Jay Thakkar

Families in 🇨🇦 work *really* hard to survive. Policymakers don’t appreciate that fact, when they’re spending years of your labor with a stroke of a pen. They spend so much, people have a hard time fully comprehending these numbers. Let’s put it in context. <thread> 🧵👇

Less than a week since OpenAI started rolling out ChatGPT vision. And people have been busy executing god-like tasks. 35 truly mind-boggling examples: (29th is my favorite)

The largest data protection fine in EU history stems from the transfer of data across borders--to the US--with no showing of any ongoing access by impermissible third parties (such as the NSA) beyond that in Snowden disclosures or any deceptive use of information by Meta. 1/

1. Multiplex afterglow thread. Over the years I’ve spent a lot of time poking at Toronto’s residential land use frameworks. I want to spend a few tweets acknowledging how much things have begun to change as of late.