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Tech elites are starting their own for-profit cities (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/b127ee7a-5ac4-4730-a395-c9f9619615c7
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p51#a251207p51

Replaced article(s) found for cs.NE. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.NE/new
[1/1]:
- Adversarial Coevolutionary Illumination with Generational Adversarial MAP-Elites
Anne, Syrkis, Elhosni, Turati, Legendre, Jaquier, Risi

✊🏽 How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
#labor

How Labor and the Left Can Bolster Zohran Mamdani
If Zohran Mamdani wins, he will face fierce resistance from business elites and the political establishment. Unions and grassroots member organizations like the Democratic Socialists of America can play a key role in helping him overcome this opposition.

Former FBI Director James Comey was arguably one of the first consequential establishment figures to comply in advance with Donald Trump.
For his trouble, and his pivotal role in vaulting Trump to power,
he has now been targetedby Trump’s Justice Department for a politically motivated indictment.
The disgusting, undemocratic use of the justice system to further Trump’s petty feuds is ugly and terrifying.
It’s also, in James Comey’s case, a lesson that other elites w…

Comey and the lesson of pre-capitulation
He tried to palliate bad faith Republicans. Now we're all paying the price.

The American Democratic Party, and the concept of "Democratic Socialism" within the US, comes largely from an authoritarian political tradition where the state offers services in exchange for the population allowing elites to continue parasitize the system. Then it is critical for Liberals to consume and destroy popular mutual aid, because real mutual aid undermines their carrot.
Democrats tend to imagine that anarchists want to destroy "all the good things" that governments do. The reality is that we want to build those good things ourselves so that we can reject the offer of those same good things, less well managed, with all the bad things attached.
Anarchists want to build pro-social systems (what if we didn't *need* snap, but just made sure everyone was fed?) while eliminating anti-social ones (do we really *need* to kidnap children, or could we just kind of stop doing that?).

"Our government is being run by aggrieved elites who were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else in the 2010s, where they could finally read what we all think about them. And it caused them so much psychic damage that they have decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it will ever happen again."
(Original title: Petty, powerful, and pathologically online)

Petty, powerful, and pathologically online
Read to the end for an academic paper on puppygirls

'It's best against best': Ja'Marr Chase, Pat Surtain II ready for rare battle of WR, CB elites https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/46379016/jamarr-chase-bengals-pat-surtain-ii-broncos-best-receiver-cornerback

✊ Gen Z anger at ruling elites is erupting across the world
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/05/world/gen-z-anger/
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Gen Z anger at ruling elites is erupting across the world
There has been a surge in Gen Z demonstrations in Africa and Asia against aging leaders and corruption.

This quote encapsulates some of my thinking about AI and knowledge creators, language communities: '"Inclusive institutions" reward you for baking more cake. Inclusive institutions like the rule of law, contracts, and open competition ensure that if you invest, you will reap the rewards.
"Extractive institutions" are how elites grab instead of bake cake. 
They siphon state revenues, seize assets, block competition, smother innovation, centralise power, explo…

The UK is (still) going backwards.
"Since 2019, the number of privately educated elites has barely changed and in some fields is growing, the report found. The social mobility charity said it was a “disgrace” that most of the country’s top jobs were still dominated by privileged people"
But of course we must tax the poor to subsidise the rich.
#UKPol

Q&A with journalist Jacob Silverman on his new book Gilded Rage, the radical politics of certain tech elites, AI's impact on Silicon Valley politics, and more (Calder McHugh/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/202

Emails: Michael Wolff gave advice to Jeffrey Epstein about Trump, including suggesting Epstein could "help finish him" at the end of Trump's 2016 campaign (Erik Wemple/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/us/michael-wolff-epstein-trum…

Michael Wolff, Chronicler of Elites, Advised Epstein About Trump
Mr. Wolff, it turns out, was enough of an insider to provide advice to Jeffrey Epstein on how to handle his dealings with Donald J. Trump.

How elites destroyed the Democratic Party in the US and fuelled populism
... great and concise analysis of the confluence of right wing and left wing populism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoD6ccdmlfI

UK economy saw zero growth in July
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203edl1zq3o
"Faced with economic stagnation the elites are panicking. Wild eyed in the control room, they thrash around seeking to fix the unfixable, pushing all the buttons, pulling all the levers, to n…

UK economy saw zero growth in July
The economy failed to grow following the biggest contraction in manufacturing output for a year.

Yep https://mastodon.social/@Theblueone/115187021623766270

Just look at the position Trump is in right now. Elites are already turning against him. There are already fractures in his own party. I honestly think all it will take is a tiny push, and an economic shock is probably all it would take to push things over the edge into 25th amendment territory, or even impeachment and removal... Especially right now, when they can say it's because of the Epstein files.
It turns out that we too can "make the economy scream."

