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«I don’t know how to run a community forum in this future. I do not have the time or emotional energy to screen out regular attacks by Large Language Models, with the knowledge that making the wrong decision costs a real human being their connection to a niche community. I do not know how to determine whether someone’s post about their new bicycle is genuine enthusiasm or automated astroturf.»
I hate everything about this future and how it isolates us.
https://aphyr.com/posts/389-the-future-of-forums-is-lies-i-guess

> As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
I haven't even read the article but (considering how strongly I agree with the premises here) I'm mostly just sad about how clearly this highlights the financial capture of the DNC
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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry - The American Prospect

Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.

Data center buildout is so large that Siemens have troubles with scaling up a production of turbines that are required for all of those gas power plants that has to be built to power them
https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-en

'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
Details about how Meta's nearly Manhattan-sized data center will impact consumers' power bills are still secret.

Kingston Community Energy (2012) - Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen -

Kingston Community Energy (2012)
Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen

A Novel IaaS Tax Model as Leverage Towards Green Cloud Computing
Benedikt Pittl, Werner Mach, Erich Schikuta
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02767 https://arxiv…

A Novel IaaS Tax Model as Leverage Towards Green Cloud Computing
The cloud computing technology uses datacenters, which require energy. Recent trends show that the required energy for these datacenters will rise over time, or at least remain constant. Hence, the scientific community developed different algorithms, architectures, and approaches for improving the energy efficiency of cloud datacenters, which are summarized under the umbrella term Green Cloud computing. In this paper, we use an economic approach - taxes - for reducing the energy consumption of …

Kingston Community Energy (2012) - Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen -

Kingston Community Energy (2012)
Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen

What you truly need to vibe and thrive is simple, some good food to nourish your body, clean water to keep your spirit flowing, a little movement to keep the energy dancing, and a cozy spot to rest your head. When you’re living in community, sharing the love and looking out for each other, all that falls beautifully into place.
What you don’t need is a giant screen flashing noise at you, the newest shiny gadgets or games, or getting caught up in the endless swirl of political drama. Re…

Real-Time Energy Management Strategies for Community Microgrids
Moslem Uddin, Huadong Mo, Daoyi Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22931 https://

Real-Time Energy Management Strategies for Community Microgrids
This study presents a real-time energy management framework for hybrid community microgrids integrating photovoltaic, wind, battery energy storage systems, diesel generators, and grid interconnection. The proposed approach formulates the dispatch problem as a multi-objective optimization task that aims to minimize operational costs. Two control strategies are proposed and evaluated: a conventional rule-based control (RBC) method and an advanced deep reinforcement learning (DRL) approach utilizi…

Mathematicians are excited about how Cairo’s work will inspire new research. “I am certain that, from now on, whenever we come upon a problem of similar flavor, we will try to test it against Cairo-like constructions,” Oliveira said.
He and others in the harmonic analysis community will also have to reckon with a changed landscape.
In harmonic analysis, there’s a constellation of questions about how the energy of a wave concentrates.
If a conjecture known as Stein’s conje…

At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery | Quanta Magazine
After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture.

'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community
https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louisiana-community/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Kingston Community Energy (2012) - Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen -

Kingston Community Energy (2012)
Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen

Debunking myths about Scotland's wind energy production and high energy bills - understanding the importance of modernizing grid infrastructure for long-term affordability and reliability. #climatechange #climatesolutions

Community calls out misguided theory about electricity supply: 'You simply aren't understanding'
Scotland once again finds itself at the heart of a spirited online debate over its wind energy.

Community Detection in Energy Networks based on Energy Self-Sufficiency and Dynamic Flexibility Activation
Philipp Danner, Hermann de Meer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19412

Community Detection in Energy Networks based on Energy Self-Sufficiency and Dynamic Flexibility Activation
The global energy transition towards distributed, smaller-scale resources, such as decentralized generation and flexible assets like storage and shiftable loads, demands novel control structures aligned with the emerging network architectures. These architectures consist of interconnected, self-contained clusters, commonly called microgrids or energy communities. These clusters aim to optimize collective self-sufficiency by prioritizing local energy use or operating independently during wide-ar…

Oh great, the 3 warmest months of July on record globally are now 2023, 2024, and 2025.
https://mstdn.social/@Powerfromspace1/114994787705123922

