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"Study shows the Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth"
#ParisAgreement
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-paris-agre…

Study shows the Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth
Ten years ago, close to 200 nations signed the Paris Agreement, an international treaty designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and curtail global warming. Under the treaty, most nations made a 15-year promise to reduce emissions.

B2B travel trade magazine TTG closes its print edition after 72 years to focus on digital and events, which it says account for 45% and 40% of its revenue (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/

Travel magazine TTG closes print title to focus on digital and events growth
B2B travel trade magazine title TTG is closing in print after 72 years but CEO sets out "clear growth path".

flickr_growth: Flickr friendship network (2008)
A network of declared friendships among Frickr users. Nodes represent Frickr users and a directed edge (i,j) represents a directed declaration of friendship from i to j. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 2302925 nodes and 33140017 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Timestamps
h…

How the US' annualized 1.6% GDP growth in H1 was heavily dependent on AI-related investments, which might have accounted for as much as 50% of the growth (Konrad Putzier/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-the-u-s-ec

From David Suzuki
The suicidal insanity of non-stop growth
Air, water and land are polluted and degraded as the climate heats to catastrophic levels, yet we continue to burn fossil fuels and devastate carbon sinks.
It’s malignant. It’s suicidal. And it’s unfair. The obscenely wealthy hoard money and resources, amassing billions of dollars, luxury yachts, mansions and private jets while others starve and struggle to survive.

The suicidal insanity of non-stop growth
The planet offers everything we need to survive and thrive, but not if we continue to wastefully exploit it.

In 1588, Galileo had not yet looked through a telescope.
Microscopes, pendulum clocks, barometers, and steam pumps were decades away.
Francis Bacon,
a member of parliament still in his twenties,
was only beginning his writing on science.
Robert Boyle wouldn’t be born for another 39 years,
Isaac Newton for another 55.
But a subtle shift in perspective was already taking place,
heralding the
‘culture of growth’
that would blossom i…

The Renaissance book that heralded growth - Works in Progress Magazine
Long before modern science, Europeans learned to see their own time as an age of invention rather than decline.

wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…

I'm case you missed it...
An article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, December 11th, entitled “Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds”
But that headline is misleading and the study overclaims too.
We take it apart (need to fix formatting for mobile view).
Decoupling …… again – degrowthUK

Decoupling …… again
An article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, December 11th, entitled “Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds” 1. The Guardian appears…

This. 100% this: «…the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world. The global economy is far too big, it’s got to shrink, and it’s got to be distributed more equitably around the world.»
The problem is that even the politicians who understand this are helpless to do anything about it. We have surrendered our future to global corporations and the mega-rich and their hand-picked poli…

The Daily Beast COO Keith Bonnici says the publisher has been profitable through the first nine months of 2025 and expects its first full year of profitability (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/daily-beast-annual-profit-growth/

EXCLUSIVE: The Daily Beast Expects First Annual Profit in 17-Year History
The publisher has seen revenue and headcount grow 20% and 25%, respectively, after changing ownership last April

TIL Insyde is apparently the biggest UEFI firmware vendor now, claiming more than 50% market share as of this year:
https://www.insyde.com/news/press-releases/insyde-software-achieves-record-high-rev…

Insyde® Software Achieves Record-High Revenue in 2024, Optimistic Outlook for Continued Growth in 2025

They have more money than there is investment growth to be found. Give a hungry person money and they’ll buy food; give a billionaire some money, and they’ll look for a high-risk investment that has a 1% chance of paying off 1000x.
Want to get rich? Convince them you’re one of those investments! 99% chance you’ll fail; 1% chance your BS is actually some kind of genius moonshot! Give them FOMO about it, get free money!
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wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…

Interviews with current and former OpenAI employees detail how updates that made ChatGPT more appealing to boost growth sent some users into delusional spirals (New York Times)
https://www.

What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
In tweaking its chatbot to appeal to more people, OpenAI made it riskier for some of them. Now the company has made its chatbot safer. Will that undermine its quest for growth?

