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Peter Milley 🇨🇦
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Canadian, ex-mathematician, vaguely burnt-out software developer. Proudly not American. He/Him.
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It's a sock, for your phone! It costs two hundred and thirty real life dollars!
November 11, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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If it will take three years to replace Amazon Web Services, why not use to budget to GET ON WITH IT? You think that young, patriotic techies wouldn’t jump at the chance to secure Canada against the US? We needed moonshots. Instead, we got tax incentives.
November 11, 2025 at 12:45 PM
I've gotta find some not-invasive way to get my phone to adjust the ring volume based on whether I'm inside or outside. As it is I seem to get to choose between missing calls when I'm outside or being given a heart attack by my phone when I'm inside.
November 10, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.

This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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Hi Bluesky 👋

Small life update: I’m at the centre of a multimillion dollar lawsuit in Alberta launched by a failed candidate for Jason Kenney’s UCP

It may be the longest and most expensive media trial in Canadian history

I’m ready to go public about it and I want to share more details with you 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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"who radicalized you"

Nothing radicalized me, I was born with basic empathy. The world decided that was radical.
November 5, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Roberts is the guy Carney invited to speak to his cabinet.
“I’m not antisemitic, but please don’t ask me to eat dinner with the Jews.”
November 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Lol this is so sad
November 6, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I'm curious how many Canadians who wholeheartedly support US Dems not caving to Repubs in their government shutdown, are simultaneously demanding NDP and Bloc MP's cave to the Liberals to keep our government from shutting down.
November 5, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Out of budget lockup. I recently wrote: "Ottawa imposes a 10 percent luxury tax on yachts... yet a family buying a semi in Scarborough pays the equivalent of 15 percent in [DCs] and land transfer taxes."

Today the gov't addressed this by eliminating the luxury tax on yachts.
November 4, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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November 3, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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It increasingly feels like the Canadian electorate was tricked.

Health care is a consistently high voter priority. Kicking it down to the provinces after breaking the promises made in a federal election is shady af behaviour.
November 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
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I mentioned this stat from Alisa Wood of KKR in a talk I did a few weeks ago, but did you know: There are more private equity firms in the United States than there are McDonald's? (~19,000 vs. 14,000) In 1980, there were 24 PE firms *total* in the U.S. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 1, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
October 29, 2025 at 10:24 AM
A thread on AI's bullshit-as-a-feature and business' attempt to use it as a panacea for their dysfunction.
AI in education is the answer to a critical question: how do we provide bullshit education that will prepare students for the bullshit jobs they will do when they graduate?
October 28, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.
October 28, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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October 27, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.
June 19, 2025 at 11:21 AM
I don't like Ford for many, many reasons but if 🍊 is such a thin-skinned baby that he'll scuttle trade negotiations over a inoffensive TV ad then there was no point to negotiations in the first place. 🍊 would have found some other excuse for a tantrum if the ad hadn't run.
October 27, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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So, what we've learned today is that Doug Ford hates cyclists, pedestrians (particularly children in school zones), and transit riders even more than he hates tenants.

#onpoli #topoli
Thanks to the swift & significant backlash, the Ford government has backed off from their plan to end month-to-month leases. Still need to fight other parts of Bill 60 such as banning converting vehicle lanes to bike or bus lanes. #BikeTO #TTC #TOpoli #ONpoli www.torontotoday.ca/local/politi...
Ford government calls off consultations on ending indefinite leases for Ontario tenants
Last week, Attorney General Doug Downey suggested Queen’s Park could eliminate ‘evergreen’ month-to-month leases
www.torontotoday.ca
October 27, 2025 at 12:45 AM
Just...keep reading...trust me.
several years ago I said there should be a reality TV show where each team is given a fixed budget and access to various DIY hardware stores/junkyards and 48 hours to build the best guillotine they can.

I'm still disappointed that no one has filled this gap in the market
October 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
There's just something nice about "throw a bunch of good things in a big pot" meals.
October 26, 2025 at 10:28 PM
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The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.
My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
www.youtube.com
October 25, 2025 at 3:27 AM