PKPs Powerfromspace1 (@Powerfromspace1@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image @extretemps@toot.community #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming July 2025 Worldwide,according to NASA, had a temperature anomaly of +0.45C vs 1991/2020 (+1.03C vs 1951/1980) and was the 3rd hottest July on record, +0.16C behind both those of 2023 and 2024. https://bsky.app/profile/extremetemps.bsky.social/post/3lvvxirf7mc2i

'A Black Hole of Energy Use': Meta's Massive AI Data Center Is Stressing Out a Louisiana Community https://www.404media.co/a-black-hole-of-energy-use-metas-massive-ai-data-center-is-stressing-out-a-louis…

Kingston Community Energy (2012) - Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen -

Kingston Community Energy (2012)
Creating non-for-profit community (solar PV) energy schemes was undermined by whiplash changes in government support. #community #microgen

"UK offshore wind developers set to pay more for staff training and community development"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #WindTurbines

Evolutionary model for energy trading in community microgrids using Hawk-Dove strategies
Viorica Rozina Chifu, Tudor Cioara, Cristina Bianca Pop, Ionut Anghel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.06325

Evolutionary model for energy trading in community microgrids using Hawk-Dove strategies
This paper proposes a decentralized model of energy cooperation between microgrids, in which decisions are made locally, at the level of the microgrid community. Each microgrid is modeled as an autonomous agent that adopts a Hawk or Dove strategy, depending on the level of energy stored in the battery and its role in the energy trading process. The interactions between selling and buying microgrids are modeled through an evolutionary algorithm. An individual in the algorithm population is repre…

Energy Experience Design
Brian Sutherland
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05869 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05869

Energy Experience Design
The material footprint of information and communications technology (ICT) systems is both significant and growing, inspiring a variety of conversations around sustainability and climate justice. In part this effort has been catalysed by past scholarship and analysis from the LIMITS community. This paper examines energy storage systems for computing, particularly batteries -- which are discarded at the rate of 15 billion a year worldwide. The International Energy Agency (IEA) is now referring to…

An Explainable Equity-Aware P2P Energy Trading Framework for Socio-Economically Diverse Microgrid
Abhijan Theja, Mayukha Pal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18738 https://

An Explainable Equity-Aware P2P Energy Trading Framework for Socio-Economically Diverse Microgrid
Fair and dynamic energy allocation in community microgrids remains a critical challenge, particularly when serving socio-economically diverse participants. Static optimization and cost-sharing methods often fail to adapt to evolving inequities, leading to participant dissatisfaction and unsustainable cooperation. This paper proposes a novel framework that integrates multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming (MILP), cooperative game theory, and a dynamic equity-adjustment mechanism driven…

Building an Open CGRA Ecosystem for Agile Innovation
Rohan Juneja, Pranav Dangi, Thilini Kaushalya Bandara, Zhaoying Li, Dhananjaya Wijerathne, Li-Shiuan Peh, Tulika Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19090

Building an Open CGRA Ecosystem for Agile Innovation
Modern computing workloads, particularly in AI and edge applications, demand hardware-software co-design to meet aggressive performance and energy targets. Such co-design benefits from open and agile platforms that replace closed, vertically integrated development with modular, community-driven ecosystems. Coarse-Grained Reconfigurable Architectures (CGRAs), with their unique balance of flexibility and efficiency are particularly well-suited for this paradigm. When built on open-source hardware…

Why Compressed Metal Hydrides are Near-room-temperature Superconductors
Warren E. Pickett
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18429 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.18429…

Why Compressed Metal Hydrides are Near-room-temperature Superconductors
This contribution provides a partial response to the titular statement since, it will be claimed,the ``why'' is not yet understood, but there is a pathway for achieving a more complete understanding. The sense of the community has been that, given a prospective metal hydride and pressure, the energy landscape can be surveyed computationally for thermodynamic and dynamic stability, the Eliashberg spectral function with its required input (energy bands, phonon modes, coupling matrix elements) can…

A Roadmap for Climate-Relevant Robotics Research
Alan Papalia, Charles Dawson, Laurentiu L. Anton, Norhan Magdy Bayomi, Bianca Champenois, Jung-Hoon Cho, Levi Cai, Joseph DelPreto, Kristen Edwards, Bilha-Catherine Githinji, Cameron Hickert, Vindula Jayawardana, Matthew Kramer, Shreyaa Raghavan, David Russell, Shide Salimi, Jingnan Shi, Soumya Sudhakar, Yanwei Wang, Shouyi Wang, Luca Carlone, Vijay Kumar, Daniela Rus, John E. Fernandez, Cathy Wu, George Kantor, Derek Young, Hanumant Sin…