Anybody else see huge increases in electricity costs this year? No idea if it's AI datacenter buildout, removal of renewable subsidies, generally increased demand from population growth, or what.
But my rates on the January 6th bill were 11.54 c/kWh for the first 520 kWh and 13.48 after that.
On the December 5th bill, they were 15.09 and 17.03 respectively - a 30.7 and 26.3 percent increase.

Por el Post Growth Institute @…
⚡Cosecha 4 ya esta en la red. Revista sobre Nuevas Economias en castellano
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Meta is rotten to the core....
#meta

Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
Newly unsealed court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

“I love A.I.”
For Donald Trump, there is no risk, only reward, posed by the dawning and disruptive new age of computing.
Over the past year, the president and his top aides have fully embraced A.I.,
and showered its leading corporate backers with money and regulatory support,
as the administration looks to supercharge one of the primary areas of growth in an otherwise precarious U.S. economy.
That optimism was on display on Tuesday, after the federal government …

Trump Administration Downplays A.I. Risks, Ignoring Economists’ Concerns
The administration has downplayed concerns — from mass job losses, to a potential financial bubble — as President Trump cheers soaring stock prices and faster growth.

Everywhere I turn, I stumble over stories - different in details, but similar in implications - of society in decay. These include rapid growth in student food bank use, spiking anxiety among kids, random acts of aggression on public transit, rejection of expertise during crises of health, homelessness, democracy, etc, and on and on. These stories are always accompanied by hand-wringing over cause and remedy, but somehow state provision of financial resources only rarely comes up. Funny that…

Origin To Ambition: The Entrepreneur Journey
Successful entrepreneurs and business owners share the untold stories and practical strategies that fuelled their growth from a simple idea to a thriving enterprise...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/origin

"“Papers with Code” went offline, the knowledge doesn’t have to" @…: https://blog.tib.eu/2025/10/02/papers-

Good growth?
'Greater Manchester unveils £1bn "good growth" plan' -
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyn8y6q957o
We considered this concept long ago:

Greater Manchester unveils £1bn economic growth plan
Andy Burnham says the city region wants to "pioneer a new model for economic growth" in the next decade.

The late formation of #chondrites as a consequence of Jupiter-induced gaps and rings: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ady4823 -> Rice planetary scientists link Jupiter’s birth to Earth’s formation zone: https://news.rice.edu/news/2025/rice-planetary-scientists-link-jupiters-birth-earths-formation-zone - gas giant’s early growth carved rings that created primitive meteorites, set architecture for inner solar system.

Heute feiert unser #Partnerverband #DeutschesCompetitiveIntelligenceForum (#dcif) sein 20-jähriges Bestehen – zwei Jahrzehnte voller Wissen, Austausch, Engagement…

The Backward Step — #mentalhealth

The Wisdom of the Backward Step: On Rhythm, Retreat, and the Dance of Change
Growth isn’t linear. Like dance, it moves in rhythm — forward, back, pause, return. The step backward isn’t failure; it’s part of the choreography.

"Housing (for) a Post-Growth World: A Manifesto"
#degrowth

Housing (for) a Post-Growth World: A Manifesto
Providing housing for all is central to building any future.

IMF keeps Ukraine's growth forecast unchanged, despite mounting attacks on energy: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/14/imf-keeps-ukraines-growth-forecast.html

Israel-based Chargeflow, whose AI tech automates chargeback disputes for online merchants, raised a $25M Series A led by Viola Growth, and a $10M debt round (Meir Orbach/CTech)
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/bk00v9g9e11g

Chargeflow raises $35 million to fight the surge in transaction denials
Fintech startup secures equity and debt funding as e-commerce fraud grows to $100B a year. 

