“What do you do in your spare time?”
“Worry. Look at my phone. Sleep. Make hot drinks. Telly. Stare into the distance. Consider mowing the lawn. Ponder the meaning of life. Online shopping. Regret. Social media. Wait in for deliveries that never arrive. That’s about it.
THREAD: The story of the week in finance is how a group of retail traders at @wallstreetbets, with assists from @ElonMusk and @Chamath, took down the establishment short sellers at GameStop.
A thread on the underlying mechanics of the $GME saga...
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A statement signed by 150 people incl. Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie expresses concern over the illiberal trend intensified by our national reckoning.
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If someone writes an article you disagree with, here is an option that a lot of you seem to have forgotten: read it, then have some thoughts about it. Then have some thoughts about your thoughts. Critically assess your intuitive reaction. Then see if there's any elements of the
"This disgraceful affair is further evidence of America’s spiralling polarization and of group hatreds being used to justify sanctimonious mobbing and violence. Activists and Twitter blowhards have run roughshod over the facts" https://t.co/W8xuFGFiow