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@jtoiler1 @jkenney Well thought through, except that Canada’s absence is a US choice (Jamieson Greer). The US longer term goal is control not partnership. We are dealing with a bully. Not sure you’ve been able to wrap your head around that.

@ThomasCline442 @jkenney Mexico is growing its economy with the USA. They to understand it’s better to negotiate meanwhile 11 years of liberal woke crap, anti resources and elbows up and we’re the opposite. We’re doomed. Thanks elbows up.

This is thuggish behaviour, a shakedown to benefit the billionaire Maroun family. Canada paid for 100% of the bridge. If the USA wants part of the revenue, it should make an offer to buy all or part of the bridge. In the meantime, open it to benefit both countries’ economies.

@parrotyaccount3 @Anthony__Koch You’re right. Right now I don’t see anyone…sadly

@ThomasCline442 @Anthony__Koch I mean, they aren’t great, but who’s there that’s going to be better?

It’s very sad that the Conservative Party has allowed itself to get outflanked on immigration by Mark Carney. There are several very easy positions for us to take, and make central components of our political offering, but instead we’ll talk about Brookfield (NO ONE CARES).

@TheJasonPugh @PierrePoilievre @MarkJCarney My god… we are gonna keep losing to the liberals. I wish he would take the insurance salesman with him to the world of podcasts.

WATCH: Toronto Star’s Alex Ballingall asks @PierrePoilievre about Prime Minister @MarkJCarney’s call with President Trump. “We need the Prime Minister to get a good deal, and fast.” Poilievre thinks a bad deal is better than no deal. We dodged a bullet. #cdnpoli

@andrew_leach @ArleneBynonShow I just read the Heritage Foundation editorial. Even if the claims are laughable, the threat should be taken very seriously

Just had the pleasure to join @ArleneBynonShow on Sirius XM to talk Lead not Leave and the upcoming referendum. Great conversation about, among other things, the Heritage Foundation piece this week on AB as the 51st state and source of spare oil production capacity for the US.

@paulvieira @MikePMoffatt @mattgurney And for that reason it is wise to wait until all of the yelling, screaming, & foot stamping has quieted to evaluate what really happened.

Fwiw, @MikePMoffatt told @mattgurney on The Line's midweek podcast that this is not a bailout (although a poorly, poorly explained policy measure with no real transparency)

@heynavtoor I use the Feynman method in Claude to help others understand difficult ideas. Another is the Orwell method based on Popitics & The English Language. Both explain really well but in slightly different ways

@themilomorrison Change but only for “those people”. Just don’t bother me or touch my stuff.

You don’t actually want change. You want the comfort of talking about change while keeping everything exactly the same. I write a weekly letter about the truths people avoid seeing. Read it here.

There is an old laptop in your closet. Gathering dust. Dead battery. Slow processor. You keep it because you feel guilty throwing it away. That laptop can replace every cloud subscription you pay for. - Netflix - Google - Dropbox - 1Password That is $42 a month. $504 a year. To rent things you used to own. The old laptop in your closet could do all of it. Now meet CasaOS. A free and open source system that turns any old laptop, Raspberry Pi, or mini PC into your own personal cloud. You run one command. In 30 minutes, the laptop becomes a server. You open it from your phone, your TV, your work computer, anywhere in the world. Then you pick the apps you want from a built-in store. One click each. - Jellyfin to replace Netflix. Stream every movie and show you own. - Immich to replace Google Photos. Faces and search included. - Nextcloud to replace Dropbox. Sync every file across every device. - Vaultwarden to replace 1Password. All your passwords, your keys. - Syncthing to keep files in sync across every device, no cloud. - Home Assistant to control every smart device in your home. - AdGuard to block ads on every device on your wifi. Setting up a home server the old way took an entire weekend. Install Linux. Learn Docker. Write config files. Set up storage. Fix errors. Look up every app one by one. CasaOS does all of that for you. No code. No config files. No Linux skills. You see icons on a screen. You click them. 34,116 stars on GitHub. Apache 2.0. Free forever. Built by a small team starting September 2021. Runs on Raspberry Pi, Intel NUC, old laptops, and most home servers. Over 100,000 Docker apps can be installed. A new Raspberry Pi costs $50. The old laptop in your closet costs $0. It already works. It is already in your house. Netflix charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. Google charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. Dropbox charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. 1Password charges every month. CasaOS doesn't. Here is the wild part. The laptop you forgot about is more powerful than the web server that ran most websites in 2008. It is sitting in a drawer. It costs you nothing. It already works. One command. Thirty minutes. Five hundred dollars a year back in your pocket. Your files. Your photos. Your movies. Your home. Your closet just became a data center.

@andrew_leach Inflation across all G20 countries is about the same. The small numeric differences are largely the way in which the “rate” is calculated by each. See Trevor Tombe for more. Everyone should focus on their own budgets; as I have. It’s likely to get worse.

