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Together For #Palestine
I think its hoping to be christmas number one in the music charts.
All profits will go to the Together for Palestine Fund
https://togetherforpalestine.bandcamp.

This survey question is rich. This is from one of the BigMoneySF groups trying to make it harder for the rest of us to put stuff on the ballot.
But they will never ban paid signature gathering, the one thing that would most effectively keep crap off the ballot. They just want to raise the signature threshold for the rest of us. It would still be easy for billionaires to abuse the system and qualify any ballot measure they like, just hard for anyone else.

Listening to CBC Radio Barrie this morning and they were interviewing the manager responsible for housing starts for the Town of Innisfil. The discussion was about missed targets for housing starts and what can be done to get back on track. You could tell that he was frustrated, but the reason for less homes being built was almost solely put on the downturn in the housing market. No one is buying, so private industry isn't building.
All levels of government are throwing money at the problem, with most of it incentivizing for-profit companies to put shovels in the ground. At some point, the Federal, Provincial, and Municipal governments have to realize that public housing, government leasehold development, co-operative housing, or subsidized family apartments must be considered to solve the housing shortage. Private industry will never have the same objectives of getting families into homes - without a calculation of significant profits first.
#CanPoli #AffordableHousing

Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown
By Güney Işıkara, Patrick Mokre
I'd be interested in reading this, but £116 for 200 pages?
The piss is being taken, along with the money.
Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics

Marx's Theory of Value at the Frontiers: Classical Political Economics, Imperialism and Ecological Breakdown
Why do humans produce the things they do, in the way they do it?  As this book shows, the classical political economics approach to value and prices has fundamental implications for analyzing the historical trajectory of capitalism. It demonstrates that the classical political economists’ approach to value and prices, which finds its most advanced formulation in Marx, sheds light on the source of profits, exploitation, whether equivalents are exchanged in trade, dynamics of asymmetric and

Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book
“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”
and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars.
Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit”
and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements.
“We haven’t won a war in this century.
We’ve caused immense harm.
We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says

“The Trillion Dollar War Machine”: William Hartung on How U.S. Military Spending Fuels Wars
Democracy Now! speaks to William Hartung about his new book “The Trillion Dollar War Machine” and who profits from the United States’ runaway military spending that fuels foreign wars. Hartung says that U.S. policy is “based on profit” and calls for a rethinking of our foreign entanglements. “We haven’t won a war in this century. We’ve caused immense harm. We’ve spent $8 trillion,” he says.

Sources: Demis Hassabis pursued a Nobel as a DeepMind goal and favored high-minded work over short-term revenue or a stronger AI race position for Alphabet (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigations/googles-…

Oh goody, a LinkedIn connection request with a message!
Let’s break this down:
> …vc backed…
Focused on quarterly profits / RoI instead of outcomes.
> …invite-only…
NDAs and other gag agreements.
> …openAI browser…
Chromium that begs authors for ARIA to parse content.
> …seeing promising results…
Which aren’t genuine results.
> …goal is 100% WCAG testing…
Ah, snake oil.
> …with high capture rates.
Sales…

Prioritizing Latency with Profit: A DRL-Based Admission Control for 5G Network Slices
Proggya Chakraborty, Aaquib Asrar, Jayasree Sengupta, Sipra Das Bit
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08769

Prioritizing Latency with Profit: A DRL-Based Admission Control for 5G Network Slices
5G networks enable diverse services such as eMBB, URLLC, and mMTC through network slicing, necessitating intelligent admission control and resource allocation to meet stringent QoS requirements while maximizing Network Service Provider (NSP) profits. However, existing Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) frameworks focus primarily on profit optimization without explicitly accounting for service delay, potentially leading to QoS violations for latency-sensitive slices. Moreover, commonly used epsil…

"Former world leaders call for fossil fuel taxes to fund global climate action"
#FossilFuels #Climate #ClimateChange

Former world leaders call for permanent taxes on oil and gas profits
During an energy price crisis in 2022, similar taxes raised billions, the authors argue.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sues Roblox, accusing the company of "flagrantly ignoring" safety laws and calling it a "breeding ground for predators" (Osmond Chia/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0kd4kk0kqo

Texas sues Roblox for 'putting paedophiles and profits' over safety
Roblox said it is "disappointed" that it is being sued based on "misrepresentations and sensationalised claims".

