Nigel Protter 🇨🇦
@NigelProtter
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Low carbon energy/construction techie making bets. Tech pubco director, low-cost efficient beautiful building designer/modeller/builder
British Columbia, Canada
Joined October 2011
Hmmm... Kimi K2.5 is as good as the benchmarks say, I'm afraid. How the _fuck_ are American model developers going to make money when the Chinese open source models are 8 weeks behind?!
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$TSLA bought Solar City when it was failing and starved for cash xAI bought Twitter when it was starved for cash SpaceX is buying xAI when .... @grok do you notice a pattern?
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John Manley on Canada moving on from CUSMA: "I think we did perfectly well before we had the Canada-US free trade agreement. It came into effect in 1989. We were a very successful country at that point ... We'd like to have it. We don't need it. We can move on without it."
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CARNEY: "In the coming weeks, the federal government will release a draft of our national electricity strategy ... our objective is to more than double the size of Canada's electricity grid."
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Ottawa, Seoul agree to work on bringing South Korean auto manufacturing to Canada https://t.co/f4iVkovced
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Pretty clear that both Bessent and Trump want to run the mercantilist playbook with a weak dollar. The dollar weakening boosts US exporters and allows the government to alleviate the national debt ($36T and counting...) w/o having to explicitly default on it. Couple this with
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Strategic Recalibration: The Kurdish Pivot The Middle East is not a puzzle. It is a goddamn engine. Right now, the gear that locks it all together is not Saudi smiles or Iranian threats. It is 35 million Kurds who are as ancient as the Zagros mountains they sit on. Here is what
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We only want the Anatoly version.
New style large flat mop for wet and dry use! From floors to ceilings, its 360° swivel makes cleaning faster and easier. Shop Now: https://t.co/MACzH76pNy
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CATL Launches Sodium Battery Breakthrough - the breakthrough we were waiting for CATL has unveiled the world’s first mass-produced sodium-ion batteries for commercial vehicles - 10,000+ charge cycles - strong cold-weather performance (90% capacity at –40°C) - and costs as low
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The Tale of Two Contagions In 2019, German psychiatrists observed a sudden surge of adolescent girls presenting to clinics with abrupt-onset Tourette-like tics. This immediately raised alarm bells. Tourette’s typically affects boys and begins in early childhood. This was an
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This Is Worse Than Stalin: Xi’s Self-Inflicted Military Collapse. Why Xi Is Purging His Own Generals — And What It Means for Taiwan. Xi Jinping personally built the Central Military Commission in 2022. Just three years later, it has collapsed. In this video, I explain why Xi is
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Where the term “gaslighting” comes from…
Canadians should be able to choose the energy they use at home. For many, natural gas is the choice that keeps our homes comfortable and bills manageable. Let your city and energy decision-makers know that Canadian homeowners need continued access to natural gas.
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This thread is now being down ranked. Please do your part in retweeting it. It contains frame by frame analysis from ALL the videos we’ve seen today, showing how ICE murdered this man. It is important people see the truth! 🫡
1/12 Frame by frame breakdown of this MURDER shows ICE is lying! -ICE had ALREADY disarmed the man before shooting. -The man NEVER drew his gun. At the 0:06 second mark we see the man’s hands on the ground covered in large gloves. His hands are empty.
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BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons. Please share this far and wide... "We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and
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Chairman Xi suffers from the traditional dictator's trap of believing his own sh*t because he has made it too dangerous for his cronies and underlings to tell him the truth. He has failed the "Dictator on the Wall Test." 1/
Xi Jinping’s so-called “self-revolution” purge has in reality dismantled the CCP military’s command and leadership structures at every level. 2026 will be the weakest year for the CCP’s party army. PLA is paper dragon consisting mainly of generals who got promoted through
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David Ricardo showed in 1817 that if each country produces according to its comparative advantage, global output is maximized. Many analysts argue today that China's trade surplus reflects its comparative advantage in producing everything, and so its trade surplus is good for
The reality is that China has the unparalleled comparative advantage in manufacturing consumer goods so any meaningful increase in domestic goods consumption are just devoured by domestic producers. You can’t count on goods to balance trade. The West still has comparative
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By favouring the import of the less expensive Chinese EV‘s under the condition of building Canada’s domestic EV production, only the high-end Chinese designs would offer the margins to consider for Canadian manufacturing. This is the right move.
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