Matthew Gerrits
@scpolitician.bsky.social
Recovering Student Politician. Registered Lobbyist. Opinions my Own.
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man, you know things are going well when this is the picture the newspaper picks for you
March 26, 2025 at 2:54 AM
man, you know things are going well when this is the picture the newspaper picks for you
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Hysteria Farmer
United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850-1880
United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850-1880
March 22, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Hysteria Farmer
United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850-1880
United States Census (Mortality Schedule), 1850-1880
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I’m excited about this dystopian future in which people train AIs to fight off other AIs on the information landscape
Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet
Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.…
Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.…
Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content
Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet
Cloudflare has created a bot-busting AI to make life hell for AI crawlers.…
dlvr.it
March 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I’m excited about this dystopian future in which people train AIs to fight off other AIs on the information landscape
No time to blog but important mentioning that both GDP and GDP per capita matter. GDP gets you your high speed rail and meaningful military investment. GDP per capita gets you better social safety net and lower deficits! Both are important to think about
March 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
No time to blog but important mentioning that both GDP and GDP per capita matter. GDP gets you your high speed rail and meaningful military investment. GDP per capita gets you better social safety net and lower deficits! Both are important to think about
You can decrease housing prices without leaving any net losers, but only if you do it before people who bought their houses at inflated prices with the expectation of retiring on a sale of the asset at retirement. That window means at any given time, if you assume that...
March 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
You can decrease housing prices without leaving any net losers, but only if you do it before people who bought their houses at inflated prices with the expectation of retiring on a sale of the asset at retirement. That window means at any given time, if you assume that...
Most athletic universities in Ontario
1. Western - 6.7
2. Lakehead - 6.0
3. Guelph - 4.8
4. Queen's - 4.4
5. RMC - 4.2
(OUA championships/kstudents 2000-2024)
1. Western - 6.7
2. Lakehead - 6.0
3. Guelph - 4.8
4. Queen's - 4.4
5. RMC - 4.2
(OUA championships/kstudents 2000-2024)
March 20, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Most athletic universities in Ontario
1. Western - 6.7
2. Lakehead - 6.0
3. Guelph - 4.8
4. Queen's - 4.4
5. RMC - 4.2
(OUA championships/kstudents 2000-2024)
1. Western - 6.7
2. Lakehead - 6.0
3. Guelph - 4.8
4. Queen's - 4.4
5. RMC - 4.2
(OUA championships/kstudents 2000-2024)
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I believe this is a world first: An intra-day tariff chart.
March 12, 2025 at 12:18 AM
I believe this is a world first: An intra-day tariff chart.
Ever wanted a single (albeit crowded) slide on how PMs change in Canada? I have just the thing
March 10, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Ever wanted a single (albeit crowded) slide on how PMs change in Canada? I have just the thing
Best civic pride thing I can really advise is checking out the 10 most recent news releases on Canada newsroom about once a month
March 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Best civic pride thing I can really advise is checking out the 10 most recent news releases on Canada newsroom about once a month
We should bring back curling scoreboards that are impossible to read to the casual observer
March 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
We should bring back curling scoreboards that are impossible to read to the casual observer
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oh dawg
March 7, 2025 at 12:46 AM
oh dawg
I've been daydreaming recently about a housing design, maybe on an assembly of two small lots, with 4 or 5 units, one a floor, with 1000-1500 sqft a piece with each having an exclusive portion of a back yard
March 6, 2025 at 11:09 PM
I've been daydreaming recently about a housing design, maybe on an assembly of two small lots, with 4 or 5 units, one a floor, with 1000-1500 sqft a piece with each having an exclusive portion of a back yard
Dreamt about a new road being put in in my home town. Was very divided in the moment because
a) new road (bad)
b) connects grid (good)
c) would drive traffic in front of a seniors facility (bad)
d) the complaints were quite half-hearted and nimby (made me less receptive)
a) new road (bad)
b) connects grid (good)
c) would drive traffic in front of a seniors facility (bad)
d) the complaints were quite half-hearted and nimby (made me less receptive)
March 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Dreamt about a new road being put in in my home town. Was very divided in the moment because
a) new road (bad)
b) connects grid (good)
c) would drive traffic in front of a seniors facility (bad)
d) the complaints were quite half-hearted and nimby (made me less receptive)
a) new road (bad)
b) connects grid (good)
c) would drive traffic in front of a seniors facility (bad)
d) the complaints were quite half-hearted and nimby (made me less receptive)
US farmers, a sector famously so concentrated that they constrain their own production
Come ON man just ban all trade with other countries at this point and get it over with.
March 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
US farmers, a sector famously so concentrated that they constrain their own production
Shouting from the rafters that easily the preponderance of YIMBYs also think more social housing is needed, most of them dislike sprawl, and see YIMBYism as complementary to these goals
March 3, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Shouting from the rafters that easily the preponderance of YIMBYs also think more social housing is needed, most of them dislike sprawl, and see YIMBYism as complementary to these goals
Your local urban planner says that the city is intent on developing some of your city's urban forests, and needs to decide between removing one high-quality large one or 10 smaller ones spread throughout the city, which would you want them to pursue?
March 1, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Your local urban planner says that the city is intent on developing some of your city's urban forests, and needs to decide between removing one high-quality large one or 10 smaller ones spread throughout the city, which would you want them to pursue?
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18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.
March 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
18F is *precisely* what Musk and team claim should exist within government. But when his team found it, they destroyed it, because it is evidence that government works well (can’t have that!), and because like Zelensky, 18F didn’t bend the knee.
Only 97% something of the current US administration to go
February 28, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Only 97% something of the current US administration to go
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I didn't realize Polymarket had markets for tonight's election. I'm not a user of the service myself, but given how much more efficient the ONDP vote is likely to be, 22 cents for ONDP to finish in 2nd seems like a steal to me. I think their odds are closer to 2/3.
February 27, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I didn't realize Polymarket had markets for tonight's election. I'm not a user of the service myself, but given how much more efficient the ONDP vote is likely to be, 22 cents for ONDP to finish in 2nd seems like a steal to me. I think their odds are closer to 2/3.
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At a glance, doesn't seem like there's ever been a UNSC resulting vetoed by Russia and the USA together. I wonder if we will get our first soon
February 25, 2025 at 3:19 AM
At a glance, doesn't seem like there's ever been a UNSC resulting vetoed by Russia and the USA together. I wonder if we will get our first soon
Really should just have an explicit "special occasion" day, where everyone agrees to use their nice things
February 24, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Really should just have an explicit "special occasion" day, where everyone agrees to use their nice things