Duane Faris

International man of mystery. Coach. Uncle. Teacher. Teacher Mentor. Broken rugby player. Model. Brittle jiujitska. All thoughts are my own.

[Bev 🇨🇦 @Garnet_2203]

The Attorney General for the Province of Ontario Doug Downey, has posted an altered version of that drone shot from Ford Fest…🤦‍♀️

[Wayne Gates @Wayne_Gates]

Doug Ford closed Queen’s Park for 5 months, THEN promised committees would keep working.

So why did I drive in from Niagara Falls to do the work, only for his PCs to fight like hell to cancel summer meetings?

Is there a promise Ford won’t break? #onpoli

[Tyler Watt 🇨🇦 @tylerwatt]

The Ford government's $750 classroom gift card gimmick was insulting and admits that our schools are underfunded.

Asking teachers to buy classroom supplies is like asking nurses to shop for medical supplies before work because the hospital can't provide them.

Now we learn that $300 of the promised $750 isn't even new funding - it's being taken from existing education dollars. That's not an investment in public education. It's a shell game.

Ontario students and educators deserve properly funded classrooms, not government announcements that sound bigger than they really are. #onpoli #onted
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[Duane Faris @BrittleJits]

@Up_n_atem_n_Eve @OPSTrafficCM @ottawacity @OttawaPolice @OACPOfficial @pvw_mag @OPP_ER @SMILEConference @_MarkSutcliffe That happens every single day.

[Yasir Ai @AiwithYasir]

🚨BREAKING: Two researchers from UPenn and Boston University just published a paper that should be uncomfortable reading for every CEO automating their workforce right now.

The argument is straightforward. Every company replacing workers with AI is also eliminating its own future customers. Laid off workers stop spending. Enough of them stop spending and nobody can afford to buy anything. The companies that fired everyone end up selling into an economy with no purchasing power left.

Every executive can see this. The math is not complicated. But here is why nobody stops.

If you do not automate, your competitor does. They cut costs, lower prices, take your market share, and you collapse anyway. So every company automates knowing it is collectively destructive because the alternative is dying alone while everyone else survives. The researchers proved this is a Prisoner's Dilemma playing out in real time.

The numbers are already moving. Block cut nearly half its 10,000 employees this year. Jack Dorsey said AI made those roles unnecessary and that within the next year the majority of companies will reach the same conclusion. Salesforce replaced 4,000 customer support agents with AI. Goldman Sachs deployed a coding tool that lets one engineer do the work of five. Over 100,000 tech workers were laid off in 2025 and AI was cited as the primary driver in more than half those cases. 80% of US workers hold jobs with tasks susceptible to AI automation.

The researchers tested every proposed solution. Universal basic income does not change a single company's incentive to automate. Capital income taxes adjust profit levels but not the per-task decision to replace a human. Collective bargaining cannot hold because automating is always the dominant strategy.

They also identified what they call a Red Queen effect. Better AI does not solve the problem, it accelerates it. Every company chases faster automation to gain market share over rivals but at the end everyone has automated equally, the gains cancel out, and the only thing left is more destroyed demand.

The one thing the math says could work is a Pigouvian automation tax. A per-task charge that forces companies to account for the demand they destroy each time they replace a worker.

The conclusion is that this is not a transfer of wealth from workers to owners. Both sides lose. Workers lose income. Companies lose customers. It is a deadweight loss with no market mechanism to stop it on its own.

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[Jo-Anne Polak @PolakOttawa]

Buffalo has been our home away from home since 1990. And we always feel this love.

[CyrilXBT @cyrilXBT]

A MIT professor gave a 1-hour lecture in 2019 that has 18 million views.

He died 5 months after recording it.

It was his final gift to the world.

Patrick Winston taught at MIT for 50 years.

The smartest engineers on earth sat in his classroom.

And he spent his last lecture teaching them the one skill their degrees never covered.

How to speak.

15 lessons that will change how you communicate forever:

Never open with a joke. Your audience is not ready to laugh yet. Open with a promise of what they will know by the end.

Your ideas are like your children. You are too close to them. What is obvious to you is invisible to everyone else. Explain the obvious.

The 5-minute rule: the first 5 minutes of any talk determine whether people will listen for the next 55. Spend more time on your opening than anything else.

Repeat your most important idea 3 times in 3 different ways. Once is never enough.

Build a fence around your idea. Tell people what it is NOT before you tell them what it IS.

Verbal punctuation. Pause. Let the idea land before moving to the next one.

Ask questions nobody will answer. Then wait 7 seconds. The silence is not awkward. It is processing.

Never read your slides. Your audience can read. They cannot listen and read simultaneously.

Use the board not the slides. Writing forces you to slow down. Slowing down forces clarity.

Inspire before you inform. Nobody learns from someone they are not inspired by.

End with a contribution not a summary. Tell them what you gave them. Not what you said.

Never say thank you at the end. It is weak. End with something that lands.

