eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
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On 10 February 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract with OHB Italia for the development of the Rapid Apophis Mission for Space Safety (Ramses): #Ramses will rendezvous with the asteroid Apophis before its rare close encounter with Earth. RPS and MARIE to investigate asteroid Apophis' passage through Earth's magnetosphere: https://www.dlr.de/en/blog/archive/ramses-mission-rps-and-marie-to-investigate-asteroid-apophis-passage-through-earth-s-magnetosphere
Study: using the SCONE-bench benchmark of 405 smart contracts, Claude Opus 4.5, Sonnet 4.5, and GPT-5 found and developed exploits collectively worth $4.6M (Anthropic)
https://red.anthropic.com/2025/smart-contracts/
Uber rewrote its UK driver contracts to act as an agent rather than a supplier of taxi services outside London, to avoid UK's new 20% "taxi tax" on total fares (Simon Goodley/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/202
Fifty years into the era of mass incarceration,
states like Arkansas, Montana, California, and Colorado
are pushing to build new prisons
and expand immigrant detention.
In this episode of Rattling the Bars, host Mansa Musa talks with
Nicole Porter of
"The Sentencing Project"
about how federal and state governments are
doubling down on new prison construction and ICE contracts
to expand the prison-industrial complex,
what…
@… Well, I didn’t really want to get into this discussion ;-) I only mentioned it because that’s the way it’s here: all academic staff has fixed-term contracts, the only difference is how often they can be renewed. In principle, this is a good idea, and the reason why already hints at why academic research/teaching is NOT a job like any other: aca…
@… Well, I didn’t really want to get into this discussion ;-) I only mentioned it because that’s the way it’s here: all academic staff has fixed-term contracts, the only difference is how often they can be renewed. In principle, this is a good idea, and the reason why already hints at why academic research/teaching is NOT a job like any other: aca…
"While not all consumers may wish to adapt their consumption behaviour, all consumers need to be provided access to the tools to enable their participation. Regulatory frameworks must drive, and not hinder, the delivery of such flexibility resources."
https:…
We call on Hootsuite CEO Irina Novoselsky to immediately end all contracts with ICE, DHS, CBP, and any related immigration enforcement agencies, and to publicly commit to never doing business with ICE again.
https://you.leadnow.ca/petitions/hootsuite-cancel-your-cont…
And Academi is very open about their involvement with FPS. They have a lot of contracts as guards.
https://www.academi-mill.com/WWS.html
United States will “reassert and enforce the Monroe Doctrine to restore American pre-eminence in the Western Hemisphere.” Orders diplomats to seek “major business opportunities in their country, especially major government contracts.”
http…
Are cell phone contracts super expensive in USA? Just heard advert say $50 was a really good offer.
I pay £10.80 a month for 120GB.
Kalshi says users can now trade tokenized versions of their wagers on Solana, in a bid to court crypto holders; Polymarket already allows on-chain trading (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/01/kalshi-makes-move-t…
Energy in the new Dutch coalition agreement.
1. Highest priority for electricity grid congestion. Better use of capacity by incentives in grid fees, flex contracts, and energy hubs. A crisis-law grid congestion to accelerate permitting procedures for grid expansion.
if anyone can help naming more specifically the following type of documents related to the MEP db of the EP website, so my FOIA request gets served:
- all specifications,
- all requirements,
- all bug/issue tracker items
- all budgetary decisions and their justification
- all contracts if this work is outsourced
i'm being stonewalled at
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
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If I understand correctly, the contracts for housing asylum-serkers in ramshackle hotels (because they can't work or access benefits) are open to rip-offs by hotel owners and the taxi firms contracted to do the transport.
So the people badly served are now further demonised and will mostly be denied help to get to health appointments.
Further demonisation.
Correct me if that's wrong because the news hasn't been very clear. BBC radio 4 played a part in this.
Das Kabinett will die Reform des #EEG achnell angehen. Das ist grundsätzlich gut und allerhöchste Eisenbahn, aber ich hoffe, dass die #Bürgerenergie projekte die bereits in Entwickkung sind nicht abgewürgt werden indem die Bedingungen maßgeblich verschlechtert werden.
