@avidseries I felt compelled to look it up, and where I live had 59 shootings for a population of 1.1 million, and I feel it's quite safe
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Nicholas Aelick
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White percentage of Manhattan population: Nearly 50%
White percentage of shooting crime offenders: 0%
But here's an even more compelling stat: There were only 111 shootings in one year in a borough with a population of 1.6 million.
Far safer than most rural counties.
Tony Heller 🇺🇸 🇯🇵@TonyClimate
There were 111 shootings in Manhattan during 2025. None of the shooters were white. data.cityofnewyork.us/api/views/98wc…
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@Ike_Saul Arguably this already happened with Biden, and it was good. The two main complaints I saw with Biden were that he was old and too woke. I think it'd be easy to run a candidate who was younger and a bit more moderate on woke issues to great success. Why it's so hard I don't get.
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My hot take about the next few years is that decency is going to make a comeback. I don't actually think there are many Americans left who appreciate or enjoy this era we are living through; I think the indecency has been tapped. It'll just take a decent, charismatic leader.
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@DamonLinker @DrAaronNew A scary number of Americans believe that if Jesus hasn't come back yet we need to force the issue...
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@DrAaronNew And yet, it is not for many American Christians.
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@OctopusOctave @avidseries I don't know who you think you're talking to
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@Nich_Critic @avidseries You still don't get it. Trump is the biggest clown. You people are hopeless.
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When you consider who Trump chose for his cabinet (e.g, crackpot RFK Jr, inept pooch-snuffing Border Barbie, towering human dumpster inferno Hegseth, 3rd-tier legal mind Bondi) and who he wanted but couldn't get (like the serial sex pest and alleged trafficker Matt Gaetz), and how hundreds of people took to my replies to defend the selection of every single one of these absurdities, it's almost impossible to not entertain the thesis of a MAGA low human capital problem.
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
If you elected these people, you fucked up big time
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@JohnAnd13574719 @CuriosityonX ... where did you hear that?
No, it's just (extremely slightly) wider than it is tall.
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@CuriosityonX I thought that the Earth was supposed to be pear-shaped.
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@Tim_Pettit_ @iamrobinskies And he was running against Trudeau for too long after Trudeau was gone. I think each party has formed their own dangerous echo chamber. Each is out of touch with the average Canadian in their own special way
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@iamrobinskies He should never have overused slogans. He made himself into a characture.
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Pierre having the reputation of being some evil callus conservative has always confused me.
Mostly because if you follow him closely this is the man that you get to know.
A loving father, empathetic to those who are struggling and need help.
He should have won.
Cole Hogan@colewhogan
I suggest you listen to @PierrePoilievre speak about his daughter Valentina. He discusses how she's changed his view on politics and offers advice for parents of autistic children.
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@Tim_Pettit_ @acoyne I don't think opposing the high speed rail is a winning strategy for Pierre. I don't think a party can win running on a negative.
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Andrew, if you listened to Pierre, his point was that the federal government instructed its lawyers not to make certain arguments to the detriment of their own case. We know that the federal government in fact didn’t make certain arguments. Whether these would have been successful or not is unknown.
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The Cowichan decision a) would have been the same under either the Conservatives or the Liberals, since governments don’t write legal decisions (and aboriginal rights are not subject to the notwithstanding clause), b) upheld a property right.
Juno News@junonewscom
Poilievre slams the Liberals for a "land grab" threatening private property over a high-speed rail project, pledging Conservatives will restore protections: "Property rights are human rights." He points to B.C.'s Cowichan decision as proof property isn't safe under the Liberals.
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interesting experiment. its a bit like golden gate claude but with a small model.
i dont know if they actually manipulate the weights or just do a custom instruction tho
labs.ramp.com/steer-ai
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@mattyglesias Yeah it's both bad to focus on "historic firsts" and also bad to ignore the talent you have. I think they learned the wrong lesson from Obama - he worked because he was a once in a generation orator, not because he was black.
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“Just pick a straight white Christian man” is really dumb
— Ignores a majority of the available political talent
— Ignores the central importance of what politicians actually say and do
slowboring.com/p/the-quest-fo…
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@Osinttechnical I'm waiting for - "We were never in a war with Iran, only the lying democrats say we were in a war. No war."
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Trump compares ongoing Iran war length to World Wars 1 and 2, the Korean War, and Vietnam.
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@Graff2023 @build_canada The shortage can only be relative to the population growth. If there's no new houses but also no new people, there's no problem. The problem comes when there's too many new people and not enough new houses
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@build_canada There is no shortage of home being built in Canada.
