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A look at Meta's 2GW Hyperion data center in Louisiana, with the first phase opening in 2028; an analysis shows sales tax breaks on GPUs could total $3.3B (Jon Keegan/Sherwood News)
https://sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

The power play behind Hyperion, Mark Zuckerberg’s colossal data center being built in rural Louisiana
$10 billion of investment. Code names to disguise projects and companies. Mixed opinions. Skyrocketing property values. And enough tax breaks to pay every state cop in Louisiana for seven years.

Study Shows Plant-Based Agroforestry Could Double Rural Income in Brazil https://vegconomist.com/agriculture-agribusiness/study-shows-plant-based-agroforestry-could-double-rural-income-brazil/

Study Shows Plant-Based Agroforestry Could Double Rural Income in Brazil - vegconomist - the vegan business magazine
A new study presented at the COP30 summit in Belém has found that shifting from livestock farming to plant-based agroforestry can significantly increase the

Met new friends on my morning walk.
#goodmorning #morningwalk #sheep

I cannot recommend *Drystone - A Life Rebuilt* by Kristie De Garis highly enough. This is one of those rare memoirs that manages to be simultaneously heartbreaking and hilarious, raw and beautifully crafted.
De Garis writes with brutal honesty about topics many of us struggle to articulate: racism, intergenerational trauma, undiagnosed ADHD, addiction, and the blunt realities of motherhood. Set against the stunning landscapes of rural Scotland, she portraits her journey of self-discove…

Kristie De Garis - Writer, photographer and drystone waller based in Perthshire, Scotland.
Kristie De Garis - Writing

"Plastics dominate UK litter as rural and outdoor spaces emerge as pollution hotspots"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Plastic #Plastics

Plastics dominate UK litter as rural and outdoor spaces emerge as pollution hotspots
A new study by the University of Portsmouth shows that plastic items make up more than seven in ten pieces of litter recorded across the UK, with countryside locations and public recreation areas carrying some of the heaviest burdens.

Years ago, my cousin married a guy from rural Illinois who'd played hockey at a fairly high level. I invited them up, saying something like you haven't experienced hockey till you've seen the Canadiens in Montreal. Dude answered: "I don't think it could be any different than watching the Blues in St. Louis." Our relationship never recovered.

CPB announces $4.4M in grants to support rural radio and TV news services in Wisconsin, Ohio, Arkansas, Kansas, West Virginia, Tennessee, Michigan, and Iowa (Tyler Falk/Current)
https://current.org/2025/12/cpb-awards-4-million-to-expand-rural-reporting/…

CPB awards $4 million to expand rural reporting
Grants will go to public radio and television stations in eight states.

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 120 nodes and 295 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

'A war against rural America’: Farmer-politician Sen. Jon Tester blasts Trump’s 'hoax' claims - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-war-rural-america/

estimates between 6000 and 8000 (Approx 1/3 of the total residents of tiny rural town) showed up in #DeWitt NY for a #NoKings rally protest today, just one of a dozen protests tracked across the #UpstateNY region

#NoKings #Berlin
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/842166/

Trump gave what was billed as a “Christmas speech”
in rural Pennsylvania this past week that began with his
“wishing each and everyone one of you a very merry Christmas,
happy New Year,
all of that stuff”
and boasting that now, under his presidency:
“Everybody’s saying ‘merry Christmas’ again.”
He then claimed
– contrary to the experience of nearly everyone in the crowd
– that he had gotten them
“lower prices” and “bigger paychecks…

Optimising Communication Control Factors for Energy Consumption in Rural LOS V2X
Zhanle Zhao, Son Dinh-Van, Yuen Kwan Mo, Siddartha Khastgir, Matthew D. Higgins
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12539

Optimising Communication Control Factors for Energy Consumption in Rural LOS V2X
Connected braking can reduce fatal collisions in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) by using reliable, low-latency 5G New Radio (NR) links, especially NR Sidelink Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X). In rural areas, road side units are sparse and power-constrained or off-grid, so energy efficiency must be considered alongside safety. This paper studies how three communication control factors including subcarrier spacing ($\mathrm{SCS}$), modulation and coding scheme ($\mathrm{MCS}$), and transmit…

US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (Mike Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-priva…

Rural Fire Departments Squeezed By Software Prices As Investors Profit
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.

