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Dave

@allcaps.bsky.social

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19h

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 16h

Ford blames Jays playoff ticket gouging on asshole premier who scrapped Ticketmaster law in 2019

Ford blames Jays playoff ticket gouging on asshole premier who scrapped Ticketmaster law in 2019

QUEEN’S PARK - After resale tickets to the Blue Jays’ World Series immediately skyrocketed into the thousands of dollars, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference to place the blame solely on...

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 16h

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Time for Sutcliffe to host Rural Summit XXXVI!

Private well users calling for City of Ottawa action amid 'water emergency'

Some residents in rural Ottawa have not had access to drinking water for weeks as they call on the city for emergency support.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 17h

I realized a long time ago that I need to have an outlet for bullshit investing so carved out a small chunk to play with and vent the stupidity. It’s worked out well: boring nest egg is safe and well managed but I can still have some fun on flyers (and overall the bullshit fund has performed well.)

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 19h

Ouch. Yeah, it's way down from its post IPO peak. It picked up some retail/meme momentum this week but popped today. This is why I have real investments and a bullshit account. I'll get a small win, but moral is I should have sold but got greedy.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 19h

I took a small position in a 'fuck around' account for making undisciplined trades and it went parabolic yesterday, but held on too long. I'm still in the green but nowhere near the same multiple as it was overnight/at open.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 19h

Also: I'm just an ape taking a bath on BYND today so maybe don't listen to me about technology and investing lol.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 19h

I don't think people understand how quantum computing will shatter cryptographic functions that secure everything online (plus all blockchain) in the blink of an eye and require complete retooling.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 19h

And while it sounds dire, and will be rough short term, I think something will pop up fairly quickly as AI has been sucking up all the air and money in the room for a while now to the detriment of other innovation.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 19h

The likely scenario (outside of immediate financial chaos) is that investment stops dead for a few years as existing overcapacity gets consumed by remaining demand. This means a long valley of darkness for GPU/datacentre sectors until next thing pops up.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 20h

My gut is short to medium term the market can soak it up but the ass will fall out on pricing when AI pops and leaves a huge glut. Longer term, GPUs get wiped out by commercial quantum at scale, but that's been 10 years away for 30 years and quantum hard breaks a lot of industries (bye bye crypto!)

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 20h

This feels very much like the fiber and networking craze in the late 90's during the dot-com boom. Overbuilt so much capacity. Arguably, having GPU FLOPS on tap might be a little easier to pivot to some other purpose.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 21h

It seems to me that an AI crash is going to lead to a crypto cloudburst as all that GPU power moves on to the next easiest scam. It might also be a good time to be running large scale simulations as a lot of compute power is freed up and prices drop.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 21h

My dearest Agnes, In the early morning mist and smoke of the battlefield I am given strength remembering your voice whispering "408327" like a bolt of sunlight. Although this code will expire in 5 minutes, my love for you is eternal.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 21h

Two factor authentication (2FA) except it's via a handwritten, Civil War letter rather than an impersonal text message.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 21h

The Gen X urge to state your phone number twice when leaving a voicemail like it's being recorded on a cassette in a voicemail machine in a world where call display and call logs don't exist.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 23h

Park Lawn GO station in Humber Bay Shores to save you the clickbait.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

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John Fugelsang @johnfugelsang.bsky.social · 1d

The average age of U.S. homebuyers is now 56, up from 49 last year.

In 1981, the year trickledown economics began, it was 31.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Sutcliffe (as Old Gil): "“Awww, I only had two more payments left on that hot plate.”

The Simpsons' Old Gil Gunderson

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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 1d

Here's the thing I don't understand. You can't as much as sneeze near a historic site in Washington without like 14 commissions, councils, and advisory boards giving you the okay. And everybody now is like...yup, fine with us? wtf?

Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

Photograph of ongoing demolition of the East Wing of the White House.

Monday's photo from the Washington Post

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

Dear Mark Sutcliffe,
Lansdowne is simple: you don’t get to give $419 Million to your campaign donor buddies until you fix the transit system you’ve been starving, the crumbling social supports in the city driving homelessness, or the $10 Billion dollar infrastructure repair backlog.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

*makes L with thumb and index finger and places on forehead*

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Dale Smith @journodale.bsky.social · 2d

Ontario's hospitals have been starved to the point of collapse, but sure, find more savings because Doug Ford refuses to fund the system adequately.
Just appalling.

Ontario hospitals told to find savings; ministry doesn't rule out service cuts

TORONTO - Ontario's Ministry of Health has tasked hospitals struggling with deficits to come up with a three-year plan to balance their budgets, and service cuts and bed closures do

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Sean Devine @seandevine9.bsky.social · 2d

An entire day has gone by and still no release of the Lansdowne 2.0 report. Meanwhile, Mayor Sutcliffe has had time to brief the press, frame the story, and produce a feel-good video. As for those who oppose the project? Well, they're just "spreading misinformation". www.youtube.com/watch?v=4x-T...

Lansdowne: More for less

YouTube video by Mayor Mark Sutcliffe

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