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Jessie Price and David Pocock in conversation about the critical importance of community Independents on the crossbench in the context of a Coalition shambles and Labor majority - sharpening the role of the crossbench in holding the government to account and pushing for stronger action.
#JessiePrice #DavidPocock

I love this: 'At the Sycamore Collective we believe technology should give people more power to shape their lives not less' https://sycamore-collective.org/how-can-the-we-strengthen-the-role-of-people-and-communities-…

We're wandering down this afternoon to the Jessie Price Keep Bean on the map: Reconnecting Our Supporter Community!
Enjoy a democracy sausage BBQ.
Jessie and David Pocock will be in conversation about the critical importance of community Independents on the crossbench in the context of a Coalition shambles and Labor majority - sharpening the role of the crossbench in holding the government to account and pushing for stronger action.
Tuggeranong Park Stage, 2-4pm and a…

Trump’s intervention has been widely condemned as an authoritarian power grab
that undermines the autonomy of Washington’s DC local government
and seeks to distract attention from political problems such as the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Propaganda Minister Karoline Leavitt told reporters,
“this is only the beginning.
Over the course of the next month,
the Trump administration will relentlessly pursue and arrest
every violent criminal in the district&quo…

Income Disaster, Role of Income Support, and Optimal Retirement
Tae Ung Gang, Seyoung Park, Yong Hyun Shin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12874 https://arxiv.o…

Income Disaster, Role of Income Support, and Optimal Retirement
This paper investigates the interactions among consumption/savings, investment, and retirement choices with income disaster. We consider low-income people who are exposed to income disaster so that they retire involuntarily when income disaster occurs. The government provides extra income support to low-income retirees who suffer from significant income gaps. We demonstrate that the decision to enter retirement in the event of income disaster depends crucially on the level of income support. In…

Sources: Anthropic scrapped plans to hire a Republican for its top policy role, instead choosing an Obama alumn as it adopts a cooler stance towards Trump (Sylvia Varnham O'Regan/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/te

As Tech Leaders Flatter Trump, Anthropic Takes a Cooler Approach
In June, the artificial intelligence startup Anthropic was finally getting close to hiring a candidate—a Republican—for its top government relations jobafter months of searching for someone. That decision marked a shift: Anthropic had hired several former Biden staffers earlier in the year, ...

Good Morning #Canada
It's a holiday across most of our nation today, so why not take 14 minutes to find out why Alaska isn't part of Canada and discover why Lord Alverstone is the villain you've likely never heard of.
Lord Alverstone, whose full name was Richard Everard Webster, 1st Viscount Alverstone, played a key role in the Alaska Boundary Dispute of 1903. As the British representative on the arbitration tribunal, he ultimately sided with the United States, leading to a decision that favored the US claim over Canada's claims regarding the Alaska panhandle. At the time, the British government was trying to rebuild relationships with the U.S. and likely instructed Lord Alverstone to rule against Canadian border claims.
#CanadaIsAwesome #History
https://youtu.be/woXBk3OAtSM?si=-pTwI7OKidfK2g2L

@samsabin.bsky.social has the scoop on Jen Easterly's new gig. And huge shout out to Huntress.
https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-fu

The UK government appoints News UK COO and ex-Sun editor David Dinsmore to the new role of permanent secretary for communications (Press Gazette)
https://pressgazette.co.uk/the-wire/media-jobs-uk-news/news-uk-coo-and…

News UK COO and ex-Sun editor David Dinsmore to take Govt comms job
News UK chief operating officer David Dinsmore is taking up a senior communications role at the heart of Government.

Across China, tens of thousands of people tagged as troublemakers are trapped in a digital cage,
barred from leaving their province and sometimes even their homes
by the world’s largest digital surveillance apparatus.
Most of this technology came from companies in a country that has long claimed to support freedoms worldwide -- the United States.
⚠️ Over the past quarter century, American tech companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state,…

How Silicon Valley enabled China's digital police state
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously known. Firms including IBM, Dell, and Cisco sold billions in technology to Chinese police and government agencies, despite repeated warnings that such tools were being used to quash dissent, persecute religious sects and target minorities. Critically, American surveillance technologies allowed a b…

This #WaPo slogan is outdated.
Democracy dies in darkness was the official slogan of the American newspaper The Washington Post since 2017. It was meant to symbolise that a thriving democracy requires transparency and illumination of government actions and decisions. The slogan underscores the role of journalism in holding power accountable by shining a light on public officials and decision…

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Marcel Ausloos, Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Polina Khrennikova
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09415

Note on pre-taxation reported data by UK FTSE-listed companies. A search for Benford's laws compatibility
Pre-taxation analysis plays a crucial role in ensuring the fairness of public revenue collection. It can also serve as a tool to reduce the risk of tax avoidance, one of the UK government's concerns. Our report utilises pre-tax income ($PI$) and total assets ($TA$) data from 567 companies listed on the FTSE All-Share index, gathered from the Refinitiv EIKON database, covering 14 years, i.e., the period from 2009 to 2022. We also derive the $PI/TA$ ratio, and distinguish between positive and neg…

"Starmer says UK will recognise Palestinian statehood in September unless Israel agrees ceasefire and two-state solution”
Erm, surely, if a two state solution was implemented, then we would recognise the state of Palestine so none of this makes any sense??
#ukpolitics

An analysis of government subsidy policies in vaccine supply chain: Innovation, Production, or Consumption?
Ran Gu, Enhui Ding, Shigui Ma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03661 https:…

An analysis of government subsidy policies in vaccine supply chain: Innovation, Production, or Consumption?
Vaccines play a crucial role in the prevention and control of infectious diseases. However, the vaccine supply chain faces numerous challenges that hinder its efficiency. To address these challenges and enhance public health outcomes, many governments provide subsidies to support the vaccine supply chain. This study analyzes a government-subsidized, three-tier vaccine supply chain within a continuous-time differential game framework. The model incorporates dynamic system equations that account …