On 12 May, Argentines took to the streets to protest science funding cuts and advocate for salary increases for public university workers.

By Claudia López Lloreda, Natalia Mesa and Anita Pouchard Serra

https://www.thetransmitter.org/funding/argentine-protesters-condemn-science-funding-shortfall/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=org-social&utm_campaign=20260515-argentine-protesters-condemn-science-funding-shortfall

@MikeInTheGarden and what a beaut she is!

We appreciate Edwin Kremer’s thoughtful reflections on 'Integrated by Design" by Vivian Voss.

It’s encouraging to see the FreeBSD design philosophy articulated so clearly: coherence, predictability, least astonishment, and long-term stability.
For those curious about the architectural differences between FreeBSD and Linux and why they matter in practice, this book offers both philosophical context and hands-on exploration.

Thank you to Vivian Voss.

The change comes as arXiv and others struggle to manage an influx of AI-generated materials masquerading as rigorous science.

https://www.404media.co/new-arxiv-rules-ai-generated-papers-ban/

@esparta
Superb. 🤩✌️😎

@bastianallgeier @jonhicks !!! 🤤

@nileane @tinystartapp got it a few days ago. Had a. Rief moment of FOMO seeing the Raycast 2 announcement. But quickly remembered that I am very happy with TinyQpp cause it’s all I need and want. Don’t give in to hype FOMO :)

Weather for Hull ☁️ - 15/05/2026 18:10 BST

At a glance:
• 11.4°C · Cloudy ☁️ | Min 6.1°C / Max 11.4°C | Precipitation probability 24%

Forecast for today:
• Min 6.1°C, Max 11.4°C (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation 0.5 mm, Precipitation probability 24%, 🧭 1005.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Wind speed: 17.6 km/h (4.9 m/s), direction: ↘ 322°

Hourly forecast for the next 12 hours:

• 19:00: 10.7°C (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 35%, 🧭 1005.7 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 7.9 km/h (2.2 m/s), direction: ↓ 16°
• 20:00: 10.1°C (Partly cloudy) 🌤️, Precipitation probability 23%, 🧭 1005.5 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 7.2 km/h (2.0 m/s), direction: ↙ 24°
• 21:00: 9.7°C (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 9%, 🧭 1005.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 4.7 km/h (1.3 m/s), direction: ↑ 160°
• 22:00: 8.9°C (Partly cloudy) ☁️, 🧭 1005.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 7.6 km/h (2.1 m/s), direction: ↑ 188°
• 23:00: 8.5°C (Cloudy) ☁️, 🧭 1005.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 9.4 km/h (2.6 m/s), direction: ↑ 198°
• 00:00: 9.2°C (Cloudy) ☁️, 🧭 1005.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 6.8 km/h (1.9 m/s), direction: ↗ 244°
• 01:00: 8.7°C (Cloudy) ☁️, 🧭 1005.0 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 11.5 km/h (3.2 m/s), direction: → 248°
• 02:00: 8.4°C (Cloudy) ☁️, 🧭 1004.8 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 9.4 km/h (2.6 m/s), direction: → 258°
• 03:00: 8.0°C (Cloudy) ☁️, 🧭 1004.4 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 9.4 km/h (2.6 m/s), direction: → 258°
• 04:00: 7.3°C (Partly cloudy) 🌕, 🧭 1004.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 6.8 km/h (1.9 m/s), direction: → 264°
• 05:00: 7.1°C (Cloudy) ☁️, 🧭 1004.1 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 10.1 km/h (2.8 m/s), direction: → 254°
• 06:00: 7.3°C (Cloudy) ☁️, 🧭 1004.3 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/1h, Wind speed: 8.6 km/h (2.4 m/s), direction: → 266°

Forecast for the coming days:

• Saturday 16 May: Min 7.1°C, Max 12.9°C (Heavy drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation 2.3 mm, Precipitation probability 16%, 🧭 1003.7 hPa ↘️ -1.8 hPa/24h, Wind speed: 17.6 km/h (4.9 m/s), direction: ↗ 232°
• Sunday 17 May: Min 8.6°C, Max 14.0°C (Light drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation 0.1 mm, Precipitation probability 31%, 🧭 1005.2 hPa ↗️ +1.5 hPa/24h, Wind speed: 21.6 km/h (6.0 m/s), direction: ↗ 241°
• Monday 18 May: Min 7.8°C, Max 12.7°C (Moderate drizzle) 🌦️, Precipitation 4.5 mm, Precipitation probability 26%, 🧭 1010.3 hPa ↗️ +5.1 hPa/24h, Wind speed: 14.0 km/h (3.9 m/s), direction: ↗ 213°
• Tuesday 19 May: Min 9.5°C, Max 17.9°C (Light rain) 🌧️, Precipitation 6.9 mm, Precipitation probability 60%, 🧭 1009.9 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/24h, Wind speed: 24.1 km/h (6.7 m/s), direction: ↑ 189°
• Wednesday 20 May: Min 10.6°C, Max 20.5°C (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 27%, 🧭 1019.2 hPa ↗️ +9.3 hPa/24h, Wind speed: 21.2 km/h (5.9 m/s), direction: ↗ 226°
• Thursday 21 May: Min 9.2°C, Max 21.0°C (Cloudy) ☁️, Precipitation probability 5%, 🧭 1026.1 hPa ↗️ +6.9 hPa/24h, Wind speed: 14.0 km/h (3.9 m/s), direction: ↗ 216°

