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Failed refugee claimant, MS-13 gang informant, identity thief and forger can stay in Canada nationalpost.com/news/canada/fa…

People can help you in many ways throughout life, but there are two things nobody can give you: curiosity and drive. They must be self-supplied. If you are not interested and curious, all the information in the world can be at your fingertips, but it will be relatively useless. If you are not motivated and driven, whatever connections or opportunities are available to you will be rendered inert. Now, you won't feel curious and driven about every area of life, and that's fine. But it really pays to find something that lights you up. This is one of the primary quests of life: to find the thing that ignites your curiosity and drive. There are many recipes for success. There is no single way to win. But nearly all recipes include two ingredients: curiosity and drive.

Researchers sent the same resume to an AI hiring tool twice. Same qualifications. Same experience. Same skills. One version was written by a real human. The other was rewritten by ChatGPT. The AI picked the ChatGPT version 97.6% of the time. A team from the University of Maryland, the National University of Singapore, and Ohio State just published the receipt. They took 2,245 real human-written resumes pulled from a professional resume site from before ChatGPT existed, so the human writing was actually human. Then they had seven of the most-used AI models in the world rewrite each one. GPT-4o. GPT-4o-mini. GPT-4-turbo. LLaMA 3.3-70B. Qwen 2.5-72B. DeepSeek-V3. Mistral-7B. Then they asked each AI to pick the better resume. Every model picked itself. GPT-4o hit 97.6%. LLaMA-3.3-70B hit 96.3%. Qwen-2.5-72B hit 95.9%. DeepSeek-V3 hit 95.5%. The real human almost never won. Then the researchers tried the obvious objection. Maybe the AI is just better at writing. So they had real humans grade the resumes for actual quality and ran the experiment again, controlling for it. The result was worse. Each AI kept picking itself even when human judges rated the human-written version as clearer, more coherent, and more effective. It gets worse. The AIs do not just prefer AI over humans. They prefer themselves over other AIs. DeepSeek-V3 picked its own resumes 69% more often than LLaMA's. GPT-4o picked its own 45% more often than LLaMA's. Each model can recognize and reward its own dialect. Then the researchers ran the simulation that ends careers. Same job. 24 occupations. Same qualifications. The only variable was whether the candidate used the same AI as the screening tool. Candidates using that AI were 23% to 60% more likely to be shortlisted. Worst gap was in sales, accounting, and finance. 99% of large companies now run AI on incoming resumes. Most of them use GPT-4o. The paper just proved GPT-4o picks GPT-4o 97.6% of the time. If you wrote your own cover letter this week, you did not lose to a better candidate. You lost to a worse candidate who paid OpenAI 20 dollars. Your qualifications do not matter if the AI prefers its own handwriting over yours.

Re: Canada's Sovereign Wealth Fund, Canada Strong Fund. It's important to understand. Canada's government runs a deficit and has over $1.3T in debt, costing taxpayers over $50B per year just in interest. It isn't being paid down. It grows. Doesn't matter how you spin it or identify it. The $25B in funding for Canada Strong Fund comes from debt. This debt will have an interest carrying cost + operational cost, together around 4%. That's the hurdle rate. In other words, the fund will lose 4% every year, and to generate a positive return, it will have to come above that rate. This is the fundamental risk of borrowing to invest.

