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same name/handle in the blue place

[Laura Babcock 🇨🇦 @LauraBabcock]

Ford had audacity to say he’s disappointed in protestors at Ford Fest! From his Gravy Plane to healthcare, ODSP, homelessness, Ontario Place, Greenbelt, TO airport, FOI law, OSAP and massive debt Ontario is so disappointed in him it’s time he step down. My OpEd @TheSpec #Onpoli

[Donna @donnainbc]

I am Canadian! Scored 20 This is a good list but it's missing some things eg Peggy's Cove, aboard the Bluenose, watched the Snowbirds, walked on Old Montreal cobblestones, visited "Cottage Country," been to a sports tournament, Calgary Tower, road-tripped cross-country, & more.

[Jack Miller III @jackUSAmiller]

@Acyn Damn, they saw trump coming in 1509.

[Donna @donnainbc]

😂

[guyfelicella🇨🇦🍁 @guyfelicella]

Let me break it down for everyone 👇🏼

Everyone is upset that an Ontario judge said you can’t just keep displacing homeless people.

Here’s an idea: stop complaining about homeless people and start demanding governments actually house people. Then maybe the courts wouldn’t have to step in to protect basic human rights.

You can’t oppose encampments, oppose supportive housing, oppose shelters, oppose affordable housing, oppose mental health supports and then complain that homelessness still exists.

You don’t solve homelessness by pushing people from one sidewalk to another. You solve it by giving people somewhere to go.

[Terry T. 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @terry_truchan]

Loblaws reported an 18% increase in quarterly profits, reaching $594 million in 12 weeks, and also increased dividends for shareholders by 10%. Yet, uneducated CONS blame Mark Carney & the Liberals for high grocery prices.
#cdnpoli #cdnpolitics #abpoli

[Danielle Beckman @DaniBeckman]

Imagine being a scientist investigating vaccines in the U.S. After years of research and millions spent, your study is blocked from publication because your data doesn't support RFK's and the FDA's battle against vaccines. This is why people like me were forced to leave.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The Jetson ONE personal air vehicle.

Priced at $128,000

[Dr. Sarcasto Ph. D. @anonfmresident]

At this point is obvious what happened they had an initial surge of douchbag parasites and once they signed it was over far short of the ridiculously easy standard set by #govsmithTRAITOR, so they cheated and just added names from the stolen voter list.

[Radha Tripathi @Radha_AI]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Annie Dufour @anniedufour99]

Sorry ,Pierre, but I was there during the Harper years in Ottawa, and you were not part of the inner circle of power. You had little incidence on what Harper and his close team decided. You were, however, always in search of the media spotlight and you were asking journalists-myself included- to be quoted in their report.

You spoke French very well and I, working for French TV (TVA Nouvelles), was always happy to find bilingual politicians. I would have used a clip of you in my reports but what you said always stopped me. Even then, you were all about personal attacks and superficial comments. You never discussed /analyzed THE POLICY, always the party.
Ad Hominem rather than Ad Rem.
And those politicians ( from all parties ) I tended to exclude in favour of those who examined the substance.

" No fighting with the other party " in my reports was my motto. Explaining factually why you are against x or y decision, yes. But otherwise, it's just empty political attacks and the citizens of Canada deserve better.
You haven't changed, Pierre, despite the responsibilities that are now upon your shoulders. @PierrePoilievre #cdnpoli @PolQC

[Donna @donnainbc]

@RonFilipkowski https://t.co/y7irTJSwZt

[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.

(Link in the comment)

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, this is BRILLIANT: This dude breaks down why everyone thinks the whole WHCD event was fake... everything about trump is FAKE.

Best video you'll see today.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨🚨🚨 Everyone should be talking about this!
Media is NOT reporting on this‼️

[tern @1goodtern]

I'm in a lull on twitter without much visibility, so probably hardly anyone will see this, but here's an important thread on "why everyone's sick all the time".

No, you are not imagining it.
Sickness is increasing.
Sickness absence rates are increasing.

[Donna @donnainbc]

@LoganTGott Claude

[Donna @donnainbc]

@jordan_ross_8F Marketing

[Envidreamz @envidreamz]

Covid disinformation didn’t spread by accident.

It was amplified purposely.

Platforms like Facebook, YouTube, and X boosted engagement over truth.

State actors from Russia and China pushed conflicting narratives to create chaos.

Domestic politicians, partisan media, and movements like QAnon amplified distrust of Americans towards government, public health and science.

Influencers monetized fear.
Confusion did the rest.

It didn’t need everyone to believe it. Just enough people to share it.

And now even your own doctors, healthcare workers and government believes the disinformation too.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The head of Europe’s central bank just said financial markets don’t understand what they’re in for.

This is Christine Lagarde saying the damage is already done. Most people have absolutely no idea. Here is what she actually said.

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz. That chokepoint carries 20% of the world’s oil and gas. Markets shrugged. Investors assumed it would blow over. Lagarde told The Economist that technical experts are not talking about months for recovery. They are talking about years.

Helium travels through the Strait of Hormuz. Helium is not a balloon gas. It is the invisible ingredient inside every advanced microchip on earth. Qatar supplies 35% of the world’s commercial helium. Qatar’s facilities have gone dark. Spot prices have surged past $450 per thousand cubic feet. Most chip fabricators carry less than three months of inventory. The world is building AI data centers at record speed. The raw material that makes the chips possible is now scarce.

Meanwhile Brent crude has hit $99. Earlier spikes passed $120. US gasoline is up 30%. Iraq cut 1.5 million barrels a day. Saudi Arabia paused its largest refinery. Europe is heading into this with gas storage at 30% capacity.
And the ECB is not cutting rates to soften the blow. It is considering hiking them to fight inflation.

Slow economy. Rising prices. Tighter money. All at once.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1