@henrikbechmann
Retired software dev. I sometimes discuss City of Toronto budget design and support issues. IMO government is a collective enterprise, and should be fully transparent and forcefully managed for all, and for the health of the planet.
Slide titled “Fleet modernization” from linked presentation pdf (slide 13)
From today’s Parking Authority Board meeting: a sneak peek at a new Bike Share eBike model that’ll be tested across the system. The basket looks like it might be more useful than the ones on the current models. (via www.toronto.ca/legdocs/mmis...)
TIL that Anthropic has developed Constitutional AI as a set of ethical guidelines for its LLM Claude. (an alternative to user feedback).
Seems interesting.
www.anthropic.com/constitution
Good words of warning here. AI models are generally designed to read and incorporate (and, in a sense, believe) virtually everything they find online, with very few guardrails. The information can get divorced from its original source, context, & rebuttals or retractions. That's a really big problem
DB Reid: In the US, the labour share of income is already at an all-time low, so again it wouldn’t take much to create a significant political backlash if AI further impacted labour…
YES YES YES please note this story.
Countries that had a baby boom post-World WarII (global north) have aging populations and declining birth rates, but people forget the China story (1 child policy in 1980s) and South Korea's story (post-Korean War baby boom, rapid urbanization, soaring housing$)
Few people asked for this and few people like it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...
He lives in his own magic world. Probably the greatest narcissist in history (but I'm not a historian - Attila the Hun? Genghis Khan?). Question is whether he'll go down in flames.
(four episodes @ 45m)
This is interesting. Morgan Freeman takes us through an animated history spanning 100s of millions of years.
Evolution is measured in millions of years. We see the changes in dinosaurs, and related earth changes.
Side effect: gives perspective on our puny selves. 👍
www.netflix.com/title/81612719
Manifestly, Trump takes his internal imagination as fact. Deluded.
Finally some gender parity!
Mark Carney Approval Polling Among:
Men:
🟢 Approve: 64%
⚫️ Disapprove: 31%
Women:
🟢 Approve: 65%
⚫️ Disapprove: 30%
Liaison / March 7, 2026
Like I've been saying, the present and future of the GOP is Nazi.
Remember Earth’s energy imbalance has tripled in two decades.
Pretty much everything else is noise.
“For every dollar donated by billionaires and their immediate families to a candidate or committee associated with Democrats, five dollars went to Republicans.” Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...
"Is this the Broligarchy's first world war?" by @carolecadwalla.bsky.social
broligarchy.substack.com/p/is-this-th...
Have you ever gone through a turnstile inside a city bus when you pay your fare?
It's unthinkable in the US and most of Europe, but routine in middle-wealth countries like Colombia.
To keep the service running, every peso matters.
Alastair Crooke seems to suggest that this could be a real turning point (in a negative way) for both America and Israel. They'll be much weakened in the end.
I'm reading that America & Israel are running out of munitions, and that's been part of the Iranian plan.
Also Alastair Cooke's position is that Iran has been using up its old weaponry to drain Israel's and America's interceptors. Then Iran will start sending its advanced weaponry.
We'll see.
Could be headed to $150 from what I've read. Will have major global impact.
The Trump regime lies. It especially cannot be trusted to be truthful at all re #IranWar. For eg, #Iran took out expensive radar systems in the Gulf region, essentially blinding 🇺🇸 & 🇮🇱. But it’s more serious still. Ignorance of Iran & underestimation of consequences, will ultimately cost us all.
The gross arrogance & underestimation of Iranian capacity, could be costly for decades to the West, US in particular, but catastrophic for #Israel. Netanyahu & Israeli far right extremists, are endangering Israel like no other Israeli leadership has done before. #Iran is prepared for years of war.
Trump’s massive miscalculation on Iran is going to hit hard. The NYT spoke to US officials who say Iran is fighting back more effectively than the Trump administration expected, with stronger military capability and continuing attacks on US targets.
More American casualties are likely, they say.
This story has everything, a focus on desal that led to overlooking other water sources, a city manager making $400K/yr saying don’t panic, a former water system manager saying residents should absolutely panic, and magical thinking: “The last hope to avert disaster was a 20- to 30-inch rainfall.”
Imagine this was your city.
"SHIT"
"FUCK"
"NO"
"FUCK"
"SHIT"
"FUCK"
Happy International Women's Day everybody!
Logically, Google Overview is being self-destructive, ie. harming its sources of data.
