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Founder, @discolearn. Empowering communities to learn together. VP, https://t.co/9JJhkGQTB1 Host, https://t.co/nHyLfzlS5W, Proudly🇨🇦 ex @wattpad ex Board @coveo

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daniel debow
daniel debow@ddebow·
there are 150+ Jewish synagogues, schools and community centres in Toronto. two of the synagogues shot at last night were on this list. mere coincidence? or something else entirely? gtatoidf.com/institutions/
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Garry Tan
Garry Tan@garrytan·
We just went from horse-and-carriage to car. The old manuals still have truth in them, but the whole map of effort, speed, and leverage changed overnight. Building used to mean holding an entire system in your head. A fragile memory palace. A house of cards in biological primate RAM. If you stop, the palace collapses. Dinner, a meeting, a context switch. You come back and it’s glass dust on the floor. That’s why builders can look “antisocial.” It’s not vibes. It’s survival. You’re trying to get the palace out of your head and into code before it evaporates. Then the weird miracle: I type a few paragraphs that barely make sense on reread, and the machine builds the palace anyway. It mirrors the structure. It fills the gaps. It hands it back. The feeling is not “wow productivity.” The feeling is: I am seen. Like the part of you that has been translating yourself for 20 years finally gets understood on first contact. This is why the new skill is not “code faster.” It’s taste, direction, and leadership. Managing a swarm of agents. Running tight loops. Knowing what to ask for. And it brings back something old-school: apprenticeship. We forgot how to teach. Now teaching matters again, because the tools are insane but the mind behind them still has to be trained.
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Tarun Sachdeva@tarunsachdeva·
Introducing Traces A new way to share and discover traces from coding agents, and a small step to make AI more multiplayer. Here's how it works:
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daniel debow
daniel debow@ddebow·
last summer i tried to get a former senior govt official to understand what “globalize the intifada” means he said he had never heard of the phrase… maybe now he will understand.
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Build Canada
Build Canada@build_canada·
Canada's outdated capital gains policies are driving entrepreneurs and investors away. We need competitive tax reform to keep talent and investment here, building the businesses of tomorrow. Today, Canada has two policies to encourage builders to start businesses the Lifetime Capital Gains Exemption (LCGE) and a proposed Canadian Entrepreneur's Incentive (CEI). Together, these mean that instead of paying taxes on half their profits, business owners might only pay on one-third, or sometimes nothing at all—but only up to $3.25 million. But, these policies simply can’t compete with the US. The USA’s Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) lets entrepreneurs avoid taxes on up to $15 million in profits or ten times their original investment. That's five times more than Canada's maximum. What's more the QSBS excludes fewer categories of company and can be used per business rather than over the lifetime of a single individual. This means repeat entrepreneurs in Canada, who have a higher chance of building successful businesses are discouraged from trying again. While, entrepreneurs, early employees, and investors in the US can use the QSBS again and again for subsequent companies. The good news is that for the largest exits the gap between Canada and the US decreases due to a more competitive basic capital gains inclusion rate in Canada. This means that if we match the QSBS’s capital gains limit and exclusions it could actually give the Canadian policy an edge driving more investment in the country and supercharging our SMB ecosystem. However, if we leave the policy as it stands right now companies can never get started because investors and entrepreneurs are scared away. If we want to keep our entrepreneurs, Canada’s capital gains policies must become competitive with US policies. You can read the full memo at the link below:
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The Food Professor
The Food Professor@FoodProfessor·
Think your quality of life has declined since 2015? Data suggests you're right. In 2015, Canada ranked 9th for quality of life — considering factors like cost of living, climate, access to home ownership, and more. Today, it barely holds onto a spot in the top 30. ⬇️
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Chris Hadfield
Chris Hadfield@Cmdr_Hadfield·
A record 7.3 million Canadians have voted during advance polls - excellent! Democracy at work in the True North, Strong and Free. cbc.ca/news/politics/…
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Harley Finkelstein
Harley Finkelstein@harleyf·
Reminder that this is still a thing in Canada. We’re going to look back at whoever did this with disbelief in a couple of months I bet.
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Benjamin P Rollert
Benjamin P Rollert@benrollert·
such a good idea.
Build Canada@build_canada

