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@HedgieMarkets @AskPerplexity Is this legally actionable?

🦔Esquire Singapore published an AI-generated interview with Mackenyu, the actor who plays Roronoa Zoro in Netflix's live-action One Piece, because he was too busy to attend in person. The magazine fed transcripts from his previous interviews into Claude and Copilot to generate new responses, then published the result with a note that it was produced with AI and edited by humans. Mackenyu never responded to their emails and his talent agency has not promoted the piece. The AI-generated interview includes a passage about the pressures of living up to his late father, legendary action star Sonny Chiba. My Take There is a version of AI in journalism that makes sense. Transcription, research assistance, fact checking, summarization. This is not that. Esquire couldn't get an interview so they generated one using a model trained on things the subject had said before and published it as if it represented his current thoughts and voice. Mackenyu never agreed to this and almost certainly doesn't know it exists. Saying they had a driving need for a feature and had to be inventive should make every reader of any publication nervous about what they're actually reading. The driving need was a content slot. Inventing quotes from a real person and publishing them, regardless of what tool you used to invent them, is fabrication. Disclosing the AI involvement doesn't change that, and generating emotional statements about deeply personal subjects on someone's behalf without their consent is not a creative solution to a scheduling problem. Hedgie🤗

@awg_allan Six weeks ago, Canada had sufficient infrastructure to maintain gas prices around $1.30/L. Then something changed to make prices - everywhere - go up. It wasn’t that all of a sudden, we didn’t have enough infra.

World price is what?

@ColeYoungMVP @TopGunInThe6ix 👍🏻 I’d also put the TTC at rush hour over the Leafs.

@TopGunInThe6ix Forgot to put “random homeless men fighting” over the maple leafs

Ranking Toronto Sports Organizations 1. Blue Jays 2. Raptors 3. Argos 4. TFC 5. Tempo 6. Blue Jays Twitter 7. Raptors Twitter 8. Soccer Twitter 9. Toronto Tempo NonExistent Twitter 10. Maple Leafs

@HedgieMarkets Linux for the win.

🦔Microsoft is testing a change in Edge that automatically launches the browser every time you sign into Windows 11, without asking permission first. A banner appears after the fact informing users that Edge now starts with Windows and offering an opt-out. The change is currently in Edge beta and appears to be a phased rollout. Microsoft has been pushing Edge as the default browser since Windows 11 launched in 2021, including previously blocking registry hacks users were using to change default app behavior. My Take Microsoft has been trying to make Edge happen since 2021 and the browser has not become dominant despite being bundled with every Windows installation on the planet. At some point the honest conclusion is that people who want to use Edge are already using it and the ones who aren't have made a deliberate choice. Starting a browser automatically on every login without asking is not a feature, it is a resource consumption tax on users who already said no. This fits with what Microsoft has been doing more generally. Copilot injected into GitHub pull requests without disclosure. Recall screenshots being uploaded to servers. Now a browser auto-launching on startup by default. Each individual decision has a product rationale behind it but collectively they describe a company that has decided the path to engagement is removing the ability to say no rather than building something people want to use. Given that Microsoft is having its worst start to a year this century and needs to show returns on billions in AI investment, the pressure to monetize attention wherever it can be captured is understandable. That does not make it less annoying. Hedgie🤗

@chirurgus84 @TiffMoodNukes Haha. Won’t get that far. Bombs fly, global economy kaput, billionaire escapes to bunker. Head of Security: “nice bunker u built for me”. Bang. Bunker’s security team’s loyalty is to the security head. Net net, comfy safe security team, one dead billionaire.

