Tootfinder

"Step forward the ‘fully biodegradable’ shoe that leaves no footprint"
#Shoes #Fashion
…

Step forward the ‘fully biodegradable’ shoe that leaves no footprint
Made from organic materials and designed to return harmlessly to the earth, could this be the end of landfill-bound footwear?

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Information Society:
🎵 What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy)
#InformationSociety
https://saeedyounan.bandcamp.com/album/information-society-whats-on-your-mind-saeed-palash-rmx-promo-only
https://open.spotify.com/track/2GBWPAsIXtC7NwULhUoHRf

The financial AI bubble. It will pop at some time but don't make the mistake thinking that the technology will dissappear or the impact it will have on society (besides the destruction of the bubble bursting).
#AI #bubble

I've had a few of these thoughts stuck in my craw all day because I watched this liberal historian talk about the Galleanisti.
https://youtube.com/shorts/93yHEn8BYE4
Basically, she says that "of course the government had the right to target them." Then she goes on to talk about how it became an excuse to carry out a bunch of attacks on other marginalized people. Now, the Galleanisti had been bombing the houses of politicians and such. I get where she's coming from saying that one of their targets "was in the right" to try to catch them. But there's some context she's not talking about at all.
These were Italian anarchists, so they were not white and they were part of an already marginalized political group. Basically all of Europe and the US was trying to wipe out anarchists at the time. Meanwhile, the sitting president at the time showed the first movie in the White House. That movie was KKK propaganda, in which he was favorably quoted. The US was pretty solidly white supremacist in the 1920's.
Like... A major hidden whole premise of the game "Bioshock: Infinite" is that if you went back to the US in the 1920's, and you had magic powers, you would absolutely use them to kill as many cops as possible and try to destroy society. There's a lot of other stuff in there, I don't want to get distracted, but "fuck those racists," specifically referring to the US in the 1920's, was a major part of a major game.
Those Italian anarchists were also stone cutters. They carved grave stones. But the dust from that can kill you, much like black lung for coal miners. So they were dying from unsafe working conditions, regularly raising money to support dying coworkers and then carving gravestones for those same coworkers.
Now, I personally think insurrectionary anarchism is a dead end. I disagree with it as a strategy. We've seen it fail, and it failed there. But of course it makes sense that they wanted to blow up the government.
...And that's the correct way to structure that. When you say, "of course they were in the right" you're making a very clear political statement. You could easily say, "the cops in Vichy France had every right to hunt down the French Resistance." You would technically be correct, I guess. But it would really say something about your politics if you justified the actions of Nazi collaborators over those fighting against the Nazis.
And you may say, "oh, but the Nazis didn't have justification for anything. They invaded a sovereign nation, so their government wasn't legitimate anyway."
To which I would reply, "have you considered a history book about the US?"

The Supreme Court v. Democracy (Elie Mystal/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/supreme-court-term-worst-cases/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p85#a251006p85

Forthcoming book
by Bernie Sanders:
Fight Oligarchy.
“Sanders explains how the United States today is an oligarchic society in which a small handful of multibillionaires exercise enormous economic and political power.”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/fight-oli

Steering Opinion through Dynamic Stackelberg Optimization
Hossein Rastgoftar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06758 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.06758

Steering Opinion through Dynamic Stackelberg Optimization
This paper employs the Friedkin-Johnsen (FJ) model to describe the dynamics of opinion evolution within a social network. Under the FJ framework, the society is divided into two subgroups that include stubborn agents and regular agents. The opinions of stubborn agents are not influenced by regular agents, whereas the opinions of regular agents evolve based on the opinions of their neighboring agents. By defining the origin as the desired collective opinion of the society, the objective of the p…

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- 'Partisan Bias' is Like 'Cancer'
Alec Ramsay
https://

What can we learn about our current crisis from history
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/462226/end-times-crisis-history-lessons-cliodynamics-collase-society

Hundreds of societies have been in crises like ours. An expert explains how they got out.
No, we aren’t in “unprecedented times.” An analysis of 100 historical crises over two millennia has lessons for how society can avoid the end times.

