Most political coverage today is basically stenography. A spokesperson says something spicy at 11 am, three outlets turn it into headlines by noon, and meanwhile a clause buried on page 47 of a draft bill quietly changes how your data gets shared or who can be detained without charge. Nobody notices until it's law.
If I ever go back to being Editor at a national media outlet, I'd put an end to that. Quips and press briefings would no longer pass off as news.
Instead, the focus would be on the terrible policies being slid into draft laws. We'd explain them in a format that's easy to understand and that jolts the reader awake.
And we'd show how each one ripples into the business pages, because front page news and business news are far more connected than most readers realise.
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Let's fix 3 major brands. Which is your favorite fix? Disney+, 47 Brand or Kind? Which major logo should I fix next?
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We are all so screwed because AI just passed the Turing test. Check out this vlog-style video of a young woman casually showing us her colony in Mumbai and even shows her neighbourhood leopard.
Look at the acting, listen to the sound, watch the camera movements. I’ve been working with AI for three years, and if I hadn’t made this video myself, I genuinely would have thought it was real. Frankly, I’m lost for words.
Made using @bfl_ai Flux 3 video!
It’s a shame FSD is limited to three cars - model 3, model y and cybertruck. Need a new automotive brand that takes up Elon’s FSD license offer.
teapawt.net/aquingeorge/status/207…?
Honestly, I get on my car and push the Self Driving button. I grab my phone and take care of a bunch of things I need to do and then I realize I'm at my destination totally chill and relaxed.
FSD is the way.
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International students who came to Canada, earned degrees at top universities, and went on to well paying jobs at global companies, are being forced to quit and leave the country.
Why? Their post-graduation work permits have expired, and permanent residency remains out of reach because CRS cut-off scores have been pushed sky high.
Think about that for a second.
We went from one extreme of record immigration with terrible planning and vetting, to the other extreme of pushing out young, talented, well-assimilated people who would be an asset to the country.
Canadian immigration policy continues to be a disappointment.
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something i've noticed: AI agents create a weird new kind of burnout. esp for young people.
a lot of ambitious 22 year olds are going to think the answer is simple:
- spin up more agents
- ship more code
- sleep less
- outwork everyone
and for a while, it will feel incredible.
you can keep multiple agents running, feed them tasks, review outputs, fix mistakes, make decisions, and keep the whole loop moving.
the problem is that the work no longer drains you through typing. it drains you through judgment.
More attention.
More context switching.
More verification.
More decisions per hour.
so instead of 8-10 normal productive hours, you might get 4-5 extremely intense hours before your brain is fully cooked. and you feel numb until you sleep properly and reset
some of my friends are already burnt out. they don't say it out loud but i can tell.
the agent can keep working 24/7.
the human still has a hard limit
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Kerala, Breasts, and the Tax that Wasn't. A long read on Kerala's historical clothing practices and the (silly) "breast tax" controversy: waatcoconut.substack.com/p/k…
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"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer, and it is mentally exhausting.
I can fire up four agents in parallel and have them work on four different problems, and by 11am I am wiped out for the day.
There is a limit on human cognition. Even if you're not reviewing everything they're doing, how much you can hold in your head at one time. There's a sort of personal skill that we have to learn, which is finding our new limits. What is a responsible way for us to not burn out, and for us to use the time that we have?" @simonw
"Using coding agents well is taking every inch of my 25 years of experience as a software engineer."
Simon Willison (@simonw) is one of the most prolific independent software engineers and most trusted voices on how AI is changing the craft of building software. He co-created Django, coined the term "prompt injection," and popularized the terms "agentic engineering" and "AI slop."
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🔸 Why November 2025 was an inflection point
🔸 The "dark factory" pattern
🔸 Why mid-career engineers (not juniors) are the most at risk right now
🔸 Three agentic engineering patterns he uses daily: red/green TDD, thin templates, hoarding
🔸 Why he writes 95% of his code from his phone while walking the dog
🔸 Why he thinks we're headed for an AI Challenger disaster
🔸 How a pelican riding a bicycle became the unofficial benchmark for AI model quality
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This is how they massacred 20,000 Iranians in two days: automatic heavy machine guns firing at everyone on the streets 👇
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Iran releases first official death toll from protests as top diplomat issues direct threat to U.S. theglobeandmail.com/world/ar…
I wrote about Elon Musk's "corporate terrorism" comment on ISS/GL and a thought leadership piece on why ExxonMobil's Retail Voting Program is the right way forward to counter balance their influence.
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Why Has Brampton Ontario Become A Foreclosure / Power Of Sale Hot Spot?
It's a 2 part answer
Brampton embraced the 2022 - 2024 Student Housing Boom
A 600% increase in Foreign Students is both an opportunity & a danger
Nearly half of all the Students came to Ontario
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Alex Danco (@Alex_Danco) explains how the Canadian tech scene lies to itself.