With safety buffers having now been exhausted, onshore inventories are just beginning to plunge. It is inevitable that inventories will reach all-time lows...the question now is just how low they will go. Reality check incoming!

Most Americans dramatically underestimate Canada’s role as a supplier of foreign oil to the United States. The image below makes the contrast clear: perception and reality are far apart. Read more @ bit.ly/3njE8Qb🌎🛢️🍁

Canada Place cruise ship terminal in downtown Vancouver will see an all-time record year for activity. Most weekends for the 2026 cruise season will see 40,000 to 50,000 passengers. The busiest weekend ever will see 56,000 passengers. #bcpoli #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/cana…

Surprising new findings about coffee: you are drinking coffee for the gut bugs that run your brain. > coffee affects the gut which then affects your brain > it's the coffee bean, not the caffeine, doing most of the work > polyphenols feed gut microbes, microbes send chemical

Denmark's coal-to-wind transition is one of the most dramatic energy transformations of the past three decades. In 1990, coal provided 90% of Danish electricity. Today it is under 3%. Wind now covers roughly 60% of electricity generation.

At 650 ft., this revised proposal next to Granville Bridge would be Vancouver's 2nd tallest building today. - Hotel with 206 rooms & 10,000 sf destination restaurant & bar on the 67th level - 480 condos & 152 social housing units #vancre #vanre #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/601-…

Amazing: Income in Poland is on track to overtake income in the U.K.

B.C. home sales expecting 2.1 per cent slide in 2026 as economic challenges mount dlvr.it/TSFjZj

Did you know between 1957 and 1976, there was a regular bus service between London and Calcutta, India.The 32,000km, 50 day, 2-way bus route is the longest in the world. The bus had sleeping bunks and even a kitchen! For just £145, you get to travel with food & accomodation. The

Eli Goldratt's book, The Goal, was famous for its (then unpopular argument) that keeping every machine running 24 hours a day, the metric most plant managers cared about, was actively making factories worse. I suspect we're seeing the same fallacy in how many people are using AI

Little thought experiment to put AI chip improvements in perspective: Imagine that every person on Earth uses a calculator to perform one calculation per second. Everyone works 24 hours a day without rest. Every second, we all hit equals on the calculator for a long digit

We currently train AIs by having them predict human text outputs. Could we train it by having them predict human neural patterns? w. Adam Marblestone

MIT student asked a question earlier today that a lot of young founders are quietly wondering about: "Won’t the frontier labs just do everything?" Yes it's true that OAI/Ant are shipping at incredible pace, but it's quite easy to avoid their blast radius and build amazing

Yesterday, I spoke with the CEO of a mega fleet, who said most of his truckload business was doing well, except for one segment: food & beverage. He called the lack of volume from this segment "unusual." I told him we believed GLP-1s were causing a significant slowdown in

Been thinking about this and have been experiencing yet. Built some tools using software only to find that I can use connectors in Claude to do 80% of what I built for .001% of the effort...

SCOOP: Buyers have been found for the Hudson's Bay Buildings in Vancouver (Onni Group), Calgary (Astra Group), and Ottawa (Claridge Homes). All still pending court approval + closing. Prices have been redacted. (I'm working on it.) #vanRE Full story: howardchai.substack.com/p/hudsons-bay-…

Harvard Business Review just published a super interesting piece. AI’s biggest shock may be that nobody can price the future cleanly anymore i.e. we all are staring at a "AI Fog" i.e. the range of outcomes is now so wide that people cannot tell whether today’s prized skill,

I got put under and had probes inspect my gastrointestinal tract. Down my throat and up the anus. It was my first bidirectional endoscopy. Right before the anesthesiologist injected, I thought "This is the end. This is how I die. What could make the internet happier?" Then it

The most powerful people in the room aren't wearing the loudest watch. They're sleeping eight hours.

Vancouver Park Board commissioners will consider a potential rethink of this summer's parking rate hike at Spanish Banks Beach, reaching $4.25 per hour. It was free up until Spring 2024, then $1 in Summer 2024 and $1.50 in 2025. #vanpoli #vanre dailyhive.com/vancouver/vanc…