Max Fawcett

On Twitter the other day, Curtis Yarvin declared a speech by George Washington to be “fake communist history” because he asked Claude about it and the AI glazed him

Making sure developers don’t make a dime is more important than building homes for people

Although the scale of this is still to be assessed, this is the inevitable outcome of the monetization of the algorithm. Rage-bait becomes a personal revenue model. Nothing about this should be a surprise.

"We could, and should, have prepared for this demographic inevitability... But it was easier for both provincial and federal governments at the time to kick that can down the road" @maxfawcett.bsky.social in the @nationalobserver.com www.nationalobserver.com/2025/11/26/o... #cdnpoli #boomers

I would bet heavily that this guy, and everyone else in the Trump administration, won't be having much in the way of "generic stuff" for their Thanksgivings.

Said "ordinary folks" should probably keep that in mind.

Then why not make that the point rather than inventing arguments about tankers traveling routes they wouldn't actually travel?

I don't, but I would guess that there would not be constraints on size.

It seems abundantly clear to me that it *isn't* saying it's "totally safe" -- just that safety conditions have improved significantly from, say, the early 1970s (or even the late 1980s, when Valdez happened).

Yikes.

(via @steverattner.bsky.social)

Yup, agreed.

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Absolutely. There are all sorts of real impediments/obstacles here. But the risks of tankers going a place they would never actually need to go isn't one of them.

So then, a carveout that still protects Hecate Strait would be fine by her?

It seems like she was deliberately misleading people here. It's the same game folks like Scheer plays.

Fact check: Elizabeth May’s tanker ban claims don’t add up

This is an interesting piece of fact-checking on the tanker ban and arguments made on both sides (including by Andrew Scheer) of the issue.

Thoughts?

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This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.

I think they would get enormous pushback from wealthy (and well-connected) seniors.

We’re not ready for an aging population — and it's going to cost us Canada's government budgets keep getting squeezed by our aging population. When are we going to do something about it?

"Intergenerational warfare isn’t calling out problems like this, by the way. It’s letting them continue unchecked. Don't be surprised if, at some point, young people really start to fight back."

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The Phantom Writer Who Fooled the Internet | The Walrus The bot-assisted fake journalism of “Victoria Goldiee” and why editors should be very worried

I spoke to @thewalrus.ca EIC Carmine Starnino about Victoria Goldiee, fake reporters, and what the hell journalists are supposed to do in this AI slop era. thewalrus.ca/the-phantom-...

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I'm already getting angry letters asking me "how dare you ask me, a single senior earning $50,000 a year, to take less in OAS" and I'm BEGGING them to actually read the piece and what I actually wrote.

We’re not ready for an aging population — and it's going to cost us Canada's government budgets keep getting squeezed by our aging population. When are we going to do something about it?

The recent federal budget was an opportunity to ask Canada's wealthy seniors to make a few sacrifices int he name of intergenerational equity and nation-building.

We missed it. Again. And it only gets harder from here. #cdnpoli

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Bingo.

I’m sure it doesn’t. The framing is still deliberately and needlessly inflammatory.

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i’m not sure how but this is real antipolygraph.org/blog/2025/10...

Oh please just fuck off

Because they have/had no leverage over Alberta to extract that sort of concession when they bought it?

Because they also benefit (massively) from increased corporate tax revenues?

Because the Feds still own and can sell the asset, which throws off billions in free cash flow, and provincial royalties are clearly within provincial jurisdiction.

As you like.

He really isn't. He's throwing tax credits at both that will more than get repaid by the economic activity that results.