Jared Nicholson

Wab Kinew on what could come after the Indian Act

Did I miss a model release announcement? I was just checking out Cohere's model vault beta, and see this North large one. Unless that is their corporate one that I haven't tried.

Got my kids excited to watch my favourite movie tomorrow night. Yes its Zack Snyder and yes my wife and Iaughed at the Barbie movie line, about my poor taste.

I was feeling self conscious about my ize spelling when writing a big report for an Australian customer, since they all use ise. And Carney has a vendetta against it. But I guess ize is used with greek origin words and I'm happy to keep it.

It seems a lot of people have no idea what's going on in regard to open weights The oligarchs stand against open and free technology. They want your rent. There's a significant movement amongst whom "alignment" and "trad values" are synonymous. They've played the anti-AI crowd for absolute fools.

Masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers on Friday, setting olive groves on fire and slinging rocks. Caught in the attack was Post photographer Heidi Levine. “They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine said. https://wapo.st/4yt6dHY

If you're wondering why Flock leaves cameras up after a contract end, part of their business model and marketing strategy is being able to advertise that their customers can access data from cameras all over the country. You may have canceled your contract, but the cameras still fuel the system.

New concept to me but cool.

I was looking at buying a bolt and then the dealer said google. So that was the end of that nonsense.

Once again, for the politicians, business leaders, and journalists still actively posting on X/Twitter: why? You're using a platform that's owned by someone who's trying to break up your country. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

In his latest cartoon, Theo Moudakis imagines what it’s like when Alberta separatists get together with Americans pushing their cause 🦃

Elon Musk says Quebec, Alberta and Saskatchewan should separate from Canada montrealgazette.com/news/elon-mu...

This is a good insight. www.zohaib.cc/blog/smartes...

I am using Le Chonk trying to compare to 5.3. I'm a little used to 5.3 behaviour. 4 large is giving me pretty good suggestions. Will see

Want to track what's going on with Canada's agreements with middle powers and democratic allies around the world? The Shield Institute, the Gloves Off podcast and @scpartners.bsky.social are updating our Variable Geometry map every day (almost every day?). Check it out. variablegeometry.ca

pls share widely

Seriously just enforce normal liability for AI on the owners and so much of this shit goes away AI companies want to be treated like the hired expert when it comes to pocketing any financial flows, but like a cursory Google Search whenever it comes to liability

re: Palantir

Whole life insurance from a mutual is still an amazing concept. I wonder sometimes if I should be a broker since I love it, or whether my interest will fade.

Round 2. I might as well infer directly on Chinese providers, at least those models become open. Still sticking with euro hosted inference for now.

Glad I don't give these guys my money. Unfortunately my company does.

In his contribution for the Macdonald Commission, A. Cairns (1985) explained this problem inherent to the "embedded state", and federalism further complicates it. Today we understand it even better based on quantitative + qualitative research. For many: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Tech companies suddenly decide they can, in fact, moderate content on their platforms after all

We are witnessing major international changes. Certainties are fading, old dependencies are becoming new vulnerabilities. All the more important to know who you can rely on. 🇩🇪 can rely on 🇨🇦 – and 🇨🇦 on 🇩🇪 – @aussenminister.diplo.de in #Ottawa 1/3

I need social media break. Big projects to deliver in next couple months.

Wasn't just me. www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...

“.. S&P 1500 Software revenue per employee has gone parabolic. If you are looking for evidence that AI is starting to impact the real economy, this is exhibit A.” (via OpCo desk)

This is really smart. The federal government is now allowing full capital expensing on 2/3rds of capital investments by businesses to incentivize investing back into companies, rather than sitting on dead money. www.canada.ca/en/dep...

___ to run Radio Free Europe and Voice of America in an Ossoff administration with a multi-billion dollar budget and I'm not remotely kidding.

I'm heading to Brisbane tomorrow for work, have some time Sunday and the following Saturday to sightsee.

Im ok with eu, they need to bring in equalization payments. This would have helped with the ecb during the financial crisis and the pain between north and south Europe. A federation with single currency and no equalization will be problematic.

If people want to use the Mistral subscription they have train on prompts enabled by default. Easy to turn off. Get $300 api credits by using their vibe by cli. Vibe has its own telemetry setting as well.

I wonder if there is a way of saving the auto industry without, going against, CPTPP and CETA. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cc5547d...

A great contribution as usual. I'd add: Many have been calling for a "pan-Canadian" conversation to address this question (which also has a domestic dimension) for years. It never resonated, unfortunately. And the "Forward Guidance" approach is not helpful in this regard either, to say the least.

NIN "Right Where It Belongs" is still a cortical massage.

Anyway, woke up saw the news. Deleted youtube from my smart tv. Happy to report that the kids had a good day.

Former Canadian trade negotiator Steve Verheul on the Canada-US trade situation: "Why Canada Walked Away, And What to Consider for the Future"

I'm impressed. z.ai/blog/glm-5.3...

My uOttawa colleague, Wolfgang Alschner, was quick out of the starting blocks. I encourage you to read his excellent analysis of Canada’s response to the new Trump tariffs. economicsecurity101.substack.com/p/canadas-co...

I've got llm's working on it, but is there a context sensitive ppf theory of states that accounts for their security readiness. I'm trying to understand the US perspective. IE trade terms with Canada needs to take into consideration the outlay the US provides. Security-Constrained PPF was one.

These peoples's companies would be a great digital tariff start.

A re-ignited sentiment of economic nationalism is helpful but cannot replace a coherent national industrial strategy with a long-term focus, something Canada still doesn't have. Team Canada needs to get back to the drawing board, quickly. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The "Freudian slip" reference is a reminder that the strategic baseline for Canada should be the National Security Strategy (less than one year old) and the MSC 2025 Speech, rather than "the midterms" or "2 more years". The Trump administration is a symptom, not the root cause.