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Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate.
by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton
In the series Prospects for Degrowth
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/10/29/minority-influence-how-can-degrow…

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, w…

Walter Koroshetz,
director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke,
will soon be leaving his role
His departure in the coming days means nearly half the 27 NIH divisions will have interim leaders.
Koroshetz sent an email to NINDS staff late Friday night explaining that a request to reappoint him was denied, adding that his current temporary extension ends Sunday

Director of NIH neurological disorders institute is ousted, adding to leadership churn
Walter Koroshetz, director of the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, will soon be leaving his role, STAT has learned. His departure

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, what we might call minima-maxima or degrowth as under-labourer in a democratic socialist transformation.  ‘Minima’ because it realistically notes that degrowth (whether it is a movement or not) "does not have the capacity to…

Minority influence: how can degrowth step up?
A contribution to the ecosocialism vs horizontalism debate. by Anna Gregoletto and Mark H Burton* A debate is in progress between alternative strategy prescriptions for degrowth. On the one side, w…

"Discarded Plastic Fishing Nets Are Turned into Filament for 3D Printers"
#Plastic #Plastics

Discarded Plastic Fishing Nets Are Turned into Filament for 3D Printers
A skipper will replace his nylon fishing net every 6 months, says Ian Falconer, and most of the time they're buried in a landfill or burned.

The Gavle Goat is DOWN! This massive straw goat, which is destroyed most years - despite the best efforts of the organizers - through various forms of arson, was taken down by a completely novel method: high winds.
https://metro.co.uk/2025/12/27/worlds-

The world's unluckiest Christmas decoration just met another unfortunate fate
Sweden's Gävle goat is believed to have roots in German paganism or Norse folklore. But each Christmas, it comes under threat.

Director of NIH neurological disorders institute is ousted, adding to leadership churn (Jonathan Wosen/STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/12/27/nih-neurological-disorders-stroke-institute-director-koroshetz-ousted/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p33#a251227p33

A Nonparametric Discrete Hawkes Model with a Collapsed Gaussian-Process Prior
Trinnhallen Brisley, Gordon Ross, Daniel Paulin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21996 https://

A Nonparametric Discrete Hawkes Model with a Collapsed Gaussian-Process Prior
Hawkes process models are used in settings where past events increase the likelihood of future events occurring. Many applications record events as counts on a regular grid, yet discrete-time Hawkes models remain comparatively underused and are often constrained by fixed-form baselines and excitation kernels. In particular, there is a lack of flexible, nonparametric treatments of both the baseline and the excitation in discrete time. To this end, we propose the Gaussian Process Discrete Hawkes …

A US judge decertifies a class action that accused Apple of monopolizing the market for iPhone apps, citing errors in the plaintiffs' damages model (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boa

A Theoretical Analysis of Discrete Flow Matching Generative Models
Maojiang Su, Mingcheng Lu, Jerry Yao-Chieh Hu, Shang Wu, Zhao Song, Alex Reneau, Han Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.22623

A Theoretical Analysis of Discrete Flow Matching Generative Models
We provide a theoretical analysis for end-to-end training Discrete Flow Matching (DFM) generative models. DFM is a promising discrete generative modeling framework that learns the underlying generative dynamics by training a neural network to approximate the transformative velocity field. Our analysis establishes a clear chain of guarantees by decomposing the final distribution estimation error. We first prove that the total variation distance between the generated and target distributions is c…

"Hundreds of road signs and billboards in France have been decorated with fake flames. Here’s why"
#France #Climate #ClimateChange

Why hundreds of road signs in France have been decorated with ‘flames’
Flames have been glued to a number of road signs and billboards across France, as activists beg ‘stop climate sabotage’.