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MAHA Activists Urge Trump to Fire His E.P.A. Administrator (Maxine Joselow/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/climate/maha-lee-zeldin-pesticides.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6U8.N_hL.CQ4L0iljb5Vk&smid=url-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/251205/p101#a251205p101

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[…] Paradoksalnie wartość zaludnienia zależy od jego gęstości, gdyż zapewnienie przemysłowi taniej siły roboczej obniża koszty przychodu i sprzyja rozwojowi produkcji i handlu. Na bezimiennym otwartym rynku pracy „cena podstawowa”, która dla Turgota odpowiada kosztom utrzymania robotnika, oraz cena wynikająca z prawa podaży i popytu w końcu się zrównają. W handlowym współzawodnictwie ten zatem kraj będzie najbardziej uprzywilejowany, który wykaże się największym poten…

Sparkassen dringen auf Wero statt digitalem Euro
Europa will auch beim Bezahlen unabhängiger von den USA werden. Banken treiben jetzt den Zahldienst Wero – sehen sich aber von einer EZB-Initiative gebremst.
https://www.

Vooral niet de fout maken dat een tegenstem bij een spreekt-uit-motie per se betekent dat je het tegenoverstelde vindt van wat in de motie staat.
Partijen die voor een motie stemmen zijn daar m.i. *wel* op aanspreekbaar.
Politieke partijen vrezen 'bolletjesterreur' op laatste Kamerdag https://nos.nl/l/2584855

Politieke partijen vrezen 'bolletjesterreur' op laatste Kamerdag
Partijen gebruiken uitslagen van moties en stemmingen voor de eigen verkiezingscampagne. Niet zelden zijn de plaatjes met rode en groene bolletjes minder eenduidig dan ze lijken.

One of the many ways the US government is killing its citizens: “Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-environmental-protection-a…

Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution
The Trump administration is seeking to abandon a rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution, arguing that the Biden administration did not have authority to set the tighter standard on pollution from tailpipes, smokestacks and other industrial sources

Top OECD performers in green growth - an FOI model analysis
Zoltan Bartha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02367 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02367

Top OECD performers in green growth - an FOI model analysis
With rising concerns about climate change, the issue of green growth have been growing in importance. The aim of this study is to establish a measurement method for green growth, and to identify the best performing countries in this field. The Future, Outside, and Inside (FOI) development model was used to measure the performance of the 38 OECD countries. Based on their 2019-20 scores, the countries that are top performers in green growth are the members of the so called Welfare-participatory c…

CVSM: Contrastive Vocal Similarity Modeling
Christos Garoufis, Athanasia Zlatintsi, Petros Maragos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03025 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

CVSM: Contrastive Vocal Similarity Modeling
The availability of large, unlabeled datasets across various domains has contributed to the development of a plethora of methods that learn representations for multiple target (downstream) tasks through self-supervised pre-training. In this work, we introduce CVSM (Contrastive Vocal Similarity Modeling), a contrastive self-supervised procedure for music signal representation learning in the audio domain that can be utilized for musical and vocal similarity modeling. Our method operates under a …

Trump EPA moves to abandon rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution (Matthew Daly/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/epa-soot-air-pollution-trump-zeldin-deregulation-d7df5b24a159284e96b12958a840c3d8
http://www.memeorandum.com/251125/p100#a251125p100

Same old story: Hungary's development over the 2000-2020 period
Zoltan Bartha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02366 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.02366

Same old story: Hungary's development over the 2000-2020 period
Hungary's convergence to the developed western economies have been much slower than initially expected. Applying the FOI model, this study investigates whether there were any changes in the convergence process during the second decade of the 21st century. It is found that the future (influencing the long-term competitiveness of the economy), and inside (determining the current well-being of the country) potential of the Hungarian economy did not improve at all compared to the 34 countries that …

The Optimal Magnitude of Government Spending: Evidence from Cambodia
Leanghak Hok, Zoltan Bartha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02368 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

The Optimal Magnitude of Government Spending: Evidence from Cambodia
Scholars and policymakers have vigorously debated what the impact of government spending on economic growth is. Some current research and theoretical models suggest that the reaction of economic growth to the extension of government spending can be either positive or negative. This article intends to investigate the inverted-U shaped relationship between output growth and government spending (i.e., government fixed capital formation [GFCF] and government final consumption expenditure [GFCE]). O…