Pier
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Carney allies just make things up.
A professor & founder of @MIGSinstitute says "US trades 10x more with China."
2025 China trade:
🇺🇸US imports: $308 bil
🇨🇦CAN imports: $66 bil
American GDP is 13x Canadian GDP, meaning Canada imports 3x more from China proportionate to GDP.
Kyle Matthews@kylecmatthews
Remember US trades 10 times more with China than the US does. We just signed military agreements with Japan, Philippines, Australia and Indonesia, not China. But let’s keep creating a false narrative. Great work.
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@canada_spends @build_canada Why issue a USD bond?
This is routine foreign reserves management. This bond issuance brings our lower than normal reserves back to October level. This is non-news extremely basic liquity management.
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Why issue a USD bond?
It's more favourable to issue debt in CAD because we can print money to inflate the debt away
2 reasons to issue this debt:
- Get USD to buy things like military equipment
- Investors are scared the government will print money to inflate the debt away
GC Newsroom@NewsroomGC
Government of Canada plans to issue US-dollar global bond ow.ly/jI4O106yFfk
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Pier retweetledi
Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
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@Afinetheorem If Saab offers real manufacturing in Canada, it’s definitely worth it. It’ll be pushing out unmanned vehicles soon enough.
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I'd bet my left arm this is related to Canada having decided to buy Saab Gripen's. More braindead autarky around the world: the Saab's are mediocre planes that would do nothing in a major conflict; the shift from F-35 is due to Colby etc using high-leverage threats on allies. 1/2
Under Secretary of War Elbridge Colby@USWPColby
A strong Canada that prioritizes hard power over rhetoric benefits us all. Unfortunately, Canada has failed to make credible progress on its defense commitments. DoW is pausing the Permanent Joint Board on Defense to reassess how this forum benefits shared North American defense. 1/3
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The russians are getting sloppy. That’s some llama level rage baiting.
Sammy@Bri_CJC
It shocks me that Canadians show no concern about the massive child sex trafficking coming from Canada into the US. Those of us living in northern US near the Canadian border are on constant watch for Cartels, terrorist cells, trafficking, etc. Oh, Canada ..WTH? Our County Sheriffs have been swamped trying to catch and arrest criminals coming from Canada. US has put a stop to it on our southern border including bombing narco terrorist boats, Venezuela & abducting Maduro in the middle of the night..... Does Canada expect that the US will just still here and do nothing about the threat on our northern border?
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Trump, asked if he confronted Xi over cyber attacks on the U.S.:
"I did. And he talked about attacks we did in China. You know, what they do, we do too. We spy like hell on them too. I told him, 'we do a lot of stuff to you that you don't know about.'"
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@Cappy_Nate It’s much easier to elect qualified people than making the bitcoin network useful.
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C-22 is getting buzz.
But everyone has it wrong.
Firstly, C-22 is bad.
Scrap it.
But this goes far deeper.
The centralized platforms you see complaining loudest, are also the problem.
Centralized software requires gov permission to operate.
Decentralized networks do not.
Bitcoin
Nostr
BitChat
Tor
Meshcore
All can operate with or without gov permission. There's nothing gov can do to stop them (at a software level). This is by design. There's no single point of failure.
They just ignore C-22 and keep operating.
The entities affected most by C-22, are showing the very weaknesses of their architecture.
This matters, because Canada is under sovereign threat (yes, still).
So right now, software/hardware resilience is priority 1.
Software that cannot be compelled by a domestic gov.....also cannot be compelled by an American one.
That's true digital sovereignty.
And right now, Canada doesn't have that.
The majority of the software we use is US controlled. Which is already being raided (Reddit/Discord), and subject to far worse US laws like the Cloud Act, Patriot Act, and a rogue president with hostile totalitarian tendencies.
This is the threat to Canadians.
For example, US big tech has already been compelled to give up your data to the US gov, without even notifying that they did.
Even as a Canadian.
This has already happened!
And you've already been living under this since at least 2018!
What use is that data?
Surveillance is the tip of the modern kill chain: Cyber -> Satellite -> Air Strike. The end.
Dislike Trump?
If we go to war, this could be you.