A Roadmap for Climate-Relevant Robotics Research
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, and many in the robotics community are looking for ways to contribute. This paper presents a roadmap for climate-relevant robotics research, identifying high-impact opportunities for collaboration between roboticists and experts across climate domains such as energy, the built environment, transportation, industry, land use, and Earth sciences. These applications include problems such as energy systems optimization, construct…

Semi-supervised Community Detection using Glauber Dynamics for an Ising Model
Konstantin Avrachenkov, Diego Goldsztajn
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.09223 htt…

Semi-supervised Community Detection using Glauber Dynamics for an Ising Model
We consider graphs with two communities and analyze an algorithm for learning the community labels when the edges of the graph and only a small fraction of the labels are known in advance. The algorithm is based on the Glauber dynamics for an Ising model where the energy function includes a quadratic penalty on the magnetization. The analysis focuses on graphs sampled from a Stochastic Block Model (SBM) with slowly growing mean degree. We derive a mean-field limit for the magnetization of each …

Formalizing Informal Communication: An Archaeology of the Early Pre-Web Preprint Infrastructure at CERN
Phillip H. Roth
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12812 ht…

Formalizing Informal Communication: An Archaeology of the Early Pre-Web Preprint Infrastructure at CERN
This article deals with the early development of preprint communication in high-energy physics, specifically with how preprint communication was formalized in the early 1960s at CERN. It employs a sociological conception of infrastructures to ask which practices and technologies of communication structured the use of preprints in high-energy physics at the time and subsequently solidified into the research community's communication and information infrastructure. The investigation conducts a me…

Smart Residential Community Simulator for Developing and Benchmarking Energy Management Systems
Ninad Gaikwad, Anamika Dubey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09106 https://

Smart Residential Community Simulator for Developing and Benchmarking Energy Management Systems
Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) are being actively developed for both individual houses and communities to support demand response in on-grid operation, and ensure resilience during off-grid scenarios. However, most simulators used for closed-loop HEMS testing are tailored to a specific distributed energy resource (DER) configuration with a fixed number of houses, limiting flexibility and scalability. This leads to additional development efforts to support diverse DER configurations acros…

Between #GiveUpGitHub and #iNaturalist jumping the "AI" shark, I'm extra grateful for infrastructures like @… that have democratic governance mechanisms to give contributors a real vote and power in decision making.
I hope more folks use those opportunities to find infrastructures that they can actually co-own, instead of wasting time & energy in dictatorial platforms that at best "make the community feel heard" (notice the subtle difference between being heard and feeling heard).

Sending all my love and femme energy to the beautiful LGBTQIA community. 🏳️‍🌈💖
You inspire me every single day, keep shining, keep slaying, and keep being your authentic selves! 🏳️‍⚧️✨
Together, we’re unstoppable. 🌈💪
#TransAlly #LGBTQIA

$WWh$ anomalous couplings at one loop from a seesaw variant of radiatively-induced neutrino masses
H\'ector Novales-S\'anchez, Enrique Ram\'irez, M\'onica Salinas, Humberto V\'azquez-Castro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05574

$WWh$ anomalous couplings at one loop from a seesaw variant of radiatively-induced neutrino masses
After the successful measurement of the Higgs-like particle at the Large Hadron Collider, the determination of whether it corresponds to either the minimal version of the Higgs scalar, provided by the Standard Model, or to some new physics, so far unknown, has become a main objective of the high-energy-physics community. In particular, the investigation of the couplings of this particle with the rest of the Standard-Model field content is a central task. To this aim, in the present paper we con…

Optimal Sizing and Control of a Grid-Connected Battery in a Stacked Revenue Model Including an Energy Community
Tudor Octavian Pocola, Valentin Robu, Jip Rietveld, Sonam Norbu, Benoit Couraud, Merlinda Andoni, David Flynn, H. Vincent Poor
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04343

Optimal Sizing and Control of a Grid-Connected Battery in a Stacked Revenue Model Including an Energy Community
Recent years have seen rapid increases in intermittent renewable generation, requiring novel battery energy storage systems (BESS) solutions. One recent trend is the emergence of large grid-connected batteries, that can be controlled to provide multiple storage and flexibility services, using a stacked revenue model. Another emerging development is renewable energy communities (REC), in which prosumers invest in their own renewable generation capacity, but also requiring battery storage for fle…