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Shining the spotlight of public scrutiny on Canada's prosperity challenges @uwaterloo @wharton @upenn | Build baby, Build 🍁🛠👷‍♀️🏗

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

@wealthmoose Canada have an embarassment of resources that is being deliberatley held back. You forgot

-Natural Gas
-Forest/Lumber
-Coastline
-Fisheries
-rare earths/cobalt
-diamomds
-aluminum
-palladium
-platinum
-Hydroelectric power

Lol...We couldn't defend it if any one wanted to invade

[Cestui Que Takes @CestuiQueTakes]

Where is the demand for these new law schools? I'm not aware of any meaningful demand. My firm recently had 1000 law students apply for 12 summer jobs. How will 1500 applications change anything?

I don't see smaller firms begging for more juniors either.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

@gregmushen Katsushika Hokusai sends his regards.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

A great demo.

I think 99% percent of the general public cannot fathom what is coming. Even if AI does not not advance any further, which is laughable, we have a decade of incredible discovery ahead of us.

[Më ✞ @meplusu8]

I genuinely can’t believe what I just watched. 😭

A 1994 Jeep Cherokee with no OBD2 port. No modern scan tool could communicate with it.

So someone brought in a $3 Arduino, Claude Code and Codex.

About a week later, the AI agents had figured out how to read the engine computer live, copy its firmware and even run their own code inside it.

A $3 piece of hardware and a couple of AI coding agents.

We’re getting to the point where AI isn’t just writing software. It’s helping people reverse-engineer and interact with hardware that was never designed for it.

This is just fantastic and worth 10 minutes of your time if you care about real-world applications of AI.

Seriously, go watch this.

[Roman Khrupa @romankhrupa]

I got a 1.9B model to watch a restaurant camera and tell staff which tables need cleaning 🍽️

It runs on my laptop. No cloud, and it generates zero tokens.

Built over a weekend with @liquidai d1-2B

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

@fredsoda For me, the more interesting question is who leaked what and for what reason?

There is a distinct possibility, however remote, that Jensen wants out and he negotiated himself an exit.

He would be genious level cunning if thats what he intended all along.

[Soda @fredsoda]

this is the correct take

if Jensen is actually spilling state secrets to an agent of a foreign power

bro should have been arrested yesterday once they built an airtight case and the DOJ formally indicts him

but this didn’t happen, because they don’t have a case; they’ve been sitting on this information for a year and this is the best they have

we still don’t know which specific U.S. intel agency put the report together w/ the State Department

it’s literally a witch-hunt engineered to push jensen out of NVIDIA

and there’s a non-trivial chance it’ll work

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

Easily one of the smartest kids in my college class was a STEM genius who professors thought would win the Nobel Prize one day.

Beginning of senior year he tells me how he spent the summer in NYC and was blown away by how many finance bros were with hot girls. He said he felt like a loser, doing scientific research for low pay, no girls.

Instead of using his talents to advance human knowledge, he joined a quantitative hedge fund after college, made millions, and is married to a legit baddie.

Think of how many Newton/Einstein/Maxwell/Bohr/Feynman never come to fruition because American society does not reward STEM geniuses with the social status that would allow them to get hot girls. Driven by insecurity, these geniuses instead fill that void by making money.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

How to screw over the next generations!

"Too much student debt, unaffordable housing, no capital. When you own nothing, you have no reason to defend the system.

He's right. But that's only half the story.

The other half is school."

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

A few years ago, Peter Thiel wrote to Mark Zuckerberg: 70% of Millennials say they're pro-socialist.

His conclusion: stop calling them stupid, and try to understand why.

His explanation was economic. Too much student debt, unaffordable housing, no capital. When you own nothing, you have no reason to defend the system.

He's right. But that's only half the story.

The other half is school.

School destroys critical thinking. Methodically. For fifteen years.

You learn to recite instead of question. To find the expected answer instead of the true one. To obey authority instead of reasoning for yourself.

When you've spent your youth outsourcing your thinking to an institution, it feels natural to outsource your life to an even bigger one: the State.

That's why so many end up Marxist. Not by conviction. By conditioning.

And that conditioning is about to become a handicap.

We're entering a world where AI does everything conformist, predictable and standardized better than we do. The only value left is thinking differently.

To create value tomorrow, you'll need to be neurodivergent.

And someone who thinks differently and reasons from first principles almost always ends up seeing the same thing: the State, as it works today, destroys more value than it creates.

It's no accident that Alex Karp created a fellowship at Palantir dedicated to neurodivergent talent. To him, in the age of AI, there are only two ways to have a future: master a real trade, or be neurodivergent.

But I'll go further than Karp.

I believe neurodivergence isn't the exception. It's the natural state of the human mind.

Look at a four-year-old. They ask hundreds of questions a day. They take everything apart. They refuse any rule they don't understand. They think from first principles without even knowing it's a thing.

Then they go to school. And we spend fifteen years normalizing them.

School doesn't shape minds. It sands them down.

The future belongs to those who survived the sanding.

[Zaal @Zaalback]

Pour donner un ordre d'idée, le Canada affiche désormais un fort déséquilibre entre hommes et femmes parmis les 20-29 ans, il est encore plus marqué que celui observé en Chine, en Inde ou au Pakistan.

Là où certains pays ont créé ce déséquilibre par les avortement sélectifs, le Canada l'aura accentué à coups d'immigration principalement masculine venant du tiers monde.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

@wealthmoose This is accurate.

