@tante@tldr.nettime.org2025-10-09 08:57:05
This is just such a waste of money.
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/115343249383566862
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-10-07 12:52:49
Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/
@arXiv_csCR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-09 12:04:22
A Secure Sequencer and Data Availability Committee for Rollups (Extended Version)
Margarita Capretto, Mart\'in Ceresa, Antonio Fern\'andez Anta, Pedro Moreno S\'anchez, C\'esar S\'anchez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.06614
@arXiv_statME_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-08 08:29:32
Covariate adjustment for linear models in estimating treatment effects in randomised clinical trials. Some useful theory to guide simulation
Stephen Senn, Franz K\"onig, Martin Posch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05459
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2025-08-08 06:00:30
alright im going through my old files again and rediscovered a shitty unfinished sci-fi epic poem thing i was writing sometime when i was 14/15/idfk. all i remember about it is that it was gonna keep doing this countdown and changing structure accordingly for a really long time, i was thinking of depicting the character finding love in an ethereal sorta way for the ending, and it was gonna incorporate a enochian number square for some reason.
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-07 08:54:02
Cooperation in public goods game on regular lattices with agents changing interaction groups
Jaros{\l}aw Adam Miszczak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03772 https://
@simon_lucy@mastodon.social2025-10-01 12:53:51
Cooperative floor staff are about to go on strike as their way of working is changing so that they work on their own and not in pairs as they generally do.
This is a matter of safety at work.
#Employment #Cooperatives
@arXiv_csMA_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-05 08:13:30
A Group Consensus-Driven Auction Algorithm for Cooperative Task Allocation Among Heterogeneous Multi-Agents
Gang Wang, Hongfang Han, Xiaowei Liu, Hanfeng Jiang, Ming Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02015
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-09-03 13:14:23
RadioDiff-Loc: Diffusion Model Enhanced Scattering Congnition for NLoS Localization with Sparse Radio Map Estimation
Xiucheng Wang, Qiming Zhang, Nan Cheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01875
@samueljohn@mastodon.world2025-07-20 16:39:59
Good first success in getting back #CumCum billions.
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/cumcum-milliarden-zeit-ist-steuergeld/?utm_id=wa-recar
