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@jwhittenbergK5 @nytimes He’s just proving PM Carney’s speech now. Its embarrassing

via @nytimes at Davos

@danwwang I just finished Breakneck and I really love it! My spouse doesn’t usually read nonfiction but she is hooked too. I’m curious as a Canadian how you see Canada compared to both countries too; does it feel like the same US limitations or something more?

@mattyglesias I saw a poster in my boxing gym that they're accepting HSA/FSA payments now. I need to grab a picture next time I'm in

4 - Educated, Tara Westover 3 - The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King 2 - Demon Copperhead, Barbara Kingsolver 1 - James, Percival Everett

7 - The Arsenal of Democracy: FDR, Ford Motor Company, and Their Epic Quest to Arm an America at War, A.J. Baime 6 - On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle 5 - Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, Death, and Hope in a Mumbai Undercity, Katherine Boo

Top 10 of the 56 books I read this year 10 - The War of the End of the World, Mario Vargas Llosa 9 - Under the Eye of the Big Bird, Hirami Kawakami 8 - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Taylor Jenkins Reid …

@Noahpinion Purple pink brown are peak . A bunch of these I don’t want tyvm

I've already collected pink, brown, and green in real life. Working on blue and purple rn.

That's almost pro-renewable! > Prioritize the interconnection of reliable, dispatchable power sources as quickly as possible and embrace new energy generation sources at the technological frontier (e.g., enhanced geothermal, nuclear fission, and nuclear fusion).

"Empower American Workers in the Age of AI" is pretty weak, no new funding to support? > Led by DOL, leverage _available_ discretionary funding, where appropriate, to fund rapid retraining for individuals impacted by AI-related job displacement [...]

Came out pretty great! llama.cpp server, speech-to-text (whisper) and text-to-speech (gtts).

Finished the Disappearing Spoon, @sam_kean ! Excellent book, learned a lot of new stuff. Especially enjoyed the bubble section and learning about sonoluminescence, that was neat

@MikeIsaac But that’s part of the experience! No matter how bad the flight is, you can feel delighted that you aren’t sitting in JFK anymore

imagine going to the airport and not sitting on the ground next to a broken power outlet with a 17 dollar bone dry turkey wrap in your hand smdh

@JuniperViews @chasedownleads @TheStalwart Same, but I’ll charge 2x more than either! You may assume you’ll see 2x the financial freedom

@chasedownleads @TheStalwart Me too. I’ll undercut this guy by $5

Nobody (including anyone at the Fed) knows what's going to unfold economically

Thank you, Canada.    Our strength lies in our resolve to work together. United, we will build Canada strong.

Canada votes tomorrow, and it is blessed to have one of the most fair, secure and accessible voting systems of any democracy. Here's how: 1) Paper Based: every ballot is paper-based and counted by hand. Each ballot is secured by a signature from the local poll officer, so ballot stuffing is impossible. 2) Open Counting - every candidate can send observers (scrutineers) to watch the count, ensuring that it is accurate. I've volunteered to do this many times. Ballot boxes are opened and the ballots placed on a table, and counted in front of everyone. 3) Voter-ID - Every eligible voter gets a voting card in the mail telling them where to vote. This is based on a central voters list which is automatically compiled and updated based on tax returns and other info. This card serves as their ID. If they don't get a card in the mail, they can get added to the voters list with photo ID and a recent bill showing their address. There's no controversy over 'voter-ID' that there is in the US, and no attempts to keep voters off the list. 4) Accessible and Neutral - No election materials are allowed in or near polling stations. Polling stations are everywhere, well advertised, and often walking distance in towns and cities. 5) Limited Corporate Money - No corporate or union donations are allowed for any candidate. They can only accept personal donations, which are capped at $1750 a year, and parties get a subsidy from the government based on how many votes they got in the last election. 6) No Gerrymandering - Electoral districts are set by a non-partisan committee every 10 years, and are fairly simple geometric shapes, nothing like what we see in the US. Make sure to get out and vote tomorrow!

As to Doordash a blooming onion from Outback Steakhouse, you pay a fixed price now and receive it later, it is therefore a futures contract and thus illegal under the Onion Futures Act

@jwhittenbergK5 That’s great!

BREAKING: Girls flag football is now an official high school sport in WA state.

More interesting terrain and adding shadows. (also why are my gifs looking so laggy? Using ScreenToGif)

Its a corg! #threejs #blender

@KidinaSandbox @JeanPFournier I don’t much like Poilievre, and imo there’s lots else to complain about, so I’m confused why this particular issue is important to voters?

@pbnjamf @JeanPFournier I think plenty of voters do

Carney’s question to Poilievre on security clearance spectacularly backfired and Poilievre raised Carney’s weakness by refusing to get rid of his bounty hunter Chiang candidate. Carney probably regretting asking such a lame inside baseball question after getting stung like that