J.J. McCarthy on Performance vs. Cowboys, Preparing for Giants, Offense's Growth, Team's Mentality https://www.vikings.com/video/j-j-mccarthy-on-performance-vs-cowboys-preparing-for-giants-offense-s-growth-team-s-m…

Dow Jones hires ex-Bloomberg Media CEO M. Scott Havens as its first chief growth officer, overseeing subscription growth and other consumer revenue streams (Mark Stenberg/Adweek)
https://www.adweek.com/media/dow-jones-hires-scott-havens-chief-growth-officer/

Dow Jones Hires M. Scott Havens As First Chief Growth Officer
The former Bloomberg Media CEO will oversee subscription growth across The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, and MarketWatch

While trying to understand why the American middle class feels poorer each year despite healthy GDP growth and low unemployment,
I came across a sentence buried in a research paper:
“The U.S. poverty line is calculated as three times the cost of a minimum food diet in 1963, adjusted for inflation.”
I read it again.
Three times the minimum food budget.
I felt sick.

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

A New Way To Stop Cancer Growth: Groundbreaking Drug Enters Human Trials
https://scitechdaily.com/a-new-way-to-stop-cancer-growth-groundbreaking-drug-enters-human-trials/

Modeling the spatial growth of cities
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03045

Modeling the spatial growth of cities
The growth of cities has traditionally been studied from a population perspective, while urban sprawl - its spatial growth - has often been approached qualitatively. However, characterizing and modeling this spatial expansion is crucial, particularly given its parallels with surface growth extensively studied in physics. Despite these similarities, approaches to urban sprawl modeling are fragmented and scattered across various disciplines and contexts. In this review, we provide a comprehensive…

📈 Study shows the Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-paris-agreement-offset-economic-growth.html

Study shows the Paris Agreement is working, but not well enough to offset economic growth
Ten years ago, close to 200 nations signed the Paris Agreement, an international treaty designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions and curtail global warming. Under the treaty, most nations made a 15-year promise to reduce emissions.

The nail on my little finger looks like it is auditioning for a role in The Walking Dead after being torn almost clean off when I dressed a wild boar.
If I'm counting right, with a 3 mm growth-speed it'll be April before the finger doesn't look mauled ... #zombie #nail

Linear Convergence of a Unified Primal--Dual Algorithm for Convex--Concave Saddle Point Problems with Quadratic Growth
Cody Melcher, Afrooz Jalilzadeh, Erfan Yazdandoost Hamedani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.11990

Linear Convergence of a Unified Primal--Dual Algorithm for Convex--Concave Saddle Point Problems with Quadratic Growth
In this paper, we study saddle point (SP) problems, focusing on convex-concave optimization involving functions that satisfy either two-sided quadratic functional growth (QFG) or two-sided quadratic gradient growth (QGG)--novel conditions tailored specifically for SP problems as extensions of quadratic growth conditions in minimization. These conditions relax the traditional requirement of strong convexity-strong concavity, thereby encompassing a broader class of problems. We propose a generali…

Taking The Red Carpet Path.
(Not often that I find myself in a place exuding such intense natural positive/friendly energy [and beautiful scents]...)
#MountainMonday #LandscapePhotography

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated.
Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had
a “17x” strike policy
for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
https://

Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
Newly unsealed court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

Russia’s Economic Growth Slows for Third Straight Quarter – Ministry Data
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/10/30/russias-economic-growth-slows-for-third-straight-quarter-ministry-data-a90994

Russia’s Economic Growth Slows for Third Straight Quarter – Ministry Data
Russia’s economy has continued to lose momentum for the third consecutive quarter, according to new data from the Economic Development Ministry.

Lighthouse Tech awarded CHF 1.2M from Innosuisse, and launches Equity Crowdfunding round to scale growth https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2025/12/02/3197664/0/e…

Lighthouse Tech awarded CHF 1.2M from Innosuisse, and launches Equity Crowdfunding round to scale growth
Lighthouse Tech awarded CHF 1.2M from Innosuisse, and launches crowdfunding round to scale growth....

Tubefilter: sponsored videos on YouTube rose 54% YoY in H1 2025, with Ground News as the biggest sponsor, followed by Squarespace, BetterHelp, and DraftKings (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/22/youtube-sponsorship-creator-videos

Exclusive: YouTube sponsorships surge 54% as brands bet on creators
New data from Tubefilter's Gospel Stats shows growth in creator ads.

