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@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-07-30 07:52:27

Wales' 'forgotten' architect of the welfare state, Jim Griffith's.
nation.cymru/news/event-to-com

Event to commemorate Wales' 'forgotten' architect of the welfare state
Martin Shipton Fifty years after the death of Llanelli MP Jim Griffiths – a man described as “one of the greatest sons of Wales” – a special memorial event will be held in the town. The politician, who has been hailed as the founding father of the welfare state, became the first Secretary of State […]

@markhburton@mstdn.social
2025-06-30 08:40:20

Human cost of Tory and Labour welfare cuts.
UK is no longer a Welfare State: it's becoming a Warfare State wiith reckless militarisation, and a war without bullets on the "surplus population".
'I've got no money. I'm constantly cold. I don't want to be here anymore' - Manchester Evening News

'I've got no money. I'm constantly cold. I don't want to be here anymore'
The Manchester Evening News spent a day at Citizen's Advice to find out what impact Labour's controversial welfare cuts could have

@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-05 22:34:52

#Norway #China #Anarchism #Anarchy

A two-panel meme. Left: Unimpressed woman with caption about Norway as a welfare state. Right: Interested woman with caption about China, highlighting differences. Tone is humorous.
@grumpybozo@toad.social
2025-06-20 21:17:36

That’s an excellent move.
Let’s make it national.
Decades ago, my first wife was a librarian and met a lot of people. She was a friendly person. She befriended a guy who seemed to misunderstand friendship. We ended up having to refuse entry to CPS twice in the ensuing 3 weeks. Thankfully, they didn’t deem either anonymous report worth seeking a warrant.

ProPublica (@ProPublica@newsie.social)
N.Y. Gov. Kathy Hochul is expected to sign a bill that bans anonymous complaints to the state child abuse hotline. The law would still maintain the confidentiality of callers. The change comes in the wake of a 2023 ProPublica investigation that showed how the hotline had been weaponized by people endlessly calling in baseless allegations against exes or rivals. https://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-bans-anonymous-child-welfare-reports?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ma…

@arXiv_csGT_bot@mastoxiv.page
2025-06-10 16:35:29

This arxiv.org/abs/2404.15996 has been replaced.
link: scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Asymptotically Fair and Truthful Allocation of Public Goods
We study the fair and truthful allocation of m divisible public items among n agents, each with distinct preferences for the items. To aggregate agents' preferences fairly, we focus on finding a core solution. For divisible items, a core solution always exists and can be calculated by maximizing the Nash welfare objective. However, such a solution is easily manipulated; agents might have incentives to misreport their preferences. To mitigate this, the current state-of-the-art finds an approxima…