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Hoarding syndrome is considered a psychiatric condition, not a crisis for democracy itself
-- with one giant exception:
When people with hoarding syndrome are born with or come into massive wealth
-- suddenly what was once a personal, psychiatric issue can become a crisis for all of society.
It happens every few generations.
It’s what drove the fascist oligarchs of the Confederacy to reach out and try to conquer the entire United States in the 1860s.
It …

The Billionaire Hoarders: How the Wealthy Became Our Biggest Threat
How a sick obsession is killing workers, democracy, and our planet.

So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
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The rich should realise that us asking them to be taxed is the nicer option. If they do not comply, how about asking why our wealth accumulates in their pockets in the first place?

Reflections of Cultural Wealth: Exploring Identity in Physics through Photo Elicitation
Zosia Krusberg
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21739 https://

Reflections of Cultural Wealth: Exploring Identity in Physics through Photo Elicitation
This paper presents a photo elicitation project that invites students to explore their identities in STEM and surface the cultural wealth they bring into the physics classroom. Grounded in critical race theory, educational theory, and affective neuroscience, the project asks students to take original photographs representing aspects of their lived experience-such as motivation, belonging, and support systems-and to write short reflections connecting these images to their journey in science. The…

So look, if you talk to me about the job threat from the things we currently call “AI,” well…
…if where you’re going with that is “The concentration of wealth is an existential crisis! Establish UBI! 99% marginal tax rate! Capital gains tax! Wealth tax! Abolish billionaires!” then yes, I’m •all• ears. My pitchfork is already sharpened.
But if where you’re going is “Get in on it now while you still can! Buy the AI vendors’ products! Drink radium for that youthful glow!” then…kthanksbye. I am not going to be a vector for your marketing propaganda, no matter how agitated you are.
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.06332 has been replaced.
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Quantum feedback induced entanglement relaxation and dynamical phase transition in monitored free fermion chains with Wannier-Stark ladder
In recent years, measurement induced entanglement transitions (MIETs) have attracted significant attention. However, the dynamical transition associated with the feedback induced skin effect, which exhibits a wealth of intriguing phenomena, has not been fully understood. In this work, we investigate a dynamical phase transition in a tilted free-fermion chain under measurement-feedback protocols, emphasizing the particle density and entanglement entropy dynamics. We reveal a feedback induced ski…

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Searching for Inflationary Physics with the CMB Trispectrum: 1. Primordial Theory & Optimal Estimators
The primordial four-point function encodes a wealth of information about the inflationary Universe. Despite extensive theoretical work, most models of four-point physics have never been compared to data. In this series, we conduct a detailed analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background temperature and polarization trispectra, searching for a wide variety of phenomena including local effects, self-interactions, curvatons, DBI inflation, gauge fields, solid inflation, scalar field exchange, spinning m…

An operatorial view of competition and cooperation in a network of economic agents
G. Giunta, M. Gorgone, F. Oliveri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.22917 https…

An operatorial view of competition and cooperation in a network of economic agents
A network of agents interacting both with competitive and/or cooperative mechanisms is modeled by using fermionic ladder operators. The time evolution of the network is assumed to be governed by a Hermitian time-independent Hamiltonian operator, and the mean values of the number operators are interpreted as a measure of the wealth status of the agents. Besides classical Heisenberg, we use the recently introduced $(H,ρ)$-induced dynamics approach to account for some actions able to provide a se…

Let's say you find a really cool forum online that has lots of good advice on it. It's even got a very active community that's happy to answer questions very quickly, and the community seems to have a wealth of knowledge about all sorts of subjects.
You end up visiting this community often, and trusting the advice you get to answer all sorts of everyday questions you might have, which before you might have found answers to using a web search (of course web search is now full of SEI spam and other crap so it's become nearly useless).
Then one day, you ask an innocuous question about medicine, and from this community you get the full homeopathy treatment as your answer. Like, somewhat believable on the face of it, includes lots of citations to reasonable-seeming articles, except that if you know even a tiny bit about chemistry and biology (which thankfully you do), you know that the homoeopathy answers are completely bogus and horribly dangerous (since they offer non-treatments for real diseases). Your opinion of this entire forum suddenly changes. "Oh my God, if they've been homeopathy believers all this time, what other myths have they fed me as facts?"
You stop using the forum for anything, and go back to slogging through SEI crap to answer your everyday questions, because one you realize that this forum is a community that's fundamentally untrustworthy, you realize that the value of getting advice from it on any subject is negative: you knew enough to spot the dangerous homeopathy answer, but you know there might be other such myths that you don't know enough to avoid, and any community willing to go all-in on one myth has shown itself to be capable of going all in on any number of other myths.
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This has been a parable about large language models.
#AI #LLM

Echt, het is zó tijd om de guillotine uit het vet te halen
https://www.commondreams.org/news/did-republicans-vote-to-cut-medicaid

