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¿Es viable prohibir las redes sociales a los menores de 16 años? Planes y límites de la propuesta del Gobierno (Español)
https://www.eldebate.com/sociedad/20260204/viable-prohibir-redes-sociales-menor…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/115830256203421976
Always remember what is possible when it's against an ideological enemy or economically viable.

The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated by Mark H Burton…

In Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By …

California is turning drought-stricken farmland into a massive solar opportunity.
The Westlands Water District in the San Joaquin Valley plans to generate 21 gigawatts of solar energy on fallowed agricultural land. It's a win-win: preserving what farmland remains viable while putting dry, empty fields to work producing clean energy.
The project includes battery storage and community benefits too.

21 Gigawatts of Solar for California Land That Can No Longer Be Used for Agriculture - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. There’s a water district in San Joaquin Valley in California where there’s empty land that “can no longer sustain irrigated agriculture.” The Westlands Water District board of directors have decided on a plan for this land. They are going to ... [continued]

In Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By Manuel Casal Lodeiro, Coordinator of the Instituto Resiliencia. Originally published in Spanish, in Revista Ecologista No. 108, 01/06/2021 . Translated by Mark H Burton…

In Defence of a Basic Land Income
The minimum living wage has reignited the debate on basic income. But would it be viable in the face of eco-social collapse? A basic land income could be an alternative suited to this scenario. By …

XFCE4 seems like a viable desktop environment if/when KDE ceases to be serviceable. I'll have to port my Beat-It! plugin, and may need to write or massage some existing ones (the task switcher/launcher situation is...sub-optimal), but there's still time.

Bra artikel kring Modicförändringar och antibiotikabehandling.
De är dock lite för diplomatiska om du frågar mig. Det stinker "vi vill tjäna pengar på vårt påhittade koncept" här tycker jag. Den här behandlingen marknadsförs också på tveksamma sätt via influensers på social medier redan idag.

Antibiotics for back pain — a viable treatment option or pathway to antimicrobial resistance?
It was billed as a treatment worthy of a Nobel prize. In 2013, two studies purportedly showing the effectiveness of oral antibiotics in treating back pain were published in the European Spine Journal​1,2​. Given that 10–17% of the population in England report back pain, which is often chronic and difficult to treat, the findings were accompanied […]

DEBATE: Is Trump a viable mediator for peace?: https://benborges.xyz/2025/12/17/debate-is-trump-a-viable.html

"Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades"
#Nature #Environment #Climate

Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades
New research indicates that restoration of peatlands can result in climate mitigation within just a few decades. In Finland, some 60,000 hectares of previously forestry-drained peatlands have already been restored, comprising mainly nutrient-poor sites with weak tree growth. In such cases, peatland plants remain viable and react rapidly to restoration, resulting in the formation of a thick new layer of Sphagnum moss.

Taking notes from the successes and failures of the Russian revolution, a group of anarchists (including Nestor Makhno, a Ukrainian anarchist militant who was critical in defeating the Tzar's army and who later also fought the Red Army) wrote a document titled the "Organizational Platform of the Libertarian Communists." This document came to be known as "The Platform." It remains one of the most important first-hand revolutionary documents, outlining a clear revolutionary plan.
I've taken this, the Viable System Model from cybernetics, and my own organizing experience, to describe an organization to confront the current set of crises.
This continues to build on the stuff I have been writing, but it's a lot less high level theory and a lot more specific.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-microservices
As always, editing notes (typos, grammar, spelling, etc) are always welcome, as are any questions. My ADHD brain tends to go a lot faster than anything else, so I have a tendency to drop words and have a lot of trouble catching them later. Between my ADHD and mild dyslexia, it can be pretty hard for me to catch when autocorrect gives me the wrong word.
A lot of folks have already been super helpful in offering their editing support, and I'm really grateful. Writing this has felt collaborative, and it should. On the one hand this comes from my own experience and research, but on the other I'm also voicing things that have come from conversations here. This has all been a bit of my voice and a bit of the federated world, and I'm really appreciating that.

Moan all you want about AI but there is just no way in any amount of time I could make this.
It took 5 minutes.
With more time spent properly speccing it out and setting guidelines this is a totally viable way to build such a tool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XSTwoGBGpM

Large language mistake:
"Le problème est que, selon les connaissances actuelles en neurosciences, la pensée humaine est largement indépendante du langage humain — et nous avons peu de raisons de croire que des modèles linguistiques toujours plus sophistiqués permettront de créer une forme d'intelligence qui égalera ou surpassera la nôtre."
#IA

Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades #environment

Peatland restoration can deliver climate mitigation benefits within a few decades
New research indicates that restoration of peatlands can result in climate mitigation within just a few decades. In Finland, some 60,000 hectares of previously forestry-drained peatlands have already been restored, comprising mainly nutrient-poor sites with weak tree growth. In such cases, peatland plants remain viable and react rapidly to restoration, resulting in the formation of a thick new layer of Sphagnum moss.

