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#Orwell wrote about the #JustTransition in 1947 ("Toward European Unity"):
«The European peoples, and especially the British, have long owed their high standard of life to direct or indirect exploitation of the coloured peoples. [...] But it is by no means certain that we can afford these th…

"The program totally backfired. People thought ELIZA was intelligent, they were confiding in the machine, revealing personal issues they would not tell anyone else. Even my secretary asked me to leave the room so she could be alone with the computer. They called me a genius for creating it, but I kept telling them that the computer was not thinking at all."
Oh, really, now, isn't that interesting, and so, of course, they reanimated it, because only a liberal socialist would call that a failure. 🤣
#posiwid #automatedgatheringofintel #agi

How Toho, the Japanese media company behind Godzilla, aims to increase its international presence and revenue via acquisitions, anime, video games, and more (Sohee Kim/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Reading about Baldur von Schirach. Sounds familiar.
“In February 1928 he became a university group leader of the National Socialist German Students' League.”
“He worked to broaden the Nazi Party's appeal to the bourgeoisie. Schirach was supported by Hitler in internal elections, who also wanted the Nazi Party to have a broad social base.”
“Schirach was skilled at bureaucratic power struggles. He founded the School Children's Leagues (Schülerbünde) to create competition to the Hitler Youth. He made an ally of Joseph Goebbels.”
“Schirach was named national youth leader of the party in 1931.”
“With Heinrich Hoffmann, Schirach produced several propaganda books of Hoffmann's photographs, including "Hitler As No One Knows Him", "Youth Around Hitler", and "Hitler in His Mountains". Schirach wrote the captions. The books sold hundreds of thousands of copies, earning Schirach and Hoffmann substantial royalties.”
“On 16 June 1932, he was made Reichsführer of the Party's Hitler Youth organization, and resigned from the Student League. Under Schirach, the Hitler Youth stewarded NSDAP events, and 21 members died in 1932. Schirach described these deaths as "blood sacrifice" for propaganda purposes. One example was Herbert Norkus, a fifteen-year-old boy who was stabbed to death by Communists. In a 31 May 1932 speech, Schirach recounted Norkus's death and called for a "National Socialist dictatorship". Schirach gave a memorial speech on the third anniversary of Norkus's death in January 1935.”
#hitleryouth #fascism #theAmericanFascist

Ja, dachte ich mir schon immer, alle sollten einzahlen, auch Beamte, die neu in dein Staatsdienst eintreten...... interessanter Artikel, bei dem auch andere Rentensysteme in Vergleich kommen.
https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/rente-sozialstaat-boom…

Interview: „Das Problem mit den Boomern hätte man vor 40 Jahren lösen müssen“
Der Sozialstaat ist zu teuer und muss zurechtgestutzt werden? Da widerspricht Martin Seeleib-Kaiser energisch. Aber der Sozialsystem-Experte hat trotzdem ein paar Reformideen, die viel Geld sparen würden – und führt die USA als Vorbild an.

"The controversial rule changes introduced by Sir Keir Starmer early in his party leadership seem to have done their intended work by excluding socialist MP Bell Ribeiro-Addy from being considered by the membership."
Labour members set for choice between two Starmer supporters | Morning Star

good piece. be warned there's a Garry Tan jump scare. #sfPol
https://jacobin.com/2025/08/san-francisco-zohran-democratic-socialism

San Francisco’s Ultrarich Are Blocking a Zohran-Style Agenda
For years, democratic socialists in San Francisco have been passing Zohran Mamdani–style policies in the city legislature and through ballot measures, only to see them blocked by Silicon Valley billionaires and powerful real estate interests.

The giant, remote-controlled vehicle
— somewhere between a tractor trailer, a tank and a Zamboni in appearance
— slowly rolled across the dry, brittle grass growing between the tangle of freeways making up the 101 and 23 interchange in Thousand Oaks.
Inside the beast, fire churned.
And as it rolled over the land, that fire incinerated any brush it encountered,
leaving only a thin smoke cloud billowing from the top of the machine, some flashes of orange and red fr…

A 'Roomba for the forest' could be SoCal's next wildfire weapon
The BurnBot is a remote-controlled vehicular system that removes flammable brush alongside roads with unprecedented precision.

Mixed Triplet-Singlet Order Parameter in Decoupled Superconducting 1H Monolayers of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides
Avior Almoalem, Sajilesh Kunhiparambath, Roni Anna Gofman, Yuval Nitzav, Ilay Mangel, Nitzan Ragoler, Jun Fujii, Ivana Vobornik, Francois Bertran, Amit Kanigel, Jonathan Ruhman, Vidya Madhavan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.1330…

Mixed Triplet-Singlet Order Parameter in Decoupled Superconducting 1H Monolayers of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides
Understanding the emergence of unconventional superconductivity, where the order parameter deviates from simple isotropic s-wave pairing, is a central puzzle in condensed matter physics. Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), though generally regarded as conventional superconductors, display signatures of this unusual behavior and thus provide a particularly intriguing platform to explore how exotic states arise. Here we investigate the misfit compound (SnS)$_{1.15}$(TaS$_2$), a heterostruct…

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
AJ Alvero, Ruohong Dong, Klint Kanopka, David Lang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.08199 https://

Algorithmic Tradeoffs, Applied NLP, and the State-of-the-Art Fallacy
Computational sociology is growing in popularity, yet the analytic tools employed differ widely in power, transparency, and interpretability. In computer science, methods gain popularity after surpassing benchmarks of predictive accuracy, becoming the "state of the art." Computer scientists favor novelty and innovation for different reasons, but prioritizing technical prestige over methodological fit could unintentionally limit the scope of sociological inquiry. To illustrate, we focus on compu…