Zero Carbon V2X Tariffs for Non-Domestic Customers
Elisheva S Shamash, Zhong Fan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.07308 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.07308 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.07308
arXiv:2512.07308v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: With the aim of meeting the worlds net-zero objectives, electricity trading through contractual agreements is becoming increasingly relevant in global and local energy markets. We develop contracts enabling efficient energy trading using Vehicle to Everything technology which can be applied to regulate energy markets and reduce costs and carbon emissions by using electric vehicles with bidirectional batteries to store energy during offpeak hours for export during peak hours. We introduce a contract based on the VCG mechanism which enables fleets of electric vehicles to export electricity to the grid efficiently throughout the day, where each electric vehicle has its energy consumption and exporting schedules and costs.
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NextEra Energy expands its partnership with Google Cloud to develop data centre campuses across the US and secures 2.5 GW of clean energy contracts from Meta (Vallari Srivastava/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/next…
lol. Are they negotiating contracts at BuzFeedVideo right now?
Leaseweb's annual service price increase will be 3.9% in 2026. Outside of domain registrations and big contracts, not many basic #hosting providers do this on such a consistent basis.
It is not unreasonable to charge more to account for inflation on salaries, rent, energy, etc. However, as we all know, hardware gets cheaper and better all the time. Are these customers getting more …
The great majority of people have to work in order to earn a livelihood, and a sizable proportion of them are productive workers. A huge number of workers are unproductive as well. They operate entirely with the circumstances and framework created by the capitalist system, such as shuffling invoices, contracts, credit slips, insurance policies, and so forth. Probably nine out of ten "workers" wouldn't have any work to do in a rational society -- one that would not require insur…
At least a dozen people have died in Gaza
as winter storms batter displaced Palestinians
forced to shelter in makeshift tents
among the rubble of collapsing buildings
severely damaged by Israeli bombing.
That rubble is being eyed by
U.S.-based contractors,
who are already vying for
lucrative contracts to rebuild Gaza
under the Trump-backed ceasefire deal.
“People are lining up and treating this the way they they treated reconstruc…
Wow, regulators shouldn't have stock in the companies they regulate, and they certainly shouldn't be subject to binding legal contracts that might curtail their actions.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115645290008746632
Syrskyi announces triple pay and flexible contracts for Ukraine’s Armed Forces starting in 2026: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/01/syrskyi-announces-triple-pay-and.html
Kalshi and Polymarket have facilitated over $800M in Super Bowl contracts, as pro gamblers shift to prediction markets and adopt Wall Street-style strategies (Bloomberg)
Palantir shifted course to play key role in ICE deportations
Even as Palantir took on extensive data-management contracts for the federal government,
the company said it was not willing to allow its powerful tools to broadly track immigrants across America.
That commitment no longer holds.
Palantir’s software is helping U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement track undocumented immigrants and deport them faster,
according to federal procurement filings and in…
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
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This has long been a French aspiration: that there should be futures contracts for the afternoon (currently there are only base and peak contracts, which no longer reflect the fundamentally changed reality brought about by solar power generation).
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Syndicalist unions are fundamentally different from the bureaucratic trade unions that dominate today. Modern unions function as institutional frameworks that negotiate within capitalism, often acting to preserve the system rather than challenge it. They centralize power in hierarchical leadership, limit direct worker control, and prioritize legal contracts and state approval over genuine worker autonomy.
Syndicalism rejects this institutionalized framework. It refuses collective barga…
The US CFTC announces that spot crypto asset contracts will begin trading for the first time on CFTC-registered futures exchanges (Shashwat Chauhan/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/spot-crypto-products-begin-t…
eu_procurements: EU procurement contract networks (2008-2016)
A bipartite network of public EU procurement contracts, from 2008 to 2016, between issuing buyers (public institutions such as a ministry or city hall) and supplying winners (a private firm). Contracts are aggregated into annual snapshots, edges are annotated with contract value information. Nodes are annotated with location information, including country of origin.
This network has 839824 nodes and 4098711 edges.
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Arm Angles in American Sign Language: The Textbook That Teaches What Other Textbooks Ignore
Watch any native signer and then watch an intermediate student. The difference is not in the handshapes. It is not in the facial expressions, though those matter. The difference lives in the arms. The native signer's shoulders engage when emphasis requires it. The elbows extend and contract with meaning. The signing space expands for formal address and contracts for intimacy.…
The U.S. Space Force announced Friday it has awarded satellite contracts with a combined value of about $1.6 billion
to Rocket Lab in Long Beach and
to the Redondo Beach Space Park campus of Northrop Grumman.
