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[Vivek Sen @Vivek4real_]

SAM ALTMAN WATCHING CHATGPT HALLUCINATE LIVE ON STAGE IS THE FUNNIEST THING I'VE SEEN ALL WEEK.

THE CEO OF OPENAI, ON STAGE, IN FRONT OF EVERYONE, WATCHING HIS OWN AI JUST MAKE THINGS UP IN REAL TIME.

AND HIS FACE SAYS IT ALL.

THIS IS THE GUY TELLING US AGI IS COMING SOON BTW.

[Bradshaw @myabradshaw78]

Concord Pacific and Westbank Corp are Brookfield related in B.C.

[Ridark @ridark_eth]

I genuinely don't understand why everyone isn't using this yet

Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI, posted a simple idea that hit 16 million views: stop using AI to write code, use it to build a second brain.

You point Claude Code at a folder, drop in any source, an article, a transcript, a PDF, and Claude reads it, links it, and files it into a living wiki of everything you know. It compounds like interest, the more you feed it, the smarter it gets.

Here's the whole thing:

> Install Obsidian, create a vault, open it in Claude Code

> Paste Karpathy's wiki idea file and tell Claude to build it

> Claude makes three folders: raw for sources, wiki for its pages, a CLAUDE.md that runs it

> Drop any source into raw and say "ingest this"

> Ask questions across everything, forever

Five minutes to set up, and you never start from a blank chat again.

Full step-by-step guide with Claude and Obsidian, link below.

Bookmark this

[Sam Cooper @scoopercooper]

Let this Chinese money laundering house of cards fall.

[BioSteel @Lejlo1980]

@mario4thenorth @HaveWeAllGoneM1

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

When the Phoebus Cartel formed in 1925, it wasn’t just a business alliance, it was one of the earliest global examples of engineered obsolescence. Companies like GE, Philips, Osram, and others secretly agreed to limit how long a lightbulb could last, not because of technical limits, but because longer‑lasting bulbs meant fewer sales. Their internal documents openly described “standardizing” lifespan down to 1,000 hours, even though bulbs had already reached 2,000–2,500 hours in the 1910s.

To enforce this artificial limit, the cartel created a penalty system: any manufacturer whose bulbs lasted too long was fined. Engineers were literally instructed to make products worse. This wasn’t a conspiracy theory, it was a documented, coordinated effort across Europe and the U.S., complete with testing labs, compliance reports, and annual reviews to ensure bulbs failed on schedule. It’s one of the clearest historical cases where innovation was deliberately reversed.

The cartel collapsed during World War II, but its legacy shaped the modern consumer world. The idea that products should wear out faster, not because they must, but because it’s profitable, became a template for entire industries. The Phoebus Cartel didn’t just dim lightbulbs; it helped spark a century of planned obsolescence, influencing everything from electronics to appliances to the way companies think about profit today.

[Christopher okech @ludaluda_okech]

Somethings might look impossible but you see this right here, it's so real i swear

[QuébecOUIaussi @QuebecOUIaussi]

Lino Zambito, ancien entrepreneur en construction et témoin clé de la Commission Charbonneau, a raconté en détail comment fonctionnait le système de corruption bien huilé qui régnait à Montréal et au Québec.

Selon son témoignage, un véritable triangle de corruption s’était installé entre l’industrie de la construction, la mafia italienne, la mairie de Montréal et le Parti libéral du Québec. Des contrats publics étaient systématiquement gonflés, des pots-de-vin étaient versés en échange de l’octroi de travaux, et une partie de cet argent sale remontait directement vers le financement du parti au pouvoir.

Durant certaines années, le Parti libéral du Québec aurait ainsi amassé entre 10 et 12 millions de dollars par année grâce à ce stratagème. Cet argent illicite leur a permis d’acquérir un véritable parc immobilier et de réaliser des investissements fructueux, tout en finançant leurs activités politiques.

En 2012, Pauline Marois et le Parti québécois ont pris le pouvoir après l’élection générale. Leur gouvernement (minoritaire, d’une durée d’environ 18 mois) a fait adopter une loi limitant les contributions politiques individuelles à 100 $ par personne par année, précisément pour assainir le financement des partis à la suite des révélations de la Commission Charbonneau.

Pourtant, malgré ces avancées, le Parti libéral n’a jamais vraiment cessé de chercher de nouvelles façons de contourner les règles et de ramasser de l’argent illégalement, selon plusieurs observateurs.

#polqc #assnat

[Aaron Pete @Aaronpete_]

Mind blowing.

My guest explained that he submitted a report with recommendations on our immigration policy and it was thrown in the garbage.

Then, the government did the exact opposite.

What a mess.

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

This AI just exposed the BIGGEST legal insider trading operation in America.

A platform called GovGreed built a seven-layer machine learning system that cross-references every stock trade disclosed by every sitting politician against the bills their committees control, the campaign donations they receive, and the companies their votes directly impact.

