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Forward doesn’t fit the mould of a classic Pep signing, but we have all come a long way in the past decade of Manchester City success
One way or another, this was always going to end up being a Pep day. At the final whistle Pep Guardiola didn’t punch the air or really celebrate at all. Instead he walked quite slowly over to the scorer of the only goal, Antoine Semenyo, and vigorously triple-patted his buttocks, then meandered around the edges of the bobbing huddles on the Wembley pitch.
There will be a temptation to look for clues here. Nobody really knows if Guardiola is leaving Manchester City at the end of the season. Contract extension brinkmanship is nothing new, although not with quite so much whispered chat about assistants on the move and leaked replacement plans.
Continue reading...There needs to be a zero-tolerance approach to stealing other clubs’ secrets – Kim Hellberg’s emotional response shows just how deep this goes
Kim Hellberg was clearly upset and his press conference after Middlesbrough’s defeat at Southampton in the Championship semi‑final playoff second leg became unexpectedly moving as a result. In football, the Boro manager said, you accept that some teams have greater resources than others but where the coach of the less well-off team can gain an advantage is in the “tactical element”; it is in effect the only weapon he has. And if that weapon is made less effective by an opponent cheating, it is understandable that Hellberg should feel that his profession, the skillset he has developed to test himself against his peers, has been betrayed.
That disgust is, no doubt, genuine enough, and it is perhaps difficult for those of us who do not work in that world fully to grasp how frustrating it must be if strategies and ploys carefully conceived and practised are rendered ineffective, not by the in-game acuity of an opponent, but by espionage. But it is admittedly hard to square that righteous anger with the image published in the Mail this week of a sheepish young man lurking behind a tree with a phone.
Continue reading...Club demand action over scenes at end of title-decider
Hearts say authorities must protect ‘integrity of the game’
Hearts have issued a statement castigating the “shameful” and “disgraceful” scenes which marred the conclusion to the Scottish Premiership’s title race at Celtic Park. The Edinburgh club has emphasised “deeply disturbing” treatment of players and staff. Celtic’s last-day victory had secured their fifth title in succession.
Callum Osmand’s goal for Celtic, the third in a 3-1 win, fuelled a mass pitch invasion which saw Hearts players antagonised and confronted. Those who entered the pitch were audibly booed by those in the stands.
Continue reading...Turnout down at second Unite the Kingdom march featuring Islamophobic and ethnonationalist hate speech and flyers
The far-right activist Tommy Robinson told tens of thousands of supporters to prepare for the “battle of Britain” during a rally in central London on Saturday.
Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, drew tens of thousands of supporters on to the streets of central London for the second year running in an event where Islamophobic and ethnonationalist hate speech and flyers were distributed to the crowds.
Continue reading...It’s time for the 70th annual musica extravaganza – this time from Vienna (and minus a few of the usual faces). Join us for every wild moment
I’ve been in Vienna since Thursday and it has been Eurovision all the way. I went to a watch party on Thursday night for the second semi-final, where Antigoni’s Jalla for Cyprus really got the crowd excited. A few Brits tried to get a sing-a-long going for the chorus of Look Mum No Computer but the lack of enthusiasm in the room suggests Sam Battle might have a hard time with the public vote.
On Friday I went on a behind-the-scenes tour at the venue, and really if you’ve never been to Eurovision before the scale of it is just incredible. I saw all the props lined up ready for the changeovers – they only have 42 seconds between acts to reset the stage – and got to sit down on in the couches in the green room.
Continue reading...Cannes film festival: This tremendously alarming drama from Rodrigo Sorogoyen is an meditation on male auteurs entirely without sentimentality
Javier Bardem gives his scariest performance since No Country For Old Men in this disquieting new film about emotional abuse from Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, who made 2023 rural noir shocker The Beasts.
It’s a film about a film-shoot – often the occasion for whimsy or sentimentality or woozy rapture about the magic of cinema. Not here. And given this and Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, this year could be the Cannes of father-daughter dysfunction.
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Opnieuw vond er een ‘vrouwenmars’ plaats tegen de komst van asielzoekers. De in het roze geklede demonstratie koppelt vrouwenrechten aan uiterst rechts gedachtegoed, en is daardoor „heel risicovol”, zegt hoogleraar Sarah de Lange.
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De in Duitse wateren gestrande bultrug Timmy werd, tegen alle adviezen van experts in, naar de Noordzee gesleept. Zijn leven werd daarmee niet gered. En dat was niet het enige dat misging. „Als er nog een walvis aanspoelt, zal niemand meer helpen.”