"Most people agree we shouldn’t judge people by their bank account or their earning power but we still do it. Hey we have flaws. We also judge people based on how attractive they are and how tall they are and other far from sensible things..."
https://management.curiousca…

Fermionic operatorial model of a system with competitive and cooperative interactions
M. Gorgone, G. Inferrera, F. Oliveri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21554

Fermionic operatorial model of a system with competitive and cooperative interactions
An operatorial model of a system made by $N$ agents interacting each other with mechanisms that can be thought of as cooperative or competitive is presented. We associate to each agent an annihilation, creation and number fermionic operator, and interpret the mean values of the number operators over an initial condition as measures of the agents' wealth status. The dynamics of the system is assumed to be ruled by a Hermitian Hamiltonian operator $\mathcal{H}$, and the classical Heisenberg view …

"Trump’s now dedicated to making America dumb and poor again, and the red hat brigade will cheer him on while punching themselves in the face to achieve his objectives. In what world would ANYONE vote for that? Please help me understand."

The cracks will now begin to appear. The question is, will the dam burst?
The problem with feeding the rich is, they have already emptied the main tank, so Trump has to now syphon the wealth from the reserve tank, Social Security and Medicaid.

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

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🔹 Pros:
✅ Truly passive income
✅ Wealth grows exponentially over time
✅ Maximum financial security & freedom
🔹 Cons:
❌ Requires capital to start
❌ Knowledge & risk management are crucial
❌ Returns aren’t instant – patience is key

The villain of The King in Giallo is Giovanni Del Vecchio, the richest man in Italy. When Giovanni dies he plans on taking the whole world goes with him so no one will inherit his wealth
A one-shot adventure for
@…'s Fate. Support levels starting at $1
#ZineQuest

Shortermism and excessive risk taking in optimal execution with a target performance
Emilio Barucci, Yuheng Lan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15611 https://…

Shortermism and excessive risk taking in optimal execution with a target performance
We deal with the optimal execution problem when the broker's goal is to reach a performance barrier avoiding a downside barrier. The performance is provided by the wealth accumulated by trading in the market, the shares detained by the broker evaluated at the market price plus a slippage cost yielding a quadratic inventory cost. Over a short horizon, this type of remuneration leads, at the same time, to a more aggressive and less risky strategy compared to the classical one, and over a long hor…

Measuring inequality in society-oriented Lotka--Volterra-type kinetic equations
Marco Menale, Giuseppe Toscani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.15526 https://

Measuring inequality in society-oriented Lotka--Volterra-type kinetic equations
We present a possible approach to measuring inequality in a system of coupled Fokker-Planck-type equations that describe the evolution of distribution densities for two populations interacting pairwise due to social and/or economic factors. The macroscopic dynamics of their mean values follow a Lotka-Volterra system of ordinary differential equations. Unlike classical models of wealth and opinion formation, which tend to converge toward a steady-state profile, the oscillatory behavior of these …

"Comment le boom des milliardaires alimente les inégalités et menace la démocratie."
"Avec une richesse qui se concentre au sommet, l'Europe doit agir maintenant pour défendre la démocratie et la stabilité économique pour tous."
#TaxTheRich #démocratie

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🔹 Pros:
✅ Truly passive income
✅ Wealth grows exponentially over time
✅ Maximum financial security & freedom
🔹 Cons:
❌ Requires capital to start
❌ Knowledge & risk management are crucial
❌ Returns aren’t instant – patience is key

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.19213 has been replaced.
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Framework for asset-liability management with fixed-term securities
We consider an optimal investment-consumption problem for a utility-maximizing investor who has access to assets with different liquidity and whose consumption rate as well as terminal wealth are subject to lower-bound constraints. Assuming utility functions that satisfy standard conditions, we develop a methodology for deriving the optimal strategies in semi-closed form. Our methodology is based on the generalized martingale approach and the decomposition of the problem into subproblems. We il…

Ranked: The Countries Investing the Most in R&D
#Ireland's 1.6% is appaling, given our relative wealth. It ensures our extreme reliance on other states is only likely to increase.
We need a different mindset on spending on R&D and most infrastructure. Housing is the short-term focus, but even if it was solved overnight, this other underspending will block growth and keep us in crisis for the foreseeable future.
#innovation #research #investment

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💡 Best for: Those ready to move from earning income to building wealth.
📌 Many start in the E or S quadrant and use that income to fuel investments. The key is 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. Where are you on this journey? Let’s talk!
#Investing #PassiveIncome #FinancialIndependence #CashFlowQuadrant #WealthBuilding

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💡 Best for: Those ready to move from earning income to building wealth.
📌 Many start in the E or S quadrant and use that income to fuel investments. The key is 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞. Where are you on this journey? Let’s talk!
#Investing #PassiveIncome #FinancialIndependence #CashFlowQuadrant #WealthBuilding