Aidan
@aidanglc.bsky.social
Economist, Cat Dad, Wife Guy living and working in Ottawa, ON.
Having a couple beers and watching the universe end.
Having a couple beers and watching the universe end.
That jet turbine engines work at all (and explode as rarely as they do) is something of an engineering miracle.
Great read on the cumulative trillions of dollars of iterative engineering effort that has gone into developing the efficient, reliable modern gas turbine. It is an insanely complex technology featuring an unforgiving multidimensional tradeoff space
December 9, 2025 at 8:13 PM
That jet turbine engines work at all (and explode as rarely as they do) is something of an engineering miracle.
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Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT
December 9, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Let’s interview Sam Altman’s nannies about whether they’re using ChatGPT
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There are lots of worse people in this golden age of monsters and freaks and lunatics, but there few better examples of the empty, vapid, soulless nihilism of the moment than Jimmy Fallon bsky.app/profile/more...
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 5:17 PM
There are lots of worse people in this golden age of monsters and freaks and lunatics, but there few better examples of the empty, vapid, soulless nihilism of the moment than Jimmy Fallon bsky.app/profile/more...
Look at this absolute fucking dipshit.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Look at this absolute fucking dipshit.
I own both tube socks and NYC subway socks. The former were given to me by a former partner and the latter by my wife. My brand is strong.
Boss, during meting: "ok, wait, I gotta ask, Mike, what's going on with those socks?"
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."
December 9, 2025 at 1:33 PM
I own both tube socks and NYC subway socks. The former were given to me by a former partner and the latter by my wife. My brand is strong.
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Two Bloomberg Intelligence notes this morning on BEVs very interesting. Chinese buyers are flocking to electric even as subsidies roll off, while in Europe price pressure on the entire market but BEVs especially make ICE-BEV price parity increasingly likely. BMW & Mercedes already at parity.
December 9, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Two Bloomberg Intelligence notes this morning on BEVs very interesting. Chinese buyers are flocking to electric even as subsidies roll off, while in Europe price pressure on the entire market but BEVs especially make ICE-BEV price parity increasingly likely. BMW & Mercedes already at parity.
I will be watching this and it will involve achieving levels of drunk that science has long considered impossible for anyone who wasn't an SEC school frat boy.
December 8, 2025 at 6:48 PM
I will be watching this and it will involve achieving levels of drunk that science has long considered impossible for anyone who wasn't an SEC school frat boy.
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I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
December 8, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm developing a kind of cosmopolitan-chauvinism, I guess you could call it anti-feudalism, as a through line in my politics. The peasant-brained and the local landed gentry are the enemy. Sort of funny that this could describe being either rabidly capitalist or communist.
The median men's 10k time would only lose this footrace by about 60-70 seconds lolsob
Would media show up for me to race the Finch LRT on foot?
December 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
The median men's 10k time would only lose this footrace by about 60-70 seconds lolsob
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claudia goldin apology form
A new study on 40+ European countries found women increasingly want men to share child care and housework equally—but men's attitudes have barely budged. In countries where this gap was widest, both birth rates and female employment were lower. (1/3)
December 8, 2025 at 1:37 PM
claudia goldin apology form
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some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Oh, here's a big surprise. The transphobes don't believe in ADHD either.
then, the transphobes , feeling victorious at how many people they have made unhappy and despairing in the previous week, move on to anything else that has a spectrum and the possibility of more colours than they can conceive - such hateful people - they cannot understand anything that is not THEM
December 8, 2025 at 1:09 PM
some significant part of this is just catch-all fear for “this is not the child I ordered” I think
Trump is experiencing "be sure that your sin will find you out" and I couldn't be happier for him.
It's almost impossible to make me feel sorry for Trump, but the sheer depth of his brokeness, combined with his age, the utter humiliation involved in this farce was making me legit sad.
December 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Trump is experiencing "be sure that your sin will find you out" and I couldn't be happier for him.
