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Darren Woods is known mostly as the chairman of ExxonMobil,
the largest U.S. oil company.
On Friday, however, he made noise in a different sphere by placing an obscure financial term into the political lexicon:
"#Uninvestible."
That's how Woods described Venezuela
—more specifically, Venezuela's oil industry.
His remark came during a meeting of s…

Hiltzik: Trump's Venezuelan oil adventure is coming apart at the seams
Trump thinks the spigots will soon start flowing with Venezuela's oil. The oil industry isn't eager to see that happen

PSA if you live in Europe & have any tendency to feel like shit in winter AND known counter strategies for feeling less like shit ... start employing them NOW.
(I tend to do ok in winter but I am still ramping up my anti-depression tool use, and I am seeing a bunch of friends look like they are entering their winter holes of misery, and am generally a fan of less misery in the world.)

De discussie over minder afhankelijkheid van de VS in digitale zin moet met de start van het nieuwe kabinet in mijn ogen echt in een flink hogere versnelling, niet over de vraag of het kan, maar hoe we het gaan doen en hoe we kunnen versnellen, samen met andere EU-landen.

A CSP approach to Graph Sandwich Problems
Manuel Bodirsky, Santiago Guzm\'an-Pro
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09128 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.09128

A CSP approach to Graph Sandwich Problems
The \emph{Sandwich Problem} (SP) for a graph class $\calC$ is the following computational problem. The input is a pair of graphs $(V,E_1)$ and $(V,E_2)$ where $E_1\subseteq E_2$, and the task is to decide whether there is an edge set $E$ where $E_1\subseteq E \subseteq E_2$ such that the graph $(V,E)$ belongs to $\calC$. In this paper we show that many SPs correspond to the constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) of an infinite $2$-edge-coloured graph $H$. We then notice that several known comple…

We are just cattle to the rich

RIP
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/movies/tatsuya-nakadai-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0U8.thAO.bom850YiVRtC&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=a…

Tatsuya Nakadai, Japanese Star Known for ‘Ran’ and Other Classics, Dies at 92
He was a fixture of postwar Japanese cinema, appearing in films by Akira Kurosawa and other leading directors of that era.

Imaging of Gate-Controlled Suppression of Superconductivity via the Meissner Effect
P. J. Scheidegger, K. J. Knapp, U. Ognjanovic, L. Ruf, S. Diesch, E. Scheer, A. Di Bernardo, C. L. Degen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09044

Imaging of Gate-Controlled Suppression of Superconductivity via the Meissner Effect
It was recently discovered that supercurrents flowing through thin superconducting nanowires can be quenched by a gate voltage. This gate control of supercurrents, known as the GCS effect, could enable superconducting transistor logic. Here, we report that the GCS also manifests in a suppression of Meissner screening, establishing the phenomenon as a genuine feature of superconductivity that is not restricted to transport. Using a scanning nitrogen-vacancy magnetometer at sub-Kelvin temperature…

“This is not 'spicy'. This is illegal. This is appalling. This is disgusting.“
"The European Commission has announced it is looking into cases of sexually suggestive and explicit images of young girls generated by Grok, the AI chatbot integrated into social media platform X, following the introduction of a paid feature known as “Spicy Mode” last summer."

Facts vs. Feelings: J.J. McCarthy, Kimani Vidal and other tough lineup decisions https://www.espn.com/fantasy/football/story/_/id/46857803/fantasy-football-start-sit-add-week-10

Israel on Tuesday said it had
💥suspended more than two dozen humanitarian organizations,
including "Doctors Without Borders" and CARE,
from operating in the Gaza Strip
for failing to comply with new registration rules.
Israel says the rules are aimed at preventing Hamas and other militant groups from infiltrating the aid organizations.
But the organizations say the rules are arbitrary and warned that the new ban would harm a civilian population d…

Israel to halt operations of several humanitarian groups in Gaza starting in 2026
Israel says it will suspend several humanitarian organizations for failing to meet its new rules to vet international organizations working in Gaza. The Ministry of Diaspora Affairs said on Tuesday that the organizations that will be banned on Jan. 1 did not meet its new requirements for sharing staff, funding and operations information. It accused Doctors Without Borders, known as MSF by its French acronym, of failing to clarify the roles of some staff that Israel accused of cooperation with H…