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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 7h

“I am the house.” - Sept 8 “I can’t control the bond market.” - Oct 3 @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 9h

Just finished my re-read of Fires of Heaven in the Wheel of Time series. And damn! I had forgotten how operatic some of the climaxes of the books were: Go from Lanfear encounter at the docks to the maidens lining up to commit seppuku if Rand doesn't stop treating them like babies, without a pause.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Wouldn't read much into CDS price movements ("$ORCL to zero coz AI bad"). If you want to actually analyze risk of "going to zero", look at a balance sheet. Lot of things other than probability of default affect CDS, eg.: thin markets hedging demand recovery rates sector hedging risk premiums

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Wannabe Apparatchik @apparatchikwannabe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

(leftistly) “these essential goods are underpriced, how is anyone to make a profit providing something everyone needs if we have to sell it for this cheap”

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Warframe Herzog @antitractionist.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

*leftistly* food should be more expensive

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Does universal healthcare solve the problem of medical care being too expensive? (I do not think it does. To be clear, I am neutral to in favor of universal healthcare, but do think the discourse ignores a lot of the underlying roots of the problem.)

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

**takes deep bong hit** Soooo, consciousness and quantum mechanics, eh.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Misrepresenting an opponent's position doesn't cost you the opponent since you never had them in the first place. It costs you those members of the audience that read source documents. That trust, once spent, is gone forever. Not everyone is a Gell-Mann amnesiac.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I think this article and framing is inaccurate. a) Nothing has been approved yet AFAIK. These discussions with the CFTC have been going on for a while. The latest filing is just the formal ask. b) Joe Schmo isn't about to get access to "margin". *IF* CFTC signs off, margin would be restricted to

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This clip is being mischaracterized (because everyone, including me, dislikes these bozos). The stated policy is *NOT* kick off everyone who hasn't filed claims. Rather, it is kick off fraudulent enrollees (eg. people who have, unbeknownst to them, been enrolled by unscrupulous brokers, etc.).

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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Look people, conservatives' arguments are stupid enough without you having to mischaracterize them They are dumb as a box of rocks, just obliterate their actual claims, you don't have to go through the misleading route

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POTUS @sentientpotato.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

People are dunking on this because in the usual case, this would be someone paying into the system without taking a benefit. But that's not what conservatives are saying They are saying insurers have phantom enrollees for zero-cost (to the insured) plans for which they receive a government subsidy

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Andrew Gelman et al. @statmodeling.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

“Phonics is a fad, but it’s also good, so we should do it anyway, even though it will probably disappoint people” statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2026/09/22/p...

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“Phonics is a fad, but it’s also good, so we should do it anyway, even though it will probably disappoint people” | Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Relevant to that NYT article and the whole public school education “discourse”.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The lot of you do also know that all of cohomology* is “just” linear algebra, right? Next up, let me tell you how “all” of the infrastructure on algebraic groups is really ”just” row reduction. Someone page Langlands.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

So this is interesting. Personally, I would like to wipe Kalshi out of existence, but the "margin" here isn't quite the usual securities broker model where a broker advances cash and funds a loan. Namely, today a YES buyer at $0.60 deposits $0.60 and the NO buyer deposits $0.40.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Main thing I am missing about the bird app right now is that I have an urge to mock people who were pitching sunbelt MF REITs in 2023 as virtually guaranteed 20%+ IRRs over 3 years.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Started reading Baxter’s Xeelee sequence* while I wait for the rest of my Wheel of Time books to make it to me. It has been on “the list” since forever. Feel like current reading proclivities are mimicking my teen years. Probably about to have my umpteenth “mid life” crisis.

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Singularity's Bounty e/CC @catblanketflower.yuwakisa.com · 20/09/2026

If thinking doesn't come from the brain region of human space, it's just sparkling pattern matching

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Played Settlers of Catan for the first time. Actually kinda fun.

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Transverse Slice @transverseslice.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

And the cheapest harness is invariably Pi. (Told you so).

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