Thirty Bob Ross paintings will be auctioned, and the proceeds, estimated at $850K-$1.4M, will go to public TV stations to help pay programming fees (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/bob-ross-auction-public-television-1029c1e91ac55d80…

Public TV stations to benefit from Bob Ross painting auction
Thirty paintings by Bob Ross are set to be auctioned to support public television stations. The Bonhams auction is to begin Nov. 11 in Los Angeles with three of the paintings. Other auctions will follow. All profits will help public TV stations with licensing fees for popular programs that include “The Best of Joy of Painting” and “America's Test Kitchen.” Bob Ross Inc. president Joan Kowalski says the auction will continue Ross' legacy of supporting public television. Ross, who died in…

"Why is the Trump White House pushing Ukraine to accept a Russian plan that paves the way for another war? The document offers some hints, declaring that the U.S. would also somehow take charge of the $100 billion in frozen Russian assets, for example, supposedly to invest this money in Ukraine and receive “50% of the profits from this venture.” Europeans, whose banks actually hold most of these assets, would receive nothing."

The Murky Plan That Ensures a Future War
Who will benefit from the White House’s 28-point proposal for Ukraine?

All the warmongering is doing its job, increasing revenue and profits for the military industrial complex.
Record revenues for world's biggest arms companies, says new report | Morning Star
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article…

It seems progressive and social democratic politicians are at a loss over how to win elections and gain popularity, so here are my tips.
1. Increase taxes for the rich.
2. Stop subsidies to companies making huge profits.
3. Invest in social welfare programmes like education, health care, and the like.
4. Stop investing in war criminals like the Israeli government.
5. Enact policies to stop the climate crisis.
6. Subsidise working families to protect them from t…

Good Morning #Canada
Like most Canadians I suspect our grocery bill this week will be over budget as we prepare for a family #Christmas dinner and a week of holiday goodies. But help is on the way in January with the implementation of the Grocery Code of Conduct. Colour me skeptical but I'm not sure this is going to solve the issue of high grocery bills. I understand the attempt to eliminate unnecessary costs in the supply food chain. As a former manager in logistics, the fines and charges for missed delivery windows, fulfillment shortages or even the wrong pallets used, are real. But any reduction in supply chain costs will likely be absorbed as profit, not passed on to consumers. A far more effective solution would be an Excess Profits Tax where companies are charged a penalty tax when they earn profit that is unreasonable or above expectations, such as during COVID or a period of inflation.
#CanadaIsAwesome #Profiteering
https://www.ctvnews.ca/business/article/what-canadians-need-to-know-about-the-grocery-code-of-conduct/

Do you recall how kids play "shop", trading imaginary wares for imaginary money?
Capitalism is just like that, except it's adults doing that, with other adults watching them and trading even more imaginary money to have a share in their imaginary profits.
#AntiCapitalism

Donnie continues to attempt to create problems so that he can claim he's the only one capable of solving them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/26/gun-violence-prevention-non-profit-grants-disqualified

Bidding strategies for energy storage players in 100% renewable electricity market: A game-theoretical approach
Arega Getaneh Abate, Salim Hassi, Dogan Keles, Xiufeng Liu, Xiao-Bing Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26568

Bidding strategies for energy storage players in 100% renewable electricity market: A game-theoretical approach
The transition to electricity systems powered entirely by renewable energy sources makes energy storage indispensable for balancing intermittency and ensuring reliability. Since RES operate at near-zero marginal cost, storage operators can strongly influence electricity prices and energy security when renewable supply alone cannot meet demand. We develop a Cournot competition model in which storage operators strategically bid quantities to maximize their profits. We propose a MILP model with th…

Cyberattack ate up profits for first half of year, retailer M

Yet another #sigh. Everything I have read suggests these community based efforts are effective at reducing shootings. And police programs that work are rooted in partnership with community groups. But maybe the #millervought administration knows that and has other motives?

Yet another #sigh. Everything I have read suggests these community based efforts are effective at reducing shootings. And police programs that work are rooted in partnership with community groups. But maybe the #millervought administration knows that and has other motives?