Rural America relies on foreign doctors. Trump's visa fee shuts them out. (David Ovalle/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/12/08/h1b-visa-fees-rural-health/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzY1MTcwMDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzY2NTUyMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NjUxNzAwMDAsImp0aSI6ImQ0MDEyZjU5LTdjMDgtNGEyMC04YjU5LTg3NWQ3NzljZTZmOCIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9oZWFsdGgvMjAyNS8xMi8wOC9oMWItdmlzYS1mZWVzLXJ1cmFsLWhlYWx0aC8ifQ.SiIxgn6nS1laYAxFA3omsbjXc1EleI2kj0IkAtJxzEU&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/251208/p42#a251208p42

Father Land
Australia's first podcast dedicated to fathers on the land—a bold platform giving rural dads a voice, hosted by award-winning entrepreneur, journalist, and rural mum Stephanie Trethewey...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/father

If it were not for the mundane responsibilities of my life that cannot be shirked, I would be attending this one.
Incidentally, #Baldwin is a *small* town. <1k people embedded in public forest. Just west of the historic Idlewild resort area. I expect that it would be a marginally less vehemently white crowd than in most similarly rural areas. And the leaves have got to be spectacularly col…

Spooky Hatun (@QueenOfTheCroneAge@beige.party)
Attached: 1 image Baldwin #Michigan #FuckICE #FuckAveloAirlines #Frogtifa #DanceParty

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.…

Series D, Episode 01 - Rescue
VILA: Dayna. Dayna. [follows the path Dayna has taken. He leaves Orac and the binoculars on the ground in the snow.] Dayna.
[Planet Terminal. Exterior. Avon finds Tarrant lying face down in the snow, unconscious. Avon walks over and nudges Tarrant with his boot. Tarrant stirs.]
https://blake.torpidi…

It's Word Press Accessibility Day!
A free online conference with global scope and participation.
I just saw a great session on accessibility and the "global south" which refers to a lot of places in rural USA as much as it does to South America and African countries.
Technological disparities including bandwidth, computer power, stable electric supply, and poverty-limited access to technology and software are still huge problems that affect business and societ…

Schedule - WordPress Accessibility Day 2025
See the great talks we have planned for this year!

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Monthly Rural-Urban Scaling of Road Accidents in England, Wales and Scotland (2019-2023)
Isabel Copsey, Quentin Hanley, Jack Sutton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07351 https://

Monthly Rural-Urban Scaling of Road Accidents in England, Wales and Scotland (2019-2023)
Road traffic accidents remain a major public health challenge worldwide, with urbanisation and population density identified as key factors influencing risk. This study analyses monthly accident data from 2009 to 2023 across 632 parliamentary constituencies in England, Wales, and Scotland, using an area-normalised approach based on population density. Segmented power law models consistently identified breakpoints separating sublinear rural from superlinear urban scaling behaviours. Seasonal var…

Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million.
Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals.
Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.
-- Sen Bernie Sanders
https://

Senator Bernie Sanders (@sanders.senate.gov)
Our job is not to throw 15 million people off health care and double insurance premiums for more than 20 million. Our job is not to shutter community health centers, nursing homes and rural hospitals. Our job is to fix a broken system and guarantee health care to all.

A key lifeline for rural communities, federal air travel funds, will expire Sunday if the shutdown continues (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/rural-communities-essential-air-service-flights-shutdown-deadline-rcna236159
http://www.memeorandum.com/251007/p97#a251007p97

👨‍👩‍👦‍👦 Global average farm size may triple by 2100 amid rural population decline
#farming …

Global average farm size may triple by 2100 amid rural population decline
Farm size plays a crucial role in shaping food production systems and environmental outcomes. However, its long-term global trends have remained poorly understood.

Very cool population genomic look into local adaptation against gene flow at a relatively small spatial scale, urban/rural gradients across metro Toronto in this month's @…
Signatures of selective sweeps in urban and rural white clover populations

If you ever thought the Nationals were interested in regional or rural communities.
" Warming above 1.5C will cause widespread crop failures and food insecurity, more extreme weather events, and the loss of between 70 and 90 per cent of the world's coral reefs"
https://share.google/4dQtUrWlU49vaQgBc

Can we tackle climate change without net zero? Here's what it really means
The Coalition is debating whether to dump its commitment to the net zero climate target. Here's what that term actually means.

