Aaron Adamack

@LukeEpplin @DSRacer I've met a couple of authors who've explicitly asked people to let them know about typos as they'd like to correct them in future editions. I know some textbooks have a website or email address where they ask you to submit typos.

@DSRacer "Mine is a minority view"? I see.

It never fails: you publish a book and within weeks the emails come in: "Hey, I liked your book and all, but on page 257, there's a typo that I want to call your attention to...." I don't understand this impulse to contact authors in this way.

@ricedelman @CNBC Why would adoption be expected to grow substantially at this point? It seems like there are a lot of alternatives that are much easier to use. What's the angle for selling this as a must use currency to new users?

Bitcoin was $126,000 a few months ago. Now it’s about $70,000. Many investors see a warning sign. I see opportunity. Adoption remains under 5% globally and supply is fixed. That’s why I continue recommending 10–40% crypto allocations. Full @CNBC convo: hubs.li/Q046W21v0

@VOCMOpenline I think the caller was talking about a new hospital in addition to St. Clare's rather than as a replacement. Isn't the $10 billion to build and run for 30 years? I was hearing about a similar hospital elsewhere and it was only $2 to 4 billion, not $10.

@spjohnson2025 @sfmcguire79 Do you mean the illusion of merit? Wealthy kids have private tutors training them for the tests and helping many get extra time due to "learning disabilities". Poorer kids often have to prep on their own with little supplemental help compared to wealthy kids..

Testing like SAT and ACT is important because it allows poor students that can't afford to get into expensive universities the opportunity to compete against the rich based on merit. This was the original reason to have nationwide testing and use the results for entrance to elite colleges. Removing the requirements for testing and instead using innate birth characteristics is unfair to those students that are smart and should be in the school on merit.

Dartmouth President Sian Beilock: “Assuming that most Americans value our mission is a recipe for irrelevance and decline. We must demonstrate to students and families—and to the broader public—that we’ve heard their criticisms and will address them.” Five steps: 1. “Make college affordable” 2. “Return on investment matters…there must be an undeniable return.” 3. “Re-center higher education on learning rather than political posturing.” 4. “Emphasize equal opportunity, not equal outcomes.” 5. “Testing is important.”

@VOCMOpenline I think you're going to be busy shoveling snow this afternoon. Good luck!

@VOCMOpenline Sorry to hear. I've really enjoyed listening to you.

Some personal news coming off the top of the show this morning.

@dcniel @Acyn Note that France has islands closer to Maine than Greenland.

@Acyn Very biiiiiiiiig stretch to say it's off the Coast of Maine, as it's not even in the Atlantic Ocean. I had to zoom out so much I could only include the southern tip of Greenland in this to be able to also include Maine.

Watters: And we have dominion over the entire western hemisphere. Europeans cannot just have colonies right off the coast of Maine. We let the British have bermuda because it's cute but if we needed bermuda, we would take it. And the British would let it happen

@VOCMOpenline more problems with AI... theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

@VOCMOpenline also, on the equalization payments, don't other provinces get the same breaks on hydroelectric power as Quebec? So if we went forward on the MOU or got better rates after 2041, we'd be treated the same if we started makingvastly more on our power?

@VOCMOpenline the claim that Americans are paying less than we are for electricity seems to be false based on this. electricchoice.com/electricity-pr… Cheapest state is Louisiana at 12.93 cents/kWh which is 17.83 cents/kWh Canadian. We're paying 15.21/kWh.

@rpaulblazek @rupasubramanya @PierrePoilievre @MarkJCarney Pierre got to see the same things happening as Carney did and he chose to make a partisan political post rather than defend Canada.

@rupasubramanya To be fair Rupa, @PierrePoilievre post was before the speech. Just as @MarkJCarney had time to formulate his thoughts in the speech, it should be afforded the same for @PierrePoilievre to have a cogent response. Not everything has to be immediate just because you want it to be.

