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Would you stop work? Just tell them you’re not coming in until this is over? What would that look like? Would you get fired? Would you still get fired if your whole team or half your division refused to work? If your union was ready to strike over it?
Maybe you can’t stop work. Maybe you’re unemployed. Maybe you’re retired. Maybe you still have people to take care of — from your income, or as part of the job you do. •Think• about it. What •could• you stop, work or otherwise? How could you prepare for that, save now, be ready?
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"A Memphis woman was arrested after she refused AT&T fiber optic installation"
I don't think it's unreasonable to tell a utility crew you don't want a handhole in your yard. Obviously this doesn't scale (they have to put them somewhere) but arresting people over this is silly.

Memphis woman describes arrest after fiber installation dispute
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Memphis woman was arrested after she refused AT&T fiber optic installation; she’s now out of jail and ready to share her side of the story. WREG Katelyn Barker learned …

Xiaomi Redmi Note 15: Fünf Modelle, nicht alle mit 5G
Xiaomi legt seine Redmi-Note-Reihe neu auf: Die Note-15-Serie besteht aus fünf Geräten, von denen nicht alle 5G unterstützen. Der Fokus liege auf Robustheit.
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Un biais systémique vers le dogme de la "croissance robuste"

Une cécité organisée sur les patrimoines des plus riches

Le refus méthodique de chiffrer fidèlement les effets délétères de leurs propres politiques fiscales
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Le gouvernement fabrique délibérément les conditions du déficit et l'utilise comme justification de l'austérité sociale
Bref, une politique fiscale qui fait payer aux classes moyennes le coût de l'intouchabilité f…

Impôts : les mauvais comptes du gouvernement
TVA, contribution sur les hauts revenus, taxe sur les superprofits… : les gouvernements Macron accumulent depuis 2023 les erreurs de prévision sur les rentrées fiscales. Pas étonnant, dès lors, que les déficits publics soient élevés. 

So the collective trauma reaction against the Church, so deep for those of us coming from the tradition of the European Left, alienates us from those indigenous comrades of ours who refused to let their identities be erased. It alienates us from Black and Latin American comrades who, in some cases, have subverted that same religion from a tool of oppression to a tool of resistance.
It also alienates us from our pagan, Jewish, and even Christian ancestors. Rather than a rejection of the genocides, crusades, and pogroms carried out to solidify the hegemony of the Church, a chauvinistic atheism affirms it under another name. Likewise it affirms the patriarchs who burned witches and destroyed midwifery to shift power over to male doctors.
The "Enlightenment" paradigm of "Reason," that led through secularism to the anti-religious antagonism of Bill Maher and the New Atheists, is laced with an Islamophobia and anti-Semitism rooted in the same church they claim to reject. And anyone who has been paying attention can see that it opens the door to the far right anti-Semitism and Islamophobia that also grows from that same root...

Heute habe ich zum ersten Mal von einem anlaufendem Bußgeldverfahren gehört, das durch eine Beschwerde mit meinem (mittlerweile schon lange nicht mehr aktualisierten) Beschwerdegenerator "Tracktor" ausgelöst wurde.
Für den Start dieses Bußgeldverfahrens hat die Berliner Behörde über fünf Jahre gebraucht 🥲
Audible.de hatte unter anderem die Adobe Experience Cloud, Google Cookie Matching und The Trade Desk ohne Einwilligung eingebunden. 2023 waren die Einbettungen bere…

🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio3:
#MusicMap
- A journey to Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Sara Mohr-Pietsch maps a route to the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 - one of Franz Liszt's most famous compositions.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002r3z5

Ukraine, EU partners finalize revised peace proposal, ready to present plan to US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/09/ukraine-eu-partners-finalize-revised.html

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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For reasons I am revisiting an old classic: Manabe and Stouffer, 1980.
The field of climate science is now effectively mostly about proving how correct those first simulations of the gigantic carbon experiment in the atmosphere were.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247488071_Sensitivity_of_a_Global_Climate_Model_to_an_Increase_of_CO2_Concentration_in_the_Atmosphere