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@ABC Smart..next government shut down no one is calling in sick!

The Department of Homeland Security is giving TSA agents bonuses of up to $10,000 for those who worked during the shutdown, according to Secretary Kristi Noem. abcnews.link/0GRg5bM

My arrived at 2pm for langdale ferry yesterday with reservation and was put into side holding lot and waited 11 hours to get on a ferry at 1am, the car was bixed in woth the other cars and so they were unable to leave being held in effect hostage. Totally mismanaged, there were many lanes available to move cars to so some could go home if they wanted but bc ferries kept them there. Someone should be fired and ther should be a lawsuit for being held against their will for 11 hours

#BCFHeadsUp It's expected to be a busy #Easter weekend for travel on the coast. It will be particularly busy on the #HorseshoeBay – #DepartureBay and #HorseshoeBay – #Langdale routes. Standby availability will be limited on peak travel days. Learn more: ow.ly/x3lG50VAmAO

My family arrived at 2pm with a reservation for 3 ferry at langdale, put into a side holding lot that they could not leave from and waited 11 hours for a final ferry. Whoever was in charge should be fired. Because their car was boxed in they were unable to leave, in effect being held histage

Another day, another breakdown for BC Ferries under David Eby’s failed leadership. Families and commuters were stranded for hours between Langdale and Horseshoe Bay after yet another BC Ferries mechanical failure. No backup, no contingency, no communication—just a tugboat scrambling to fix the chaos. BC Ferries has become the symbol of this government’s neglect: aging vessels, unreliable service, and a public left in the dark. Billions spent on bloated bureaucracy, yet people still can’t get home safely or on time. British Columbians deserve better. As Transportation Critic, I’ll keep holding them accountable. This is unacceptable.

⛏️ Latest: Crypto mining firm @HIVEDigitalTech to deploy $30M in NVIDIA H100 and H200 GPU clusters in Quebec to drive #AI expansion.

@elonmusk amazing

Starlink terminals will now work automatically without need for payment in the areas affected by Hurricane Helene

@ElonMNews I love X, but I named my company InvestX so i am biased

@1Password your support is terrible. no phone support, click on the email support and brings to a general page. The 1pass won't sync in multi browsers and computers so it is not keeping passwords up to date from my main office computer. how do i fix this

@elonmusk Elon, I will shave the new X phone on the other side of my head if I could be one of the first to buy the X phone!

And visitors will have to check their Apple devices at the door, where they will be stored in a Faraday cage

If Apple integrates OpenAI at the OS level, then Apple devices will be banned at my companies. That is an unacceptable security violation.

@rossiadam Stop thinking

Honest question, not meant to be provocative: On all the streaming services there are new categories like “Black Voices” or “LGBTQ Perspectives”. Does anyone use these genre categories? Is the expectation that people in these identity categories would choose to watch that programming? For example, I go to the “Science Fiction” genre because that is what I am interested in. If there was a genre that described some aspect of my identify (“Italian American Male Perspectives”) I would skip it, because it would not be at all descriptive of what the content was. Is it a drama? Documentary? Romantic Comedy? Does anyone use these identify genres to discover content?

The government's pension funds should be investing in the best companies that create the risk adjusted returns they need to take care of Canadians, not a mandated amount. If the government wants to support the Canadian startup econsystem, scaleup companies or larger enterprises, it should invest in our education system and attracting the best VCs and capital sources to setup their capital and capital allocation talent in Canada, similar to the Israel's government did. Candians can build world class companies that deserve Canadian goverment and global investors capital.

Nice to see the largest Canadian enterprises coming out to call out CDN sovereign wealth funds for generally contributing minimally to domestic development. lba.ca/publication/op…

