Martin Patriquin

Quebec shut the door on crypto. It just flung it wide open to AI - The Logic Hydro-Québec turned its back on the crypto mining boom. Now, faced with a new AI cash cow, it’s taking a different approach.

"In diverting its 170 megawatts of allotted power in the province away from crypto and towards AI, #Bitfarms is signaling its belief that its future lies more in large language models than blockchain."

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Mexico Killed ‘El Mencho.’ What’s Next for the Drug Cartel He Led?

Here's a periodic ringing of the "thank god that this particular cocaine kingpin is dead, now there will be no more cocaine kingpins" gong

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Montreal's Galvion, through U.S. reseller, supplied US$15.5M of ballistic helmets to ICE - The Logic The helmets, which are designed in Montreal, have featured prominently in recent immigration crackdowns in Minneapolis and Illinois

NEW: Galvion, a Montreal-based military hardware company, is supplying ballistic helmets to ICE as part of a US$15.5-million deal between the agency and a U.S. reseller.

Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.

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"we just added 'arms up' as a UGC format at DansUGC."

please remove me from this planet

They say Canada’s AI industry has a doom-and-gloom problem - The Logic Canada is home to some of the finest AI researchers in the world. Yet some prominent figures say negative views of the technology are holding the country back.

"Comedians and columnists can reliably get away with hyperbole. When academics use it, it’s to the detriment of their audiences, particularly when it’s a Turing Award winner doing the hyperbolizing."

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...and it's right twice a day

The Trump Administration Is Calling the Viral Story of My ICE Job Offer a Lie. Good Thing I Kept the Receipts. The administration that lies all the time is now lying about me. And I can prove it.

hell yeah @laurajedeed.bsky.social
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Ottawa won’t change Online News Act, despite U.S. objections - The Logic The government says it has no plans to amend or repeal the Online News Act which has resulted in Meta blocking news in Canada since 2023

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Ottawa won’t change Online News Act, despite U.S. objections - The Logic The government says it has no plans to amend or repeal the Online News Act which has resulted in Meta blocking news in Canada since 2023

The Canadian gov has "no intention" of repealing or changing the Online News Act despite U.S. pressure. Even so, officials have been talking to Meta about potentially bringing news back to its platforms, sources said.

By @lauraosman.bsky.social & @patriquin.bsky.social.

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They say Canada’s AI industry has a doom-and-gloom problem - The Logic Canada is home to some of the finest AI researchers in the world. Yet some prominent figures say negative views of the technology are holding the country back.

"Comedians and columnists can reliably get away with hyperbole. When academics use it, it’s to the detriment of their audiences, particularly when it’s a Turing Award winner doing the hyperbolizing."

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continue to be baffled that the libs got football in the national divorce

I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read

the competition is strong but it's a real contender

Quebec shows the rest of North America the true impact of bike lanes - The Logic Behold, North America’s most bike-friendly cities of 2025. Number two will shock you.

Bike paths make economic sense—even in the dead of winter. Just ask the city that purportedly can't stand them.

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Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI - The Logic Thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users

Meet Étienne Brisson from Trois-Rivières, Québec. He understands why people don’t like “AI”.

– by @patriquin.bsky.social

Meet the Quebecer leading the human resistance against AI - The Logic Thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users

In the small industrial city of Trois-Rivières, thousands of kilometres away from Silicon Valley’s AI gold rush, Etienne Brisson is racing to record the devastating impact the technology is having on some of its most vulnerable users.

Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.

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Lawsuits claim ChatGPT encouraged delusional spirals and suicides - The Logic Allan Brooks, one of the plaintiffs, spent weeks speaking to ChatGPT about a mathematical formula he had devised that could bring down global financial systems. Then he realized it was all a lie.

A Canadian man is suing OpenAI, claiming his interactions with the company’s ChatGPT chatbot destroyed his reputation, alienated him from his family and sent him into a mental health crisis. Read more by @patriquin.bsky.social in @thelogic.co thelogic.co/news/openai-...

One year ago

If you work(ed) at #Shopify and have been a part of the ongoing quiet layoffs, and want to speak about it securely, reach me at aleksagan.12 on Signal or pop into my DMs.

Pornhub still hasn't paid support to victims of a sex-trafficking scam - The Logic Pornhub owner Aylo agreed to pay victims of a sex-trafficking scheme as part of a deal with prosecutors. Dozens of women who made claims for support haven't seen a cent.

A victim told @thelogic.co that she is relying on reimbursement of $100k+ to ensure care for the rest of her life. “I don’t think I’ll ever be 100% but I’d love to just keep improving and working on myself and finding better methods to deal with all of the trauma.”

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François Legault is cooked - The Logic Legault told the Gallant commission that he would have liked to have known about SAAQclic’s $500-million overspend. That he didn’t speaks volumes.

"When it came to explaining how his government overshot a half-billion dollar contract by half a billion dollars, Legault sounded suddenly laissez-faire."

@patriquin.bsky.social on Quebec premier François Legault's terrible Tuesday.

