Steve_Dodd 🇨🇦 - Digging for Real Causes

@brianlilley Circa 1995: tubitv.com/movies/306923/…

@Jenna_bee__ @Lifeinvestmoney I’ve lived in the GTA all my life and since the early 60’s never seen prices like that for houses like that.

@rootcauseteam @Lifeinvestmoney I didn't say in Oshawa, but yes ,they did. Who the hell are you , strange man, to tell me what happened did not happen? How bloody weird is that? What's wrong with you?

My parents bought this house in 1999 for $62,000 They just sold it for $8.2million Housing is cooked

@Jenna_bee__ @Lifeinvestmoney Then they never bought a house like that in Oshawa for that price at that time. 1960 maybe.

@rootcauseteam @Lifeinvestmoney Not where i grew up. I'm in Ontario. And no, not way up North. My family all worked at GM in Oshawa. We lived northeast of Oshawa, in a CITY.

@EOEboh If you do, you’re a pretty poor developer.

As a developer, have you ever wondered: Google Maps tells you there's traffic ahead in real time There are no sensors on the road So how does it know?

LLM based AI is NOT conscious. I co-founded a company literally called Sentient, we're building reasoning systems for AGI, so believe me when I say this. I keep seeing smart people, people I genuinely respect, come out and say that AI has crossed into some kind of awareness. That it feels things, that we should worry about it going rogue. And i think this whole conversation tells us way more about ourselves than it does about AI. These models are wild, i won't pretend otherwise. But feeling human and actually having inner experience are completely different things and we're confusing the two because our brains literally can't help it. We evolved to see minds everywhere and now that wiring is misfiring on language models. I grew up in a philosophical tradition that has thought about consciousness longer than almost any other, and this is the part that really frustrates me about the current conversation. The entire framing of "does AI have consciousness?" assumes consciousness is something you build up to by adding more layers of complexity. In Vedantic philosophy it's the opposite. You don't build toward consciousness. Consciousness is already there, more fundamental than matter or energy. Everything else, including computation, is downstream of it. When someone tells me AI is "waking up" because it generated a paragraph that felt real, what they're telling me is how thin our understanding of consciousness has gotten. We've reduced a question humans have wrestled with for thousands of years to "did the output sound like it had feelings?" It's math that has gotten really good at predicting what a conscious being would say and do next. Calling that consciousness cheapens something that Vedantic, Buddhist, Greek and Sufi thinkers spent millennia actually sitting with. We didn't build something that thinks. We built a mirror and right now a lot of very smart people are mistaking the reflection for something looking back.

@saniyafatma1278 Check out your city’s bill-laws.

I seriously need some help here. My neighbor just put up this massive metal fence right along our property line and I’m honestly pretty upset about it. It completely changed the whole feel of my driveway and now it looks like I’m pulling into some kind of industrial corridor. I had no idea this was even happening until the thing was already built. It feels like my space just got boxed in overnight. What on earth can I do in a situation like this???

@MarkJCarney @FP_Champagne Solves nothing.

Nous aidons les Canadiens à épargner jusqu’à 50 000 $ sur leur première maison.   La semaine passée, la loi C-4 a été adoptée. Avantage pour les premiers acheteurs : aucune TPS sur les nouvelles propriétés de moins de 1 M$ et moins de TPS sur celles entre 1 et 1,5 M$.

@Jenna_bee__ @Lifeinvestmoney In 1999. Or even in the ‘90’s? Where were they, Timmins? In any populated area in Canada, that was not possible. EVER in the last 50 years.

@rootcauseteam @Lifeinvestmoney MY parents bought a 6 bedroom, 3 storey house with two staircases to the second floor and two kitchens for 57k not much earlier than that.

@mickitiki @Canadaproud09 And he’s accomplished so much.

Exactly 💥🔥🇺🇸👊

@prairiecentrist And someone who clearly has no concept of centrism.

This is what happens when you create your own echo chamber.

Trump has now lifted sanctions on: * Russia * Iran * Belarus Three of the most villainous autocracies. But we hate all our former allies 🤷🏻‍♀️

An interesting aboutface…… cbc.ca/news/world/can…

@SH19544 @RpsAgainstTrump Yeah, Jarod had nothing to do with it.

@RpsAgainstTrump Was this "intelligence" about Iran's 11 nukes fake? x.com/FurkanGozukara…

Netanyahu: "I want to close these opening remarks with one other fake news, and that is that Israel somehow dragged the U.S. into a conflict with Iran. Does anyone really think that someone can tell President Trump what to do? Come on”

A very different @PierrePoilievre!!! cbc.ca/news/politics/…

Spas, casinos, highway tunnels etc?

Longtime users are frustrated with X because it no longer works the way it used to. Back in the early days of Twitter, your reach was simple and direct. If you had 5,000 or 10,000,20,000 followers, your posts were delivered to them in real time. It was a true chronological feed—your tweets showed up in the order you posted them, and your audience actually saw your content. The “old” Twitter (pre-2016) was built around that real-time experience. Your voice reached the people who chose to follow you, without interference. Today, that’s no longer the case. X relies on an algorithm-driven, engagement-based feed, meaning even your own followers may never see your posts unless the system decides to prioritize them. That shift—from a guaranteed audience to an unpredictable algorithm—is why so many longtime users feel frustrated and disconnected.

So, just who is lying???? cbc.ca/news/world/joe…

@gregorrobertson Electric baseboard heat????? The most expensive and inefficient approach???? What happened to heat pumps????????????????

In Iqaluit today, we visited the site of a new multi-unit housing development already underway through Build Canada Homes. This project will deliver 46 new public housing homes, part of a broader effort to support communities across Nunavut and address the urgent need for housing in the North. Through our partnership with the Government of Nunavut and Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, we are working to deliver up to 750 homes across the territory - creating stability for families and strengthening communities.

@prairiecentrist The real "Art of the Deal" is strategic patience.

Sometimes the best deal, is no deal. WTO rules would be far better than anything that the Trump Administration is proposing. Conservative MPs remain pathetically offside.

@ZhengYe594960 @Mike06779179099 @Bitcoin_Teddy Now that's a strategy!!! Don't let short term pain eliminate long term gain. This is just temporary.

@rootcauseteam @Mike06779179099 @Bitcoin_Teddy Thanks for your encouragement 🤝. I will try to finish my degree with a first class honor so I won't need to pay back the loan.

Older generations say “we all struggled in our 20s.” No, you didn’t. You didn’t pay $3200 for rent and $10 for eggs. You didn’t graduate into $50K student debt and $0 job security. Gen Z isn’t dramatic. They’re drowning.