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The president of Glendale Community College was pelted with a chorus of furious boos
after an AI tool tasked with reading graduating students’ names completely flunked the assignment.
As local outlet AZFamily reported, students and families at the Phoenix-area school were left disoriented when the names being read over the ceremony’s loudspeakers failed to match those of the students actually walking across the stage.
The names displayed on the ceremony’s jumbotron were also…

AI system fails during Glendale Community College graduation ceremony
An AI system malfunctioned during Glendale Community College's commencement, misreading graduate names and pausing the ceremony multiple times.

News story on a significant earthquake in Uzbekistan, 50 years ago, May 17, 1976 (Fargo-Moorhead Forum archives). Mentions the Medvedev scale, apparently now the the MSK or MSK-64 scale. That scale is not mentioned in North American, physical geology textbooks I have seen, although it's apparently similar to the Mercalli scale.
Also, the first page of a scientific paper on it, from 1980. ⚒️🧪
#OTD

Eric Schmidt faced loud boos during his University of Arizona commencement speech while discussing "rational" fears over the impact of AI and automation on jobs (Lauren Edmonds/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/students-b

Arizona students boo former Google CEO Eric Schmidt as he talks about AI during graduation speech
Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, faced jeers and boos during a commencement address at the University of Arizona's graduation ceremony on Friday.

Such a fitting twist for our Dutch Climate Classic. My colleague Daan and I were going to participate in the 250 km cycling tour along the 1 meter altitude line this coming Friday.
But now it's going to be 32 to 33°C and humid, so a National Heat Plan is in force, and the organisation takes care to ensure that no participant is on the bike after 2 p.m. Distance halved. Welcome to the new climate!

Chambers has said that he has known since 2015 that he was on the US federal government’s radar,
due to activism against police in Atlanta.
A self-described communist and anti-imperialist, he is heir to one of the richest families in the US,
the owners of Atlanta-based Cox Communications.
He sold stock back to his family worth about $250m in mid-2023 and since then has been funding an estimated 100 projects in 20 countries, Schnabel said.
She said that includes,…

Wife of US heir and activist donor on fighting his extradition to US: ‘It’s incredible that this can happen’
Stella Schnabel says Trump administration is falsely accusing James ‘Fergie’ Chambers of contributing to Hamas

Electrolyte flows under magnetic fields: Manning-like counterion condensation in one dimension
Yoav Tsori, Hannes Uecker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.18076 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.18076 https://arxiv.org/html/2605.18076
arXiv:2605.18076v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: We present a theoretical framework for unidirectional electromagnetohydrodynamic flow of dilute electrolytes under perpendicular magnetic fields. Starting from the Navier--Stokes equation coupled with the Poisson--Nernst--Planck formulation, we show that the problem admits a sequential decoupling: the Stokes equation is solved first to obtain the velocity profile, which defines a hydrodynamic potential entering the Nernst--Planck description of ions. This Lorentz-force-induced potential competes with electrostatic attraction and significantly alters ionic distributions. We analyze this mechanism in two canonical geometries. In planar Couette shear, it produces a Manning--Oosawa-like condensation transition in one dimension, a phenomenon absent in classical electrostatics. We derive an eigenvalue equation predicting a sharp threshold between counterion enrichment and depletion at the charged wall. In cylindrical Taylor--Couette flow, the same effect shifts the classical Manning criterion by a magnetic parameter, enabling tunable control of condensation. These findings extend Manning--Oosawa phenomenology to driven, non-equilibrium systems and provide a basis for magnetic manipulation of screening in electrolytes, with implications for microfluidics, electrochemical systems, and nonlinear boundary-value theory.
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"Nehmt den Kindern nicht noch die letzte Gelegenheit, rumzuhängen und sich auszutauschen"
https://alecmuffett.com/article/160943

The cyber news is coming out fast and furious this week, so don't miss today's Metacurity for the most crucial developments you should know, including
--Why the White House turned on Anthropic,
--Chinese spies hid in research networks for two years,
--Copilot bug let attackers steal Microsoft 365 data,
--Crypto scammers now send couriers for cash,
--Judge keeps Meta AI scraping lawsuit alive,
--Feds dismantle $389m crypto laundering op,
--iRhy…

Why the White House turned on Anthropic
Chinese spies hid in research networks for two years, Copilot bug let attackers steal Microsoft 365 data, Crypto scammers now send couriers for cash, Judge keeps Meta AI scraping lawsuit alive, Feds dismantle $389m crypto laundering op, iRhythm reports breach after extortion demand, much more

I guess there will be other events like concerts, theatre festivals, book fairs, and historical exhibits ->
The cage match is on for tickets to Trump’s UFC fight at the White House
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/…

The cage match is on for tickets to Trump’s UFC fight at the White House
4,000-plus spectators who are lucky enough, cunning enough or rich enough will score a seat to the UFC fight on the South Lawn next month.

"The modern information system does not need to censor the truth when it can simply drown it in noise." https://x.com/BiankaB12/status/2075840051456401551

Бианка (@BiankaB12) on X
One of my longest-standing arguments is that we are not living in Orwell’s 1984, where truth is centrally suppressed and censored by force (that’s former communist societies, modern-day China, Russia, North Korea). We are living in something much closer to Huxley’s Brave New