I feel like something important might have happened recently that would affect inflation. Did the Liberals block the Strait of Hormuz?

@TheLaikYobaz It’s obviously fake. She’d rag doll his ass.

Bir Pakistan'lının yaptığı fotoşop yorumu sosyal medyada çok konuşuluyor: "Trump ve Meloni arasındaki tartışmada Pakistan'ın arabulucu olması bekleniyor."

@DrDebraSoh How women (largely) see the world in three dimensions when we can only see in two.

What confuses you the most about the opposite sex?

@acoyne Can’t be… they’re in Detroit

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@andrew_leach Come on Andrew, have some empathy….oh…. Never mind

Area business school professor learns that deferred taxes are owed on capital gains and that, when you leave the country permanently, you have to settle your accounts. Of course, if you'd prefer not to have the capital gains, I'll take your accounts off your hands at book value.

@JonFraserTF Come on have some empathy…. Oh, … never mind

He's paid taxes in Canada for decades and likely pays more in a year than you will in your lifetime. I think the departure tax is nothing short of extortion. You should also ask yourself why he's leaving in the first place.

@cbcwatcher I am, for one, tired of bailing out US automakers. They fucked us on the 2009 bailout loans. They’ve made junk since the mid 70s. Enough! Time to try others; & not just cars.

🚨Warning to Canadians: Mark Carney just referenced Brazil as a model for Chinese car manufacturing "We are only interested in Chinese investment in Canada." — but look what actually happened there In Brazil, Chinese brands like BYD flooded the market with cheap EVs, promising "investment" and local plants. Instead: Severe labor scandals with "slave-like" conditions on construction sites (overcrowded dorms, confiscated passports, exploited workers) 📉Local auto industry hammered — jobs lost, suppliers crushed, forcing Brazil to hike tariffs again to protect what's left 📉Heavy reliance on imports and Chinese supply chains, not real domestic manufacturing Now Carney's deal opens Canada to thousands of these subsidized Chinese EVs while pushing his EV mandates Europe has seen strikingly similar issues with Chinese car manufacturing and imports as Brazil, particularly labor exploitation involving Chinese migrant workers, economic threats to the local auto industry, and policy backlash via tariffs. The pattern mirrors Brazil's experience: rapid market penetration by subsidized Chinese EVs (BYD, Chery, etc), promises of local factories, but accompanied by controversies over working conditions, de-industrialization fears, and heavy reliance on Chinese supply chains/labour Our auto sector (Ontario jobs, supply chains) is already under pressure from US tariffs. Do we really want to repeat Brazil's mistakes — flooding the market with Beijing-backed cars at the expense of Canadian workers? Prioritize Buy Canadian and North American manufacturing, not cheap imports that come with hidden costs. Net Zero Carney keeps seeing his shadow

You have noticed it. ChatGPT feels dumber than it used to. Your prompts that worked six months ago produce worse results now. The writing sounds flatter. The ideas sound safer. The internet itself feels like it is shrinking. Every article reads the same. Every email sounds the same. Every answer sounds like it was written by the same voice. You thought it was you. It is not you. Researchers at Oxford and Cambridge published a paper in Nature proving what is happening. They call it Model Collapse. Here is the mechanism in one sentence. AI trained on AI-generated data gets dumber every generation until it forgets what real human data looked like. The internet is filling with AI-generated content. Blog posts. Articles. Reviews. Comments. Social media. AI companies scrape the internet to train the next generation of models. Which means the next generation of AI is being trained on the output of the current generation. Each cycle loses information. Not randomly. It loses the rarest, most unusual, most creative parts first. The researchers call these the "tails of the distribution." The weird ideas. The unexpected perspectives. The things that made the internet feel human. Those disappear first. What remains is the average. The safe. The expected. The bland. Then the next generation trains on that. And loses more. And the next generation trains on that. And loses more. The researchers proved this is not a slow decline. Major degradation happens within just a few iterations. Even when some of the original human data is preserved. They tested it on large language models. On image generators. On statistical models. The pattern was the same every time. The output converges toward a narrow, flattened version of reality that looks nothing like the original data. The lead researcher put it plainly. "Large language models are like fire. A useful tool. But one that pollutes the environment." The pollution is invisible. You cannot see which sentence on the internet was written by a human and which was written by AI. Neither can the AI that is about to train on it. And once the tails are gone, they do not come back. The damage is irreversible. This is not a prediction anymore. It is a diagnosis. The internet you grew up on was built by humans writing things no algorithm would have written. Strange, personal, imperfect, alive. That internet is being diluted. One generation of AI at a time. And the models trained on what remains are learning a smaller and smaller version of the world. Model Collapse is not a technical problem. It is a cultural one. The thing that made the internet worth reading is the thing that disappears first.