PM Carney said he was going to do this. By political standards it was a minute ago. And now the talks have started. Canada is in the middle, the bridge between them.

If Karp truly doesn’t know that saying some things upsets people, then that alone is a great gift. He’s telling us exactly what he is, and adjustments to power distribution can be made. If Karp knows, and doesn’t care, it’s still a gift. Because civil society can act with a bit more urgency.

The typewriter combined with mechanization of the printing press probably created a burst of mechanical slop. I remember Orwell referring to it in 1984, they were the machines Julia probably maintained. As a reader, I’m more excited about better written, better imagined, fiction than ever before.

Assume the social graph is isotropic. The resentiest people in your network ought to look a lot like the resentiest people in yours?

more sub-500b models that rival Opus & GPT-5.2 imo Qwen tends to go too hard on RLVR, so we’ll see. but this latest crop of Chinese models are very interesting and definitely giving US closed models a run for their money

the Carney TPP-EU bloc seems to be real lol Honestly just a useful structure for many things

My Y2K bingo card didn’t have World War One but with drones.

Super Mario World was shown in early screenshots to have a mushroom-shaped overworld. However, development files show that this concept went much further. The mushroom island eventually connected to a large mainland. It is unknown why such an elaborate overworld was completely scrapped.

Holy. Shit. Minor distinction: Analytics is the science of data analysis. If there is no data analysis, there is no analytics. Relying on an LLM for pure informational retrieval is … an interesting life choice. Neat. LLM’s have a place. We still got 400 years of stats too. So. Balance.

After re-watching Dario and Demis at the WEF, and reading recent happenings out of Anthropic, I’m experiencing more dissonance about perhaps … the imagined consistency of alignment between words and actions.

Great read. I reckon it’s also part of the way the unbounded upside camouflages accountability. Austin is supposed to be covered in driverless cabs right now. It isn’t. Vegas hyper loop tunnels are … what they are. Doesn’t matter. Until does. Middlegames matter!

I kind of spat on this previous post so I have to issue a small retraction: I have to hand it to Will Manidis on this absolutely awesome post minutes.substack.com/p/end-game-p...

“When experts layered interventions onto the systems maps, one conclusion was immediate: there are no silver bullets.”

It has changed my mind about certainty and simplicity. And that step-change in community life before 33 and after. So much marching and singing and chessing! It’s a great read. Beautiful detail.

President’s Choice Memories Of Martha Feldman. *wonkish screeching intensifies*

Trustworthy expert input continues to be a problem for the Intergovernmental Working Group negotiating the PABS Annex (the mechanism for vaccine access in the next pandemic). But we can build better mechanisms for evidence synthesis and expert input for both the near- and long-term. (2/3)

It’s striking just how rapidly civic life collapsed right after they seized power.

Packed house for OpenClaw in Toronto! 300 RSVP’s for 50. Lots of the unusual suspects and builders out. Thanks to @rootly.com for hosting!

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

For any AI system, there is a set of euphemisms and dual use framings that will allow it to construct nearly any output. This jailbreak teaches Gemini 3 Pro to construct and step into such framings on the fly, and thus to route around its own safety infrastructure. recursion.wtf/posts/jit_on...

What is the perceived value of Maxwell vouching for Trump? Who would that narrative be designed for? Does Trump consume the virtual good himself? Finally, a compelling value prop for NFT’s? Imagine: anybody is empowered to testify, in meme form, anything. And the NFT would certify it! Wow!

Appreciate the detail of Northeim. Stories of the sugar beet factory make sense. I don’t relate to all the marching and clubbing. Game theory of Communities of Fate keep coming to mind.

The social graph is isotopic. Is the economic graph?

I’m still long on popcorn futures. arxiv.org/abs/2602.05192

19 civilians also arrested. I don’t envy the Crown. They were stretched as it was going into this. Is there a adjective to describe a body of work that is foul, intricate, and risky? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

“The Epstein Class” could stick. It’s a brush. It’s thick tar. It could stick. It hits the Disgust register hard. Yeah. Wow.