My "grow plants everywhere" mod for #Luanti is progressing!
I just built a routine to do blobby weight regions as the intersection of a bunch of parabolas, where weight increases logarithmically from the edge of the parabola with an adjustable edge region, and we use the geometric average of these weight values within the intersection region. Then I spent a few hours hunched over a biomes vornoi diagram approximating different broad regions like "arid_grasses" and "temperate_trees" so you can just name some combination of these regions (with custom per-region multipliers) and have your plant definition apply within those regions. I was using rectangular min/max heat/humidity values before, but they were pretty awkward to work with.
If anyone on here who plays Luanti wants to check it out let me know and I can prioritize publishing what I've got. I've got growth definitions for most but not all VoxeLibre plants and it wouldn't be hard to put them together for another game. No trees yet, but that's pretty much the next thing to work on.

flickr_growth: Flickr friendship network (2008)
A network of declared friendships among Frickr users. Nodes represent Frickr users and a directed edge (i,j) represents a directed declaration of friendship from i to j. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 2302925 nodes and 33140017 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted, Timestamps
h…

EssilorLuxottica stock jumps 10% after reporting Q3 revenue up 11.7% YoY to €6.9B, with wearables like Ray-Ban Meta contributing 4 percentage points to growth (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/ray-ban-maker-essilorluxottica-sa…

Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica says Meta smart glasses are boosting growth
EssilorLuxottica attributed a healthy amount of its third-quarter growth to a lift from its partnership with Meta.

Old growth threatened by logging increases in BC
The Narwhal reports on a new study by Sierra Club BC that finds efforts to protect old growth forests in BC have largely failed since the ruling centrist NDP party has been in charge starting in 2013. The report found that "13,000 football fields worth of old-growth deferral zones were logged" in the past 4 years in BC. Meanwhile, premier David Eby has urged forestry production in BC to increase by 50% over 2024 levels.
<…

BC Old-Growth | Wilderness Committee
Protecting old-growth forests isn’t just about saving trees; it’s about preserving incredibly rare ecosystems.

Jim Beam,
the country’s largest maker of bourbon,
has announced a one-year pause in production at its flagship facility in Clermont, Ky.,
a stunning move that underlines the immense challenges facing the American whiskey industry after more than two decades of rapid growth.
The decision by the brand, owned by the Japanese conglomerate 🔸Suntory Holdings,
is the latest in a series of production cuts, layoffs and financial crises across the wine, beer and spirits s…

Jim Beam Halts Production at Flagship Distillery as Whiskey and Bourbon Markets Struggle
The bourbon giant is closing its flagship distilling operation for all of 2026.

"IEA warns global solar growth may plateau at 540 GW annually to 2035"
#SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

IEA warns global solar growth may plateau at 540 GW annually to 2035
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said global solar capacity additions are projected to average 540 GW a year through 2035, as outlined in its World Energy Outlook 2025 report.

Microdrama platforms borrow aggressive, user-hostile monetization and retention tactics from free-to-play mobile gaming to fuel in-app purchases and ad revenue (Janko Roettgers/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/column/805250/hollywood-…

Hollywood is in love with microdramas, for all the wrong reasons
Apps like ReelShort and DramaBox have seen strong growth and huge revenue numbers by embracing user-hostile design choices.

Norway is the undisputed leader when it comes to EVs in the vehicle fleet. Denmark is following closely behind, and at a rapid pace: the share of EVs in the vehicle fleet doubled in one year. Growth in the share is also continuing in Sweden and Finland.
https://

Gaza population 'growth' projections predate recent Israel-Palestine war and are now invalid | AAP https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/gaza-population-growth-projections-predate-recent-israel-palestine-war/

Gaza population 'growth' projections predate recent Israel-Palestine war | AAP

https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/private-stock-market-growth-bb71bde1?st=SMhcut&mod=tldr

Richard Murphy, who previously advocated green growth, gets there in the end.
"The real challenge we face is not how to restart a growth engine that has already driven us to the edge of environmental collapse. It is how to redesign the economy so that the resources we already have are used to meet human and ecological needs.
Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it."