Must read: "Flight Tracking, OSINT, Roblox: The Cyber frontline of Gen Z's Revolution in Madagascar" by @andrinivo
#Madagascar

"Imagine capitulating to a president so underwater that he doesn't even have 50% approval with white people as a white supremacist"
"crazy that our Elites “confused” the most anti-free-speech extremists as pro-free-speech warriors
https://bsky.app/profile/davmicrot.bsk

😠 Polarization fluctuates around political events, study shows
#politics…

Polarization fluctuates around political events, study shows
Political elites in the US are ideologically divided over climate change. A new paper identifies two perspectives:

Fascism has arrived in the US. Here's a video of a (liberal) lawyer just straight up saying the courts won't save you.
The system only speaks two languages now: money and violence. If you want a chance to avoid the second, now is the time to use the first. #MassBlackout is a #Boycott of the American corporations that support the dictatorship. By showing that people have the power to shut down the economy if elites don't listen, we can hit them where it actually hurts.
From now until December 2nd, do as many of these things as you can:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
This is one of the few times that boosting stuff on social media and doing nothing else actually *can* make a difference. Boost posts tagged with #WeAintBuyingIt, #MassBlackout, and #BlackOutTheSystem. Make sure everyone you know knows about it. Hold each other accountable to keep from spending. You may already not be spending because.... well,.. #Trump has already made everything too expensive. The thing is that elites can't actually tell the difference. Spreading word, making the protest seem as big and impactful as possible is all that's really needed to fracture elites and turn them against each other. Boost, write your own post, make these tags trend on every platform you can, then do nothing.
Don't buy things, don't work. Just stop. Refuse to participate in capitalism. This is the ultimate "fuck you, make me" because they absolutely can't make you. This is the ultimate reminder of where power actually comes from.
If you're outside the US, (continue to) boycott American products (if the tariffs haven't already taken care of that) until the regime falls. Cancel all American streaming services, and any other American tech you can. If you're stuck on American tech, spend some time to look for local alternatives.
It turns out the world is more interconnected than capitalists would like you to believe, and we all actually have the power to change things. It's time to prove it.
#USPol

Time to Play: Simulating Early-Life Animal Dynamics Enhances Robotics Locomotion Discovery
Paul Templier, Hannah Janmohamed, David Labonte, Antoine Cully
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11755

Time to Play: Simulating Early-Life Animal Dynamics Enhances Robotics Locomotion Discovery
Developmental changes in body morphology profoundly shape locomotion in animals, yet artificial agents and robots are typically trained under static physical parameters. Inspired by ontogenetic scaling of muscle power in biology, we propose Scaling Mechanical Output over Lifetime (SMOL), a novel curriculum that dynamically modulates robot actuator strength to mimic natural variations in power-to-weight ratio during growth and ageing. Integrating SMOL into the MAP-Elites quality-diversity framew…

When cowardly spineless suck up #ABCTV execs #kowtowed on their knees to please #DJT and vile #RWNJ elites I immediately cancelled all

While I'm not much for the law, I recognize that not everyone I talk to thinks the same way. But even if you are like me, the enormity of the list of Trump's crimes is just staggering. There really couldn't be any more clear of an illustration of the fact that there are two legal systems: one for the elite, and one for everyone else.
We all know #Trump just does crimes all the time, but it can be hard to track the enormity of it. The YouTube lawyer LegalEagle put together a list and it's pretty incredible. It's a little over 40 minutes of him rapidly listing times that Trump has violated the law during his second term (completely ignoring his first term).
#MassBlackout is a #Boycott of the American corporations that support the dictatorship. By showing
that people have the power to shut down the economy if elites don't listen, we can hit them where it actually hurts.
From now until December 2nd, do as many of these things as you can:
- Stop online or in-store shopping (except for small businesses)
- Stop work
- Stop streaming, cancel subscriptions, no digital purchases
This is one of the few times that boosting stuff on social media and doing nothing else actually *can* make a difference. Boost posts tagged with #WeAintBuyingIt, #MassBlackout, and #BlackOutTheSystem. Make sure everyone you know knows about it. Hold each other accountable to keep from spending. You may already not be spending because.... well,.. Trump has already made everything too expensive. The thing is that elites can't actually tell the difference. Spreading word, making the protest seem as big and impactful as possible is all that's really needed to fracture elites and turn them against each other. Boost, write your own post, make these tags trend on every platform you can, then do nothing.
Don't buy things, (if you can) don't work. Just stop. Refuse to participate in capitalism. This is the ultimate "fuck you, make me" because they absolutely can't make you. This is the ultimate reminder of where power actually comes from.
I've been trying to remind everyone, every day. Please do the same. Keep this opportunity at the top of everyone's mind. Keep it in your mind.
Trump is more vulnerable now than he's ever been, and there is no time in the next year that we have more power than right now. This is one of the most important parts of the year for the US economy. What you do, or don't do, right now has more of an impact than any other time.
#USPol #BlackFriday #CyberMonday