Exploring the potential resource integration under passenger-freight shared mobility: collaborative optimization of multi-type bus scheduling and dynamic vehicle capacity allocation for urban-rural bus routes
Jiabin Wu, Zijian Huang, Linhong Wang, Yiming Bie, Yuting Ji, Jun Gong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20017

Exploring the potential resource integration under passenger-freight shared mobility: collaborative optimization of multi-type bus scheduling and dynamic vehicle capacity allocation for urban-rural bus routes
Under the global background of developing urban-rural travel patterns, traditional urban-rural public transport systems are generally faced with the serious challenges of passenger loss and operating deficit, leading to a reduction in the bus frequency and service reliability. In order to break the vicious circle of demand decline-supply shrinkage, passenger-freight shared mobility (PFSM), an innovative operation mode, can achieve synergies between urban-rural logistics and public transport ser…

Republicans left tribes out of their $50B rural health fund. Now it’s up to states to share • Washington State Standard
https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2025/12/05/republicans-left-tribes-out-of-their-50b-rural-health-fund-now-its-up-to-states-to-share/

Good Morning #Canada
There are over 100 ghost towns in Saskatchewan, including Saskatoon in early February. One was Bonne Madone, a community founded in 1902 in the scary Rural Municipality of Woooo Boooo. (Editor - it's actually Hoodoo). The area was granted by the federal government to French settlers, the main contingent of which arrived in 1902 from Dauphiné and Franche-Comté, led by fathers Laurent Voisin and Jean Garnier. A convent run by the Sisters of Providence was established there in 1905. Nuns with rulers are very scary. A school was built there in 1908, and the town's chapel was first built in 1910, and the town also had a Royal North-West Mounted Police station and a Post office. It was an active community in the 1920s and the 1930s, but its population dwindled over the next few decades, and by the end of the 1960s, it was abandoned..... and haunted.
BTW - Some provinces have a Ghost Town Trail, like this one.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianGhostTowns
https://www.prairiepast.com/blog/explore-3

https://youtu.be/6q_BE5KPp18 <- Rural Cosplay is, Unfortunately, A Thing <- this comment on that video is even funnier :-) --> "You can get food delivery, Dale. You're not rural."

Los jabalíes son víctimas, no culpables: sobre la gestión del brote de peste porcina africana y la necesidad de un enfoque ético y científico
https://www.eldiario.es/caballodenietzsche/jabalies-peste-porcina_132_12829685.html

Los jabalíes son víctimas, no culpables: sobre la gestión del brote de peste porcina africana y la necesidad de un enfoque ético y científico
El consejo científico del UPF-Centre for Animal Ethics (UPF-CAE) -formado por las profesoras e investigadoras Núria Almiron, Paula Casal, Catia Faria, Laura Fernández, Eze Paez y Marta Tafalla- ha enviado al conseller d’Acció Climàtica, Alimentació i Agenda Rural de la Generalitat de Catalunya, ...

Metropolitana IV 🏯
城 IV 🏯
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Ilford Pan 100
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

What rural folks don’t understand about city life
The wages of our well-paid college graduates support the
self-righteous people in red America

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/11/28/city-life-chicago-v…

What rural folks don’t understand about city life
Urban urbanity: Chicago, New York and San Francisco through readers’ eyes.

'Sort of blackmail': Billions in rural health funding hinge on states passing Trump-backed policies (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/12/07/sort-of-blackmail-billions-in-rural-health-funding-hinge-on-states-passing-trumps-policies-00679082
http://www.memeorandum.com/251207/p53#a251207p53

Challenge: "Name 20 female authors you admire, 1 per day"
Day 15:
Jenni Fagan
She is like a volcano of creativity - 4 novels, numerous books of poetry, film, sculpture, painting ... she is amazingly productive, and unique in her style and voice.
I particularly enjoyed The Sunlight Pilgrims and some of the things in it helped explain odd things I'd notice when I moved to rural Scotland. Can also recommend her first novel The Panopticon.

