@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz2026-01-06 16:38:58
The 247th meeting of the American Astronomical Society #AAS247 is underway, coming with 8 press conferences - https://aas.org/meetings/aas247/press-kit#briefings - streaming on https://www.youtube.com/@AASPressOffice. There were already two yesterday:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gAjRP1xLtQ about Galaxies Big and Small, covering e.g. https://public.nrao.edu/news/hidden-giants-of-the-early-universe/ / https://news.ucmerced.edu/news/2026/astronomers-reveal-hidden-activity-early-universe’s-most-massive-galaxies / https://keckobservatory.org/aas247-magaz3ne/ and https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae1584 (The First RELHIC? Cloud-9 is a Starless Gas Cloud) -> https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasas-hubble-examines-cloud-9-first-of-new-type-of-object/ / https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Cloud-9_a_new_celestial_object_found_by_Hubble / https://public.nrao.edu/news/starless-dark-matter-failed-galaxy-near-m94/.
And https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvpDVq-7h6E about Stars and Their Behavior, covering e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.00470 (Betelgeuse: Detection of the Expanding Wake of the Companion Star) -> https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/cfa-scientists-detect-wake-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star / https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/nasa-hubble-helps-detect-wake-of-betelgeuses-elusive-companion-star/ and https://aas.org/sites/default/files/2026-01/Steven and Tyler AAS Press Release.pdf and https://public.nrao.edu/news/alma-devours-cosmic-hamburger-reveals-potential-for-giant-planet-formation/
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-06 03:26:29
Low income people don't save, they spend.
The real recipients of welfare are corporations.
Not just through sales, but also because welfare payments are wage subsidies.
The ghost of Keynes is standing over his grave shouting "I fucking told you so!!"
https://syzito.xyz/@selzero/1154914425
@hex@kolektiva.social2025-10-06 07:03:30
European "socialism" is a compromise wherein the population gets services and, in exchange, the rich are allowed to continue to exist. This compromise developed to save capitalism from the threat of the working class just rising up and just doing it all themselves. Revolutions, it turns out, can be dangerous and may be subverted. It's generally safer, so Europe's working class decided, to accept some exploitation in exchange for not taking that chance.
The the strategy of "point guns at everyone until they comply" was a sustainable strategy, all of Europe would still be absolute monarchies, feudalism would still be the dominant economic system globally, and England would still control most of the land on Earth. Recognizing that this *isn't* the state of the world should give some clues as to how well Yarvin's ideas continue will play out in the real world.
#USPol
@grumpybozo@toad.social2025-11-06 13:46:07
Reminder: BHL is a rape apologist who has said that the hijab is an invitation to rape.
That's why we don't cite X. It is entirely made up of the worst people in the world. If you still use a functioning X account, you are *ONE OF THEM*, no matter how good your intentions. https://
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-12-05 20:20:01
Sweden has had a stated goal of economic equality for 20 yrs, but the income gap between men and women remains the same. Capital is the blind spot. Women own less, save less and therefore benefit from significantly lower capital returns than men.
Additionally, capital is taxed less than wages which further reinforces the inequality. As long as Sweden's rules put more resistance in women's paths than in men's, capital, power and security will primarily benefit men.
Fro…
@arXiv_quantph_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-10-06 10:01:59
To break, or not to break: Symmetries in adaptive quantum simulations, a case study on the Schwinger model
Karunya Shailesh Shirali, Kyle Sherbert, Yanzhu Chen, Adrien Florio, Andreas Weichselbaum, Robert D. Pisarski, Sophia E. Economou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03083
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-05 23:06:00
Chief 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-04 11:01:26
How Portugal is investing ~4.6% of its GDP around the port of Sines, seeking to transform it from a tourism-dependent economy to a tech and industrial hub (Sofia Horta e Costa/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2026-01-04 17:52:52
I think some people saw the OP and imagined their country doing some kind of unilateral full-out political/economic suicide mission against the US. No no no. My request, I remind you, was to “Start laying the political groundwork now” for pushback against the US. Help make appeasement feel less and less safe for your political leadership with every passing day.
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2025-11-01 21:35:09
"Scotland barely owns any of its own economy now. We are startlingly foreign owned. Our banks, our energy, our land, our supermarkets, our whisky industry – we work and we shop and we generate wealth and then the owners of these industries take the profit and ship it off overseas" -- Robin McAlpine
#ScotPol