Just finished "Maybe an Artist" by Liz Montague. A really nice graphic memoir that centers in identity and the choices we make growing up about careers faced with so much pressure about "succeess" in society.
#AmReading #ReadingNow

⏰ Fear of desynchronization: Why doesn’t Europe abolish daylight saving time?
https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-10-24/fear-of-desynchronization-why-doesnt-europe-abolish-daylight-saving-time.html

Fear of desynchronization: Why doesn’t Europe abolish daylight saving time?
EU member states have failed to reach consensus on the risks of maintaining time according to geography

Optimal network pricing with oblivious users: a new model and algorithm
Yixuan Li, Andersen Ang, Sebastian Stein
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07157 https://a…

Optimal network pricing with oblivious users: a new model and algorithm
Traffic modeling is important in modern society. In this work we propose a new model on the optimal network pricing (Onp) with the assumption of oblivious users, in which the users remain oblivious to real-time traffic conditions and others' behavior. Inspired by works on transportation research and network pricing for selfish traffic, we mathematically derive and prove a new formulation of Onp with decision-dependent modeling that relax certain existing modeling constraints in the literature. …

Fine letter from Kate Macintosh on UK Labour Party's irrational retention of the Right to Buy council housing. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/nov/06/why-labour-lacks-credibility-when-it-comes-to-housing

How public datasets constrain the development of diversity-aware news recommender systems, and what law could do about it
Max van Drunen, Sanne Vrijenhoek
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05952

How public datasets constrain the development of diversity-aware news recommender systems, and what law could do about it
News recommender systems increasingly determine what news individuals see online. Over the past decade, researchers have extensively critiqued recommender systems that prioritise news based on user engagement. To offer an alternative, researchers have analysed how recommender systems could support the media's ability to fulfil its role in democratic society by recommending news based on editorial values, particularly diversity. However, there continues to be a large gap between normative theory…

Whatever happens to our democracy, history will remember our 3 good SCOTUS justices as a voice of clarity when civil society was unraveling around them.
Future generations will point to their writing and say, “Look at this. It’s not like people didn’t understand what was happening at the time. They knew perfectly well.”
EDIT: I said Sotomayor at first; this is Jackson!! “What would you do with a brain if you had one, Paul?” I’m sure I have no idea.
https://journa.host/@chrisgeidner/115504618482036124

From "Arbitrary Timberland" To "Skyline Charts": Is Visualization At Risk From The Pollution of Scientific Literature?
Lonni Besan\c{c}on
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05844

From "Arbitrary Timberland" To "Skyline Charts": Is Visualization At Risk From The Pollution of Scientific Literature?
In this essay, I argue that, while visualization research does not seem to be directly at risk of being corrupted by the current massive wave of polluted research, certain visualization concepts are being used in fraudulent fashions and fields close to ours are being targeted. Worse, the society publishing our work is overwhelmed by thousands of questionable papers that are being, unfortunately, published. As a community, and if we want our research to remain as good as it currently is, I argue…

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interact…

FOIA of AI
https://www.publictechnology.net/2025/10/07/society-and-welfare/our-transparency-rules-need-to-adapt-to-the-rise-of-ai/

Our transparency rules need to adapt to the rise of AI
As automated technology becomes more widely used by public bodies, and for a broader range of purposes, Louise Crow of mySociety outlines why governance rules and processes must keep pace As the government makes a significant investment into AI in public services, we need to update our transp

Musical Theater Society Berlin mit professioneller Bühnenkonkurrenz konfrontiert https://weddingweiser.de/musical-theater-society-berlin-mit-professioneller-buehnenkonkurrenz-konfrontiert/

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Finite-time consensus in a compromise process
P. L. Krapivsky, A. Yu. Plakhov

How "porno-troll" Strike 3, owner of porn production company Vixen, made millions by filing copyright suits accusing users of illegally downloading its videos (Tarpley Hitt/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/ng-interact…

