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OPEC+ Agrees Another Oil Supply Surge for June, Delegates Say
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-03/opec-agrees-another-oil-supply-surge-for-june-delegates-say?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc0NjI2ODk3MCwiZXhwIjoxNzQ2ODczNzcwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTVk1SWjdUMEFGQjQwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiI0NDVBRjAxNDNBNzM0ODA3OEUzODc3RDcyMzlGNEY2RiJ9.7CXu0TkAQLXIXiuWKyR7nD-eml70y3UTgIhUtHHRBac
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Also, if (as Satya Nadela claims in public) 30% of Microsoft's software is LLM-generated, then we can expect the next couple of generations of Windows and Microsoft Office to be unelievably bad. Not just enshittified for advertising and profit: but full of really idiotic security holes and bugs inserted by LLMs that were trained on their own toxic efflux by "developers" too de-skilled to understand what they were doing.
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Marco Rubio criticized Germany. The foreign ministry hit back
https://apnews.com/article/germany-afd-jd-vance-marco-rubio-us-trump-9787d0989df4e3ff15cd626a57c7c02d?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into International News @international-news-AssociatedPress
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If you haven't read "Careless People, A story of where I used to work" by Sarah Wynn-Williams yet, I recommend that you do. She gives a truly eye-opening (and jaw dropping) account of Facebook (now Meta) from the inside.
It is clear why Zuckerberg trying to block the publication of this book...
**Unheard Nazi tapes acquired by Aberdeen historian to be released ahead of WW2 80th anniversary**
🔗 https://www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/unheard-nazi-tapes-acquired-aberdeen-10153083.
📖 **The Library of Ancient Wisdom: Mesopotamia and the Making of the Modern World **
#Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #History #Books #Bookstodon #Library #Ancient #Mesopotamia @histodons @bookstodon
Good morning.
**Mathematics discovers that rose petals are found to contain a unique geometry**
“_Unlike the smooth contours of other flowers, the originally curved petals of roses end up forming polygons with straight edges_”
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May I present to you, the Potsdam Gravity Potato?
Areas of the earth where the gravitational field is mysteriously weaker (blue) or stronger (orange)
via @earthlymission
https://earthlymission.com/the-potsdam-gravity-potato/
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The Human Genome Project cost taxpayers $3 Billion.
Within one decade of completion, it had already generated a staggering return on investment of $1 Trillion, with benefits in medicine, agriculture, energy, the environment, & more.
If you want to boost the economy, funding science is one of the best things you could do.
📸 **The top photos of the week by AP’s photojournalists**
🔗 https://apnews.com/article/top-photos-of-week-global-pictures-e73122b92aaca31723a8ce550a3b9a2d.
📖 **A Rare 15th-Century Black Book of Hours Is Getting a Long-Awaited Restoration**
“_The Black Book of Hours is one of only seven known surviving black vellum illuminated manuscripts made by Flemish artists between 1455 and 1480.”_
🔗 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tefaf-restores-black-book-of-hours-2638098.
📖 **Making Money in the Early Middle Ages**
“_An examination of coined money and its significance to rulers, aristocrats and peasants in early medieval Europe”
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691177403/making-money-in-the-early-middle-ages.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Academia #Money #Medieval #Medievodons #Europe @histodons @bookstodon @medievodons
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🇺🇸 📉 **This Year is the 5th Worst Start to a Year in S&P 500 History**
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/this-year-is-the-5th-worst-start-to-a-year-in-sp-500-history/.
📖 **The Jew Who Would Be King: A True Story of Shipwreck, Survival, and Scandal in Victorian Africa**
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/adam-laurence-rovner/the-jew-who-would-be-king/.
#BookReview #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Biography #Colonisation #Colonization #Empire #Imperialism #Africa #Slavery @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Tariffs are Already Stalling the Economy**
“_Tariff Front-Running is Already Showing Up as Reductions in US GDP Growth_”
🔗 https://www.apricitas.io/p/tariffs-are-already-stalling-the.
**English words from Old Norse**
#Video length: nine minutes and fifty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSiXpqB8Pr4.
#English #OldNorse #Words #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
**A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode**
“_....the hyper-Catalan numbers 𝐶𝐦 count the number of subdivisions of a polygon into a given number of triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, etc. (its type 𝐦), and we show that their generating series solves a polynomial equation of a particular geometric form. This solution is straightforwardly extended to solve the general univariate polynomial equation._”
Wildberger, N. J. and Rubine, D. (2025) ‘A Hyper-Catalan Series Solution to Polynomial Equations, and the Geode’, The American Mathematical Monthly, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.2025.2460966.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Algebra #Polynomials #Academia #Academics
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