Cig Zone

“Richer days assured me of the weak-link mending plan / Danger's always there to follow, just do the best you can”

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

The dual mandate of this account

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@Socdem_Michael @VoteHub Everybody votes by mail, but they wait for Election Day to do it for some reason. I don’t get it either, but that’s why.

[Jeff Stein @jstein_star]

Wall Street Journal confirming our reporting today, with some new details that gov shares in OpenAi could go to Trump account-type program by @AmrithRamkumar & co

[DFA New Haven @DFANewHaven]

incredible historic plaque opportunity... #America250

[Tom Kloza @TomKloza]

New JP Morgan analysis this morning has base case of Brent averaging ~$100/bbl until year end with only December slipping to double digits. Base case is SoH reopening this month but each additional month of closure tacks $5/bbl in Q3 and $15/bbl in Q4 to the Brent numbers.

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@junkbondinvest They’re just air mattresses!

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

Good and bad news about any potential conflict with China is that Americans lack the British yearning for sacrifice and its comfort that brought Brexit. We couldn’t abide being cut off from trade, even if we could survive it. Random guys with F-150s would sooner join the CCP.

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@lionel_trolling (The food isn’t actually that bad, but still.)

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@lionel_trolling Yep.

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

Good and bad news about any potential conflict with China is that Americans lack the British yearning for sacrifice and its comfort that brought Brexit. We couldn’t abide being cut off from trade, even if we could survive it. Random guys with F-150s would sooner join the CCP.

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@FloridaManV @Chris_arnade It’s more that it takes like 4 hours to clean on its automatic cycle and also you sometimes have to manually disassemble the whole thing like a fucking Audi.

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@shermanmicah @DougHenwood @TheStalwart Now hold on…

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

Engels, on planning under capitalism, from “A Critique of the Draft Social-Democratic Program of 1891” and “Anti-Dühring”

[Woman Respector @hetero_ally]

@ryxcommar turns out the Shariah compliant S&P500 has meaningfully outperformed the S&P 500.

[Senior PowerPoint Engineer @ryxcommar]

Inshallah the Sharia law compliant S&P500 ETF won't be including SpaceX as it violates the prospectus

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

relevant

[Chris Onstad @achewood]

Uncle Culpepper foretold of AI way back in 2004. Read more at https://t.co/nHk1n4NfyC

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

Understanding LLMs as dog breeds is probably fruitful. Claude, for instance, is very clearly a herding dog.

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@QiaochuYuan @johnsonmxe “companion species”

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@johnmilbank3 Turns out we’re all in this one together.

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@stagefright__ Just like a border collie, extremely eager to please.

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

Cum Town - Thursday Boots ad read from episode 139. “‘Durable enough to take a serious beating and sophisticated enough to clean up for a date.’ So they beat and fuck the kids.” https://t.co/5uTDhmX9aV

[Peli Grietzer @peligrietzer]

FYI @ThursdayBootCo boots fall apart after 4 months of city-waking and they tell you that it's 'not a quality issue'

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

tiny rabbit scampering up my driveway: awww 🥰 🥺💘🫶

enormous shadow of presumably a hawk immediately following: awww 🥰 🥺💘🫶

[Cig Zone @ekstasis]

@TheStalwart @khushkhushkhush @citrini Call it scarcity.