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"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.

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.
If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.
If you're under 28, the number is 100%.
Happy Labor Day.
https://bsky.app/profile/sundaedivine.bsky.soc…

Mehdi Hasan's Zeteo has topped 50K paying subscribers and its YouTube channel has surpassed 1M subscribers, 15 months after its launch (Oliver Darcy/Status)
https://www.status.news/p/mehdi-hasan-zeteo-substack-growth

The Zeteo Zoom
In just 15 months, Mehdi Hasan has transformed Zeteo from a risky post-MSNBC gamble into a thriving, independent media company.

Gas price shocks, uncertainty and price setting: evidences from Italian firms
Giuseppe Pagano Giorgianni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03792 https://arxiv.org…

Gas price shocks, uncertainty and price setting: evidences from Italian firms
This paper examines how natural gas price shocks affect Italian firms' pricing decisions and inflation expectations using quarterly survey data from the Bank of Italy's Survey on Inflation and Growth Expectations (SIGE) spanning 1999Q4-2025Q2. We identify natural gas price shocks through a Bayesian VAR with sign and zero restrictions. Our findings reveal that these shocks are a primary driver of firms' inflation expectations, particularly during the post-COVID period (2021-2023) when supply dis…

From https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cysfyu7ook326epmpvun2qtb/post/3lzs7noi6oc23 —
> Prof. Lee says that the problem for Canada Post is the smartphone because people send texts, not letters. Fine, but don't gut it. I say, make Canada Post a pub…

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definitions of economic growth that it’s almost a monad, “a most basic substance” that goes without question. In one recent example, Max Roser (2021) defines growth as “an increase in the quantity and quality of the…

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definiti…

The growth of print culture in the eighteenth century was associated with the growing prestige of reason,
hostility to superstition, the birth of capitalism, and the rapid development of science.
Other historians have linked the eighteenth century explosion of literacy to the Enlightenment, the birth of human rights, the arrival of democracy and even the beginnings of the industrial revolution.
The world as we know it was forged in the reading revolution.
🔥Now, we ar…

The dawn of the post-literate society
And the end of civilisation

Vertical streaming apps charging $20/week are beating Netflix and other SVOD platforms in user growth with their mini-dramas optimized for mobile viewing (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/23/vertical-s…

Spicy and pricey vertical mini-dramas are taking over streaming
Streaming apps that charge $20 a week for absurd, 60-second soap operas are winning audiences that rival Hulu and Paramount+.

Quenching Through Tidal Gas Removal: Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Tidal Tails of z ~ 0.7 Post-Starburst Galaxies
Vincenzo R. D'Onofrio, Justin S. Spilker, Rachel Bezanson, Robert Feldmann, Andy D. Goulding, Jenny E. Greene, Mariska Kriek, Yuanze Luo, Desika Narayanan, David J. Setton, Katherine A. Suess, Yunchong Zhang, Pengpei Zhu
https://

Quenching Through Tidal Gas Removal: Molecular Gas and Star Formation in Tidal Tails of z ~ 0.7 Post-Starburst Galaxies
The active suppression of star formation in galaxies is critical in preventing the growth of overly massive systems and explaining the formation of present-day elliptical galaxies. We present a high-resolution, spatially-resolved multiwavelength study of two z ~ 0.7 massive post-starburst galaxies, SDSS J1448+1010 and SDSS J2258+2313, from the SQuIGGLE survey (Studying Quenching in Intermediate-z Galaxies: Gas, anguLar momentum, and Evolution), providing new insights into the role of mergers in…

For those who don't read my blog at @… I'll post some of the photos from our trip to the #schwarzwald separately.
This one was one of the first "tests" to get into seeing details in the chaotic and dark forest. I was just simpl…

Stagnation & high inflation are an American self-own.... brought to you courtesy of Trump & the Republicans.
From: @…
https://www.threads.com/@keithboykin/post/

Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) on Threads
New US economic data has brought back a word last used in the 1970s: stagflation. That’s what happens when the economy experiences “stagnant” growth combined with high “inflation.” Economists blame Trump’s tariffs and immigration crackdown for the self-inflicted wound.

Channel Choice and Customer Value
Shirsho Biswas, Hema Yoganarasimhan, Haonan Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00208 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.00208

Channel Choice and Customer Value
The rapid growth of digital shopping channels has prompted many traditional retailers to invest in e-commerce websites and mobile apps. While prior literature shows that multichannel customers tend to be more valuable, it overlooks how the reason for adopting a new channel may shape post-adoption behavior. Using transaction-level data from a major Brazilian pet supplies retailer, we examine how adoption of online shopping - by previously offline-only customers - affects post-adoption spend, pro…

"What goes with [GDP growth] is ... ignored; growth depends on increased production and distribution, which always increase waste."
Jon Cloke in our new #ProspectsForDegrowth piece.
The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… – degrowthUK

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definiti…

Symmetry restoration in a fast scrambling system
Sizheng Cao, Xian-Hui Ge
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26176 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.26176

Symmetry restoration in a fast scrambling system
Entanglement asymmetry -- used here as a direct probe of symmetry restoration -- provides a sharp diagnostic of post-quench dynamics. We test this idea in the complex Sachdev--Ye--Kitaev (cSYK) model with a conserved U(1) charge. Using exact diagonalization, we track the joint evolution of entanglement entropy and entanglement asymmetry after quenches from charge-asymmetric product states. We find rapid volume-law entanglement growth consistent with the subsystem eigenstate thermalization hypot…

Interesting that some who replied to my post on tax and GDP growth yesterday missed the point.
The point isn't to debate whether tax -> growth (it might, with a tail wind).
The point is that
1) Growth won't happen like it used to.
2) That is good because GDP growth is ecologically and socially lethal.
3) So our leaders (sic) had better adapt to the new reality and use taxation and other measures to build a better, fairer future.
More here:

Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK | Stop the Damage! Build a Better Future!
Britain and the rest of the world face a set of almost intractable challenges, ecological (including climate), economic and social. Yet political leaders with few exceptions are failing to propose the actions and policies that could address the scale of this pancrisis. Here though is an alternative initiative, a kind of alternative manifesto with a portfolio of illustrative policies...

