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Yet more proof that our collective resources are being spent on the wrong things. #climatechange #inequality

There's parties that always want to build or widen highways while not spending enough on maintenance of existing ones, blocking road pricing, and trying to keep taxes low.
In the Netherlands, they're finding out that this doesn't work. Tens of billions needed for maintenance now.
https://nos.nl/l/2606596…

Kabinet: scherpe keuzes nodig bij onderhoud wegen en bruggen, 'niet alles kan'
Het kabinet wil samen met de Kamer kijken welke projecten voorrang moeten krijgen nu er geldtekort is.

Sources: former Google executive Matt Brittin is expected to be named the BBC's next director general as soon as next week; Brittin spent 18 years at Google (Jake Kanter/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/bbc-matt-brittin-director-general-1236759459/…

BBC Close To Hiring Ex-Google Chief Matt Brittin As Next Director General
The BBC is edging closer to appointing Matt Brittin, Google's former EMEA president, as its next director general. Tim Davie steps down next month.

An interesting reminder of where exactly we are and where we have been in terms of food prices . . .
https://stocks.apple.com/As54OOD0PQLW-FPEXKFsR5g

Americans spend less of their income on food than almost ever. Why doesn't it feel that way? — Vox
Everything about the American economy right now feels weird. The hiring picture is weird; the stock market is weird; and AI infusion into work is very, very weird.

Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the company is focused on "growing revenue" rather than making "flashy headlines", calls the market selloff "hyperbole", and more (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/anthropic-vs-openai-ads-spendin…

Anthropic executive takes a thinly-veiled swipe at OpenAI over spending and ads
"We've made less flashy headlines than some, and we've been focused on growing revenue and winning business," Anthropic's chief commercial officer told CNBC.

"Shambaugh gives his time to the open source ecosystem that underpins vast amounts of commercial software. He now has defamatory material indexed under his name. He will spend time managing the fallout. He bears the cost of someone else’s product working exactly as designed.
The agent’s owner bears none of it. OpenClaw bears none of it. The companies whose AI models power OpenClaw bear none of it."

The Machine That Cannot Be Wrong
On AI agents, open source maintainers, and the infrastructure nobody is watching

In the rush to scale neural networks, we have fallen into a category error: believing that a perfect simulation of an intelligent behavior is the same thing as the existence of intelligence itself.
https://www.ocrampal.com/chasing-our-own-t

Chasing Our Own Tail: Self-Reference and the Limits of any Academic Discipline
Marcus Doubtful, a physicist turned philosopher. Richard Trad, a mathematician turned philosopher. Both have spent decades thinking about the foundations of knowledge, but they've reached very different conclusions. Richard: Marcus, I've been reading your recent work on disciplinary self-reference. While I find your historical analysis interesting, I think you're making

We just spent two hours and six minutes with my daughter trying to throw 15 exact same strikes in a row, fast pitch softball. I was about to call it a day, the highest she got was 11 and then a bunch of 5-7 in a row. Two hours in I guess it was time to buckle down :)
The joy on her face when she finally did, she leapt and ran around like that little girl I used to see running around.
Now let's hope future ones will not take this long.

La última del “genio”: debemos dejar de hablar y comunicarnos con lenguaje humano (para que el tenga un wireshark ubicuo, claro).
De malo de peli serie B.
https://x.com/r0ck3t23/status/2022549367161331783?s=20