Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩

Explorer, founder of Lachine, seigneur of Cataracoui, discoverer of the mouths of the Mississippi.

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

My latest, on the continuing fiasco at the CPP investment fund, which has now spent more than $50 billion over twenty years to lose about $100 billion relative to what it might have earned, for an equal amount of risk, if it had just bought the relevant indexes — or flung darts at the stock listings.
https://t.co/293Q8BwwCq

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Opinion | A financial catastrophe is looming. America forgot to care. - The Washington Post https://t.co/2hg6WEZywM

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

The Jan. 6 Pardons: How Many Clemency Recipients Have Faced Other Charges? | Lawfare
https://t.co/itKrROx6vL

[Mackenzie Gray @Gray_Mackenzie]

A social media ban for Canadian kids 16 and under is set to be proposed later this week by the Liberals, a popular move with parents, that kids think they'll be able to skirt around

The idea first implemented in Australia but one researcher told us the policy is more about anxious parents, than actually helping kids #cdnpoli

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

We are ten years into allegations of widespread election fraud - only for elections Trump or republicans lose, mind you - for which Trump and allies have either not produced evidence, or claimed evidence which was subsequently debunked. And blatant contradictions - such as celebrating wins under the same laws and practices while confidently declaring theft for any losses - are now the norm.

[Glen E. McGregor @glen_mcgregor]

This isn’t ‘Nam, Smokey. There are rules… requiring recipients to wear their OoC medals at formal occasions like, par example, the installation of a new GG.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The details about the Tate brothers in this @newyorker profile are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and heroes to the "conservative" MAGA movement
https://t.co/Zv2l52b9Id

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Lawmakers have little more than six years to find a remedy. If nothing is done, the immediate consequences will be dire for America’s pensioners: https://t.co/PtbCQCQ0It

[Courtney Theriault @cspotweet]

"Are we to believe this marginal group could call up the White House and simply walk throught the door?"

Former MP Charlie Angus is calling on the Foreign Influence Transparency Commissioner to investigate Trump and state officials' involvement in the Alberta separatist debate, arguing the U.S. is working to destablize Canada.

[Andrew Leach 🇨🇦 @andrew_leach]

Can we please stop with the idea that Canada is an importer of refined products? We are (small) net exporters, producing basically what we need. We just don't really refine for export.

[Ron Frey ⚖️ @AttorneyFrey]

@WSJ Microsoft missed the smartphone, Apple missed Ai and voice assistants.

[FinanceAI Labs @financeailabs]

@WSJ The key takeaway is that after years of promises, Apple's most transformative AI product runs on Google infrastructure and still cannot tell you what is in your own calendar reliably.
We are paying premium multiples for premium hype.

[Stan Veuger @stanveuger]

Love Piketty’s claim that he and his 45 collaborators spent two years thinking deeply, truly considering the world anew, before concluding “degrowth communism, that’s what we need.”

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

If only! In fact it's far too obsessed with building "national champions," taking equity stakes in AI companies etc.
Dispersal and adoption of new technologies is the key to growth, not being first to develop them. Canada didn't invent the computer, but we're much richer for having them installed throughout the business sector.

[Build Canada @build_canada]

The federal government's AI strategy focused on adoption above all else. The problem? It's focused on making Canada an AI consumer - not a builder. 🤔

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[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

In a post on June 6 (a date with many Trump posts, none mentioning D-Day), he touted "The Triumphal Arch, which will be, along with the White House Ballroom, the Greatest Structure in Washington." Of all Trump's megalomaniacal projects, I find the Arch the most repulsive.

[Jonathan Haidt @JonHaidt]

This is what strong chatbot policy looks like. This bill says “a company can't do X" unless they know someone is an adult. And X includes a wide array of behaviors that lead to relationships with bots - including inappropriate sexual conversations.

Chatbots should help us get things done - not be our friends. Looking forward to NY continuing to lead the nation in protecting kids, @GovKathyHochul. Thanks to @SenGonzalezNY and @AlexBores!

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

New AI espionage powers trigger Putin camera scare
https://t.co/VT0NZEK2q8

[Steven Chase @stevenchase]

Canadian businessman accused of aiding Russia targeted with sanctions by EU, but not Ottawa /via @globeandmail
https://t.co/QjDlwtqcCO

[Bloomberg @business]

Conservatives keep claiming that today's immigrants to the US don't assimilate as past generations did, but @foxjust finds that the data tell a much different story (via @opinion) https://t.co/zfo1hOVHcY

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

Does AI Frighten You? There's No Relief in Sight.
https://t.co/nFk6E5lrg1

[reason @reason]

When you have to ask your competitors for permission to open a business, don't expect to get it.