Yo, billionaires digging luxury bunkers in Hawaii and New Zealand like it's Black Friday for the apocalypse? Zuckerberg's "basement" and Thiel's NZ fortress. Cute. White House getting a fancy new underground pad too? Come on, man. These rich dudes ain't getting secret texts from the Illuminati; they're just cowards with cash who binge too much dystopian Netflix. God forbid the nukes fly? What are we normies gonna do? Die. Fast. Flash, BOOM... Vaporized. The "lucky" ones? Radiation, no food, Mad Max with beans and radiation burns. Elites sipping wine underground while we glow in the dark? Hilarious. Their bunkers won't save 'em from the real horror: emerging to a world full of pissed-off survivors who know exactly who hid. Real talk... Prevent this shit or we're all fucked. But hey, at least the rich get first-class tickets to the end times. What a flex. 😂

PAY CLOSE ATTENTION It should alarm every human on earth that chosen billionaires were told to build nuclear bunkers in specific locations Makes ya wonder why a *second subterranean fallout nuclear bunker has been built beneath the newly constructed White House *ballroom

@BiankaB12 @theliamnissan There are 3: impeachment vote in the House followed by 2/3 vote to remove in the Senate, 25th amendment where his cabinet votes to remove due to incapacity, or he resigns In the face of the inevitable (like Nixon).

@theliamnissan Is there even a mechanism for removing a sitting U.S. president?

I'm not kidding, the only way to avert a devastating global energy crisis and war is to leak the Epstein files and remove Donald Trump from office. It needs to happen right now

@darioperkins China is an advanced economy. And they seem to be crushing the US at every turn. (And that was before this latest move where the US shot itself in every imaginable body part).

Because whenever people say "all scenarios lead to X", X never happens. And if the US economy does "break", it is likely to break faster than most other advanced economies, where labour hoarding is the norm.

"While the US will continue to outperform other advanced economies under almost any war scenario..." Bookmark that

@stphnmaher It’s a gesture of condolence. He should have made the effort to be as condolency as possible. But, not unlike plane crashes, there’s rarely one single cause for an incident. Likely same is true here.

I find these complaints all ignore the fact that it was not smart of him to alienate customers in the second largest province. Not good businessing.

@Lawsome_ Possibly “he couldn't comfortably express himself in French.” But the position he was in required him to rise. Instead, he fell. Those who value personal accountability are 100% good with this outcome.

Absolutely absurd. Bullied out of a job because he couldn't comfortably express himself in French.

@Diogenes1 @ianbremmer @Diogenes1 has it figured out. As well as offering Trump a cut of Hormuz passage tolls, they should start negotiating for T3: “Trump Tower Tehran”. The bombing would stop in an instant.

@ianbremmer Or that it becomes the new Suez Canal - if Iran was clever it would offer Trump a 10% cut of every $1m charge it imposes on a tanker

the global trading system is quietly repricing around a world where the strait of hormuz is a war zone. not a headline. the new baseline.

@greenplanetfish @Microinteracti1 This response scores a direct hit on the target.

@Microinteracti1 Are expensive jets/missiles or cheap drones more profitable to the military industrial complex?