In her keynote at #ISWC2025, Yuko Harayama, Secretary General of Global Partnership on AI Tokyo Expert Support Center, is discussing the challenges of #AI on Human Society, suggesting a shift from originally tech-driven to human-centered paradigm, addressing key questions related to

This morning 's #veganWeek post: breakfast was porridge (made with water soya milk) for kids toast with peanut butter, strawberries banana for me #VeganWeek
Am I an influencer now?
#vegan food I'm preparing for my family for the next few days.  It's really not hard. Today Nasi Goreng (or at least my version of it, with organic pea protein pieces, katsup manis, lots of spices and fresh vegetables...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115108323164701969
@… - "Veganism wasn’t meant to be like other food fads: it was intended to benefit not just the individual but society as a whole. Eating less meat would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering. The evidence is clear. But right now we can’t be bothered "
Why the vegans lost https://on.ft.com/4mzHgFz

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Learning Pareto-Optimal Pandemic Intervention Policies with MORL
Marian Chen, Miri Zilka

Deep learning framework for predicting stochastic take-off and die-out of early spreading
Wenchao He, Tao Jia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04574 https://arxi…

Deep learning framework for predicting stochastic take-off and die-out of early spreading
Large-scale outbreaks of epidemics, misinformation, or other harmful contagions pose significant threats to human society, yet the fundamental question of whether an emerging outbreak will escalate into a major epidemic or naturally die out remains largely unaddressed. This problem is challenging, partially due to inadequate data during the early stages of outbreaks and also because established models focus on average behaviors of large epidemics rather than the stochastic nature of small trans…

The IEEE Signal Processing Society's Leading Role in Developing Standards for Computational Imaging and Sensing: Part II
Andreas Bathelt, Benjamin Deutschmann, Hyeon Seok Rou, Kuranage Roche Rayan Ranasinghe, Giuseppe Thadeu Freitas de Abreu, Peter Vouras
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04913

The IEEE Signal Processing Society's Leading Role in Developing Standards for Computational Imaging and Sensing: Part II
In every imaging or sensing application, the physical hardware creates constraints that must be overcome or they limit system performance. Techniques that leverage additional degrees of freedom can effectively extend performance beyond the inherent physical capabilities of the hardware. An example includes synchronizing distributed sensors so as to synthesize a larger aperture for remote sensing applications. An additional example is integrating the communication and sensing functions in a wire…

"The two were honored for cofounding the preeminent biomedical preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv."
Totally deserved, if you ask me. Also if you don't ask me.
https://www.cshl.edu/inglis-and-sever-earn-royal-society-research-culture-awa…

Inglis and Sever earn Royal Society Research Culture Award | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s (CSHL’s) John Inglis and Richard Sever have earned The Royal Society’s 2025 Research Culture Award. The two were honored for cofounding the preeminent biomedical preprint servers bioRxiv and medRxiv. Established in 2013 and 2019 respectively, these online repositories empower scientists worldwide to share their research fast, fairly, and free of charge....

GaLactic and extragalactic all-sky Murchison Widefield Array survey eXtended (GLEAM-X) - Galactic plane: #MilkyWay reveals our Galaxy in unprecedented radio colour: https://www.icrar.org/gleam-x-galactic-plane/ - astronomers from ICRAR have created the largest low-frequency radio colour image of the Milky Way ever assembled -> New images reveal the Milky Way’s stunning galactic plane in more detail than ever before: https://theconversation.com/new-images-reveal-the-milky-ways-stunning-galactic-plane-in-more-detail-than-ever-before-264688

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- When and Why is Persuasion Hard? A Computational Complexity Result
Zachary Wojtowicz

But were their names John?
#mastodon #johnmastodon #alberta #dinosaurs
https://sauropods.win/@alberta_palaeo_society/115310225969393974

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Exact cluster dynamics of indirect reciprocity in complete graphs
Minwoo Bae, Takashi Shimada, Seung Ki Baek

MobileRAG: Enhancing Mobile Agent with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Gowen Loo, Chang Liu, Qinghong Yin, Xiang Chen, Jiawei Chen, Jingyuan Zhang, Yu Tian
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.03891

