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About us
This is the networking site for the UK degrowth community, which launched in September 2018. What is Degrowth? What is Degrowth UK? What is Degrowth? Degrowth is a radical alternative to the domina…

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…

🧟 How quickly mRNA degrades is linked to autoimmune disease risk
#mrna

How quickly mRNA degrades is linked to autoimmune disease risk
A pizza shop with 30 delivery people ought to be able to deliver a lot of pizzas—if their cars don't break down on the way. Likewise, genes that produce a lot of messenger RNA (mRNA) molecules can build a lot of proteins—if these molecules don't fall apart before the job gets done.

"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.

Double Descent as a Lens for Sample Efficiency in Autoregressive vs. Discrete Diffusion Models
Ahmad Fraij, Sam Dauncey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24974 https://

Double Descent as a Lens for Sample Efficiency in Autoregressive vs. Discrete Diffusion Models
Data scarcity drives the need for more sample-efficient large language models. In this work, we use the double descent phenomenon to holistically compare the sample efficiency of discrete diffusion and autoregressive models. We show that discrete diffusion models require larger capacity and more training epochs to escape their underparameterized regime and reach the interpolation threshold. In the strongly overparameterized regime, both models exhibit similar behavior, with neither exhibiting a…

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…

@… yo do you think you could fix a discord bug where if your connection changes, discord pretends that your screenshare is up but it's actually down? this is legit destroying my relationships

Ultra-Fast Language Generation via Discrete Diffusion Divergence Instruct
Haoyang Zheng, Xinyang Liu, Cindy Xiangrui Kong, Nan Jiang, Zheyuan Hu, Weijian Luo, Wei Deng, Guang Lin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25035

Ultra-Fast Language Generation via Discrete Diffusion Divergence Instruct
Fast generation of language texts is the holy grail that people pursue in the AI era. In this work, we introduced Discrete Diffusion Divergence Instruct (DiDi-Instruct), a training-based method that leads to fast language generation models by initializing from a pre-trained (masked) discrete diffusion language model (dLLM). The resulting DiDi-Instruct model outperforms the dLLM counterparts and the GPT-2 baseline with 64x acceleration. In the theoretical part of the paper, we build the foundati…

I hadn't seen this piece.
Nicely put by Filka Sekulova.
Key words: Degrowth - Red Pepper
#degrowth

Key words: Degrowth - Red Pepper
Degrowth is controversial, but it is a vital theoretical framework in our fight against climate collapse, explains Filka Sekulova

What is #degrowth?
We offer a definition wherein the fundamental core is the planned reduction of energy and material use to keep within planetary limits, while the associated 'pluriversal' belt of concepts and practices is also essential to degrowth.
Part of our response to @…