Ali Harfouch argues that neoliberalism is a metaphysical order rooted in secularism, recasting humans as *homo oeconomicus* and deepening alienation from God, self, and world. The post On the Origins of Neoliberalism first appeared on Ummatics.| Ummatics
An analysis of how mid-1990s U.S. unipolar power and media discourse constructed a “Muslim threat,” shaping policy, alliances, and wars from Bosnia to Sudan.| Ummatics - Empowering Muslims Towards A Unified Islamic Civilization
Nel Manifesto di Ventotene l’europeismo si connette in maniera indissolubile con la storia dell’antifascismo e con la lotta per l’emancipazione sociale: per questo esso deve essere difeso da coloro che ne avversano il retroterra politico e culturale, ma anche da coloro che lo utilizzano per giustificare qualunque realizzazione politica ed istituzionale del processo di integrazione. Perché l’Europa può essere il campo di battaglia in cui il compromesso tra capitale e lavoro proprio d...| Economia e Politica
The post Channel Spotlight: UK Convenience Market – Q2 2025 appeared first on Lumina Intelligence.| Lumina Intelligence
Durante la crisi dei debiti sovrani dell’eurozona, nel 2011, la nozione di spread, inteso come differenza tra il rendimento dei BTP decennali italiani e i Bund tedeschi con analoga scadenza, divenne elemento centrale di attenzione della stampa economica e del dibattito politico nazionale, sollecitando coloro che auspicavano un vincolo esterno per la finanza pubblica italiana a stigmatizzarlo come dimostrazione palese di una percezione di insostenibilità del debito pubblico nazionale da par...| Economia e Politica
Il sistema delle regole negli investimenti pubblici – ossia l’insieme delle norme, procedure e standard che guidano l’allocazione delle risorse – è considerato un fattore cruciale per l’efficacia, l’efficienza e la sostenibilità delle politiche di investimento. Secondo la letteratura scientifica, la “buona regolazione” non è solo un presidio anticorruzione, ma una leva di crescita (North, 1990; Acemoglu & Robinson, 2012). Non a caso il rischio regolatorio è uno degli eleme...| Economia e Politica
The post Channel Spotlight: UK Eating Out Market – Q2 2025 appeared first on Lumina Intelligence.| Lumina Intelligence
In preparation for an upcoming major review in October, I reflect on my significant academic achievements, including organising a symposium and presenting at various conferences. I am actively writing on topics related to health disparities affecting trans autistic individuals, collaborating with established researchers, and looking forward to future projects and presentations, with another busy year to come.| Autistic and Living the Dream
Earlier this week the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation postponed a scheduled hearing on a bill that would limit some uses of facial recognition by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), while authorizing the TSA to carry out “identity verification” of airline passengers and take mug shots of all those air travelers who don’t […]| Papers, Please!
Considerato il grado di correlazione tra la tutela ambientale e la salute umana, con uno sguardo rivolto al nostro paese, lo studio intende analizzare i diversi aggregati che compongono la spesa sanitaria nazionale nonché l'ammontare delle ripartizioni di suddetta spesa tra le regioni del nord e del centro Sud Italia e come, tale distribuzione, incida sul grado di convergenza tra domanda e offerta e di conseguenza, anche sulla performance del servizio sanitario nazionale. Dai dati raccolti f...| Economia e Politica
This meticulous study of Switzerland’s legal and regulated prostitution reveals a system rife with exploitation and abuse. Read More The post What’s REALLY Happening in Switzerland? A Case Study in Regulated Prostitution appeared first on Nordic Model Now!.| Nordic Model Now!
After a white-supremacist hacker got access to digital records of old applications for admission to Columbia College and passed them on to the New York Times, the Times reported that in 2009 Zohran Mamdani checked boxes identifying his national origin and ancestry as African-American (he is a US citizen — an American — and was born in Uganda — the country in Africa where his paternal ancestors had lived for generations) and Asian (his mother was born in India, where her ancestors had li...| Papers, Please!