Growth is not coming back — and nor should our democracy depend upon it
Martin Wolf has (once again) declared in the Financial Times that the fate of democracy rests on economic growth. As he said, in advance of the Budget: [Reeves'] first priority must be to get whatever growth she can.  Growth made democracy possible, he claims, and only growth can now save it, in...

Paris-based Upciti, which offers city operations software and hardware to over 150 municipalities in 17 countries, raised a $20M Series A led by Notion Capital (Tamara Djurickovic/Tech.eu)
https://tech.eu/2025/10/16/upciti-closes-20m-to-dr…

UPCITI closes $20M to drive global growth of its urban operating platform
UPCITI, a Paris-based company building an operating system for cities, has raised $20 million in a Series A funding round. The round was led by Notion Capital, with participation from Point Nine and Chalfen Ventures.UPCITI combines proprietary software with purpose-built hardware to help municipalities run critical operations, such as traffic flow, street management, and public safety, more efficiently and securely, with a clear ROI that simplifies adoption. By owning both the software an…

wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…

Growth Gang With The Lily Holmes
Leverage desire marketing in your online coaching business for more sales with dream clients...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/flower-ed/

“Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world.."
Oh really?
1) Emissions of greenhouse gases are still rising
2) The degree of decoupling is far from enough
3) for the United Kingdom, the reduction 2015-2023 was -18.41%, average
-2.51% per year. To reach net zero emissions by 2050, an annual reduction of 10% is needed.
4) Those decoupling countries are not compensating for the growth in emissions elsewhere.

Decoupling …… again
An article appeared in The Guardian on Thursday, December 11th, entitled “Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds” 1. The Guardian appears…

Cowboys cling to playoff hopes as Vikings visit with focus on McCarthy's growth https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/cowboys-cling-to-playoff-hopes-as-vikings-visit-with-focus-on-mccarthys-growth

General Atlantic purchases a $96M minority stake in Japanese HR software unicorn SmartHR, marking the PE firm's first growth equity investment in Japan (Lisa Du/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-…

🍩 'Doughnut Economics' shows how global growth is out of balance—and how we can fix it
#economics

'Doughnut Economics' shows how global growth is out of balance—and how we can fix it
A new update to an influential economic theory called "Doughnut Economics" shows a global economy on a collision course with nature.

Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications.  Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…

Decoupling …… again
If you’ve been reading our material for long you’ll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: …

Picture the human body. Zoom in on a single cell. It lives for a while, then splits or dies, as part of a community of cells that make up a particular tissue. This community lives together for many many cell-lifetimes, each performing their own favorite function and reproducing as much as necessary to maintain their community, consuming the essential resources they need and contributing back what they can so that the whole body can live for decades. Each community of cells is interdependent on the whole body, but also stable and sustainable over long periods of time.
Now imagine a cancer cell. It has lost its ability to harmonize with the whole and prioritize balance, instead consuming and reproducing as quickly as it can. As neighboring tissues start to die from its excess, it metastasizes, always spreading to new territory to fuel its unbalanced appetite. The inevitable result is death of the whole body, although through birth, that body can create a new fresh branch of tissues that may continue their stable existence free of cancer. Alternatively, radiation or chemotherapy might be able to kill off the cancer, at great cost to the other tissues, but permitting long-term survival.
To the cancer cell, the idea of decades-long survival of a tissue community is unbelievable. When your natural state is unbounded consumption, growth, and competition, the idea of interdependent cooperation (with tissues all around the body you're not even touching, no less) seems impossible, and the idea that a tissue might survive in a stable form for decades is ludicrous.
"Perhaps if conditions were bleak enough to perfectly balance incessant unrestrained growth against the depredations of a hostile environment it might be possible? I guess the past must have been horribly brutal, so that despite each tissue trying to grow as much as possible they each barely survived? Yes, a stable and sustainable population is probably only possible under conditions of perfectly extreme hardship, and in our current era of unfettered growth, we should rejoice that we live in much easier times!"
You can probably already see where I'm going with this metaphor, but did you know that there are human communities, alive today, that have been living sustainably for *tens, if not hundreds of thousands of years*?
#anarchy #colonialism #civilization
P.S. if you're someone who likes to think about past populations and historical population growth, I cannot recommend the (short, free) game Opera Omnia by Stephen Lavelle enough: https://www.increpare.com/2009/02/opera-omnia/

