In the same way Republicans lose big cities and should support centrists who can win. "Abundance" libs in the tech space need to learn their winning coalition is with the right in blue states. You're not winning Dem primaries with viral X posts against the unions and the groups.

I really don't get the Polymarket/Kalshi posting about politics. The volume on sports is orders or magnitude higher, the quality of bettors magnitudes higher, and still it wasn't very predictive on either the NBA or NHL finals. Good real time feedback, bad prediction.

They can have nothing

The annoying thing about boomer-zoomer struggle discourse is the lie you can scrimp and save your way to wealth. If you want to be rich, with no luck or trade-offs, you have to make more money. You should try to make more money. That’s how this whole thing works.

If you’re someone who hates the idea that there’s someone younger, smarter and richer than you the Bay Area sucks. It’s pretty great otherwise. Comparison is the thief of joy.

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Most people are complaining that this is debt-financed. The real issue is its Plannerbrained McKinseyslop. If you're deploying capital in infra projects the government can kill - you'd have to be stupid to not put it in ones MPO has identified and the SWF has put money in. At that point, the government is politically on the hook, so you'd obviously ask that the SWF backstop. So, if anything, this actually makes deploying capital into Canada harder, not easier. Since your options are: A) State-mandated and subsidized, and B) Orphans. This will likely be part of the slow descent into Canadian Peronism - covered in sufficient technocratic cliches and stakeholder language to disguise it. My expectation is when this doesn't work the Maple 8 and other Canadian asset managers will be bullied into repatriating an ever-larger chunk of their investments.

If I had bottomless contempt for the intelligence of the Canadian voter, I would probably promise them a high-speed train and a sovereign wealth fund.

It feels with the Opus 4.7 rollout, my own recurring issues with Gemini 3.1 Pro and the reception of ChatGPT 5 - there’s just not smart enough routing and token budgeting for tasks yet. While we’re waiting for new breakthroughs this is probably lowest hanging fruit.

I love Ozempic. I’m so happy. You guys have no idea what it’s like to walk around just being normal and not wanting to put everything you see into your mouth.

Nice to get some quality journalism in the inbox from The Economist

No, bro, you don't understand. If the US loses one single plane, they are LOSING. If Iran is bombed 24/7 with no airspace control and their entire leadership is dead and their remaining singular spokesperson is issuing empty threats from a bunker they are WINNING.

Unfortunately it appears the US has been too successful in Iran. Without much drama most of X and mainstream headlines are just echoing increasingly delusional claims from the regime. We started with quagmire then interceptors, then drones, now mines. Each day a new freakout.

Actually liking 5.4 better than 4.6 Opus. Finding that Claude has gotten very sycophantic and can easily be batted around. When feeding responses into eachother ChatGPT almost always “wins” the argument.

It’s really incredible how in the field of just basic banking competency Chase just crushes BofA and US bank. Moments after signing up I can begin using the digital cards in my Apple wallet - I need to wait for the others to mail.

There's an unholy combination of Chinaboos, emotionally-incontinent tech bros, Axis of Resistance fanboys, big-brain finance "analyst" types, and clapped out center-left academics (but is there any other kind) pumping a relentless stream of shit into the information space.

This war is a bit confusing for me. Every credible source and clear presentation of data seems to point in one direction. Yet I see sentiment, freak outs, and a changing daily focus on some new issue that go in basically the opposite direction.

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