dennis taye allen

A note to the wise: I tweet all kinds of stuff—a thread: Some of my views are unconventional—but always well thought out and informed I will RT unpopular material so as to involve my audience in the counter-narrative and introduce different PoVs into the conversation.

SHANOYA DOUGLAS 🇯🇲🔥 At 18 years old, she set champs on FIRE with her WORLD LEADING performances 100m 10.98 200m 22.36 National U20 Record “Anytime you hear that I’m coming to run, come out and support me cause I’m going to always put on a show” 🍿

Trinidad🇹🇹

@terryfinisterre @jarrowarrow @glblathletichub @WorldAthletics @spikesmag @JamaicaObserver @JamaicaGleaner @awfulannouncing Lyston pronounced like LIE-ston got me cold today.... hate how they chum chummy with all the Brits. REAL powerhouse in the sport, innit?

It is hard to listen to a broadcast where heat winners names are persistently mispronounced. World Indoors is a relatively small meet. World Athletics could and should provide pronunciation guides. 🇯🇲

#WorldIndoorChamps men's 400m podium: 🥇44.76🇨🇦Christopher Morales Williams (CR) 🥈45.03🇺🇸Khaleb McRae 🥉45.39🇹🇹Jereem Richards (SB)

We're watching a financial crisis unfold in real time. The last time funds started blocking investors from getting their money back, Bear Stearns collapsed six months later. In 2007, BNP Paribas froze €1.6 billion in funds. Bear Stearns declared 2 funds "essentially worthless" and gated a third. Everyone said it was "contained." 6 months later the entire financial system nearly went under. I'm not saying we're there YET... But I am saying the pattern is rhyming. BlackRock just capped withdrawals from its $26 billion HPS Corporate Lending Fund after investors demanded 9.3% of their shares back - nearly DOUBLE the fund's 5% quarterly limit. Investors wanted $1.2 billion out. BlackRock gave them $620 million and said no to the rest. BlackRock stock dropped 7%. KKR, Ares, Apollo, Blue Owl - all down 5-6% on the same day. The financial sector ETF is off 9% in a month. This is the same BlackRock that just slashed a $25 million private credit loan from 100 to ZERO in 3 months. Full value one quarter. Worthless the next. And they'd already done the exact same thing months earlier with Renovo Home Partners. But this isn't just a BlackRock problem. Look at the dominoes: Last summer, Tricolor and First Brands went unexpectedly bankrupt. $10-15 billion in combined liabilities. Write-offs hit JPMorgan, UBS, and Jefferies. Then a UK lender called Market Financial Solutions collapsed with a £2.4 billion loan book. Fraud allegations. Double-pledged collateral. Barclays exposed for £500 million. Apollo, Elliott, Santander - all caught in the wreckage. Then Blue Owl permanently halted redemptions. Stock cut in HALF. Then Blackstone's $82 billion flagship fund got hit with $3.8 billion in redemption requests. They had to pump in $400 million of their own money just to meet demands. Now BlackRock is literally blocking the exits. Even Apollo's own CEO warned a shakeout is coming. When EVERYONE at the top is waving red flags - pay attention. UBS raised its worst-case default forecast to 15%. Defaults sit at 3-5% today. The trajectory is ugly. Here's the structural problem: After 2008, regulations pushed risky lending OUT of banks and INTO private credit. The sector ballooned to $3 trillion. But these funds make 5-7 year loans while promising investors quarterly liquidity. That works until everyone wants out at once. Which is exactly what's happening. 40% of sponsor-backed loans are tied to the software industry - the same sector AI is threatening to destroy. The Fed pumped 40% more money into the system after Covid and kept rates at zero. That easy money funded garbage underwriting. And now there's a $162 billion maturity wall hitting THIS YEAR. I've been warning about private credit for weeks. The story is always the same: Opaque valuations. Illiquid assets. Limited transparency. And the false promise of steady returns with no volatility. The whole sales pitch was equity-like returns with bond-like stability. But you can't eliminate volatility - you can only HIDE it... Until you can't. When the WORLD'S LARGEST ASSET MANAGER starts blocking investors from getting their money back, that's not "noise". That's an alarm. Get out before the exit gets more crowded.

What a wild ending to the LA marathon. My mom was able to catch what led to the cinematic ending. The leader went the wrong way. Woman impedes his path, runs to his left and forces him into the middle of the fork + orange shirt waving him right + motorcade goes right at the fork.

Nathan Martin, a 36-year-old high school cross-country coach from Jackson, Michigan, won the 2026 Los Angeles Marathon by running past Kenya’s Michael Kamau in the final second.

@RKilty1 you are not qualified to enter a conversation among sub10 athletes. please have a seat...you had your chances.

