David Crome

‼️”How did we get a progressive conservative government running up the debt by 44% in 8 years? With $500 billion deficit, Ontario under Doug Ford is the largest subnational government deficit in the world! That’s absolutely INSANE!” 🇨🇦 youtu.be/oFYVEjY0H3Q?si… #Onpoli #CndPoli

Today I wish Ontario hadn't wasted: -$2.2 billion on an Austrian spa -$1 billion on an unneeded Science Centre -$1.4 billion on early alcohol sales everywhere -$3.2 billion on election bribe cheques Every billion mattered. thestar.com/politics/provi…

After Bethlenfalvy said, "Ontario doesn't have a revenue problem. Ontario has a spending problem," Trumper Ford called the new Science Centre design "stunning," it comes with a $1B price tag. The original building could’ve been repaired for $40M.

@OrevaZSN @Chasingharmony1 Think of those who lived through WW1, Spanish Flu, Russian Revolution, the Holdomor, WW2, Holocaust, Great Leap Forward, communist Europe, fascist Spain, Apartheid SA, Cold War, Middle East etc. etc. Pretty minor in the scheme of things.

COVID-19 might have been 6 years ago, but it took a toll on us. Nobody remained the same. Time feels faster. The energy feels off. People are colder & more detached. Careers paused, some lost their identity. some are still stuck. The world we knew never really came back.

@SteveRae11 @FoodProfessor @RealAndyLeeShow

@FoodProfessor Hat tip @RealAndyLeeShow.

What happened to The Globe and Mail? Serious question...

Why is it always about booze with this guy?

🚨 Stanford just analyzed the privacy policies of the six biggest AI companies in America. Amazon. Anthropic. Google. Meta. Microsoft. OpenAI. All six use your conversations to train their models. By default. Without meaningfully asking. Here's what the paper actually found. The researchers at Stanford HAI examined 28 privacy documents across these six companies not just the main privacy policy, but every linked subpolicy, FAQ, and guidance page accessible from the chat interfaces. They evaluated all of them against the California Consumer Privacy Act, the most comprehensive privacy law in the United States. The results are worse than you think. Every single company collects your chat data and feeds it back into model training by default. Some retain your conversations indefinitely. There is no expiration. No auto-delete. Your data just sits there, forever, feeding future versions of the model. Some of these companies let human employees read your chat transcripts as part of the training process. Not anonymized summaries. Your actual conversations. But here's where it gets genuinely dangerous. For companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon companies that also run search engines, social media platforms, e-commerce sites, and cloud services your AI conversations don't stay inside the chatbot. They get merged with everything else those companies already know about you. Your search history. Your purchase data. Your social media activity. Your uploaded files. The researchers describe a realistic scenario that should make you pause: You ask an AI chatbot for heart-healthy dinner recipes. The model infers you may have a cardiovascular condition. That classification flows through the company's broader ecosystem. You start seeing ads for medications. The information reaches insurance databases. The effects compound over time. You shared a dinner question. The system built a health profile. It gets worse when you look at children's data. Four of the six companies appear to include children's chat data in their model training. Google announced it would train on teenager data with opt-in consent. Anthropic says it doesn't collect children's data but doesn't verify ages. Microsoft says it collects data from users under 18 but claims not to use it for training. Children cannot legally consent to this. Most parents don't know it's happening. The opt-out mechanisms are a maze. Some companies offer opt-outs. Some don't. The ones that do bury the option deep inside settings pages that most users will never find. The privacy policies themselves are written in dense legal language that researchers people whose job is reading these documents found difficult to interpret. And here's the structural problem nobody is addressing. There is no comprehensive federal privacy law in the United States governing how AI companies handle chat data. The patchwork of state laws leaves massive gaps. The researchers specifically call for three things: mandatory federal regulation, affirmative opt-in (not opt-out) for model training, and automatic filtering of personal information from chat inputs before they ever reach a training pipeline. None of those exist today. The uncomfortable truth is this: every time you type something into ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Meta AI, Copilot, or Alexa, you are contributing to a training dataset. Your medical questions. Your relationship problems. Your financial details. Your uploaded documents. You are not the customer. You are the curriculum. And the companies doing this have made it as hard as possible for you to stop.

It is clear Raymond Moriyama was more then the architect of the OSC building. He was a visionary founding father, celebrated and honoured by the Ontario Science Centre itself. The soul of @OntScienceCtr torn down by Doug Ford, for 🇺🇸 tourism. #ontario #toronto #onpoli #topoli

"These guys wanna spend over a billion - that's with a 'B' - of your hard-earned tax $ to build a new Science Centre, when donors offered to fix the old one for free? It's like they think $ grows on trees!!!" 🤨 - Doug Ford, if Lib/NDP did this. #onpoli thestar.com/politics/provi…

“The original centre was conceived as an instrument for discovery. Its terraces, bridges and ravine setting turned science into a spatial experience. The new building promises a different kind of education: It is a maze of spin and broken promises.”

Ontario is the worst-managed province in the country!

The Ontario Science Centre is an architectural masterpiece that engages beautifully with its ravine setting. Its quality of design and build will never be matched in a new facility. It is also located on two major transit lines, and with easy access to DVP/401/404.

USA eases out Kazakhstan, Columbia and Ethiopia for 48th place in world’s reputational index. Meanwhile Canada……

To car makers: Trump ‘You guys go build gasoline cars again’. The Chinese ‘You go build the most advanced vehicles that are going take over the world.’ With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules nytimes.com/2026/02/16/cli… via @NYTimes

Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.

"I say this reluctantly, but honestly. Before AI, my opposition to universal basic income was rooted in a world that no longer exists. I assumed work would always be available for those willing to do it. That assumption is now obsolete." Another UBI opponent just flipped.

@PeterRMacIsaac @MelissaRedpill Sold our resources for 30 years and we still do way less trade than USA. Been to Walmart or used a phone lately. thenarwhal.ca/harper-governm…

🤦🏽‍♀️ Mark Carney is an idiot and a globalist puppet. Who agrees with me?

@Breebayou @MelissaRedpill That was Conservative prime minister Harper . Bot. thenarwhal.ca/harper-governm…

@MelissaRedpill Carney sold Canada to China. Literally SOLD Canada.