WPenner

Author ✍️ of TaskWarrior for Writers
Programming, Technology, Business & Investment.

[WPenner @WPenner3]

My top tweets of the year
A thread 👇

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@Martyupnorth Probably something like this…
https://t.co/Njakw2lq1V

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@Pontifex So, what you're saying is… they're angels.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Short dramas have quietly become a massive entertainment format.

Think next-gen soap operas: serialized, mobile-first, and monetized like games.

In China, they already generate more revenue than the domestic box office.

And now AI is going to blow this format wide open 👇

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@ZoharAtkins This article from Steven Heizmann mirrors the same insight and conclusions in the most uncanny way, though in a completely different discipline: physics.

https://t.co/4GzhBDJYCr

[Thor Berger @bergerthor]

A lot of the debate on AI and science focuses on whether LLMs can generate *new* ideas. Yet 20–80% of existing papers are never cited and presumably not read. By digesting vast uncited literatures, LLMs may meaningfully advance knowledge simply by absorbing *old* ideas.

[John Ennis @johnennis]

https://t.co/b89862LIqj

[Vlad Tarko 🌐 🏗️ @vladtarko]

More capitalist countries have lower income inequality, not higher. High income inequality is caused by cronyism which goes hand in hand with highly regulated markets. Welfare states also lower inequality, but you need free markets wealth to have generous welfare states.

[WPenner @WPenner3]

@trq212 We're gradually re-discovering XML! 😎

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@MaximeBernier Not really.
We've got mass emigration out of the country already.
Between 2022 and 2025, over 2.17 million people voluntarily left Canada.
That's <checks notes> 1 in 5, mostly highly skilled immigrants.
Situation handled.

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The question is not whether the Canadian government is more or less corrupt than California.
The real question is does the Japanese government understand who they've signed their Comprehensive Strategic Partnership in March with?
https://t.co/c7sfHNpjL1

[Peter McCaffrey @peteremcc]

I promise I am not joking...

This is Canada's spaceport.

Last month, the federal government paid $200 million to a company called Maritime Launch Services to lease it for 10 years.

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@boriquagato The loss of liberty is not the worst (though it's really terrible).
For me it's that no human system is perfect and all human systems fail.
So at some point the UBI system and/or governance system would fail.
AND dependents wouldn't know what to do next.
The ultimate "weak men".

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@Bhavik0880 @NewsroomGC Proposed slogan: Canada! Yesterday's cutting edge.

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@techNmak I think of these problems as junior developer loop.

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@matteoc @techNmak Strongly agree.
I find a process better than a single one time instruction.

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@alberta_cw https://t.co/8TStKcW06o

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@Martyupnorth Steven Tyler and Richie Supa said it best…
“I kept the right ones out, and let the wrong ones in.”

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@freedom4alltime The story often told is that it's an accident.
The tiles originally ordered were brown and what arrived were yellow.
Given the choice, butter yellow was definitely better. ;)

[WPenner @WPenner3]

Very excited about what this means for everyone looking to run LLMs in a secure and private environment!

https://t.co/csEc4NDyCx

[WPenner @WPenner3]

>The economy isn’t growing fast enough to support current commitments. …budgets lack bold, growth-enhancing reforms.
>…the real omission… was not just fiscal restraint. It was the absence of large-scale fundamental efforts to raise investment and productivity.

Exactly!

[Trevor Tombe @trevortombe]

Our governments’ finances face a growth problem, not just a budget problem.

My latest for @TheHubCanada on why productivity changes everything: https://t.co/Ut7ahcVNNi #cdnecon #cdnpoli

[ollama @ollama]

Ollama is now updated to run the fastest on Apple silicon, powered by MLX, Apple's machine learning framework.

This change unlocks much faster performance to accelerate demanding work on macOS:

- Personal assistants like OpenClaw
- Coding agents like Claude Code, OpenCode, or Codex