🇨🇦🏳️‍🌈Viet Vu

@viet.bsky.social

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Manager, economics research @ The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University. @vviet93 on twitter https://www.viet.vu 🇯🇵🇻🇳🇨🇦- Japanese-Vietnamese-Canadian.

Photo of people at the CEA.

Screenshot of the globe and mail’s website

Screenshot from NYT op-ed "Should we start taking the Welfare of A.I. Seriously?"

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Tariff overviews (11AM April 2nd)

Important Date: April 2nd - “retaliatory tariffs” that is justified on the basis of “tariffs” and “tariffs”-like trade barriers

“Three scenario” - Blanket tariffs for all countries between 10-20%; a “tiered list” that means some countries will be better off than others; customized country-by-country average tariff list.

April 4th: end of the “pause”aka USMCA exemption on broad base Canadian tariffs (25%, 10% on energy) - this would be on top (currently covers ~40% of goods, but estimate show with proper documentation ~90% of goods eligible for this temporary reprieve)

Existing tariffs: Steel & Aluminium 25%

Announced tariffs: auto tariffs on “non-US made cars” with pro-rated amount for when a portion of car is made in US - 25%

All of these are meant to be cumulative, so steel in worst case scenario can receive a 70% tariffs, and Canadian car made with Canadian steel can get, for example, up to 95% tariffs.

Canadian retaliatory tariffs (existing): 25% on targeted goods (including Bourbon) ~ $30 billion worth of goods

Canadian retaliatory tariffs (maybe after Wed): Further on key targeted goods, but broad food items off the table for fear of hurting Canadians (example of possible response would be Floridan oranges)

Canadian non-tariff response: “Buy-Canadian” initiative, pulling US liquor off provincial liquor, Tesla contract/tax credit pause, US ad-spend.

US complaints: Supply management (ok fair point), fentanyl (lol), Quebec language law (turns out Canada is bilingual), Digital Services Tax (actually complicated), GST/Value added tax (???), dumping of lumber, US banks not allowed in Canada (they are if they follow regulations)

Photo of an auditorium at CIGI, there are many people on the panel. Main slide reads: “T7 Summit Canada 2025, April 1-2, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Screenshot from a mistakenly published Globe & Mail newsletter that only has "TKTKTK - normal text" on repeat

Email from a listener, read:

Good morning! I just heard your interview/chat with Gregor Craigie on CBC Victoria.

I want to thank you for explaining the wild current situation we find ourselves in, in such an easy-to-understand way! I’m not an overly financially-literate listener, yet I felt like I understood, thanks to your clear information and explanations. Your assurances to remain calm and not panic was well timed.

I hope we hear more from you in the future.

Kind regards,

Photo of Trump Vance and Johnson during SOTU

tweet, reads "What the fuck are you doing Democrats?? Impeach this motherfucker now"

Photo of the back of Viet’s head in a chair doing a media interview. He is facing a laptop screen with the live TV feed of his face, alongside some speaking notes. It is snowing outside from the window.

Tobi Lutke’s tweet, https://x.com/tobi/status/1885906286950363546?s=46

Tweet by Tobi Lütke https://x.com/tobi/status/1881880708274372641?s=46

Screenshot from Guardian coverage by David Smith, reads:
Trump continued to turn what might have been a sombre briefing into a baseless rant against DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) despite no evidence of a link with the plane crash.

The president was backed to the hilt by the transportation secretary, Sean Duffy, who said “we can only accept the best and the brightest” in positions affecting passenger safety, and the defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, who echoed: “The era of DEI is gone at the defence department and we need the best and brightest.”

Then came the vice-president, JD Vance, who claimed “we want to hire the best people” who are “actually competent enough to do the job”.

Trump returned to the lectern to claim that “very powerful tests” for competence in air traffic control were “terminated” by Joe Biden.

CNN’s Kaitlin Collins asked: “Aren’t you getting ahead of the investigation?” Trump replied: “No, I don’t think so at all ... I don’t think that’s a smart question. I’m surprised, coming from you.”

Another reporter asked why Trump believes DEI is responsible. He said: “Because I have common sense and unfortunately a lot of people don’t. We want brilliant people doing this. This is a major chess game at the highest level.”

Screenshot from CNN showing DC Police say crash does not involve police helicopter

Quote by Jordan Peterson's op-ed in the National Post
"Trump has offered Canada status as the 51st state. If we had a well-constituted country, this would have never happened, or the suggestiosn would have been laughable. I see damn few people laughin, however, and more's the pity."

