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Cork (Ireland), will host the 12th International Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in 2027 with satellite gatherings in Covilha (Portugal) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania).
Cork 2027 | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/conference/cork-2027

Cork 2027
Coming in August 2027 the 12th Conference will take place in Ireland, with satellite gatherings in Covilha (Portugal) and Cluj-Napoca (Romania). With a thematic focus on "policy, practice and culture" the event aims to help accelerate the decolonial momentum of the just transition, celebrating diverse, pluriversal voices from around the world and turning a critical eye on the extractivist policies.

#TIL there's a server limit on Discord 😅
Joining a new server will show "You must leave a server first to join."
There's a site to get the number of servers you are in: https://github.com/NobreHD/Discord-S…

> The pope has condemned clickbait
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/10/you-wont-believe-what-degrading-practice-the-pope-just-condemned

Trump repeatedly promised that his mass deportation efforts would target “the worst of the worst” criminals,
yet the government’s own data reveals that immigrants with no criminal record are the largest group in US immigration detention today.
How can the Trump administration justify its deployment of federal agents, and even the military, to US cities based on the factually disprovable fictions?

‘Spectacle of disorder’: How ICE creates the chaos ICE, cops, and the military are called in to ‘fix’
"Trump has been able to make this spectacle where you have disorder on one side and him on the other, and he can constantly encroach upon the civil rights of Americans by convincing us that this disorder is so systemic that only he can fix it."

Wise words on the Hickel-Liegey/Nelson debate.
Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth | degrowth.info
https://degrowth.info/en/blog/neither-the-either-nor-the-or-for-a-sideways-degrowth

Neither the either nor the or: for a sideways degrowth
Here we are again: a position in the degrowth movement becomes apparent, strong, almost dominant, and the other side responds, feeling misrepresented. And in reacting, it inevitably ends up claiming to be the herald of the “true Degrowth” and rejecting the contribution of the other side.

Linguistic trajectories of bipolar disorder on social media
Laurin Plank, Armin Zlomuzica
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10035 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.10035…

Linguistic trajectories of bipolar disorder on social media
Language provides valuable markers of affective disorders such as bipolar disorder (BD), yet clinical assessments remain limited in scale. In response, analyses of social media (SM) language have gained prominence due to their high temporal resolution and longitudinal scope. Here, we introduce a method to determine the timing of users' diagnoses and apply it to study language trajectories from 3 years before to 21 years after BD diagnosis - contrasted with uses reporting unipolar depression (UD…

FS-DFM: Neue Apple-KI-Modelle spucken lange Texte sehr schnell aus
Mittels "Few-Step Discrete Flow-Matching" will Apple beim Output großer Sprachmodelle den Turbo einschalten. Kooperationspartner ist eine US-Hochschule.

That Guardian article on decoupling. I managed to split the thread into two.
Part 1: https://mstdn.social/@degrowthuk/115706303130608298
And part 2:

Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document offers us a promising future: less production, less consumption... but, curiously, more public services, more rights, more democracy, more of everything good and none of the bad.

Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth…

Reflections beyond growth (V): Degrowth, fears and euphemisms – 15/15\15 https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2025/10/14/reflections-beyond-growth-v-degrowth-fears-and-euphemisms/

Reflections beyond growth (V): Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Álex López: The risk is clear: that degrowth will remain trapped between unspoken fears and the euphemisms that disguise it.