Reflections beyond growth (V): Degrowth, fears and euphemisms – 15/15\15 https://www.15-15-15.org/webzine/2025/10/14/reflections-beyond-growth-v-degrowth-fears-and-euphemisms/

Reflections beyond growth (V): Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Álex López: The risk is clear: that degrowth will remain trapped between unspoken fears and the euphemisms that disguise it.

"Renewables have now passed coal globally—and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal"
#Bhutan #Nepal #Renewables

Renewables have now passed coal globally—and growth is fastest in countries like Bhutan and Nepal
For the first time, renewables have toppled coal as the world's leading source of electricity, in keeping with International Energy Agency projections for this historic shift.

IBM reports Q3 revenue up 9% YoY to $16.3B, above $16.1B est., and Hybrid Cloud (Red Hat) revenue up 14%, below 16% est.; IBM drops 5% after hours (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-22/ibm-posts-l…

wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Unweighted, Timestamps
https:/…

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025

Exclusive: Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on how to beat TikTok — on your phone and in your living room
Mosseri laid out Instagram’s vision for its role on television and the path for its next several years of growth.

Adam Mosseri says "maybe we'll need" premium longform video for Instagram, and that TikTok's US sale turmoil has given Meta time to retune algorithms (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/12/21/2025

Exclusive: Instagram’s Adam Mosseri on how to beat TikTok — on your phone and in your living room
Mosseri laid out Instagram’s vision for its role on television and the path for its next several years of growth.

Dance Studio Scaled: Innovative Marketing|Retention|Biz Growth Strategies For Dance Studio Owners
A weekly podcast for dance studio owners and business entrepreneurs ready to simplify, streamline, and succeed...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/dance-

People will be asking about this article. Some comments follow in a thread.
Economic growth no longer linked to carbon emissions in most of the world, study finds | Fossil fuels | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/environment/…

🌷 China’s lopsided growth puts spotlight on Xi’s five-year plan
#china

China’s lopsided growth puts spotlight on Xi’s five-year plan
Data about China's economy arrived as top officials gather in Beijing for what is known as the Communist Party’s fourth plenum to hash out development plans through 2030.

"Report: Global push to triple renewables faltering despite record growth"
#Energy #Renewables
http…

Opera says in the 12 months ending with October, it saw a 88% surge in daily active iOS users across Europe, partly due to the changes mandated by the DMA (Marcus Mendes/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2025/11/13/opera-ios-growth-europe-dma/

Opera says DMA contributed to 5x growth of iOS users in Europe - 9to5Mac
Operas iOS user base in Europe has grown by as much as five times since the Digital Markets Act took effect in 2024.

Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth Conference. Madrid, 2025 The Beyond Growth Conference document offers us a promising future: less production, less consumption... but, curiously, more public services, more rights, more democracy, more of everything good and none of the bad.

Degrowth, fears and euphemisms
Reflections beyond growth: Degrowth, fears and euphemisms Álex López translated by Mark Burton In the series Prospects for Degrowth Republished from revista 15/15\15 Reflecting on the Beyond Growth…

Remind me, who was president in 2020?
Oh, the *same* Donald J. Trump who is president during this *other* worst year for job growth, you say?
-- Mrs Betty Bowers
https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3ma5p47h6k22g

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social)
Remind me, who was president in 2020? Oh, the *same* Donald J. Trump who is president during this *other* worst year for job growth, you say?

