Canada’s rising risk picture… @bobbyrae48.bsky.social @spaikin.bsky.social

We're getting extremely close to the day when America spends more money to build data centers than office buildings Only 5 years ago, office construction spending was 7x data center spending

Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal

In other news, computer science applications were down about 27% Y-o-Y in Ontario univerities this spring.

This report from the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models is an important step towards effective and balanced AI regulation. It builds meaningfully on the International AI Safety Report and offers a thoughtful framework for policymaking at the frontier of AI development. 🧵 1/4

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Treating tiny condos - that no one wants to live in - as an investment that will appreciate forever turned out to be a disastrous policy and market illusion. Though it was, for several years, a boon for developers.

Fascinating and deeply unsettling trends. Is it any wonder why right-wing parties are bombarding young men with “the world is broken” messaging?

Yoshua Bengio nonprofit startup aims to create safe AI systems that have intellectual distance from humans and act as more like a detached scientist than a personal companion or human agent.

Europe greatly lags the US - as does Canada, for similar reasons…

Jaime Watt: www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.

number of fully electric cars sold in europe last month tesla: 7,165 byd: 7,231 the chinese ev maker passing tesla for the first time -ft/jato dynamics

“Those familiar with early briefings say Carney’s mindset seems to be: ‘How quickly can we do this? How do we accelerate? How do we show action?’ There’s a rigor to the way he thinks, and the system will have to adapt to keep up.“ policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...

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US & EU GDP data are now in, which means another update to my G7 GDP chart Here's each country's cumulative increase in real GDP, since just before the pandemic: 🇺🇸 +12.9% 🇨🇦 +8.7% (thru Q4) 🇮🇹 +5.9% 🇫🇷 +3.7% 🇬🇧 +3.4% (thru Q4) 🇯🇵 +0.9% (thru Q4) 🇩🇪 +0.0%

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Advantage Liberal: What advanced modeling tells us about why the Liberals are winning abacusdata.ca/2025-federal...

I just signed the Pledge for Canada, initiated by @charlieangus104.bsky.social ! actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...

Yes, let’s get it together Canada! 🇨🇦 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

my favorite new podcast. these guys are the best.

Kudos to @henriksaetre.bsky.social & @evanselinger.bsky.social for a brilliant paper on techno-solutionism. Read this if only for zingers: "Like everyone else, people in the tech industry can have complex inner lives and act for mixed reasons." [::giggle:: to "can"] link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A spectacular - but not the only - example of Canada’s failures to harness socially relevant data in the public interest. Hopefully, as @picardonhealth.bsky.social suggests, we’ll get it right this time.

Daron Acemoglu nets out the challenges of our time in this remarkably brief Nobel acceptance speech (🧵)

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Bob Dylan’s final concert at Royal Albert Hall… Whatever his wrongs (and rights), hail a poetic voice of a generation. www.spectator.co.uk/article/so-l...