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@KobeissiLetter Isn’t this going to wash out as older generation passes away and passes baton to newer generation

The gap between older and younger equity holders has never been wider: Americans aged 70+ now hold a record 17% of all US equities and mutual fund shares outstanding. The percentage has TRIPLED since the 2008 Financial Crisis low. At the same time, Americans under 40 own just ~3%, in-line with 2003 levels. This percentage is HALF of what it was in the late 1980s. As a result, the difference between the two cohorts is now ~14 percentage points, the widest on record. By comparison, the gap stood at ~6 percentage points at the start of the 1990s. The wealth gap is widening.

@tobi @cbcwatcher We need regime change one way or other

Self recommending must-read for Canadians. “The path Canada is on, economically and culturally, is no longer sufficient to make us a flourishing world class nation.”

@Afinetheorem It’s for goverment usage, we expect that it will used for agentic workload querying transactional feed, surveillance feed, and goverment payout system. It’s basically goverments AI, but they will lease it for now to recoup some cost while they figure out data flows and so on

In literally hundreds of conversations with startups and firms on AI adoption, "not having access to a public AI cluster" has never come up once as a problem. Why? Because cloud compute is a competitive market anyone can easily buy into from anywhere in the world. I don't get it.

@DanielleFong **exciting

@DanielleFong Consumers will not tolerate corpo SaaS interfaces anymore, not even the enterprises. Exiting times

this tragic situation is being hopefully exploded

@macleans It has reproduced its elites so this must be fought hard

Canada’s bilingualism policy produces some strange spectacles: French schools in the Arctic, French CBC programming for Albertans, prime ministers speaking French in Australia, a $126-million French-language university in Toronto with just 25 students. In an essay for Maclean’s, commentator @JJ_McCullough argues that these are signs of a political doctrine that has become more revered than rationally defended. “State-mandated bilingualism conflicts with Canada’s self-image as a fair and merit-based democracy,” he writes. “And the worst may be yet to come.” McCullough writes that the usual case for bilingualism rests on shakier ground than Canadians like to admit. It’s often justified as a historic obligation to one of the country’s “two founding peoples.” But he points out that Canada was never meaningfully a country of only two peoples. In any case, he argues that official bilingualism was more of an accommodation to keep Quebec nationalism in check. “Official bilingualism nevertheless remains venerated by all manner of Canadian elites as a taboo in the truest sense,” he writes. McCullough’s point is that the language policy merely privileges a narrow pool of bilingual people from the Laurentian region to the upper ranks of politics, government and public institutions. The result, he argues, is a gatekeeping system that shuts many Canadians out of top careers. “This bilingual glass ceiling on political talent has warped Canadian democracy,” he writes. “Review the heads of basically any senior federal institution, be it the courts, Crown Corporations, the military or some major regulatory board and you’ll find a Canadian elite that remains much whiter and much more Laurentian than the country it rules.” In a country that presents itself as multicultural, meritocratic and inclusive, he argues, official bilingualism is becoming harder to defend as anything other than exclusion with financial and cultural costs. macleans.ca/politics/offic…

@Tablesalt13 This is going to be social scoring, with all inflow feeding one big surveillance AI

BREAKING: The government of Canada to build the world's first government owned AI supercomputer.

@ExnerPirot Ontario actively artificial detracts new entrants in this space (nuclear; smrs) - it has been fairly well documented

Ontario and Yukon advancing small modular reactor deployment in the Yukon 👇 Honestly nuclear is a great choice for remote communities and I’m so glad they’re pushing the concept forward

@BlackDumpling @KarinLitzcke Single handedly tried to fight compelled speech laws in Canada

He's right, you know. For all the shit Peterson gets let's not forget that the man took on the juggernaut at it's apex, and he didn't have some media conglomerate or friendly billionaire or this or that defending him. Homey went into that arena naked and afraid, but in he went, entirely voluntarily, when he could've just as easily kept his mouth shut. And look, I'm not saying he's a perfect person, not by any means but you're full of shit if you wanna tell me that old man didn't shine like a diamond in some very dark places. We all see a lot of big courage these days, but that man was the real deal.