France is aiming to increase the number of shared cars fivefold in five years: from 14,000 now to around 70,000 in 2031.
Both station-based and free-floating, within companies, urban and rural.
https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-eco/autopart

Autopartage : le gouvernement vise un objectif de 70.000 véhicules d'ici 2031
Le gouvernement a fixé jeudi un nouvel objectif pour développer l'autopartage en France afin de réduire les émissions de gaz à effet de serre du...

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.…

The takeaway sentence here: “[T]wo-thirds of new data centers built or in development [in the US] since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
This is particularly pertinent here in #Australia, where already, once-plentiful artesian water’s dwindling, nitrogen- and phosphorus-rich runoff chokes waterways with algae and destroys coral reefs, and

Destination Medicine Podcast
Opportunities for a successful medical career in rural Australia are immense...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/destination-medicine/

Burlington publishes a PDF of both sides of the foldable cycling route map (same one given away at community centres and street events) - it was last updated in 2022.
* #BikeTooter #OnPoli

🗳️🇺🇸 Tomorrow (Tue 4 Nov) Mainers will decide a referendum that could shape elections for years to come, especially for older/disabled/rural/on-call workers. More at #MEpolitics

How Democrats Lost White, Rural America - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-30/how-democrats-lost-white-rural-america?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2NDUyNjQyMiwiZXhwIjoxNzY1MTMxMjIyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNkpJU1pLSUpIOEwwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJMVzJYSUVUU0tKQlNSUUg0SUFIREowMUtIQVpIUEpYMiJ9.fB3TqEgRmt7bM6xB4p6Q9PdNLBGHHPzbcGOiEQfp9-8&leadSource=reddit_wall

When He's Not Busy Censoring Comedians, Brendan Carr Is Eliminating Free Wi-Fi For Poor Rural School Kids (Karl Bode/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/06/when-hes-not-busy-censoring-comedians-brendan-carr-is-eliminating-free-wi-fi-for-poor-rural-school-kids/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251006/p156#a251006p156

I grew up in a rural area in the 90s, and was a junior NRA member. Now, I will admit that I only did a limited amount of shooting and it's been at least 30 years since I touched a gun, but I'm pretty sure that rule #1 of gun safety is: Don't point weapon at your own dick.
https://www.

ICE Agent Drops Gun and Levels It at Shocked Rush-Hour Crowd
The man who captured the video said the scene unfolded in the midst of rush-hour traffic just outside Washington, D.C.

Finished "All the Sinners Bleed" by S.A. Cosby. Titus Crown, the first black sheriff of a rural VA county, is hunting down a serial killer amidst simmering racial tensions.
While Charon County is fictional, the given geography might make it Surry or Charles City counties, places I've spent a good amount of time working with sheriff's offices. Cosby nails the law enforcement vibe & mirrors my observations of race relations in SE VA.
4/5 stars ⭐⭐⭐⭐

All the Sinners Bleed
A Black sheriff. A serial killer. A small town ready to…

Great analysis and story telling
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-12/yarriambiack-warracknabeal-victoria-town-population-shrink/105774946

In one of Australia's fastest-shrinking regions, towns are fighting to remain
In the Yarriambiack Shire, 350 kilometres from Melbourne in Victoria's rural north-west, virtually all of the towns are shrinking.

Automatic Building Code Review: A Case Study
Hanlong Wan, Weili Xu, Michael Rosenberg, Jian Zhang, Aysha Siddika
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02634 https://a…

Automatic Building Code Review: A Case Study
Building officials, particularly those in resource-constrained or rural jurisdictions, face labor-intensive, error-prone, and costly manual reviews of design documents as projects increase in size and complexity. The growing adoption of Building Information Modeling (BIM) and Large Language Models (LLMs) presents opportunities for automated code review (ACR) solutions. This study introduces a novel agent-driven framework that integrates BIM-based data extraction with automated verification usin…

From David Suzuki
Expanding LNG will increase prices and pollution
Higher home heating prices. Pollution. Accelerating climate change. Water shortages. Indigenous rights violations. Who wants that? Apparently the obscenely profitable fossil fuel companies, and unimaginative, short-sighted governments banking on outdated ideas to shore up the economy.
Has industry lived up to its LNG promises? A David Suzuki Foundation report concludes that it hasn’t & isn’t likely to.