Random thought: humans view trees as vulnerable because they can't move out of the way of danger. But consider:
1. A single tree can produce tens of thousands of offspring.
2. Many of those seeds can remain dormant and viable for millennia.
3. Some living trees survive fit millennia themselves.
4. Trees vastly outnumber humans, maybe up to 100:1.
5. Many seeds die, but those that don't have found a niche that supplies them everything they need without having to move.
In contrast, humans:
1. Only produce a few dozen offspring at most. Barely replace their own population.
2. Cannot remain dormant once birthed.
3. Only survive for a century tops. Can only reproduce for maybe half that time.
4. So few of us. Individual humans live hundreds of feet apart, or at least dozens even in the densest cities.
5. Need to constantly burn energy moving around for their next meal. Could starve and die at any time in just a few days if they can't find water.
At a species level, the survival of humans begins to look much more perilous than the survival of many tree species.
Also I forgot to add:
6. Humans kill *each other* all the time. What the fuck humans?!? We have made ourselves our own biggest threat.
Trees do compete locally for water and sunlight and thus do kill each other, but only via circumstance, not intentionally.

Basically, all brain implants aimed at restoring vision to the blind are just moonshot projects that challenge technological progress which will next shift to other, broader application fields to find commercially viable markets. https://chatgpt.com/share/695245f9-9c78-8004-bf95-d7f…

ChatGPT - Visual Prosthesis Challenges
Shared via ChatGPT

Syntax is not Semantics
Language is not the same as intelligence.
The entire AI bubble is built on ignoring that.
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/827820/large-language-models-ai-intellige…

Large language mistake
Neuroscience indicates language is distinct from thought, raising questions about whether AI large language models are a viable path to artificial general intelligence.

The Philadelphia Inquirer had an operating profit of several million in 2025, with its first YoY revenue growth since 2004; 70% of revenue is from readers (Elizabeth H. Hughes/The Philadelphia Inquirer)
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/comme…

Elizabeth Hughes: There is a viable path for Pittsburgh to save its newspaper. Here’s how we did it with The Inquirer.
As publisher of The Inquirer, I believe that our own experience over the past decade offers a template for success.

"the drops in sales volumes are largely the results of French and EU car manufacturer’s own strategic choice to prioritise large, more profitable models [.] Despite lower sales volumes, their operating margins have increased. This premiumisation trend is not new, but it has accelerated in recent years, to the point of backfiring, with manufacturers now facing a sharp drop in sales and factories standing idle.
Rolling back the EU’s 2035 targets won’t solve the problem."

Maintaining the 2035 target: Ensuring a viable future for Europe’s automotive industry - I4CE
In the run up to the publication of the European Commission’s proposals for an automotive package on 10 December, car manufactures have stepped up the calls to relax the CO2 standards and the 2035 phase-out of new combustion-engine vehicles by including some flexibilities. They highlight the challenges the industry has faced in recent years, growing competitive pressure from China, and insufficient demand for electric vehicles in Europe as reasons for the sector needing more time for the tra…

US approving Nvidia H200 exports to China is based on the idea that Huawei is a viable competitor, but data shows the gap between Nvidia and Huawei is widening (Chris McGuire/Council on Foreign Relations)
https://www.cfr.org/article/chinas-ai-chip…

China’s AI Chip Deficit: Why Huawei Can’t Catch Nvidia and U.S. Export Controls Should Remain
Executive SummaryOn December 8, the Trump administration announced plans to loosen U.S. export controls on artificial intelligence (AI) chips to China by approving the sale of Nvidia H200 chips—the m…

Reading Tim O'Reilly's essay on the economic future of #AI, one sentence stands out:
"By product-market fit we don’t just mean that users love the product or that one company has dominant market share but that a company has found a viable economic model, where what people are willing to pay for AI-based services is greater than the cost of delivering them"
/Continued

What If? AI in 2026 and Beyond
The market is betting that AI is an unprecedented technology breakthrough, valuing Sam Altman and Jensen Huang like demigods already astride the world. The

Modeling European Beech masting events shows (1) conditions that trigger masting are becoming more frequent, (2) this is reducing viable seed production, and (3) "Severe disruptions to masting are projected to become the norm, with the greatest reductions (up to ~83%) at colder margins."
https://doi.org/10.1111/ele.70284

Solar panels and crops growing together? It's called agrivoltaics, and it just got a major boost.
DC-based Okovate acquired startup Fundusol to integrate Stanford & Carnegie Mellon tech that optimizes solar arrays for different crops using genetic algorithms. The goal: make solar farming economically viable for rural communities across the US.

