Happy (?) budget day! Great, quick summary of how to read a budget from my brilliant former colleague @viet.bsky.social dais.ca/commentary/h...

We’re system architects at core. We built a decentralized network so you could run your own moderation, but beyond that our upcoming healthy discourse project is taking some swings at the interaction model that drives these dynamics on Bluesky. Excited to start seeing it in action.

Harassing the mods into banning someone has never worked. And harassing people in general has never changed their mind.

#BREAKING: Charlie Kirk, right-wing influencer and close Trump ally, dead after being shot at a Utah university event

Terrifying day. The downstream consequences could be scary too. Of the many reasons not to tweet gleefully about Kirk getting shot (also: it's morally wrong), a big one is you don't want to give these people any more ammo in their fight to shut down two-party competition in America

The LGBTQ-specific service the hotline offered has fielded about 1.3 million calls, texts and chats since its inception in 2022.

Absolutely revolutionary. Pharma may seem greedy but it takes a lot of money and investment to create something like this. www.gilead.com/news/news-de...

A friend just told me about the Jojo Siwa thing - the biphobia is showing y’all

Remembering Dr. Alan Hart for Pride, trans man from the early 1900s. He revolutionized the detection of tuberculosis, saved thousands of lives, and died using his name, as the man he always was meant to be. We have always been here.

We deeply understand that people in Gaza and other crisis areas need platforms to share their experiences and seek support, and we’re committed to ensuring that they can be heard on Bluesky. 1/8

boy Ontario is just so thoroughly squandering this moment

Great to hear Carolyn Wilkins on the principle of central bank independence in a historical and modern context, and its fragility, at #ACEA2025.

This was an excellent 90 minutes of my life. I would do it again in a heartbeat. Thanks to the organizers @chrisneill.bsky.social et al. Would be great to see the CEAs give this a prime spot in the program.

Thanks to all our fabulous mentors for taking the time to talk to more junior economists early on a Friday morning at the #ACEA2025. @bdhuey.bsky.social @jenniferwinter.bsky.social @hopeecon.bsky.social @srdc-srsa.bsky.social @jrobson.bsky.social @mattdwebb.bsky.social

CEA is about the last minute slides we made along the way

Ready for CWEC lunch!!!

It's the #CEA 🤓😍

Are other Canadian universities doing anything similar? Can we start a list here?

Great to have @viet.bsky.social coming to talk to us about the digital skills landscape in the Canadian non-profit sector – this coming Tuesday. Come along! Plus our usual breakouts for projects and discussions, of course 𝗧𝘂𝗲𝘀 𝗠𝗮𝘆 𝟲, 𝟳𝗽𝗺: in person and online! guild.host/events/civic...

May it always be thus

I voted last week and it took a while, but I love, love, love voting. I always thank the workers at my polling station.

My latest for the @theglobeandmail.com on the recent developments in generative AI tools and art. Gift link www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/5c0fd2b...

Dang @dkmunro.bsky.social here's an AI ethicist (unfortunately not of the kind you or I tend to think about)

My name is Ben and I have autism. I’m not less than anyone else I just see the world differently. Lately I’ve been working on losing weight by walking. I walked 5 miles yesterday. It’s also helps with my confidence and I can enjoy the outdoors and the scenery.

I am glad that Trump’s tariffs are unpopular, but the extent to which people view immigrants, whether here legally or not, as not worthy of the basic consideration, dignity and respect due to all people I find extremely depressing.

BREAKING: An immigration court determined our client Mahmoud Khalil to be removable from the U.S. based solely on his political speech. The fight isn't over — we'll keep fighting for Mahmoud's freedom and all of our First Amendment rights in federal court.

Want to know the big difference between a tariff and a sales tax? The biggest one is when you look at your receipt, you know how much of your money went to sales tax. That's the secret with tariffs. It's a secret tax. No one knows they're paying it.

Science does not work like this. The only way you can set a timeline is if you have rigged the results in advance.

“IDEAS”

I guess I have illegal ideas.

📢 App Version 1.100 is rolling out now (1/2) Chat reactions are here! You can now respond to chat messages (aka “direct messages”) with an emoji ❤️

After massive public backlash, the Social Security Administration is rolling back its disastrous cuts to phone services. This is a huge victory for the public against DOGE's rampage. Keep up the fight.

This is Autumn. She was born without one paw. Gets along just fine with three, but still sometimes uses a prosthetic leg when she wants to blend in. 13/10

My pet theory continue to be that it used to be that people met through being at a thing that both were interested signed interest in costly ways - now, most meeting happens on algorithmically curated online apps that makes talking about interest cheap versus acting on interest (expensive)

Why is it so hard to meet someone who you click with, without all of the baggage? And what's it like to date during a time when people are mostly spending their time online? The Thread asked daters about some of their most *cough cough* memorable dates. youtu.be/R8xPw34dI7c?...

But also an important reminder to us. I committed to doing this 5 months ago, I will do so now.

Because I know that in a few years, many who supported trump will regret it, and they will say “I didn’t know”. It’ll be difficult for me is to not be angry, to hold back the urge to say “but how could you not have known”. I dont know how, but to move forward, it’s needed. 2/2

I know we’re all so tired. And in the months ahead, we’ll discuss to death what went wrong, and how to safe guard democracy moving forward. But I don’t think that’ll be the most difficult thing for me. For me, it’s about containing anger 1/2

one wonders what he said no to. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... (archive link: archive.ph/O8duR)

I do not like when the nerds who post graphs on here are all going "oof" and "jesus christ" at the same time

This type of error is why people need to learn macro. The general equilibrium (& exchange rate effects!) are *not* small for a policy of this scope. The assumptions that lead to this formula are not satified, so it cannot achieve the stated goal. That's why the tariffs it generated are so high.

ayfkm

PSA: If you are not a citizen and you criticize US tariffs, Marco Rubio can get you disappeared

This is an insane tariff plans for the world. But for Canada, it seems current tariff remains unchanged. Remaining questions: Will 25% auto tariff applies to Canada? Is this an indefinite extension of CUSMA? Or will we do this again in 2 days on April 4th?

We heard anecdotally that Canadians weren’t visiting the states, now we have the data. A massive, shocking drop.

U.S. COMMERCE DEPARTMENT REVISES ALUMINUM DUTIES TO ADD BEER AND EMPTY ALUMINUM CANS -FEDERAL REGISTER

The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 — a rise they attribute to AI crawlers. AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege

As I prep for a possible radio thing tomorrow, here's my current timestamped overview of the dumbest timeline

An Economist's Lament for the Death of the British Columbia Carbon Tax medium.com/@joelwwood/a...