Why Effort Scales Superlinearly with the Perceived Quality of Creative Work
https://markusstrasser.org/creative-work-landscapes.html
#HackerNews #Effort #Scales #Superlinearly #Creative #Work #Quality #Superlinear #Growth #Innovation
In April, the #Trump admin abruptly froze planned federal #research #funding for the #university. The govt had been scrutinizing #Cornell after accusing it of racial discrimination & antisemitism, & the university acknowledged receiving dozens of stop-work orders.
University leaders made clear that the #school was feeling extraordinary financial strain. The university has been considering issuing about $1 billion in bonds.
#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #extortion #Autocracy #fascism
In June, #Cornell University leaders warned that they anticipated #layoffs & had begun what they described as “a comprehensive review of programs & head count across the university,” where the work force had climbed by more than 15% in about 4 years.
The suspension of federal #funding turned that #growth into a #crisis.
#law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #BrainDrain #extortion #Trump #AbuseOfPower #Authoritarianism #Autocracy #Dictatorship #fascism #Tyranny #MafiaState
Lessons from Growing a Piracy Streaming Site
https://prison.josh.mn/lessons
#HackerNews #Lessons #from #Growing #a #Piracy #Streaming #Site #piracy #streaming #lessons #website #growth #content #creation
Learning from failure to tackle hard problems
https://blog.ml.cmu.edu/2025/10/27/learning-from-failure-to-tackle-extremely-hard-problems/
#HackerNews #Learning #from #failure #to #tackle #hard #problems #failure #learning #problem-solving #growth #mindset #resilience
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🍩 'Doughnut Economics' shows how global growth is out of balance—and how we can fix it
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-doughnut-economics-global-growth.html
#economics #growth #sustainability #circulareconomy #inequality #doughnut
🍩 'Doughnut Economics' shows how global growth is out of balance—and how we can fix it
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-doughnut-economics-global-growth.html
#economics #growth #sustainability #circulareconomy #inequality #doughnut
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I'm on @delta delta chat now! I want to host a group for abuse survivors and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".
I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.
So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!
And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.
I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.
We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.
Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!
The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).
DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out bots and abusers.
Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.
#abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor
I'm on @delta delta chat now! I want to host a group for abuse survivors and those who question whether they were or are experiencing or witnessing abuse or coercive control or undue influence or someone is using power over them and retaliating against them when they don't "behave".
I myself survived childhood sexual abuse, incest, abuse by a cult, my therapist, psychiatry nurses, sibling, friends, queerplatonic partner/girlfriend, roommate and harrassment from a nazi neighbor plus landlords. I kinda got a bad start to life (in germany) and then people tended to make it worse instead of helping me or they took advantage of me.
So I learned a lot about what does and doesn't help!
And I want to help you out, whether you went through something you fear no one will believe or be able to stomach hearing about, or you think it was probably nothing and you overreact. You don't overreact! Nothing is too small to be worth talking about.
I'm making a space to have a warm, supportive, good vibes atmosphere that we co-create together. We'll help each other grow and see through confusions and distortions of the truth and gain more agency, to make choices, decisions and do stuff and have an impact on the world.
We'll also have fun and laugh and cry and eat cookies and discover what it's like to argue with someone who doesn't slice you to ribbons emotionally.
Anyone is welcome regardless of age, gender, ability, neurotype, location or background. I just ask that you help make the group a good space, be that by complaining when everyone else is too polite to say anything or by listening or by sharing. Please don't worry that by joining you'll take up too much space or take resources away from someone who might need them more — you ARE our space and our resources!
The first step is, once we have at least a handful of people, to decide when and how often to meet.
I use @delta delta chat for its privacy and because it works with spotty internet and very little tech knowledge. It works on desktop and mobile. You can download the app from google's or apple's appstore or FDroid or their website delta.chat (watch me not get the preview to work)
It was super easy to make an account and didn't require anything other than a username - no phone number or email address (or password).
DM me for an invite, which is a link that you click to join the group. The group is invite only to keep out bots and abusers.