Epiphenomenalism and Idealism are two of the most maligned views in philosophy of mind. So it's kind of funny that Helen defends both. Something I really like about her papers is that they really bring out why these views are much more defensible -- or even appealing -- than others usually realize. This comes through especially strongly in her two latest papers:| Philosophy, et cetera
My latest paper, 'Pandemic Ethics and Status Quo Risk', has just been accepted for publication in Public Health Ethics. Here's the abstract:| Philosophy, et cetera
Auto theft affects owners, but also how insurance companies operate as well as bank lending practices. There’s a financial cost down the line! But guess what? Auto theft is a...| Ultimate Guide to Detailing
In its worst decision ever on demands for ID, the Supreme Court today upheld a Texas law that requires all visitors to some websites to provide the site operator with evidence of their identity and age. In an opinion by Justice Thomas, six Justices found that requiring ID for age verification as a condition of […]| Papers, Please!
Recent events have focused attention on the asymmetry of police demands for ID:| Papers, Please!
My research group has a new paper, “CRDT Emulation, Simulation, and Representation Independence”, appearing at ICFP this year! This project was headed up by my PhD student Nathan Liittschwager, with help from another PhD student in my group, Jonathan Castello, and our collaborator Stelios Tsampas. You can read our preprint (warts and all, but soon to be improved, thanks to feedback from the ICFP reviewers) on arXiv, but here’s a quick summary.| decomposition ∘ al
While large language models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable capabilities in processing long contexts and locating specific information, a recent paper reveals a surprising blind spot: they struggle…| Shekhar Gulati
Come previsto dalle nuove regole di governance economica europea nell'ambito della recente riforma del Patto di stabilità e crescita, il 21 giugno 2024 la Commissione europea ha trasmesso a tutti gli Stati membri con un debito pubblico superiore al 60% del PIL o un disavanzo pubblico superiore al 3% del PIL la traiettoria di riferimento per la spesa primaria netta specifica per paese. Tale traiettoria impone per ogni anno del periodo di aggiustamento (della durata di 4 o, come nel caso itali...| Economia e Politica
Insurance provides peace of mind and protection against unforeseen events, making it an essential component of financial planning. Most individuals are aware of the importance of coverage, whether it be for health, auto, house, or life insurance, but they frequently...| Media Hacker |
Il progetto Potamòs, avviato in diverse aree della Calabria tra cui la Locride, la piana di Gioia Tauro e l'Aspromonte, ha offerto un nuovo modello di reinserimento sociale ed economico per ex-detenuti e le loro famiglie, basato sull'imprenditorialità. Gestito dalla cooperativa Valle del Bonamico A.r.l., il progetto si è ispirato all'esperienza agricola della cooperativa, focalizzandosi sulla coltivazione in serra e sulla produzione vinicola. L'obiettivo principale era contrastare il sotto...| Economia e Politica
This article examines the historical context of key regions in the Muslim World of the late Cold War period leading to the American unipolar crusade in the 90s.| Ummatics - Empowering Muslims Towards A Unified Islamic Civilization
Many fear that future artificial agents will resist shutdown. I present an idea – the POST-Agents Proposal – for ensuring that doesn’t happen. I propose that we train agents to satisfy Preferences Only Between Same-Length Trajectories(POST). I then prove that POST – together with other conditions – implies Neutrality+: the agent maximizes expected utility, ignoring the probability distribution over trajectorylengths. I argue that Neutrality+ keeps agents shutdownable and allows them...| Global Priorities Institute
When communicating numeric estimates with policymakers, journalists, or the general public, experts must choose between using numbers or natural language. We run two experiments to study whether experts strategically use language to communicate numeric estimates in order to persuade receivers. In Study 1, senders communicate probabilities of abstract events to receivers on Prolific, and in Study 2 academic researchers communicate the effect sizes in research papers to government policymakers....| Global Priorities Institute
On Wednesday, May 7, 2025, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) plans to start treating driver’s licenses and state IDs that don’t comply with the REAL-ID Act as “unacceptable” ID at TSA checkpoints. That doesn’t mean that travelers without REAL-ID won’t be allowed to fly. What the TSA has said is that it will subject travelers without REAL-ID on or after May 7th to its current procedures for airline passengers with no ID or unacceptable ID.| Papers, Please!