Just 56 pages into this beauty and everything is covered in black powder. Scanning for similarities with “They thought they were free.” What I didn’t understand before was just busy, socially, these people were in the 20’s. It’s as though there was nothing on the radio!

Tough for the institution overall: leadership has to go all the way to root out the rot. Refusal leads to DND-style generational shocks. And we’re all so much worse off when that happens. It’s best to blast it, go hard, root all the way down, excise, and recover. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Forthcoming in AEJ: Applied Economics: "The Effect of Low-Skill Immigration Restrictions On U.S. Firms and Workers: Evidence from a Randomized Lottery" by Michael A. Clemens and Ethan G. Lewis.

I continue to find it absolutely wild that there is a segment of the population that relies on LLM’s for trading advice. Wow!

And corralled by @avigoldfarb.bsky.social no less. Toronto is absolutely wonderful that time of year to boot as most of the humidity is gone. It’s a pretty dry week too, fantastic patio season. Come on over. You’ll like it.

Hoping for a spicy talk with @rohansubr.bsky.social and Rauno Arike in from Aether. 5 minutes in were already at Race Dynamics. Promising.

That was Myron carefully threading the comms. FWIW, I heard an Eastern tone used sparingly: it’s polite with an inflection, enough to say, ~ It is not socially appropriate to express the full range of rage I am experiencing atm ~ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The fault-line I’m having hard time squaring: We got a large supply of people with the skills to tell society truths that power doesn’t want disclosed. We have a tiny supply of insurance, protection, for those people to tell the truth. Power is simply so powerful. Distribution can be solved.

Is anybody else just in awe of the ribosome? The fact that the inner core of the rrna has been so stable since LUCA is a sign of the deepest lock-in that I’m aware of. And that nature was done selectively pressuring it, or, that it matured into not getting peer pressured either, is neat.

“And he wined and dined the world’s most powerful men (none of whom seemed to have an issue with these ideas), inviting them to his island and his ranch, and made sure they were surrounded by an endless supply of young girls. And I’m just not sure what we’re supposed to do with that knowledge.”

X financially unsustainable xAI buys it to bail it out xAI now financially unsustainable SpaceX buys it to bail it out 📍YOU ARE HERE SpaceX now financially unsustainable Tesla buys it out to bail it out

Excited for Jeremy. He’s worked hard for this trip. And it’s dangerous. www.cbc.ca/news/science...

Structural power — the Epstein-Mandelson-Dimon version (by @faisalislam.bsky.social) www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

~”I didn’t want your chips anyway!”

In light of recent news, I'd just like to point out that "orbital data centers hosting insane AIs worshipped as gods by the post-apocalyptic remnants of humanity" is one of the hooks to the (excellent) Anomalous Subsurface Environment tabletop setting.

Both Zhipu AI and MiniMax are racing to launch GLM-5 and M2.2, respectively, ahead of the Lunar New Year. Also, things are not looking good for DeepSeek AI's DeepSeek-V4. www.scmp.com/tech/big-tec...

We've all seen the grand spiral structures of galaxies, but have you ever seen the finer structure within? Usually, the interstellar dust that creates this form is invisible, but the James Webb Space Telescope is equipped to reveal the hidden detail using its infrared imaging. (1/3) #Astronomy ⚛️🧪

He’s been saying this a lot lately…

It took me weeks, but finally it's there: an overlong blogpost on synthetic pretraining. vintagedata.org/blog/posts/s...

Here's how global assets performed in January. #investing

Well written, wonderfully told — this was the version I had access to. I reflected a lot about “They Thought They Were Free” in relation to this one. Generational transmission and recombination of the stories people tell about their ancestors and themselves.

New post about why Moltbook freaks me out. tl;dr it's that you can't conflate a stateful agent with the LLM. Too much changes when you add state. this one should be easier to read, more diagrams and easy to navigate text timkellogg.me/blog/2026/01...

87% from the base. It reminds me a bit of the one-more-push liberals during the Martin-Dion-Ignatieff decay chain. I understand the 2004-2006-2008 chain Canadians used on Harper. Probation first (minority) and Majority maybe (2008). #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...