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Mia Tsai: on Bluesky: "ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon"
Thursday, August 14, 2025
ACT Theatre, downtown #Seattle
> My vision for ConCurrent was simple
> one day of excellent programming; have it be free to attend; run it efficiently; and never use genAI/L…

Mia Tsai (@itsamia.bsky.social)
There’s no way to ease into this news, so here it is. Today, I am announcing ConCurrent Seattle, a one-day SFFH con intended to be an alternative program to WorldCon, scheduled for Thursday, August 14, 2025, at the ACT Theatre in downtown Seattle at 700 Union Street, across from the Sheraton. 1/7

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #Unclassified
Mikado Koko:
🎵 Lotus Eater No. 1
#MikadoKoko
https://open.spotify.com/track/32eMoosItCM4Kmzff9kOmd

Hundreds Mobilize in Montreal for “People’s Festival Against Fascism,” Block Far-Right Group https://itsgoingdown.org/hundreds-mobilize-in-montreal-for-peoples-festival-against-fascism-block-far-right-group/…

Modeling European Electricity Market Integration during turbulent times
Francesco Ravazzolo, Luca Rossini, Andrea Viselli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23289 …

Modeling European Electricity Market Integration during turbulent times
This paper introduces a novel Bayesian reverse unrestricted mixed-frequency model applied to a panel of nine European electricity markets. Our model analyzes the impact of daily fossil fuel prices and hourly renewable energy generation on hourly electricity prices, employing a hierarchical structure to capture cross-country interdependencies and idiosyncratic factors. The inclusion of random effects demonstrates that electricity market integration both mitigates and amplifies shocks. Our result…

Back home after a week away to see family and itching to get back to work on the Small Web on Monday.
Expect an exciting update soon :)
:kitten: 💕
#SmallWeb #SmallTech #humanRights…

Heterogeneous Exposures to Systematic and Idiosyncratic Risk across Crypto Assets: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach
Nektarios Aslanidis, Aurelio Bariviera, George Kapetanios, Vasilis Sarafidis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21100

Heterogeneous Exposures to Systematic and Idiosyncratic Risk across Crypto Assets: A Divide-and-Conquer Approach
This paper analyzes realized return behavior across a broad set of crypto assets by estimating heterogeneous exposures to idiosyncratic and systematic risk. A key challenge arises from the latent nature of broader economy-wide risk sources: macro-financial proxies are unavailable at high-frequencies, while the abundance of low-frequency candidates offers limited guidance on empirical relevance. To address this, we develop a two-stage ``divide-and-conquer'' approach. The first stage estimates ex…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Peggy Gou:
🎵 It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)
#PeggyGou
https://peggygou.bandcamp.com/album/it-makes-you-forget-itgehane-remixes
https://open.spotify.com/track/6GRos6Klc30XItsQtGUcak

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Sly & The Family Stone:
🎵 Everyday People
#NowPlaying #Sly #TheFamilyStone
https://itsjimmythegent.bandcamp.com/track/sly-the-family-stone-everyday-people-jimmy-the-gents-back2thabronx-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/4ZVZBc5xvMyV3WzWktn8i7

"What is different, is that before what were largely fringe anti-Semitic and white supremacist theories floating around the far corners of the Alt-Right, have now become the backbone of the Republican party. 'The Great Replacement,' once a conspiracy pushed by only hardline neo-Nazis and white supremacists, is now being touted by everyone from pharma billionaire Vivek Ramaswamy, Swason frozen foods heir and Twitter troll Tucker Carlson, to the billionaire backed Turning Point US…