MobileRAG: Enhancing Mobile Agent with Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Smartphones have become indispensable in people's daily lives, permeating nearly every aspect of modern society. With the continuous advancement of large language models (LLMs), numerous LLM-based mobile agents have emerged. These agents are capable of accurately parsing diverse user queries and automatically assisting users in completing complex or repetitive operations. However, current agents 1) heavily rely on the comprehension ability of LLMs, which can lead to errors caused by misoperatio…

NeurIPS should lead scientific consensus on AI policy
Rishi Bommasani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00075 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00075

NeurIPS should lead scientific consensus on AI policy
Designing wise AI policy is a grand challenge for society. To design such policy, policymakers should place a premium on rigorous evidence and scientific consensus. While several mechanisms exist for evidence generation, and nascent mechanisms tackle evidence synthesis, we identify a complete void on consensus formation. In this position paper, we argue NeurIPS should actively catalyze scientific consensus on AI policy. Beyond identifying the current deficit in consensus formation mechanisms, w…

@… @… I wish more people would, like you both, think critically about the responsibility of having a child before deciding to have one. (And I wish society would encourage it instead of pressuring people into th…

"""
Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)

Plastic packaging could be a greater sin than food waste #environment

Plastic packaging could be a greater sin than food waste
Food waste has long been reviled as an immoral, largely preventable feature of our consumer society.

TIL (heard on the radio) that 72% of Germans prefer vacationing by the sea instead of in the mountains... I'm in equal parts glad about and disturbed by these news. Also just found the YouGov poll: https://yougov.de/topics/society/survey-results/daily/2025/07/27/cda07/…

Einmal angenommen, Sie könnten sich sofort in den Urlaub beamen, lieber Berge oder Meer? | Frage des Tages
Einmal angenommen, Sie könnten sich sofort in den Urlaub beamen, lieber Berge oder Meer?

Me too!
https://mastodon.social/@cmconseils/115487186656267241

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports (John Gramlich/Pew Research Center)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/10/02/americans-increasingly-see-legal-sports-betting-as-a-bad-thing-for-society-and-sports/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251002/p113#a251002p113

Keep Calm and Carrion? Carrillion?
I can't quite remember, and it's freaking me out!
We Should Improve Society Somewhat
#KeepCalm #ThisIsFine #ImproveSociety

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- HIPAAChecker: The Comprehensive Solution for HIPAA Compliance in Android mHealth Apps
Bilash Saha, Md Raihan Mia, Sharaban Tahora, Abdul Barek, Hossain Shahriar

💬 All talks and workshops from #hacklu2025 have their own Discourse topic — making it easy to comment, share feedback, and follow updates per session.
👉 https://discourse.ossbase.org/c/hack-lu/…

hack.lu
Hack.lu (and CTI summit) is an open convention/conference where people can discuss about computer security, privacy, information technology and its cultural/technical implication on society. It’s the 19th edition (21st → 24th October) of hack.lu in Luxembourg.

Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Control strategies and virality detection using early warning signals in rumor models
Eva Rif\`a, Julian Vicens, Emanuele Cozzo

Wheel running in the wild | Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
#mice #slugs #nothamsters
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2014.0210

Selecting Interlacing Committees
Chris Dong, Martin Bullinger, Tomasz W\k{a}s, Larry Birnbaum, Edith Elkind
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02519 https://arxiv.…

Selecting Interlacing Committees
Polarization is a major concern for a well-functioning society. Often, mass polarization of a society is driven by polarizing political representation, even when the latter is easily preventable. The existing computational social choice methods for the task of committee selection are not designed to address this issue. We enrich the standard approach to committee selection by defining two quantitative measures that evaluate how well a given committee interconnects the voters. Maximizing these m…

Rewatching the 1984 film version of 1984, as I haven't seen it since high school. They showed it to us in class in the 90s. Been a lot of years. John Hurt ftw
#film

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
George Orwell's novel of a totalitarian future society in which a man whose daily work is rewriting history tries to rebel by falling in love.

lolcuomo https://pagesix.com/2025/08/22/society/cuomo-posts-immediately-deletes-video-working-on-his-car/

Andrew Cuomo posts, immediately deletes latest car-related campaign video
The hot wheels loving politico posted a deleted a video of himself working on his 1968 Pontiac, and likening it to running the city.