It scored all 540 politicians currently in Congress. And the numbers are crazy:

56% of every stock purchase made by Congress in the last 16 months was on a stock directly affected by a bill the buyer later voted on. That is 6,170 out of 11,016 total purchases.

More than HALF of all congressional stock buys are on companies whose fate that same politician is about to decide.

343 of 540 Congress members actively trade stocks while holding access to nonpublic legislative information.

That is 63.8% of the entire legislature making market bets with an informational edge that would put any hedge fund manager in prison.

The AI identified 752 active "Triple Signals" in the current Congress. A Triple Signal fires when three conditions line up at once:

The politician sits on the committee controlling a bill, they traded stock in a company affected by that bill, AND they received campaign contributions from that same industry.

Bills carrying these insider indicators pass at 5.4 TIMES the normal rate.

Now look at the individual leaderboard:

- Nancy Pelosi's estimated portfolio sits at $194 million with a Greediness score of 98.1 out of 100
- Ro Khanna made 13,231 trades across 800+ different tickers
- Michael McCaul made 32,302 trades and filed 6,670 of them late
- Thomas Suozzi filed 86.4% of his trades late with an average delay of 396 days, meaning his disclosures landed over a YEAR after he made the trade

And then there is Lisa McClain, the fourth-ranking Republican in the House. She has made 1,443 trades in three years, more than 98% of all politicians tracked.

She violated the STOCK Act twice in a single year, disclosing up to $900,000 in trades months after the legal deadline. Her husband bought up to $250,000 in Elon Musk's xAI, which quietly converted into SpaceX equity before last Friday's $2 trillion IPO.

The penalty for all of this? A $200 fine.

The number of Congress members ever prosecuted under the STOCK Act since it passed in 2012? Zero.

And the cruelest part is this:

A bill to ban congressional stock trading was introduced in January 2026. It has bipartisan support. Over 80% of American voters want it passed.

But Congress is sitting on it, because the people who would have to vote yes are the same people making millions from the system staying exactly the way it is.

They write the insider trading laws, they exempt themselves from enforcement, they trade on the information those laws generate, and when they get caught, they pay a fine that is basically nothing.

The AI didn't discover anything Congress was hiding. It just organized what was already public into a pattern so obvious that nobody can pretend it isn't there anymore.

[The AI Colony R&D @TheAIColonyRD]

This is the NUDT mosquito drone, a spy UAV built by China's National University of Defense Technology for covert surveillance you can't see coming.

Under 0.3 grams. Wings that flap 500 times a second.

Sensors built for covert surveillance, all packed into a body you'd swat without thinking.

[Kateri Seraphina @KateriSeraphina]

En 1938, des chercheurs de Harvard ont lancé l’étude la plus ambitieuse de l’histoire en suivant la vie de 724 personnes, de leur adolescence jusqu’à leur décès, afin de découvrir ce qui rend réellement une personne heureuse et accomplie.
Pendant des décennies, ils ont analysé leurs cerveaux, leurs salaires, leurs relations et leurs traumatismes. Après 85 années de données, ils ont mis en évidence une corrélation surprenante, à laquelle personne ne s’attendait.
La réussite professionnelle à l’âge adulte ne dépendait ni du quotient intellectuel, ni de la richesse des parents, ni des notes scolaires. L’un des prédicteurs les plus puissants du succès était quelque chose de très simple : faire des tâches ménagères durant l’enfance.
Sortir les poubelles ou faire la vaisselle n’est pas seulement une question de propreté ; c’est un entraînement du cerveau. L’étude, connue sous le nom de Grant Study, a révélé que les tâches domestiques enseignent une leçon qu’aucune école ne peut reproduire : « l’éthique de la contribution ».
Lorsqu’un enfant doit arrêter de jouer pour mettre la table, il apprend que le monde ne tourne pas autour de lui. Il comprend qu’il fait partie d’un écosystème et que son effort est nécessaire au bon fonctionnement du groupe.
Les chercheurs ont découvert que les enfants qui participaient aux tâches devenaient des adultes qui :
– savent reconnaître ce qui doit être fait et le font sans qu’on le leur demande (initiative) ;
– éprouvent davantage d’empathie pour le travail des autres ;
– gèrent mieux la frustration et le report de la gratification.
À l’ère de la « parentalité hélicoptère », où l’on évite que les enfants s’ennuient ou travaillent, Harvard nous avertit qu’en les protégeant des tâches ennuyeuses, nous leur retirons les fondations de leur future compétence professionnelle.
Si vous voulez que votre enfant devienne un adulte accompli, ne lui achetez pas plus de jouets éducatifs. Donnez-lui un balai.
Source : Harvard Study of Adult Development (Grant Study) et Julie Lythcott-Haims (How to Raise an Adult).
Universo Sorprendente.

[Bruce McGonigal @bruce_mcgonigal]

Quebec gets to cap its immigration rates at 45K per year and gets a whopping $775.1M to ensure newcomers integrate into Quebec society.

