2025-10-13 15:41:06
🙈 Corruption: When norms upstage the law
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/how-corruption-interplays-with-social-norms
🙈 Corruption: When norms upstage the law
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/society/2025/how-corruption-interplays-with-social-norms
Musical Theater Society Berlin mit professioneller Bühnenkonkurrenz konfrontiert https://weddingweiser.de/musical-theater-society-berlin-mit-professioneller-buehnenkonkurrenz-konfrontiert/
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AfD does everything possible to make clear they are the traitors in german society....
A few remarks on "AI" usage and the narrative surrounding it. I think it's about the difference between disconnected creating and embodied making.
(Original title: Something from nothing)
https://tante.cc/2025/12/12/something-from-nothing/
He’s coming to Vancouver as well: #enshittification
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Secret Soul Society:
🎵 What You Do to Me
#SecretSoulSociety
https://thesecretsoulsociety1.bandcamp.com/track/what-you-do-to-me
https://open.spotify.com/track/5W4yWklJUYXHKQKLcfl0jG
The Stagecraft Behind the New Orleans Immigration Raids (Amanda Moore/The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/new-orleans-immigration-raids-operation-catahouls-crumch/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251211/p37#a251211p37
Training Models to Detect Successive Robot Errors from Human Reactions
Shannon Liu, Maria Teresa Parreira, Wendy Ju
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09080 https://
Time for a social experiment. I have 5 questions:
- What should we work towards as a society?
- What's one thing that doesn't exist now in your community but should?
- What's one action you could take in the coming year to align your life with that goal?
- What's one thing you could achieve in the coming year to get closer to making that thing exist?
- Imagine that we changed everything and you're living in the world you want to see exist. What does the world look like?
I've asked variations of these already (and am still getting great responses), but this time there's a catch. Get together some of your friends (3-5 people) and ask these questions of the group. Come up with *one* answer that everyone in the group agrees on and post it here, then write a bit about your experience.
If you don't know people locally (or otherwise can't do this in person), tag some folks in here or wherever your people are at digitally. Just add some info on if it's online or in person.
For anyone bold enough to actually do this, let me know if you'd be OK with me putting this in an upcoming entry (https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/).
Demystifying and Navigating AI Ethics in Power Electronics
Fanfan Lin, Peter Wilson, Xinze Li, Alan Mantooth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09439 https://arxiv…
Yesterday I found myself on France24, discussing AI policy for 40 mins.
You just never know where your day is going to end up.
Anyway, it was actually a really good discussion as all the panelists tried to push past questions of money and shares to consider society and its values.
https://youtu.be/KFIW6ElOD7E
RE: https://med-mastodon.com/@cbarbermd/115542516092759196
Trump doesn't understand the essentials of insurance, how to protect vulnerable groups in society etcetera
Ofcom: UK porn traffic has now settled at a "lower level" since the start of age checks; VPN users rose to a peak of 1.4M in mid-August and now stand at 900K (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/10/uk-porn-traf…
from my link log —
An orbital house of cards: frequent satellite megaconstellation close conjunctions.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643
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#GCSP
7 October 2025
Enhancing Cognitive Security and Societal Resilience to Counter Cognitive Warfare
https://www.gcsp.ch/publications/enhancing
Survey of six countries, including the US, finds 6% use AI to get news, and 12% feel comfortable with fully AI-generated news vs. 62% with human-made news (Reuters Institute)
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.a
Call for papers | Catholic Record Society 68th Annual Conference | 1-2 July 2026 | London & online https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20133845/call-papers-catholic-record-society-68th-annual-conference-1-2-…
How European, national and local policies enhance each other’s effectiveness. And how cities make EU policy work for business and society.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_how-european-national-and-local-policies-a…
I have to say, spending a decade organizing (for bike/ped/transit infrastructure) has done more for my understanding of how the world _actually_ functions than working at any company or startup, taking any classes*, or really anything else. It's the weird interactions between businesses, the public, technology, and the political landscape that really shape our society.