This is serious.
When a country threatens you, removing these vectors is key. Even if it creates other domestic gaps.
So resilient, sovereign, decentralized software is critical for Canadian sovereignty. It also strongly aids a civil defense force (the 300k mentioned recently).
So yes, scrap C-22 and dumb laws like it.
But build and use software that can't be affected by it in the first place.
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@lucyhargreaves4 This isn't serious policy advocacy, it's rage baiting. USA's FISA court apparatus is much worse and should be used as an example of what not to do.
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C-22's architecture is most similar to laws in place in China, Russia, India and Vietnam.
Among allied democracies, the closest analog is Australia's TOLA Act (2018), which Australia is now amending due to the economic harm it caused.
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I’d expect a significant exodus of digital technology companies from Canada if C-22 passes.
This bill proposes generalized surveillance infrastructure, not law enforcement.
Incredibly concerning overreach.
It would weaken Canadian cybersecurity, lower the legal threshold for accessing Canadians’ data, and tells both Canadian and global technology companies that Canada is no longer a trusted jurisdiction for building digital infrastructure.
Windscribe@windscribecom
We won't be far behind if C-22 passes. In its current state, VPNs would almost certainly require us to log identifying user data. Signal isn't headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is. We pay an ungodly amount of taxes to this corrupt government, and in return they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens. Not happening. We'll move HQ and take our taxes elsewhere.
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Pretend Anthropic does not exist.
No Claude Code/SDK support. No MCP either.
We'd have ACP/A2A. We'd have awesome harnesses.
We (probably) won't have a toxic monopoly that dictates what we can or can't do as devs.
We'd build awesome software! Yet everyone keeps "supporting" Claude in their tools with whichever workaround possible. This is not good devex.
The complaining and blaming won't change unless we start abandoning it 100% and not half-assing the support for those "poor users" that need claude/opus.
Which customers would you lose if you just don't cater to them? Good devs/engineers or people who like to swallow Anthropic pills?
Theo - t3.gg@theo
I cancelled my Claude Code sub. I give up.
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How is everyone on here claiming to have switched to codex and anthropic is still out of capacity
That math ain’t adding up
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@windscribecom @Travelingchicky I have a shorter version. Tech companies already have more advanced tech than the gorvernment to sniff out crime against children and such. They are already providing that data to the Government.
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Wall of text warning.
I understand that on a surface level, the story they sell you is a good thing. Protecting kids, keeping them off websites they shouldn't be on, stopping predators - I don't think anyone is against all these things. But the fallacy here is that the implementation of all this monitoring means ANYONE could be implicated for ANYTHING the government deems a threat, now or later.
It's akin to installing a camera and microphone in every room of your house that records everything 24/7 and is easily accessible by law enforcement at any time. Not just live feeds, but all the archives going back years as well. And on top of that there are intelligence agencies deploying AI tools to scan all the footage to detect any "problematic" behavior. Even if you're not breaking any laws, they are more than free to flag you for this stuff and start building a profile, false positives included. This is the system they are setting up on the internet.
Let me give you an example: You want to log into Instagram but they require you to do an ID and face scan. So you do it. Now your friend is a bit of an edgy person and sends you a funny meme criticizing Israel. You find it silly, like the post. Instagram recognizes that and serves you some more edgy memes of this nature. Instagram's algorithm is constantly building a profile on you and flags that you like "Israel critic" content. Not illegal. Nothing to hide. Yet. Legislation is later passed that considers even memes of this nature to be racist and antisemitic, punishable by law with fines or worse. Law enforcement queries Meta for a list of all profiles deemed to fall into this category, Meta hands over your real name proven by your "age-verification check". Now you're on an intelligence agency watchlist. They have probable cause to monitor all your online activity and punish you for one misstep. Say the wrong thing, criticize or make fun of the wrong person, look at the wrong website - all fair game to them.
Going back to the cameras in your home, it's like owning a firearm completely legally for years, the AI system flags this to the government. And then firearms are outlawed. You were already flagged so you are now monitored as someone who could pose a risk to the public because you followed all laws in the past.
