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Free Software and Platform Regulation
The impact of the Digital Market Act on Free Software
https://media.ccc.de/v/2025-11-15-free-software-and-platform-regulation

Milei's Free-Market Experiment Hangs in the Balance as Argentina Votes (Samantha Pearson/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/mileis-free-market-experiment-hangs-in-the-balance-as-argentina-votes-4af71570
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p9#a251026p9

Ah, a free update on the state of the legacy IP address market, from a spammer:
Subject: Spanish IPs ranges available
We currently have a very competitive offer on IP sales, with the following prices:
• €27/IP for ranges from /24 to /22
• €26/IP for ranges of /21 and larger

Milei Wins Mandate for Free-Market Revolution in Argentina's Election (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/americas/milei-wins-mandate-for-free-market-revolution-in-argentinas-election-3be65f38
http://www.memeorandum.com/251026/p65#a251026p65

RE: https://carfree.city/@sfmtadocsbot/115618503852227506
In which SFMTA staff "recommend" (but they're not letting the board vote, they're just going to do it) expanding Waymo, Uber, and Lyft onto what was supposed to be car-free Market 24/7.

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

And here’s what I’m trying to get at: when the bubble bursts, many “AI” “applications” will disappear, but #genAI is here to stay in academia. Companies will discover students and academics as a market and, when the free offers go away, inevitably crank up the prices. But as students have already become dependent on #genAI

Washington's carbon market is proving climate policy can pay for itself—literally.
In just two years, it's generated $4.3 billion, with $2.8 billion already funding hybrid ferries, free transit, and other green projects. The best part? Over half the money goes to lower-income communities.

Washington carbon market generates billions for climate projects
Nearly $2.8 billion is set for state projects ranging from hybrid ferries to bicycle rebates.

Wall Street Journal crows:
With nearly 92% of votes counted, Milei’s Freedom Advances party won almost 41% of the national vote, putting it on track to more than
double its representation in the Argentine congress
https://www.wsj.com/world/americ…

Don't trust your family history to the cloud or an online software company. #Ancestris version 13 is out. https://www.ancestris.org/index.html It's free and has some unique tools and reports not foun…

Thought Slime posted a video on Liberals and Charlie Kirk (linked in my post). It touched on a few ideas I've been wanting to explore more.
Why is it that, even though we talk "memes" going "viral" we are still talking about "Free Market of Ideas" as though ideas were inanimate objects we could handle and observe objectively? Perhaps that idea is it's own infection.
https://hexmhell.writeas.com/memetic-effluent-and-the-wet-market-of-ideas

Today I've figured out how to reply when another couch philosopher tells you that obviously "there are job offers, it's just people who are too lazy to work". You just ask them "then why aren't you changing jobs?"
Free market is clear on this: if the supply of job positions exceeds demand, wages rise. And if employers lack employees, then they're ready to pay more, so you benefit from changing jobs! Isn't capitalism just great?
#AntiCapitalism

Sources: Trump admin favors Paramount-Skydance in the race to buy Warner Bros. Discovery, while Netflix, Amazon, and Comcast may face hurdles from FTC and DOJ (Charles Gasparino/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/media/tr

Exclusive | Trump admin favors Paramount Skydance in race to buy Warner Bros. Discovery: sources
WBD CEO David Zaslav, meanwhile, believes he can make a case to the Trump administration that they should allow deals outside of Paramount Skydance, appealing to free market types in the administra…

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

How President Trump reshaped capitalism in 2025 (Maria Aspan/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/nx-s1-5639916/trump-crony-capitalism-free-market
http://www.memeorandum.com/251222/p30#a251222p30

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115718470244854807
I didn't learn in school that a free market economy is about the suppliers installing fascist regimes to force demand and fix prices, but maybe I understood it wrong.

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--How the internet radicalizes young men,
--The real-life damage of porn deepfakes,
--The JLR attack damaged local communities,
--Amazon is pushing into the police tech market,
--Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 9/27/25
How the internet radicalizes young men, The real-life damage of porn deepfakes, The JLR attack damaged local communities, Amazon is pushing into the police tech market, Russian misinformation targeted a Canadian journalist

