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Investor with 99% Luck, 1% Good Luck // Background in Finance // Working in Strategy // Not financial advice

[Financial Times @FT]

UK unveils prototype missiles for Ukraine with no US components https://t.co/PuMK2bBgck

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@AndrisSkride Labas ziņas! 💪

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@evfcfaddict Any updates you have on this one?

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The Question Of Decency https://t.co/RyIZl2u9GH

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@HoweBayWallSt @EuroSunMining But it keeps dipping.

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@blondesnmoney So what do I buy? I will let you know in advance when I execute the order, so you know when the top is in

[POLITICOEurope @POLITICOEurope]

The Netherlands is pushing ahead with plans to set up Europe’s first “return hubs” outside the bloc where migrants who have been denied the right to stay in the EU can be deported — with “concrete steps” expected in the months ahead.

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Continue building my $MSI.L position.

[Ihtesham Ali @ihtesham2005]

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper.

Her name is Audrey van der Meer.

She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth.

The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time.

Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen.

Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task.

When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once.

The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected.

When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely.

Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG.

Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events.

The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem.

Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next.

Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve.

Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews.

Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad.

Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page.

A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched.

The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall.

The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down.

The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page.

That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it.

Two studies. Two countries. Same answer.

Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast.

Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth.

You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick.

The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew.

Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

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Started a position in $MSI.L

MSI - sole supplier of gun mounts to the US Navy, 17x PE, zero debt, zero analyst coverage. Defence peers trade at 43x. BWXT has the same moat at 57x.

Non-core divisions being sold. Pure-play defence reclassification incoming.

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Damn, people like to spin this as if Latvia is shooting itself in the foot on purpose.
1. Cheap BRELL ws strategic dependence on Russia. Moscow knows how to weaponize that.
2. Transit/financial bridge was largely dirty money.
3. Russia is not a theoretical threat but a real one.

[Jason - macro & investing @MacroJason]

Latvia's political crisis is triggered by one party accusing the other party of not being anti Russian enough :D

Sad stuff. Throughout the 2000s a large part of Latvia's rapid growth was down to being a transit, cultural and financial bridge between Russia / CIS and Europe. It also enjoyed some of the EU's cheapest energy due to Russia (BRELL grid).

In recent years, Latvia has demolished the bridge and cut itself off cheap energy. Even one of it's best allies - Poland, has now postponed 'Rail Baltica' project from 2030 to 2040. https://t.co/ixvmaUgHnF

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Arcadia mayor, accused of being Chinese foreign agent, strikes deal with feds and resigns https://t.co/7rceYzikvE

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Spirit was going to fail with or without you, Senator. But “I saved consumers from fewer flights and higher fares” is a tough victory lap when the airline is liquidating its routes as we speak.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I've warned for months that a @JetBlue-@SpiritAirlines merger would have led to fewer flights and higher fares.

@JusticeATR and @USDOT were right to stand up for consumers and fight against runaway airline consolidation.

This is a Biden win for flyers! https://t.co/lJFGS3ucv3

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UAE oil exit from OPEC signals focus on domestic priorities https://t.co/l33eiG3zhy

[JER @lifeof_jer]

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@case_rsrch On it