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not to get all conservative or anything as an inveterate homosexual stoner myself but the people in charge of American society are decadent, hedonistic demons motivated by their basest urges, their pettiest grievances, and their vilest bigotries
December 3, 2025 at 10:44 PM
not to get all conservative or anything as an inveterate homosexual stoner myself but the people in charge of American society are decadent, hedonistic demons motivated by their basest urges, their pettiest grievances, and their vilest bigotries
Pro tip: don’t chug an Emotional Support Bubly 30min before a tempo run 😵💫
December 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Pro tip: don’t chug an Emotional Support Bubly 30min before a tempo run 😵💫
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
There’s greatness on display in the AdvancedRunning sub today
December 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
There’s greatness on display in the AdvancedRunning sub today
American oligarchs merely adopted the dark. FIFA was born in it.
FIFA's Trump glazing is incredible, no organization that has ever existed can compare
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 PM
American oligarchs merely adopted the dark. FIFA was born in it.
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If you’re mad about life being unaffordable, you should maybe look at how the requirement to own a car to live in #canada is being more and more explicitly forced on everyone.
Mortgage rates and fucking gas prices ain’t it buds. Your household needing to own 3 cars is more likely the problem.
Mortgage rates and fucking gas prices ain’t it buds. Your household needing to own 3 cars is more likely the problem.
December 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
If you’re mad about life being unaffordable, you should maybe look at how the requirement to own a car to live in #canada is being more and more explicitly forced on everyone.
Mortgage rates and fucking gas prices ain’t it buds. Your household needing to own 3 cars is more likely the problem.
Mortgage rates and fucking gas prices ain’t it buds. Your household needing to own 3 cars is more likely the problem.
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i'm trying out a new thing called No Atlantic December. It's where I don't read any of those Atlantic articles that people love to post screenshots of on this app and complain about
December 2, 2025 at 6:13 PM
i'm trying out a new thing called No Atlantic December. It's where I don't read any of those Atlantic articles that people love to post screenshots of on this app and complain about
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"top designers and engineers are permanently staffed in government departments handling multiple big projects"
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
Spain has used immigration and public-private investment in capital projects to become the fastest-growing economy in the Western world, with the lowest deficits, all with higher Trump tariffs. We can follow their lead
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Spain has become an economic leader by using Ottawa’s toolkit the right way
The once-flagging Spanish economy has been turbocharged by big infrastructure investments, the green-energy transition and immigration
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:50 PM
"top designers and engineers are permanently staffed in government departments handling multiple big projects"
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
No false economy of starving the civil service to save small amounts of money while actually undermining capacity, leading to cost overruns.
We absolutely love to see it.
The AEA has imposed a lifetime ban on Lawrence H. Summers’ membership and participation in AEA activities. See the full statement here. www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Statement from the American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
December 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
We absolutely love to see it.
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The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
NEW: The End of the Line: the centrepiece of Saudi Arabia’s Neom gigaproject - a 500m tall, 170km long wall-like building intended ultimately to house 9 million people - can’t get out of the ground, say more than 20 former Neom architects, engineers and senior executives.
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End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled
Mohammed bin Salman’s utopian city was undone by the laws of physics and finance
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November 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The haters said they couldn't do it. And they were right. Honestly, great call from the haters.
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democratic messaging bills are always like “the Reduce Carbon Emissions Act” and republican messaging bills are always like “a bill to replace various Census racial categories with ‘bears the Mark of Cain’”
Sen. Bernie Moreno, R-Ohio, just introduced a bill to ban Americans from holding dual citizenship. The bill says that to “preserve the integrity of national citizenship, allegiance to the United States must be undivided.” It’s called the Exclusive Citizenship Act.
December 1, 2025 at 9:49 PM
democratic messaging bills are always like “the Reduce Carbon Emissions Act” and republican messaging bills are always like “a bill to replace various Census racial categories with ‘bears the Mark of Cain’”
This reminds me of a Prague hostel I stayed in in 2013, which was a *cavernous* room with roughly 20 single beds spread haphazardly throughout...and three pillows. It was marketed as a three-person room.
December 1, 2025 at 9:00 PM
This reminds me of a Prague hostel I stayed in in 2013, which was a *cavernous* room with roughly 20 single beds spread haphazardly throughout...and three pillows. It was marketed as a three-person room.