Replaced article(s) found for cs.LG. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.LG/new
[2/5]:
- The Diffusion Duality
Sahoo, Deschenaux, Gokaslan, Wang, Chiu, Kuleshov
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10892 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114675526577078472
- Multimodal Representation Learning and Fusion
Jin, Ge, Xie, Luo, Song, Bi, Liang, Guan, Yeong, Song, Hao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20494 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114749113025183688
- The kernel of graph indices for vector search
Mariano Tepper, Ted Willke
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20584 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114749118923266356
- OptScale: Probabilistic Optimality for Inference-time Scaling
Youkang Wang, Jian Wang, Rubing Chen, Xiao-Yong Wei
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22376 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114771735361664528
- Boosting Revisited: Benchmarking and Advancing LP-Based Ensemble Methods
Fabian Akkerman, Julien Ferry, Christian Artigues, Emmanuel Hebrard, Thibaut Vidal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18242 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/114913322736512937
- MolMark: Safeguarding Molecular Structures through Learnable Atom-Level Watermarking
Runwen Hu, Peilin Chen, Keyan Ding, Shiqi Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17702 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115095014405732247
- Dual-Distilled Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Adaptive Margins for Trainable Global Protot...
Fatema Siddika, Md Anwar Hossen, Wensheng Zhang, Anuj Sharma, Juan Pablo Mu\~noz, Ali Jannesari
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19009 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115100269482762688
- STDiff: A State Transition Diffusion Framework for Time Series Imputation in Industrial Systems
Gary Simethy, Daniel Ortiz-Arroyo, Petar Durdevic
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19011 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115100270137397046
- EEGDM: Learning EEG Representation with Latent Diffusion Model
Shaocong Wang, Tong Liu, Yihan Li, Ming Li, Kairui Wen, Pei Yang, Wenqi Ji, Minjing Yu, Yong-Jin Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20705 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115111565155687451
- Data-Free Continual Learning of Server Models in Model-Heterogeneous Cloud-Device Collaboration
Xiao Zhang, Zengzhe Chen, Yuan Yuan, Yifei Zou, Fuzhen Zhuang, Wenyu Jiao, Yuke Wang, Dongxiao Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25977 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115298721327100391
- Fine-Tuning Masked Diffusion for Provable Self-Correction
Jaeyeon Kim, Seunggeun Kim, Taekyun Lee, David Z. Pan, Hyeji Kim, Sham Kakade, Sitan Chen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01384 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115309690976554356
- A Generic Machine Learning Framework for Radio Frequency Fingerprinting
Alex Hiles, Bashar I. Ahmad
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09775 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115372387779061015
- ASecond-Order SpikingSSM for Wearables
Kartikay Agrawal, Abhijeet Vikram, Vedant Sharma, Vaishnavi Nagabhushana, Ayon Borthakur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.14386 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115389079527543821
- Utility-Diversity Aware Online Batch Selection for LLM Supervised Fine-tuning
Heming Zou, Yixiu Mao, Yun Qu, Qi Wang, Xiangyang Ji
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16882 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115412243355962887
- Seeing Structural Failure Before it Happens: An Image-Based Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN...
Omer Jauhar Khan, Sudais Khan, Hafeez Anwar, Shahzeb Khan, Shams Ul Arifeen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23117 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451891042176876
- Training Deep Physics-Informed Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks
Spyros Rigas, Fotios Anagnostopoulos, Michalis Papachristou, Georgios Alexandridis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.23501 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115451942159737549
- Semi-Supervised Preference Optimization with Limited Feedback
Seonggyun Lee, Sungjun Lim, Seojin Park, Soeun Cheon, Kyungwoo Song
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.00040 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115490555013124989
- Towards Causal Market Simulators
Dennis Thumm, Luis Ontaneda Mijares
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.04469 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115507943827841017
- Incremental Generation is Necessary and Sufficient for Universality in Flow-Based Modelling
Hossein Rouhvarzi, Anastasis Kratsios
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.09902 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115547587245365920
- Optimizing Mixture of Block Attention
Guangxuan Xiao, Junxian Guo, Kasra Mazaheri, Song Han
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.11571 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115564541392410174
- Assessing Automated Fact-Checking for Medical LLM Responses with Knowledge Graphs
Shasha Zhou, Mingyu Huang, Jack Cole, Charles Britton, Ming Yin, Jan Wolber, Ke Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12817 https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_bot/115570877730326947
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"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

"Spain has broken the ruinous link between power prices and volatile fossil fuels, something its European neighbours are desperate to do. Spain risks sliding back into costly gas reliance amid post-blackout fears. Boosting grids and batteries will help Spain break free from fossil dependency for good."
It looks like the link is only partially broken, not through planning but due to scale.
Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using

Decoupled: how Spain cut the link between gas and power prices using renewables | Ember
Spain has some of the lowest wholesale electricity prices in Europe, largely owing to the country’s strong solar and wind growth which reduced the influence of expensive coal and gas power on the electricity market.

"One workload I now support would cost an estimated £6000 per month to run on one of the large cloud providers, which would allow me to purchase the actual hardware in use four times over every year. But “spinning up an instance” today using free credits means you can worry about that cost later, whereas ordering a box from Dell means waiting two to three business days by which time the hackathon is over."

Five Computers
There is no direct evidence that Thomas Watson, Sr. predicted in 1943 that there would be "a world market for five computers". First, he probably didn't know about computers back then: in the 1940s computers were classified research projects at the UK Government Code and Cipher School and the US Army, while Watson's IBM were famously involved with the other side during the war.

Who benefits the most? Direct and indirect effects of a free cesarean section policy in Benin
Selidji Caroline Tossou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03658 https://

Who benefits the most? Direct and indirect effects of a free cesarean section policy in Benin
This paper evaluates the causal effect of the access to Benin's free cesarean section policy on females and their children. I use a large sample of Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) for West African countries and analyze how the exemption of the cesarean section user fees for females in Benin directly impacts maternal and infant mortality, family size decisions, and labor market participation. I use a Difference in Differences approach and find that having access to the free cesarean section…

Short-rate models with stochastic discontinuities: a PDE approach
Alessandro Calvia, Marzia De Donno, Chiara Guardasoni, Simona Sanfelici
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04289 https:…

Short-rate models with stochastic discontinuities: a PDE approach
With the reform of interest rate benchmarks, interbank offered rates (IBORs) like LIBOR have been replaced by risk-free rates (RFRs), such as the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR) in the U.S. and the Euro Short-Term Rate (\euro STR) in Europe. These rates exhibit characteristics like jumps and spikes that correspond to specific market events, driven by regulatory and liquidity constraints. To capture these characteristics, this paper considers a general short-rate model that incorporates …