@KenSimCity Aren’t you the source of the misinformation in This case? You told everyone you use ai agents to do work 🤣
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Rational Left
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There has been some misinformation and speculation regarding my comments about using AI, so I want to be absolutely clear about the facts. Please see my statement below:
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I get that. It’s gonna suck for many folks but this could also create more jobs. I hope I’m right on that and you’re wrong. But only time will tell. This is already underway and unless humans start a revolt (which the west won’t) we’ll need to navigate and embrace this. With necessary measures
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It’s interesting in Vancouver and BC how some people now treat virtually any major infrastructure, technology, or economic development project as inherently evil or “neoliberal.”
A city still needs jobs, investment, infrastructure, energy, and industries tied to the future economy.
The real conversation should be how to build and regulate these things responsibly, while also addressing affordability and inequality.
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@seanorr @JasonHjal I guess there’s no real need to even vote for him
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@0xKeef @KarmSumal Yes that is why people are critical and not supporting this lol
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@Rational__Left @KarmSumal The job loss will happen regardless
With that in mind, do you not want to atleast benefit our communities with increased income?
Or is that a bit too nuanced (or rational)of a discussion
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@0xKeef @KarmSumal Reports and analyses point to a mix of factors:
• Fewer entry-level opportunities — AI and automation are reducing traditional junior roles (e.g., data entry, admin, basic coding tasks) that young workers historically relied on for experience. nowtoronto.com
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@Rational__Left @KarmSumal The youth struggling to find work is not because of ai ….
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@KarmSumal Because of this, senior employees are leveraging AI to manage expanded workloads entirely on their own, eliminating the business need for junior associates to handle the groundwork
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@KarmSumal Look at this ai response lol “Tech & Engineering: Senior developers use AI code assistants to write boilerplate code, drastically curbing the hiring of junior software engineers.”
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@KarmSumal Creative & Marketing: Content generation, basic copywriting, and introductory graphic design are increasingly managed via generative AI tools, squeezing out internships and junior creator roles.
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@KarmSumal Corporate & Professional Services: In fields like law, accounting, and consulting, corporate leaders note that junior recruitment is "flattening" because automated systems execute discovery, basic legal research, and financial reporting.
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@KarmSumal Forward looking for the youth that are already struggling to find work and people who are on the edge in Vancouver this is not a good look
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Not trying to change the narrative, I’m discussing it lol. I get the fear. Definitely will be job loss. But that happens with all tech. People said the same thing about the internet, automation, and literally every major technological shift. We saw job growth, overall. Will ai be the same. Only time will tell.
But AI is coming whether we in Vancouver participate or not. The question is whether we build infrastructure, attract investment, and create high-paying industries here or sit on the sidelines while other cities benefit.
Also, homelessness in Vancouver didn’t suddenly start because of AI. That crisis has been growing for years due to housing costs, addiction, mental health failures, and population growth. Pretending AI data centres caused it is unserious. Those sites were never gonna be housing.
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WOW!!
“The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room," has just opened thanks to a US transparency advocacy group in New York.
All the files from the Epstein Files Transparency Act are there in 3,437 volumes, all numbered and organized on shelves.
A print-out of all the files released by the US Department of Justice, roughly 3.5 million pages relating to financier and convicted sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein are there!
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According to court documents Westbank recently laid off half their employees.
Peter Meiszner@PeterMeiszner
The federal government, Westbank and TELUS have announced three new AI data centres in B.C., including two in Vancouver; one at West Georgia and Beatty, and the second in Mt. Pleasant. It's a multibillion-dollar investment in Canadian data sovereignty and our city. #vanpoli
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The DTES status quo has failed everyone residents, vulnerable people, frontline workers, and small businesses alike. Decades of massive spending, growing bureaucracy, and endless excuses have produced worsening disorder, open drug use, unsafe streets, and human suffering on a scale that should be unacceptable to everyone.
At some point, questioning the system isn’t “anti-compassion.” It’s recognizing that the current model is trapping people in crisis instead of helping them escape it.
Why would anyone want to vote for a left wing party at this point?
The Network Hub@thenetworkhub
Being a small business owner in Chinatown/Gastown is not easy at all.
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@PeterMeiszner @lorrainelowe_ Love that real estate corporations pivoting into ai , West Bank think of all the empty units you are sitting on you could start filling up with gpus!!!
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The federal government, Westbank and TELUS have announced three new AI data centres in B.C., including two in Vancouver; one at West Georgia and Beatty, and the second in Mt. Pleasant. It's a multibillion-dollar investment in Canadian data sovereignty and our city. #vanpoli
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Glad to see that more people are recognizing the Reconciliation Agenda is illiberal ethno-nationalism for indigenous tribes. In the West we believe in equal rights for all citizens, irrespective of ancestry. Full stop.
Adam Zivo@AdamZivo
Land acknowledgements are bullshit and fundamentally about normalizing blood-and-soil nationalism. They pretend that North America rightfully belongs to one ethnicity, and that all other peoples, lacking an ill-defined “spiritual” connection to the continent, should perpetually be “grateful” for the “opportunity” to exist here. If European nations demanded that all non-Europeans regularly express gratitude for living on “traditionally European lands,” progressives would rightfully see this as unjust. Yet, they abandon their principles when it comes to Indigenous land acknowledgements because they are either too stupid, or too intellectually unprincipled, to see the contradiction here. Land acknowledgements should be purged from our institutions, and, to this end, no self-respecting conservative should perform them. The obvious exception would be at events that specifically concern the Indigenous community, and only if an acknowledgement uses wording that simply states historical facts without establishing a racial hierarchy of citizen legitimacy.
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@PeterMeiszner Doesn’t look like you are getting huge support on this , maybe apology is warranted
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I won’t apologize for standing up for my neighbours, residents & businesses in downtown Vancouver who want a safe & healthy community- and who want to see those suffering with addictions get TREATMENT - not just another chaotic taxpayer-funded room to use illicit drugs. #vanpoli
guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁@guyfelicella
WOWWWW. The masks slipped all the way off of Mayor @KenSimCity and Councillor @PeterMeiszner this morning. They REALLY don’t care about the city’s most vulnerable. I’m in shock. I watched the media briefing they gave about the new overdose prevention site opening downtown and I can’t even believe the venom with which they attacked the plans for a new site to provide supervised consumption and healthcare services downtown. For all the lip service these two have given in the past about how they realize it’s “important” to prevent people from dying, they really let it fly in this unhinged rant about protecting businesses and developers. GROSS 🤮 Again: this neighbourhood has the second highest rate of overdose in the city, fourth highest in the province. And he says he’ll do whatever he can to prevent it from opening. THAT’S SOME SHADY AF BULLSHIT RIGHT THERE. #VANpoli #ToxicDrugCrisis #OPS
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The previous OPS sites on Seymour and Howe became focal points for street disorder and open drug use.
Rather than continuing to push failed approaches, we need the Province to get people off the streets and into the care they need.
Vancouverites deserve better, everyone deserves better.
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