The sound of something being born.

ahhhhhh-she-ca! ah-ah-she-ca!!!!
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[The sound of something being born. @markb]

I love you. Forever. I miss you so much every single day. We only have to find each other one more time. Next time we’ll be ready. I love you. Thank you for everything you’re doing from there. It’s working it’s helping. I’m protecting myself like you said. I love you.

[The sound of something being born. @markb]

Lmao I hate Marathon so much.

[Dale Chu @Dale_Chu]

“The students who cannot read a 20-page article today are the voters who will not be able to read a bill, or the jurors who cannot follow a closing argument, tomorrow.”

[Dr. Rob Davidson MD, MPH @DrRobDavidson]

Definitely not a problem when your patient likes the cognitive exam so much that he wants to keep taking it. Nothing to see here.

[The sound of something being born. @markb]

@okdaniel classic

[The sound of something being born. @markb]

chudmaster general

[Homeland Security @DHSgov]

“These rioters are organized. These rioters are sponsored by somebody. We see Antifa flags out there. They’re not just exercising the First Amendment.” @SecMullinDHS on the violent New Jersey rioters.

[Ben Dziobek @BenDziobek]

ANTIFA FLAGS??? You got to be fucking kidding me.

@GovSherrillNJ you started this mess by lying and giving the federal government pretext to go after people using their First Amendment rights.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The massive protests at Delaney Hall didn't come out of nowhere — people showed up in solidarity with those detained inside, who are on an ongoing labor and hunger strike to protest inhumane living conditions and demand their release.

The New Jersey private detention facility is run by for-profit company GEO Group, which relies on our tax dollars going to fill their cells, then keeps the profits they make for themselves.

GEO Group made $254 million in profits last year, a 700% increase from the year before. Delaney Hall alone is expected to generate $60 million in revenue each year.

[Ben Dziobek @BenDziobek]

FREE THE DETAINEES FREE THE ARRESTED PROTESTERS

[The sound of something being born. @markb]

Aiat.

[Morla Gorrondona @actor_morla]

My Guardians… my acolytes… my friends.

Aiat.

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[Morla Gorrondona @actor_morla]

My Guardians… my acolytes… my friends.

Aiat.

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[Torah Jews @TorahJews]

Why is this breaking news?

We would love to believe that a parade celebrating a foreign country is not a prerequisite measure of support for a Mayor of NYC.

If support for Israel has become the litmus test for standing with Jewish New Yorkers, then perhaps we have lost sight of who our elected officials are actually supposed to represent.

[Sunrise Movement 🌅 @sunrisemvmt]

You marched side by side with Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich while Palestinians face mass death and displacement.

History will remember that choice—and so will voters. Vote for @bradlander on June 23rd.

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

grotesque

[Thierry from arvy 🇨🇭 @ThierryBorgeat]

Imagine you spent 40 years doing the boring, responsible thing.

You opened a 401k at 23. You contributed every paycheck. You ignored the noise. You bought the index because Bogle told you to, because Buffett told you to, because every honest piece of financial advice for 30 years told you the index was the safest, most diversified, most rules-based way to own America.

The whole point was the rules.

The rules said: a company must trade for 12 months before joining the S&P 500. The rules said: it must show four consecutive quarters of GAAP profitability. The rules existed because in 1999 the index quietly bought a lot of stocks at the top, and pensioners paid the bill.

After the dot-com crash, S&P tightened the rules. Nasdaq tightened the rules. FTSE Russell tightened the rules.

For 23 years, those rules held.

Then SpaceX filed for IPO.

And the rules changed.

The S&P 500 waived the profitability requirement. Nasdaq cut its trading-history window from 90 days to 15. FTSE Russell cut its to 5.

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates the major index funds will absorb between 19% and 24% of SpaceX's float within six months. That's over $30 trillion of passive 401k and retirement money, mechanically buying a single newly public company at IPO valuations, because the rules said they had to.

Except the rules used to say they didn't.

Here's the thought exercise:

If you spend 40 years building a system designed to protect ordinary savers from buying overpriced stocks, and then you waive the protections the moment a sufficiently large stock asks you to, what was the system actually protecting?

Most of investing is about understanding what's a rule and what's a guideline.

A rule binds the rule-maker.

A guideline binds the saver.

You're allowed to find out which is which only after the fact.

[slush @slush]

Learned about this "workaround" earlier today from this tweet, just to experience the exact same situation right now. And it wasn't even a frontier model - just Deepseek V4 Flash running locally 😅

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

Israel is an apartheid state founded on ethnic cleansing/genocide that is currently committing genocide as we speak

[The sound of something being born. @markb]

dont play with me plz i stg

[dmg04 @A_dmg04]

Do not go gentle into that good night

[The sound of something being born. @markb]

@voiceUSA702 @NYCMayor @nycgov @NYCTSubway Bot

[EarthtoGazelle @EarthToGazelle]

Spanking children is a sure way to teach them that sexual abuse is okay. There is nothing normal about pulling down the pants of child and hitting them in the behind while they scream no and try to get away. You’re teaching them that no matter how loud they scream and how much they cry and try to get away that they have to just take it. See how that mimics rape. And even worse, parents will tell their kids “I love you” right after. Teaching children that their abusers can love them still. Then people will deadass have the nerve to be confused as to why adults get into abuse cycles that literally mimic the same abuse that their parents inflicted upon them.