Alternatively,
If you want to use public money for a stadium you should have to make the foundations out of the minerals of your own skeleton.

The right way to apply AI to (mental) healthcare: free up practitioners from busywork and filing matters so they can focus on patient care -- NOT by relegating patients to Eliza-style slop-care. www.heyaria.com

Part of this idea is virtuous: the open web has lacked a “dislike” button, bounding the range of the function of return on engagement, making the web a slop pit of attention seeking for almost two decades.

But the idea of AI as political debate arbiter?

Human, have a mote of self-regard!

The introduction of persistent memory by default into consumer facing chat LLMs is a very very very pernicious problem. It was bad before and will become far worse as more usage is chat-mediated. Delusions of reference will actually be well founded if the Internet is filtered through persistent AI

Photo of a woman and a man riding unusual bicycles on a dirt pitch.

Musical, romantic, and bicycling partners Jane Birkin and Serge Gainsbourg enjoy an afternoon at the Foire du Trône fairground in Paris, 1970

#BicycleBirthday Serge Gainsbourg
April 2 (1928-1991)

📷Tony Frank

Man un-censor those fuckin names. Those gutter racists have already chosen to put that filth out under their own Facebook handles; you owe them no privacy.

After Jensen’s comments this week, expect confusion from the media and from low information market participants between AI “tokens” and crypto “tokens.” Hay will be made of this namespace collison by certain types.

Treasure Hunter Released From Prison After Refusing to Turn Over Gold Coins

So it turns out there is most definitely precedent for imprisoning civil contemnors. Next time a defeatist says there’s nothing to be done about ignoring a court order, show them this:

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/12/u...

Personalization is a social ill, and any predictive algorithm that you don’t control but trade with is an adversary.

Wow

Okay I have fully embraced the github cryptid lifestyle

Observation: what the UK has been doing on Epstein accountability (vs impunity for elite in the USA) may be a strategic choice to send a costly signal that UK be considered as preferred rule of law venue for global wealth and transactions. Long London/ short NYC on this thesis if so.

1. Yield seekers, disappointed by PE & PC, discover arcane type of risk they can buy.
2. Those risks had fat yields because the smart money bids accordingly.
3. Also those risks are +corr with climate change.
4. Def going to work out great for the new money yield seekers.

Troop 6000

My yearly suggestion for Girl Scout troop to buy cookies from is Troop 6000, composed of the Girl Scouts who are currently living in NYC shelters.

www.girlscoutsnyc.org/troop6000

What if you could almost maybe make software you might want and you had to do all the work and also it doesn’t really work and also it’s only possible if the company in question runs its costs at a massive subsidy. What now. Checkmate

AI agents are great for anything where there's a compiler in the loop, or a sandbox eval environment where you can do multiple zero-consequence test runs. Many problems lack these properties.

Is this a “canary-in-the-coalmine” moment, similar to August 2007?
This will be on the mind of some investors and policymakers as they assess the news that, quoting the FT,the “private credit group Blue Owl will permanently restrict investors from withdrawing their cash from its inaugural private...

Le SaaS se réapproprie toujours le discours qui le délimite

On Nov. 16, a mental health counselor recorded in Kamilla’s medical records that her mother reported the girl had lost her appetite after being “served food that contained worms.” A week later, the couple said, children were told to gather in the gym for what they believed would be a Thanksgiving celebration. Excitement spread as families saw tables set with turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, they said. The children waited expectantly. But when a parent asked when the celebration would begin, Oksana said, staff told them the holiday meal was for employees, not detainees. The children, she said, watched despondently as the feast was packed away.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast.

The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me.

But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.

CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old.

“8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ

Information without origin is a liability

Provocative. Not sure I ratify that universally but it applies in a lot of domains.

Children trapped in Texas immigration facility recount nightmares, inedible food, no school A photo of Liam Conejo Ramos, a scared 5-year-old, drew attention to a detention center in Dilley, Texas. Advocates say his experience reflects what hundreds of children have endured out of public vie...

Maria is one of hundreds of children, who — like Liam Ramos — have been held at a Texas detention facility where parents say children languish as they’re served contaminated food, receive little education and struggle to obtain basic medical care.

Here's our attempt at telling their stories. 2/

Underweight this week's news on legal cowork for Claude. I'm not bullish on e.g. RELX but the idea that Claude is going to replace a good researcher or paralegal or analyst -- for anything where being right matters -- is a nonstarter as of today.

What becomes of the dearth of analysts who actually know how to stay late and anal-retentively double check their analyses? Who becomes the nit-picking VPs and MDs in 5-10 years?

What becomes of the innumberable projects that less uptight, less diligent prompters ask of the LLMs, and then turn around and use to drive operational or investment or policy decisions?

What should have been a 4-hour project for a determined analyst turned into me spending 6 hours of part-time prompting and un-fuddling the AI, including making it re-do the last 1/4 of the project. I did other stuff in those hours, but ?!?!. More importantly:

Finally, despite the batches of five, subdivided into two steps, Claude started stalling out and needing retries to get through a sub-batch. Zeno's paradox of project completion.

The list was alphabetical, and Claude just started adding in company names and ticker symbols that were sort of plausibly in order, but weren't in the original list.

After starting off the first five swimmingly, Claude started needed to compact context after every five. Then, it started needed to do sub-batches, with two prompts for each five. Then, around company #60, around where the analyst would get up, stretch, and chug another coffee, Claude freelanced.