Jacob Bugajny

data engineer/analyst

[J O $ H U A @JOHUAsa]

“He’s never done anything for Toronto.”

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: CANADA OFFICIALLY ENTERS A TECHNICAL RECESSION FOR THE SECOND TIME IN 6 YEARS.

The country is getting hit from two sides at the same time. The tariff war with the US is blocking trade, and the war in Iran is pushing up fuel costs.

Because of this double blow, the economy is shrinking. New numbers show GDP fell 0.1% in the first quarter of this year, right after a 1% drop at the end of last year.

Experts did not see this coming at all, they expected the economy to grow by 1.5%. Instead, three out of the last four quarters have been negative.

The car industry is taking the worst hit. Sales of cars and trucks to other countries are dropping fast because the new US tariffs are choking the supply lines.

At the same time, the conflict in Iran is making oil and energy way more expensive. Because running a business is costing much more now, companies cut their investments by 0.7%. This is the fifth quarter in a row that business spending has gone down.

Regular workers are feeling the pain directly.

The economy lost 18,000 jobs in April alone, pushing the unemployment rate to a 6-month high. With both conflicts getting worse, there is no quick fix in sight.

[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

JUST IN: 🇨🇦 Canada officially enters a technical recession.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇨🇦 Cops in Vancouver pulled this guy over and told him he had to come with them because a psychiatrist certified him under the Mental Health Act.

"What is going on? I've never been given a psych eval.

He just looked at me and said you're certified."

[Ishan Goswami @TheIshanGoswami]

DEAR BROTHER, GO BUILD COOL SHIT

[Build Canada @build_canada]

Three @McMasterU students changing the world, one ear at a time. 🦻

Canadian founders will shape the 21st century. We must strive to make sure they can shape it from home. 🇨🇦

[NBA on Prime @NBAonPrime]

"The gift is nothing without the work."

@ThisIsUD explains why he's picking the Raptors in Game 7 vs. Cavs 👀

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: OpenAI is ending Microsoft’s exclusive access to its AI models and products.

[Planet Of Memes @PlanetOfMemes]

When it's Dad's turn to watch the baby.

[Redd @ReddCinema]

Dave Chappelle on how success can be a trap 🤯

[The Free Press @TheFP]

Venezuelan-born economist @DanielDiMartino explains why Zohran Mamdani’s proposed $30 million grocery store makes no sense.

[Peter St Onge, Ph.D. @profstonge]

Nearly half of the most productive Canadians have fled to America.

While third world migrants make up 98% of Canada's own population growth.

Population replacement at warp speed.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

We live on a planet with 1.3 billion habitable years left. We've had rockets for 69 of those years. In that time, the cost of reaching orbit dropped from $54,500 per kilogram to $2,720, and SpaceX is targeting under $100 with Starship. If they hit that number, getting to space becomes 545 times cheaper in a single lifetime.

329 orbital launches happened in 2025. Almost one a day. The space economy crossed $626 billion last year and should hit a trillion by 2034. SpaceX just filed for an IPO targeting a $2 trillion valuation, worth more than every airline on Earth combined. Starship, their fully reusable rocket (both stages fly back and land), can lift 150 tons to orbit. The entire International Space Station weighs 420 tons. Three flights could put the whole thing up there.

The engineering side of this is solved. What remains is a survival problem. Researchers published a paper in Scientific Reports calculating the natural extinction rate for humans, how often we'd get wiped out by asteroid strikes, supervolcanoes, the stuff we can't control. Less than a 1-in-14,000 chance in any given year. At that rate, we'd survive millions of years, more than enough to spread across the solar system.

Toby Ord, a philosopher at Oxford who spent a decade studying how civilizations end, puts the odds of a civilization-ending catastrophe before 2100 at 1-in-6. The threats aren't from space. Nuclear war. Viruses engineered in labs that could spread before anyone understands what hit them. AI systems are smart enough to act on goals we never gave them. All things we built ourselves.

A 2017 NASA paper made this case: we have a roughly 50-year window to lock in spacefaring infrastructure before resources run thin and energy costs make a restart nearly impossible. We're 9 years into that window. Given enough time, the math takes this to 100%. The only question that matters is whether we make it through the next few decades without blowing our shot.

[DogeDesigner @cb_doge]

🚨 WhatsApp’s “end-to-end encrypted” privacy is a total lie.

New class-action lawsuit just dropped: Meta secretly let employees, contractors like Accenture, and third parties read, intercept, and store your private messages WITHOUT consent.

All while marketing it as “only you and the recipient can read it.”

Zuck lied to billions. Your chats were never safe.

[Mo @atmoio]

Claude Mythos is Delusional

[Cole Hogan @colewhogan]

I suggest you listen to @PierrePoilievre speak about his daughter Valentina.

He discusses how she's changed his view on politics and offers advice for parents of autistic children.

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

New Anthropic research: Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model.

All LLMs sometimes act like they have emotions. But why? We found internal representations of emotion concepts that can drive Claude’s behavior, sometimes in surprising ways.

[Casey Mattox @CaseyMattox_]

I don't think I had fully appreciated how this works, but it's obvious now. NASA is aiming for a point in space where they know the moon will be. Like throwing to a receiver, but on a somewhat larger and faster scale.

[Neuralink @neuralink]

“When you haven’t heard someone talk for four years, the thought that they might be able to talk again was mind blowing."

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

The mind of humanity