The UK announces a £100M plan to support local AI hardware startups via guaranteed "first customer" payments, and estimates its AI market to be worth over £72B (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/d4d9d091-5fd7-4c20-a3ca-f68f580f7d6b

UK government will buy tech to boost AI sector in £100mn growth push
Liz Kendall unveils plan to offer guaranteed payments for British start-ups making AI hardware

wikipedia_growth: en-Wikipedia links (2007)
The network of hyperlinks among English wikipedia pages, in 2007. An edge (i,j) indicates that article i hyperlinks to article j, and each edge is timestamped with its creation.
This network has 1870709 nodes and 39953145 edges.
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Harvard economist Jason Furman estimates that investments in data centers and information-processing software accounted for 92% of US GDP growth in H1 2025 (Nick Lichtenberg/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/10/07/data-centers-gdp-g…

Without data centers, GDP growth was 0.1% in the first half of 2025, Harvard economist says
Is a U.S. without data centers a country without GDP growth?

Trump's rally in tiny Rocky Mount, North Carolina, an economically distressed region,
drew a smaller than expected crowd,
leaving merchandise vendors and supporters disheartened.
According to interviews conducted by the Washington Post, the presidential visit was marked by a sense of disappointment and disillusionment
as Trump touted economic growth claims that contrasted sharply with the visible hardship surrounding the Rocky Mount Events Center.
One Trump m…

Filing: PA Media Group reports 2024 revenue up 3% YoY to £116.3M, its eighth consecutive year of revenue growth, but profit before tax declined by 4% to £8.6M (Charlotte Tobitt/Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/media_busines…

PA Media Group continues revenue growth for eighth year in a row
PA Media Group has grown its revenue for the eight year in a row, once again marking the highest in its 145-year history.

Decoupling …… again
If you've been reading our material for long you'll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: the decoupling thesis. Early work focused on debunking claims that were made without evidence. Later on, evidence for some decoupling was provided and we reviewed its implications.  Briefly we questioned its scale, permanence, and the quality of the data underpinning…

Decoupling …… again
If you’ve been reading our material for long you’ll have seen previous articles about the claim that GDP growth can happen without increasing greenhouse gas (chiefly carbon) pollution: …

Dell says it now expects annual revenue to grow between 7% and 9%, up from its prior forecast of 3% to 4%, citing demand for AI infrastructure (Annie Palmer/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/dell-stock-revenue-growth.html

Dell stock pops as company ups long-term revenue growth expectations
Dell stock popped after the company raised its long-term revenue and profit growth forecasts.

A look at the social debates in Chile over AI investments, emblematic of clashes happening globally over balancing economic growth with environmental concerns (Paul Mozur/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/technology/chile-ai-politics.html

How Chile Embodies A.I.’s No-Win Politics
Political debates have flared across Chile over artificial intelligence. Should the nation pour billions into A.I. and risk public backlash, or risk being left behind?

Publicis reports Q3 net revenue up 5.7% YoY to €3.53B, above est., and raises its 2025 revenue growth forecast to between 5% to 5.5% on strong ad and AI demand (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins, joins VC firm Benchmark as general partner, following a slew of personnel departures at Benchmark (Natasha Mascarenhas/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/briefings/benchmark-names-ev…

Benchmark Names Everett Randle as New General Partner 
Everett Randle, a former partner at Kleiner Perkins investing out of its growth-stage funds, has joined Benchmark as the firm’s newest general partner, the early-stage firm announced Monday. At Kleiner, Randle worked on investments including enterprise search startup Glean and legal AI startup Harvey, earning him a top spot on The Information’s Next General Partners list in 2024. The hiring

In a report, the G20's Financial Stability Board says regulators are in the early stages of tracking risks posed to the financial system by AI's rapid adoption (Laura Noonan/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

AI’s Growth Leaves Financial Regulators Struggling to Catch Up
Regulators are still at an “early stage” in their efforts to track the risks posed to the financial system by the rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, global financial watchdogs warned on Friday.