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The blog It's FOSS has an update on the Fedora AI Developer Desktop Initiative, a proposed platform for AI/machine learning workloads on Fedora. It's now been blocked "after two Fedora Council members retracted their earlier approval votes."
The initiative was proposed by Red Hat engineer Gordon Messmer, aiming to deliver an Atomic Desktop with accelerated AI workload support, covering developer tools, hardware enablement, and building a community around AI on Fedora... At the May 6 council meeting, the members unanimously voted to approve this new initiative. After which a short, lazy consensus window was left open until May 8 to accommodate absent members, after which the decision was to be ratified.
But that last bit never happened, as council member Justin Wheeler (Jflory7) was the first person to change their vote to -1... ["While I strongly support leveraging AI to establish Fedora as a leading platform, completely rearchitecting our kernel strategy is a massive structural shift. It requires explicit alignment with our legal and engineering stakeholders before we commit the project to this path."]
Following that, fellow council member Miro HronÄok (churchyard) put in his -1, saying that he had originally assumed the proposal was purely additive and therefore uncontroversial. But seeing the community's response, he realized that he was mistaken about that. As an elected representative, he felt the need to reflect on this major proposal before signing it off.
Over 180 replies have piled up in the proposal's discussion thread, with many well-known Fedora contributors pushing back on things like kernel policy, proprietary software, and project identity. Hans de Goede from the packaging team called out the proposal's emphasis on CUDA support as going against Fedora's foundational commitment to free software, arguing that open alternatives like AMD's ROCm and Intel's oneAPI should be the focus instead.
The initiative was proposed by Red Hat engineer Gordon Messmer, aiming to deliver an Atomic Desktop with accelerated AI workload support, covering developer tools, hardware enablement, and building a community around AI on Fedora... At the May 6 council meeting, the members unanimously voted to approve this new initiative. After which a short, lazy consensus window was left open until May 8 to accommodate absent members, after which the decision was to be ratified.
But that last bit never happened, as council member Justin Wheeler (Jflory7) was the first person to change their vote to -1... ["While I strongly support leveraging AI to establish Fedora as a leading platform, completely rearchitecting our kernel strategy is a massive structural shift. It requires explicit alignment with our legal and engineering stakeholders before we commit the project to this path."]
Following that, fellow council member Miro HronÄok (churchyard) put in his -1, saying that he had originally assumed the proposal was purely additive and therefore uncontroversial. But seeing the community's response, he realized that he was mistaken about that. As an elected representative, he felt the need to reflect on this major proposal before signing it off.
Over 180 replies have piled up in the proposal's discussion thread, with many well-known Fedora contributors pushing back on things like kernel policy, proprietary software, and project identity. Hans de Goede from the packaging team called out the proposal's emphasis on CUDA support as going against Fedora's foundational commitment to free software, arguing that open alternatives like AMD's ROCm and Intel's oneAPI should be the focus instead.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
USA Today reports:
Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11....
The company's first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. However, the golden gadget's release was later delayed to October before being pushed back again to this week. Now, Trump Mobile CEO Pat O'Brien told USA TODAY, pre-ordered phones will start getting sent out to customers this week... O'Brien said the company anticipates all pre-ordered phones to be delivered within the next several weeks... The company's 5G "47 Plan" is available for $47.45 a month, a nod to President Donald Trump's two presidential terms, according to the website... Customers will also have Trump(SM) displayed as the status bar in their network.
The Verge reported the phone was added last week to Google's public list of devices certified for Google Play, "usually one of the final steps before an Android phone is launched."
Trump Mobile may have broken radio silence partly in response to a recent wave of media coverage alleging that buyers had received emails notifying them that their preorders had been canceled, coverage that even made it onto Stephen Colbert's The Late Show... [T]here's seemingly no evidence of the alleged cancellation emails beyond unverified social media claims.
In January The Verge also questioned reports that 600,000 people preordered the Trump phone with a $100 deposit. "I can't find a shred of evidence that this figure is true," calling it "a microcosm of how the modern media landscape and AI chatbots can combine to give falsities the sheen of respectability."
I first saw the figure in, of all places, the Threads feed of California governor Gavin Newsom's press office, which had shared a screenshot of a tweet of a Grok summary making the claim. Trustworthy, right? The Grok post cites "reports from sources like Fortune, NPR, and The Guardian" for the 600,000 preorders, but a quick search of their recent output shows no sign of the number... India's Economic Times and Hindustan Times both reported a more specific figure of 590,000 preorders, referencing an unspecified Associated Press report as the source. [The Associated Press] VP of corporate communications, Lauren Easton, confirmed to me that "AP's original stories never contained such a number...."
