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On November 20th, women stop being paid compared to men.
This is the point in the year when,
on average,
women effectively work for free.
The gender pay gap is now 11.3%,
up from 10.7% last year.
It’s a stark reminder that while progress has been made,
gender pay inequality persists
- and may be higher than we thought.

#USpol #nostalgia

Comparison Traits - Understanding Equality and Ordering
#Rust

Pam Bondi wants the government to create cash bounties for turning in trans equality activists - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/12/pam-bondi-wants-the-government-to-create-cash-bounties-for-turning-in-trans-equality-activists/

@… having been queer-bashed, I do have more than a few thoughts about things such as homophobia, prejudice, equality, equity, and DEI.
The four paragraphs below are from a mid-November post in Reddit, <

When it's observable that the very rich are steadily growing richer while the vast majority of people are growing poorer, it's obvious that the tax system is not neutral: it is actively redistributing wealth upwards. For the tax system to be neutral, it MUST tax the very rich much more. To do so is not redistributive, at least until it actively causes a net movement of wealth towards the poor: rather it is simply neutral.

How Has Inequality Changed? - Equality Trust
Levels of inequality changed dramatically over the course of the 20th century. Overall income inequality fell from a high point in the 1930s, remained fairly static until 1979, and then increased dramatically from 1979 to 1991. Since 1991, the trend has been more volatile, affected by Great Recession of the late 2000s and the Covid-19 […]

Global anti-feminist backlash gains ground after decades of equality gains | International | EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-11-01/global-anti-feminist-backlash-gains-ground-after-decades-of-equality-gains.html

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…

Ny vitbok gör politiken svaret skyldig: Halvera inkomstgapet till 2030 | Fredrika Bremer-förbundet
Inkomstgapet mellan kvinnor och män har varit oförändrat i tre decennier. Kvinnor har fortfarande bara cirka 80 procent av mäns disponibla inkomster. Nu släpper Fredrika Bremer-förbundet vitboken "Därför blir män rikare än kvinnor" som visar varför vi står och stampar, och vad som krävs för att vända utvecklingen. Vitbokens forskarteam lyfter 20 skarpa åtgärder för att minska den ekonomiska ojämställdheten. Målet är tydligt: inkomstgapet ska kunna halveras till år 2030.

Global study reveals widespread burning of plastic for heating and cooking #environment

Global study reveals widespread burning of plastic for heating and cooking
A new Curtin University-led study has shed new light on the widespread number of households in developing countries burning plastic as an everyday energy source, uncovering serious international health, social equality and environmental concerns.

"If it was anybody else, we'd arrest him tomorrow" basically summarizes the state of this country over my entire adult life. https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ny5w2k6brb2kdubxnevke6li/post/3m4rgw6c3x22n

Brent Toderian (@brenttoderian.bsky.social)
Wow. “If it was anybody else, we’d arrest him tomorrow,”Justice Department aide said of Trump. “A handful of documents found by the FBI at Mar-a-Lago were so sensitive that even a senior Justice Dept official didn’t have authorization to see them.” No rule of law without equality under the law. https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/trump-arrest-classified-documents-probe-maralago-rcna241155

Friends in #Gaza/#Palestine:
Obviously a one-state solution is impossible while Netanyahu still leads #Israel. But could you imagine ever feeling safe in a unitary secular state in which Islamic, Christian, Jewish and other citizens had real equality under the law, if all land seized since 1950 was re…

We ARE judging you on what you do. That’s what you don’t seem to like…
https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/uk-news-3r20qt2qz/-/a-0NQ8YJCoRie8SeoBl-flsA:a:2382343751-/0

New EHRC chair tells trans people to ‘judge me on what I do’ following criticism
The Equality and Human Rights Commission’s (EHRC’s) new chair has asked trans people to “judge me on what I do” after receiving criticism. Dr May-Ann …

Printers believe in true equality.
Printers will fuck over everyone regardless of age, gender, sexual orientation, political views, status etc.
Be like printers.

Thank you, Professor. It IS time to change. https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/115790431920149801

Global Solutions to Non-Convex Functional Constrained Problems with Hidden Convexity
Ilyas Fatkhullin, Niao He, Guanghui Lan, Florian Wolf
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.10626 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.10626 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.10626
arXiv:2511.10626v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Constrained non-convex optimization is fundamentally challenging, as global solutions are generally intractable and constraint qualifications may not hold. However, in many applications, including safe policy optimization in control and reinforcement learning, such problems possess hidden convexity, meaning they can be reformulated as convex programs via a nonlinear invertible transformation. Typically such transformations are implicit or unknown, making the direct link with the convex program impossible. On the other hand, (sub-)gradients with respect to the original variables are often accessible or can be easily estimated, which motivates algorithms that operate directly in the original (non-convex) problem space using standard (sub-)gradient oracles. In this work, we develop the first algorithms to provably solve such non-convex problems to global minima. First, using a modified inexact proximal point method, we establish global last-iterate convergence guarantees with $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(\varepsilon^{-3})$ oracle complexity in non-smooth setting. For smooth problems, we propose a new bundle-level type method based on linearly constrained quadratic subproblems, improving the oracle complexity to $\widetilde{\mathcal{O}}(\varepsilon^{-1})$. Surprisingly, despite non-convexity, our methodology does not require any constraint qualifications, can handle hidden convex equality constraints, and achieves complexities matching those for solving unconstrained hidden convex optimization.
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This is my flag.
It means unity, freedom, peace, democracy, equality, civilization, diversity, rule of law, science, beauty and strength.
There is nothing more important to fight for our values!
If you don’t like it, pack your bags and leave!
Long live Europe!

Moody Urbanity - Metro Consistency 📌
情绪化城市 - 都市质地 📌
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🎞️ Orwo Wolfen P400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

$5000 Essay Prize/Call For Papers: Skirball Cultural Center
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H-Minerva News Roundup EXCERPT The Strange, Complex Story of Women and ISIS…
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"Europe’s top court says refusing transcription violates EU free-movement rights and equality guarantees, marking a major step for LGBTQ families across the bloc."
Poland can’t erase same-sex marriage | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/poland-cant-erase-same-sex-marriage/

$5000 Essay Prize/Call For Papers: Skirball Cultural Center https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136927/5000-essay-prizecall-papers-skirball-cultural-center

Found this unnecessary (but I'm sure unintentional) gendering in W3C's TDMRep docs repo:
Submitted an issue: 🤞
#W3C #documentation #GitHub #gendering #technology #equality #fairness

@… Okay, the sharp elements of 𝓛 ℕ are exactly those that have decidable equality with every η n, since η n ⊑ y iff η n = y. So this is basically forcing every η n to be isolated!

TOC: Journal of Jewish Ethics 10.1-2 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136596/toc-journal-jewish-ethics-101-2

TOC: Journal of Jewish Ethics 10.1-2
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Mining the Logs: Sources on Blue Humor URL …
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