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@vsync
Helping where I can. Experienced in engineering management; focus on critical systems like medical/finance. Cross-disciplinary emphasis. I dabble in markets.
Wilmington, NC Katılım Mayıs 2008
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🚨🚨 Did Citadel just rug pull Leopold?
July 28: Citadel "predicted" a surprise Fed rate hike, which historically tanks the market
July 29: Market sells off. Situational Awareness gets margin called. Fed left rates unchanged
July 30: Citadel acquires Leopold's entire portfolio
Same day, Leopold's holdings rally 15% to 29%
• $NBIS: +29%
• $BE: +25%
• $SNDK: +22%
• $IREN: +24%
• $CRWV: +24%
• $SKHY: +15%
Absolutely wild sequence of events
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I love that BTS is not only telling the Grammys to fuck off, they are telling the world why.
The context here is that the Grammys suddenly added a Best Asian Pop Music Performance category totes coincidentally the same year that BTS released their first post military service album. It is a blatant attempt to shunt BTS into a separate category so as not to have to deal with if BTS should compete in the major categories. It is obvious and BTS is refusing to play along.
Good for them.
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Imagine what they could do if we reformed occupational licensing send tweet
But really, these professions are significantly overregulated in ways that don't protect safety
As I wrote in @thedispatch last year
Scott Lincicome@scottlincicome
"A.I. Companies Are Recruiting Electricians and Carpenters by the Thousands" 😯 nytimes.com/2026/07/29/bus… "The megaprojects are pulling skilled trade workers into remote locations with some of the highest pay and bonuses than the industry had ever seen."
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The NYC grocery store thing is just crazy, it really is a brush with communism. If you sell 30% below market rates by subsidizing with tax revenues - you will make it impossible for existing stores to compete. Grocery stores operate at razor thin margins. The logic is to drive them out - it’s like a predatory pricing scheme to gain a monopoly. The end goal has to be to put the mayor of NYC in charge of the food supply. That cannot end well.
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@Devon_Eriksen_ there are people who are homeless for more than a day, or in danger of becoming such, who are not feral
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If you give problems the wrong names, you can't understand them.
If you can't understand problems, you can't fix them.
There are almost no homeless people in America. There are only feral humans.
A homeless person is someone whose distinguishing feature is not having a home. I was homeless once, for a day, when the lease on one apartment expired before the next one was cleaned, repaired, and ready.
I parked a moving van full of my worldly possessions at my university, and slept on a couch in the student commons.
That's "homeless".
"Feral" is when a human cannot live within society, or comply with the basic expectations required for membership.
Yes, they do not have homes.
But this is not their distinguishing feature. Because they also don't have jobs, sanity, sobriety, manners, morals, or hygiene.
Which is why they do not have homes.
If you give them a house, because you think they are "homeless" rather than "feral", then they will simply repeat, within that structure, the same feral behavior.
And soon that structure will be uninhabitable.
Which, for certain people, is the whole point.
A man whose job is to sell 3d printed houses isn't trying to fix the feral-human problem. He's trying to sell 3d printed houses.
And it's one hell of a lot easier to sell them to bureaucrats who aren't spending their own personal money.
It doesn't matter if 3d printed houses suck to live in. It doesn't matter if the feral humans trash them. Nobody in this equation cares about the feral humans, even the feral humans themselves.
And nobody in this equation cares about the taxpayers. If the feral humans are still feral, then the 3d house grifters can sell more gimmick houses, and the bureaucrats can spend more of someone else's money.
If a violent political upheaval becomes necessary, this will be very unpleasant for everyone involved, but at least afterwards, we will all be able to use the feral humans, bureaucrats, and grifters to fertilize the garden of new homes.
Which will be made out of bricks.
Jason Ballard@JasonDBallard
3D Printed Housing for the homeless in Austin TX. Construction cost: $99k
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@michaelbushe he technically didn't say there aren't those in your situation (or the one I was very nearly in)
but sure implied it
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@Devon_Eriksen_ Huh? I've been homeless. I work my ass off all my life. You use my software regularly. No drugs, raised good kids. Who the fuck are you to say?
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Get ad for woot. Customer since 2020, love. Load app. Notice 22% bday coupon. Find perfect PC for me, never thought'd be possible @woot is so great! Buy, order placed and "processing" Wake up this morning to declined order. Made every effort to preempt. No real explanation.
