Asia’s Pharma Stocks Drop as Trump Plans US Drug Price Cuts
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/asia-s-pharma-stocks-drop-as-trump-plans-us-drug-price-cuts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Column | The U.S. and Europe are working through a ‘marriage crisis’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/05/12/europe-allies-trump-united-states-defense-nato/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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that "Google made their search results worse on purpose to get more ad impressions" article that's going around is based on an internal email chain from a legal filing, in which an employee mentions this potential approach for increasing engagement metrics... as an example of a bad approach and not something they'd be comfortable doing.
based on my reading, there's nothing in here that says they actually did it. I can't see anything in there that supports that claim.
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USAID is all but gone. For one family, 3 generations of service were defined by it
https://apnews.com/article/usaid-family-generations-trump-memorial-651841d216202f1a8fa25476dab799fc?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Trump's reshaping of higher education tests America's appeal for international students
https://apnews.com/article/trump-china-international-student-college-f1-visa-3b1b7b8b248b6092458f3c323a62f8ec?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Le Hamas va libérer un otage israélo-américain après des négociations directes avec Washington
L’annonce de la libération prochaine d’Edan Alexander intervient juste avant la visite au Moyen-Orient de Donald Trump, du 13 au 16 mai.Noémie Taylor-Rosner (Courrier International)
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La nube al centro dell’Universo e l’involontaria profezia del World Trade Center
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La nube al centro dell'Universo e l'involontaria profezia del World Trade Center - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Era una giornata di festa il 30 maggio del 1921 a Tulsa, Oklahoma e il resto degli Stati Uniti, per la celebrata ricorrenza del Memorial Day, dedicato alla memoria dei soldati che avevano combattuto in guerra per difendere la Nazione.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
La nube al centro dell'Universo e l'involontaria profezia del World Trade Center - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
La nube al centro dell'Universo e l'involontaria profezia del World Trade Center - Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri
Era una giornata di festa il 30 maggio del 1921 a Tulsa, Oklahoma e il resto degli Stati Uniti, per la celebrata ricorrenza del Memorial Day, dedicato alla memoria dei soldati che avevano combattuto in guerra per difendere la Nazione.Jacopo (Il blog di Jacopo Ranieri)
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Amazing Stories vol. 14, no. 10 (October 1940)
That is one goofy-ass robot but also goofy is how those guys are risking ricochets by firing directly at it while she's clutched in its goofy robot arms.
Clearly this story was written by a robot. Robot Moore Williams to be precise.
Original magazine: archive.org/details/Amazing_St…
#Magazine #MagazineCover #PulpMagazine #PulpFiction #ScienceFiction #Fantasy #Horror #Art #Illustration
Amazing Stories v14n10 (1940 10) (cape1736) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
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Radical Graffiti (@radicalgraffiti.bsky.social)
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> Anti-nazi sticker spotted in a bin in Danville, Pennsylvania
L'immagine mostra un bidone della spazzatura di colore blu scuro, con una rete metallica a griglia. Sul bidone è attaccato un cartello giallo con il testo "DON'T BE A LITTER BUG" in nero, seguito da "THANK YOU" in nero. Al centro del cartello c'è un'illustrazione di una persona che getta un simbolo di swastika in un bidone della spazzatura. Il bidone è posizionato su un marciapiede, con una strada visibile sullo sfondo. Il cartello è un messaggio di educazione ambientale che incoraggia la pulizia e il rispetto per l'ambiente.
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Ovis2-8B
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Column | Carolyn Hax: How to shut down an in-law who thinks her meanness is funny?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/advice/2025/05/12/carolyn-hax-in-laws-funny-mean/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Philippines midterm vote begins as Marcos-Duterte feud and China row flare
The spotlight is on the Senate race, where the 12 winners will be jurors in Duterte’s impeachment trial, set for July when the new Congress convenes.Cliff Venzon (The Japan Times)
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Il caso Emanuela Orlandi. Il fratello Pietro a L’Augusta
Mercoledì sera alla Casa del Boia si parla di uno dei misteri italiani più conosciuti, drammatici, intricati e depistati nella storia della Repubblica.
Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Working Toward HDR Support
Shotcut 25.05 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this non-linear, open-source video editing software...
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DragonFlyBSD 6.4.2 Released With Fixes To Help QEMU & Chrome
While it took two and a half years for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 to materialize from DragonFlyBSD 6.4, only one week passed since that recent v6.4.1 release to now see v6.4.2...
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The Internet Archive opt out itch
Thoughts companies opting out of the Internet Archive.Stefan Judis (Stefan Judis Web Development)
The Ensemble Storstrøm plays Ravel and Bentzon in Toreby - Schedule // - www.worldconcerthall.com
The Ensemble Storstrøm plays: RAVEL: Introduction and Allegro M.46. Nikolaj BENTZON: Ravelian Reveille. RAVEL: Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera, M.51 for clarinet and piano/ Tzigane M.76, arr. Erik Højsgaard/ Jeux D’eau ...www.worldconcerthall.com
PlayStation is hiring Senior Gameplay Engineer
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Traders Bet the Euro’s Ascent Is a Tidal Wave in the Making
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-12/amundi-templeton-say-eur-usd-euro-s-rally-is-just-the-beginning?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Asian shares advance as details awaited on progress in China-US trade talks
https://apnews.com/article/stocks-markets-trade-trump-catl-62fbd84396aaea011c68231363b283de?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Seen in New Orleans, Louisiana
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Uzbekistan’s prime minister arrives in Tehran for official visit
Abdulla Aripov, the prime minister of Uzbekistan, is visiting Iran, where he will conduct meetings with Iranian officials and attend a joint business session with economic leaders from both countries.IRNA English
Lotus Cars Are Driving on Fumes in the Trade War
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-12/trade-war-has-lotus-sportscars-driving-on-fumes?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Summer of Travel? Not for Most Americans
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-05-12/summer-of-travel-not-for-americans-during-a-trade-war?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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El exasesor de seguridad nacional John Bolton declaró en una entrevista reciente que el presidente ruso, Vladimir Putin, podría correr el riesgo de "exagerar" con el presidente Trump en medio de las conversaciones para poner fin a la invasión de Ucrania por parte del Kremlin.
