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smcinMar 20

Mediahaus suspends senior journalist for using fabricated quotes produced by AI

https://www.thejournal.ie/mediahaus-suspends-senior-journalist-for-using-fabricated-quotes-produced-by-ai-6990092-Mar2026/

Mediahaus suspends senior journalist for using fabricated quotes produced by AI

Peter Vandermeersch said he relied on summaries produced by LLMs, ‘trusting they were accurate’.

TheJournal.ie
Show threadsmcinMar 19

Source cited by @chriso-wiki.bsky.social is this article on DR.dk, the Danish public broadcaster:

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/danmark-forbered...

Danmark forberedte sig på muligt angreb fra USA: Fløj poser med blod til Grønland og gjorde klar til at sprænge landingsbaner i luften

Nøglekilder i Danmark og Europa fortæller nu for første gang, hvad der skete i de mest kritiske dage, hvor Donald Trump truede med at tage Grønland "på den hårde måde".

DR
Show threadsmcinMar 19

Not all new houses sell. Some become shadow inventory, some take 5+ years to sell. If you drive around new developments you can measure the fraction.

IIRC, Mountain House (near Tracy, CA) in the 2008-2010 crash was an example of a large new development that did not initially sell and was in serious danger of going zombie, and not having the new schools that had been promised to people moving in.

Show threadsmcinMar 19

Their gross margin is a lagging metric on houses they built 2/3 quarters ago, and applied for development permits ~4 quarters ago.

US homebuilder gross margins have been declining since 2023.