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From 8 years ago.
The limits of the best of the reformist approaches, exhausted capitalism and ecosystem crisis, societal collapse and a localist, ecosocialist resurgence. England's northern postindustrial towns as the backdrop.
After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version | Uncommontater

After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version
Here is the revised version of my working paper, “After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge”.  I’m grateful to those who have offered encouragement and constructively critic…

Mai Kivelä: Hallitus auttaa suuryrityksiä karttamaan ympäristövastuuta globaalin hiilinielun jatkaessa rapistumista https://vasemmisto.fi/mai-kivela-hallitus-auttaa-suuryrityksia-karttamaan-ymparistovastu…

Mai Kivelä: Hallitus auttaa suuryrityksiä karttamaan ympäristövastuuta globaalin hiilinielun jatkaessa rapistumista
Metsäkatoasetus astui voimaan kesäkuussa 2023, ja siirtymäaikoineen toimeenpanon oli tarkoitus käynnistyä vuoden 2024 lopulla. Toimeenpanon alkua viivästytettiin sittemmin vuoden 2025 loppuun…

#MySQL Repository Analysis Reveals Declining Development and Shrinking Contributor Base
https://www.infoq.com/news/2025/12/mysql-declining-development/

Sources: Nvidia tells its Chinese clients that it is considering adding production capacity for its H200 chips in response to robust demand (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nvidia-considers-increasi…

Camera-trap study catches nectar-feeding birds breaking into flowers when their beaks don't fit
Trait matching affects the probability of nectar robbing in plant-pollinator networks
https://doi.org/10.1002/oik.11552

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…

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#Radio3InConcert
- Radio 3's American Roadtrip: Rhapsody in Blue
The Kansas City Symphony, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, performs Ives and Copland and is joined by Conrad Tao for Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002pgf3

Robust equilibria in continuous games: From strategic to dynamic robustness
Kyriakos Lotidis, Panayotis Mertikopoulos, Nicholas Bambos, Jose Blanchet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08138 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08138 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08138
arXiv:2512.08138v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: In this paper, we examine the robustness of Nash equilibria in continuous games, under both strategic and dynamic uncertainty. Starting with the former, we introduce the notion of a robust equilibrium as those equilibria that remain invariant to small -- but otherwise arbitrary -- perturbations to the game's payoff structure, and we provide a crisp geometric characterization thereof. Subsequently, we turn to the question of dynamic robustness, and we examine which equilibria may arise as stable limit points of the dynamics of "follow the regularized leader" (FTRL) in the presence of randomness and uncertainty. Despite their very distinct origins, we establish a structural correspondence between these two notions of robustness: strategic robustness implies dynamic robustness, and, conversely, the requirement of strategic robustness cannot be relaxed if dynamic robustness is to be maintained. Finally, we examine the rate of convergence to robust equilibria as a function of the underlying regularizer, and we show that entropically regularized learning converges at a geometric rate in games with affinely constrained action spaces.
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runme.org was a software art repository I made with Amy Alexander, Olga Goriunova and Alexei Shulgin, launched in early 2003 https://runme.org/
It came from the software art scene mainly defined by the "readme" events, including the readme/runme/dorkbot city camp

The UK CAT refuses Apple permission to appeal a ruling that it abused its dominance by charging unfairly high App Store fees; a lawyer calculates damages at £1B (Sam Tobin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/apple-refused-permissio…