Super excited to be included in this Global News segment about the new mortgage rules for first time home buyers of presales and new homes! Government Negligence in Allowing the Creation of New Housing is a thing and its making housing too expensive in Canada. Yeah I said it!

Ronald Reagan: "We don’t have inflation because the people are living too well, we have inflation because the government is living too well"

GPT-6 will be renamed GPT-6-7, you're welcome

It’s the little things

I went for a job interview at UPS. I said, "Sorry I'm late, I went to the wrong address" - and they made me regional manager.

Tesla Optimus learning Kung Fu

Federal deficit since the Liberals took power in 2015: 2015-16: $1B 2016-17: $17.8B 2017-18: $19B 2018-19: $14B 2019-20: $39.4B 2020-21: $327.7B 2021-22: $90.2B 2022-23: $35.3B 2023-24: $62B 2024-25: $100B+ (proj.) These numbers are total madness and no Liberal seems to care..

Mark Carney Approval Polling: Approve: 48% (+3) Disapprove: 30% (-2) Abacus Data / Sept 17, 2025 / n=2330 / Online (% Change With Sept 2, 2025)

Pierre Poilievre Approval Polling: Disapprove: 41% (-1) Approve: 40% (+1) Abacus Data / Sept 17, 2025 / n=2330 / Online (% Change With Sept 2, 2025)

Federal Polling Among 18-29 Year Olds: LPC: 40% CPC: 35% NDP: 9% GPC: 7% BQ: 5% PPC: 2% Abacus Data / Sept 17, 2025 / Online

"We can never trust the Americans the same way again" 🟢 Agree: 60% 🟡 Neutral: 24% 🔴 Disagree: 16% Read it here: canadianpolling.substack.com…

NEW - BC’s deficit projection has jumped from $10.9b this year to $11.6b. The only saving grace is a $2.8b hit to revenue from eliminating the carbon tax was offset by a $2.7b legal settlement with tobacco companies. BC debt is expected to skyrocket from $155b to $212b in 3yrs.

The lack of direct physical confrontation within the strictly regulated environment (boxing, mma, rugby) is the root cause of the increasing political radicalisation, in the united states and worldwide

Political radicalism (= sadistic torturer mindset) cannot be cured by any kind of verbal arguments, but can be fixed by getting punched in the face, and very fast (+ and then realising that getting punched is *way* better, than getting stabbed)

The future of home cinema and gaming is already here. - 360-degree immersive experience with large-scale high-refresh-rate LED walls - And the digital video wall market is projected to hit USD 27.8B by 2035, driven by AI, Micro LED, and immersive tech

📢 MASSIVE: This new paper proved GPT-5 (medium) now far exceeds (>20%) pre-licensed human experts on medical reasoning and understanding benchmarks. GPT-5 beats human experts on MedXpertQA multimodal by 24.23% in reasoning and 29.40% in understanding, and on MedXpertQA text by 15.22% in reasoning and 9.40% in understanding. 🔥 It compares GPT-5 to actual professionals in good standing and claims AI is ahead. GPT-5 is tested as a single, generalist system for medical question answering and visual question answering, using one simple, zero-shot chain of thought setup. ⚙️ The Core Concepts The paper positions GPT-5 as a generalist multimodal reasoner for decision support, meaning it reads clinical text, looks at images, and reasons step by step under the same setup. The evaluation uses a unified protocol, so prompts, splits, and scoring are standardized to isolate model improvements rather than prompt tricks. --- My take: The medical sector takes one of the biggest share of national budgets across the globe, even in the USA, where it surpasses military spending. Once AI or robots can bring down costs, governments everywhere will quickly adopt them because it’s like gaining extra funds without sparking political controversy.

📉 Low precarity has almost halved. 📈 Extreme precarity has surged. Canada’s middle ground is collapsing—and politics is dividing along these lines. Full Abacus Data analysis: abacusdata.ca/the-hollowing-…

"Do you think the economic conditions in the city/area you live, as a whole, are getting better or worse?" Worse: 63% (+3) Better: 27% (-6) - Gallup - (% Change With 2024)

They built a wearable teleoperation rig called CHILD that straps to the operator like a baby carrier. Small “leader” mechanisms on the vest reproduce the robot’s limb geometry at a reduced scale, so when the operator moves each leader, the corresponding joint angles stream straight to the humanoid or dual-arm follower robot. Because every limb is represented, the human can command full-body poses instead of only hand motions. The core technologies are modular kinematic scaling, intrinsic and extrinsic adaptive force feedback, and a loco-manipulation mode. Seven plug-in mounts let the same vest reconfigure for different robots. Embedded sensors read joint positions while compact actuators inject force cues: intrinsic cues warn about singularities or joint limits, and extrinsic cues reflect position errors between leader and follower. For walking, the operator parks one arm, then drives a built-in walking controller by moving the paired leg leader, so the robot can step while the free hand keeps holding an object. All mechanical files and the bill of materials are released as open-source, making reproduction straightforward.

Posture control beats raw torque for real-world grit. @UnitreeRobotics G1

"Should Canada seriously consider initiating a formal process to join the European Union?" 🔵 Yes: 46% 🟡 No: 38% -> canadianpolling.substack.com…