Canada's Federal Government net-debt as a measure of GDP is distorted by CPP. Acceptable by accounting standards yes, but distorted nonetheless.

Also note that this does not include provincial debt.

The more Canadians know, the better.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

Interesting. Its not just Canada that is fucking over young people!

[耶律律 @Yelvlv930]

这篇文章读得人胸闷气短。

11月9日，彭博商业周刊发文，讲中国的「迷失一代」。

文章提到，沈阳一位精神小伙，在蜜雪冰城上班，每月工资3800，每天只吃一顿饭。文身和抽烟是他的刚性开销，其中文身还得分期文，因为一次拿不出那么多钱。

后来他父母来沈阳看他，给他买了辆电瓶车，可他喜欢更自由的越野摩托……

另一个精神小伙，常在24小时台球厅过夜，全身家当只有一台iPhone X和一只充电宝。他说自己身无分文，已经三天没吃饭了，原因是最近在街头打架，被判入狱八个月……

还有个小伙，没钱花了，就在交友软件上设局敲诈，通常能骗到一两千块……他说，这就像一个无休止的循环，一会儿感觉富得流油，一会儿又一贫如洗，一旦陷入其中，想要摆脱它、安定下来就非常困难……

众所周知，上世纪90年代末下岗潮之后，沈阳就成了中国的锈带。我常读的东北文学三杰，双雪涛、班宇和郑执，都成长在锈带阴影之下，也都通过故事为父辈呐喊。这股风潮前几年小火过一段，被称为东北文艺复兴。

但，一波未平一波又起，失业潮再次袭来，还没复兴就衰落了。前两天看到一个帖子，路人评价双雪涛，说，小说主角来来回回都是作家、职员和中产，不行就找个班上上吧，体验体验生活再写。

玩笑归玩笑，但这次失业潮确实比98年更难熬，以至于双雪涛的笔力都被人嫌弃。原因也不难猜，98年下岗潮发生，2001年中国入世，2004年中国经济过热，这期间最难熬的日子，也就三四年。

这一次呢？23年6月，青年失业率创下21.3%的历史高位，随后分年龄组的失业率连续停发5个月。24年初，统计局改了口径，16-24岁失业率不再包含在校学生，原来的25-59岁也被拆成25-29岁和30-59岁两组。

26年8月，全国16至24岁失业率升至19%，创一年新高。其实新口径公布以来，每年七八月都在18%以上，说明失业情况时好时坏，从未改善。

其实，失业的何止青年人。

精神小伙流落街头，高校毕业考公考编，中年失业假装上班。大家都在苦苦挣扎，但随着失业时间拉长，势必会形成庞大的贫困群体。

就在这种情况下，中国社保养老三轨制，还在大口大口吃着子孙饭。可是，不给子孙留饭的吃法，这饭还能吃多久呢？

高善文说，老年人生机勃勃，青年人死气沉沉，中年人生无可恋。但我想说，这还只是现行版本，要是再这么发展下去，下个版本就是「大面积白发人送黑发人」了。

近点的例子是美国铁锈地带。经济学家凯斯和迪顿研究发现，美国去工业化之后，锈带的中年白人，因酒精、药物和自杀导致的死亡率急剧上升，预期寿命一度逆势下降。

还有个更极端的例子，苏联解体后，俄罗斯因为休克疗法严重衰退，1990年代中期，男性预期寿命一度跌到57岁左右。

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

@MikePMoffatt Quality data right here.

Thanks for sharing and caring!

[Dr. Mike P. Moffatt 🇨🇦🏅🏅 @MikePMoffatt]

Chart of the day. The ratio of children to adults has dropped substantially in some parts of Ontario over the 21st century, most notably in the City of Toronto, York Region, Peel Region and Waterloo Region.

In many others, it has risen substantially.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

@MikePMoffatt Accurate!!!!

It will be another 10 years before policy makers figure this out.

Will it be too late to steady the ship by then?

Stay tuned and find out.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

Hey Canada! This is what ambition looks like.

All substance and none of the performative announcements that double as photo ops for cabinet ministers.

Can you tell the difference?

[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

AI will not slow down

South Korea unveiled its largest ever budget for 2027, with $610 billion in total spending, including massive investments in AI, semiconductors, robotics, and data centers.

The country is nearly DOUBLING its 2026 level spending on key AI technologies and investing billions more to develop a world leading sovereign AI model.

The global AI race is accelerating.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

You are old but are you bird-watching old? 🧓 😭😭

[National Park Service @NatlParkService]

As you get older, it’s amazing how fast bird-watching creeps up on you.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

Hang it in the Louvre. Masterpiece!

IYKYK!

[Greg Hunkins @greghunkins]

What is the charge? A succulent Chinese meal?

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

@eliasmakos You should ask @Huawei

They have receipts. 😂

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

@wealthmoose This is accurate.

Canada's Federal Government net-debt as a measure of GDP is distorted by CPP. Acceptable by accounting standards yes, but distorted nonetheless.

Also note that this does not include provincial debt.

The more Canadians know, the better.

[🍁👷‍♂️🏗 🛠 MeanwhileInCanada @MeanwhileInCa]

@TheophanesRex @acoyne 100M is not bad for 2100. Especially for a country with Canada's resource endowment.

What is bad is bringing people here without infrastructure capacity. That's the bigger issue IMO.