* Not that classes aren't useful! I took a law class in college and use the knowledge I gained there on a wee…
Poland Enacts National Ban on Fur Farming, Operations to Cease by 2033 https://vegconomist.com/society/poland-enacts-national-ban-fur-farming-operations-cease-by-2033/
Mapped: Big Food’s Routes to Influence at COP30 - DeSmog https://www.desmog.com/2025/11/10/mapped-big-foods-routes-to-influence-at-cop30/
I believe the dismantling of capitalism and the state must come through direct action and self-organization by the working class, united in democratic, federated, and recallable unions. Power must grow from the bottom, from the workplaces and communities of ordinary people, instead of being handed to parties or leaders who claim to act on our behalf. Emancipation will only be achieved when workers collectively take control of production, end exploitation, and organize society through free co…
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- Agent Based Simulators for Epidemic Modelling: Simulating Larger Models Using Smaller Ones
Daksh Mittal, Sandeep Juneja
Billionaires need to be heavily taxed until they are no longer billionaires. They are society's corrosion.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/peter-thiel-talk-antichrist-says-he-told-elon-musk-not-give-wealt…
The Kremlin in crisis: Internal pressure on society and Tomahawks in Ukraine | In Focus: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/10/the-kremlin-in-crisis-internal.html
When the cookies are so good you have the recipes carved into your tombstone | Society | EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-11-09/when-the-cookies-are-so-good-you-have-the-recipes-carved-into-your-tombstone.html#
Musical Theater Society Berlin mit professioneller Bühnenkonkurrenz konfrontiert https://weddingweiser.de/musical-theater-society-berlin-mit-professioneller-buehnenkonkurrenz-konfrontiert/
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- Student-AI Interaction in an LLM-Empowered Learning Environment: A Cluster Analysis of Engagement...
Zhanxin Hao, Jianxiao Jiang, Jifan Yu, Zhiyuan Liu, Yu Zhang
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"The Republican Party has been building toward this for 50 years. The Powell Memo.¹⁶ The Heritage Foundation. The Federalist Society. Gingrich burning down congressional norms. The …
"But catastrophes also tend to reveal deficits in society, and the patterns of destruction and abandonment that followed the fire—which have roots in America’s past and its present—tell us something about the country’s future, too."
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2025/
A Munich court sides with Germany's music rights society GEMA in a case against OpenAI, saying OpenAI can't use song lyrics without a license; OpenAI can appeal (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/german-court-sides-with-p…
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The sci-fi novel "The Truth Machine" describes a future where people can wear a ring that shows whether the person they are talking to is lying. This changes society on a fun…
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Secret Soul Society:
🎵 To Be Happy
#SecretSoulSociety
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Männens motsvarighet till "hormonell obalans". Det finns mycket påhitt kring hormoner idag.
Social media misinformation driving men to seek unneeded NHS testosterone therapy, doctors say https://www.theguardian.com/so…
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[1/1]:
- Data as Commodity: a Game-Theoretic Principle for Information Pricing
Pasquale Casaburi, Giovanni Piccioli, Pierpaolo Vivo
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- Exploring Teachers' Perceptions of ChatGPT Through Prompt Engineering
Dimitrios Gousopoulos
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
Deutsche Polizeibehörden wollen unbedingt ein Produkt einer Firma verwenden, deren Chef Kriegsverbrechen legalisieren will.
https://futurism.com/future-society/palantir-ceo-war-crimes
This is a tricky balance. Some level of skepticism and counter-culture is good and healthy, both for people and society. But when it goes too far, it always seems to end up in the same place.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2
People urged to wear masks when they are ill as UK faces ‘tidal wave’ of flu | Flu | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/dec/09/nhs-leader-calls-for-revival-of-mask-wearing-amid-tidal-wave-of-flu<…
“This seems the best bang for your buck; it’s less per year than private school.”, said the future mother.
UK IVF couples use legal loophole to rank embryos based on potential IQ, height and health
https://www.theguar…
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
♨️ Underwater thermal vents may have given rise to the first molecular precursors of life
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-underwater-thermal-vents-molecular-precursors.html
Sun Ra 2/22/1987 Left Bank Jazz Society Coppin State College, Baltimore, MD
https://youtube.com/watch?v=YQaKYUu0r7k&si=8JgZfZQqFnX89XAq
SatFusion: A Unified Framework for Enhancing Satellite IoT Images via Multi-Temporal and Multi-Source Data Fusion
Yufei Tong, Guanjie Cheng, Peihan Wu, Yicheng Zhu, Kexu Lu, Feiyi Chen, Meng Xi, Junqin Huang, Shuiguang Deng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07905
Trump allowed Israel to almost completely destroy Gaza, kill tens of thousands innocent civilians, now we should praise him for making "peace" on the rubble that is left. Meanwhile in his own country, democracy and the rule of law are in fast decline. The breakdown of the values the USA once stood for is almost complete. Next will be the further destruction of US economy and society, it will not be a pretty sight I am afraid.
