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@rtwlz Your site got DDOS'ed, congrats! Can't wait to use it, good idea.

10% of AMC movie showings sell no tickets at all. I made a site that finds them. Go enjoy your private theater

@michael_inverse @MistaMe0w @SquidMechanicus 💯

@SovereignTrades @MistaMe0w @SquidMechanicus Exactly. Not sure why this one isn’t getting more traction

Dawg. It's OVER.

Waiter: “thank you for dining at Red Lobster, here is your fork, your napkin, and your bib, for tuna.” George Lucas:

@MistaMe0w @SquidMechanicus

@SquidMechanicus For once a Kennedy is the assassin

@GivnerAriel @NotDeGhost thx for documenting this.

🚨My source is texting me live from the Oakland courtroom right now. Thank you in advance @NotDeGhost! Musk v. OpenAI opening statements are fully in swing. Plaintiffs lawyer opened with this: “THEY STOLE A CHARITY” This was for the benefit of mankind as a whole. Not Sam Altman, Greg Brockman or Microsoft. Live notes below 👇#MuskVsOpenAI #OpenAITrial

Top 0.1% in CA: 12% of income. 27% of income taxes. Bottom 50%: Same 12% of income. 3% of taxes. If the top group leaves, guess who fills the gap?

@JesseTinsley 🎯

WEALTH TAX MAN: Hey California voters. Quick question. CA VOTERS: Sure. WEALTH TAX MAN: Do you hate billionaires? CA VOTERS: yeah some of them are annoying. WEALTH TAX MAN: Perfect. Sign here. CA VOTERS: What is this? WEALTH TAX MAN: Just a one-time tax on billionaires. CA VOTERS: Only billionaires? WEALTH TAX MAN: For now. CA VOTERS: What does “for now” mean? WEALTH TAX MAN: Do not worry about that. CA VOTERS: Is this a ballot measure? WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. Democracy. CA VOTERS: Great. So if you want to expand it later voters get to vote again? WEALTH TAX MAN: Lol CA VOTERS: Why did you laugh? WEALTH TAX MAN: Because we added a special little feature. CA VOTERS: What feature? WEALTH TAX MAN: The Legislature can amend it later with a two thirds vote. CA VOTERS: Without another public vote? WEALTH TAX MAN: YES CA VOTERS: Wait. So we vote once on “tax billionaires,” then California can keep changing it? WEALTH TAX MAN: Now you are getting it.. CA VOTERS: But they said this only affects a few hundred “billionaires”. WEALTH TAX MAN: That is the sales pitch. Who do we tax when they all leave? CA VOTERS: wait leave? I thought this would help pay for healthcare? WEALTH TAX MAN: First we establish that California can tax “wealth” then it applied to paying for everything. CA VOTERS: Okay… WEALTH TAX MAN: which allows us to establish the forms, the enforcement, the audits, the penalties, the valuation rules, and the bureaucratic engine to expand… CA VOTERS: expand? (deep breathing)... WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes exactly expand. The later, when the budget is broken again, we ask one simple question. CA VOTERS: Which is? WEALTH TAX MAN: Why stop at billionaires? CA VOTERS: You told us it was only billionaires. WEALTH TAX MAN: We said that during the marketing phase. CA VOTERS: Marketing phase? WEALTH TAX MAN: Every new tax has one. CA VOTERS: So who is next? WEALTH TAX MAN: Centimillionaires. CA VOTERS: Then? WEALTH TAX MAN: People with large stock portfolios. CA VOTERS: Then? WEALTH TAX MAN: People with paid-off homes. CA VOTERS: But homes are excluded. WEALTH TAX MAN: Today. CA VOTERS: Retirement accounts? WEALTH TAX MAN: Also excluded.. CA VOTERS: for now? WEALTH TAX MAN: Look at you. Getting good at this. CA VOTERS: So this is not really about billionaires. CA WEALTH TAX MAN: It starts with billionaires. CA VOTERS: But it creates the machine. WEALTH TAX MAN: Exactly. CA VOTERS: And once the machine exists, Sacramento just needs two-thirds to feed more people into it. WEALTH TAX MAN: We prefer the term “modernizing the tax base.” CA VOTERS: So “tax the billionaires” is the Trojan horse. WEALTH TAX MAN: No, no, no.. CA VOTERS: What is it then? WEALTH TAX MAN: A very “inclusive” horse. CA VOTERS: This sounds like how every tax starts. WEALTH TAX MAN: Correct. CA VOTERS: First it is narrow. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then it is temporary. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then it is an “emergency”. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then it is permanent. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then it is expanded. WEALTH TAX MAN: Yes. CA VOTERS: Then everyone pays. WEALTH TAX MAN: Eventually…everyone is rich enough to tax and not rich enough to leave.