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I love that @dieworkwear.bsky.social inadvertently uses none other than former Toronto Mayor John Tory as a fashion cautionary tale.

The hot, hard truth that’s undermining Donald Trump’s trade war - The Logic Only a few things can pierce the U.S. president’s delusion. Nine of them live in Quebec.

"A few things can pierce Donald Trump’s delusion. Nine of them live in Quebec. They are aluminum smelters, and together they produce three million tons of something the U.S. cannot get as cheaply and easily anywhere else in the world." - @patriquin.bsky.social thelogic.co/news/quebec-... #TradeSky

A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say Bedrock co-founder Geoff Lewis has posted increasingly troubling content on social media, drawing concern from friends in the industry.

I bet lots of these tech dudes are suffering some version of this.

Tweet from Betar USA: "🇮🇱🇮🇱I am a man boiling with rage. Yesterday, I went with my son to watch the new Superman movie. Superman! The ultimate superhero, a character created by two Jewish immigrants, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, in the 1930s. The character is supposed to represent hope, justice, and light. The actor playing Superman? Jewish. The studios? Owned by Jews. Even the character of Superman himself, symbolically and historically, is considered to have Jewish roots. A refugee sent from crisis and war to save a better world, created to empower the Jews who returned from the Holocaust. And what did the pathetic progressives in Hollywood do? They trampled all over this. Instead of presenting a character who defends the weak and fights for justice, they turned it into a disgusting political caricature, where Israel (under a different name) is portrayed as a fascist state, a warmonger, and a close ally of the U.S., which supplies advanced weaponry to fight "poor and miserable farmers (the good Palestinians) with pitchforks and stones." And Superman? He comes to save them from bloodthirsty Israel. This is literally a film of incitement against us. I sat there, next to my son, watching how the film had one purpose: to brainwash the world. They took the ultimate childhood hero, who was supposed to represent absolute good, and turned him into a one-sided, distorted, superficial propaganda tool. They ruined my childhood, they ruined the experience for me, but not only for me, they ruined it for the next generation."

Tweet from Betar USA: "Because my son, with his innocent eyes, asks me: “Dad, why is Superman against Israel? Isn’t he Jewish?” So let's talk about hypocrisy. About how the progressive Jewish studio owners, who hate Israel, hide behind this movie, sitting in their luxurious homes in California, feeling safe in their ivory towers. Aside from having a bar mitzvah for their dog, they have no connection to Judaism and choose to disconnect from the homeland that was founded on the ruins of the people who behaved like them in Europe in the 1930s. It will come back to them like a boomerang. No matter how much they decorate their houses for Christmas, they will pay the price because history always repeats itself. They are turning Israelis into the "bad guys," the Palestinians into the "good guys," and missiles and terrorism into the "struggle of freedom fighters." This is their coffin nail as they align with the politically correct studios of Walt Disney. So yes, I am offended. I am angry. I am disgusted. They are cowards. And I will tell you here, clearly: The liberal Jews in America are the main contributors to anti-Semitism in the U.S. They, and the push for progressivism in America, the takeover of communication and financial power, and the use of tools to brainwash our children in order to spread your distorted nonsense."

Tweet from Betar USA: "Take your hands off Superman because those who believe in goodness, justice, family, and identity are we — you, your god, is money. Nothing more. You’re nothing but zeros! There is no greater enemy to an Israeli than the progressive American Jew. That’s it, I’ve vented. The End."

Betar USA, the far-right pro-Israel group with connections in the Trump administration, making it official by stating that "the real enemies of the nationalist state of Israel are the rootless cosmopolitan progressive Hollywood Jews."

Reinventing antisemitism from first principles.

Flo has lost access to North America’s biggest EV charging market - The Logic Canada’s largest EV charging company can no longer install its equipment in California and New York state, The Logic has learned

Scoop: Flo, Canada's biggest EV charging company, has lost access to charging networks in New York State and California.

Story by @patriquin.bsky.social.

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There are competing definitions of anti-semitism, but if you are using stars of David and arrows to connect different Jewish people in a conspiracy theory, you are 100% there.

I mean, you ain't wrong

23andMe did not protect customers’ data, Canadian and British watchdogs find The company, which filed for bankruptcy in March, was fined $4.24-million for failing to have adequate safeguards against cyber threats

Genetic-testing 23andMe didn't take proper steps to protect customers’ data, according to probe by privacy commissioners in Canada and Britain.

“Unlike usernames, passwords and e-mail addresses, you can’t change your genetic makeup when a data breach occurs"
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Michael Sabia is ready to kick Ottawa’s ass - The Logic A good part of Sabia’s new job will be to wrangle Ottawa’s civil service and point it towards Carney’s priorities—‘kick its ass,’ as a Sabia ally recently said.

Meet Michael Sabia. Michael Sabia likes building things. Michael Sabia likes kicking ass.

Great, timely profile of the Ottawa-bound Sabia by @patriquin.bsky.social.

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