Rich Smith

@babysoftluke @kenwheeler @thekitze Yellow is just red for those who can't achieve red. (both team yellow and team read are jealous of team blue)

@kenwheeler @thekitze team yellow - standing by

i'm getting into woodworking because god forbid i stick to one hobby for a week also fk u bougie mfs ryobi is the 🐐

I've been trying to convey this for a long time. People like Sam Harris have lamented the loss of institutional trust, as though that alone is bad. But it's not bad to lose trust in institutions that have proven untrustworthy. The solution isn't for people to start blindly trusting our institutions again, but for our institutions to begin the slow process of earning it back by demonstrating competence.

I hate what AI did to the Em dash.

@dvassallo Do you still consider OpenClaw open source with Sam Altman's sticky fingers on it's pulse?

My bet is open source will win this space, and OpenClaw is already that.

@riteshmjn @bliss_trekkers "Inflate our way out of this" - governments everywhere. Sucks. Punishes savers and the fiscally responsible.

@bliss_trekkers They can slow the decline which means it will be spread over a longer time period.

Canadian real estate markets are headed for a decade of time correction after recent price corrections. The reason it will be time correction and not price correction from here will be regular intervention by govt and regulators in arresting this slide through stop gap measures. The more they intervene the longer will be the stagnation in real estate prices. We will also see delayed retirement from Boomers who were counting on high enough real estate prices to retire comfortably but now they will have to postpone their plans. I see least amount of pain in Alberta and most amount of pain in BC followed by Ontario.

@RampCapitalLLC @CalisthenicKyle Wait until you hear about ducks. You can just take them. The world is an awesome place!

@RichJDSmith @CalisthenicKyle Brb buying a fruit farm

Planting berry bushes is arguably one of the highest gardening ROIs and easiest to maintain. I currently have 10+ blackberries, 10 blueberry bushes, and 5 raspberries in my backyard and I still want to expand it further. Last year I picked >10lbs of blackberries alone. Didn’t weigh the blueberries and raspberries but probably 15lbs total (all organic). And the yields will increase every year. On top of all of that, all you basically have to do is water if it gets super hot and fertilize once a month. And the biggest benefit is it’s a great activity to do with your kids to get them outside and away from screens. Thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.

@RampCapitalLLC @CalisthenicKyle You can just plant them, there’s no rules against it.

@CalisthenicKyle I wish I had some peach and apple and cherry trees too

European leaders monitoring the situation in the Middle East

I just keep remembering and laughing at this banger of a tweet. Europe is a fantasy land.

ARE WE IN BIZARRO WORLD? What timeline did I wake up in today? Two of Mark Carney’s biggest fan-girl spooners are warning us about the Globalist Elitist banker!! NOW, WILL CANADIANS ACTUALLY LISTEN?

@calvinfroedge Many of my self employed friends up here in Canada are feeling like we're living in atlas shrugged..

Watch the following movies if you want to see the future: - Blade Runner - Children of Men - Brazil - Elysium - Ready Player One - Angel has Fallen - V For Vendetta - Atlas Shrugged - Minority Report

@zandertoo @build_canada Dude, great editing!

@RichJDSmith @build_canada Thank you!! 🚀

We used to build big things in Canada... What changed? 🏗️🍁

it doesn’t take an economist to know this won’t work in the long run.

@randal_olson @Austen What did you do from a security/isolation perspective? Run it on metal? VPS? Container?

Shout out to @Austen for being the inspo to start this journey.

Confession: I’m clawdpilled. For weeks I was in the "hard no" camp on OpenClaw. The security incidents were real and alarming. Just this week, a Meta AI-safety researcher watched her OpenClaw go rogue and delete her inbox in real time. If that can happen to an AI-safety researcher, it can happen to anyone. Most demos I saw showed things I could already do with chat tools or a simple n8n workflow. The risk-to-value math didn't add up. Then I saw one setup done right: careful permissions, real use cases, not obviously faked. That pushed me to try it. This past weekend I fired it up. Day one was rough. Installation was messy, it kept crashing, and I spent the day getting it stable. A lesser setup would have made me quit. What changed everything was the built-in continuous learning. Every bug it hit was either patched or logged so it wouldn't repeat next session. Early friction became learning. Quick hacks become repeatable skills. The learning compounded. By day three, it was practically self-healing. That’s when it clicked. This isn't just another agent. It's a compounding system. Practical wins came fast. A small automation now checks the weather in my current location before my daily walk and suggests a better time if conditions are poor. Small, but high value and personalized to me. Now it orchestrates my AI coding agents. I give a high-level directive. It spins up Codex and Cursor agents to implement changes, then runs separate agents to verify, test, and improve before anything reaches me for review. I’m teaching it to learn how I solve problems so I don’t need to be in the loop as much. So it can be more autonomous. Now I have an autonomous system to build everything else. Three days ago I was skeptical. Today I'm convinced this deserves serious attention. The continuous-learning architecture is the difference: every session is smarter than the last. The risks are real. Set it up wrong and you'll have a bad time. Set it up right, and it's unlike anything I've used.

@ExnerPirot That's very cool, thanks for sharing that. Looking forward to reading the paper!

I will have a paper out on this shortly! -It enhances our market share, and thus power, in pretty much every commodity, ie we move up the ladder from price taker to price maker when we coordinate -We can more effectively balance markets and reduce volatility and manipulation when we coordinate -We can prevent being played off one another -Shared supply chain development likely means not subsidizing the same phases of development on the same defence/critical materials, but working together to cover off larger segments of the supply chain for more materials

The answer is yes Could Canada and Australia form a critical minerals supergroup? abc.net.au/news/2026-02-2…

@AssetTraveller @KirkLubimov Oh it’s much much higher than that… @canada_spends

Canadian tax payers give $90,000 per year to a native family of 5!!! @KirkLubimov At what point will Canadians wake up?

Canada has 6 of these login services, and none of them work, or are aware of the others.

@danielfoch What's incredible is the weight that cell phones have to contribute to the CPI basket.

Canada's latest inflation print at 2.3% surprised markets, sparking rate cut hopes. However, consumers feel the pinch with soaring grocery costs. While gas prices are down, core inflation remains elevated, and factors like cell phone bills may be skewing the numbers.