The contracts by the Space Development Agency
will fund the construction by each company of 18 satellites
for a network in development
that will provide warning of advanced threats
such as hypersonic missiles
Trump buys millions in Boeing bonds while awarding it contracts | Responsible Statecraft
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/trump-boeing-intel/
A US judge rules Google must renegotiate annually any contract that makes its search engine or AI app the default on smartphones and other devices (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-05/google-must-limit-d…
Angor is a crowdfunding protocol for nostr and bitcoin.
Dan here is building it. Kickstarter without middle men.
Accountability is key. What stops the fund raiser just fleeing with the coin?
Funds are programmed to be released in stages, time locked in a multisig.
So if they aren't meeting milestones, investors can withdraw. If the founders are buying lambos instead of building, just cash out at that point.
Permissionless and decentralised, no servers except nostr relays and bitcoin nodes. No third party's claiming 30 percent fees. The system is a nostr client scanning relays for investment object types. Allowing investment into the funding contracts and subscription to updates.
#nostr #nostrshire #angor
Kristi Noem has hailed a more than $200 million, taxpayer-funded ad campaign as a crucial tool to stem illegal immigration.
Her agency invoked the “national emergency” at the border as it awarded contracts for the campaign,
bypassing the normal competitive bidding process designed to prevent waste and corruption.
The Department of Homeland Security has kept at least one beneficiary of the nine-figure ad deal a secret,
records and interviews show:
a Republican c…
The Dutch energy regulator now formally allows companies to share their combined grid capacity – by sharing generation and consumption in a smart way, they can often expand despite gridlock. From 2027, grid operators will be required to offer such contracts.
https://www.
A US judge rules Kalshi's sports-betting contracts are subject to Nevada Gaming Commission enforcement; Kalshi argues they should be regulated only by the CFTC (Lydia Beyoud/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
Summize, which uses AI to let in-house legal teams manage contract workflows within apps like Slack, raised $50M, bringing its total funding to $65M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2026…
Donald Trump’s “pay-to-play” governing and fundraising style is helping forge a new gilded age
where many super rich donors to Trump’s Maga Inc Pac and other top Trump causes are reaping big political and financial gains,
including lax regulations, federal contracts and other benefits, say scholars and analysts.
The transactional style of the US president has been a financial boon to cryptocurrency, AI and fossil fuel interests, among others,
which have showered seven…
As tech CEOs stay silent after two fatal shootings, 450 workers at Google, Meta, OpenAI, Amazon, and others urge CEOs to cancel any ICE contracts and speak out (Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/01/26/tech-workers-ceos-ice
Robinhood plans to launch a futures and derivatives exchange with Susquehanna in 2026 and says it's buying MIAXdx, which clears and executes derivatives trades (Hannah Erin Lang/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
DraftKings launches DraftKings Predictions, a new app that lets customers in 38 states trade contracts on sports and financial events through prediction markets (Ira Boudway/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Polymarket is hosting a growing number of contracts related to military conflicts, including China invading Taiwan; possible US strikes in Iran has $18M volume (Denitsa Tsekova/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Sequence, which builds AI agents to automate B2B companies' revenue operations, raised a $20M Series A led by 645 Ventures, bringing its total funding to ~$40M (Ryan Lawler/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/fintech-deals/2025/12/16/sequence-20-million-re…
Now that Musk has offloaded Twitter and his AI experiments to SpaceX, he can be sure the government will bail it out when the AI bubble pops. The government's defense industry depends upon SpaceX for access to space.
This is probably the main reason for the "sale" transferring money from one of Musk's bank accounts to another of Musk's bank accounts.
The AI price bubble popping could have wiped out xAI and thus Twitter with it, but now it's cushioned against that by contracts with a government who can't afford to allow their only real space access to go bust.
So he can subsidize his failing AI business and his unprofitable media-manipulation efforts at Twitter with his government-protected failing exploding space-rocket project.
All protected by the lie which the media keep repeating uncritically that it makes any sense at all to have data centers in space.
What a great businessman.
#musk #spacex #twitter #xai
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