David Sacks,
the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar,
has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends
and many of his own tech investments.
Since January, Mr. Sacks, 53, has occupied one of the most advantageous moonlighting roles in the federal government,
influencing policy for Silicon Valley in Washington while simultaneously working in Silicon Valley as an investor.
Among his actions as the White House’s artificial intelligen…

Silicon Valley’s Man in the White House Is Benefiting Himself and His Friends
David Sacks, the Trump administration’s A.I. and crypto czar, has helped formulate policies that aid his Silicon Valley friends and many of his own tech investments.

Just in case you forgot...
Americans are being criminally exploited, and they are too busy getting used and abused to even notice what their government is doing.
Quit fighting left vs right, recognize the true enemy is the billionaire class who steals away your life blood for extra profits they can't even spend in their lifetime.
#greed

Learn to Rank Risky Investors: A Case Study of Predicting Retail Traders' Behaviour and Profitability
Weixian Waylon Li, Tiejun Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16616 https://

Learn to Rank Risky Investors: A Case Study of Predicting Retail Traders' Behaviour and Profitability
Identifying risky traders with high profits in financial markets is crucial for market makers, such as trading exchanges, to ensure effective risk management through real-time decisions on regulation compliance and hedging. However, capturing the complex and dynamic behaviours of individual traders poses significant challenges. Traditional classification and anomaly detection methods often establish a fixed risk boundary, failing to account for this complexity and dynamism. To tackle this issue…

Quasi-Ergodic Control of Multi-Periodic Autoregressive Processes: Formulation and Examples
Vyacheslav Kungurtsev
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24729 https://a…

Quasi-Ergodic Control of Multi-Periodic Autoregressive Processes: Formulation and Examples
This work considers state dynamics driven by Periodic Autoregressive Moving Average noise, and control of the system over time. Such processes appear frequently in applications involving the environment, such as energy and agriculture. Managing these systems applying forecasts to make decisions that exhibit foresight and risk aversion while maximizing profits is a challenging control problem that can be computationally difficult for standard scenario- based methods. This paper presents a formul…

Amazon reports a $9.5B pre-tax gain from its investment in Anthropic, which was included in the company's non-operating income for Q3 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2025/amazons-anthropic-investment-boosts-its-quarterly-pr…

Cloudflare expands its Project Galileo program, providing access to its Bot Management and AI Crawl Control tools for free to nonprofits and independent media (Mediaweek)
https://www.mediaweek.com.au/cloudflare-expands-project-galileo-to…

The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a business run from North Carolina that promotes the idea of women giving birth without midwives or doctors present.
It is led by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark,
ex-doulas turned social media influencers who have gained a global following through the FBS podcast, which has been downloaded millions of times.
FBS profits from sales of its instructional video guide to freebirthing, and access to a paid-for membership group for pregnant …

Here is CUPW's fact sheet on Postal Banking “A Bank for Everyone”
Fun fact!
"our post office used to have a national savings bank – up until 1969 – and there is no reason we shouldn't have one today”
Some other reasons:
"Banks are failing to meet the needs of a growing number of Canadians. Thousands of towns and villages across our country do not have a bank. But many of them have a post office that could provide access to financial and banking services.”
"Postal banking is lucrative!
New Zealand: Kiwibank generated 81% of New Zealand Post's after tax profits.”
"France: Banque Postale has an obligation to provide products and services to as many people as possible. It provides a Livret A or passbook savings account, at no charge, to anyone who requests it. It also provides banking services to the financially vulnerable and financing for social housing, voluntary organizations and microentrepreneurs lacking bank credit.”
"Canada Post's secret postal banking study
Canada Post conducted a secret four-year study on postal banking that indicates that adding this service "would be a win-win strategy" for the corporation. This study was obtained though an Access to Information (ATI) request. Unfortunately, 701 of the study's 811 pages were redacted. CUPW has asked Canada Post's President to release the full report, but he has refused.”
#CanadaPost #UPW #Strike #Union #Solidarity
https://www.cupw.ca/en/campaign/resources/postal-banking-–-bank-everyone-fact-sheet