Nearly half of rural hospitals now operate at a loss.
As new federal budget cuts take effect, analysts warn that hundreds of rural hospitals more may close.
-- threatening to turn vast stretches of the country into health-care deserts.
At the center of this growing crisis lies a rollback in federal health-coverage spending.
Nonpartisan analyses show large Medicaid reductions over ten years.
-- the total is on the order of eight to nine hundred billion dollars f…

Rural Hospitals in the United States Face Collapse
As Medicaid cuts deepen, small-town hospitals across Republican states are closing, leaving millions without access to emergency care.

😱 “Rainfall in the central city of Hue reached 1,085 millimeters (42 inches) in 24 hours by late Monday, the highest volume ever recorded in Vietnam”
https://apnews.com/article/vietnam-floods-record-rainfall-3492e2748c8504392943f21b5df5079…

Record rainfall causes major flooding in Vietnam, submerging ancient sites
Heavy rains have caused major flooding in central Vietnam, submerging homes, farmland, and tourist spots like Hue and Hoi An. By late Monday, Hue saw record rainfall of 42 inches within 24 hours. By Tuesday morning, water levels in Hue's Perfume River rose to 15 feet. The ancient town of Hoi An experienced waist-deep floods, leading to tourist evacuations by boat. The floods have disrupted train routes between Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. About 1,000 people in rural areas are isolated due to flo…

As Microsoft accelerates its AI buildout in rural Wisconsin, one community's vocal opposition led the company to withdraw plans for a proposed data center site (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/25/microsoft-ai-data-center-rejection-vs-sup…

Why rural Wisconsin is blocking the AI data center boom: 'Horses are skittish'
Tech giants are increasingly facing community backlash as they select places to build mammoth AI data centers.

‘94 @ Sue’s in Limehouse w/ Annie. She’s gone now, but she was a true Eastender, born & died. As a little girl during the Blitz, she (along w/ loads of other kids) had been put on a train out of London. The train would make rural stops & local folks could come take a child or 2 home to work on their farms. From her train, she was the last child chosen. She didn’t share that freely or easily, but she told me. I think about that little girl alone on that platform more often than you mi…

Good luck to this campaign.
One of my best cycle tours followed the Wye valley to the sea at Chepstow.
It is a scandal what's been done to this rural watercourse.
River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crrj4q

River Wye pollution prompts UK's largest environmental lawsuit
Livestock and water companies are accused of “extensive” pollution in the Wye, Lugg and Usk rivers.

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 173 nodes and 678 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

"keen hiker and cyclist" 🥰
Thank you @…
https://social.growyourown.services/@FediVideo/115492539600579164

Development and Evaluation of an AI-Driven Telemedicine System for Prenatal Healthcare
Juan Barrientos, Michaelle P\'erez, Douglas Gonz\'alez, Favio Reyna, Julio Fajardo, Andrea Lara
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01194

Development and Evaluation of an AI-Driven Telemedicine System for Prenatal Healthcare
Access to obstetric ultrasound is often limited in low-resource settings, particularly in rural areas of low- and middle-income countries. This work proposes a human-in-the-loop artificial intelligence (AI) system designed to assist midwives in acquiring diagnostically relevant fetal images using blind sweep protocols. The system incorporates a classification model along with a web-based platform for asynchronous specialist reviews. By identifying key frames in blind sweep studies, the AI syste…

MAGA holds its most loyal voters in contempt.
And the reality of this contempt is starting to show through
— not, at least so far, via the One Big Beautiful Bill’s savage cuts to health care,
which will be especially devastating to rural areas,
but via the Trump administration’s bizarre fixation on aiding President Javier Milei of Argentina.
The truth is that rural America is even more dependent than urban America on the programs now on the chopping block.

