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Keldon Bester retweeted
When Lina Khan and Mamdani talked about doing this a thousand bored economists and neoliberal bloggers went nuts
Hot dogs are still $2 in Atlanta for the World Cup. It’s basically a $1.5 billion Costco.
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Jun 13
Sports betting is a scourge.
Legalization reduced food sufficiency by 2.1% among working-age adults without a college degree, especially during the NFL season.
That translates into an estimated 284,000 additional food-insufficient households in 9 states.
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Jun 11
PM Carney on combatting surveillance pricing: We made the commitment in the AI strategy that we're going to protect your data. And this is part of protecting your data and how your data is used. Surveillance pricing is an example of using data in a way that can be adverse to the interests of Canadians.
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Looks like Claude Fable still needs some work
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More money for competition law enforcement and food supply chains is great news. Look forward to seeing the details on this. cbc.ca/news/politics/food-se…
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Always appreciate folks being straightforward
Jun 10
Was struck by @Jason’s blunt assessment that the tech CEOs would be happy with a pure oligarchy.
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Glad to see the CRTC move quickly in response to Telus’ BS SIM “not an activation fee” activation fee crtc.gc.ca/eng/archive/2026/…
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RT @wongmjane: Apple publishes a full-page press release blaming the EU for the delayed Siri AI launch in the region,
while China got one…
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Glad to see this case moving forward. These property controls and the power they give incumbents grocers to shape competition needs to come under the spotlight.
Anti-trust probe hits @Sobeys as @CompBureau lawyers ask federal judge to compel disclosure of lease terms nationwide.
blacklocks.ca/anti-trust-pro… #cdnpoli
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Jun 6
Funny how we've had discounts for centuries before surveillance pricing was even a dream, and yet now they're somehow at risk because retailers may not be able to rip people off even more. Give me a break.
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Jun 5
Help share the story, this is what is happening in ecommerce
Amazon Sellers Say They Have To Use TikTok, Other Platforms To Make Ends Meet forbes.com/sites/johnschroye… (Photo: Getty Images)
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Major benefit of hydropower from Quebec: "That additional power from the transmission line helps avoid running fossil fuel-powered peaker plants, which are more expensive and can harm the local air quality in the city. Those plants run when demand for power soars in the summer."
The completed Champlain Hudson Power Express brings a significant influx of cleaner energy to the city’s electric grid, which is mostly powered by fossil fuels.
buff.ly/CcZFfNi
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My personal Canadian AI strategy is telling Claude to be passive aggressive
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Jun 4
Wab Kinew: I reject the idea that we have to be slaves to surveillance capitalism in order to participate in the modern economy.
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Good to see the link between privacy protection and surveillance pricing made in Canada's AI strategy. Feds and the provinces both have a role in fair pricing.
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Jun 3
The threat isn't AI - it's three companies owning AI. The answer isn't to freeze it or nationalize it. It's to break it open so 10,000 startups can build on it.
Artificial Intelligence is built on the creative work of millions of writers, artists, musicians, journalists, teachers, scientists and ordinary people. That work has been stolen by Big Tech oligarchs.
Now's the time to reclaim it and ensure AI works for ALL, not just the few.
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I wonder if its time for the U.S. to set up a Department for Agriculture
Jun 1
Screwworms coming back into the U.S. cattle herd/stock is going to potentially devastate the industry and jack up meat prices. Worst part is, this was preventable. Trump & DOGE pushed funding cuts on/destroyed agencies that were directly responsible for fighting this pest
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Jun 3
We need rules to protect fair competition when vendors compete with their customers. brookings.edu/articles/to-un…
they are trying to kill cursor and lovable… and every startup and application — as I’ve warned
Infrastructure companies eventually try to win the platform game, then they learn and take out all their partners on the app layer
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Keldon Bester retweeted
Jun 2
Really excited about our new report on Competition and the Cloud. There are no easy solutions to this problem, but there are tools at our disposal to increase agency for the public and private sector.
Canada's compute market is dominated by American hyperscalers, risking competition and sovereignty. But swapping foreign monopolies for domestic ones is no solution.
Check out CAMP's new report, Parting Clouds, on what the right path forward looks like
antimonopoly.ca/parting-clou…
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Keldon Bester retweeted
"A monopoly is a mini-dictator over an industry. And if you have enough mini-dictators over industries, then you stop living in a free society." @matthewstoller explains why monopolies aren't just an economic problem -- they're an alternative and antidemocratic political system.
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