Robb McLarty

Rule number one : You always keep the dawgs … #96

The biggest story of last year, and probably the biggest story of the coming year, is the widespread discovery of the fact that we have never been more accountable to government, which can see into our lives with unprecedented clarity and monitor our utterances to the word, while it has never been less accountable to us. On the verge of Artificial General Intelligence, so we're told, we still can't count votes, police billion dollar frauds, penetrate the chambers of elite decisionmaking, or figure out where much of our money is going and what's being done with it. This is the kind of crisis that undermines the basic legitimacy of nations and regimes. How we deal with it, or don't, will determine our fate.

Canada, just bend the knee, help us end the Second Opium War, and all is forgiven.

@IvisonJ Lovely. Thank you John.

I have to take a mental health day from writing about Trump and tariffs, so this week's Substack is on something completely different - the poet, Robert Burns, just in time for his birthday. johnivison.substack.com/p/a-tropical-t…

Oliver Esquire-Larsson @SamAMcKee @JDBunkis @Sportsnet

Top-selling @TPLINK networking products are being banned bc they spy on people and govts on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party. @amazon, will you be conducting a recall? tomshardware.com/networking/rou…

@paulvieira That's rich

Canada Fin Min Freeland says Tory leader Poilievre needs to be more "economically literate."

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FBI's Entire 25 Person Chinese Intelligence Squad Knew of Reliable Human Intelligence that SARS-CoV-2 Leaked from a Lab "Public has learned from multiple sources that the FBI knew since at least March 2020 that Covid was the result of a lab leak. A Chinese national from Wuhan, working as a confidential human source (CHS) for the FBI, told their handler at the FBI’s Chinese Intelligence Squad. The sources said it was probable that the whole squad of 25 people knew. “A person working at the Virology Institute lab in Wuhan, China was infected, left the building, and spread the virus outside the lab in Wuhan,” the CHS told the FBI, according to a source. “It didn’t have anything to do with the wet market or the bat soup story they were going with.” The sources added that the FBI trusted the CHS because the person’s information had been corroborated at least three times previously. “The CHS was from Wuhan, had been vetted, and the person had provided information on three prior occasions that they were able to corroborate as true and reliable.” Another source said the FBI had considered the information “good intel.” public.news/p/in-early-202…

@Beezer232 @PeterJ_Walker @cartainc Beezer & Peter - thank you. While 9% of funds delivered any DPI, what was the median DPI %? @Beezer232 @peterj_walker @cartainc

3 years is fast to be getting DPI but that said, recent Carta research shows 9% of 2021 venture funds have DPI after 3 years vs 16% of 2020 funds and 24% of 2019 . This and other new benchmarks from @PeterJ_Walker @cartainc new data for VC emerging managers 👇 #openlp Full report below

This is not how economics works. Whether the seller “knows” the buyer has more money is not the issue. You draw a supply and demand curve and where they intersect is the clearing price. The credit moves the demand curve. The intersection point is now different. At no point does either curve “know” anything special.

JESSE MARSCH APPRECIATION POST 🇨🇦❤️ Even in defeat to Argentina, this Copa has been a massive win for Jesse Marsch. Leading Canada to their deepest Men’s international tournament performance, taking steps towards redemption, and being able to laugh at the United States' predicament at the same time. For years, we have talked about the promise which has crackled north of the border. God Bless Jesse Marsch for coming in and delivering a style of football which hummed with audacity—achieving a signature knockout round victory, reaching the Copa America semi-finals, and setting up the team for a World Cup 2026 run with positivity and optimism, in which everything feels possible. We US fans can only look on with admiration and wonder at the difference Jesse has made in just six weeks.

@Alex_Danco @nejatian And that they’re free to emigrate

@nejatian Canada is basically about to find out that a lot of people who do load-bearing work in this world are self-employed

It is terrible for Canada and Canadian entrepreneurs. The lives of small business owners in Canada just became more difficult.

Other the last few years D-Day seems to be increasingly understood as a mostly American enterprise in no small party thanks to Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, etc... But it's good te remember that there were more Anglo-Canadians than Americans on D-Day

Nothing says "The Science (tm)" more than Biden lawyers preventing former NIH boss and gain of function proponent Francis Collins from answering questions under oath about a lab leak that likely launched the covid era.

FUNDING FOR VIRUS HUNTER AT CENTER OF LAB LEAK THEORY SUSPENDED IMMEDIATELY, RECOMMENDED FOR DEBARMENT

"Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world - she walks into mine?"