The Callover
A Queensland Law Society podcast created by young lawyers, for young lawyers...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/the-callover/

I was so annoyed about the implications of this article I decided to post photos of the delicious nutritious #vegan food I'm preparing for my family for the next few days. It's really not hard. Today Nasi Goreng (or at least my version of it, with organic pea protein pieces, katsup manis, lots of spices and fresh vegetables...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115108323164701969
@… - "Veganism wasn’t meant to be like other food fads: it was intended to benefit not just the individual but society as a whole. Eating less meat would reduce greenhouse gas emissions and animal suffering. The evidence is clear. But right now we can’t be bothered "
Why the vegans lost https://on.ft.com/4mzHgFz

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Cosmos 1.0: a multidimensional map of the emerging technology frontier
Xian Gong, Paul X. McCarthy, Colin Griffith, Claire McFarland, Marian-Andrei Rizoiu

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Integrating upstream and downstream reciprocity stabilizes cooperator-defector coexistence in N-p...
Tatsuya Sasaki, Satoshi Uchida, Isamu Okada, Hitoshi Yamamoto, Yutaka Nak…

Apple removes ICE tracking apps after pressure by Trump administration (Kanishka Singh/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/apple-removes-ice-tracking-apps-after-pressure-by-trump-administration-2025-10-03/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251003/p50#a251003p50

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- Exploring Human-AI Collaboration Using Mental Models of Early Adopters of Multi-Agent Generative ...
Suchismita Naik, Austin L. Toombs, Amanda Snellinger, Scott Saponas, Amanda K. Hall

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #90TEEN
Pathetic:
🎵 Society
#Pathetic
https://compressedthought.bandcamp.com/album/pathetic-society
https://open.spotify.com/track/5NLdlIggmKj4G7RB6l8Tm1

"Climate change kills, Spanish PM tells deniers at launch of plan to tackle crisis"
#Spain #Climate #ClimateChange

I had 12 weeks of parental leave for each of my children. (Six of those were paid by my company, and 6 by Washington State. In the US, this might come across as bragging but functional countries will be shocked at how little it is.) My partner fed them, because we had the privilege of being able to breast feed, so I took care of diapers, tummy time, and what other things I could.
I learned about elimination communication (EC). We used cloth diapers, for ecological reasons but also because they can help with potty training later. With EC, it was relatively easy. I actually only had to change dirty diapers a few times. I was available, so I could pay attention to our babies. I could learn their body language. Both of them rarely cried because we knew what they needed before they had to cry about it.
When I was forced back to work, the EC thing fell off. We continued to use cloth diapers for a while with our oldest, but it became too hard with our youngest. We had to switch to disposable diapers because of the overhead.
There have been so many wasteful things we've done because we don't have space to do the right thing. Having kids is both isolating and overwhelming. To maintain sanity, you just have to take short cuts when you don't have time or help.
Before kids, we used to really enjoy cooking together. We would start from basic ingredients and work our way up. We made pad thai, squishing tamarind paste from pods by hand. Even after having kids, my oldest and I would collect acorns from the tree down the street and crack them together. The other day we all cracked acorns we had collected for the first time since moving over here (and I made some Dotori-muk. We've also started making bread together again.
Kids really love making and processing food. There's a sensory element to it, which, if you don't have kids, is actually a really big thing kids need. But there's also a social element to making food together. They just behave better when we do things like that. It's almost like there's some kind of evolutionary incentive for kids to *want* to help. Go figure.
I've really been wanting to make seitan as we try to reduce how much meat we eat in our house. Even that meat consumption is partially about convenience. It's relatively cheap and easy to throw a bag of chicken wings in air fryer, or some ground beef in with pearl couscous in the instant pot, and just have low effort food home made food. My partner is vegan. I used to eat mostly vegan at home and only eat meat on occasion, usually eating out. But it just takes more mental energy to cook without meat. It's an easy protein, and our kids are picky.
These threads, and a few others, all connect back to a single thing. When we can slow down, we can be more careful and thoughtful. We can be mindful. We can make decisions that are better for the environment, that account for climate change. When we are under pressure, when we are tired and overworked, it's just harder or impossible to be careful and mindful... and that's exactly the point.
At a time when the survival of our species depends on our ability to slow down and be mindful, we are more stressed and overwhelmed than ever. Because, if we had a chance to slow down and think, if we could make good choices, we would make choices that would destroy the industries at the core of the global order. To slow down, as we did at the beginning of COVID, is catastrophic for "the economy." Of course it is.
When an industry runs out of room to expand by driving efficiency, it must increase demand. If demand is already fulfilled, it must create waste. The more pressure there is on the population, the worse decisions people make, the more they waste. Waste is the point. We are in an existential conflict. If we do not destroy this system, if we cannot simply slow down and think, we will be destroyed by it.
I think about the microplastics from those diapers, the methane from them rotting (not captured in the municipal biogas digester, but released directly into the environment), the little plastic containers of everything, all the opportunity costs of the carelessness inflicted on us to survive, and I wonder, "is any of this really worth my time in the office? Did I really produce so much more value doing my work than when destroyed in order to allow me to work?" Of course not, because the invisible hand, in it's infinite wisdom, has shuffled away that cost. The cost of our family thrashing is borne by society, we are a burden on everyone, while the value of my labor is internalized to the company.
How much of your "carbon footprint" should belong to your employer? There can be no capitalist solution to the climate crisis because capitalism is the crisis.
#ClimateCrisis

Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
[1/1]:
- The Good, the Bad and the Constructive: Automatically Measuring Peer Review's Utility for Authors
Abdelrahman Sadallah, Tim Baumg\"artner, Iryna Gurevych, Ted Briscoe

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Panel regression for the GDP of the Central and Eastern European countries using time-varying coe...
Lesya Kolinets, Vygintas Gontis

Ex-NYC mayor Bill de Blasio says people must demand better journalism after The Times of London failed to meet basic standards of confirming identity (Bill de Blasio/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/bill-de-blasio-times-journalism/

The Real Bill de Blasio Has Something to Say
The Times of London failed to meet even basic journalistic standards. We should demand better from the media.

Portland Leads 2025 Rankings of Best US Cities for Vegans #UnitedStates

Portland Leads 2025 Rankings of Best US Cities for Vegans - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
Portland, Oregon, has been ranked the best US city for vegans and vegetarians in 2025, according to a new analysis by WalletHub. The city was evaluated across

Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
[1/1]:
- Collective dynamics on higher-order networks
Battiston, Bick, Lucas, Mill\'an, Skardal, Zhang

Beyond Accessibility: How Intelligent Assistive Technologies Improve Activities of Daily Life for Visually Impaired People in South Africa
Ronaldo Nombakuse, Nils Messerschmidt, Pitso Tsibolane, Muhammad Irfan Khalid
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05998

Beyond Accessibility: How Intelligent Assistive Technologies Improve Activities of Daily Life for Visually Impaired People in South Africa
Our study explores how intelligent assistive technologies (IATs) can enable visually impaired people (VIPs) to overcome barriers to inclusion in a digital society to ultimately improve their quality of life. Drawing on the Social Model of Disability (SMD), which frames disability as a consequence of social and institutional barriers rather than individual impairments, we employ semi-structured interviews and an online qualitative survey with n=61 VIPs in South Africa. Using descriptive statisti…

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- Machines in the Crowd? Measuring the Footprint of Machine-Generated Text on Reddit
Lucio La Cava, Luca Maria Aiello, Andrea Tagarelli

The Emergence of Altruism in Large-Language-Model Agents Society
Haoyang Li, Xiao Jia, Zhanzhan Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22537 https://arxiv.org/pdf…

