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Time to get rid of the monarchs birthday holiday and associated honours list. When someone like Scott Morrison makes the list it's just a slap in the face of people who deserve recognition.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06-08/sco

Scott Morrison receives country's highest honour for leading Australia through COVID crisis
The 30th prime minister has been appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia for his "eminent service" to the country and direction during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"La Hongrie viole les valeurs fondamentales de l’Union européenne
C’est l’avocate générale de la Cour de justice de l’UE qui le conclut. En cause : les législations hongroises, synonymes de non-respect et marginalisation des personnes LGBTI ."
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🎉 Aujourd'hui, 14 avril, jour de commémoration historique pour le canton de Vaud !
J’ai assisté aux 26 coups de canon 🔥 tirés pour célébrer cette date mémorable de 1803, lorsque le Grand Conseil s’est réuni pour la première fois.
Ce jour-lŠ, l’acte de médiation de Napoléon Bonaparte 🇫🇷 a été ratifié, marquant l’entrée officielle du canton de Vaud dans la Confédération suisse 🇨🇭.
#Histoire #CantonDeVaud #Commémoration #14Avril
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24195 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csHC_…

WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions
With more than 11 times as many pageviews as the next, English Wikipedia dominates global knowledge access relative to other language editions. Readers are prone to assuming English Wikipedia as a superset of all language editions, leading many to prefer it even when their primary language is not English. Other language editions, however, comprise complementary facts rooted in their respective cultures and media environments, which are marginalized in English Wikipedia. While Wikipedia's user i…

Medium writer Paolo Perrone curates a short list of interesting algorithms, the rationale behind them, along with graphs and diagrams to boot.
Algorithms that made this short list:
Wave Function Collapse
The Diffusion Model
Simulated Annealing
Sleep Sort
BOGO Sort
BOID
SHOR’s
Marching Cubes
Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance and,
Boyer Moore
"The 10 Weirdest, Most Brilliant Algorithms Ever Devised and What They Actually Do&…

10 Weirdest Algorithms That Changed Tech Forever | Data Science Collective
Discover 10 unusual algorithms that defied logic, broke rules, and transformed the way we think about technology and problem-solving.

WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions
Zining Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Dongwook Yoon, Nicholas Vincent, Farhan Samir, Vered Shwartz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24195

WikiGap: Promoting Epistemic Equity by Surfacing Knowledge Gaps Between English Wikipedia and other Language Editions
With more than 11 times as many pageviews as the next, English Wikipedia dominates global knowledge access relative to other language editions. Readers are prone to assuming English Wikipedia as a superset of all language editions, leading many to prefer it even when their primary language is not English. Other language editions, however, comprise complementary facts rooted in their respective cultures and media environments, which are marginalized in English Wikipedia. While Wikipedia's user i…