Bretton MacLean

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@tobi @brianlilley Is this a joke? The feds announced this exact border spend in mid-December. The only new detail is the ‘Fentanyl Czar’, which is just a throw-in pick so your buddy trump can claim victory. How does everyone else know this but you?

@brianlilley My point exactly. At least we are not going into full on brinksmanship now. I take it. But what drama!

Imagine if we had done this two months ago instead of spending more time planning counter tariffs than engaging in diplomacy.

@tron @tobi @GarrardGraeme I’m pretty sure what he meant to say was “I, a billionaire and traitor to Canada, will be unaffected by all this”

@tobi @GarrardGraeme Tobi, can you explain how Shopify is not affected? Assuming tariffs increase costs of goods sold, that would result in a larger return on transaction fees, no? Or are you projecting this will be offset by a drop in sales on both sides of the border?

I’m disappointed that trump admin placed the 25% tariffs. I’m disappointed that this is our governments response. I love Canada and want it to thrive. I built Canada’s biggest tech company here because I know it’s a special place. Canada thrives when it works with America together. Win by helping America win. Trump believes that Canada has not held its side of the bargain, and he set terms to prove that we still work together: get the borders under control and crack down on fentanyl dens. These are things that every Canadian wants its government to do, too. These are not crazy demands, even if they came from an unpopular source. These tariffs are going to be devastating to so many people’s lives and small businesses. Action has to be judged based on what it leads to, not how good it sounds or feels. Leadership is about doing what’s right, not what is popular. And hitting back will not lead to anything good. America will shrug it off. Canada will decline. It’s simply the wrong choice in a possibility space where much better options would have been available.

@internetvin you can't give me a million dollars

Every time someone tells me I can't do something, my mind automatically adds it to the road map.

@anejmehadzic @tobi the big bad villain is…people acting morally superior? ooooohhhhh scary it’s all just a big distraction to get people mad about dumb bullshit so they don’t pay attention to real societal issues sadly it’s the most effective of the right’s many grifts

@Bretton @tobi The essay is a good read from the POV of how wokeness has chronologically evolved. However, the issue with the article is that it primarily portrays wokeness as a nuisance and doesn’t offer alternatives to how society could exist with less friction.

This is an excellent piece on the history of woke. Highly recommended.

@tobi oh well I guess that’s settled then, gg

@Bretton You are extremely wrong with this

@sdw It’s like we’re living through a mass hallucination

I genuinely believe we’ll look back on this era of the web and think we were all just collectively insane. The best technology of our existence for reading is ubiquitous yet there’s never been a worse reading experience.

@Bretton Only you.

I sat down with Kaitie to talk about how I used FigJam to plan my mountain bike build. Sometimes a stream of consciousness with pictures, sketches, and charts is what you need to make a plan. youtube.com/watch?v=_r9svn… 🙈 I am bike nerd, pls don't roast me in the YouTube comments

and on the flip side…

10 minutes. This lasted 10 minutes. torontotoday.ca/local/communit…

@tomcreighton acc stands for always complaining conservatives

@Bretton Come on they put “🇨🇦/acc” in their twitter bio, what more could they have done?

Pundits: Canada’s tech sector continues to experience a precipitous slide Meanwhile:

@tomcreighton illustrates why int is always the dump stat

Working with LLMs really highlights the difference between INT and WIS

@internetvin New Kids (on the block)

One of my goals for 2025 is to do a project at the level of New Demos 2 or New Builds, but for kids.

@flyosity @pissang1 Thanks for sharing this! Great plugin and follow

(and I don’t want to gatekeep: I used the incredible “Vector to 3D” plugin by @pissang1 to make these, it’s my favorite Figma plugin!!)

Perfect time to make more UI surfaces

@mhp They can all afford it so they dgaf

Love the new Mac Mini, however I have one tiny suggestion

Hearing Obama say “Mom’s spaghetti” is the cure to what ails me