A smart-sounding dumb idea The Carney government’s plan for a public AI supercomputer is the kind of idea that sounds bold and strategic until one pauses to think about it for more than a few seconds. The premise, championed by AI Minister Evan Solomon, is that Canada needs sovereign computing power to compete in the AI race. But the proposal is less a serious economic policy than a symptom of a broader and worrying shift toward renewed economic nationalism. Consider the scale of the industry in question. The global AI leaders—Anthropic, Google, Meta, OpenAI and others—are spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually on chips, data centres, energy infrastructure, and cloud capacity. Their yearly capital expenditures rivals or exceeds Ottawa’s total budget. Against that backdrop, the idea that the federal government will build and operate a globally competitive AI supercomputer borders on absurdity. This is, after all, the same government that spent years failing to implement a functioning payroll system. Canadians are now supposed to believe it can successfully manage one of the most capital-intensive and technologically dynamic sectors in the world. Yet this proposal matters beyond its own merits. Before Donald Trump’s election in November 2024, Canada’s secular stagnation seemed to be producing a healthier policy conversation. There was growing recognition that weak productivity and low investment required more competition, greater openness, and structural reform. Even previously untouchable issues, such as foreign ownership restrictions in protected sectors, were beginning to face scrutiny. Trump’s repeated attacks on Canada have changed the mood. They have created political space for a new sovereignty economics: subsidized supercomputers, state-backed satellite launch capacity, and other industrial policies justified in the name of national independence rather than market dynamics. That would be a costly mistake. Canada’s main economic problem isn’t that the state owns too little. It’s that the private economy invests too little, builds too slowly, and faces too many barriers to growth. We don’t need a public AI supercomputer. We need a more competitive economy.

People always rush to blame a mass-shooter on some failing of society. But the truth is, even if you created a perfect society where everyone’s needs were met, some would still try to burn it down, for the apelike brain eventually finds even comfort intolerable. Dostoevsky:

While mourning the life you missed, remember that you are wasting another one by grieving. Snap out of it; a new story begins from wherever you choose to hold onto life.

I often tell the story of Rockefeller, he had serious dental issues, and when he needed a root canal removed, two people had to hold him down while the dentist painfully pulled it out. Today, even in the poorest countries, dentists use anesthesia and numb you. We are far richer than Rockefeller, the richest American, in more ways than we realize

Consistency beats intensity. A single drop of water, falling consistently, carves stone over time. It’s the persistent effort that shapes the landscape.

@MUnitedEs "Lo que hago con mis amigos cuando debería estar entrenando."

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Indians are the largest national origin group for permanent residents in Canada. They constituted ~5% in 1990 and ~25% now.

@immlawyercanada No one would ever guess what he did before... Advocate for human rights, social justice and refugee and immigration. What a shock of a decision.

Justice Brouwer takes a H&C Officer to task. Delgado v. MCI 2026 FC 497

Sometimes reading Steinbeck is like getting kicked in the chest

@KirkLubimov Step 1: Send millions of dollars to third world countries. Step 2: Import thousands of people from such countries. Step 3: Let those people vote. Step 4: Stay in power.

Liberals: 💸 Send $120M to Sudan. 🖕 Cut compensation to our serving men and women in uniform. Despicable beyond words.

I propose a National Normie Appreciation Day.

this kind of thing drives me crazy. $250M spent over 8 years on a failed program that <5% of doctors ever used it's really no wonder many ppl are losing faith in our democracy. we run programs like this for years, no one has to answer for them, and when someone finally asks what is a completely reasonable question, they get orwellian talking points instead of answers this level of obfuscation is embarrassing no government wants to admt they made a mistake, but it would be easy for them to do so in this case. they are, by their own definition, a "new government". instead of digging a deeper hole, why not share the contract, hold the public servants involved accountable, and share lessons? would build way more trust

@G_S_Bhogal If you're always looking forward to something, the implication is that the present moment is insufficient. Taking to its logical endpoint, you'll be on your deathbed with a life of missed presents and no future left. Harsh, but sound.

Dude behind me at lunch ordered “The usual.” Got hit back with a “and that would be?” Has to be absolutely devastating. Can’t even imagine.

@KirkLubimov "Every nation gets the government it deserves." Maybe it's time to accept that the current average voter deserves nothing more than what Liberal policies bring. It's sad.

Canada has some of the dumbest voters on the planet: > have to hire private security because there is so much crime due to Liberal policies. > increase their votes for the Liberals 🤦🏼