The Trump administration's strategy to reduce the US foreign deficit by imposing tariffs on American imports is creating significant disruptions in the financial markets and in the chancelleries of US allies (former?). An analysis based on the concept of sectoral macroeconomic balances highlights a complex set of contradictions that will hardly allow the Washington government to achieve its declared objectives. L'articolo Trump e lo scoglio dei saldi macroeconomici settoriali proviene da Econ...| Economia e Politica
[Summary of TSA procedures for airline passengers with no ID or unacceptable ID, from DHS Office of Inspector General report OIG-2024-65, September 2024]| Papers, Please!
A bipartisan proposal to withdraw the state of Maine from compliance with the Federal REAL-ID Act of 2005 had its first hearing today (archived video) before the Joint Standing Committee on Transportation of the Maine State Legislature.| Papers, Please!
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“Data matching” may seem abstract, but its consequences can be life-changing: visa revocation, deportation, sudden cessation of Social Security payments, all without warning or opportunity to present argument or evidence to a human fact-finder.| Papers, Please!
The European Court of Human Rights has recently condemned the Italian state for violating Article 2 of the European Convention on the Right to Life (ECRL) in its handling of the environmental disaster in the so-called Terra dei Fuochi. Using a sociological-legal approach, this contribution focuses on some central nodes of the ruling, including the adoption of a precautionary approach and the institution of a new "Independent Monitoring Mechanism" involving civil society. It also highlights ho...| Economia e Politica
This paper explains the FAPI WG recommendations related to OAuth2 Grant Management and Rich Authorization Requests (RAR) to enable fine-grained authorization.| OpenID Foundation - Helping people assert their identity wherever they choose
The US State Department is withholding passports from some US citizens, effectively denying them the ability to leave or return to the US, without any basis in law or regulations.| Papers, Please!
The purpose of this paper is to address some ambiguities and misunderstandings that appear in previous studies of population ethics. In particular, we examine the structure of intervals that are employed in assessing the value of adding people to an existing population. Our focus is on critical-band utilitarianism and critical-range utilitarianism, which are commonly-used population theories that employ intervals, and we show that some previously assumed equivalences are not true in general. ...| Global Priorities Institute
We propose a new class of social quasi-orderings in a variable-population setting. In order to declare one utility distribution at least as good as another, the critical-level utilitarian value of the former must reach or surpass the value of the latter. For each possible absolute value of the difference between the population sizes of two distributions to be compared, we specify a non-negative threshold level and a threshold inequality. This inequality indicates whether the corresponding thr...| Global Priorities Institute
La teoria della polarizzazione tecnologica, proposta dall'economista Daron Acemoglu, esplora l'impatto delle innovazioni tecnologiche sul mercato del lavoro e sulla distribuzione del reddito. Acemoglu distingue tra due categorie principali di tecnologie: sostitutive (come i robot), che rimpiazzano il lavoro umano, e complementari (come l'intelligenza artificiale), che migliorano la produttività dei lavoratori esistenti. Le professioni di livello medio sono particolarmente vulnerabili alla so...| Economia e Politica
Social and economic arguments for the Nordic Model approach to prostitution policy and legislation and for other interventions to end the impunity of third parties who promote and profit from sexploitation.| Nordic Model Now!
