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Global CEO pay has increased 56 times more than worker wages since 2019 https://www.euronews.com/2025/05/01/global-ceo-pay-has-increased-56-times-m...
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Xbox price rises by £50 amid tariff uncertainty https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cze1zn9d9p4o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Pos...
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Now, this one is truly interesting in terms of economic news:
Foreign Buyers’ Strike Threatens Dollar’s Reign as U.S. Capital Flows Stall (Deutsche Bank)
Key quotes:
- Deutsche Bank identifies a halt in foreign purchases of U.S. stocks and bonds.
- ETF flows show active selling of U.S. bonds and stagnation in equity inflows.
- Dollar at risk as a twin-deficit currency amid capital outflow concerns.
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China-to-U.S. Container Shipments Shrink as Tariffs Bite
https://www.wsj.com/business/logistics/china-to-u-s-container-shipmentsand-shipsshrink-as-tariffs-bite-ba09103c?st=LPPnWj&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
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ChatGPT Is Already Bungling Product Recommendations
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-product-recommendations?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
**Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions**
“_The results indicate that the fertility rate should exceed 2.7 to avoid extinction. The extinction threshold is reduced by a female-biased sex ratio. We argue that the present results explain the observed phenomena of female-biased births under severe conditions as an effective way to avoid extinction._”
Cuaresma DCN, Ito H, Arima H, Yoshimura J, Morita S, et al. (2025) Threshold fertility for the avoidance of extinction under critical conditions. PLOS ONE 20(4): e0322174. https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0322174.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Fertility #Extinction #Population #Anthropology #Academia #Academics @anthropology
🇨🇦 🇲🇽 **Travel companies say Canadians are canceling US travel — and opting for this destination instead**
“_Mexico has emerged as a popular alternative for Canadian travelers skipping the US._”
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Imagine a publishing house with the mission of making knowledge and insights available to everybody for free, while ensuring high standards.
Well, the three universities of Berlin and the Charité have now joined forces to do just that.
They founded "Berlin Universities Publishing". Neither authors not readers pay. The pdf of books are freely available under a Creative Commons licence.
It's called "Diamond Open Access". They're just starting up. Much more to come.
🇪🇺 **Living conditions in Europe - poverty and social exclusion**
“_In 2024, 93.3 million people in the EU were at risk of poverty or social exclusion; this was equivalent to 21.0% of the EU population._”
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Poverty #EU #EuropeanUnion #Europe
🇺🇸 **The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025**
“_The annual earnings of a single adult working full-time, year-round at $7.25 an hour now fall below the poverty threshold of $15,650 (established by the Department of Health and Human Services guidelines)._”
🔗 https://www.epi.org/blog/the-federal-minimum-wage-is-officially-a-poverty-wage-in-2025/.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #MinimumWage #Wages #Poverty #Economy #Economics @economics
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**But what is Quantum Computing? (Grover's Algorithm)**
3Blue1Brown
"_Qubits, state vectors, and Grover's algorithm for search._"
#Video length: thirty-six minutes and fifty-three minutes.
🇺🇸 🇻🇳 📸 **Photos: A look back at the fall of Saigon and the final days of the Vietnam War**
#History #Images #Photos #Photography #Vietnam #Saigon #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
🏴 **At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland**
“_ he people who made these artefacts originated in the mainland of northwest Europe, crossed Doggerland into what is now Britain, and eventually reached the far north of the Isle of Skye. Here, they adapted to live in a fragmented, fluctuating, and volatile environment amid melting glaciers, mountains, and oceans—vastly different from the low-lying environments of their homelands on the northwestern edge of the Great European Plain._”
Hardy, K., Barlow, N.L.M., Taylor, E., Bradley, S.L., McCarthy, J. and Rush, G. (2025), At the far end of everything: A likely Ahrensburgian presence in the far north of the Isle of Skye, Scotland. J. Quaternary Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3718.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Ahrensburgian #Climate #YoungerDryas #Scotland #Europe @archaeodons
**Did Vikings Really Wear Horned Helmets—or Was It All Just Opera?**
Gresham College
#Video length: one minute and one second.
**Runes are not from Phoenician letters**
Jackson Crawford
#Video length: fifteen minutes and twenty-four seconds.
🇩🇰 **The Scandinavian nation named Europe’s most ‘culturally rich’ country**
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AI-generated computer code is rife with references to non-existent third-party libraries, creating a golden opportunity for supply-chain attacks that poison legitimate programs. Read more at @ArsTechnica. #AI #Coding #LLM #Tech #Technology https://flip.it/-tSFJ9
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Satirist, mathematician, physician, librettist, numismatist, Newton’s lieutenant John Arbuthnot was baptised 29 April 1667. #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/04/29/to-break-a-butterfly-upon-a-wheel/
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