The California 'wealth tax' isn't a tax it's actually a one-time state seizure of 5% of your net worth. Call it 'reclaiming' all you want; it's still forced confiscation of private assets from people who already pay the vast majority of the state's income. Worse: the fine print lets the Legislature amend it (by 2/3 vote) in ways that 'further its purposes.' Once the door is open to valuing unrealized gains, illiquid assets, and private businesses on a massive scale, good luck stopping the expansion to 'other citizens' later. Filling out that return will be a nightmare of audits, valuations, and disputes. Newsom's right to fight it (even for the wrong reasons). It's economic self-sabotage that accelerates the exodus of the tax base. 'One-time' promises literally never are in politics.

1.5 million Californians just signed a petition to tax the state's 200 billionaires 5%.. one time.. to fund hospitals, schools and food programs.. they needed 875,000 signatures.. they got nearly double.. and California's own governor is fighting against it.. the billionaires live in the same state where hospitals are closing and people can't afford groceries.. and the one person who's supposed to represent the people just told the New York Times he's fighting to protect them.. 1.5 million signatures and it still might not matter.. because the people who write the checks aren't the ones who sign the petitions

The California wealth tax is not a tax but a "reclaiming" of 5% of your net worth. It’s a state seizure of private assets. The law ALSO states that they can change it from billionaires to "other citizens" WITHOUT a vote from the public once passed. Good luck trying to fill this out and get it right.

I literally never see kids opening packs these days. It's all just 25+ adults. No hate here just an observation of what's happened with the "hobby" (I am part of the problem)

@daytradingzoo It’s so funny I have so many Google Sheets with these kinds of things built in. Now it’s so much easier to build something as you’ve described and derive significantly more value out of it. Cool 😎

@SovereignTrades One of the tools is a portfolio size generator which allows me to find the optimal betting size for my strategies.

I built two pretty sick apps with Claude Code Max. Super happy with the result. The process was smooth. Only hit the time limit a few times. Probably would have never been able to build the same tools with Cursor because for whatever reason, I always run out of API tokens with Cursor. Never have this issue with Claude Code. I will try to build my next tool with GPT Codex app and see how I like that.

@AutismCapital @brian_armstrong The coasters call

@brian_armstrong Return to your roots.

In my teens and 20's I would spend way too much time playing Starcraft and Civilization. Harvesting resources, building things, and expanding was super addictive to my brain - to an almost unhealthy degree. Later I realized that entrepreneurship and business is the ultimate game. It scratches the same itch for me (resources, building, expanding), but you're actually contributing to humanity at the end of the day, which can be much more fulfilling. Business is also much more positive sum than video games. In Starcraft, the other player has to lose for you to win. In business, there is competition, but in a growing market there can be multiple winners. And gains compound long term (it's a infinite game) instead of starting over each time. Now days I prefer to watch pros play video games to unwind, instead of playing video games myself. But a quick game can still be fun here and there to unwind. By contrast, the game of business is played over many decades.

@aRobotNamedSnax Ok Mr fancy “enterprise plan”

@SovereignTrades Lot it’s not that bad

Accidentally said “hello” on Claude Opus 4.7 and burned 20% of my daily token allotment.

Happy Tax Day! As a reminder: The Top 1% pay 46% of all income taxes. The Top 10% pay 76% of all income taxes. But the current political climate doesn't want you to know that.

Allbirds? The AI infrastructure company? $BIRD

@SovereignTrades This won’t bring morg back, bro

As a long-time trader, this is excellent news. The SEC has long used this as a gatekeeping tool to lord over retail investors. Glad to see it finally end. Yes, some people will likely lose money they shouldn’t, but the net outcome is overwhelmingly positive for the average person.

@aRobotNamedSnax love that they made this change. You were good enough to get out with the student loans but you're the exception. Happy more people can particiapte now.

The market casino will now be open to everyone Starting out I had to fund myself with student loans so will be intriguing to see all the new people get involved with less barriers . Small caps 🥵