Bolton, un crítico acérrimo de Trump, afirmó que Rusia sigue "sufriendo" económicamente por las sanciones impuestas por Europa Occidental y Estados Unidos durante la guerra de tres años en Europa del Este, pero argumentó que Putin aún se encuentra en una posición política "muy fuerte".
"Pero a medida que esta guerra se prolonga, creo que su posición se debilita. La verdadera pregunta es si, entre los esfuerzos de Estados Unidos y los de Europa para lograr un alto el fuego entre Ucrania y Rusia, este se logrará", declaró Bolton durante su aparición en el programa de radio de John Catsimatidis, "Cats Roundtable", en WABC 770 AM.
“Putin ya ha obtenido muchas concesiones para lo que desea. Quiere conservar el territorio que Rusia ha confiscado en Ucrania… pero creo que, a estas alturas, podría correr el riesgo de exagerar con Trump”, dijo Bolton.
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Cynics About Trump Tariffs Should Focus on Markets
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-05-12/trade-war-cynics-about-trump-tariffs-should-focus-on-markets?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Esse é o tempo que demorou para sancionarem a Rússia... e o Brasil? - Paulo Figueiredo
Torne-se meu apoiador: – https://paulofigueiredoshow.com/apoie/ USE O CUPOM 20%: PFIGUEIREDOSHOW Baixe o App Truth … sourcePaulo Figueiredo
Rumoer in VS over cadeau van Qatar: Boeing voor president Trump
Het zou gaan om een van de duurste cadeaus die een Amerikaanse regering ooit heeft aangenomen.NOS Nieuws
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in reply to Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial • • •Looks like @sjb found this relevant quote in a Texas
docketpress release.mstdn.io/@sjb/1144921188623576…
Stephen Brooks 🦆 (@sjb@mstdn.io)
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in reply to Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial • • •Dave Anderson
in reply to Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial • • •I have no privileged information either way, but my thesis for why Google search got worse is much simpler, and tragic: high quality search is incompatible with corporate incentive structures.
Google's search quality back in the day were upheld by a _massive_ investment in search quality. An entire arm of the company operated more like a research lab than a company, trying all kinds of wild new tweaks to ranking, running experiments, developing new methodologies to quantify "how much gooder are these results for this query". It seemed to me like they spent a ton of time and money trying and abandoning things that didn't work out, to get the occasional payoff of moving the quality metrics by a few percent, or tenths of a percent.
When Google entered its bean counter era, I'm morally certain they looked at Search Quality and went "wow your org has terrible ROI, let's get rid of all this stupid open ended research and just rub some machine learning on the problem, that's much more efficient, we can scale that up just by turning this here knob and nobody has to think about it any more."
I have no proof for any of this, just a deep conviction that the way Search Quality operated is the reason the search results were so good for so long, and also would not survive contact with an efficiency-oriented executive.
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Pierre Bourdon
in reply to Dave Anderson • • •@danderson the second half of the problem is that search quality is a problem becoming harder over time, so even if you maintain the same level of investment your quality goes down.
(Reasons include: expectations rising, amount of content on the internet rising, SEO being more and more adversarial, giant information silos like FB/Discord, paywalls, abuse profitability rising, and probably dozens more.)
Dave Anderson
in reply to Pierre Bourdon • • •@delroth Yup, that's another piece of my usual rant about this: to some extent, search got worse because the spammers won the arms race, not because google explicitly decided to make search worse. In an arms race, you can lose just by not pushing harder.
Again I have no evidence either way so we'll see what the investigations show... But given google's trajectory overall in the last decade or so, I find neglect to be a more compelling explanation than a vast web of conspiracy, or the actions of individual supervillains.
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in reply to Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial • • •oh and duh, I should've said which post I was referring to.
the post: raru.re/@ocean/114490739719068…
the article the snippet is taken from: journalrecord.com/2025/02/20/i…
Is Google making search worse to sell more ads?
Heide Brandes (The Journal Record)oshy
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in reply to Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial • • •there was a blog post from an ex googler with more details about how this happened. IIRC this is it
wheresyoured.at/the-men-who-ki…
The Man Who Killed Google Search
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in reply to Ciarán McNally • • •Hey Gus
in reply to Graham Sutherland 🎃 Polynomial • • •I swear they did and then rolled it back, but I don’t want to read all of that again.
My takeaway was a sharp reminder that google, like meta, are advertising companies that have various web services as well.
The email chain is sad. Like the slow death of a passion for technology getting fisted to death by greed. Like bowels perforated dead.
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