@anymanfitness @AbigailShrier Great summary thanks

Just finished this book - Bad Therapy by @AbigailShrier This is one of the most eye-opening books I've ever read. It's a must read for any parent, any teacher, and should be required reading for any school administrator as well. The book dives into trying to figure out why kids are having so many mental health problems, when there are so many resources devoted to improving mental health outcomes. Anxiety, depression, suicide, etc are all higher than they've ever been with kids, even though their lives are arguably better than ever before. It just doesn't make sense. A few key takeaways from the book: A constant attention on how kids are "feeling" or "thinking" is causing negative outcomes. Constantly ruminating on your emotions and how you feel negatively impacts your mental health. If all you do is focus on your emotions, you are destined to be anxious or depressed. We incessantly ask kids how they're feeling, if they're happy, how their mental health is, etc, and this is creating kids who think they're fragile instead of resilient. Trying to solve every problem for kids has caused a generation who can't do anything for themselves. We (Gen X) were told to "suck it up" or "you'll live" or "rub some dirt on it" all the time. Many of us came to the conclusion this is "bad parenting" because our feelings were neglected, and we vowed not to do this to our own children. Because of that, kids immediately over-dramatize everything that happens to them, making mountains out of molehills, and thinking the world must revolve around their emotions and feelings. You develop confidence and strong mental health by doing things, not by thinking or via therapy. You can't think your way out of anxiety. You don't gain confidence by analysis of your thoughts or mental health issues. You gain confidence and eliminate anxiety by doing gradually more difficult tasks, excelling at them, and realizing you are a competent, capable person. The non-stop attention therapy gives to these small, common emotions we all feel blows them out of proportion to their seriousness (not talking about genuine disorders here, just normal anxieties that millions of people go to therapy to try to avoid). One of the best ways to decrease your happiness is to chase it. Our society constantly tells kids they should be "happy" and asks them if they are. Happiness isn't a state you should be in 24/7. That's not realistic. Joy and bliss aren't permanent states - they are fleeting. Contentment, stillness, and being even-keeled are much better goals to aim for mentally. The happiest, most well adjusted kids come from families with loving parents that have strict rules for the household. This one really set off the confirmation bias in me... I feel really blessed we have 2 well adjusted middle school kids who do great in school, are very respectful and well mannered, and we barely even need to parent them. But for years, we were very strict with them. Bedtimes, family rules, how we do things, etc. The in-laws and lots of friends thought we were totalitarian. In reality, we just had high standards. And it's really paying off right now. I found it really interesting that strict rules equals happy kids. Makes sense, though, as kids need to know what their boundaries are. Constantly surveying school-age kids about their mental health causes more issues than it solves. Mental health resources is big money. Districts need to validate all the resources allocated towards mental health, and they often do that via surveys. Asking kids non-stop questions like: - Have you thought about self harm? - Have you thought about suicide? - Have you been so anxious you can't get out of bed? Etc, etc puts into their heads the idea that themselves, or many of their peers are broken and cannot function properly in the real world. It normalizes situations that would be incredibly rare at any other time in history. There's a lot of other takeaways, too, but I'll stop there. It's a fantastic book. Go pick it up and read it. This isn't an affiliate thing or a promotion thing at all. I just really enjoyed it, and it will further shape the way I parent moving forward.

@elonmusk TurdO

I can’t believe Gemini made these unfair pics of Truedough

If anyone knows @elonmusk or @JaredBirchall would you please forward this message to him! Elon, I was so inspired by a tour of SpaceX in 2009 that you gave us with some of my entrepreneur friends that I named my investment company InvestX Capital. Could we please be an investor in X and Xai. I shaved an X into my head to show you our enthusiasm! #marcusforX #XAI #X #ElonMusk

@BillAckman @Harvard @MIT @Penn disgraceful and so very sad, where are the leaders with values that inspire people instead of lawyers

The presidents of @Harvard, @MIT, and @Penn were all asked the following question under oath at today’s congressional hearing on antisemitism: Does calling for the genocide of Jews violate [your university’s] code of conduct or rules regarding bullying or harassment? The answers they gave reflect the profound moral bankruptcy of Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth. Representative @EliseStefanik was so shocked with the answers that she asked each of them the same question over and over again, and they gave the same answers over and over again. In short, they said: It ‘depends on the context’ and ‘whether the speech turns into conduct,’ that is, actually killing Jews. This could be the most extraordinary testimony ever elicited in the Congress, certainly on the topic of genocide, which to remind us all is: “the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group” The presidents’ answers reflect the profound educational, moral and ethical failures that pervade certain of our elite educational institutions due in large part to their failed leadership. Don’t take my word for it. You must watch the following three minutes. By the end, you will be where I am. They must all resign in disgrace. If a CEO of one of our companies gave a similar answer, he or she would be toast within the hour. Why has antisemitism exploded on campus and around the world? Because of leaders like Presidents Gay, Magill and Kornbluth who believe genocide depends on the context. To think that these are the leaders of Ivy League institutions that are charged with the responsibility to educate our best and brightest. On the bright side, our congressional leaders deserve accolades for showing tremendous leadership and moral clarity in their statements, by the questions they asked, and the respectfulness with which they conducted the hearing. It was a masterclass of how our government and democracy should operate. If you have time, please watch the entire hearing. Throughout the hearing, the three behaved like hostile witnesses, exhibiting a profound disdain for the Congress with their smiles and smirks, and their outright refusal to answer basic questions with a yes or no answer.

@EmmanuelAcho your an idiot to leave cousins off your list and put geno and dak on it, I say that in a nice way..nevertheless I question whether you follow the sport! (G)

@HandlerRich Brilluant

It’s summer intern season! 15 real pieces of advice I wish I was given when I first started as an intern on Wall Street:

Thanks All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg for being my top podcast on @Spotify this year. I loved all 572 minutes of it. #SpotifyWrapped open.spotify.com/show/2IqXAVFR4…

#oslerblockchain What issues liability are there accepting crypto currency.  Is there a requirement to check if it hit the dark web?

@BCTransit drivers having a nap while passengers wait at multiple stops for buses that never showed up