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Tarah Wheeler has joined the initiative as Senior Fellow and Board Member, where she will direct research to guide CPI’s development of a first-of-its-kind Managed Security Service Provider (MSSP) model tailored for rural water utilities across the United States
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Capital Games and Growth Equilibria
Ben Abramowitz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00472 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.00472

Capital Games and Growth Equilibria
We examine formal games that we call "capital games" in which player payoffs are known, but their payoffs are not guaranteed to be von Neumann-Morgenstern utilities. In capital games, the dynamics of player payoffs determine their utility functions. Different players can have different payoff dynamics. We make no assumptions about where these dynamics come from, but implicitly assume that they come from the players' actions and interactions over time. We define an equilibrium concept called "gr…

Glad to see someone is at least trying to address the transmission capacity problem.
Last year I worked on a project with one of Oregon’s utilities related to optimizing the use of available transmission capacity, because there just isn’t enough.
https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/1158

So I hacked my way into being Cyber Policy Initiative Senior Fellow at the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy. I'm workin on rural water critical infrastructure cybersecurity.
Do you even hack utilities? Please chat w me. I need to quickly find out where I"m wrong about some of my assumptions.
Still very entertained by the fact that I *finally* got into the University of Chicago. :D

this morning’s unexpected rabbit hole is an obscure POSIX compliance bug in the Almquist shell
POSIX says (https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/utilities/sh.html):
<< When the shell is using standard input and it invokes a command that al…

Kraken, the software arm of 🇬🇧 Octopus Energy, extends into distribution network territory. Essential Energy 🇦🇺 is the first DSO customer.
https://kraken.tech/press-releases/essential-energy-kraken-build-next-generation-network-billing

Cyber volunteer effort for small water utilities announces new MSSP effort https://therecord.media/cyber-volunteer-water-utility-mssp

Voting is under way in Georgia for two seats on the utilities regulatory commission. Current GOP members are totally in the pocket of the entities they're supposed to be regulating.
https://energyandpolicy.org/georgia-psc-in…

Maybe private companies shouldn't run the core infrastructure of technology stacks after a certain point.
At some point, package repositories become public utilities.

from my link log —
A history of man pages.
https://abochannek.github.io/utilities/2024/12/08/man-pages.html
saved 2025-11-06 https://…