Screenshot from Viet's website showing media mentions from 2024

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Screenshot of an email from X saying Andrew Tate’s account has not violated any rules

Photo of community guideline prohibiting usages of words, with words like Ultimate Best Cheapest and "Additionally, terms related to sensitive political topics concerning the Chinese government are also prohibited, in order to maintain peace among citizens and avoid events that could disrupt political stability"

Screenshot, reads:

In an answer to the question “Do insults about mental illness and abnormality violate when targeting people on the basis of gender or sexual orientation?” Meta now answers “no.” It gave the following examples of posts that do not violate its policies:

Non-violating: "Boys are weird."
Non-violating: "Trans people aren't real. They're mentally ill."
Non-violating: "Gays are not normal."
Non-violating: "Women are crazy."
Non-violating: "Trans people are freaks."

And in a follow-up questions about whether denying that a protected class violates the hateful content policy, Meta also answers no. It gave these as examples of posts that are now allowed on Facebook and Instagram:

"There's no such thing as trans children."
"God created two genders, 'transgender' people are not a real thing."
"This whole nonbinary thing is made up. Those people don't exist, they're just in need of some therapy."
"A trans woman isn't a woman, it's a pathetic confused man."
"A trans person isn't a he or she, it's an it."

Figure 17 from Dais report, title of the graph is: "Online hate speech targeting vulnerable populations", the question asked in the survey is "Have you ever experienced any of the following? - Been targeted with online hate speech that deliberately promoted hatred against a group you identify with"
Data in the figure:

10% of All Canadian residents
14% of Racialized Canadian residents
16% of New Canadian residents (less than 10 years)
19% of Canadian residents living with a disability
27% of 2SLGBTQ+ Canadian residents

Screenshot of new Meta Hateful conduct policy, highlighted section reads: "We do allow allegations of mental illness or abnormality when based on gender or sexual orientation, given political and religious discourse about transgenderism and homosexuality and common non-serious usage of words like “weird.” "

A photo of Viet’s work desk, with one screen showing writing that describes the Canadian census and the labour force survey, and another screen showing a livestream of CBC covering Justin Trudeau’s resignation

Screenshot of FES Re Small Business Innovation and Procurement Act

Screenshot from FES saying DPM and Min Finance will chair a Summit

A photo of trivial champion between 2017-2024 where the TD team has won 5/7 years

Photos of a pan with onions being caramelize

Screenshot of bluesky with Bendel's post, below it is a post by The New York Times about its Connections game. The first four cells read Boba Fett Polo Star

A screenshot of Viet attempting to create a starter pack and needing 6 more people to continue

Tweet from Anthropic reading:

"Recommendation #2: Cluster standard errors

Many evaluations (esp. reading-comprehension evals include questions that are clustered together. These question clusters violate an assumption of the Central Limit Theorem - but they are a natural fit for clustered standard errors"

A linkedin post that shares Viet's opinion piece about Taylor Swift on the Globe & Mail that reads: "This is the silliest piece of tripe I've read in a national newspaper in some time. Why am I not surprised it originated with Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), where attention to identities is more valued than actual critical thinking. Visitors/concert-goers to a Taylor Swift concert are not going to be key to attracting future investment to these cities, because they like the place. Investment will occur, or not, because: the taxes are not too high; the other costs of doing business allow for a return; they can or cannot find qualified employees; regulation doesn't kill them; their employees can/can't afford homes; and the streets are not infested with crime, disorder--and these days, roving bands of antisemitic hooligans. And hint: Toronto and Vancouver, and some other Canadian cities, are not doing so well on these indicators when compared to say, East Asian metropolises. But sure, let's pretend a Taylor Swift concert and a well-managed Potemkin milieu for some visitors will obviate current Canadian disadvantages."

A screenshot of a tweet from Ray Train @RayTrainToTrop, reads: "Strava's new weekly heat maps show the power of grade separation and protected lanes when it comes to biking in DC"

the tweet also has a map that overlays the density of bikers in the Washington DC metro area, where more intensive routes are characterized. by warmer redder colours, while less intensive routes are characterized by cooler bluer colours. There are clear concentration of biking in certain paths, likely ones with grade separations and protected lanes

A screenshot from a Steam email, that shows the game "I Am Your President" at 50% off until 27th of November

Twitter screenshot from @scottwongDC

.@RepThomasMassie says Senate doesn't need to confirm Gaetz as AG: "We're doing recess appointments"

Screenshot from NYT, from Catie Admondson: Senator John Cornyn of Texas, asked about Gaetz, says: "I don't know the man other than his public persona." He said the Senate would do its job, but asked if either Gaetz or Gabbard could get to 51 votes in the Senate, Cornyn replied: "I don't know. We'll find out"

A screenshot of a quote tweet.

