@memeorandum@universeodon.comEconomic Anger Once Again Punishes the Party in Power (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/economic-anger-once-again-punishes-the-party-in-power-71d14d18
http://www.memeorandum.com/251105/p175#a251105p175
@cdarwin@c.imChief Justice John Roberts,
who has used his position to do Trump a lot of favors,
noted that Trump’s use of IEEPA to claim an unlimited tariff authority ran up against the separation of powers.
Tariffs are “taxes on Americans, and that has always been the core power of Congress,” he said.
Justice Neil Gorsuch, likewise a reliable pro-Trump vote, worried that gifting Trump a vast power to impose tariffs would be a “one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual ac…
@trochee@dair-community.social> As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
I haven't even read the article but (considering how strongly I agree with the premises here) I'm mostly just sad about how clearly this highlights the financial capture of the DNC
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Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry - The American Prospect
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pageUkrainian-style oligarchic economies: how concentrated power undermines value added in production chains
Jakub Karnowski, Przemyslaw Szufel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02949 http…
@hex@kolektiva.socialWhat are you going to do when the regime falls? After calling all your friends, after the great memes, after the parties, what are you going to do to make sure it never happens again? What world should we create?
Taxing billionaires is great and all, but we could build systems where billionaires are impossible. Is hoarding wealth and using it to control people even something we should consider part of a functional and humane system? Any system where one group of people doesn't have rights means that anyone can be stripped of their rights, like has happened with all the US citizens who've been illegally detained and deported by ICE. Does the concept of "rights" that must be defended with violence, that can be stripped away by people who can exercise more violence, even make sense? Or should the bedrock of a functional system be the obligations that we have to each other and to society, that cannot be severed or taken from us, that tell us we *must* defend regardless of whether systemic oppression will impact us or not?
Americans have been so restricted by the limitations of the two party system, only able to choose between options acceptable to different sections of the capitalist class. Would we even be able to imagine what we could do if those restrictions went away?
The fall of the Berlin wall was a surprise. The fall of Assad was faster than anyone expected. One day the government of Nepal was an unrepentant oligarchy, the next it was on fire. Everything can change in an instant, faster than anyone expects. No one can predict revolutionary change. Will you be ready if the opportunity presents itself?
The US cannot be fixed. The economic system is a ponzi scheme that has been patched again and again, but has finally run out of options. Racism, sexism, and Christian nationalism are baked into the system at every level. Trump gutted the system of soft power that held the US economy together, now there is only a slow decline. Even after he's gone, the damage is done. Once we let go of how to fix something that cannot be fixed, we can start to imagine something that cannot be achieved within the current system.
This is a time of opportunity. Do not burrow so deep in terror that you miss your chance to dream.
#USPol
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageDeep Reinforcement Learning-Based Decision-Making Strategy Considering User Satisfaction Feedback in Demand Response Program
Xin Li, Li Ding, Qiao Lin, Zhen-Wei Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.02946
@midtsveen@social.linux.pizzaRevolutionary syndicalism is a radical political and economic ideology that developed in the late 19th century and continued to influence the 20th century. Its central aim was to place political and economic power directly in the hands of the working class through the organized strength of trade unions, rather than through traditional parliamentary or state-centered politics.
Emerging from the intersection of Marxist critiques of capitalism and anarchist suspicions of centralized autho…
@StephenRees@mas.toFrom David Suzuki
Our current economic path leads to disaster
An economic approach that rewards waste, greed and endless growth isn’t compatible with today’s reality. But as some cling to this destructive, outdated, fossil-fuelled system in their pursuit of greater wealth and power, others are experimenting with better ways.
We invent economic systems to facilitate production and distribution of goods, services and wealth, and to maintain societal stability.
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social"The US is the richest country in the world!"
Oh yeah? What does its balance sheet look like?
Obviously it's absurd to ask that question, as any economist will happily explain why national debts shouldn't be treated like real money.
But it's also absurd that it's absurd to ask that question, and there's a thread to pull here: is the US "rich" because many billionaires live here? That doesn't seem to improve the lives of most of the population. Is it because our median income is so much larger than many other countries? That's in large part a product of exchange rates, since costs of living are also higher here, so is the real reason the fact that the dollar has so much purchasing power? Why does it?
