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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 5h

I think Bill Maher is right: Trump derragement syndrome is people supporting Trump, not the ones calling out insanity.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

Hrm... the good news is that the site has finally been giving a second day's effort...

The bad news is the navigation is broken on mobile and I have no idea how to fix it. I'm officially deprecated as a straight up HTML/CSS dev lol

#WIP but good enough: krisdriver.com/nactranslate

NAC Translate – Secure Offline Voice-to-Text

Confidential, offline translation for professionals. Raspberry Pi 5 with preinstalled open-source app.

krisdriver.com

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

Look a dem chubby budgies lol

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

Doesn't everyone love their picture taken while they're stuffing their face like their life depends on it?

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

Man they grow up so fast. They'll be flying south soon.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

It seems like the world is going to look forward to exploiting the indebted culture of USA; once industry/supply chains established as USD steadily loses value during Trump's term.

By the end of this administration the US debt will swallow a huge chunk of the budget in bond coupon payments alone.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

The biggest thing to watch is the capital flows from sovreigns, JPY and EUR especially as trade leaves the unstable USA markets. They'll pick up a bunch of emerging markets to pick up the slack so USA won't lose much other than quality/dollar value, but commonwealth with whip up in a few years.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

Since the retracement could happen from credit crunch on the non-FAANG or it could be surge in productive companies with a huge loss in valuation on the overbouht bubble stocks, the outcome is still 25% correction then rebound from government and FED intervention so ETFs cover all the bases imho.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

I'm also predicting like a 25% retracement within 6 months, but given the index is weighted so heavily on 8 companies that doesn't say anything re: economy as a whole - tech could stay static with most companies falling 50% to achieve that, or all boost 30% with tech dropping 30%; it says nothing.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

I think I'm ready to call my market prediction for 2026 crazy early this year - TSX ETFs

But since I still have time I don't want to lock it in, but I've got such boring forecasts despite the volatility I really don't see that changing. So it's like a pre-prediction prediction lol

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

~"When the metric becomes the target it ceases to become a good metric" [or whatever exact quote is...]

I can't help but think p/e's in US markets are exactly at that point right now, with bond auctions, energy and wages all conspiring against the actual recipients/consumers at the end of the line.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

I think I'm ready to call my market prediction for 2026 crazy early this year - TSX ETFs

But since I still have time I don't want to lock it in, but I've got such boring forecasts despite the volatility I really don't see that changing. So it's like a pre-prediction prediction lol

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

~"When the metric becomes the target it ceases to become a good metric" [or whatever exact quote is...]

I can't help but think p/e's in US markets are exactly at that point right now, with bond auctions, energy and wages all conspiring against the actual recipients/consumers at the end of the line.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

~"When the metric becomes the target it ceases to become a good metric" [or whatever exact quote is...]

I can't help but think p/e's in US markets are exactly at that point right now, with bond auctions, energy and wages all conspiring against the actual recipients/consumers at the end of the line.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 1d

Why have I still never heard Grieves come up in conversation?

I'd be willing to bet most or all of our travails relate to not listening to music that engages introspection or subtextual communication (Jacque Lacun style).

Maybe that was always the value of writing shitty poetry as a personal gift.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Or root... You know, what evs lol

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

If a robotic truck loads itself, is that masturbation?

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Why the fuck is everything in politics so god damn stupid?!?!

For real! Wtf is wrong with you people???

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totenkopf

Just listen to him, look for evidence of hatred, he's a idiot not a fucking bigot. Most of the world are harmless idiots ffs!

youtu.be/uMnc4ddc7j4?...

Totenkopf - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

That and Buddhist symbols, and Indian symbols, and moustaches, and haircuts, and stepping, and hand signals... , so how much power are we giving a dead political party from 80 years ago?

How are Nazis controlling all this symbolism? How are we all accepting this as normal?

RE: Graham Platner

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Skull and crossbones is totenkopf too.

The poison symbol on cleaning supplies and detergent are all Nazis and everyone who buys detergent supposedly knows that? I had to look it up just now and literally skull, with or without mandibule, sometimes with femur bones - that means "Nazi"?!

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

I can't stress enough how absolutely stupid it is. It's so dumb. It's so so so incredibly idiotic.

I may keep retweeting this infinitely, you have been warned. It's making round wheels illegal to use on the roads.

It's like charging food banks interest paid in comestible form to the government.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI gpt briwser #hotTake

This is dumb.

Without paying people to maintain websites via traffic and ads for GPT to train on, GPT will be trained on sites by well funded interests who have impetus to corrupt it...

This is literally the dumbest thing called "intelligent" that has ever been made.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

OpenAI gpt briwser #hotTake

This is dumb.

Without paying people to maintain websites via traffic and ads for GPT to train on, GPT will be trained on sites by well funded interests who have impetus to corrupt it...

This is literally the dumbest thing called "intelligent" that has ever been made.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Why are Republicans willing to murder over one shipment of drugs, but willing to pardon repeated fraud?

Nobody gets recreationally robbed, unlike drug users. Nobody gets recreationally sex trafficked, unlike Ghislaine Maxwell but she gets well-wishes and Santos gets commuted and binance pardoned?

a man sits at a desk surrounded by books and says " what does that mean "

Alt: Black Books' Bernard (Dylan Moran) trying to do his company taxes, saying "what?! What does that mean?!"

media.tenor.com

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Ever notice how the Trump administration is staffed with Tiny Toons villain archetypes?

Carl Jung must be jizzing in his grave lol

a cartoon drawing of a large building with stacks of money in front

Alt: Max from tiny toons

media.tenor.com

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

I think Oracle dove in too late on AI and they're gonna be majorly punished for it as the absence of utility of putting compute clusters in toasters gradually reveals itself to be absurd...

I'll gladly watch Larry Ellison cry on the sidewalk, though. Looking forward to stuff is fun these days.

Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

#Prediction - analysis paralysis will be in the DSM one day.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

Fully agree, sorry I was getting carried away again lol definitely my bad.

That would be a great alternative, I use deep seek all the time for that kinda stuff, I think you're right.

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Kristopher Driver @paxdriver.bsky.social · 2d

That would be a really fun project regardless of my philosophical views, to be fair.

I was thinking you were defending the premise of ground news itself, I think I was talking past you sorry for that. Blinded by outrage lol

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