Stuff like this is already happening around the world. And don't kid yourself by thinking the government doesn't drool over the prospect of implementing the same kind of systems that Iran has where they imprison people for using the internet during a nation-wide shutdown.
Governments want more control, all of them, for all of history.
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We won't be far behind if C-22 passes. In its current state, VPNs would almost certainly require us to log identifying user data.
Signal isn't headquartered in Canada so they can just shut off Canadian servers, but our HQ is. We pay an ungodly amount of taxes to this corrupt government, and in return they want to destroy the entire essence of our service to basically spy on its own citizens.
Not happening. We'll move HQ and take our taxes elsewhere.
Globe Politics@globepolitics
Signal warns it would pull out of Canada if made to comply with lawful access bill theglobeandmail.com/politics/artic…
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@irl_danB @hypermemetic Thin wrapper on their harness using their brand and subsidized tokens and calling it you product is wild too. At what point do you become a consultant.
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@hypermemetic yeah I wasn't thrilled with the messaging around the change, but the idea that your third party GUI is entitled to their direct-to-consumer pricing is just obviously silly
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@lucyhargreaves4 This is batshit crazy, who came up with this, there’s plenty of tax incentives. Grants and Subsidies needs to stop.
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Four ideas to turn the innovation ship around:
1. Stop the government from picking startup winners. Wind down federal venture capital programs like BDC equity and the Superclusters. Instead, require Canada's eight biggest pension funds to invest about $7.5B a year into Canadian startups, with Ottawa chipping in another $2.5B alongside them.
2. Mandate the Maple 8 to deploy $10B/year into Canadian venture for 20 years. Legislate a 0.3% annual allocation from Canada's $2.5T pension giants (~$7.5B/year), with 20% reserved for pre-seed, seed, and Series A. Add $2.5B/year of federal pro-rata co-investment — no federal decisions, no first-loss risk. Twenty years of certainty is what unlocks global GPs and keeps founders building here.
3. Tax mansions, not founders. Scrap capital gains tax on early investments in Canadian businesses. Pay for it by taxing gains above $750K (or $1.5M per couple) on multi-million-dollar homes — leaving 99% of homeowners untouched.
4. Make it easier for small businesses to borrow. Expand the existing small business loan guarantee program to look more like the U.S. SBA — bigger loans, more lenders, and no forced personal guarantees.
Build Canada@build_canada
Our entrepreneurial economy is in freefall. VC funding is at a decade low. 🇨🇦 founders are leaving. Toronto, Vancouver, and Montreal have shed $66B USD in ecosystem value from their peaks. Four reforms can turn the ship around. From @scheschuk: buildcanada.com/memos/capital-… 📖
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@LauraPowellEsq Cocaine use is also 90% down. How bad can the cause be? (It’s twitchtok btw)
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Everyone recognizes this as a symptom of something bad, right?
Grant Bailey@grantjbailey
Huge collapse in drinking among high schoolers 👀
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1- Each vertical wants be special. Layers don’t want to say they use charGPT or Claude they want to say Harvey.
2- Build distribution, productize your service.
3- The world needs technical people that understand how various industry works. That’s the moat, your knowledge of day to day boring stuff.
Matt Epstein@mattepstein
And claude kills 9 billion dollar startup Harvey If your not building real infrastructure your next
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I don’t know any engineer that uses Claude code anymore
Theo - t3.gg@theo
If you use any of the following with your Claude sub, your usage must got cut by 25x: - T3 Code - Conductor - zed - jean - “Claude -p” in your ci - scripts to call Claude code from other tools They’re disguising this as “free credits”. Don’t fall for it.
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I can't help but feel personally burned by the Claude Code changes announced today.
We put so much work into wrapping the (atrocious) Claude Agent SDK in T3 Code. It was the ONLY path they supported, so we made it work. It was hell.
Now our users are getting their rate limits cut by 40x, despite us doing everything right.
I listened to the Claude Code team. I had my issues with their direction, but I trusted them and took them at their word.
I will never make that mistake again.
Until we see significant change, it is safe to assume any statement from an Anthropic employee is a lie on a timer.
The rug will be pulled, no matter how many promises are made beforehand.
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