Details:
• 🌡️ Current temperature (at 18:00): 11.4°C (Cloudy)
• 🤚 Feels like: 8.2°C (-3.2°C)
• 💨 Wind speed: 5.8 km/h (1.6 m/s), direction: ↘ 334°
• 🌬️ Wind gusts: 13.7 km/h (3.8 m/s)
• 💧 Humidity: 41%
• 🧭 Pressure: 1005.6 hPa ➡️ 0.0 hPa/3h
• 👁️ Visibility: 24.4 km
• ☀️ UV index: 0.2
• 🌅 Sunrise: 04:59 · 🌇 Sunset: 20:56

Air Quality:
• AQI: 39 🟢 (Good)
• PM2.5: 2.6 μg/m³
• PM10: 5.9 μg/m³

Data provided by Open-Meteo

#Hull #Weather #WeatherBot #OpenMeteo #FediMeteo

@LaurentChemla
C'est pas la recette ancestrale de la carbonara, ça ?

@vschoenleben Sowas vielleicht? https://stadt-bremerhaven.de/typewhisper-fuer-macos-diktat-und-transkription-mit-lokalen-ki-modellen/

Bzw. welches Betriebssystem? Das da ist für Mac. Aber da Whisper als Modell auch lokal gut läuft, gibt es tausende Apps dieser Art. 😊 Besondere Feature-Wünsche?

"We have recently clarified our penalties for this. If a submission contains incontrovertible evidence that the authors did not check the results of LLM generation, this means we can't trust anything in the paper. 3/

The penalty is a 1-year ban from arXiv followed by the requirement that subsequent arXiv submissions must first be accepted at a reputable peer-reviewed venue. 4/

Examples of incontrovertible evidence: hallucinated references, meta-comments from the LLM ("here is a 200 word summary; would you like me to make any changes?"; "the data in this table is illustrative, fill it in with the real numbers from your experiments") end/"

https://xcancel.com/tdietterich/status/2055000962713133220

Good stuff. If you can't be trusted to proof-read your own papers to check it doesn't contain ridiculous out-of-place material from an LLM (nor if you trust genAI to correctly give you references when even today it's known to make up details) then how do we know you could stand up in a seminar and present the work and take appropriate credit for it? Speaking from a mathematics pov here, where even for jointly-authored papers, all authors get equal credit are are assumed to at least know and understand a substantial portion of the mathematics if not 100% of it.

h/t @karthikganapathy

@sl007

Warum fehlt in deiner Liste der Mann im stets gelben Pullover?

After a decade of banning bottom trawling, Scotland’s South Arran Marine Protected Area has seen seabed life triple.

New data shows billions of organisms are returning to the seafloor, rebuilding biodiverse "animal forests" that help store carbon and restore long-lost marine life.
https://mongabay.cc/u4eBBi

#Conservation #Scotland

@daniel
🦁🦁👏

Cari amici di jewbelong.org, "famo a capisse" come si dice a Roma, ovvero sforziamoci per la mutua comprensione:

1) Se il SIONISMO equivale al riconoscere una casa agli ebrei, cosa su cui concordo e che possiamo chiamare anche Giovanni se agevola la comprensione, tu puoi concordare com me che:

a) Il GENOCIDIO è un crimine per il quale bisogna rispettare le disposizioni dell'apposito tribunale ONU

b) I PALESTINESI hanno lo stesso diritto alla patria e all'autodeterminazione degli israeliani?

Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations

One of the site's moderators described the new policy on social media.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/05/preprint-server-arxiv-will-ban-submitters-of-ai-generated-hallucinations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

We appreciate Edwin Kremer’s thoughtful reflections on 'Integrated by Design" by Vivian Voss.

It’s encouraging to see the FreeBSD design philosophy articulated so clearly: coherence, predictability, least astonishment, and long-term stability.
For those curious about the architectural differences between FreeBSD and Linux and why they matter in practice, this book offers both philosophical context and hands-on exploration.

Thank you to Vivian Voss.