Emad Boctor 🇨🇦

Software engineer. Retweets are not always endorsements.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

Sounds reasonable to me

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

Joe Lonsdale: “These companies should be held extremely liable for any damage they do. We shouldn't be putting regulators in. They're just going to get captured... The right should be against regulation, but for liability to hold companies accountable.”

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@PeterDiamandis Find a cure for all neurodegenerative diseases.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

Pretty cool

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

This is the visualization we've all been waiting to see. Read the questions and insightful replies by @joonas_nattila in the thread below. I learned a lot from reading his answers. And his supercomputer visualization is really instructive!

[Steven Strogatz @stevenstrogatz]

This is the visualization we've all been waiting to see. Read the questions and insightful replies by @joonas_nattila in the thread below. I learned a lot from reading his answers. And his supercomputer visualization is really instructive!

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@jkenney @ParksCanada Exaclty!

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@jkenney Agree. It's also refreshing to have the prime minister appeal to Sir John A Macdonald and highlight his contribution. Shame on all those who tried to cancel this great man and destroy Canada's history.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

Sad

[Michael Shermer @michaelshermer]

Wokeness is corrupting science from within. Nature went woke years ago with their support of trans pseudoscience (sex is binary, not a spectrum) and now they think the death of Jason Arday sends a wake-up to us: yeah, stop lying.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

Sad

[Steven Pinker @sapinker]

The degeneration of Nature, Science, NEJM, and Scientific American into woke propaganda dispensers (and their refusal to publish normie, centrist, common-sense responses) is a scientific scandal.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@LoveMy7Wood That was horrible to read. There are really sick people out there.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@MPelletierCIO I disagree. F35 is a superior plane, the CAF wants the F35. The selection of a military plane should primarily be a military decision, not industrial/economic.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

A cogent argument

[Conrad Black @ConradMBlack]

Regrettably, an exchange on social media between two former CBC journalists, Keith Boag and Travis Dhanraj, was inflicted upon me today and it perfectly captures the invasive rot afflicting and spreading forth from the CBC's newsroom and college campuses into the collective consciousness of our society.

For reference, Mr. Dhanraj was given the high jump from the CBC last year when he attempted to gently nudge that organization in the direction of diversity of opinion. Mr. Boag, on the other hand, was a CBC lifer, retiring after 35 years of blissful ignorance to any opinion outside the CBC's ideological monoculture. The exchange comes within the context of a recent revelation (by Warren Kinsella) that the CBC’s senior director of journalistic standards was demanding avoidance of the t-word in describing the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

Mr. Boag seems to be defending this position by categorizing 9/11 as a run-of-the-mill "attack on civilians for political purposes,” giving several other examples to imply there is no clear distinction between any instance of civilians being killed in pursuit of some political purpose. By implication, Osama bin Laden and Nelson Mandela (an implication Boag made explicitly in a subsequent exchange with Ezra Levant) are morally equivalent; they are either both terrorists or neither are. It is not a serious position. It is moral illiteracy formatted into the CBC's perverse style guide. Sadly, the idea is not original, or unique. In fact, it is the pervasive view on campuses and among large swathes of the Canadian media landscape. It is also very dangerous, and it needs to be answered.

Mr. Boag's position is bunk. If the “political purpose” in question is to kill and terrorize civilians in the service of global jihad or the extermination of a people, it belongs in a distinct category. That was 9/11. That was October 7. That was the Holocaust. These acts were genocidally motivated and carried out by groups that would never accept any peaceful resolution.

On the other hand, using decisive force to destroy war criminals who will never make peace, belongs in a completely different category. It is not terrorism. Israel’s campaign to destroy Hamas is a righteous cause. Israel is not only within its rights, but morally obligated to uproot the terrorist apparatus that hides behind its own population. And Israel should be lauded for the strategically disadvantageous lengths it has gone to limit Palestinian casualties, even while Hamas has tried to maximize them. Accusing Israel of genocide is either credulous stupidity or intellectually flaccid anti-Semitism attempting to disguise itself in a threadbare cloak of righteousness.

