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"At root, stock buybacks are just wash-trading, the company buying its own shares to move their price, without doing anything to justify that price movement. Before Reagan legalized stock buybacks, companies returned capital to their investors through dividends. Why would companies prefer buybacks to dividends? Because corporate executives hold *tons* of shares in their employer's company, and it's *much* better for them to push those share prices higher even as they gut the company's ability to function."
https://pluralistic.net/2025/09/06/computer-says-huh/#invisible-handcuffs

Solar PV Installation Potential Assessment on Building Facades Based on Vision and Language Foundation Models
Ruyu Liu, Dongxu Zhuang, Jianhua Zhang, Arega Getaneh Abate, Per Sieverts Nielsen, Ben Wang, Xiufeng Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00797

Solar PV Installation Potential Assessment on Building Facades Based on Vision and Language Foundation Models
Building facades represent a significant untapped resource for solar energy generation in dense urban environments, yet assessing their photovoltaic (PV) potential remains challenging due to complex geometries and semantic com ponents. This study introduces SF-SPA (Semantic Facade Solar-PV Assessment), an automated framework that transforms street-view photographs into quantitative PV deployment assessments. The approach combines com puter vision and artificial intelligence techniques to addres…