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🪧 When Values Eat Their Young: How Ideal-Driven Groups Drift into Their Own Shadow
#politics

still looking at these "zen geometry" like circles. #svg #svelte #javascript

Make no mistake, the only values the European Commission gives a single damn about are expressed in Euros and cents.
The guiding principle of the successor to the European Coal and Steel Community isn’t human rights, democracy, and the rule of law, it’s the Single Market.
How dare you even pretend to care when you are beyond silent in Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people, you despicable bunch of fancy-suited hypocrites.

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image 🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law. Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.

"The Collaboration Rituals and Shared Values of the Nacirema Orb-ket and Allied Clans"

My city is being invaded by outsiders.
They weren’t invited, and they’re not wanted. They don’t share our culture, and they don’t share our values. They took billions of dollars from us. They are violent criminals. They are ruining our community.
I’m talking about ICE.
They should go back where they came from.

Oh hey, good things do happen even in the darkest times. Yarvin is taking about fleeing the country.
The thinks that Trump's fascism is failing (which it is) and tha Trump is incapable of doing what it takes to actually hold power. He's afraid of vengeance, which is honestly unlikely given how completely useless the democrats actually are. But I'm glad he's afraid. I hope he runs away to Russia, gets drafted and deployed to Ukraine, and eats a drone.
I also hope he can somehow convince Thiel to be afraid, but I think that's unlikely.
The fact is that if Trump fails, which I think he will (and Yarvin thinks it could be soon), it won't be because of Democratic leadership. It will be because of antifascist organizing and community resistence. We will have, once again, kept ourselves safe while the DNC argued over how much of their values they should abandon and how much of the left to sacrifice to "get votes."
#USPol

Community Detection through Recursive Partitioning in Bayesian Framework
Yuhua Zhang, Kori S. Zachrison, Renee Y. Hsia, Jukka-Pekka Onnela
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23536 https…

Community Detection through Recursive Partitioning in Bayesian Framework
Community detection involves grouping the nodes in the network and is one of the most-studied tasks in network science. Conventional methods usually require the specification of the number of communities $K$ in the network. This number is determined heuristically or by certain model selection criteria. In practice, different model selection criteria yield different values of $K$, leading to different results. We propose a community detection method based on recursive partitioning within the Bay…

@… made me think about my preference for minimalist apps
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/sys_design/

Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media
Sohyeon Hwang, Sophie Rollins, Thatiany Andrade Nunes, Yuhan Liu, Richmond Wong, Aaron Shaw, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19653

Governing Together: Toward Infrastructure for Community-Run Social Media
Decentralizing the governance of social computing systems to communities promises to empower them to make independent decisions, with nuance and in accordance with their values. Yet, communities do not govern in isolation. Many problems communities face are common, or move across their boundaries. We therefore propose designing for "inter-community governance:" mechanisms that support relationships and interactions between communities to coordinate on governance issues. Drawing from workshops w…

Someone has encouraged me to engage in party politics by joining a political party. However, I oppose it, because political parties often represent interests that conflict with my own values and belief system.
Rather than aligning myself with parties that promote agendas incompatible with my views, I want to organiz my local community, prioritizing grassroots involvement and direct democratic participation over representative party politics.
As a syndicalist, I firmly believe tha…

Social Welfare Function Leaderboard: When LLM Agents Allocate Social Welfare
Zhengliang Shi, Ruotian Ma, Jen-tse Huang, Xinbei Ma, Xingyu Chen, Mengru Wang, Qu Yang, Yue Wang, Fanghua Ye, Ziyang Chen, Shanyi Wang, Cixing Li, Wenxuan Wang, Zhaopeng Tu, Xiaolong Li, Zhaochun Ren, Linus
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01164

Social Welfare Function Leaderboard: When LLM Agents Allocate Social Welfare
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly entrusted with high-stakes decisions that affect human welfare. However, the principles and values that guide these models when distributing scarce societal resources remain largely unexamined. To address this, we introduce the Social Welfare Function (SWF) Benchmark, a dynamic simulation environment where an LLM acts as a sovereign allocator, distributing tasks to a heterogeneous community of recipients. The benchmark is designed to create a persis…

A great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. At Berlin Buzzwords, Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring discussed how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
Watch the full session: #bbuzz 2026: https://tickets.plainschwarz.com/bbuzz26/c/8Hvk0ZvJA/

Modularity and random graphs
Colin McDiarmid, Fiona Skerman
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22066 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.22066

Modularity and random graphs
This work will appear as a chapter in a forthcoming volume titled `Topics in Probabilistic Graph Theory'. For a given graph $G$, each partition of the vertices has a modularity score, with higher values indicating that the partition better captures community structure in $G$. The modularity $q^*(G)$ of $G$ is the maximum over all vertex-partitions of the modularity score, and satisfies $0\leq q^*(G)< 1$. Modularity lies at the heart of the most popular algorithms for community detection. In t…