Josh D

Early stage investor. Video Poker at @BeardVsMachine I read voraciously, share occasionally and invest early. Las Vegas is my second home.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Let @HunterBiden cook 🔥….just not crack

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@Loudplace @threesquareLV Way to go!

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Put $5k in a Major Multipliers machine in the last hour and this is the result...

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@laurict What a great wife. Those lines are brutal, but the food is so good.

[TravisL @laurict]

Two Uber drivers, the doorman at Wynn, and a guy from Texas agree with @joshd on Oyster Bar. At 1 AM, Tex and I were at Palace Station’s Ultimate Hold ‘Em table for almost two hours while his wife waited in line and he complained about not being able to open carry in the casino.

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@laurict I honestly would likely just not leave Palace Station. I like their game mix and Oyster Bar is so good I could likely eat half my meals there.

I pretty much do this at Durango now and just drive to other offstrips or downtown for the free plays.

Strip has almost no appeal to me

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@ATXVegasFan @itsvegasmatt I already experience this on cruise ships, but those are easy to fund, closed ecosystems. With land based casinos, the hassle of getting money into the system is the problem. You really have to want to play at one place for this to make sense.

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@VitalVegas @ATXVegasFan In the future the only human jobs will be the ones related to proper pips creation.

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@nikitabier A legit good idea

[Josh D @JoshD]

@ROETrading Same, I only "stay" at Caesars to redeem offers like airfare compensation (I play locally at a Caesars property).

I guess I would stay at Paris over Luxor and Excalibur, but that still puts almost a dozen properties ahead of the best Caesars property.

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@VitalVegas Oh no! Was going to eat there this week.

[Josh D @JoshD]

5000 YouTube subscribers in a year. I am proud of that, but more proud my daily videos now get on average 5k viewers each.

[André @oracles]

Today Instagram had this massive exploit where hackers were just stealing rare handles left and right. Hundreds of accounts gone.

People losing handles they’ve owned since 2010, some worth hundreds of thousands.

I own a few rare ones so I was actually stressed watching this happen in real time, which I haven’t been in years.

Obama White House account got hit.

These aren’t some random new accounts, these are verified, locked down accounts and they still got compromised.

The thing is the exploit is so simple it’s almost funny. Attacker goes to Forgot Password, says their account is hacked, turns on a VPN to match the target’s location (which now you can find on the about section of the page).

Instagram’s AI support flow asks them to verify with a selfie.

They grab a photo from the target’s profile, run it through an AI video generator to make an animation of the person’s face moving around, upload that to Meta’s AI as proof.

And Meta’s AI just accepts it because it can’t tell the difference between a real selfie and an AI-generated video of someone’s face
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Once verified they change the email to theirs. Password reset link goes to their email. They own it now. 2FA gets bypassed somehow in the process but honestly I don’t know exactly how, just that it did.

Point is even locked down accounts went down.

Then you try to recover your account and you’re talking to a chatbot that has zero ability to help.

You can’t escalate to a human. You’re just stuck. Your asset is gone and there’s no one to call.

The whole thing just highlighted how stupid it is to automate account security without any human in the loop.

One AI fooling another AI while there’s literally no person anywhere to catch it.

Meta took hours to even acknowledge it while accounts were getting stolen every minute.

Now thankfully it’s patched but I don’t think it will be the last one. Stay safe!

[Dave Jones @eevblog]

Unpopular opinion:
Smug people who like to say "The lottery is a tax on people who can't do math" are wrong, they don't get it, at all.

People don't buy a lottery ticket because they think it's a good investment, or because they are too stupid to do the math. They buy it for psychological, social, and entertainment reasons.

The lottery ticket is the cost of buying into the social conversation at the lunch time table at your daily work grind as you discuss with your colleagues what you are going to say to your boss when you win it this week.

The lottery ticket is the weekly mental and social sugar hit just like your daily coffee is, or your daily wine, or your daily beer, or your daily durry. Which incidentally aren't great investments either, and could likewise be (unfairly) considered a tax on the weak willed.

The lottery ticket is the price to be able to have some fun and dream a little.
Sure, it's not the only way you can do that, but it is certainly a legit way.

So, food for thought as you go with your work collogue to the coffee shop, or to the courtyard to smoke your durry tomorrow.

BTW, no, I don't play the lottery, but I understand people. And thinking people can't do the math, that ain't it, Chief.

[Josh D @JoshD]

@MJM134EVR @denstarr4 Agree, is so weird they are uniquely bad in craps odds.

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@39parker @LuckyTraveling @ATXVegasFan Same experience here, and I agree. Rooms and staff generally better too.

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@flySFO There has been broken glass from a bottle in walkway at D3 for over 30 minutes. I have reported to two employees but neither had any solution beyond saying I should put up a yellow cone.

[Xander Nabavi-Noori @xandernn]

.@airfrance @KLM my partner was charged €500 fee at CDG this week for "not flying" the first leg of his multi-city ticket. The catch: he demonstrably DID fly it--sitting right next to me, with photos to prove it. Your agents refused to believe him and denied his refund claim.🧵

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@LuckyTraveling @ATXVegasFan Is amazing to me how good the hotel experience at MGM properties is given size. I stay at MGM properties in Vegas eight times a year and consistently love it. I stay at Caesars properties maybe once, and I am never impressed.

[Josh D @JoshD]

Started at the bottom (Hilo), now we are here (Kīlauea). 🤔😀🫡