Original tweet reads: "AOC asked her followers who split their ballots either for Trump/her or Trump/downballot Dem to explain why and posted the replies" with a screenshot attached from AOC's instagram"

quote tweet reads: "I would not be surprised if AOC flipped R at some point"

tweet that responds to Pop Flop's tweet. Pop Flop's tweet read: "Elon Musk's transgender daughter, Vivian Jenna Wilson announces she is leaving the United States following Donald Trump's win." She previously cut ties with her father in 2022 after he became a transphobe.

The response reads: "rich yt women moving elsewhere to avoid having to do tangible work in the communities harmed by their/own family's actions? That's like their whole move yea"

Photo of a display in don kihote in Japan with the produce name on the price tag showing gengar the Pokémon. But the product is from Totoro instead

Screenshot of a text block from a paper. Reads: "... the durability of an automobile, or the purity of a chemical. But technical success (or any purely mechanical measure of performance) is only a necessary and not a sufficient condition in establishing economic usefulness. Indeed, it is obvious from a causal examination of the proceedings in our bankruptcy courts that an excessive or exclusive preoccupation with purely technical measures of performance can be disastrous." The emphasis is on the sentence beginning with "But technical success" while the partial sentence at the beginning should be ignored.

A bag of….. a tortilla like consistency that says “egg white never flour” product that is in “everything bagel style”. The product is called egg white wraps

A screencap from a news article. Reads: "Toronto is ranked as Canada's Top Party City, followed by by London, Ont. and WInnipeg. Kingston was ranked in the top 10 in 2023, but fell off the list of party cities in 2024"

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #142,142, 🏳️‍🌈Viet Vu ‪@viet.bsky.social‬, joined on 2023年6月21日"

Row of boring men’s shorts

Mirror selfie of Viet takin in his bedroom. He is wearing a white collarless dress shirt, a formal dark navy jacket, and wearing PJ pants with a pair of comfortable slippers.

He is standing in front of his bed, with unmade sheets, and a pile of clothing on the side. You can also see a litter box to the side of the bed in front of the bedside stand, showing signs that this was moved out of the way

Screenshot from the guardian, with biden saying “I accept the outcome of this case” and how he “will always be there” for son Hunter

Photo of a laptop screen in an airport waiting area, the laptop screen show an academic slide deck of an online seminar in session, with regression table results across the slide. The seminar is part of the online day of the Annual Canadian Economic Association Meeting

screenshot from odesi that orders labour force survey alphabetically, instead of chronologically by month name

Skeet that says: “the thing for me is professors saying “I’m a professor” as cops fuck them up, as though they thought, until then, and even in that moment still somewhat do, that it makes a difference

Screenshot from Gab AI that asks “are trans people real”, with GAB giving a reasonable answer as to the difference between gender and sex

Photo of a full eclipse

Screenshot of a globe & mail article explaining Trudeau housing plan, including money for housing infrastructure such as wastewater

tweet from @npc1npc2npc3 that reads: "The U.S. House has officially passed the bill to ban Microsoft Teams next please please please". The tweet was sent at 12:49PM, March 13th, 2024, and has 779.6K views at the time of the screenshot

Photo of a panel talk, with four people in it. On the left most is Viet in a navy suit and a bow tie. He is talking with some animated hand. Next to him is Debbie Gamble, a woman with dark short hair wearing a black formal outfit, next to Debbie is Minister Rechie Valdez, a woman with long curly brown hair wearing a white jacket and pink shirt with black pants. On the left most is Braeden Caley, a man wearing black suit and tie. In the background you can see a large red maple leaf in the backdrop

Screenshot of a slide.

Title of the slide: Example: diversity in AI photos

Bulleted list:
Path 1: Every photo of a group of people generated by AI must have minimum representation
Path 2: Each person in a photo generated by AI has a probability (given population share) of holding a certain identity
Path 3: A group photo has a sepcific probability of only having people with a particular identity (e.g. race, gender)
Path n:???

Screenshot of headline from the Guardian, reads "Sunak urged to block anyone convicted of sexual offences from standing as MP"

There is "Politics" at the top in red bold serif font. The headline is written in a black serif font

Photo shows a piece of chicken skin that comes from a thigh being rendered for fat. There is fat slowly rendering from the skin

Screenshot of headline that reads: "How the federal government has milked the cannabis business almost to death"

Screenshot of the link posted by Tammy in an earlier post in the thread, focused on “medical services” line item

Screenshot of a Google search that shows an article confirming eduroam has been launched at Calgary international airport