THIS!!!! CALL NAME AH GO WHISTLE!!!! You cannot catch dopers in competition. Even BASIC CHEMISTRY STUDENTS can evade these tests! Athletes get busted when they make mistakes. Doctor SUPERVISED ATHLETES don't make mistakes. Only when coaches squeal on each other are camps busted

I got a great lawyer I got like 30 ppl in a lawsuit right now you going to be the next one

The AIU runs a case on me, then orders me to pay $3000 to World Athletics… So the same system that prosecutes the case thinks I should also pay their legal costs? Athletes already fund this sport with our performances, our likeness, and our labor. Now we’re supposed to finance the legal system used against us too? And let’s be real… if athletes weren’t constantly getting targeted with whereabouts violations and cases, how would this whole system even fund itself? Meanwhile this is the same organization where an audit found over $1.5 million stolen internally by staff. Millions can go missing inside the system… but the athlete is the one being told to pay the bill.

Which country do y’all want me to start with first? Let’s talk about these camps. Let’s talk about why certain groups go to certain countries. Let’s talk about how the system actually works.

AIU, tell the world the truth. I am a clean athlete. I have never tested positive for anything in my life. Stop playing with my name. @aiu_athletics

In the middle of buying a racing horse I’m call it I told you so

Thomas Gould, the Irish politician who recently captured global attention because of his distinctive accent, says he has been overwhelmed by the volume of messages received from social media users worldwide, particularly from Jamaica. Gould, a member of Sinn Féin, went viral after a speech he delivered in the Irish parliament in early January began circulating across social media platforms. jamaicaobserver.com/2026/02/25/fee…

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I am the Chief Operations Officer at Bithumb. South Korea's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange. On Thursday, we ran a promotional event. A "lucky box" campaign. Very popular in Korea. Users complete tasks. Users receive rewards. Small rewards. 2,000 Korean Won. That's $1.40 American. Enough for a coffee. Maybe a small one. One of our employees made an error. A small error. In the dropdown menu. He selected "BTC" instead of "KRW." Bitcoin instead of Korean Won. Same first letter. Easy mistake. Instead of 2,000 Won, we sent 2,000 Bitcoin. Per user. To 695 users. 2,000 Bitcoin is $142 million. Per user. We created $44 billion in Bitcoin. From a dropdown menu. Our actual reserves are 50,000 Bitcoin. We distributed 620,000 Bitcoin. 12 times our reserves. The math didn't work. The system didn't care. The system processed the request. Very efficiently. The users noticed. Immediately. They saw $142 million in their accounts. Some of them tried to sell. Quickly. Very quickly. 500 Bitcoin hit our order books. In minutes. The price crashed 17%. On our platform only. Bitcoin dropped to $55,000 on Bithumb. Bitcoin stayed at $66,000 everywhere else. That's called a "reverse Kimchi premium." Usually Korea pays more for Bitcoin. Today Korea paid less. Because we broke the market. With a dropdown menu. We froze the accounts. Within 35 minutes. Very fast response. To our own mistake. We recovered 99.7%. That's almost everything. The other 0.3% was withdrawn. About $2.2 million. Gone. Before we noticed. What we did. To ourselves. Someone asked if we were hacked. We were not hacked. Our security is excellent. Our dropdown menus are less excellent. Someone asked how this happened. I said: "Human error." The human is employed. Still. We're reviewing our processes. The process was: select currency, enter amount, click send. The employee selected the wrong currency. Entered the right amount. Clicked send. The process worked perfectly. The human didn't. Our CEO released a statement. "All assets are secure." The assets were never insecure. We just created 12 times more of them. Temporarily. For 35 minutes. $44 billion in 35 minutes. Created and recovered. Very efficient. The global market didn't notice. Bitcoin stayed stable. Only our users noticed. 695 of them. Woke up millionaires. For 35 minutes. Then woke up with frozen accounts. And a support ticket. We're working with police. On the $2.2 million. That was withdrawn. By users. Who moved faster than us. They saw $142 million. They didn't ask questions. They clicked "withdraw." I would have too. That's not our official position. Our official position is: "We are cooperating with authorities." Authorities want to know who got away. With our mistake. Someone asked if affected users will be compensated. We're reviewing the situation. "Reviewing" means deciding. "Situation" means we gave away $44 billion. And want it back. Most of it came back. Automatically. Because it was phantom Bitcoin. Not real Bitcoin. Just numbers on a screen. That people tried to sell. For real money. Some succeeded. $2.2 million worth. That's 0.005% of the accident. Very contained. Our stock dropped. Briefly. Then recovered. Like the Bitcoin. The market forgives. Dropdown menus. Someone asked what we learned. I said: "We're implementing additional verification steps." Additional means more than one. We had one. Now we'll have two. Maybe three. Before sending $44 billion. Someone asked if this could happen again. I said: "We take operational security extremely seriously." Extremely is an adverb. Adverbs describe how we do things. Not whether we do them. The lucky box promotion continues. With enhanced controls. The prizes are still small. 2,000 Won. $1.40. We double-checked the dropdown. Three times. Anyway, we remain committed to providing a secure trading experience! The statement said so.

The AIU has banned Benard Kibet Koech (Kenya) for 4 years from 10 June 2025 for Use of a Prohibited Substance/Method (ABP case). DQ results from 26 June 2024 to 10 June 2025 Details here: bit.ly/Kibet-Koech-De…