Hindustan Times writer Shamik Banerjee called the citation "a typo," and told me that the figure was in fact taken from The Times of India. The Times of India story, which is bylined only to the newspaper's lifestyle desk, is more transparent in its sourcing: a viral post by a meme account... It's been covered by multiple publications, now presented as fact on MSN.com and tech site Phone Arena. And that coverage has helped it to filter into the chatbots and not just Grok — Gemini and ChatGPT were both happy to confirm to me that 600,000 T1 Phones have been ordered so far, the former falsely attributing the number to the Associated Press, and the latter to Phone Arena.
As for how many Trump Phone preorders have actually been placed? No one outside the company knows.
Trump Mobile phones are being shipped this week, the company exclusively confirmed to USA TODAY in an email May 11....
The company's first smartphone — the T1 Phone — was originally scheduled for release in August. However, the golden gadget's release was later delayed to October before being pushed back again to this week. Now, Trump Mobile CEO Pat O'Brien told USA TODAY, pre-ordered phones will start getting sent out to customers this week... O'Brien said the company anticipates all pre-ordered phones to be delivered within the next several weeks... The company's 5G "47 Plan" is available for $47.45 a month, a nod to President Donald Trump's two presidential terms, according to the website... Customers will also have Trump(SM) displayed as the status bar in their network.
The Verge reported the phone was added last week to Google's public list of devices certified for Google Play, "usually one of the final steps before an Android phone is launched."
Trump Mobile may have broken radio silence partly in response to a recent wave of media coverage alleging that buyers had received emails notifying them that their preorders had been canceled, coverage that even made it onto Stephen Colbert's The Late Show... [T]here's seemingly no evidence of the alleged cancellation emails beyond unverified social media claims.
In January The Verge also questioned reports that 600,000 people preordered the Trump phone with a $100 deposit. "I can't find a shred of evidence that this figure is true," calling it "a microcosm of how the modern media landscape and AI chatbots can combine to give falsities the sheen of respectability."
I first saw the figure in, of all places, the Threads feed of California governor Gavin Newsom's press office, which had shared a screenshot of a tweet of a Grok summary making the claim. Trustworthy, right? The Grok post cites "reports from sources like Fortune, NPR, and The Guardian" for the 600,000 preorders, but a quick search of their recent output shows no sign of the number... India's Economic Times and Hindustan Times both reported a more specific figure of 590,000 preorders, referencing an unspecified Associated Press report as the source. [The Associated Press] VP of corporate communications, Lauren Easton, confirmed to me that "AP's original stories never contained such a number...."
Hindustan Times writer Shamik Banerjee called the citation "a typo," and told me that the figure was in fact taken from The Times of India. The Times of India story, which is bylined only to the newspaper's lifestyle desk, is more transparent in its sourcing: a viral post by a meme account... It's been covered by multiple publications, now presented as fact on MSN.com and tech site Phone Arena. And that coverage has helped it to filter into the chatbots and not just Grok — Gemini and ChatGPT were both happy to confirm to me that 600,000 T1 Phones have been ordered so far, the former falsely attributing the number to the Associated Press, and the latter to Phone Arena.
As for how many Trump Phone preorders have actually been placed? No one outside the company knows.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Leerlingen liepen afgelopen maandagmiddag bij het vwo-examen natuurkunde vast op vragen die warrig en slecht gesteld waren. De leerling bleef achter met de vraag: wat wil dit examen van me, in plaats van: hoe zat dit ook alweer? Ze reageren met goede natuurkunde, maar beantwoorden daarmee de vraag niet en scoren geen punten.
Het vwo-examen natuurkunde begon met 19 pagina’s tekst, vragen, grafieken en afbeeldingen. Een plaatje zegt meer dan duizend woorden. Daar kwam nog 5 pagina’s aan uitwerkbijlage bovenop. Elk woord, elk detail kan cruciaal zijn, niemand had het op tijd af. Zelfs Nederlands was met 11 pagina’s opgaven en 12 pagina’s tekst korter.
Het vwo-examen natuurkunde uit 1975 had 924 woorden nodig, 1985 2111, 1995 2330, 2005 2143, 2015 2366, 2025 2633 en dit jaar stegen we door naar de 3004 woorden. Leerlingen moesten ruim drie keer zo veel begrijpend lezen op bijna drie keer zo veel pagina’s dan een halve eeuw geleden. Het wordt steeds taliger en minder technisch.
Terwijl we voor gezondheidszorg, woningbouw en defensie handjes nodig hebben, leiden we bij exacte vakken dossiertijgers op die eindeloos discussiëren over luchtkastelen. Hoe rijker de contexten, hoe meer informatie, hoe meer begrijpend lezen, hoe minder bedenktijd, hoe minder exacte kennis we nog toetsen en hoe armer de techniek.