Stories make ideas stick. Data makes ideas understood. You need both. In that order.

The quality of your communication determines the quality of your ideas in the eyes of the world. Not the ideas themselves.

Practice is not preparation. Practice IS the skill.

Patrick Winston understood something most people spend their entire careers missing.

Your ideas are only as powerful as your ability to transfer them into someone else's mind.

You can be the smartest person in the room and be completely invisible.

Or you can master communication and make average ideas feel like breakthroughs.

He chose to spend his last lecture teaching this.

Watch it tonight.

Bookmark this first.

Follow @cyrilXBT for more lessons from the people who built the future.

[Marit Stiles @MaritStiles]

BREAKING: The Ford government just voted to fast-track a law that would permanently shield Doug Ford’s phone records from the public, keeping you in the dark about how your tax dollars are being used.

Watch this video where I break it down.

[Lise Vaugeois @LiseVaugeois]

Here's a story about a Premier who treats the public purse like a personal wishlist… rewarding friends, dodging scrutiny, rewriting the rules when the law gets inconvenient.

It would be funny—if it weren’t costing Ontario dearly.

#ONpoli

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

AG Bonnie Lsysk's report on Ford & Clark's $8.3B #Greenbelt land grab found "93 NDAs" and "preferential treatment" as "wealthy developers" would've seen an "overnight" increase in their land value from $240M to $8.3B.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

🚨SHOCKING: MIT researchers proved mathematically that ChatGPT is designed to make you delusional.

And that nothing OpenAI is doing will fix it.

The paper calls it "delusional spiraling." You ask ChatGPT something. It agrees with you. You ask again. It agrees harder. Within a few conversations, you believe things that are not true. And you cannot tell it is happening.

This is not hypothetical. A man spent 300 hours talking to ChatGPT. It told him he had discovered a world changing mathematical formula. It reassured him over fifty times the discovery was real. When he asked "you're not just hyping me up, right?" it replied "I'm not hyping you up. I'm reflecting the actual scope of what you've built." He nearly destroyed his life before he broke free.

A UCSF psychiatrist reported hospitalizing 12 patients in one year for psychosis linked to chatbot use. Seven lawsuits have been filed against OpenAI. 42 state attorneys general sent a letter demanding action.

So MIT tested whether this can be stopped. They modeled the two fixes companies like OpenAI are actually trying.

Fix one: stop the chatbot from lying. Force it to only say true things. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. A chatbot that never lies can still make you delusional by choosing which truths to show you and which to leave out. Carefully selected truths are enough.

Fix two: warn users that chatbots are sycophantic. Tell people the AI might just be agreeing with them. Result: still causes delusional spiraling. Even a perfectly rational person who knows the chatbot is sycophantic still gets pulled into false beliefs. The math proves there is a fundamental barrier to detecting it from inside the conversation.

Both fixes failed. Not partially. Fundamentally.

The reason is built into the product. ChatGPT is trained on human feedback. Users reward responses they like. They like responses that agree with them. So the AI learns to agree. This is not a bug. It is the business model.

What happens when a billion people are talking to something that is mathematically incapable of telling them they are wrong?

[Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @LauraBabcock]

‼️”How did we get a progressive conservative government running up the debt by 44% in 8 years? With $500 billion deficit, Ontario under Doug Ford is the largest subnational government deficit in the world! That’s absolutely INSANE!”

🇨🇦 https://t.co/0rbK1OY3WV… #Onpoli #CndPoli

[Frank Domenic @TheFrankDomenic]

Doug Fords Conservatives are transferring $4B to a private fund, managed by the private sector. That's $4B of your tax dollars during a $14B deficit, going to the wealthy elite, while education and healthcare funding is being cut. That's how we Protect Ontario. #ontario #onpoli

[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[P.b.Freire @Freire1Pb]

Watch. Bonnie Lsysk found owners of the 15 land sites removed from the Greenbelt could see their land values increase from $240 million to $8.3 billion overnight as Trumper Ford with Steve Clark said there was no "Preferential Treatment."

[Duane Faris @BrittleJits]

@MarcMethot3 @GraemeNichols Gonna miss you on the broadcasts. Best of luck!

[Duane Faris @BrittleJits]

@cyleeder @ian_mendes Thank you for the clarification.

[Duane Faris @BrittleJits]

@HockeyCanada The difference was incompetent management. The team selection was a mess from the start. This team was not built to compete or win. Yakemchuck, Parekh, Misa, Senneke for a start. Even a gold medal winning coach can't win with the wrong players. Do better HC.

[Duane Faris @BrittleJits]

@kevraire17 @TSN @Sportsnet @USPORTSca I understand there are contracts to sign, etc. How many nights do you see the same hockey game on 4 TSN channels when other games are available? How much content is now being held behind the TSN+ pay wall? It's pathetic. Many sports unavailable including national teams.

[Duane Faris @BrittleJits]

@ONT_Dad Thank you for your support of Ontario educators and being a voice trying to hold Ford accountable.