That’s loser talk. I’ve said this repeatedly over the last few months: there are no medals for "doing your best." Politics is about recognizing the moment you’re in and rising to it. Right now the stakes are far bigger than the usual partisan skirmishes. Today, Poilievre was still railing about the carbon tax while Trump was sharing a doctored map showing Canada, Greenland, and Venezuela as part of the U.S. Even if you choose to ignore Carney’s speech at Davos, how does the Leader of the Opposition miss that? It took Poilievre two full weeks to issue a strong statement on Greenland, and only after it became clear that most Americans themselves opposed the idea. He’s still playing by the old playbook, treating Carney as if he were just another version of Trudeau. He leans on a small circle of braindead online grifters who may excite the base but alienate almost everyone else, people who mock ordinary voters (boomers), sneer at law abiding immigrants, and see every issue as part of some cartoonish global conspiracy. By indulging these morons, he’s pushed away centrists and reasonable voices who might broaden his appeal. Remember, the median voter in Canada is in the centre. The result is obvious: he can’t seem to unite the country. He’s got the base, but not much beyond it. I understand he may be the best the Conservatives have right now, but how many reinventions does a career politician get? "If only Poilievre did this, if only he said that..blah blah." It's getting old!

The huge swing in electrical costs is clearly weather related. I turn the heat on because it's cold out. Baseboard heaters use a lot of electricity. Just using the heat occasionally causes my bill to double in the fall. People need to compare power usage across years not months.

@VOCMOpenline I'm listening to your chat with Dennis Brown from Thursday. I don't understand his claim that a $300 swing in my power bill can't just be the weather. My bill swings between $100 or less in summer when I don't use heat to over $400 in winter when I'm using heat.

@VOCMOpenline sounds like nuclear power is expensive... Ontario Power Generation seeks rate increase for electricity from nuclear plants - The Globe and Mail share.google/Bzrc8HmboohuEZ…

@mynlcorner Was just trying to video my plants bouncing around inside the house because the wind was shaking my place so much.

@mynlcorner Won an award in a national photography competition

@kimmy_dawn_nl Really enjoyed it, but occasionally it was a bit gross!

New series I’m starting!! I hope it’s good! ✨🎄🎁📺

@Andrew_Semenza @paulnovosad Maybe it varies by field? I think people often need to go for promotion by year 5.

@paulnovosad People spend 6+ years as Asst. Profs though, right? So whatever the effect is would be partially absorbed in a moving average (+1 year lag), no? Not saying there's necessarily something huge here but doesn't seem _entirely_ dispositive on first glance

I counted all the Assistant Professors at Princeton in 7 major depts, all presumably hired in the last 7 woke years. In CS, EE, Math, Gov, Econ, among young profs, white men outnumber every other group. (But not in History or Physics, that hotbed of woke activism.) Savage's article is legit, but you should understand that he is cherry-picking small bad examples. "Yale's History Department" doesn't represent the labor market, it doesn't even represent Yale. It doesn't excuse the fact that in some disciplines and creative industries, high-level mostly white execs were cynically putting a fat thumb on the scale against white male applicants (all while protecting their own older networks). This has done a lot of damage—to the applicants, to social trust more broadly. It is good to account for this, to repudiate it so we never go back where we were. This has happened at a lot of companies too—but not nearly as bad as you would think from reading an article about the Humanities at Harvard. There's obviously a big appetite for exaggerating the excesses of the woke era. It was bad, but the idea that it's impossible for white guys to get ahead in most industries has very little correspondence with reality. Why my stats are more plausibly representative of elite academia: I picked Princeton as the top school not mentioned in Savage's article, and I asked ChatGPT to tell me the 7 biggest departments. It's not exact, but if you were to do this for another random set of unis and departments, you would find similar things. My counts of assistant professors in the 7 departments: white men: 39 white women: 16 non-white men: 29 non-white women: 17 Aside, nearly all the non-white people were south or east asian. Black people, the supposed beneficiaries of the woke era, were barely represented.

@VOCMOpenline so even the transportation department is wrong? Seems arrogant...

@VOCMOpenline even if we got the power to the US, then what? reuters.com/world/americas…