Igor Waltritsch

The Unnamable Present 2017 book by Roberto Calasso The Unnamable Present is a meditation by Roberto Calasso on the re-emergence of nationalism and totalitarianism in global politics and culture in the context of an artificially intelligent contemporary world-system. @grok

@HooverInst @JohnHCochrane @Stanford x.com/IwZen/status/2…

Senior Fellow @JohnHCochrane previews Hoover's annual monetary policy conference, which will take place on the @Stanford University campus in May. Organized by Cochrane and his colleagues, leading economists Valerie Ramey and Michael Bordo, the conference will explore the issue of Federal Reserve independence and the constraints of its mandate. Members of the media, academics, and six current Federal Reserve governors will be in attendance. Videos of lectures and panel discussions will be available in the days following the conference. Subscribe to the Hoover Daily Report to get notified when they premiere: hoover.org/publications/d…

#jazznote 🎶 Hey Joe · Brad Mehldau youtu.be/GrQGKHZ5KmE

#jazznote 🎶 Bluchanga · João Donato youtu.be/CG__0GpC4cA

Confirmed presence of Seal Team 6 in pilot rescue op moved the "US forces entering Iran" market to 100%. Per NYT: "Navy SEAL Team 6 commandos extracted the officer in a massive operation that involved hundreds of special operations troops and other military personnel."

@cryptodotnews Galactic brains all over!

BREAKING: Christine Lagarde says Bitcoin fails basic safety and security standards and is linked to illicit activity as the ECB formally rejects it from its framework

@mikeharrisNY Am having some reminiscences of Solon's reforms there. That was before democracy, but the path towards! As far I remember. It was long ago. 🤪

UHI is the cheese in the mouse trap set by techno-federalists who are trying to make everyone a serf and turn all labor into capital they own. No one will give you sh@t is you don't work your as@ off. If no work for you, because their robots do everything, you are not needed.

These rock-climbing fish can shimmy up a 50-foot waterfall npr.org/2026/04/05/nx-…

@911NewsBreaks Yeah, I agree with you—it's almost certainly an optical trick involving clouds, light scattering/reflections, and the quirks of low-light phone video.

ALERT: 🚨 Extremely large anomaly captured on video in the skies of Astana, Kazakhstan. Kazakhstan officials yet to comment.

@f_wintersberger "The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." — Schopenhauer Oil at 30 only at Costco hahah

Not that I think that thesis is correct, but I kinda love the way low oil prices are framed as something to fear.

This is one of the most shameless displays of financial gaslighting I've seen in 45 YEARS. This week Blue Owl Capital disclosed that investors demanded 41% of their money back from one fund and 22% from another. $5.4 BILLION in total redemption requests in a single quarter. Blue Owl's response? They capped withdrawals at 5%. Meaning if you had $1 million in Blue Owl's tech fund, you asked for $410,000 back, and they gave you $50,000. Then they put out a LinkedIn post blaming "heightened negative sentiment" and insisting their fund performance is "robust." That's like a restaurant blaming Yelp reviews while the kitchen is on fire. Here's what they don't want you to focus on: 70% of Blue Owl's lending book is concentrated in software companies. They admitted this on their own earnings call. These are the exact businesses most at risk of being disrupted or destroyed by AI. And when the Wall Street Journal investigated further, they found Blue Owl's flagship fund reported 11.6% software exposure in public filings. The Journal's own analysis found it was actually closer to 21%. That's not just a rounding error... The timeline tells you everything: In February, Blue Owl sold $1.4 billion in loans to meet redemptions. They claimed 99.7 cents on the dollar. Sounds great right? Except one of the buyers was Kuvare - an insurance company whose asset management arm Blue Owl ACQUIRED for $750 million in 2024. Blue Owl manages their money. They sold assets to a company they control and called it an arm's length transaction. Barclays downgraded the stock. Shareholders filed a lawsuit. Congress is now demanding disclosures on sales practices, leverage, and risk management. The stock hit a record low of $7.95 - down over 60% from its 52 week high. And through all of this, Blue Owl's CEO went on the earnings call and said: "We don't have red flags. We don't have yellow flags. We actually have largely green flags." $5.4 billion in redemption requests. 60% stock decline. Gated exits. Congressional scrutiny. All green flags, apparently. I've been warning about private credit for months. The sales pitch was always the same: equity-like returns with bond-like stability. No volatility. No correlation to public markets. Safe. Predictable. Except when investors actually want their money, they discover the exits are bolted shut. You can't eliminate volatility. You can only HIDE it. And that's exactly what Blue Owl has been doing - hiding risk behind opaque valuations, related-party transactions, and withdrawal gates. This isn't "negative sentiment." This is what happens when the tide goes out. Are you listening?

But Searle is wrong here! Actually the Sun moves, although in a different space.

"The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him." — Schopenhauer

Why T.S. Eliot Has Remained an Enigma lithub.com/why-t-s-eliot-…

Brilliant technocrats can stabilize or enable folly. Schacht did both. The real safeguard isn't banning innovation in monetary operations—it's limiting the state's ability to demand impossible economics in the first place. "most dangerous" central bankers x.com/i/grok/share/6…

Lions chase a buffalo, buffalo runs into a river. A crocodile in the river goes after the buffalo.

“April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.” ― T.S. Eliot

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity." -- W.B. Yeats

“Man does not suffer so much from poverty today as he suffers from the fact that he has become a cog in a large machine, an automaton, that his life has become empty and lost its meaning.” ― Erich Fromm

@RogerSeheult 😎wow

After Barcelona in the medieval period was boxed in with a citadel and wall for much of its history in the 1800s it broke out and despite an architect winning a competition a new visionary understood the benefits of sunlight and fresh air and designed the metropolitan area of Barcelona with these two health factors in mind. The results were a testament to what we are learning today, that fresh air and sunlight are essential for human health. Watch: youtu.be/YfN517mqhC8?si…

Rogan (Oxford professor of modern Middle Eastern history) and Hedges keep it historical and critical of imperial meddling. youtube.com/watch?v=f9SPEb…