Thomas Dietterich, chair of the computer science section of ArXiv told 404 Media's @samleecole.bsky.social that this is a one-strike rule—meaning authors caught just once including AI slop in submissions will be banned—but that decisions will be open to appeal.

Four days!

YES! New Murderbot is out! So happy. @marthawells.com saves my weekend!

I don't think people fully understand yet just how fragile university-hosted digital resources are after external funding ends (especially if the lead academic retires or moves or is made redundant).

There's a 2003 National Academies report on sharing materials that has a section on "Reasonable Access" -- that might be an early source given its prominence? www.nationalacademies.org/read/10613/c...

Anyone know the history behind this infamous phrase? Who was the first to use it? How did it catch on??

When two Kamisu City mayoral candidates, Kiuchi and Ishida, were tied on votes last year, the winner was decided by drawing lots. Kiuchi won but Ishida challenged the results, and the result has now been invalidated. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

Book Review: We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune Title: We Burned So BrightAuthor: TJ KlunePublisher: TorPublication date: April 28, 2026Length: 171 pagesGenre: Contemporary/science fictionSource: Review copy courtesy of the publisher via NetGalleyRating: ★★★★★ A heart-wrenching standalone novel by…

Today's Postgres vs. World Seminar Speaker: Dr. Xiangyao Yu (@xiangyaoyu.bsky.social) will present the architecture of the Sirius GPU-native database system. Zoom talk open to public at 4:30pm ET. YouTube video available after: db.cs.cmu.edu/events/pg-vs...

The Southern Ocean as an evolutionary arena for structural genomic variation www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🧪🦑🌎

NHK World just released a fascinating documentary about the 50 year history of Comiket. Definitely give it a watch before it is taken down on May 3rd. www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/... My favorite part has to be the moment where they show a guy selling doujinshi about baseball umpires. Love that guy.

excited for radiant star. haven't kept track of all the amazing authors and books i've learned about through ann's newsletter. the latest is the fortunate fall.

Just sent out a newsletter! There's nothing Earth-shattering in it, just a reminder that Radiant Star is out on May 12. buttondown.com/annleckie/ar...

Hello! I'm rereading The Incandescent by Emily Tesh ahead of Tuesday's book club meeting Happy to say it holds up very well second time around even though I know what's coming It was my favourite book last year, so clever and well done Book club is here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1697896146...

Voidverse by Damien Ober: Review by Paul Di Filippo locusmag.com/review/...

not what i was going to ask

"If you danced from midnight to six a.m. who would understand?" -Anne Sexton / The Twelve Dancing Princesses

lol

i've had line managers that were, to me, exceptional managers or exceptional software developers. never both. until now. it's been a total game changer for me. the conversations hit different. feeling very fortunate. even as i struggle a bit returning to an ic role by choice after ~6 years.

"Researchers at Dublin City University created 10 blank smartphones registered as male teenagers, five on TikTok and five on YouTube Shorts, with no history, likes or prior searches. Within 23 minutes, all of them were being served misogynistic content they had never looked for. …

🧮 🧠 🖥️ 🕰️ 💭 Excited to share new preprint with @olivia.science and @blokpoel.bsky.social, see below. This is a brief commentary on Multiple Realisability. We propose formalisations to assist theoreticians in thinking through how MR applies, at what levels, & how it can guide our modeling. 1/🧵

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

French government switching to #linux 🇫🇷❤️🐧 "2026 is set to be l’année de Linux." 😅👌 magnifique! share.google/xHwAIaMQuFzz...

haven't finished yet but crisis engineering is going in my books in the box for 2026❤️ bookshop.org/p/books/cris...

The @oxide.computer rack contains within it a distributed system that needs to trust itself. But how is this trust built? This week, @bcantrill.bsky.social and I were joined by colleagues Andrew and Finch to explore how Trust Quorum was designed, built, and verified.

YOU GUYS. I got my copy of Crisis Engineering & it’s somehow even better than the manuscript. A publication for our time. Buy it.

In @science.org for chemsky, Amir Hoveyda's group report a remarkably streamlined approach to precise expansion or contraction of macrocycles www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Very cool discussion of the use of color theories in industrial hygiene.

Spain closes airspace to US planes involved in war on Iran https://aje.news/fwp7n7

Yoyogi Park today

Vigeland: We talk about how, oh no, they just hate us for our freedom. No, they hate us because we bomb girls schools.

One of the reasons we like Hellboy is because it says you can break free of whatever chains your DNA or background put on you, and be nurtured into something else.

🚨 My graphic showing cumulative change in the mass of reference glaciers around the world has now been updated with 2025's data. We are rapidly losing ice. Graphic available at: zacklabe.com/climate-chan.... More info: wgms.ch/global-glaci...

I gather the SF&F subgenre formerly referred to as'blokes in cloaks' is now to be known as 'mantasy', and may be considered the counterpart to 'guy fi'. You may now go on with your day.

Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation. But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times. Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.” Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.

AOP Wine Yields in Selected French Regions, 1974–2024. Enormous range in both levels and variability. Hérault has the lowest mean yield (42 hl/ha) and the lowest volatility (CV = 14.4%). Alsace and Champagne have the highest mean yields, but Champagne also shows the greatest variability (CV = 23%)

A timeline of rapid change in the #Arctic from 1950 through all of 2025... [*Click to open*] Download high-resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe.... (ECMWF ERA5 temperature data)

We did impromptu huddles at my last job. I was doing unrecorded 1:1s (because jfc you want your direct reports to feel comfortable enough to vent) and feeling good about that. But it's become clear that I was extremely naive

Amidst reports of rising anti-foreign sentiment, a Kyodo survey of the 47 major administrative districts found 35 are budgeting for new outreach initiatives with foreigners, or increasing funding to existing schemes. www.47news.jp/14069075.html

blog.python.org/2026/03/jit-... Without Ken Jin’s mentorship, I would not have been able to integrate frozendict into the Python 3.15 JIT infrastructure so smoothly. In CPython’s JIT, frozendict can currently be constant folded when used as a global variable.

Good advice here. (Also, Hugo nominations close today, if you were still thinking of nominating. Better hurry.)

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