Argentina and Rural America’s Awakening
Suddenly, Trump’s contempt for his base is showing

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
The Rural Alberta Advantage:
🎵 Terrified
#TheRuralAlbertaAdvantage
https://ruralalbertaadvantage.bandcamp.com/track/terrified
https://open.spotify.com/track/10jQksbjf0vVjSbwShLe05

Beyond Revenue and Welfare: Counterfactual Analysis of Spectrum Auctions with Application to Canada's 3800MHz Allocation
Sara Jalili Shani, Kris Joseph, Michael B. McNally, James R. Wright
https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.08106 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2512.08106 https://arxiv.org/html/2512.08106
arXiv:2512.08106v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Spectrum auctions are the primary mechanism through which governments allocate scarce radio frequencies, with outcomes that shape competition, coverage, and innovation in telecommunications markets. While traditional models of spectrum auctions often rely on strong equilibrium assumptions, we take a more parsimonious approach by modeling bidders as myopic and straightforward: in each round, firms simply demand the bundle that maximizes their utility given current prices. Despite its simplicity, this model proves effective in predicting the outcomes of Canada's 2023 auction of 3800 MHz spectrum licenses. Using detailed round-by-round bidding data, we estimate bidders' valuations through a linear programming framework and validate that our model reproduces key features of the observed allocation and price evolution. We then use these estimated valuations to simulate a counterfactual auction under an alternative mechanism that incentivizes deployment in rural and remote regions, aligning with one of the key objectives set out in the Canadian Telecommunications Act. The results show that the proposed mechanism substantially improves population coverage in underserved areas. These findings demonstrate that a behavioral model with minimal assumptions is sufficient to generate reliable counterfactual predictions, making it a practical tool for policymakers to evaluate how alternative auction designs may influence future outcomes. In particular, our study demonstrates a method for counterfactual mechanism design, providing a framework to evaluate how alternative auction rules could advance policy goals such as equitable deployment across Canada.
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Series B, Episode 05 - Pressure Point
ARLE: No hurry.
BERG: Let's get back and report.
ARLE: We've got nothing to report. If we could get back and tell Kasabi what's INSIDE the zone-
BERG: She said as far as the security boundary.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/205/4

How life changed in a rural town that lost its clinic after Trump's megabill (Eva McKend/CNN)
https://cnn.com/2025/11/30/politics/trump-one-big-beautiful-bill-rural-healthcare
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p31#a251130p31

In a California farming region, researchers are mapping rural heat to protect farmworkers
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-california-farming-region-rural-farmworkers.html

Gas stoves are filling millions of homes with hidden toxic air #environment

Gas stoves are filling millions of homes with hidden toxic air
Stanford researchers found that gas stoves expose Americans to surprisingly high levels of nitrogen dioxide—often matching or exceeding outdoor pollution. For millions, cooking alone pushes NO2 over long-term safety thresholds. Smaller homes, renters, and rural households face the highest concentrations. Cleaner cooking technologies could substantially reduce the risks.

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…

"In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone"
#Malawi #SolarPower #Energy #Renewables

In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone
LILONGWE — Four years ago, a U.K.-based charity, SolarAid, set out to provide solar-powered electricity to every home in Kasakula, a village around 90 kilometers, or 56 miles, from Malawi’s capital, Lilongwe. The project was aimed at demonstrating the potential for distributing and maintaining renewable energy in rural Africa. Today, SolarAid says it has installed […]

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 139 nodes and 709 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

Okanogan County Protests Highlight Rural Impact of Trump Policies | The Daily Yonder
https://dailyyonder.com/okanogan-county-protests-highlight-rural-impact-of-trump-policies/2025/09/15/

Massachusetts could soon join 40 other jurisdictions with its own climate bank. Ceres CEO Mindy Lubber testified on Beacon Hill for legislation that would blend public and private investments to fund low-interest loans for clean energy projects.
The model works: similar banks invested $10.6B in 2023 alone. Lubber urged prioritizing environmental justice communities alongside rural and coastal areas.

