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So now that Meet.Coop isn't working (they shut down the @… instance and don't seem to be able to bring it back) wondering if anyone knows of another #privacy or #cooperative

Reactie op e-mail van PRO.
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Subject: Re: Ben je er nog?
To: GroenLinks-PvdA <vragen@groenlinkspvda.nl>
Date: Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:35:19 0200 (6 minutes, 41 seconds ago)
Organization: Reasonable Sourcery Cooperative UA
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Japan, the Philippines and the United States held joint military drills near the Bashi Channel -- the waterway between the Philippines and Taiwan, for the first time earlier this week.
The naval and aerial exercises were conducted under the framework of the Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MMCA), and ran from Feb. 20 through Thursday.
On Tuesday, the Maritime Self-Defense Force took part in the drills, deploying a P-3C patrol aircraft for flight training alongside the…

Probing Dec-POMDP Reasoning in Cooperative MARL
Kale-ab Tessera, Leonard Hinckeldey, Riccardo Zamboni, David Abel, Amos Storkey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.20804 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.20804 https://arxiv.org/html/2602.20804
arXiv:2602.20804v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) is typically framed as a decentralised partially observable Markov decision process (Dec-POMDP), a setting whose hardness stems from two key challenges: partial observability and decentralised coordination. Genuinely solving such tasks requires Dec-POMDP reasoning, where agents use history to infer hidden states and coordinate based on local information. Yet it remains unclear whether popular benchmarks actually demand this reasoning or permit success via simpler strategies. We introduce a diagnostic suite combining statistically grounded performance comparisons and information-theoretic probes to audit the behavioural complexity of baseline policies (IPPO and MAPPO) across 37 scenarios spanning MPE, SMAX, Overcooked, Hanabi, and MaBrax. Our diagnostics reveal that success on these benchmarks rarely requires genuine Dec-POMDP reasoning. Reactive policies match the performance of memory-based agents in over half the scenarios, and emergent coordination frequently relies on brittle, synchronous action coupling rather than robust temporal influence. These findings suggest that some widely used benchmarks may not adequately test core Dec-POMDP assumptions under current training paradigms, potentially leading to over-optimistic assessments of progress. We release our diagnostic tooling to support more rigorous environment design and evaluation in cooperative MARL.
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Logistics fleets are highly sensitive to energy costs, so charging rates must be as low as possible to enable the transition to battery-electric vehicles.
A French cooperative of logistics operators is targeting a shared charging infrastructure with a market-leading rate of just €0.20/kWh.

Alphya structure son réseau de recharge et vise 0,20 €/kWh
Créée au printemps 2025 dans le giron de H2P, la holding Alphya fédère actuellement 95 transporteurs actionnaires et déploie un maillage national de bornes électriques pour poids lourd mutualisées. L’objectif affiché par sa direction opérationnelle : maîtriser le coût de l’électron pour rendre l’électrique compétitif face au diesel.

After more than a year on @… I haven't received any reminder to renew my financial contribution. Is this normal? Is renewal simply left to members' own initiative?
My question on #Loomio :

Question about the contribution renewal process
Hello,

On October 8, 2024, I made a contribution of £36.00 GBP to join the social.coop cooperative.

Time has passed and today (2026-02-28), I just thought about renewing my financial contribution, in the amount of £12.00 GBP.

I am surprised not to have received any message requesting a renewal of my financial contribution. I don't think I received an email, I saw nothing on the https://social.coop interface, and nothing on https://opencollective.com either.

I found…

I live in Bergen, Norway. I’m not a fan of political parties, and I really value living in shared, cooperative communities.
Lately, I’ve felt guilty for not taking part in the recent protests in solidarity with Rojava, I wish I’d done my part.
Don’t be like me, get out there, protest, support your community, and don’t stay quiet.
#Rojava

Pattern Formation in a Spatial Public Goods Dilemma due to Diffusive or Directed Motion
Yuxuan Zhao, Kaisheng Zhu, Yefei Zhang, Daniel B. Cooney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.21025 https://arxiv.org/html/2603.21025
arXiv:2603.21025v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: The costly provision of public goods serves as a model problem for the evolution of cooperative behavior, presenting a social dilemma between the collective benefits of shared resources and the individual incentive to free-ride in resource production. The spatial structure of populations can also impact cooperation over public goods, as diffusion of public goods and intentional motion of individuals towards regions with greater resources can interact with population and public goods dynamics to produce heterogeneous patterns in the spatial distribution of strategies and resources. In this paper, we build off a model introduced by Young and Belmonte for the reaction dynamics of interacting individuals and explicit public good, deriving a system of PDEs that describes the spatial profiles of strategies and the public good in the presence of both diffusive motion of individuals and resources and chemotaxis-like directed motion of individuals in response to gradients in the concentration of public goods. Through linear stability analysis, we show that spatial patterns in strategic and public goods profiles can emerge due to either Turing instability with high defector diffusivity or a directed-motion instability through strong sensitivity of cooperators towards increasing resource concentration. We further explore the emergent spatial patterns with a mix of weakly nonlinear stability analysis and numerical simulation, showing that diffusion-driven instability appears to increase cooperation and public goods across the spatial domain, while directed motion of cooperators towards regions with great public goods provision tends to decrease cooperation and environmental quality across the environment.
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Good Morning #Canada
A few weeks ago our local #CBCradio host was interviewing an debt counselor, likely due to the arrival of Christmas credit card bills. The segment reinforced the data that Canadians carry high levels of debt, unfortunately among the highest percentage of income worldwide. Mortgage debt, according to ##StatsCan, is flat to slightly declining, likely because new home purchases by younger Canadians is down, but car loans, personal lines of credit, and credit card debt are all up in 2025.
Our government continues to try and respond by offering tax credits and supplemental payments which invariably get sucked up by corporations. They have to change the game - build public housing or invest in leasehold or cooperative homes, build public options for utilities, internet, food or other necessities. Invest heavily in public transit and subsidize it so that it's low cost or free. Remove corporate profits from necessities.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Finance
https://globalnews.ca/news/11544814/canadians-debts-rise-survey/