By OpenSecrets data, seems like a boss thing.
In 2024, Alphabet employees gave 4.4 mil to Harris, 86k to Trump
Meta broke 1.7 mil/37k
Amazon 2.3 mil/213k
Microsoft 2.5 mil/135k
If anything, employee donations have moved left from 2016 (but right from 2020).
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They're using the notwithstanding clause - a provision in Canada's Charter of Rights that says "this law operates notwithstanding (most) of the protections in the Charter". Legislatures can use it freely by majority vote, the only condition on its use is a five-year sunset clause (renewable).
Laval and I’d add Brossard are solid choices. Mtl suburbs, sure, but they’re very culturally distinct from the central city with different ethnic mixes, their owncultural infrastructure. Laval has a distinct accent!
Outside the 450, Sag and Sherby are probably the leaders, but I like Laval for 3rd.
The Maritimes will get it, but it's coming from the Atlantic and hitting the coast, not the typical west-to-east pattern.
She previously reported to the head of Microsoft AI, and now she reports directly to Nadella.
But the facial breadth of “regulate” places in stark relief what the term is not usually thought to include: taxation. The U. S. Code is replete with statutes granting the Executive the authority to “regulate” someone or something. Yet the Government cannot identify any statute in which the power to regulate includes the power to tax.
The next sentences in the opinion say that the court challenged the government to find examples of the word “regulate” in a statute being used to justify taxation, and government couldn’t identify any. Are you saying that government could have found that in the tax code but missed it?
You might get lazy and skim what it did, you don’t understand the code as well as if you’d written it yourself… but the time it takes to go from empty folder to nicely-formatted tables and charts is five minutes instead of four hours. Definitely not risk free, but there are real gains.
The output, the analysis, that's fully deterministic. Hallucination doesn't enter into it.
Now, the code it writes might have *bugs*, it might not fully implement what you asked it to or what you think it is, but that's a different issue from hallucinating. The calculations aren't done by the LLM!
I think "hallucination" is the wrong framework here. A year ago, you might upload a .csv to ChatGPT, ask it a question about the data ("what's the mean of column 2?"), and it would make up the answer. That's hallucination.
Now with Code/Codex, it's "write a Python/R script to calculate mean(col2)".
Even if the models don’t improve from here, I think that category of tasks alone could still be fairly large. But lots of uncertainty over how large it actually is, and about how much non-coders will adopt (or be able to identify?) “this is a task that 50-300 lines of Python could do for me”.
The new models are very useful for tasks that fall into the broad category of “in principle automatable, but not worth doing”. Things like “this website has 12 links to excel files, write a script to download all of them and get the numbers from the second sheet into a single csv, and make a chart”
That *should* be anathema to the left in terms of data privacy and autonomy vis-à-vis the US. But (and I understood this to be the point of the article) a segment of the left reconciles that by deciding that the models aren’t useful so the data centre/autonomy question is moot.
That’s fair, but in the context of *Canadian politics in 2026*, there should be a lot of overlap between “are LLMs useful” and “should data centres be built”. The alternative to Canadian data centres (running either open-weight or closed American models) is “Canadians use models hosted in the US.”
But Dems are not “the left”, and in Canada there’s a left/Liberal split on attitudes to AI, so I don’t think it can be chalked up to an artefact of Bluesky. The Libs are enthusiastic about AI, but the NDP has big voices calling for a moratorium on building data centers.
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Using new data from the Gallup Workforce Panel, we document a persistent partisan gap in self-reported AI use at work: Democrats are consistently more likely than Republicans to report frequent use. In 2025:Q4, for example, 27.8% of Democrats report using AI weekly or daily, compared with 22.5% of Republicans. Democrats also report deeper task-level integration, using AI in 16% more work activities than Republicans. Consistent with this, Democrats are employed in occupations with higher predicted AI exposure based on task-content measures and report larger perceived differences in AI-related job displacement risk. However, in regression models the partisan gap in AI use disappears once we control for education, industry, and occupation, indicating that observed differences primarily reflect compositional variation rather than political affiliation per se. (The Politics of AI, Nicholas Bloom and Christor Makridis)
New working paper has Democrats adopting AI at work more than Republicans, but that’s a composition effect - in general, Dems and Rs with similar jobs adopt AI at about the same rate.
www.nber.org/papers/w34813
BC has just one card, so you do it once.
In other provinces, it varies. Alberta health cards are paper and have no photo, Ontario’s health card isn’t a generally-accepted ID. But in Québec, you can use your health card to prove your ID to get a DL, or DL to prove your ID to get a health card.
Pictures of both sides of a BC driver’s license and services card. The back has a small bear icon, and contains a health number.
Photo of both sides of a BC services card. The back has an orca icon, and the words “THIS IS NOT A DRIVER’S LICENSE” across the signature line.
Most Canadian provinces have separate health cards and DLs (everyone has a health card), but BC combines them into one. You go to the Services BC location and you get either a “DL and Services Card”, or a plain Services Card (health card). Differences are text and the animal at the back.
That lives pretty uncomfortably with his implication that models are “mysteriously get[ting] dumber” because, what, Anthropic is secretly feeding some users something other than full-fat Opus in order to cut costs?
The child care question is a bit hard, conceptually, because child care costs *are* low-income wages. If wages are rising quickly on the low end of the distribution, that usually means that child care costs are rising quickly too, they're just very linked.
Renters have more short-term exposure to shelter inflation than homeowners because rents can update yearly, and since shelter inflation was faster than overall inflation there's so extra oomph there for low-income people in terms of feeling the hit.
I remember how I felt watching that launch video in 2015. My last memory of Hillary as a politician was her losing 2008 primary campaign, candidate of the white working class against Obama, wins WV and KY.
That 2015 launch video was a declaration, “I want to inherit the Obama coalition”.
I think the 2011 “sequester”/fiscal cliff might be comparable? “We’re writing into law a set of cuts to both social spending and defense programs that automatically apply [but we know the defense cuts will be reversed]”.
But the Rs controlled a chamber then, they weren’t purely in the minority.
Paradise (2025)
This is the first list, private schools only. The DOD email says a second list with public schools is coming.
This paper used LLMs for qualitative classification of published research, and to validate the LLM approach they tested LLMs against grad students for the same classification task. The LLMs way outperformed on accuracy.
(Spikier on the right is better, flatter is worse)
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Screenshot from CBC website: McDonald said Van Rootselaar identified as female but was assigned male at birth. McDonald said she began to transition about six years ago. The officer said police have not found any note yet from VanRootselaar but it's possible one was written.
RCMP confirmed it an hour ago.
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Not just the shooting, but I think the perp seemingly being a trans woman.
They objected to Lady Liberty, I think they're generally sticklers and interpret the "political messaging" rule very broadly. (They did eventually allow the goalies to keep the Liberty emblems)
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Gates is a big proponent of modern agriculture (eg www.gatesfoundation.org/ideas/media-ce… )- the account criticizing him is a new-world-order-covid-was-a-plandemic conspiracy nut, attacking him from that side.
