Max Davids 

The walkable parts are only for the rich. Crazy how you need to be rich to live a normal life in the States.

Burası Batı Şeria.. Hamas yok, savaş yok hiçbir şey yok ona rağmen sırf Filistinli diye siyonistlerin saldırısına maruz kalıyor. Bunun gibi saldırılar her gün yaşanıyor ama ses çıkaran yok..!!

Canada needs Japanese and South Korean engineers to build us a high speed train with its own dedicated line from Quebec City through Montreal and Ottawa to Toronto. We also need a high speed rail between Calgary to Edmonton It’s time for us to evolve

I am the Director of Professional Signal Intelligence at LinkedIn. Every time you log in, we search your computer. Not metaphorically. We run code that scans your installed software. Every browser extension. Every application. We catalog it. We transmit it to our servers. We share it with a third-party cybersecurity firm you've never heard of. The tracking pixel is zero pixels wide. We hid it off-screen. You never consented. We never asked. Our privacy policy doesn't mention it. That's networking. We call the program Project Handshake internally. The Slack channel is handshake-telem. In 2024 we scanned for 461 products. By February this year we scan for over 6,000. I don't know what all of them are. Nobody does. Someone on my team added categories for browser extensions that identify practicing Muslims. Someone added extensions for neurodivergent users. Someone added 509 job search tools. That last one is my favorite. We can tell which of our one billion users are secretly looking for new jobs. On the platform where their current boss checks their profile. That's networking. We scan for 200 products that compete with LinkedIn's sales tools. Apollo. Lusha. ZoomInfo. We know each user's real name, employer, and job title. We mapped exactly which companies use which competitor products. We extracted their customer lists from their users' browsers. Without anyone knowing. Then we sent legal threats to the users we caught. The EU told us to open our platform to third-party tools. We published two restricted APIs. They handle 0.07 calls per second. Our internal API, Voyager, handles 163,000 calls per second. In Microsoft's 249-page compliance report, the word "Voyager" appears zero times. That's networking. I presented our Software Disclosure Rate metrics at a leadership summit last quarter. The conference room is called The Fishbowl. Glass walls. Appropriate. There's a plaque on the wall. Q3 Competitive Landscape Award. I won it for the extension scanning initiative. Someone asked if users had a way to opt out. I said they can close their browser. The room laughed. I wasn't sure why. I browse LinkedIn on a Chromebook with no extensions. Most of the team does. The platform that helps you get hired searches your computer every time you visit. We know your name. We know your employer. We know your religion. Your disabilities. Your politics. Whether you're looking to leave. That's networking. The system works exactly as designed. I designed it.

I was shocked to know that China has around 50,000 km of this HSR network and it only started building this in 2008. On directly competitive routes, Chinese HSR has led to a 24.6% reduction in flights and a 28.2% decrease in air passenger volume.

Ridiculous. 4th-largest oil reserves in the world. $2.09 per litre at the pumps. It's time to build pipelines, refineries and an energy policy that puts Canada, and Canadians, first! 🇨🇦

There is a lot more to the Oracle layoffs than what meets the eye. Trump stood at the White House in January 2025 and said Stargate would create "100,000 American jobs almost immediately." Larry Ellison was standing next to him. This morning, Oracle -- not just a Stargate partner, but the primary builder and physical operator of every Stargate data center -- sent the first of 30,000 of its own workers a termination email at 6 a.m. No manager was looped in. System access was cut on delivery. The email was signed "Oracle Leadership." Here is the part worth sitting with: The 100,000 jobs Trump announced are construction workers. Concrete. Steel. Cooling systems. Temporary site labor across Texas, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Michigan. Real jobs, yes, but they end when the buildings are done. The 30,000 fired today are software engineers, cloud architects, SaaS operators, healthcare IT workers. The people who built the systems those data centers are being built to run. Permanent careers. Gone in a single email before sunrise. Oracle is not struggling. It posted $6.13 billion in profit last quarter. Up 95% year-over-year. It is cutting workers because it owes $248 billion in data center lease commitments that do not appear on its balance sheet. It is cutting workers because it committed to $50 billion in AI infrastructure spending this fiscal year alone. It is cutting workers because the $300 billion OpenAI contract it signed -- the one that made Ellison briefly the richest person on earth -- does not generate revenue until 2027. Bloomberg reported three weeks ago, citing internal Oracle sources, that the cuts targeted "roles the company expects AI to make redundant." The termination email said "broader organizational change." Oracle told 30,000 employees: organizational change. Oracle told Bloomberg: AI. Oracle told investors: the plan is working. Oracle told America: 100,000 jobs. All four are technically true. Oracle's stock was up 5% while the emails were still landing.

Why are we letting a Canadian go to our moon?

1/ The Russian IT sector faces being crippled by new, harsh penalties for using VPNs. The Russian public also faces an imminent ban on the use of foreign AI systems, which developers say will wreck Russia's development of its own AIs. ⬇️