Remember it’s designed to make you click

@MAAWLAW @USTradeRep Mark is there anything that can be done to salvage this? My understanding is that we still have 10yrs left

“We’re kind of at the end of our rope and just asking for them to do this. Think about this, right? There are 2 countries that have retaliated economically against U.S. in the past year, China & Canada. So that’s kind of the company that they’re running in." - @USTradeRep Greer🤔

@nenshi You couldn’t even inspect water pipes

We released our energy plan last month. One of our core proposals: a new West Coast pipeline following the TMX right-of-way to B.C.'s southern coast, built with Indigenous partners, real consultation, and a route that actually has a path forward. This week, the federal government is reported to be considering exactly that. This is what good policy under good leadership looks like: realistic, collaborative, and ready for action. Alberta's energy future is too important for chaos and posturing. It needs a steady hand, a clear plan, and a government that's ready to lead. Alberta's New Democrats are ready.

@zan2434 @eddiejiao_obj @drewocarr @LTXStudio @modal_labs you are able to get that throughput - that’s incredible (I’m presuming it’s using breakpoints for now?). Demo is incredibly cool

@squirtlevc @eddiejiao_obj @drewocarr @LTXStudio @modal_labs we just generate every aspect ratio simultaneously

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see. @eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

@zan2434 @eddiejiao_obj @drewocarr @LTXStudio @modal_labs So is this custom model? Like how is the model doing layout/resizing

@eddiejiao_obj @drewocarr @LTXStudio @modal_labs All of this is live! it's early and slow. many of the demos above are sped up/edited, but we can't wait to see what you think. Try it yourself at flipbook.page (5/5)

@avidseries Can someone explain me this paper? What’s best blog post on this for layman

In the aftermath of the Reich paper, I got attacked today both by hereditarians and environmentalists. The attacks from both sides tended to have several things in common, mainly intellectual bad faith, poor reading comprehension, and emotionality. If you think it's a moral necessity that all groups are exactly the same beneath the skin, or, conversely, if you don't like black people and think they're inferior, you're going to have a big emotional investment in the outcome of any research relating to racial differences. Unfortunately, this means if I tweet about the subject in a way that doesn't provide explicit or sufficient deference to a particular person's views, or if I try to express myself with any nuance, I get hotheads in my replies. Most of the idiots you see on Twitter circulating world IQ maps as proof of innate group differences in intelligence are racists who don't give a damn about science except when it flatters their priors. Similarly, most of the idiots you see on Twitter regurgitating long-out-of-date talking points from people like Stephen Jay Gould could not care less about any science that goes against their feels. It's so obvious that most of the amateurs who express an interest in the subject of innate group differences aren't really interested in it at a scientific level, at all. The science is engaged with typically only when it can be weaponized (or misrepresented when it threatens one's views).

@arctotherium42 Can someone explain me this practical importance - all I could understand as layman was that yea - natural election (I.e. human prefer certain traits) and such selection is accelerating? Is that all

Big news. Aside from the obvious practical importance, I hope the Reich lab or similar do more archaeogenetic analysis with better scores. Also: proper large-scale IQ phenotyping is (1) expensive and (2) something governments can do. We should.

@MPelletierCIO If you put politics aside, other party’s politics win

The problem with the CPC is that they lost control of the narrative as soon as Carney came into the equation. Poilievre was the right counter for Trudeau but is now the wrong one for Carney. In politics you have to pivot quickly, as evident by the brilliant move done by the LPC just over a year ago. With time, the economic results will reflect the policies of the new Carney majority whether it’s a weaker dollar or higher 10s. The CPC need to be ready to present someone as a credible alternative to Carney by putting politics aside and doing what’s right for the country.

@teortaxesTex Can’t unsee this context now

Dwarkesh and Jensen are civilized men so we didn't see *a lot* of sparks flying, but it is a profound disconnect between generations, cultures, and immigration stories. Jensen is the gangsta poster boy for American Dream. Dwarkesh is the Bay Aryan Thinkboy icon. irreconcilable

@Tablesalt13 Govermen5 is goin* to run public sector job like a madman

NEW REPORT: Canada has now experienced six consecutive quarters in which business exits have surpassed new business creation. -CFIB We're in a lot of trouble here. Those are the job creators. Elbows to the MF'ING SKYYY!! 🎉🎉

@ByrneHobart How are EMTs at risk? If you don’t need to drive, you can support patient better, and have better coverage. How is this a bad thing

Not just taxi drivers! EMTs, surgeons, and morticians are also at risk.