Agrivoltaic Company Okovate Acquires Stanford University & Carnegie Mellon Tech Startup - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Agrivoltaics have been the name of the game in the past few years in the solar power industry. On the surface, it seems simple — find farmland that could benefit from co-location with solar power plants, and then plop some ... [continued]

@… This seems strange. If you going to go FOSS on every tool you want to use on the computer, you might as well go FOSS on the OS. The main barrier to ditching Windows is not Linux, it is the apps anyway. With macOS, I can understand that for M-series Macs, switching the OS is not a viable option. But anything before that should be fine.

PCIe any% speedrun, day 6: Almost at minimum-viable-baseline-happy-path status!
It's still 2.5 GT/s only, I haven't implemented up-negotiation to 5 GT/s speed yet (or tested that on the SoC side for that matter).
Configuration reads and writes work; they're translated to APB bus transactions and bridged to an APB register block that reports a bunch of hard coded default values and lets you change a few things like BARs.

Love how Gavin Newsom is trolling Trump, but that alone does not make him viable as a Presidential Candidate. IMHO, he is not at all the best choice to be President of the USA. He has the liberal glow, but really inside he is a neo-liberal that works for the billionaires, not the rest of us.
#USPolitics
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/01/12/gavin-newsom-moves-neutralize-tax-billionaires-00723633

A discussion with @… motivated me to talk about Helix and Neovim.
https://www-gem.codeberg.page/vim_helix_neovim/
This is neither a co…

That two-button meme:
[enforce Iran sanctions] [regulate cryptocurrencies]
https://www.elliptic.co/blog/iran-has-acquired-us-dollar-stablecoins-worth-at-least-half-a-billion-dollars

The Central Bank of Iran has acquired US dollar stablecoins worth at least half a billion dollars
Elliptic analysis reveals that the Central Bank of Iran has acquired at least $507 million in USDT, the US dollar-backed stablecoin. This was likely used to support the value of the Iranian rial, providing a viable alternative for market intervention given that sanctions prevent the regime from deploying its official foreign reserves.

TL;DR: The DNC/RNC “pipe bombs” were not actually bombs in any operational sense.
They were symbolic bombs.
Also: I was a better explosives chemist at 9yo than Brian Cole. My powder actually exploded. If he really thought his casually mixed ingredients would do anything, he is an imbecile. @…

emptywheel (@emptywheel.bsky.social)
The expert witness for accused pipe bomber Brian Cole says they weren't viable pipe bombs: He didn't mix his black powder ingredients sufficiently. https://legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26490848-260116-cole-expert-report

I want to remind everyone of the Montana Plan - a viable approach to diminish the force of the Citizens United decision.
I myself have written about the power of each separate State to regulate corporations operating under the laws of that state - especially those corporations created under the laws of that state. This means that each state has the power and authority to regulate and restrict how corporations created under that state's laws spend money, and for what purpose.

Transparent Election Initiative - Our Fight Against Corporate Money in Politics
Join our fight for transparent elections. The Montana Plan uses state constitutional authority to keep corporate money out of politics and restore democracy to the people.

"This is a new reality that we are dreaming and weaving together."
This is either the last or second to last section of Kairos I'm writing. This is the most specific so far. After that it's editing and making it feel more like a single consistent text than a bunch of essays. I hope it's worth the read.
Feedback is always welcome, especially editing (typos, grammar, etc), and questions.
https://anarchoccultism.org/building-zion/a-solarpunk-fractal-creating-a-viable-system-91h5

People will do *anything* to avoid going vegan...
#RealScience

Real Science — The Truth About Lab Grown Meat
Will it ever be possible to grow meat in a lab, completely circumventing the slaughterhouse? And will the process ever be economically viable enough to match our insatiable meat appetites?