The US has seen recent cuts to research funding, immigration crackdown, and political interference in universities. 75% of US scientists now say they're considering leaving. This is Canada's opportunity. Canada has long been a great destination for research. We've won 5 Nobel Prizes in Physics in the past decade. We boast strong academia, and world-class institutions in quantum and AI like Perimeter, Vector, and MILA. Immigrants make up an outsized portion of these institutions. They make up 26% of our nation's workforce but account for 35% of computer programmers, 42% of physicists, and 57% of chemists. This matches global trends – 42% of top-tier AI researchers work in a different country than they received their undergraduate degree. Amidst the uncertainty of the US, many researchers are eyeing Canada for its stable, supportive and high-quality environment. University of Toronto recently recruited multiple tenured Yale professors. This is a once-in-a-generation opportunity to absorb world-class talent that is disillusioned and displaced. But we must act fast. Other countries are already pouncing at the opportunity to poach them. We propose a Canada Discovery Visa: - Require $0 financial commitment - Take no more than 30 days to process - Require a Master's, PhD or PostDoc in at least one strategic area - Be granted based on merit and nomination from a Canadian research institution or company - Include consideration for one of the 1,000 Canadian Discovery Research Chairs What's more, we can ensure that for everyone who comes, their ideas stay, get commercialized, and build long-term wealth here: - Tie research grants to commercialization outcomes - Align our accelerators and incubators to support commercialization efforts - Provide a fast-track to permanent residency for immigrants who file patents or start businesses locally Read more at the memo below:

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Jean Philippe Fournier
Jean Philippe Fournier@JeanPFournier·
I read the liberal platform. I know a thing or two about govt budgets having worked for a Finance minister. This plan will lead to Canada losing its AAA credit rating. Markets were expecting (wrongfully) something serious to come from an ex-central banker. They were wrong. And mark my words they will react. The craziest thing in there is the creative accounting regarding investments vs. spending. Liberals will pretend that "investments" (I presume infrastructure? who knows cause there aren't any details!) don't count in the deficit, and so they will be able to "balance the budget" by 2030. Unfortunately, their 250 billion dollars (!!) in new spending will still add to the debt. You just won't see it. Canada, in its current state, can't afford this. As an economist, I honestly was expecting more from Carney.
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Build Canada
Build Canada@build_canada·
Introducing real-time Platform Tracker 🔎 - Track policies from major parties as they're announced - Compare promises by category - All cited back to the original source Link below 👇
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Shane Parrish
Shane Parrish@shaneparrish·
You can just do things. Ideas for a bolder, richer, freer country backed by Canadian entrepreneurs Introducing @build_canada
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tobi lutke
tobi lutke@tobi·
I’m disappointed that trump admin placed the 25% tariffs. I’m disappointed that this is our governments response. I love Canada and want it to thrive. I built Canada’s biggest tech company here because I know it’s a special place. Canada thrives when it works with America together. Win by helping America win. Trump believes that Canada has not held its side of the bargain, and he set terms to prove that we still work together: get the borders under control and crack down on fentanyl dens. These are things that every Canadian wants its government to do, too. These are not crazy demands, even if they came from an unpopular source. These tariffs are going to be devastating to so many people’s lives and small businesses. Action has to be judged based on what it leads to, not how good it sounds or feels. Leadership is about doing what’s right, not what is popular. And hitting back will not lead to anything good. America will shrug it off. Canada will decline. It’s simply the wrong choice in a possibility space where much better options would have been available.
Sheila Gunn Reid@SheilaGunnReid

BREAKING: Trudeau announces 25% tariffs on $155 billion worth of American goods, with a staggered application over the next three weeks.

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tobi lutke@tobi·
Every time you let the standards slip you set new standards. We are at the end of a long downwards spiral of standards slipping. Look, everyone can believe whatever they want. It’s not about beliefs, it’s about behavior, especially when it affects others. Law and order has to enforce behavior independent of causes. Somehow, some causes seem to be allowed behavior that would never be tolerated from other causes. This double standard has to stop. Imagine the cause here would be flatearthers against indigo for selling globes spamming pro 2D plane slogans. Cities can only function when there is a basic assumption of safety and decency. We must be more assertive with enforcing tenable norms. @oliviachow, we need your leadership here and in all the other unprecedented stuff going in our cities.
Brian Lilley@brianlilley

Absolute lunatics taking over the Eaton Centre in Toronto. They are targeting a Jewish owned business, Indigo. They also believe that you should be able to lead a normal life until they get what they want. Full support for terror attacks on Israel.

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