by Tamar Barkay* Are the inverse trajectories of internal corporate social responsibility (CSR) and the decline of organized labor in the past decades linked? If so, how?These questions arise from three widely recognized observations. First, since the 1980s, most OECD countries have experienced a decline in unionization and union density rates (Visser, 2012). Second, following […]| Economic Sociology & Political Economy
I argue for a pluralist theory of moral standing, on which both welfare subjectivity and autonomy can confer moral status. I argue that autonomy doesn’t entail welfare subjectivity, but can ground moral standing in its absence. Although I highlight the existence of plausible views on which autonomy entails phenomenal consciousness, I primarily emphasize the need for philosophical debates about the relationship between phenomenal consciousness and moral standing to engage with neglected ques...| Global Priorities Institute
A fundamental fact about human minds is that they are never truly alone: all minds are steeped in situated interaction. In this manifesto we make the case for putting interaction at the heart of cognition. This represents a figure-ground reversal for the cognitive sciences, which traditionally have focused on single minds. Read our piece in Cognitive Science, or head directly to the PDF.| Mark Dingemanse
Utilizzando modelli SVAR e dati trimestrali per Giappone, Regno Unito e Stati Uniti per il periodo 1960-2019 questo articolo stima l'impatto di una politica monetaria restrittiva sui prezzi e sulla distribuzione del reddito. I risultati mostrano che un aumento dei tassi di interesse provoca un incremento significativo dei prezzi ed effetti negativi e persistenti sui salari reali, poiché l'aumento dei prezzi non è compensato dall’incremento dei salari nominali. Le nostre evidenze sono conf...| Economia e Politica
Interactive repair is like a searchlight that can sweep through the syntactic structures of turns at talk. In some of my presentations I’ve used this animation showing the ways in which repair formats zoom in on different parts of clausal structure. Every language user is exposed to repair from very early on, and so it is one of the key processes through which we are able to pick up the intricacies of grammatical structure.| Mark Dingemanse
A decision theory is fanatical if it says that, for any sure thing of getting some finite amount of value, it would always be better to almost certainly get nothing while having some tiny probability (no matter how small) of getting sufficiently more finite value. Fanaticism is extremely counterintuitive; common sense requires a more moderate view. However, a recent slew of arguments purport to vindicate it, claiming that moderate alternatives to fanaticism are sometimes similarly counterintu...| Global Priorities Institute
After five years of foot-dragging in responding to our Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) request, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has finally released the pitch it made to the Future Travel Experience airline industry conference in 2019 on why airlines and airport operators should “partner” with CBP on automated facial recognition of airline passengers.| Papers, Please!
Brief summary of our new paper on the personal-internal reification of p-factor causes with Merlijn Olthof and Anna Lichtwarck-Aschoff| Eiko Fried
There are elections today in the USA. But we don’t need to know their outcome to predict many of the issues that the Identity Project and our supporters and allies will continue to face in the coming years. For what it’s worth, everything that was on our agenda for the first Obama Administration, following the 2008 elections, remains on our agenda today.| Papers, Please!
Brushing off objections from the Identity Project and others, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) has issued regulations creating the framework for an all-purpose smartphone-based national digital ID and tracking system.| Papers, Please!
