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I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

Absolutely tired of the psychodrama of one country being the problem of the entire planet.

That Canada was spared more tariffs yesterday is irrelevant. We're sleeping next to the elephant, but it's now gesticulating wildly and lost 40% of its cognitive function. I feel like trampling is likely consciously so or not.

How have you not fallen in love with the internet yet? youtu.be/6R8VWXk9uo8?...

This is how Warhammer 40K happens.

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

This is adorable Source: x.com/iniemohk/sta...

How many Substacks can I POSSIBLY subscribe to?

NYC CTO Matt Fraser destroyed the city's digital service by declaring that Salesforce would abandon user research and build the "MyCity" platform faster and cheaper than city-employed developers. Three years and $100 million later, MyCity remains a mirage.

This is what the internet was supposed to be like. Congratulations to the team and thank you for hosting in Canada! 🏳️‍🌈🇨🇦

If you see Radio Free Europe as "far left" your political scale is terrifying.

I really enjoyed yesterday's @ohtheurbanity.bsky.social video on (especially) local impediments to the "we have to build" response to US aggression. Some of it rests on local govs afraid of constituents unwilling to compromise. "Sure build that x, just not here." www.youtube.com/watch?v=TS1x...

Netanyahu will fire every official responsible for failing to prevent the October 7 attacks except the person in charge of all of them.

This is all just a millenarian cult. They are acquiring rare minerals, energy, and water. Cutting down guardrails. They just want to build their digital god who they believe will wipe out their enemies. I know this sounds overtly absurd but what else can you take away from it?

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Yair knows what's up.

I think Canadians are on here being told that it's not all Americans against us and... I get it. It's not. But it does seem like it's the entire political establishment with few exceptions? So Canada needs to do what it needs to do regardless of who comes to power if/when Trump leaves office.

Yes tariffs, no tariffs. Energy surcharges, no energy surcharges. Attract American talent, stop immigration. High public spending, low public spending. There are no perfect moves here; everything has consequences. Few advisors have relevant experience with this. Beware the certain person.

A quick story about big "bloated" systems that people love to hate. When I was at Microsoft a million years ago, I had a friend on the MS Word team who told me this one. (I got the details second-hand; MSFT friends, please correct me.)

As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.

What happens next? Carney will be invited to form a govt by the GG. Carney will be the Prime Minister-designate during a transition period (could be really fast or a few days). Once the transition is over, Trudeau formally resigns as Prime Minister, and Carney is appointed PM.

This might start becoming a big problem.

Misinformation is bad. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The McKinley period was also notable for its extensive use of industrial robots and AI. Thankfully, manufacturing remains a largely unskilled activity as it was in the 1890s, not requiring extensive apprenticeships or certifications, so it'll be incredibly labour absorbing in the next decade. (/s)

I love the people who are like "Don't be mad at Americans, just be mad at the government they elected through representative democracy". Nope, don't work like that. If you aren't out in the streets protesting, why should we believe you?

The reason you fight back against bullies isn't that the fight back is pleasant or inherently good, it's because bullies are almost never expecting push back so they are usually relatively easy to defeat if you have a plan.

Good article. The devil would be in the details. Would it be part of the CAF structure or RCMP? Are those defence skilled people directed by the government in any way? Would those people need a liability shield? Or is it mostly a force readiness organization to train people to self-organize?

This is actually a very interesting proposal but really hard to walk back from. So it's a commit or not situation.