Ah yes, Reform, the party of the neurodiverse. I'm old enough to remember November 2025, when Richard Tice said some pretty unpleasant things about SEND children and I wonder if Delo might be just talking utter nonsense? www.independent.co.uk/news/health/...
AI agents finding software vulnerabilities at an incredible rate red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-...
Worrying progress towards cryptographically relevant quantum computers words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
And a completely unhinged US president threatening catastrophe…
We live in interesting times
Also, I'm not sure how "important" it is to integrate AI into the classroom. More "an interesting opportunity to make teacher's jobs easier and better" than anything _urgent_. But I'm not a teacher, so I don't really know.
With that said, right now I also see enormously negative implications of giving AI to students. It's a cheating machine that bypasses thought. I'm not a teacher, but I could easily believe that's a much bigger problem than potential benefits at the moment.
AI has potential positive applications for teachers. It's great reading examples as well as very reasonable concerns about giving students direct access to AI. Using AI (led by a human teacher) to tailor material to a student's specific special interest feels like a very beneficial usecase.
>"Everyone is expanding into everyone else’s territory — not because they’re better at it, but because AI makes it possible and the mandate makes it rewarded. The org chart says collaboration; the incentive structure says land grab."
leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...
Unfortunately the business model for small/declining social networks is unclear. I think anyone who enjoys using Bluesky can be legitimately concerned it may be unsustainable no matter how much we enjoy it.
I hope they figure out a good approach for long-term funding so it survives and thrives.
I hope the missing US Airman is found safely and recovered. I also wish the 1937 dead in Iran, 24 in Israel, 13 US soldiers and 27 in Gulf states were still alive. And those in Lebanon. This war has been utterly horrific already.
Ref: www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/3/...
I made a little Instagram reel about this image because it’s just so frickin’ cool
Happy transgender day of visibility to all my trans friends.
Really enjoyed the article & this will stick with me -
> LLMs increase friction where it should be reduced and reduce it where it should be higher.
I don't agree that LLMs can't fix bugs - I think they are often capable - but it's true that this is potentially just adding complexity on complexity
Yes, I'm fascinating to see what happens over the coming months. With a year of engineers having access to genuinely excellent coding LLMs will we see sustained productivity wins, or will we see accelerated tech debt with accompanied regret? My bet is on both, depending on the company/context.
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.
What I like about Claude Code skills is that their creation requires the author to be explicit and actually write their mental models down.
This is a great way to share the wisdom and craft of experienced professionals. They will make great teaching resources too.
I think you are massively over-simplifying a complicated problem with real harm and risks in both directions. Today, in reality, people are *already* helping their extremely sick family members end their suffering and without a legal route are being made criminals & lack support & scrutiny.
you can read @kevinbaker.bsky.social’s new piece if you promise to think seriously about this:
“You do not have to use a language model to let it organize your attention or distort your thinking.”
artificialbureaucracy.substack.com/p/kill-chain...
Not a surprise given the very troubled life post Buffy I suppose. Still a sad tale.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Overall I do believe there’s a genuine problem to be solved because people do think social media can make teens unhappy. But I wish these reports would acknowledge the complexity and nuance rather than just a lot of confirmation bias. What specifically is causing perceived unhappiness?
And then this is contradicted lower in the piece!
> “The study also found that many adolescents point to benefits…”
>”… However, the relevant product safety question is not whether some users (even a majority) report benefits, but whether a substantial share experiences harm.”
This world happiness report may be correct, but this framing is frustratingly evidence-free.
> “The cost of incorrectly concluding that social media is unsafe is not very large”
Given that this may be false, it casts a shadow on the rest of the findings.
www.worldhappiness.report/ed/2026/soci...
“What makes it so special, he says, is that you can walk to the coast anywhere in England, turn left or right, and walk beside the sea for as long as you like.”
Love this. TA was such an incredible and underrated game, in particular. So many types of units! Amazingly complicated orders! Amazing soundtrack! Massive battles!
Headline from 6th March - Trump accuses Starmer of seeking to “join wars after we’ve already won” and says UK aircraft carriers not needed”
Headline from today - Trump calls on UK, China, France and others to send ships to keep strait of Hormuz open
If it wasn’t so awful it would be quite amusing. That Trump is no Roosevelt, that’s for sure
As a knowledge worker, though I don't see this with much fear - it's not fundamentally replacing expertise as much as common skills and activities (at least so far). If you are an expert in your field you remain hard to replace and just got a lot more execution power.
Hyperagent seems very cool. I think the sweet spot for this kind of highly-integrated AI tooling is startups - high risk appetite, resource poor, idea rich. This kind of tool generates new businesses but may take longer to catch on with enterprises and established companies.
hyperagent.com
Mentally adding “… also and more importantly a lot of people have been killed or injured” to every post about the Iran war I read and wishing I didn’t have to.
Even though I'm an economist, I wish there was more focus on the human suffering from this war and less focus on the economic consequences. Hundreds of little girls are dead, and we're worried about oil prices.
society has solved global warming by creating new, more pressing concerns
Sure, I just don't think their run-in is unusually difficult. I can totally see them losing every game, though, I agree.
