complain - perhaps the boss doesn't know theres a problem
4. Organise - what you can't fix alone you can fix together
5. Leave - if all else fails
And it feels lik…

Decoding the dark proteome: Deep learning-enabled discovery of druggable enzymes in Wuchereria bancrofti
Shawnak Shivakumar, Jefferson Hernandez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07337

Decoding the dark proteome: Deep learning-enabled discovery of druggable enzymes in Wuchereria bancrofti
Wuchereria bancrofti, the parasitic roundworm responsible for lymphatic filariasis, permanently disables over 36 million people and places 657 million at risk across 39 countries. A major bottleneck for drug discovery is the lack of functional annotation for more than 90 percent of the W. bancrofti dark proteome, leaving many potential targets unidentified. In this work, we present a novel computational pipeline that converts W. bancrofti's unannotated amino acid sequence data into precise four…

I was really having trouble giving a shit about either of the two candidates in the Labour Deputy Leadership election, and I had to scroll quite a long way down the wikipedia page, but I found something in the end.

Some lawyers and bankers say the Intel deal may face legal challenges as the CHIPS Act may not allow the US government to convert grants into equity (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/technology/trump-intel-stake.html

Intel Agrees to Sell U.S. a 10% Stake in Its Business
The deal is among the largest government interventions in a U.S. company since the rescue of the auto industry after the 2008 financial crisis.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-obituary

Short-term cognitive fatigue of spatial selective attention after face-to-face conversations in virtual noisy environments
\v{L}ubo\v{s} Hl\'adek, Piotr Majdak, Robert Baumgartner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09479

Short-term cognitive fatigue of spatial selective attention after face-to-face conversations in virtual noisy environments
Spatial selective attention is an important asset for communication in cocktail party situations but may be compromised by short-term cognitive fatigue. Here we tested whether an effortful conversation in a highly ecological setting depletes task performance in an auditory spatial selective attention task. Young participants with normal hearing performed the task before and after (1) having a real dyadic face-to-face conversation on a free topic in a virtual reverberant room with simulated inte…

DSA, AIA, and LLMs: Approaches to conceptualizing and auditing moderation in LLM-based chatbots across languages and interfaces in the electoral contexts
Natalia Stanusch, Raziye Buse Cetin, Salvatore Romano, Miazia Schueler, Meret Baumgartner, Bastian August, Alexandra Rosca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19890

DSA, AIA, and LLMs: Approaches to conceptualizing and auditing moderation in LLM-based chatbots across languages and interfaces in the electoral contexts
The integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) into chatbot-like search engines poses new challenges for governing, assessing, and scrutinizing the content output by these online entities, especially in light of the Digital Service Act (DSA). In what follows, we first survey the regulation landscape in which we can situate LLM-based chatbots and the notion of moderation. Second, we outline the methodological approaches to our study: a mixed-methods audit across chatbots, languages, and electio…

Digital Skills Formation in Gendered Peer Networks: Exploring advice giving and taking in classrooms
Petro Tolochko, Jana Bernhard-Harrer, Azade E. Kakavand, Aytalina Kulichkina, Hyunjin Song, Hajo G. Boomgaarden
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19102

Digital Skills Formation in Gendered Peer Networks: Exploring advice giving and taking in classrooms
The digitalisation of childhood underscores the importance of early digital skill development. To understand how peer relationships shape this process, we draw on unique sociocentric network data from students in classrooms across three countries, focusing on peer-to-peer advice-giving and advice-seeking networks related to digital skills. Using exponential random graph models, we find that digital skills systematically spread through peer interactions: higher-skilled students are more likely t…

No bookmark function on Bsky so posting here when I want it
https://bsky.app/profile/natefederman.bsky.social/post/3ljxtmqpejs2c