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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 16m

It may seem like small potatoes in the grand scheme of things, but I'd argue that "trunk or treat" represents American society's greatest failure.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 9m

To quote from the World Bank, where I get these prices: "Metals were broadly stable, increasing 0.4%." Burry's already short AI, but it'll be a while before he collects. He's a public figure now, it'll be interesting to see if he can hold up under the pressure of everyone pointing & laughing.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 9m

Updated my stupid simple macro model. CO2 is still trending sharply lower, but once again metals made a new high. I went looking to see the last time this happened. 2007, sure enough. From the time the sell signal finally came until things truly collapsed was more than a year that time.

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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15h

Sir Ian McKellen orates 'The Stranger's Case' from 'Sir Thomas More' by Shakespeare about the Evil May Day xenophobic riot of 1517 in London. This passage was written 400 years ago, but times never change. Humanity refuses to change its unwarranted bias against 'others'.

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👻Really Spooky Smith👻 @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · 17h

Admiral Zumwalt was a superhero for a generation of sailors on the strength of policies that amounted to "Just be less shitty to everyone below E-7, you fuckfaces." The bar is low and "leaders" keep running into it dick first.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 17h

Bonds got a bad beating after I posted this. NVDA faded, but still closed higher. Kind of sure they'll breakout when they report earnings next month, but that's a lifetime away. Crude is still looking weak. That weakness may have an expiration date though: Nov 4. As always, the mad king is a risk.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 17h

But you can never use it for any transaction that takes any amount of time to settle, because you can't hedge the currency risk. Cryptonomicon proposed gold as a base for a digital currency, and that would have worked. BTC took the limited supply part of gold but forgot the rest of how gold worked.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 17h

So it can't ever really be used as a regular, normal part of international transactions. It can't be used because no one can hedge out the currency risk, and if you can't do that it's impractical to use. So that leaves speculation, and the occasional cross-border use for instant transfer of money.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 17h

The central banks who lend it out base their rate on their own currency's money market rate, or some similar rate. Any commodity does this: copper miners sell their copper forward and receive back money in some currency minus the rate they are charged. BTC is neither a currency nor a commodity.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 17h

It doesn't have that because it doesn't have a money market to base that forward market on. There's no vehicle that will pay you interest in BTC terms who's rate you can then use to underpin a forward market. Gold has this: central banks regularly lend it out, and miners use it to sell gold forward.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 17h

I listened to that, and here's the fundamental problem: it's not a currency, and it's not a commodity. Any major currency used in international transactions will have a forward market. That grows naturally out of its use as an international medium of exchange. BTC doesn't have that.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 19h

What is the value prop of BTC or ETH, other than as a money laundering scheme? Given all the hacks, I can't fathom a reason why anyone trusts these things. Gold in your backyard is more useful & safe. I mean, the dog's not gonna dig it up cuz he can't eat it.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 20h

I didn't realize what the speed of sound meant in military terms until one Fourth of July at the beach the Navy planes came in low and we heard the engines but when we heard them they were already out over the ocean, well away. Literally didn't hear them coming.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 21h

I used to regularly say of the GOP, there is no bottom, no low they won't sink to. I mean it's obvious now, but I have to say this still surprised me.

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 21h

If you want a picture of the future, imagine getting terminated by AI HR for your own AI sending a misformated prompt to your AI coworker, and then getting canceled by AI bots on the internet, which then gets printed in the news by AI reporters, and all of it involving no humans except you

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 23h

I always thought of the British Empire as related to the US one as Athens was to Rome. Sort of.

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illumi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

lol one of our website designers used our organization's entire monthly claude credits yesterday and now half the company doesn't know how to do their jobs. it's october 2nd.

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brockmeyer.bsky.social @brockmeyer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

"what if the omnipotent superintelligence is actually like, really neurotic, and decides it wants to punish everyone who dragged into the hell of existence?"

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

They took RIVN round back & beat it with a hammer after it reported better than expected deliveries. Yikes.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Looking good as of this morning as far as my attempt at guru-izing the markets. Bonds are having a tough time staging a relief rally though. NVDA needs to close at a new 52 week high today, that'll be a real breakout.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 02/10/2026

I'm sorry, folks out there still tell us not to consider these people dumb marks?

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Athul K. Acharya @athul.acharya.cc · 28/09/2026

You either die cool or live long enough to see yourself become a boomer

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This is pure profiteering of course, but it's also down to anthropomorphizing AI. It's not a person. It doesn't think. It's a machine, it will do what you tell it, & unless your thoughts are always perfect it will go off & do weird things in odd places, and you won't find out until it's too late.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Not surprising that it seems bosses at most companies think AI "automates" software development. It does not. If you try to make it automate it, you will fail, horribly. It's one thing to code something for home use, another thing entirely to try to foist half-baked solutions on a real business.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's the fault of your bosses. I don't have that problem, sorry.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Only if you're not using the extra time it gives you to test. Testing, and a good test plan, is always the differentiator. AI makes no difference there. That's on you, the human.

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Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 02/10/2026

The only thing these three clowns know about the future of warfare is that nobody in their family is going to be fighting it.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Christa Pike surviving and, one hopes, suffering horribly, is a rare case of true poetic justice. The death penalty still has to go though.