Ceres CEO and President Mindy Lubber testifies on Beacon Hill to support the creation of a climate bank in Massachusetts

What's Not on the Plate? Rethinking Food Computing through Indigenous Indian Datasets
Pamir Gogoi, Neha Joshi, Ayushi Pandey, Deepthi Sudharsan, Saransh Kumar Gupta, Lipika Dey, Partha Pratim Das, Kalika Bali, Vivek Seshadri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.16286

What's Not on the Plate? Rethinking Food Computing through Indigenous Indian Datasets
This paper presents a multimodal dataset of 1,000 indigenous recipes from remote regions of India, collected through a participatory model involving first-time digital workers from rural areas. The project covers ten endangered language communities in six states. Documented using a dedicated mobile app, the data set includes text, images, and audio, capturing traditional food practices along with their ecological and cultural contexts. This initiative addresses gaps in food computing, such as t…

National Federation of Community Broadcasters gets a $1.25M MacArthur grant; NFCB represents ~200 stations mostly serving rural and underrepresented communities (Austin Fuller/Current)
https://current.org/2025/10/national-federation-of-c…

National Federation of Community Broadcasters lands $1.25M MacArthur grant
The grant “is both an affirmation of the essential role community radio plays in civic life and an investment in the infrastructure that sustains it,” said NFCB CEO Rima Dael.

NO KINGS Santa Barbara
Rally · Volunteer organized
Saturday, October 18
12 – 3pm PDT
Alameda Park
1400 Santa Barbara St
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/839871/

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down…

Amazon opens Project Rainier, an $11B AI data center on 1,200 acres in Indiana that trains and runs Anthropic's AI models using 500K Amazon Trainium 2 chips (MacKenzie Sigalos/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/amazon-opens-11-bi…

Amazon opens $11 billion AI data center in rural Indiana as rivals race to break ground
Amazon has opened a date center on 1,200 acres of land in Indiana dedicated to training and running models from Anthropic.

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.…

Republicans' refusal to fund SNAP will hurt their own voters most. They don't care. (USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/10/30/shutdown-snap-republican-voters-rural-america/86946759007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p46#a251030p46

Three Rural VA Health Clinics Close Due To Megabill - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/09/three-rural-va-health-clinics-close-due-to-megabill/

Crosslisted article(s) found for stat.AP. https://arxiv.org/list/stat.AP/new
[1/1]:
- Monthly Rural-Urban Scaling of Road Accidents in England, Wales and Scotland (2019-2023)
Isabel Copsey, Quentin Hanley, Jack Sutton

Grounded Live
Grounded Festival brings together international and local voices shaping the future of farming, food systems and rural resilience...
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/grounded-live/

Series C, Episode 05 - The Harvest of Kairos
[Next day; outside hangar]
TARRANT: Where the hell's Avon?
VILA: He's back. I saw him go inside. [Tarrant heads toward the hangar]
VILA: [To Dayna] I won't be a moment.
[Landing module]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/305/497

It’s Audrey Denney with some big news 🚨
𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗽 𝟱𝟬 𝗽𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗜’𝗺 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗽𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗖𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗮’𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗺𝗮𝗽𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲! 
I grew up on a family farm, worked my way through college in Chico, and built my life here as a teacher and nonprofit leader. I know this place, and I know Washington is failing us. 
That’s why I got into this race even before we were certain what the maps would look like; in the face of uncertainty, I’m cert…

Audrey Denney for Congress
Join Audrey Denney’s movement to fight for rural California. An educator, nonprofit strategist, and lifelong advocate, Audrey is ready to take on corporate influence, defend healthcare, protect our forests, and put people first in Congress 2026.

sp_kenyan_households: Kenyan households contacts (2012)
A network of proximity contacts measured between members of 5 households of rural Kenya, between April 24 and May 12, 2012.
This network has 47 nodes and 32643 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Temporal, Metadata
https://networks.skewed.…

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 250 nodes and 1183 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

Designing with Culture: How Social Norms Shape Trust and Preference in Health Chatbots
Arpita Wadhwa, Aditya Vashistha, Mohit Jain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15575 https://

Designing with Culture: How Social Norms Shape Trust and Preference in Health Chatbots
AI-driven chatbots are increasingly used to support community health workers (CHWs) in developing regions, yet little is known about how cultural framings in chatbot design shape trust in collectivist contexts where decisions are rarely made in isolation. This paper examines how CHWs in rural India responded to chatbots that delivered identical health content but varied in one specific cultural lever -- social norms. Through a mixed-methods study with 61 ASHAs who compared four normative framin…