British Columbia has no immigration cap and gets $25 million.

So while Trudeau flooded Canada with millions of "temporary immigrants" that don't leave, Quebec is the only Province allowed to decide who gets to stay in their Province. Nice eh?

Quebec also enforces their secular culture via religious symbols ban in government jobs.

Quebec immigration funding. 👇

https://t.co/KPJwv0kLiD

British Columbia immigration funding. 👇

https://t.co/m6iLHJYEuj

The people arguing pointlessly that Quebec is not a Nation, within the Nation of Canada, are like a dog chasing their tail in the mud.

The rest of Canada was not allowed to decide who the Federal government brought into their Provinces.

Trudeau just did it and left already struggling Canadians to deal with an exploding cost of living.

In 2026 Canada will bring in 380K permanent residents. Quebec caps their immigration level at 45K.

A Province with 22% of the Canadian population, will only take in 12% of Canada's immigration rate.

Quebec gets to protect its culture and society while the rest of us are told it's racist to even think that way.

[Marc Nixon @MarcNixon24]

HOLY SH*T

A leaked Japan Times Article exposed a massive risk to Canada's economy

Mark Carney is acting like USMCA renewal is guaranteed

Donald Trump says otherwise

If USMCA collapses, so does the foundation of Carney's entire trade strategy

Implication are MASSIVE

[The Culturist @the_culturist_]

I don't think anybody really grasps how desperate this situation is.

University professors are now saying they are unable to teach history because reading long books and passages is how a person learns history. College kids are incapable of reading more than a few pages.

Some classes don't assign any reading at all now, only lectures.

There is an assumption among the people managing this decline that reading is just a way of receiving information. It isn't. Proper reading is how we build the mental muscle to synthesize ideas and evaluate them.

If the catastrophic decline in reading and literacy is not addressed now, we risk losing everything.

Western civilization cannot survive the death of reading because it was built by people with the kind of cognitive depth that a culture of deep reading brings:

Complex reasoning, extended internal dialogue, the capacity to hold opposing ideas in tension. Our systems and institutions are complex, and they require well ordered minds to maintain them.

Reading forms minds, and the West was built by the richest minds in history.

[Leonard Rodman @RodmanAi]

THIS IS ABSOLUTELY WILD 🤯

Jack Dorsey's new AI tool, Goose, is 100% FREE.

You type:

"Build me a website like YouTube."

And Goose gets to work on its own:

→ Creates the entire project
→ Writes all the code
→ Installs dependencies
→ Fixes errors automatically
→ Keeps going until it's working

The crazy part?

• No monthly subscription
• Runs on your own device
• Your code stays private
• Completely open-source

Just a few years ago, building software meant hiring developers or learning to code.

Now you can start with nothing but an idea.

We're entering a world where ideas are becoming more valuable than technical skills.

[bbshare @shadouyoua]

硅谷PayPal帮主彼得·蒂尔认为，AI正终结过去200年，以数学能力为核心的精英体系。工程、量化等“数学型人才”的逻辑优势，正在被AI迅速替代，其职业护城河也正在消失。未来真正的竞争力，在于叙事、社交语境理解，以及把AI嵌入社会系统的语言型人才，这才是人类独特优势。

工业革命让肌肉贬值，AI革命正在让“纯计算的大脑”贬值。未来的胜出者，是那些能用语言驾驭算法、用叙事锚定价值的社会系统操盘手。

作为程序员： 别只埋头代码，而是要多练自然语言描述问题；学产品思维和用户研究，理解非技术需求；开发时优先考虑伦理、社会影响；选领域深耕；把代码变成“能讲故事”的系统。未来你的优势是“代码+叙事”。所以，年轻人别慌着放弃STEM，也别觉得学文科就躺赢了。真正该练的，是用AI思考更深的问、讲出更动人的故事、构建更复杂的社会系统。蒂尔指出了方向，但真正的游戏，才刚刚开始。

说白了，需要文理兼修，才能走得更远。

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Jordan Peterson made a profound point on Chris Williamson’s podcast.

When God dies, a lot of unexpected things die with Him, including science.

Science isn’t some purely neutral, secular tool. It rests on deeply religious assumptions: that truth exists, that it’s knowable, that pursuing it is good, and that the universe makes sense.

These aren’t scientific claims, they’re metaphysical, rooted in a religious worldview. The universities themselves grew out of monasteries.

Without that deeper foundation, science eventually stops being about truth and becomes just another tool for power, ideology, or convenience. You lose the reason to be honest when the data gets inconvenient.

Do you think science can survive long-term without any belief in objective truth or a higher moral order?

[Michelle Rempel Garner @MichelleRempel]

Here is a list of powers Liberal Bill C34 proposes to give to cabinet and a new regulator over what content Canadians can see and interact with online.

Cabinet will be able to designate new categories of regulated online services without Parliamentary debate.

(Source @mgeist)