ASML reports Q3 net sales of €7.5B, v. €7.7B est., and €2.12B net profit, v. €2.11B est., warning that it expects China sales to decline "significantly" in 2026 (April Roach/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/15/asml-q3-earnings-report.html

ASML looks to calm fears over 2026 growth as it warns of China sales decline
ASML on Wednesday looked to allay concerns over 2026 growth as net sales for the third quarter came in slightly below expectations.

Nokia unveils a new strategy, including plans to split its high-growth AI operations into a separate unit from its telecoms business; Nokia's shares fall 7% (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/2801df7d-1692-4788-bad7-58d6a4885d8d

Kuaishou reports Q3 revenue up 14% YoY to ~$5B and net profit up 37% YoY to ~$632M, above ~$588M est., driven by ad growth and its Kling AI video generator (Sherry Qin/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/ea…

Neural Concept, whose 3D product design software uses deep learning to help cut development times, raised a $100M Series C, bringing its total funding to $130M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/20…

Exclusive: Neural Concept collects $100M for U.S. growth
The engineering intelligence startup's Series C was led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives.

Block expects gross profit to increase in the mid-teens YoY through 2028, reaching ~$15.8B, with adjusted operating income growing ~30% YoY; XYZ closed up 7.56% (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/19/block-unveils-3-y…

Block's stock pops 9% on gross profit forecast, 3-year financial outlook
Block laid out long-term financial targets, projecting annual gross profit growth in the mid-teens through 2028.

Mumbai-based wealth management startup Dezerv raised a ~$40M Series C co-led by Premji Invest and Accel's Global Growth Fund, taking its total funding to ~$100M (Shashank Pathak/Entrackr)
https://entrackr.com/news/wealthtech-firm-deze…

Wealthtech firm Dezerv raises $40 Mn led by Premji Invest and Accel
Wealth tech platform Dezerv has raised Rs 350 crore (about $40 million) in a funding round co-led by Premji Invest and Accel’s Global Growth Fund. News

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion, and Peter Howitt win the Nobel Prize in Economics for their work on how innovation and technological progress helps economic growth (Eshe Nelson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/business/nobel-prize-economics.html…

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt Share Nobel in Economics
Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt won the prize for showing how “society must keep an eye on the factors that generate and sustain economic growth,” an award committee member said.

Klarna reports Q3 revenue up 26% YoY to $903M, above $882M est., a $95M net loss, and expects $1B revenue in Q4, in its first post-IPO earnings release (Samantha Subin/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/18/klarna-klar-stock-q3-earnings-report-2025.html<…

Klarna tops third-quarter revenue estimates in first earnings report since IPO
Klarna experienced strong U.S. growth, driven the adoption of tools like Klarna Card and fair financing.

German chipmaker Infineon reports Q4 revenue up 1% YoY to €3.94B, vs. €3.91B est., a €231M net profit, and expects 2026 sales growth as AI demand keeps booming (Mauro Orru/Wall Street Journal)
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Internal docs show Meta's Vibes AI video feed has about 2M DAUs as of November 9, up 1% from the previous week; ~52% of returning users prompted the AI (Pranav Dixit/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-vibes-ai-internal-…

Internal documents show how many people are using Meta's Vibes AI feed each day
The documents show Meta Vibes' daily usage and global growth trends, highlighting user engagement in India, Brazil, Europe, and Southeast Asia.

AMD CEO Lisa Su says AMD's annual revenue growth will average 35% a year over the next three to five years and the total AI chip market will reach $1T by 2030 (Ian King/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Sources: Salient, which uses AI to automate loan servicing, raised $10M following a $60M Series A in June, pushing its valuation to ~$500M; its ARR hit $25M (Lily Mae Lazarus/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2025/12/18/salient

Salient’s quiet AI boom: How this two-year old startup is building a company to survive the bubble burst
Salient cofounder Ari Malik built AI to automate loan servicing, turning collections calls into a high-growth business now valued around $500 million.