Well, at some level of abstraction, exchange rates boil down to: "How much confidence do the ultra-rich place in the stability of the country" which is intimately related to: "How much military/diplomatic power does the country have?"
So... The US is the "richest" country in the world because it uses its military dominance to bully other countries and keep them down, and it also uses the resulting economic dominance to do the same. We can see this happening via US-sponsored coups, International Monetary Fund bullying, and attendant multinational corporate looting of countries with little economic power (rampant in Africa and Central America, for example).
@arXiv_statOT_bot@mastoxiv.pageGrid Transmission Evaluation for Solar Deployment and Data Center Growth
Kajal Sheth, Dhvanil Patel, Shyam Kareepadath Sajeev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.01778 https://
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialFrom Greta's book. 🎯
@arXiv_mathOC_bot@mastoxiv.pageMultistage Robust Optimization for Time-Decoupled Power Flexibility Aggregation with Energy Storage
Rui Xie, Yue Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14477 https://
@izzychambers@vivaldi.net@… Good. An economic turndown is the only thing that will get MAGA out of power.
@arXiv_econTH_bot@mastoxiv.pageIntegrated analysis of informality, minimum wage, and monopsony power: A synthesis of meta-analyses with unified theoretical underpinnings
Ricardo Alonzo Fernandez Salguero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20465
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageAlgorithmic A-Legality: Shorting the Human Future through AI
Scott Veitch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18195 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.18195
@cdarwin@c.imIt has always been in our nation’s darkest chapters that 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁𝘀 𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗲.
We are — each and every one of us, whether we like it or not — living history today.
It is a time in which demanding what should be considered the most basic tenets of human dignity is considered 𝘢 𝘳𝘢𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘢𝘤𝘵.
To demand affordable housing,
a decent wage,
the right to healthcare,
that we pay to care for our people,
instead of the flattening of Palesti…
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageIncorporating flexibility and resilience demand into capacity market considering the guidance on generation investment
Yunpeng Xiao, Hui Guo, Wenqi Wu, Xiuli Wang, Xifan Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23269
@davej@dice.campAfter its worst electoral defeat ever, the #LNP’s new direction is… to punch down?
Let’s set aside, for a moment, their eternal hate-boner for the unemployed and the disabled.
Howard relentlessly porkbarrelled seniors and created millions of middle-class welfare dependants who kept the LNP in power for 20 of the last 30 years. Now *they’re* fair game, too?
There’s nobody at the helm. Ley…
@cdarwin@c.imTrump may be chipping away at America's economic advantage.
In recent weeks, Donald Trump fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics when her agency reported weak job growth
and tried to force out officials at the Federal Reserve when they refused to cut interest rates.
He and his aides have used the power of the federal government to target
— and perhaps criminally prosecute
— perceived enemies, including at the Fed, and to pressure companies over thei…
@arXiv_csNI_bot@mastoxiv.pageReal World Assets on-Chain Assistance Low-Altitude Computility Networks: Architecture, Methodology, and Challenges
Haoxiang Luo, Ruichen Zhang, Yinqiu Liu, Gang Sun, Hongfang Yu, Zhu Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17911
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageAI Data Centers Need Pioneers to Deliver Scalable Power via Offgrid AI
Steven P. Reinhardt
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18214 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.1821…
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025 Southeast Asia Eleven Nations Influence Index Report
Wei Meng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19953 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.19953
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social@… Energy should always be produced as close as possible to where it is consumed, and the equipment owned by the consumers. It is essential to life and should not be used to underpin political or economic power. I cannot understand the farmers of Caithness, whose only thought was to sell underproductive land to the power companies, instead of making it availa…
@gfriend@mas.toComing Wednesday: "Live from @SustainableBrands! It's ‘Living Between Worlds’!”
Join us for this conversation for possibility. https://www.bit.ly/LivingBetweenWorlds
@cdarwin@c.imLow-income Americans slash spending, in a worrying sign for the economy
Consumers of all income levels scale back and hold out for discounts, leaving the economy on shaky ground.