Dit jaar waren contexten veel verder gezocht dan eerder, twaalf jaar aan oude examens oefenen was maandag niet genoeg. Pubers hebben nog geen werkervaring, en zeker niet binnen de techniek. Ze kunnen niet in een extreem tempo de verhalen en technische tekeningen van dit examen doorgronden, laat staan tijdig en correct beantwoorden.
Exacte vakken waren voor veel leerlingen een veilige haven waar we het eens waren wat een vraag betekende en wat het goede antwoord was. Waar bachelorstudenten in staat zijn een exact examen foutloos te maken, in tegenstelling tot Nederlands, waar zelfs professoren sneuvelen. Dit was geen examen natuurkunde, dit was een uitvaart.
Dit examen werd daarmee ook een psychologische test, lukt het om drie uur hard door te werken terwijl je zeker weet dat je meer dan de helft fout hebt. Sterke leerlingen hebben dat probleem niet, normale leerlingen die natuurkunde goed genoeg kunnen, maar die door brakke vragen in paniek schoten, zakken. Dat fix je niet met een n-term.
Voor natuurkundedocenten is dit een bittere pil. Hoe hadden ze moeten weten op welke wijze dit examen nog vager zou worden en hoe/wanneer hadden ze hun leerlingen daarop kunnen voorbereiden!? Een steekproef voor dit examen met 181 leerlingen gaf gemiddeld een 5,4 bij een n-term van 1,0. (PDF) De lol is eraf en ze gaan met pensioen.
Het uitzicht dat natuurkunde op het vwo 18% en op de havo 30% van de studielasturen, niveau en onderwerpen mag inleveren, wordt door meer ervaren docenten gezien als een nekschot voor de exacte vakken. Het is nu al een rondje strak om de kerk, dat wordt straks een polonaise rond het altaar. Het wordt te klein om meer dan een kunstje te zijn.
De achterstanden in leesvaardigheid, wiskunde en exacte wetenschap worden groter, de tijd om die problemen op te lossen wordt steeds kleiner. Nederland deed dit jaar voor het eerst mee aan de International Early Learning Study, zelfs onze vijfjarige kinderen hebben een achterstand in gedrag, lezen en rekenen, alleen empathie gaat beter.
We hebben tussen 2001 en 2010 een experiment gehad met minder natuurkunde geven. Leerlingen met wat minder talent of ambitie volgden natuurkunde 1, leerlingen die echt de techniek in wilden volgen natuurkunde deel 1 en 2. Dat werkte niet en daar zijn we gillend van teruggekomen. Hoeveel jaar gaan we burgerschap geven in plaats van techniek?
De Technische Universiteit Eindhoven werkte vorige maand met toelatingsexamens voor de opleiding werktuigbouwkunde. De meeste Nederlandse inschrijfverzoeken vielen door de mand, ze leggen het af tegen studenten uit het buitenland, soms worden hele Nederlandse klassen geweigerd, zoek maar een andere opleiding.
Onze jeugd komt niet meer mee in deze technische wereld.
OTTAWA (ANP) - Een Canadese opvarende van het Nederlandse cruiseschip Hondius is positief getest op het hantavirus. Dat zegt een Canadese gezondheidsfunctionaris tegen nieuwszender CBC. De patiënt werd met milde symptomen opgenomen in het ziekenhuis en verkeert in stabiele toestand.
elian_fotografo has added a photo to the pool:
Donde termina la tierra, empieza el silencio del mar.
Un paisaje inmenso que recuerda lo pequeños que somos frente al horizonte.
Er is een mooie bestemming gevonden voor het stoffelijk overschot van aandachtshoer Timmy: zijn restanten gaan naar IGLO. Dat heeft de visstickverwerker vanmiddag bekendgemaakt.
De walvis spoelde twee weken geleden aan in Duitsland en werd vervolgens met grote moeite naar open zee gebracht. Vanochtend spoelde Timmy alsnog dood aan bij het Kattegat. Gelukkig voor de Deense overheid meldde zich meteen een koper, die het tonnen wegende gevaarte wel wilde overnemen.
“Dit is fantastisch", aldus Dominic Brisby, CEO van IGLO. “We hebben de bultrug even gewogen en we konden het amper geloven; 27.342 kilo. Voor een visstick heb je zo’n 25 gram vis nodig, dat betekent meer dan 1,1 miljoen vissticks! Hiermee kunnen we de Europese markt weer een maand of drie voorzien.”
Hoe de vis verwerkt gaat worden is nog onbekend.
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