Isaiah Bishop
@isaiahbishop.bsky.social
ML Eng. and econometrics. Honorary Commodities Trader**. more left-posting than normal. **Regrettably degen trading on here, im sorry Views dont reflect my employer
gotta update your priors on foreign ownership, lot of people working on a mental model world from 2010 when the US had like half the current debt burden
George Pearkes@peark.es · 1h agoWhat % of US marketable debt outstanding do you think Japan owns? Hint: total marketable Treasury debt was $30.9trn in May, the latest month for which we have foreign holders data available.
I kind of think this is fine and no one will notice
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2h agoI know it sucks, but Dems have got to be prepared to inherit a munitions-and-readiness hole that is going to be expensive to fill, but which will need to be filled. Hardly the only such hole, but it will be a big one.
aiming to be at the consultation like 7:15-7:30
Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · last wk.halifax yimby + beer meetup maybe?
I dont see why this would be agreed to unless iran needs another cash injection
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 5h agoStrait of Hormuz deal does not foresee transit fees for ships, sources say. The Iranian-Omani proposal – that is currently under negotiation – to reopen the Strait of Hormuz would have no tolls or service fees for ships transiting the waterway, sources said.-CBS News
What are the splits on young men who actually make money doing it?
If Canada wants to be more competitive we should be trying to build our existing pipeline of swindlers but instead of swindling they just funnel it into R&D . Clearly the future belongs to whoever can direct the hopes and dreams money funnel to something useful
It is so strange to pair Q1 (snowy) travel data with interview of tourist in the red hot summer... (but what can you do? )🤷 BNN Bloomberg
As the U.S. tariff war evolves, Canada’s tourism industry sees massive spike
According to Statistics Canada, 2026 first-quarter tourism spending in Canada saw a 5.6 per cent increase year over year, with financial totals reaching $29.5 billion.
bnnbloomberg.ca
Its kind of more like everyone is forced into being decentralized linus tech tips
Josh Gondelman@joshgondelman.bsky.social · 6h agoThis is such an great feature (Rebecca is great!), and I've been thinking about it for a few days. IMO, "Influencer" in the ten-years-ago sense was really a LOT of jobs (spokesmodel/copywriter/etc.) but now it's morphing, at least in part, into "intentionally annoying person" which feels worse.
"As part of the partnership, Patel has brought officials from China's Ministry of Public Security, or MPS, to multiple FBI facilities in the United States to share intelligence and investigative information."
EXCLUSIVE: Under Patel, FBI forges unprecedented law enforcement ties with China, Russia
FBI Director Kash Patel says he has forged new law enforcement partnerships with China and Russia, two longtime U.S. rivals, over the past year in hopes of gaining allies in combating transnational cr...
reuters.com
in terms of our energy superpower-ness the US is currently adding 1/3 of our grid in solar annually (at 100% capacity), and mostly in texas. Pretty sure we could do stuff like that if we wanted
I do think its kind of undercovered how big the wind energy expansion is in Nova Scotia I think we have something like 2.8 GWs, and we're expecting to break ground on 1.2 GWs of onshore (some fraction of that in practice) by 2028 and calls for bids on leases up to 5 GWs starting this year
So do we think its possible china takes its foot off the gas on solar + storage R&D in the near future?
As bearish as i am on tidal power. I do love this kind of industrial project look
INDIA SHIPPING MINISTER SAYS INDIAN MSV FAIZE NOORE OLIYA HAS BEEN HIT BY A PROJECTILE NEAR YEMENI WATERS, CAUSING THE VESSEL TO CAPSIZE AND SINK
This is the longest stretch UST 30s (long bond) has been above 5% since 2007. What a shame if we waste this breakout without a 5.5% print
Saudi Aramco shrugging aside all the regional unpleasantness, making money hand-over-fist regardless www.argusmedia.com/en/news-and-...
Aramco profit up, export capacity unmoved: Update | Latest Market News
State-controlled Saudi Aramco posted robust second quarter results today, as higher oil prices offset most of the impact of output losses resulting from the US-Iran war. The firm said attempts by Yeme...
argusmedia.com
Im not sure why we decided the municipality should be as big as the greater toronto area but we should use this power for good
Isaiah Bishop@isaiahbishop.bsky.social · yesterdayThe entire HRM is like 5500km^2 and while its still quite dense by canadian standards, lot of empty rural area in there
Ignoring crude for a second, the LNG part of this is quite interesting. But im less familiar there
Metro North Capital@metronorthcapital.bsky.social · yesterday
My cat is not eating anything except for wet food. Her teeth and jaw is fine. She's just decided to hunger strike
Thinking about, mathematics and programming are maybe the most natural places for an LLM to succeed because they are literally studies of abstraction. Like math doesn't get harder it just goes into a new universe of abstraction.
