Canadians using Twitter/X are being bombarded by misleading right-wing posts designed to boost Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre and tarnish the reputation of Mark Carney.
The FT’s analysis finds a growing volume of that misinformation is coming not from Russia or China, but the United States.
https://www.ft.com/content/743c1dec-0c5c-4c39-a940-830ce156c235
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The US has been taken over by an epidemic of vibes over rational thinking and confirmation bias over science.
Q Anon style conspiracies are no longer niche but instead influencing government policy at the federal and state level from vaccine denial to removing fluoride from the water.
Progress isn’t a straight line. It’s sad to think we got complacent by thinking it was.
The goal of the tariffs is to pay for income tax cuts by replacing them with a sales/import tax.
Tax changes like these disproportionately affect the poor & middle class as they spend more of their income on goods than rich people who tend to buy investments like property and stock with their wealth, not Chinese goods.
The idea that prompt engineering would be a major new career path created by AI waa always silly.
It was like thinking that Google searcher would be a major new career as opposed to a skill that everyone has to varying degrees.
It seems there’s a broad backlash against dating apps underway. I’ve long felt the industry has two major challenges
• the business models like subscriptions and paying for visibility seem incompatible with helping people quickly find a meaningful relationship.
• matches follows a power law where the most eligible men get too much interest while the average gets too little.
I don’t think you can tweak the apps to fix these issues. These are fundamental issues.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2025/apr/27/dating-apps-user-decline
Many people thought that the government doesn’t impact their life much so the election was about choosing between a candidate helping people they don’t like or one who’d punish people they don’t like.
The FAFO moment is that lots of things people take for granted depend on government competence.
The company behind Cursor, the AI coding assistant, is now making $300M in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and has turned down an acquisition offer from OpenAI.
Not to be deterred, OpenAI has made a $3B offer to buy Windsurf, a Cursor competitor which has $100M ARR.
Vibe coding is an extremely hot space right now.
Intel laid off 15,000 people last year and many industry watchers said it was not enough as the company was bloated compared to rivals like AMD and TSMC.
It seems the new CEO agrees and plans to cut 21,000 additional employees which is about 20% of its workforce.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/22/intel-reportedly-plans-to-lay-off-over-21000-employees/
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