In Panel A, point clouds show how 239 ideophones from five languages (dots) are distributed in terms of guessability in…| Mark Dingemanse
Panel A illustrates the notion of structure mapping. A sound wave representing the spoken Korean word tuˈgɯndugɯn ‘heartbeat’ is compared to another sound wave showing an actual heartbeat. Nodes and edges point out linkages across repeated structures for both. There are at least three levels and structures at which mappings can be made, yielding a cumulative iconicity score of 3.| Mark Dingemanse
I used to write my scientific papers in MS Word.| nielscautaerts.xyz
The first person to explain answer set programming (ASP, pronounced ‘ay ess pee’) to me (Joe Osborn) told me about the three line implementation of graph coloring and the termination guarantees. Like any PL person, I recoiled in horror: you have an always-terminating language where I can solve NP-complete problems in three lines? So every […]| weaselhat
Kleene algebra with tests is a beautiful, powerful framework for reasoning about programs. But creating new concrete KATs is hard. Our PLDI 2022 paper offers a theoretical framework for deriving concrete KATs, along with an OCaml implementation.| weaselhat
How should we summarize performance numbers? In a recent benchmark run, I had some interesting speedup numbers that I wasn’t certain how to report. While it’s easy to make charts that are illuminating, I’m not certain what I should say in, e.g., an abstract. Here’s the raw data (also available as a spreadsheet), noting that […]| weaselhat
I want to believe in a future where the lion will lie down with the lamb; we’ll beat our swords into plowshares; and developers will migrate dynamic prototypes to robust static systems with confidence. But these Aquarian visions are elusive. Having a map of the road to paradise in theory doesn’t mean we know how […]| weaselhat
TLDR ★★★★ Very easy to read. Direct link to the paper. Interesting takeaways Novel approach to conflict resolution: Unlike most data systems that push conflict resolution to the write phase, Dynamo…| CodeKraft
In this commentary, we critique the recent PNAS paper establishing evidence for the I factor of impulsivity.| Eiko Fried
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3 days until this semester is complete for me, and I am officially a 3rd year in college. I will be halfway done with undergrad soon! It’s an exciting time for me. I’ve got a few finals and a few papers that I need to complete, but I have been slowly cleaning up my dorm … Continue reading Almost There!| Ecofeminist
Viewstamped Replication is one of the earliest consensus algorithms for distributed systems. It is designed around the log replication concept of state machines and it can be efficiently implemented for modern systems. The revisited version of the paper offers a number of improvements to the algorithm from the original paper which both: simplifies it and makes it more suitable for high volume systems. The original paper was published in 1988 which is ten years before the Paxos algorithm 1 was...| Bits and pieces
In 2017 I decided to print some PDFs to read instead of just have them in an ever-growing folder of Papers to Read. Here is the list of the ones I managed to read this year. Out of the Tar Pit / Ben Moseley, Peter Marks / 2006 This is my favorite paper. It is a bit long (around 60 pages), but well worth reading. It is very thorough in defining what software complexity is. The authors make the distinction between essential and accidental complexity (following Fred Brook’s ideas on the topic)...| Runtime Checks
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Inspired by this debt-collection windfall, Congress next added a section to another unrelated section of the statute book, 26 U.S. Code § 7345, effective in 2015, to deny a US passport to any US citizen reported to the State Department by the IRS as having been assessed $50,000 or more (increasing each year in step with the cost of living) in unpaid taxes.| Papers, Please!
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A common problem when teaching a machine translation system is domain mismatches.| elitr.eu
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Over the years I have tried out (and discarded) a number of reference managers, including Papers for Mac, Mendeley, Bibdesk, and Zotero. Very recently, thanks to a tip by Magnus Carlsson, I finally…| Motivic stuff
Every now and then I write twitter threads about papers (both ones I read and ones I’ve written) and talks (ones I gave and ones I’ve seen). Someone suggested once that it may be a good…| Iris van Rooij
Programming is a deeply humbling activity. | www.seancassidy.me
There has been a lot of discussion about 10x engineers lately. Do they exist? Are you one?| www.seancassidy.me
I recently found a rather lengthy variable name in some code, and mentioned it to a friend. It looked like this:| www.seancassidy.me
Google has recently published test results comparing VP8 to H.264. It created somewhat of a stir on the x264-devel mailing list. I thought I would add what I found two years ago as a result of my thesis work. That is, these results are not fully up-to-date, but still interesting.| www.seancassidy.me
New editorial proposes that the default mode brain network is responsible for mental health crisis in youth. I show that this idea is false.| Eiko Fried
Can history help us make sense of the term 'RESTful API'?| twobithistory.org
Solving differential equations with an analog computer for dummies.| twobithistory.org
My general conclusion after a day of digging through and studying a semi-random pile of academic …| Brain Baking
My research group was busy this past year. Here’s a summary of what we’ve been up to in 2022-2023!| decomposition ∘ al