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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

these are our pianos, not theirs! I know this stuff can feel secondary with all of the immediate pain this admin causes, but in the face of such personalism, it also feels important to assert the democratic principle that these cultural inheritances don't belong to the president, they belong to us

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

When those models go "rogue", it's a crime. An actual crime, for which the people behind it should be prosecuted and jailed.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

ANYONE who says ANYTHING about these things being conscious, or thinking in any manner, is a stupe whose opinion on AI you can disregard forever. That includes Stancil. I like him for a lot of other reasons, but on this he is completely out of his depth.

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Patrick De Haan @gasbuddyguy.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

it continues to absolutely boggle my mind how few people realize that refineries in the US Rockies, Plains, Midwest/Great Lakes rely so heavily on millions of barrels of Canadian crude oil *every day* and have since the 1950s

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Some indexes I rely on stopped updating on ThinkOrSwim. I messaged them, they're looking at it. This has been going on for a couple of days. I think I may be the only one who noticed. Which is certainly an interesting thing. Gives me a nice feeling, I know I'm looking at stuff most don't know exist.

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Uncle Joe @sydseter.com · 01/10/2026

The real danger of AI is the indirect impact it has on policymakers and politics when used and trusted the same way you would use and trust advisors. When people i power anthropomorphize the technology in this way the world will tilt sideways. #ai #agentic #llm

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You're bringing back a funny memory. I took an English class in college where we had to analyze a poem once a week, and no matter how long it was I did it in one page, got an A anyway. Prof assigned a real long one, don't remember anymore which it was, and bet me I couldn't in one page. I lost.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Closer to railroad, but not as transformative. Most of the overhyped stuff will die away, but speeding up coding time for software development and making it more reliable, assistance in new drug development, likely a few other places where it can assist, will remain.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

One saving grace: Obamacare only exists because he (correctly) ruled a part of it was a tax. The rest of his legacy is ass though. At best. He was always firmly against the VRA, and I have not been surprised he has enshrined in law his life's work of destroying it.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ah, now we see the reason. He's going to use Kaliningrad as an excuse to bother the Baltics, and if NATO resists, he'll threaten them with his nukes. This is like a 1300 chess player trying to stage an attack on Kasparov. Like Kasparov won't see it.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Russia trying to keep its place among the big boys by constantly flashing their nukes is so sad. They have an economy smaller than NYC or LA, they know the only way they can stay with the big boys is to crap on everyone about their nukes. Pathetic.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I mean, here's you answer. People aren't "voting to end this stuff" as much as we think we are. That's... why I'm beating the drum as loud as I can with this whole "Hi, urban blue voters! Farm workers need you to commit to ending slavery thing." bsky.app/profile/meem...

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Silverman on Security @silvermansecurity.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Newt, to quote Charles Pierce, is “a dumb person’s idea of a smart person.” Lucky is a weirdo, beardo, & a fatty. Musk lost a battle of wits against two pop-tarts and a toaster!

The Time Elon Musk Hurt Himself Trying to Eat Pop-Tarts

Space journalist Eric Berger's 2021 book Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX includes an anecdote from one of Musk's colleagues in the extraterrestrial exploration industry in which Musk encounters worthy adversaries at his hotel's breakfast bar - a packet of Pop-Tarts and a typical toaster.

“Elon comes down, and he walks over to the breakfast bar and he picks up a package of Pop-Tarts," the man recalled. "He was transfixed. This was like a scene out of 2001: A Space Odyssey, when the apes examine the monolith. It was clearly the most fascinating thing he had seen that morning"

When Musk finally realized that Pop-Tarts are best prepared toasted, he took the package to the toaster and inserted the two pastries into the slots - horizontally. After the Pop-Tarts were done cooking, instead of doing literally anything else, Musk dug his fingers in between the grates to get the treats that were out of reach, screaming "Fuck, it burns!
Fuck, it burns!" at the top of his lungs.

🫁 Next time, just get a muffin.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Crude oil looks like it's peaked for the now. It's certainly acting like it. Combined with NVDA looking like it desperately wants to break out, it could be we're looking at a blowoff AI top. Bonds are kind of due for a relief rally too, that would be the direction of fear in that market. We'll see.

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Heard Island Government @heardislandgov.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

We would like to remind countries everywhere; if The Hague won’t or can’t take your despots, our active volcano will. It reacts exceptionally well on body types such as Putin/Trump/Xi/Lukashenko/Kim, etc. Pedos are good sacrificial fuel too.

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Obligatory plug: Check if you're registered to vote here! voterresource.org/saraht If you're not, the link will get you started. You can register to vote in ALL states through Oct 2. And in most states, after that too. (You can find your state's deadlines via the link!)

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Even if you think it does nothing for you? Who's in power makes a huge difference to millions of people who feed you. Mutual aid is great! But it won't, like, change the fact that slavery is getting more & more legal in this country. That's what laws & elections are for. So let's use them.

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Stan Oklobdzija @stano.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I'm a little skeptical of this, but I'm willing to give it a shot. Does anyone know how the US has been doing at waging war since this guy has been in charge?

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

This market's giving off slope of hope vibes at this point.

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labsoftwaredev.bsky.social @labsoftwaredev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Three great minds? ¡Hijo de la gran puta!

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