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I love how the white pages became a major crime in the span of about 30 years. (For those younger than 50, the White Pages were an unremarkable book, delivered to every home, that might as well have been titled DOX POPULI)
Hayden Adams 🦄@haydenzadams
This is the worst mass doxxing I've ever seen Just personally searched several high end apartment buildings that include people I personally know's PRIMARY residence (not pied a terre) Not only were their units listed, but nearly every unit in the entire building was listed They clearly took an incredibly expansive view of "could be" and just doxxed a huge percentage of all expensive apartments in new york city Fuck absolutely everyone involved in this, this is incredibly dangerous
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just realized the now universal image of st. peter manning the gates of heaven is because peter gets the keys to the kingdom of heaven from Jesus. he’s literally locking and unlocking the gate. i assume they could automate this process but now people just expect to see him there.
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@AngelicJudgment makes sense... after all, it seems silly to be fighting to get it down even further when it's already below background
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The FDA has lost 20% of its staff; the CDC lost 25%. The CDC had 11 scientists who tracked food parasites. Now it's down to 3. A nat'l advisory committee that advised the FDA & USDA on how to prevent microbial contamination in food was completely disbanded.cbsnews.com/news/how-trump…
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An Iowa man bet just over $300 on a loophole he found in a sportsbook's own rules. His bet should have paid out $14 MILLION. The company canceled it and sent his money back instead.
– Nicholas Bavas, a bettor from Iowa, found what he believed was a near-guaranteed exploit in how DraftKings priced certain wagers.
– He placed roughly $300 across bets structured to profit no matter the outcome, if DraftKings' own odds and rules were taken at face value.
– Had DraftKings paid out as the bets were technically written, Bavas stood to collect more than $14 MILLION.
– Instead, DraftKings unilaterally voided the bets and simply refunded his original stake, citing its house rules about pricing errors.
– Bavas sued in a 39-page breach of contract complaint, arguing a bet is a contract, and if DraftKings accepts it, it owes what it promised.
– His attorney said DraftKings gave no real explanation beyond telling him the bet wouldn't be honored.
– The case was moved from Iowa state court into federal court in Des Moines.
– As of the most recent public reporting, the case remains in litigation, with no public ruling yet on whether Bavas is entitled to any of the $14 MILLION.
A $300 bet built entirely around the sportsbook's own rules should have paid him more than most people make in a decade. The company just canceled it and mailed his money back.
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@rumblevideo Direct RTMP just completely broke on Chromium desktop browser... completely black page
care what to share what was changed?
deleted site data and issue persists
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@NetNym might be legit though similar to antidisestablishmentarianism
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@aimeeterese A more common one in the wild, especially university milieus, is "decolonialise" when it should be decolonise.
[Both spelt w. a Z in USA]
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@Kafkaesquire sometimes they work out better when inverted
to force the brain to work over it some anyway
had a song concept I was playing with, and what popped out of the LLM had some lines that didn't quite make sense, backwards from the overall thrust of the idea... yet somehow song better
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@The_Dorf_0325 Yeah it’s why I said it’s a good theme for the Iliad and not his character. You can’t always get perfect metaphors.
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Brad Pitt being unwilling to play Achilles but being forced into it by a prior obligation is honestly quite on theme for the Iliad.
Movie Moments Analyst@Real_Moviescene
Brad Pitt publicly hated Troy (2004) and regretted taking the role. Pitt took the role because he needed to fulfill a commitment after withdrawing from another Warner Bros. project. To avoid legal and financial penalties, Brad Pitt agreed to star in Troy instead. He called it "a commercial kind of thing," saying the storytelling lacked mystery because the camera was always focused on him as the hero. Even so, he committed fully to Achilles. Pitt spent nearly 6 months training in sword fighting, boxing, sprinting, and weightlifting, gaining around 10–15 pounds (4.5–7 kg) of lean muscle to resemble ancient Greek statues. While filming, he ironically tore his Achilles tendon during a battle scene, delaying production. Looking back, Pitt admitted, "I chunked that scene... I blew that scene. It could be better. I would love another shot at it." Ironically, many fans and critiques believe that the flatness actually works for Achilles in the film — a character who doesn’t care about anything except winning battles.
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