The atomic bomb was developed by the Allies and used to save lives and compel a surrender that would not otherwise have come. One may argue, and I would agree, that a demonstration on a remote island, a sort of nuclear warning shot, might have been preferable. Likewise, using another of Boag's examples, one could argue the ANC should have continued with their Gandhi-inspired peaceful protest movement even after the Sharpeville massacre. The fact is, no act of violence toward civilians, whether in pursuit of a greater good or not, should be whitewashed. But nor should they all be grouped lazily together, as Boag attempts to do, as if genocide and global domination were indistinguishable from self-defense or peace-through-strength. As if they can all be neatly filed away as “political reasons.”

After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the United States did not proceed to conquer the world, though it could have with a four-year monopoly on nuclear weapons. It used it geostrategic leverage to rebuild Europe and Japan, establish the United Nations — which, believe it or not, was once a righteous and laudable organization — and strive for peace. Had the Nazis or Imperial Japan developed nuclear weapons first, no sane person believes they would have pursued the same strategy.

I should not unfairly single out Mr. Boag, as his perspective is plagiarized from an intellectually and historically illiterate world view that has been building up steam for 30 years. It is a view that dispenses with the indispensable distinction between good and evil. It is not moral seriousness. It is relativism, and it is contemptible. This mass amnesia about who the forces of good in the world are, and who the forces of evil are, is a serious problem. That this worldview has captured the CBC and so many North American campuses is not surprising, but it is a genuine cause for concern. The West has ceded too much of, and must reclaim, the moral high ground.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@JoeSquawk Hey Joe, regarding this interview, why did you let Chrystia deflect from answering the question? She did not explain why Canadian GDB per capita flat-lined for 10 year.

https://t.co/O1uTuyjycW

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@ianbremmer Did you see this?

https://t.co/RjmGgYo2Rf

[Treasury Department @USTreasury]

Today, under Operation Economic Outcast, @FinCENnews proposed a rule that would revoke Banque Misr UAE’s correspondent banking access to U.S. financial institutions. Additionally, Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control sanctioned Bank Melli Dubai manager Reza Mohammad Taeedi, along with a Hong Kong-based front company that has helped launder funds for a sanctioned Iranian exchange house. Operation Economic Outcast is severing the remaining financial lifelines that sustain the Iranian regime.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@edyang73 @sarobertson_ It was a joke my friend.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

Good for Sweden

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

For decades, Sweden was known for its inclusive welfare state and its strong voice on human rights.

But recently, the country has come to resemble something very different: an ultra-capitalist haven, with an increasingly tough approach on immigration.

I explained what changed:

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

For decades, Sweden was known for its inclusive welfare state and its strong voice on human rights.

But recently, the country has come to resemble something very different: an ultra-capitalist haven, with an increasingly tough approach on immigration.

I explained what changed:

[Michael Peters @PetersMich28437]

The fastest female, 100-meter sprinter in recorded history is American legend Florence Griffith Joyner. She set the world record of 10.49 seconds on July 16, 1988.

In 2026, there were over 1000 high school boys that beat this record! You read that correctly. In this year alone, there were over 1000 high school boys that beat the record of fastest woman in the world ever!

If just one of those boys, or a meager 1/10 of 1%, decided to compete as a woman, he would crush the women’s world record!

I’m not talking about a high school record or a college record or even an Olympic or professional record. I’m talking about the women’s world record that has held since 1988!

Remind me again, why you’re not supportive of women’s rights.

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@GovMikeHuckabee I just read this today. As a supporter of Israel and a philosemite, I find this one of the stupidest, most self-defeating thing any people would do.

https://t.co/1O6rdzkjSi

[Emad Boctor 🇨🇦 @emadboctor]

@joelpollak I just read this today. As a supporter of Israel and a philosemite, I find this one of the stupidest, most self-defeating thing any people would do.

https://t.co/1O6rdzkjSi

[Billboard Chris 🌎 @BillboardChris]

The very first person Tucker decided to interview for his independent channel was one of the most loathsome individuals on the planet.

I say ‘interview’ but it was nothing more than a free promotion. All Tucker did was launder Andrew Tate’s lies for him.

Propaganda for a woman-beating pimp, rapist, and pornographer who recruits 15-year-old girls off of Instagram.

That told me everything I needed to know about Tucker Carlson, and it’s been all downhill from there.