David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 06/01/2026Canada’s rising risk picture… @bobbyrae48.bsky.social @spaikin.bsky.social 0126
Reposted by David TicollJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 02/08/2025We're getting extremely close to the day when America spends more money to build data centers than office buildings Only 5 years ago, office construction spending was 7x data center spending 22381102
Reposted by David TicollProf Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 02/08/2025Statement from the largest economics association about the BLS firing As context: AEA approximately never makes such public statements This is a big deal 11850752113
Reposted by David TicollAlex Usher @alexusherhesa.bsky.social · 09/07/2025In other news, computer science applications were down about 27% Y-o-Y in Ontario univerities this spring. 3126
Reposted by David TicollYoshua Bengio @yoshuabengio.bsky.social · 19/06/2025This report from the Joint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models is an important step towards effective and balanced AI regulation. It builds meaningfully on the International AI Safety Report and offers a thoughtful framework for policymaking at the frontier of AI development. 🧵 1/4cafrontieraigov.orgJoint California Policy Working Group on AI Frontier Models 2174
Reposted by David TicollKate Aronoff @katearonoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2025Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event 428166406717
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Treating tiny condos - that no one wants to live in - as an investment that will appreciate forever turned out to be a disastrous policy and market illusion. Though it was, for several years, a boon for developers. 030
Reposted by David TicollGhouly Hoye 👻🇨🇦 @hollyhoye.bsky.social · 04/06/2025Fascinating and deeply unsettling trends. Is it any wonder why right-wing parties are bombarding young men with “the world is broken” messaging? 13713
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 03/06/2025Yoshua Bengio nonprofit startup aims to create safe AI systems that have intellectual distance from humans and act as more like a detached scientist than a personal companion or human agent. 010
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 02/06/2025Europe greatly lags the US - as does Canada, for similar reasons… 021
Reposted by David TicollBarack Obama @barackobama.bsky.social · 30/05/2025At a time when people are understandably focused on the daily chaos in Washington, these articles describe the rapidly accelerating impact that AI is going to have on jobs, the economy, and how we live.axios.comBehind the Curtain: Top AI CEO foresees white-collar bloodbathHardly anyone is paying attention. 54282822937
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 22/05/2025I agree, but having trouble coming up with an alternative. Any ideas? 120
Reposted by David Ticollian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 22/05/2025number of fully electric cars sold in europe last month tesla: 7,165 byd: 7,231 the chinese ev maker passing tesla for the first time -ft/jato dynamicsft.comBYD sells more electric vehicles in Europe than Tesla for first timeChinese car group has been pushing to expand into overseas markets for past few years 1816732
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 10/05/2025“Those familiar with early briefings say Carney’s mindset seems to be: ‘How quickly can we do this? How do we accelerate? How do we show action?’ There’s a rigor to the way he thinks, and the system will have to adapt to keep up.“ policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ma...policyoptions.irpp.orgCould ‘mission government’ solve Ottawa’s delivery problems?Mark Carney’s government may adopt a focused “mission” model—but delivering results means reforming how Ottawa works. 000
Reposted by David TicollJoey Politano🏳️🌈 @josephpolitano.bsky.social · 04/05/2025US & EU GDP data are now in, which means another update to my G7 GDP chart Here's each country's cumulative increase in real GDP, since just before the pandemic: 🇺🇸 +12.9% 🇨🇦 +8.7% (thru Q4) 🇮🇹 +5.9% 🇫🇷 +3.7% 🇬🇧 +3.4% (thru Q4) 🇯🇵 +0.9% (thru Q4) 🇩🇪 +0.0% 1025036
Reposted by David TicollDavid Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 04/05/2025I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews. 246188186425
Reposted by David TicollDavid Coletto @davidcoletto.bsky.social · 11/04/2025Advantage Liberal: What advanced modeling tells us about why the Liberals are winning abacusdata.ca/2025-federal...abacusdata.caAdvantage Liberal: What advanced modeling tells us about why the Liberals are winning - Abacus Data% 0113
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 03/02/2025I just signed the Pledge for Canada, initiated by @charlieangus104.bsky.social ! actionnetwork.org/petitions/pl...actionnetwork.orgSign the Pledge for CanadaThis petition is intended as an invitation to Canadians to reflect on the current challenges Canada faces and what we can all do to respond to the risks and to contribute to building a more resilient ... 010
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 12/01/2025Yes, let’s get it together Canada! 🇨🇦 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...theglobeandmail.comOpinion: Jean Chrétien: Canadians will never give up the best country in the world to join the U.S.The former prime minister says it’s time to enact a Plan B to handle Donald Trump’s outrageous threats 000
Reposted by David TicollDaniel Rock @danielrock.bsky.social · 11/01/2025my favorite new podcast. these guys are the best. 131
Reposted by David Ticolldanah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Kudos to @henriksaetre.bsky.social & @evanselinger.bsky.social for a brilliant paper on techno-solutionism. Read this if only for zingers: "Like everyone else, people in the tech industry can have complex inner lives and act for mixed reasons." [::giggle:: to "can"] link.springer.com/article/10.1...link.springer.comTechnological Remedies for Social Problems: Defining and Demarcating Techno-Fixes and Techno-Solutionism - Science and Engineering EthicsCan technology resolve social problems by reducing them to engineering challenges? In the 1960s, Alvin Weinberg answered yes, popularizing the term “techno-fix” in the process. The concept was immedia... 15220
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 18/12/2024A spectacular - but not the only - example of Canada’s failures to harness socially relevant data in the public interest. Hopefully, as @picardonhealth.bsky.social suggests, we’ll get it right this time. 010
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 18/12/2024Daron Acemoglu nets out the challenges of our time in this remarkably brief Nobel acceptance speech (🧵) 000
David Ticoll @david-ticoll.bsky.social · 24/11/2024Bob Dylan’s final concert at Royal Albert Hall… Whatever his wrongs (and rights), hail a poetic voice of a generation. www.spectator.co.uk/article/so-l...spectator.co.ukSo long, Bob DylanBob Dylan bids farewell to British audiences in a poignant performance at the Royal Albert Hall during his ‘Rough and Rowdy Ways’ tour. 010