Tom PC

[david friedberg @friedberg]

they’re not jobs if they’re not valued. they’re not valued if there aren’t customers out there willing to pay them for their great work. needing the government to “create” a job is tantamount to welfare and that level of welfare resolves these individuals to a dependency on the government and lack of economic mobility. and chains our people, collectively, to a more indentured future.

you may be well intentioned but you have, and always will, fail to see the destitute folly of government as a job creation engine.

i have tried to engage you on this topic, in good faith, with empiricism and reasoning, but you have only dodged my points and pivoted to some populist refrain about the importance of taxation and the evils of productivity-driven success.

i can only assume you’re dodging these truths because you and the rest of the politburo leadership have deemed the conversation unsafe speech and put your oligopoly at risk.

let’s leave it at that then.

perhaps if your ways get their day, we can all bask in the glories of the dark ages ahead.

[Build Canada @build_canada]

Transparent governance builds better government.

As we approach the one-year anniversary of the 45th Parliament of Canada, we're launching our Outcomes Tracker.

View the status of 603 commitments made by the federal government at a glance at https://t.co/AeRiu9Wooy 📊

[Daniel Foch @danielfoch]

Canada has observed the largest decline in happiness in the world (along with the UK)

[Logan Kilpatrick @OfficialLoganK]

Introducing the all new vibe coding experience in @GoogleAIStudio, feating:

- One click database support
- Sign in with Google support
- A new coding agent powered by Antigravity
- Multiplayer + backend app support

and so much more coming soon!

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[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

@vicapow I love Prism. My only issue right now is that it tends to get stuck in long loops fairly often.

[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

Each time a layer of work is automated, it doesn’t disappear.
It falls.

Engineers become reviewers.
Reviewers become operators.
Operators become applicants in a more crowded room.

And when they step down, the rung below tightens.
More hands.
Same number of roles.
Wages thin under the added weight.

So the pressure moves downward.
Again.
And again.

A reinforcing loop:
automation at the top,
compression beneath it.

With self-improving AI, the interval between shocks shrinks.
The system learns, upgrades, redeploys.
What took a decade takes a year.
What took a year takes a quarter.

There is less time to retrain,
less time to reposition.

[Citrini @citrini]

JUNE 2028.

The S&P is down 38% from its highs. Unemployment just printed 10.2%. Private credit is unraveling. Prime mortgages are cracking. AI didn’t disappoint. It exceeded every expectation.

What happened?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

https://t.co/JzzwCrbJgS

[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

I’m a fan of both of you. I might be missing some context, but I don’t see how criticism of SSRIs translates into a personal insult. What was said may have been hurtful, but it doesn’t seem intentional. Disagreeing on SSRIs doesn’t require turning this into a feud. Drop the knives, pick up the hammers, and keep building.

[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

OpenAI released Prism a few days ago : a LaTeX editor with built-in AI for drafting, editing, formatting, and collaborating on scientific documents.

It hasn’t gotten much attention yet, but it’s an interesting use case and can save real time for students and researchers. I used to have to copy everything into Overleaf, which was slow.. this removes that extra step.

https://t.co/YDAgvn5gRA

[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

Proof that tiny UI tweaks can lead to huge outcomes: @variantui. Fantastic product.

[Ben South @bnj]

Introducing @variantui

Enter an idea and get endless (beautiful) designs as you scroll

No canvas, no skills or MCP, no constant prompting

Reply if you'd like 200 free designs to give it try

[Uubzu v4 @uubzu]

And Now His Watch Is Ended

[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

@yacineMTB U know u from Ottawa and not Toronto if ya don’t know what’s a gerbert fam

[Riley Brown @rileybrown]

Hey @YouTube I would pay an extra $10/month on top of YouTube Premium to disable shorts.

I don't want to see another short ever again. Please let me toggle them off.

[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

It's good that Google is testing different AI form factors; real products need real-world pressure. But the sprawl feels costly, with overlapping tools, unclear narratives, and user confusion. Curious how Google thinks about this long term: planned convergence, or PM incentives pushing new AI products just to show impact, regardless of adoption?

[Chrisman @chrisman]

6yo learning fractions with Synthesis. Teaching style is Socratic. Answer correctly, get increasingly challenging follow-up questions.

Lover her proud face at 1:10. That justified pride in what you've learned is the best motivator. Far better than points or leaderboards.

[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

One of the smartest small UX decisions I’ve seen lately: @clerk lets you copy their Next.js quickstart as an LLM prompt.

It quietly solves a real problem: models drifting into outdated or incorrect patterns. This should probably become standard in modern docs.

[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

@gregisenberg @mckaywrigley and @jasonzhou1993

[Matt Watkajtys @BuiltByVibes]

This is real
Claude Code hits usage limits for the week in hours.

I've never once hit their 5hr limit on the 20x plan

I think this is the most egregious usage limit change thus far in the industry

[Tom PC @TommyP_C]

@jack @martin__martian Means no

[andrew gao @itsandrewgao]

btw this is what happens when you embed 100k open source github repos

[Satire Squad HQ @SatireSquadHQ]

🇨🇦”For all the seniors turn off the television pick up the phone call a
Young person”