The Emergence of Altruism in Large-Language-Model Agents Society
Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) for social simulation is a frontier in computational social science. Understanding the social logics these agents embody is critical to this attempt. However, existing research has primarily focused on cooperation in small-scale, task-oriented games, overlooking how altruism, which means sacrificing self-interest for collective benefit, emerges in large-scale agent societies. To address this gap, we introduce a Schelling-variant urban migration model that…

"Keeping people toasty via renewable energy"
#Energy #Renewables
https://www.positive…

Keeping people toasty via renewable energy 

Happiest when ‘nerding out’ about renewable energy systems, Alex Willis is gleeful about having the power to make a difference. His job is helping more people to take a ‘whole home approach’ to green energy

Looking for suggestions how to defend your democracy?
Some great suggestions here. Keep talking to strangers, participate in society and, for Europeans, *Keep Regulating #UStech"
Intro in Danish, Interview with @… in English starts at 6 mins.
#DigitalSovereignty #SovereignSocialMedia
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/115401865282856120
Langsomme samtaler: Timothy Snyder: Trump forestiller sig et militært diktatur, hvor han selv skal være diktatoren
Episode webpage: https://samtaleromusa.podbean.com/e/timothy-snyder-trump-forestiller-sig-et-militært-diktatur-hvor-han-selv-skal-være-diktatoren/

Some Bollywood stars sue YouTube, seeking the removal of AI videos infringing their IP, and want safeguards to stop other AI models from training on such videos (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- A Study on the Framework for Evaluating the Ethics and Trustworthiness of Generative AI
Cheonsu Jeong, Seunghyun Lee, Seonhee Jeong, Sungsu Kim

The Bravery of Kilmar Ábrego García vs. the Barbarism of Donald Trump (Dave Zirin/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/kilmar-abrego-garcia-donald-trump-baltimore/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250825/p107#a250825p107

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- Scalable analysis of stop-and-go waves: Representation, measurements and insights
Ji, Gloudemans, Wang, Zach\'ar, Barbour, Sprinkle, Piccoli, Work

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- A computational framework for quantifying route diversification in road networks
Giuliano Cornacchia, Luca Pappalardo, Mirco Nanni, Dino Pedreschi, Marta C. Gonz\'alez

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- Autonomation, Not Automation: Activities and Needs of European Fact-checkers as a Basis for Desig...
Andrea Hrckova, Robert Moro, Ivan Srba, Jakub Simko, Maria Bielikova

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- Coping with the Dunkelflaute: Power system implications of variable renewable energy droughts in ...
Martin Kittel, Alexander Roth, Wolf-Peter Schill

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- The Human Labour of Data Work: Capturing Cultural Diversity through World Wide Dishes
Hall, Dalal, Sefala, Yuehgoh, Alaagib, Hamzaoui, Ishida, Magomere, Crais, Salama, Afonja

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- The ProLiFIC dataset: Leveraging LLMs to Unveil the Italian Lawmaking Process
Matilde Contestabile, Chiara Ferrara, Alberto Giovannetti, Giovanni Parrillo, Andrea Vandin

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- Gendered Inequalities in Online Harms: Fear, Safety Work, and Online Participation
Enock, Stevens, Sippy, Bright, Cross, Johansson, Wajcman, Margetts

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- Better Than "Better Than Nothing": Design Strategies for Enculturated Empathetic AI Robot Compani...
Isabel Pedersen, Andrea Slane

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- Assessing the Sustainability and Trustworthiness of Federated Learning Models
Feng, Celdran, Sanchez, Zumtaugwald, Bovet, Stiller

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- Scaffolding Collaborative Learning in STEM: A Two-Year Evaluation of a Tool-Integrated Project-Ba...
Caterina Fuster-Barcelo, Gonzalo R. Rios-Munoz, Arrate Munoz-Barrutia

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- Case Studies: Effective Approaches for Navigating Cross-Border Cloud Data Transfers Amid U.S. Gov...
Motunrayo Adebayo

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- A systematic machine learning approach to measure and assess biases in mobile phone population data
Carmen Cabrera, Francisco Rowe