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AI Gave Investors a Glimpse of the Future This Month.
And Then They Sold Their Stocks.
“The main story is still tech and AI uncertainty,” said Ross Mayfield, investment strategist at Baird.
“It is making investors question the fundamental underpinning of the profitability of a lot of industries.” 
Those worries have triggered several nauseating stock swings in recent weeks, some with relatively innocuous catalysts
—an incremental update to a particular AI tool, …

AI Gave Investors a Glimpse of the Future This Month. And They Sold Their Stocks. — The Wall Street Journal
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq composite fell in February, dragged down by firms whose businesses might be disrupted

messal_shale: Messel Shale food web (2014)
A network of feeling links among taxa based on the 48 million years old uppermost early Eocene Messel Shale. Edge property 'certainty' denotes the certainty of the edge. Metadata include evidence, habitat, and trophic roles. The edge direction goes from consumer to resource.
This network has 700 nodes and 6444 edges.
Tags: Biological, Food Web, Uncertain, Weighted, Metadata

Thank you to @… for this review of 'Habitations'. 🙏 It's always interesting how people home in on (sorry - couldn’t resist, given the themes 😜) very different aspects of what you've done; here, I was surprised to read chaos in the album being emphasised. The line between friction and familiarity seems thinner the longer you sit with a sound.

The uncertain brightness and tail(s) development of #Kreutz #comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) is one thing - see the curves in https://astro.vanbuitenen.nl/comet/2026A1 and https://aerith.net/comet/catalog/2026A1/2026A1.html for guesses and https://cobs.si/obs_list?id=2688 for the current value which is ~8.5 mag. - but the viewing geometry is the other: here it is for 51.5° North (my place Bochum) and 22.5° South (Windhoek) as the view is much better from the southern hemisphere.
The table first gives the elongation (angle between comet and Sun in the sky) and the phase angle (the angle Sun - comet - Earth) which nearing 180° can lead to significant boost of brightness by forward scattering on dust.
And this is followed by the altitude of the comet at the solar depressions given in the top line, for Bochum and Windhoek: sunset and end of civilian twilight and for the latter also the end of nautical and astronomical twilight, i.e. the onset of night. Also of importance is the angle of a hypothetical dust tail (simulated in https://hdr-astrophotography.com) after perihelion, also much better in the South: https://britastro.org/section_news_item/c-2026-a1-maps-a-kreutz-group-sungrazer - but first MAPS has to survive the latter *and* release a lot of dust at the right time ...

Sources detail how the standoff between the Pentagon and Anthropic escalated after discussions about using Claude during hypothetical nuclear missile attacks (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/27/anthropic-pentagon-…

The hypothetical nuclear attack that escalated the Pentagon’s showdown with Anthropic
Start-up Anthropic and the U.S. military are careening toward a clash over government use of artificial intelligence — and whether it should be allowed to kill.

One in four full-time workers in Britain would be “better off swapping wages for benefits“, according to new analysis which featured on the front of The Sun.
The report – published by the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ) earlier this month – resurrects the spectre of the ‘#welfare #scrounger’,
a hypothetical …

Would a quarter of workers really be better off ‘swapping wages for benefits’?
Over six million workers earn less than an unemployed person on benefits, according to the Centre for Social Justice. Is it true?

🪺 How invasive house sparrows are helping scientists detect dangerous contaminants
#birds

How invasive house sparrows are helping scientists detect dangerous contaminants
The house sparrow is a highly invasive pest in North Carolina, and bluebird enthusiasts frequently throw their eggs out and remove their nests to keep them from overtaking the nestboxes that bluebirds call home. A new study puts those discarded eggs to use in detecting heavy metal contaminants in bluebird habitats, which often border human communities.

Beavers ‘breathe new life’ into Dorset as dams built and biodiversity returns | Wildlife | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/27/beavers-dorset-dams-biodiversity-national-trust

#AI & #Deceit seems to be past the hypothetical stage. Unsettling.
Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says

Dear friends,
Please forgive one more post related to this, but I’m excited to share my new album, 'Habitations', with you!
A friend listened to a few of my thoughts/the album and summarised it as "inhabited worlds - human sanctuaries and tragedies, insect colonies and their swarm intelligences, bird migrations across continents, the microcosms of mind and memory, the metal nests of decaying cities…tracing the often-surprising beauty of the perilous journey home - t…