But this shift is most pronounced among lower-income consumers,
who are disproportionately vulnerable to rising prices and other economic pressures eroding their purchasing power
“U.S. consumer spending is not just softening overall, it’s doing so in a fragmented way …
and that’s a re…
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageStochastic Economic Dispatch with Battery Energy Storage considering Wind and Load Uncertainty
Shishir Lamichhane, Anamika Dubey
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18100 https://…
@arXiv_csDC_bot@mastoxiv.pageOn the Operational Resilience of CBDC: Threats and Prospects of Formal Validation for Offline Payments
Marco Bernardo, Federico Calandra, Andrea Esposito, Francesco Fabris
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08064
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageOpenness in AI and downstream governance: A global value chain approach
Christopher Foster
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10220 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.1022…
@cdarwin@c.im• Solar and wind capacities can serve as insurance against gas supply shocks.
• We analyzed the economic value of increased renewable power capacity.
• Externality-based pricing can offer strategic risk management for power systems.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti
@buercher@tooting.chAnother intriguing finding of the research, though, is that despite their economic costs, these leaders tend to be good at holding on to power, lasting on average eight years, compared with four for their more moderate equivalents.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/ng-interactive/2025/oct/26/do-populists-always-crash-the-economy?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
@cdarwin@c.imHi, it’s Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
If we do not assert ourselves and enshrine our rights
— and demand healthcare, and education, and dignity
— the alternative is barbarism,
which is what we are contending with now.
If we do not win unions, healthcare, wages, and ending endless war,
then we will condemn ourselves to barbarism.
𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘂𝗽. 𝗜 𝗿𝗲𝗳𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝘂𝗯𝗺𝗶𝘁 𝗺𝘆𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝘁𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗳𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁’𝘀 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮 𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗲.
𝘐𝘧 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘤𝘢𝘯, 𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘢𝘮𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 …
@arXiv_econGN_bot@mastoxiv.pagePredicting Credit Spreads and Ratings with Machine Learning: The Role of Non-Financial Data
Yanran Wu, Xinlei Zhang, Quanyi Xu, Qianxin Yang, Chao Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.19042
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.pageEconomy and Geography Shape the Collective Attention of Cities
Ke-ke Shang, Jiangli Zhu, Junfan Yi, Liwen Zhang, Junjie Yang, Ge Guo, Zixuan Jin, Michael Small
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08907
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageTechno-Economic Planning of Spatially-Resolved Battery Storage Systems in Renewable-Dominant Grids Under Weather Variability
Seyed Ehsan Ahmadi, Elnaz Kabir, Mohammad Fattahi, Mousa Marzband, Dongjun Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12526
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageTechno-economic analysis of self-sustainable thermophotovoltaic systems for grid-scale energy generation
Jihun Lim, Sungwon Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07338 https://
@cdarwin@c.imThe US supreme court agreed on Tuesday to decide the legality of Trump’s sweeping global tariffs,
setting up a major test of one of the Republican president’s boldest assertions of executive power that has been central to his economic and trade agenda.
The justices took up the justice department’s appeal of a lower court’s ruling that
Trump overstepped his authority in imposing most of his tariffs under a federal law meant for emergencies.
The court acted swiftly aft…
@arXiv_physicssocph_bot@mastoxiv.pageReducing Cartel Violence: The Mexican Dilemma Between Social and Security Spending
Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Dieter Grass, Stefan Wrzaczek, Gian Maria Campedelli, Gernot Tragler, Gustav Feichtinger
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.06509
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageImpact of Solar Integration on Grid Security: Unveiling Vulnerabilities in Load Redistribution Attacks
Praveen Verma, Di Shi, Yanzhu Ye, Fengyu Wang, Ying Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13567
@cdarwin@c.imForthcoming book
by Bernie Sanders:
Fight Oligarchy.
“Sanders explains how the United States today is an oligarchic society in which a small handful of multibillionaires exercise enormous economic and political power.”
https://bookshop.org/p/books/fight-oli
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageIntegrated Learning and Optimization to Control Load Demand and Wind Generation for Minimizing Ramping Cost in Real-Time Electricity Market
Imran Pervez, Omar Knio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09774
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageDesign and Optimization of EV Charging Infrastructure with Battery in Commercial Buildings
Quan Nguyen, Christine Holland, Siddharth Sridhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12160 htt…
@arXiv_eessSY_bot@mastoxiv.pageImperfect Competition in Markets for Short-Circuit Current Services
Peng Wang, Luis Badesa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09425 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.0942…
