Phil Tolton

concatenating strings for a living

[Sam Elliott @samelliottsam]

Early anthropic employees commuting to work post IPO

[Dwayne Chomyn @Citizen004]

Under @stephenharper, tax incentives were implemented to encourage parents to put their kids in *SPORTS.* After 11 years, the Liberala are *gleefully* celebrating giving people some of their tax dollars back so they can *EAT.*

Think about that.

[signüll @signulll]

you're telling me anthropic & google are paying spacex ~$26b a year for compute?!!

this is more than half the run rate of openai & anthropic just from compute deals & that doesn't even factor in the rocket launches at all.

elon accidentally ended up owning a significant portion of three of the scarcest assets in ai.. power, chips, & physical deployment capability. the best lesson here is that if you’re selling picks & shovels during a gold rush, you don’t necessarily need to find the gold. you just need everyone else to keep digging. & also non software elon is pretty much unstoppable, like prime michael jordan type thing.

[I Am Devloper @iamdevloper]

startups will create a "war room" and it's just 3 guys looking at some AWS logs

[Jason Kenney 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇮🇱 @jkenney]

Some corners of the federal government continue to operate like a parody of Trudeau era wokeism.

@EvanLSolomon, if incoherent identify politics like this👇 is what’s steering Canada’s AI policy, you will be responsible for leaving Canada behind in the most important economic transformation since the Industrial Revolution.

[Carson Bradley @CarsonSCBradley]

Fun fact: Canada's new AI Strategy includes the word 'indigenous' over 6 times more than 'GPU'

[tobi lutke @tobi]

C-22 is a mistake. Not one part of it, the entire direction. ( Same for C-9 )

https://t.co/D5apl9nwvF

[Phil Tolton @ptolts]

@FP_Champagne 🤡

[Phil Tolton @ptolts]

@MickeyDjuric @EvanLSolomon Can it hack fax machines?

[Patrick Brethour @PatrickBrethour]

Globe editorial: There is no reconciliation without truth
https://t.co/b91oixz23z

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

I’m often asked if I am a “tough on crime” Liberal. It’s the wrong question.

What I do believe is that we’ve lost an important principle in Canadian justice:

🇨🇦 The law should apply equally to all, without discrimination 🇨🇦

I don’t think many disagree. But what do I mean?

When it comes to justice, I believe verdicts/sentencing should be be based on three simple factors:

1) The crime committed
2) The harm done to the victim
3) The future risk to society

That’s it.

Factors specific to the criminal such as:

- Social determinants (income, education)
- Mental health or addictions
- Cultural, religious, or ethnic identities
- Immigration status

Shouldn’t be considerations in sentencing, as they result in discriminatory application of the law.

This is obvious to most people!

Now, they could matter for where a sentence is carried out (eg, asylum/rehab for those whose mental health or addition issues led to criminality). But they should not result in reduced sentencing.

Also, frankly, our tolerance level for non-citizen criminality should be zero.

In fact, I find recent cases of reduced sentences due to deportation risk on the criminal to be highly prejudiced; as if there are not millions of good people who live in the countries they would return to.

Ontario/Canada is not a charity, our standards for creating new citizens should be high!

Furthermore, I do think we should take cases of recurring public nuisance and repeat offending much more seriously.

Why? Because public safety, and perceptions of it (such as on transit or in the ER) are hugely important for social trust to invest in great public systems.

For example, in April, the Globe and Mail reported the arrest of a troubled man in Toronto with over 125 convictions in 30 years! 10 days after release from a 20 month sentence.

That is obviously a terrible outcome for justice and public safety. Repeat offenses, even for petty crime, should result in far stricter sentencing given the risk to the public. Common sense!

Many of these individuals also deserve dignity, treatment, shelter, and care.

There are some people who can’t function on their own in society and we should help them. It would benefit everyone and cost less than the status quo.

In 1965 we had nearly 230 mental health/asylum beds per 100K people.

Today it’s closer to 30 (1/7th).

It’s okay to admit we were wrong in unwinding this system so much and invest more in mental health and rehab beds as part of our health system.

Look, I use transit nearly every day, so I share the frustrations people have for how frequent and visible disorder has become. It’s a real problem that only seems to get worse each year!

And look, I still align with many progressives who think we should prioritize prevention and mitigation against crime through understanding social factors behind it, and invest in mitigation. But it’s not one or the other, it’s yes, and!

I don’t think any of this is “tough” or “weak” on crime, just common sense.

That’s what we need to see return to criminal justice. And this will guide my approach, if I am ever elected.

[Matt Gurney @mattgurney]

Half the numbers we need.

[Eric Lombardi (EricForOLP.ca) 🇨🇦🚀 @EricDLombardi]

@Carpaige178176 We could have doubled the number of MRIs in Ontario with just the amount we’ve spent on self-promotion advertising ($500M) since 2018.

It’s not a zero-sum game.

[Brendon Bernard @BrendonBernard_]

An economy with flat productivity, and falling population is going to have frequent negative quarters of (marginally) negative GDP and employment growth without actually being in a recession.

It's stagnation, not contraction, and obviously both are bad.

[Lucy Hargreaves @lucyhargreaves4]

every forecast had this quarter pegged as the rebound. ottawa projected +1.4%. rbc and td both said +1.7%. q4 was the dip, q1 was supposed to be the recovery.
we got roughly zero growth

yes, this is a technical recession but
the longer pattern is what really matters and what concerns me most

real gdp per person grew 0.6% in all of 2025. it fell in 2024. it fell in 2023.

we haven’t become richer per person in years, and it’s crazy to me that we keep acting surprised when our growth is stalled

we have fundamental productivity and investment problems that won’t fix themselves

I will sound like I’m beating a dead horse here, but worth repeating again… we know what we need to do to fix this:

1. make capital gains and corporate tax rates at least as good with the US, if not materially better. across all industries.

2. open up protected markets to competition (telecoms, finance, dairy, transportation etc)

3. rapidly reduce bureaucratic red tape and slow process across the board, not just for favoured projects or sectors

and finally, let’s all remind ourselves that we can just do things. every Canadian can be part of fixing this. we can collectively hustle - aim high

Canada can be the richest country in the world, if we choose to be

[Élie Cantin-Nantel @elie_mcn]

This is pretty radicalizing. Ngl.

[Justine Moore @venturetwins]

Me using Claude Opus 4.8 to rename a file

[Jacob Eiting @jeiting]

pre-ai, bad ideas were just bad ideas, now bad ideas are bad ideas with charts and tables

[Leafs Papi @LeafsPapi_]

If you took a shot everytime the Habs took a shot, you'd probably be able to drive home

[Old Canada Series @oldcanadaseries]

A look at the 1968 Sikorsky Turbotrain for CN Rail