The traditional strategy to address social problems in canada is to jail anyone with a viable solution.
#posiwid
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/dulf-compassion-club-guilty-drug-trafficking-9.6972135

Experimental insights into data augmentation techniques for deep learning-based multimode fiber imaging: limitations and success
Jawaria Maqbool, M. Imran Cheema
https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19072 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.19072 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.19072
arXiv:2511.19072v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimode fiber~(MMF) imaging using deep learning has high potential to produce compact, minimally invasive endoscopic systems. Nevertheless, it relies on large, diverse real-world medical data, whose availability is limited by privacy concerns and practical challenges. Although data augmentation has been extensively studied in various other deep learning tasks, it has not been systematically explored for MMF imaging. This work provides the first in-depth experimental and computational study on the efficacy and limitations of augmentation techniques in this field. We demonstrate that standard image transformations and conditional generative adversarial-based synthetic speckle generation fail to improve, or even deteriorate, reconstruction quality, as they neglect the complex modal interference and dispersion that results in speckle formation. To address this, we introduce a physical data augmentation method in which only organ images are digitally transformed, while their corresponding speckles are experimentally acquired via fiber. This approach preserves the physics of light-fiber interaction and enhances the reconstruction structural similarity index measure~(SSIM) by up to 17\%, forming a viable system for reliable MMF imaging under limited data conditions.
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* L'État doit-il protéger les consommateur.ice.s, ou seulement assurer ses missions régaliennes ?
* Un service public se mesure-t-il Š son utilité sociale ou Š son équilibre budgétaire ?
* Une information indépendante sous financement privé est-elle viable?
Un choix politique, deux modèles de société... La Cour des Comptes, le gouvernement Lecornu et le Parlement ont choisi.
"Un bon service public est un service public mort."

Le Sénat acte la liquidation de « 60 Millions de Consommateurs », une mauvaise nouvelle pour les citoyens
L’Institut national de la Consommation et son journal 60 Millions de Consommateurs devraient être dissous dans les semaines à venir, a ordonné le Sénat.

And people keep being suprised by the regular genocides that *keep fucking happening*. And yes, call what ICE is doing what it is. It is a gencoide. Even if it's not killing millions of people (yet), the "genocide" doesn't mean "killing logs of people" it means "trying to wipe out a specific ethnic, racial, or religious group." What the fuck is ICE trying to do? They're carrying out ethnic cleansing. It's genocide.
Genocide in Gaza, genocide in Syria, genocide in Turkey, China, Ethiopia, Rwanda, Serbia... why the fuck does it keep happening? I'll tell you why. It's states.
People like to think of countries and ethnic reagions as the same thing, but they aren't. They never have been. There's never been clear divisions between ethnic groups. But the existence of the state depends on a shared identity. When the truth is more complicated, the state must find a way to fix that. The solution is genocide. You can't separate the two. There can be no state without genocide. The mechanism to carry ou the kind of mass murder and the incentive to do so are really not easy to put together without the state. The state makes genocide viable, and the state demands genocide to protect it's own existence.
Every election is a dice roll. Every state is on a clock, waiting for the luck to run out. And the worst people possible are just waiting for their chance to win and carry out those genocides in order to lock in their power.
Never again means nothing unless you are attacking the root of genocide: the state.

"Japanese Scientists Recycle PTFEs with Electron Beam Plastic Recycling"
#Japan #Recycling
https://happyeco…

Japanese Scientists Recycle PTFEs with Electron Beam Plastic Recycling | Happy Eco News
Electron beam plastic recycling breakthrough from Japanese scientists cuts Teflon recycling energy use by 50%, transforming forever chemicals into valuable gases at commercially viable costs.

I have an FPGA connected to the STM32 devkit now!
Minimum viable PCIe gateware any% gogogoo

Important decision for #V2G in Germany: parliament approves a legislative amendment that exempts electricity stored and supplied by bidirectional charging cars from energy tax and network costs. This makes the business case viable (and equivalent to large stationary batteries).

Bund ebnet Weg für bidirektionales Laden - electrive.net
Der Bundestag hat überraschend eine wichtige Entscheidung zur bisherigen Mehrfach-Belastung von Strom beim bidirektionalen Laden getroffen. Die Netzentgelte

Some years ago, a Russian team came closest to turning training of blind people to see with The vOICe into a commercially viable business, a bit like how Linux service companies make a living from the otherwise free Linux https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLmrvukzbS44S…

Tropical islands are turning their biggest challenge into their greatest strength.
Vulnerable to climate change and dependent on expensive fossil fuels, island nations are proving that carbon neutrality by 2050 is economically viable. Solar PV is leading the charge, with innovative Solar-to-X tech converting sunshine into e-fuels and e-chemicals to power hard-to-decarbonize sectors.

Small islands, big impact: the role of solar PV for the tropics
Low-cost renewables provide an opportunity for tropical islands to drive a sustainable, secure and self-sufficient economy. Solar PV emerges as the bulk energy provider, driven by excellent resource conditions and fast-improving economic attractiveness. The anticipated momentum of solar PV in tropical islands can best be characterised as a Solar-to-X Economy.

As a response to the ever-increasing enshittification of Firefox through AI, I just became a recurring sponsor for the @… project. We desperately need a viable alternative built for the future.
#firefox #servo #FOSS #AI