The video is seductive. A fighter jet, twin engines blazing, taking fuel at 30,000 feet. It looks like power. It looks like the future. It is neither. The manned fighter jet is one of the most expensive objects a democracy can operate. Training a single combat-ready pilot costs between seven and eight million dollars and takes the better part of three years. The aircraft itself burns through roughly $27,000 every hour it is airborne, before anything goes wrong and something always goes wrong. Then consider what happens on a typical mission. The aircraft launches, flies for five to seven hours, burning through $135,000 to $190,000 in operating costs before a single weapon leaves the wing. It carries perhaps six to nine missiles, each costing anywhere from $300,000 to over a million dollars depending on type. That is the full arsenal. Six to nine shots. After that, the most expensive flying machine in history turns around and goes home. For decades, that cost was justified by what those missiles could do. Nothing in the sky could survive them. The logic was sound. Then someone in a warehouse glued an engine to a set of wings, added a cheap GPS chip, and sent ten thousand of them toward their enemies for less than the cost of a single intercept. In the first week of Operation Epic Fury, Iran fired over 500 ballistic missiles and nearly 2,000 drones at U.S. bases and Israeli cities, burning through over 800 Patriot interceptor missiles in three days.  Lockheed Martin produced roughly 600 Patriot interceptors in all of 2025. Iran consumed more than that in 72 hours. A Shahed drone costs around $30,000. A single Patriot interceptor costs millions.  The asymmetry is structural. Ukraine’s “Spider’s Web” operation used 117 drones hidden in cargo trucks to inflict an estimated $7 billion in damage on Russian strategic bombers at a total cost of roughly $234,000. For every dollar spent attacking, defenders lost $30,000 in assets.  A manned fighter carrying nine missiles cannot survive this arithmetic. It launches, burns $150,000 getting to the fight, expends its rack against a swarm of cheap drones, and returns empty while the next wave is already inbound. Ukraine built interceptor drones for between $1,000 and $2,500 each and moved them from prototype to mass production within months.  The Pentagon spent decades perfecting the opposite approach. The manned fighter is obsolete because the threat it was designed to defeat has been replaced by one it cannot economically engage. Capability without sustainability is just an expensive way to lose slowly. The video is beautiful. The paradigm it represents is finished. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

@Rebecca98869736 @vtchakarova ”The world” is a meaningless aggregate. The oil shock will be ~zero in some places, much more significant in others. Billions will feel significant impact.

@vtchakarova The world will survive -10% oil for 6 months or a year, no need to panic.

Unless we get a “sudden” announcement of major technological breakthrough in the field of nuclear fusion or the field of renewables (storage, batteries, etc), I just don’t see how the world will survive this scale of physical scarcity & its cascading effects on the global system.

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@Dred_Tory Add to that list Iran 1953 when the US orchestrated a coup that installed the Shah and set this entire sh!tshow in motion.

When people say the US hasn't learned anything since Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, or Vietnam, they're drastically understating the case. The Americans haven't learned anything since 1815. Arrogance and messianic delusions of invincibility are pedagogically problematic.

@nationalpost An exclusively French Air Canada would be weird.

Jesse Kline: Tell me again why Air Canada must be officially bilingual nationalpost.com/opinion/tell-m…

@RazePS3 @JohnnyAGI @TeresaNMB @WhiteHouse Canadian here. It's pronounced "out and about".

@JohnnyAGI @TeresaNMB @WhiteHouse Correction: You were oot and aboot! 🍁

Taking the job seriously, are we?

@sebbydavies @lisaabramowicz1 We’ve known for 50 yrs we need to reduce dependence on Gulf oil. Instead, this. The world will continue to decarbonize out of necessity. Complacency (oils shocks good for Canada) risks putting it behind the curve. The real opportunities Canada needs to seize lie in clean energy.

@lisaabramowicz1 Sustained Hormuz friction reprices energy risk into a multi-year structural premium rather than a temporary spike. Institutional portfolios start overweighting assets that trade independently of regional supply shocks. I biased, but Canadian energy looks good here.

BlackRock's Larry Fink: If Iran remains a threat after the bombing stops, there could be "years of above $100, closer to $150 oil, which has profound implications in the economy" and an outcome of "a probably stark and steep recession." (1/2) bbc.com/news/articles/…

@_Investinq Recession odds now 30%. What does that make depression odds? 40%?

Goldman Sachs just raised US recession odds to 30%, the third bump in 90 days. Growth is slipping below potential, oil is stuck around crisis levels, and credit is tightening into a weakening jobs market. This is what the start of a recession actually looks like in real time. open.substack.com/pub/stockmktne…

@edels0n Who cares if AI was used to write something? (Outside of school, anyway). - What are the ideas in the piece? - Are they clearly presented and supported? - Are they relevant? - Are they correct? Thats more of what matters.

What’s the clearest tell that someone used AI to write something? I’ll start: “That’s not X. That’s Y.”