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ED @McMasterMPP in Digital Society + šŸŽ™ļø host @globeandmail's Lately. @ppforumca Fellow + Senior Fellow @CIGIonline. productive policy provocateur. Econom-ish

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Joined September 2009
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AND check out this epic video from The Goose šŸ¦¢
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RT @ZephyrTeachout: Don't like being shadow banned? Wait til you get personalized price hikes based on politics, anxiety, or desperation.
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RT @SomTsoi: Should a rock be considered a living thing? (Yes, it should). Michael Richardson argues for a broader perspective in understaā€¦
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RT @404mediaco: Microsoft study finds AI makes human cognition ā€œatrophied and unpreparedā€ šŸ”—
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RT @SilvermanJacob: It's going to take a lot of propagandizing for tech moguls to convince the public that something called the Consumer Fiā€¦
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RT @MazzucatoM: Who really funds tech innovation? Public investments created the foundations for Google, Uber, and Apple. Now we must ensurā€¦
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RT @econliberties: In 2022, @denisehearn_ detailed for @FortuneMagazine why corporate break ups are far more common than most people think.ā€¦
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"The kind of info that bosses are collecting about workers is exactly the kind of info that used to be considered private and in the realm of the domestic or the personal." Dr. David Murakami Wood discusses advances in surveillant tech at work w/ me
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RT @ChrisGNardi: NEW: Canada is barring the use of Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeekā€™s chatbot on federal government deviceā€¦
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RT @TheEconomist: Online scamming is a vast, sophisticated and fast-growing global enterprise that compares in size and scope to the illegaā€¦
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"A Silicon Valley technologist, the kind of person we champion as a savior of government, thinks that a career civil servant beyond retirement age with sorely outdated technical skills is extraordinary."
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Today is Fork in the Road Day, and we should be thinking about legacy code all over government.
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"There have been times when Washington has embraced the argument that certain businesses deserve to be treated as national champions and, as such, to become monopolies w/ the expectation that they will represent šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡øā€™s national interests. Those times serve as a cautionary tale."
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DeepSeek is ā€œwarning us that when there isnā€™t enough competition, our tech industry grows vulnerable to its Chinese rivals, threatening U.S. geopolitical power in the 21st century,ā€ writes Lina Khan, chair of the F.T.C. in the Biden administration.
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RT @davidreevely: As Donald Trump takes aim at other countriesā€™ digital services taxes on U.S.-based megaplatforms, hereā€™s a story on whatā€¦
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RT @stacyfmitchell: The US Postal Service continues to adopt policies that give Amazon an advantage against other shippers. In this case, aā€¦
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RT @superwuster: When WH official Elon Musk directly orders Twitter to censor speech he doesn't like -- how is that not a First Amendment vā€¦
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RT @acoyne: God tech bros are fools. The worst kind: Fools who think theyā€™re geniuses. They had one bright idea, made a mint off it, and thā€¦
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RT @IsabellaMWeber: What if the tariffs trigger another round of sellers inflation? Volumes go down but prices go up to prop up profits. Thā€¦
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@ddebow Then maybe it's how I read the account, which I am obviously intrigued by. Everything seems to be in the frame of waste, not in returns, benefits, values. Health care is super expensive, should we stop funding hospitals and get a few more helicopters? No.
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RT @InsiderTakes: Itā€™s hard to understand why the broligarchs didnā€™t stop this, but one theory I have is that if your experience of businesā€¦
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@InsiderTakes Almost šŸ˜‰
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@ddebow Priorities also change and governments respond. I can totally get behind helping boost government capacity and smart(er) spending but I really resent this tacit mockery of (and cherry picking) gov. programs. Itā€™s gross and misleading, if not downright disgusting.
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