Pocked with bullet holes and cracked at its pedestal by an off-road vehicle,
the Georgia Historical Society marker reads in part:
“Mary Turner, eight months pregnant,
was burned, mutilated, and shot to death by a mob
after publicly denouncing her husband’s lynching the previous day. …
No charges were ever brought against known or suspected participants in these crimes.
From 1880-1930, as many as 550 people were killed in Georgia in these illegal acts of mo…

Vandalized historic memorial to 1918 lynching now on exhibit in Atlanta museum
An exhibit opening Monday in Atlanta shows a historical marker from the site of a 1918 lynching that was repeatedly vandalized. Pocked with bullet holes and broken at the pedestal, it memorializes an event that some in rural southern Georgia tried hard to erase: the killing of Mary Turner by a white mob. She was set upon after protesting the lynching of her husband, Hayes Turner, and at least 10 other Black people. The violence built support for anti-lynching legislation, though it would not be…

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 120 nodes and 295 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

After years of following orders with clear rules of engagement and with congressional authority, targeting jihadists in rural and urban settings,
Admiral Frank Mitchell Bradley was put in command of a legally murky attack on Sept. 2
targeting a boat in the Caribbean that the Trump administration says was smuggling drugs.
And in ordering a second strike that killed two survivors who were clinging to the burning wreckage of the boat
— something his superiors say they di…

Trump and Hegseth Comments on Boat Strike Leave Adm. Bradley Exposed
Adm. Frank M. Bradley will soon face questions from lawmakers, as Republicans and Democrats express concerns about a Sept. 2 attack on a boat in the Caribbean.

Behn appeared to win Davidson county
— which includes Nashville
— with 77.7% of the vote
compared to Van Epps’ 21.6%.
Behn focused her campaign on restoring abortion access after Tennessee’s near-total ban,
expanding Medicaid to close rural hospital gaps,
eliminating the state sales tax on groceries,
and increasing public school funding.

In Rural America, Public Radio Saves Lives – Mother Jones
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/public-media-funding-cuts-rescissions-act-npr-kyuk-alaska/

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 178 nodes and 1248 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

What would the reaction be
if Democratic politicians went on TV
every week to talk about how scary and dangerous Louisiana was,
or how bleak and depressing life in rural Mississippi is,
or how Oklahoma ranks last in education and
“God, can you imagine being from there?”
-- Keven M Kruse
https://

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)
Rand Paul: "Chicago is a nightmare. It is literally a war zone."

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 63 nodes and 159 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

For six weeks in 1842,
the Dorr Rebellion gave Rhode Island two governments,
each claiming to be the legitimate representative of the people.
By 1840, the only people who could vote in Rhode Island were 40 percent of the white males
– the ones who owned property.
The rural elite that ran Rhode Island was quite happy with the status quo. -- Many others weren’t.
Thomas Dorr was one of them.
Elected to the Rhode Island General Assembly in 1834,
h…

The Dorr Rebellion: When Rhode Island Had 2 Governors - New England Historical Society
For six weeks in 1842, the Dorr Rebellion gave Rhode Island two governments, each claiming to be the legitimate representative of the people.

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 350 nodes and 984 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

ugandan_village: Ugandan village networks (2013)
Complete friendship and health advice social networks among households in 17 rural villages bordering Lake Victoria in Mayuge District, Uganda in 2013. Nodes are households and edges represent either a close friendship or a trusted health advisor connection, obtained via a name generator questionnaire.
This network has 134 nodes and 322 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Multilayer

The president thinks his rule is absolute.
But in America, we don’t have kings,
and we won’t back down against chaos, corruption, and cruelty.
Grow our movement and join us.
📍 Where: Alameda Park,
Santa Barbara, CA 93101
When: 12 Noon, October 18, 2025
The rally at Alameda Park will be followed by a march to De La Guerra Plaza.
More details on the rally and march will follow.

NO KINGS Santa Barbara · No Kings
**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Born in the streets, carried by millions in chants and on posters, it echoes from city blocks to rural town squares, uniting people across this country to fight dictatorship together. The president thinks his rule is absolute. But in America, we don’t have kings, and we won’t back down…