The programme is live in about 20m (8pm EDT) over on UncertainFM

A complete asymptotic expansion for the semi-exponential Post-Widder operators
Ulrich Abel, Octavian Agratini, Radu Paltanea
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12270 https://

A complete asymptotic expansion for the semi-exponential Post-Widder operators
In the present paper, we study the asymptotic properties of the semi-exponential Post-Widder operator. It is connected with $p(x) = x^2$. The main result is a pointwise complete asymptotic expansion valid for locally smooth functions of exponential growth. All coefficients are derived and explicitly given. As a special case we recover the complete asymptotic expansion for the classical Post-Widder operator.

Vertical streaming apps charging $20/week are beating Netflix and other SVOD platforms in user growth with their mini-dramas optimized for mobile viewing (Tatum Hunter/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/08/23/vertical-s…

Spicy and pricey vertical mini-dramas are taking over streaming
Streaming apps that charge $20 a week for absurd, 60-second soap operas are winning audiences that rival Hulu and Paramount+.

Dating apps are encouraging users to meet in person to address concerns about "dating fatigue" among Gen Z and reverse a post-pandemic slowdown in growth (Kieran Smith/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/6d383cc2-0256-423e-8bf9-e85c20607e25

Hexagonal boron nitride thin film synthesis with a ns-pulsed MHCD: in-situ plasma diagnostics and post-growth film characterization
Belkacem Menacer (LSPM), Dimitrios Stefas (LSPM), Nikolaos Chazapis (LSPM), Claudia Lazzaroni (LSPM), Kristaq Gazeli (LSPM), Vianney Mille (LSPM)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04759

Hexagonal boron nitride thin film synthesis with a ns-pulsed MHCD: in-situ plasma diagnostics and post-growth film characterization
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is deposited on Si <100> wafer ($\approx$20 cm2) via Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition (PECVD) using a ns-pulsed N2/Ar Micro Hollow Cathode Discharge (MHCD) as a microplasma source. For the first time, aluminum nitride (AIN) is employed as the dielectric material in the MHCD to mitigate film contamination by atomic oxygen, an issue previously observed with conventional Al 2O3 dielectrics. A comprehensive multi-diagnostic approach is followed to characteriz…

A new piece in our #ProspectsForDegrowth series.
The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… by Jon Cloke.
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/09/18/the-

The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there…
Jon Cloke* “You may seek him in the basement, you may look up in the air But I tell you once and once again, Macavity’s not there!” Growth, Degrowth, Post-Growth There are so many accepted definiti…

What is required for a post-growth model?
Rob Van Eynde, Kevin J. Dillman, Jefim Vogel, Daniel W. O'Neill
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.07974 https://arxi…

What is required for a post-growth model?
Post-growth has emerged as an umbrella term for various sustainability visions that advocate the pursuit of environmental sustainability, social equity, and human wellbeing, while questioning the continued pursuit of economic growth. Although there are increasing calls to include post-growth scenarios in high-level assessments, a coherent framework with what is required to model post-growth adequately remains absent. This article addresses this gap by: (1) identifying the minimum requirements f…

Tumorigenesis as a trauma response: the fragmentation of morphogenetic memory drives neoplastic dissociation
Jordan Strasser
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.20363 https://

Tumorigenesis as a trauma response: the fragmentation of morphogenetic memory drives neoplastic dissociation
The mitigation of stress is a key challenge for all biological systems. Conditions of unresolvable stress have been associated with a diverse array of pathologies, from cancer to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Here, I unify insights from evolutionary and developmental biology with trauma psychology to present a novel framework for tumorigenesis which synthesizes stress-perception, tissue dysfunction, and the hallmarks of neoplastic growth. This view carries therapeutic implications, sug…

The $10~\rm{kpc}$ collar of early-type galaxies -- probing evolution by focusing on the inner stellar density profile
Rongfu Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Alessandro Sonnenfeld (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Carlo Nipoti (Alma Mater Studiorum - Universit\`a di Bologna), Rui Li (Zhengzhou University)
https://arxiv.org/ab…

The $10~\rm{kpc}$ collar of early-type galaxies -- probing evolution by focusing on the inner stellar density profile
Context: The post-quenching evolution process of early-type galaxies (ETGs) is still not fully understood. The amount of growth in stellar mass and size incurred after quenching is still under debate. Aims: In this work we aim to investigate the late evolution of ETGs, both observationally and theoretically, by focusing on the stellar mass density profile inside a fixed aperture, within $10$~kpc from the galaxy center. Methods: We first studied the stellar mass and mass-weighted density slo…

Near transform-limited single photons from rapid-thermal annealed quantum dots
Hendrik Mannel, Fabio Rimek, Marcel Zoellner, Nico Schwarz, Andreas D. Wieck, Nikolai Bart, Arne Ludwig, Martin Geller
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11108

Near transform-limited single photons from rapid-thermal annealed quantum dots
Single-photon emitters are essential components for quantum communication systems, enabling applications such as secure quantum key distribution and the long-term vision of a quantum internet. Among various candidates, self-assembled InAs/GaAs quantum dots (QDs) remain highly promising due to their ability to emit coherent and indistinguishable photons, as well as their compatibility with photonic integration. In this work, we investigate the impact of post-growth rapid thermal annealing (RTA) …