That is a US problem, not ours.
Our problem has been immigration was much higher.
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Canadians should know that this is ultimately a transfer of development charges from developers to taxpayers.
The Build Canada network has put forward a plethora of structural solutions to this problem across multiple housing memos, which you can read in this thread. 👇
Colin D'Mello | Global News@ColinDMello
NEW: The Federal and Ontario governments will spend $8.8 billion / 10 years to reduce municipal development charges by 50% #onpoli
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@DaveShapi I think you'll miss corners. (Genuinely though I'm excited for houses that aren't just matchstick boxes)
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I want my next house made like this.
Space and Technology@spaceandtech_
ICON has unveiled a next-generation construction 3D printer that improves on older gantry systems. It moves on tracks between sites, reducing setup time and labor. With a 70-foot print radius, it can build multi-story structures up to 27 feet tall and 110 feet long faster and more affordably.
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@stevemorris__ That they're still having this conversation is a problem. Americans no longer see female/of colour as an asset, if they ever did. Just find someone good.
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If Clinton, a white woman, received the white support that Harris, a non-white woman, received, she would have become president
If Harris, a non-white woman, received the non-white support that Clinton, a white woman, received, she would have become president
This whole thing is absurd
InteractivePolls@IAPolls2022
AXIOS: Some top Democrats are quietly debating a fraught question: whether the party's best bet for winning back the presidency in 2028 is to nominate a man — perhaps a straight, White, Christian man. Former first lady Michelle Obama fueled such talk recently, saying the U.S. is "not ready for a woman." Democratic strategists have put it bluntly, with several saying a version of "It has to be a white guy." axios.com/2026/03/29/som…
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@flowersslop @oliviscusAI Ok granted it's not breaking but it's a real sign of the times that 5 months is considered old...
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@oliviscusAI im gonna mute the word Breaking at some point because every single time its engagement farming.
It's old news (from November 2025), not bReAkInG.
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🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA proved backpropagation isn't the only way to build an AI.
They trained billion-parameter models without a single gradient.
Every AI you use today relies on backpropagation.
It requires complex calculus, exploding memory, and massive GPU clusters.
Meanwhile, an ancient, gradient-free method called Evolution Strategies (ES) was written off as impossible to scale.
Until now.
NVIDIA and Oxford just dropped EGGROLL.
Instead of generating massive, full-rank matrices for every mutation, they split them into two tiny ones.
The AI mutates. It tests. It keeps what works. Like biological evolution.
But now, it does it with hundreds of thousands of parallel mutations at once.
Throughput is now as fast as batched inference.
They are pretraining models entirely from scratch using only simple integers.
No backprop. No decimals. No gradients.
We thought the future of AI required endless clusters of precision hardware.
It turns out, we just needed to evolve.
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@m_takewaka Yes but you have many things that Americans don't understand like cat cages and rage rooms.
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親愛なるアメリカの友人たちへ
残念ながら、今の日本には「侍」も「忍者」もいません。
ガンダムは量産化されていません。
悟空はまだ子供です。
ナルトは存在しません。
織田信長もいません。
残念ながらこれが現実です。
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@Tim_Pettit_ @Aaronpete_ There was a huge one just off camera
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Ah, an element of the progressive movement is anti-nationalist. They fundamentally don't like Canada, revile its history, traditions and values. Their understanding of history is virtually nil.
Instead, they endorse a mythological universe populated by cartoon characters, good and bad. Their world view is a bundle of bad ideas which they believe, if only we all would follow (or be forced to follow) will lead to a Utopian Paradise where there is no sadness, want, work or conflict. Somehow, someone else will do the work...
Most children grow out of this.
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I was blown away not to see a Canadian flag 🇨🇦
Candice Malcolm@CandiceMalcolm
There is no Canadian flag. Just a Palestinian flag. The NDP is an extreme, radical anti-Canadian party and the media refuse to notice.
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@NeverTr74704466 @scttfrnks @Noahpinion I would make a bet the law is unclear, because we've had some very unserious lawmakers in the last decade
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@scttfrnks @Noahpinion The patient testifies that the provider claimed they were required to offer MAID by law.
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MAID isn't about letting people die with dignity, it's about saving the government money
Tablesalt 🇨🇦🇺🇸@Tablesalt13
🚨NEW - CANADIAN SENIOR OFFERED DEATH FOR MINOR BONE BREAK 84-year-old Miriam Lancaster was admitted to a Vancouver hospital with a broken sacrum (small back bone) Her doctor told her: "We can offer you MAID.’ she refused and recovered in a month, later climbed a volcano.
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