Please boost and share this post, including on other sites or however it works for you, or by talking about it and linking here.
#abuse #AbuseCulture #AbuseSurvivor #trauma #MentalHealth #MutualAid #CommunityCare #SelfCare #dissociation #csa #childAbuse #ElderAbuse #EatingDisorder #recovery #cult #CultRecovery #healing #empowerment #EmpowerWomen #growth #resist #rape #RapeCulture #RapeSurvivor #survivor
Alphabet tops $100B quarterly revenue for first time, cloud grows 34%
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/29/alphabet-google-q3-earnings.html
#HackerNews #Alphabet #Revenue #Cloud #Growth #Q3 #Earnings #CNBC
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[#HK] A wave of renewed #optimism is sweeping through #HongKong’s #export #sector, fueled by a significant de-escalation in #international #trade #friction. The latest #HKTDC Export #Confidence #Index for the third quarter of 2025 reveals a dramatic upswing in #sentiment, leading to a substantial #upward revision of the city’s full-year export #growth #forecast. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-exports-surge-in-2025-hktdc-lifts-growth-forecast-amid-trade-optimism/
[#HK] A wave of renewed #optimism is sweeping through #HongKong’s #export #sector, fueled by a significant de-escalation in #international #trade #friction. The latest #HKTDC Export #Confidence #Index for the third quarter of 2025 reveals a dramatic upswing in #sentiment, leading to a substantial #upward revision of the city’s full-year export #growth #forecast. https://cnbusinessforum.com/hong-kong-exports-surge-in-2025-hktdc-lifts-growth-forecast-amid-trade-optimism/
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"What goes with [GDP growth] is ... ignored; growth depends on increased production and distribution, which always increase waste."
Jon Cloke in our new #ProspectsForDegrowth piece.
The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/09/18/the-macavity-of-degrowth-waste-the-empire-that-isnt-there/
"What goes with [GDP growth] is ... ignored; growth depends on increased production and distribution, which always increase waste."
Jon Cloke in our new #ProspectsForDegrowth piece.
The Macavity of Degrowth – Waste, the Empire that isn’t there… – degrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/09/18/the-macavity-of-degrowth-waste-the-empire-that-isnt-there/
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"These #fires are neither isolated nor "natural" phenomena. They are expressions of a system in combustion, accelerated by #climatechange induced by our #socioeconomic order & aggravated by #land-use policies subordinated to accumulation, #profit & #growth."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/27/mediterranean-wildfires-are-no-accident
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
"These #fires are neither isolated nor "natural" phenomena. They are expressions of a system in combustion, accelerated by #climatechange induced by our #socioeconomic order & aggravated by #land-use policies subordinated to accumulation, #profit & #growth."
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2025/8/27/mediterranean-wildfires-are-no-accident
#Politics#Democrats#Republicans#Liberals#Conservatives#Vote#Election#DemocraticParty#RepublicanParty#DonaldTrump#Trump#JoeBiden#Biden#KamalaHarris#TimWalz#Democracy#USA#Musk#Fascism#Fascist
What @laurenshof identifies here is that disgust with DataFarms is only one among many factors that leads to the growth of the fediverse and other decentralised networks. Yes, big scandals at DataFarms have lead to a number of big migration waves; at least 3 from Titter (including one in 2016), one from Tumblr, and one from Reddit. But these are like earthquakes, releasing pressure that's been building up for years beforehand.
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In this interview Heinberg also talks about the need to make renewable energy infrastructure self-hosting, to borrow a geek phrase. In other words, we need to be using energy that's renewable to make PV panels and wind turbines and so on. Imagine if all the renewables powering hyperscale datacentres, so corporations can spy on us and manipulate us with generative models, was being used to manufacture sustainable tech.
"Mostly, people in government, and people in say, the banking sector and in the financial industries, are completely clouded in their view by the apparent necessity of maintaining economic growth. They simply cannot imagine a future in which economic growth does not continue, and I think that really is an extraordinary hindrance to their being able to really engage honestly with these kinds of issues."
#RichardHeinberg, 2017