If you're in or near Denver, the Colorado Aquarium Society is having their Fall Auction on October 18th.
Details at #nanotank #aquarium #neocaridina #shrimptank
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
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…
Sources: the US is working on a settlement that could see ZTE pay $1B over alleged foreign bribery from 2018 and earlier; a deal would require China's approval (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/soc
What is #bbuzz all about?
Our video team captured the essence of #bbuzz on film: #bbuzz by joining us as a speaker! We are looking for talks on search, data science, streams, operations, scale, storage, people and community, society, ethics, sustainability, and more: https://2026.berlinbuzzwords.de/call-for-papers/
Replaced article(s) found for cs.DL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.DL/new
[1/1]:
- Language Models Surface the Unwritten Code of Science and Society
Honglin Bao, Siyang Wu, Jiwoong Choi, Yingrong Mao, James A. Evans
I spit on the popular opinion and declare #TheMatrixResurrections essential to the original trilogy 🙂 It's not a good Matrix movie. It's a painfully stand-alone movie commenting on society expecting a repeat of a Matrix movie - despite the obvious warnings of The Matrix. Try re-watching it after the first three from today's point view and judge by yourself. F…
New Gist: AI, The Sound and Fury
I try to explain all of this AI thing in one article, and suggest why it is hostile to democracy, to humanity but also happily likely to end with the would-be tech Sun Kings taking trips to the financial guillotine.
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-ai-the-sou
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Experience report: it will never work in theory.
https://www.computer.org/csdl/magazine/so/2024/03/10424425/1Ulj1Qa8tJ6
saved 2025-11-09
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
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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
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
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…
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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?"
"New ship hull modifications to slash fuel use"
#Ships #Vehicles
https://techxplore.com/ne…
A New Roosevelt Institute Report Confronts the Roots of Our Media Crisis--and Calls for Breaking Up Corporate Media (The Nation)
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/journalism-democracy-corporate-media-press/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p66#a251205p66
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…
Crosslisted article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- AI LLM Proof of Self-Consciousness and User-Specific Attractors
Jeffrey Camlin
h…
⏰ 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
Musical Theater Society Berlin mit professioneller Bühnenkonkurrenz konfrontiert https://weddingweiser.de/musical-theater-society-berlin-mit-professioneller-buehnenkonkurrenz-konfrontiert/
Research Fellowships at the Massachusetts Historical Society, 2026-2027
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Replaced article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
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- Evaluating Fairness of Voting Systems: Simulating Violations of Arrow's Conditions
Virochan Pandit (The Johns Hopkins University), Joseph Cutrone (The Johns Hopkins Universi…
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
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- Thousands of AI Authors on the Future of AI
Grace, Stewart, Sandk\"uhler, Thomas, Weinstein-Raun, Brauner, Korzekwa
2026 Midwest AAR Conference
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Crosslisted article(s) found for physics.soc-ph. https://arxiv.org/list/physics.soc-ph/new
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- Fixed Points and Stochastic Meritocracies: A Long-Term Perspective
Gaurab Pokharel, Diptangshu Sen, Sanmay Das, Juba Ziani
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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
Replaced article(s) found for cs.CY. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CY/new
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- Beyond Monoliths: Expert Orchestration for More Capable, Democratic, and Safe Language Models
Quirke, Oozeer, Bandi, Abdullah, Hoelscher-Obermaier, Phillips, Greaves, Neo, Lan, Barez, Upadhyay
NYU Hebrew and Judaic Studies Graduate Studies Virtual Open Houses
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- 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
CFP> Emerging Voices in the Study of Theravada Civilizations 2026
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- 'Partisan Bias' is Like 'Cancer'
Alec Ramsay
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Reimagining Totemism: Mystical Experience, Life Values, and Contemporary Art Practices
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LECTURE> Bernard Faure, "Awakening a no-brainer?" at Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Austrian Academy of Sciences
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