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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 9h

It's the leverage they're employing, from margin debt to leveraged ETFs to zero-day options that worry me. Seeking lottery-like gains, and I expect they'll experience lottery like returns: a few winners, but many losing all.

A chart of the percent of SPX option volume that is zero days to expiry, 2018-2025

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 2d

#26 box office of 1982 (higher than Blade Runner, The Road Warrior, or The Dark Crystal). More importantly, its a franchise Disney already owned the rights to.

It was a fairly significant film for 11 year olds that year. Many of us played the video game tie ins.

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 6d

Eric Topol MD also touched on this recently, and brings citations.
erictopol.substack.com/p/our-preocc...

Our Preoccupation With Protein Intake

The data on high protein diets, bars, supplements, and powders will surprise you

erictopol.substack.com

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 7d

I'm content having never signed up, given TikTok's future under Ellison et al. is all hasbara, all the time.

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 8d

For those who practice technical analysis, the study of price patterns, double tops are a signal of a reversal to a bearish trend.
www.investopedia.com/terms/d/doub...

Double Top Pattern: Key Insights and Trading Strategies

Learn how to identify and trade the Double Top pattern, a bearish reversal signal indicated by two peaks, and discover strategies to optimize your trading success.

www.investopedia.com

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 9d

ADP is a private payroll processing firm.

Their figures are one way to keep the Federal BLS honest.

Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 9d

We blew through that threshold perhaps decades ago.

I mostly hope that with strenuous effort we might hold the line at 3°C. But I've been watching the space 35 years, and optimism is difficult.

Linear extrapolations of BAU scenarios in the current models courtesy @leonsimons.bsky.social

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 10d

Itself inspired by the short "A Case Of Spring Fever" (1940), which was featured on MST3k.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ttY...

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 11d

Lest you think that Vance is just morally flexible:
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...

The Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vance

A disturbing book plans a ruthless total war against the “unhuman” left.

www.currentaffairs.org

Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 11d

I've thought about this with respect to Valter Longo and Prolon.

While he doesn't personally financially benefit, it helps fund his lab's research into fasting mimicking diets.

Is that enough of an arm's length? Individuals can mimick the FMDs macros with their own 5 day vegan hypocaloric diets.

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 11d

My experience is nearly bug free, but I mostly use it for formatted text documents and spreadsheets.
I don't know how its analogue to PowerPoint performs.

Like most, I'm not a power user. I think its a terrific option for many home users.

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 11d

I shifted to LibreOffice five years ago, and have no regrets.
www.libreoffice.org

Home | LibreOffice - Free and private office suite - Based on OpenOffice - Compatible with Microsoft

Free office suite – the evolution of OpenOffice. Compatible with Microsoft .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .ppt, .pptx. Updated regularly, community powered.

www.libreoffice.org

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 14d

The shooter's lawsuits suggest a sad story of Iraq, traumatic brain injury, and falling into QAnon.

"Edge asserted that his parents were “LGBQT White Supremacist Pedophiles” who falsified his birth certificate, kidnapped and drugged him for monetary gain..."

primerogueinc.com/blog/southpo...

Southport Shooter Nigel Edge Litigation & Extremism OSINT Report (2024–2025) - Prime Rogue Inc

Read an OSINT profile of alleged Southport mass shooter Nigel Edge aka Sean DeBevoise who allegedly fired on a busy restaurant in Southport, North Carolina.

primerogueinc.com

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 14d

I'd really like to know what they think these are called in the peer reviewed literature or SEC financial reporting.

My Scholar searches for "medbed" just yield a couple papers from Lebanon and the UAE for ordinary hospital beds with internet connectivity.

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 15d

Pretty obvious the political classes anger at TikTok was because it presented the Gaza genocide, unfiltered through MSM.

It's trinket money to Israel supporter Larry Ellison, and soon he'll lose most, as other avenues for truth-telling will open.

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 18d

JDV is very much far-right fringe.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-hor...

The Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vance

A disturbing book plans a ruthless total war against the “unhuman” left.

www.currentaffairs.org

Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 19d

I hope he got some rest during the Biden administration.

I don't envy his job, of fact checking a whole administration that's indifferent to, even hostile to, our shared reality.

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 20d

We'll assume an implied /s.

The rest of my AI news this week looks like this:
the-decoder.com/if-anyone-bu...

"If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies" researchers warn as they call for global AI shutdown

For Eliezer Yudkowsky, the only meaningful measure of political success in AI governance would be an international treaty that legally requires shutting systems down.

the-decoder.com

Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 20d

I was pretty sure Ashli Babbit would be their Horst Wessel, but didn't figure how deep their misogyny ran.

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 23d

It's been on my refrigerator door for a year, and my profile here for 5 months.

I've contacted artist Hillary Price to offer it on her print shop, but didn't get a reply. Original date 11-13-2016.
rhymeswithorange.com

Rhymes With Orange

Rhymes With Orange is a syndicated daily newspaper comic created by cartoonist Hilary B. Price.

rhymeswithorange.com

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 24d

The models backcasted over observed data, underestimated the effect of aerosols, and under estimated equilibrium climate sensitivity.

Business as usual: 4 or 5+ C this century. Some of your grandchildren won't survive.

www.nature.com/articles/nat...

Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future - Nature

Nature - Strong present-day aerosol cooling implies a hot future

www.nature.com

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 27d

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.”
― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · 27d

The GOP counsel to GOP governor Ron DeSantis defined 'woke' under oath:

"the belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the need to address them."

To 'abandon woke' would be to embrace willful ignorance and ethical nihilism.

www.fox13news.com/news/what-do...

What does 'woke' mean? Gov. DeSantis officials answer during Andrew Warren trial

During the trial between Andrew Warren and Gov. Ron DeSantis, those within the governor's administration answered what "woke" meant to them. According to DeSantis' general counsel, it's the "belief th...

www.fox13news.com

Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · Sep 12

“40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown ... And now it's the tallest” energy.

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Sanpaku @sanpaku.bsky.social · Sep 11

400 ft/120 m. Anyone who had hunted with a scoped rifle.

Proficiency tests in my Army days required hitting torso sized targets with a iron sighted M16 out to 300 m.
Squad designated marksman cover the 300-600 m range. Trained snipers are for 600 m-1200 m, any longer get in the records.

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