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Analysis: music copyright's global value rose 5.2% YoY to a record $47.2B in 2024; the revenue split favored labels and artists at 62%, above songwriters' 38% (Will Page/Pivotal Economics)
https://pivotaleconomics.com/undercurrents/music-copyright-2025

Global Value of Music Copyright Hits New All-Time High, Nearly Doubling in a Decade to $47.2bn in 2024 — Pivotal Economics
The global value of music copyright reached $47.2bn in 2024. That's up just $2.3bn (5.2%) on the prior year; growth is slowing largely because this is the first year where the pandemic effects have vanished.

India-listed RRP Semiconductor's stock surged 55,000% in the 20 months through Dec. 17, despite negative revenue; source: India's SEBI is examining the surge (Chiranjivi Chakraborty/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Battery costs keep going down, good news for energy transition and renewable energy.
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/batteries-now-cheap-enough-to-make-dispatchable-solar-economically-feasible/

Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible
Energy think tank Ember says utility-scale battery costs have fallen to $65/MWh outside China and the United States, enabling solar power to be delivered when needed.

Hoje encontrei o amarelinho (ex-prisioneiro) e a Escaminha. Em certo momento eles começar a disputar o mesmo prato ao invés de ficar cada um no seu, não dš nem pra entender kkkk.

Batteries now cheap enough to make dispatchable solar economically feasible (Uma Gupta/pv magazine International)
https://www.pv-magazine.com/2025/12/12/batteries-now-cheap-enough-to-make-dispatchable-solar-economically-feasible/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251214/p35#a251214p35

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy/

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism
Despite what you may have heard, colonial plunder didn’t give rise to capitalism. In an interview with Jacobin, Vivek Chibber discusses why the “colonialism-created-capitalism” argument fails, and why Marxism provides a better account of its emergence.

Russian generals say all goals of the war will be achieved.
Russian economists say despite the pressure the economy will outlast Ukraine’s.
Even Russian fan-boy Donald Trump says that Russia is much stronger and Kyiv has no cards left to play in the war.

Hearing only reassurance,
it is little wonder that President Vladimir Putin sees no reason for real concessions on Ukraine.
From the vantage point of the Kremlin, the war is going according to plan.

With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber
The Russian president has little incentive to compromise in the ongoing peace talks because everyone around him keeps reassuring him that Russia is winning.

🌳 Los Angeles without palm trees? An aesthetic, economic and climate debate grips California
https://english.elpais.com/lifestyle/2025-10-19/los-angeles-without-palm-trees-an-aesthetic-economic-and-…

Los Angeles without palm trees? An aesthetic, economic and climate debate grips California
Despite having the most trees of any city in the United States, LA barely invests in its greenery. And with many palms on their last legs, the city needs to decide what kind of trees in wants in future

PubSub-VFL: Towards Efficient Two-Party Split Learning in Heterogeneous Environments via Publisher/Subscriber Architecture
Yi Liu, Yang Liu, Leqian Zheng, Jue Hong, Junjie Shi, Qingyou Yang, Ye Wu, Cong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12494

PubSub-VFL: Towards Efficient Two-Party Split Learning in Heterogeneous Environments via Publisher/Subscriber Architecture
With the rapid advancement of the digital economy, data collaboration between organizations has become a well-established business model, driving the growth of various industries. However, privacy concerns make direct data sharing impractical. To address this, Two-Party Split Learning (a.k.a. Vertical Federated Learning (VFL)) has emerged as a promising solution for secure collaborative learning. Despite its advantages, this architecture still suffers from low computational resource utilization…

Republicans See No 'Blue Wave' on Horizon--Unless Economy Falters (David M. Drucker/The Dispatch)
https://thedispatch.com/article/republicans-optimistic-midterms-democrats-economy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251010/p103#a251010p103