Alex Wright

[Georgia Coley @artwithinpod]

Bo Burnham INSIDE astutely identified and predicted basically everything about our currently ascendant oligarch technocracy—which is what the whole movie is really about—but people largely ignored that and interpreted it as being about how quarantine was lonely or something lol

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The older I get, i realized that a lot of adults are healing their inner child and that's one of the reasons why i don't make fun of people who have "childish" hobbies. Some people didn't get to have a childhood until they became adults.

[𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐝 @Be_like_legend]

Someone on TikTok said ADHD brains love to argue.

And a commentator said “the number of times I 120% believed I was engaged with a fun and friendly debate with someone, as a positive, relationship building experience, only to find out they believed it was a catastrophic argument.”

And well, same 😔

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Not everyone's trauma gives them thick skin. Some people's trauma actually made them more sensitive and insecure, they cry more easily, get overwhelmed at small things. The narrative that trauma makes you stronger is a lie. There is, power in acknowledging it and growing from it.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Note that during the dotcom bubble, there wasn’t a historic oil shock, a once in a millennium Super El Niño on the way, $5 trillion of money-torching IPOs in the pipeline, or a demented lunatic in the White House.

Other than that, yeah, this is really bad.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

reminder of what happened to the NASDAQ during an infrastructure-fuelled tech boom when the Knicks played the Spurs in the NBA Finals in 1999

[constans @constans]

If more companies start doing this, it could pretty much destroy destroy index funds and passive investing

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The world's richest centi-billionaire oligarch used his power to change the rules, so he could dump his garbage company (which is cartoonishly overvalued, unprofitable, and incinerating cash) on retail investors, using trillions of dollars in retirement funds as exit liquidity, all in order to become the first trillionaire.

This is the perfect metaphor for the US economy as a whole, which is entirely based on bubbles and scams.

[Hedgeye @Hedgeye]

Rule changes for the SpaceX $SPCX IPO:

Index providers waived the profitability requirement and cut the seasoning window from 90 days to 5.

This forces over $30 trillion in passive 401k and retirement money to buy SpaceX at IPO valuations.

Bloomberg Intelligence estimates S&P 500 funds must absorb 19% of SpaceX's float within 6 months.

Russell 1000 and Nasdaq 100 funds will absorb 24%.

The rules built to protect passive investors:

1. S&P 500 has required 12 months of trading and 4 quarters of GAAP profitability since 2002. Both waived.

2. Nasdaq cut its inclusion window from 90 trading days to 15.

3. FTSE Russell cut its to 5.

All three benchmarks are now structured to buy SpaceX at IPO pricing.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

As someone who has dealt with OCD since childhood (undiagnosed until 20's), I just learned about Optimization OCD.

Which is like "I need to shower.
But if I'm going to shower, I need to work out first.
But if I'm going to work out, I need to eat first.
But if I'm going to eat, I need to clean the kitchen first.
But if I'm going to clean the kitchen I need to start a load of laundry so it's done by the time I shower."

My brain does this FOR EVERYTHING.
I always assumed it was just part of ADHD.

[⋆ ｡ ° ༺˚ 𖦹 gîchœ łīçbåkt 𖦹 ˚༻ ° ｡ ⋆ @ichriecheblut]

i don’t demonize defensive people because why would i take it personally that someone has always had to be their own protector and hasn’t had the care or nurturing to feel safe enough to step out of that armor.

[mae_honk @mae_honk]

making a lot of friends but never getting close to any of them feels like this weird limbo where you simultaneously feel REALLY ALONE yet also have SO MUCH TO LOSE

[shel🧡🤍🩷 @shelbolter]

I just watched a mother gentle parent her toddler who was seconds away from a temper tantrum into a calm and patient discussion and I saw him come around to her line of thinking and slowly understand his own emotions and her logic I feel like a witness to a biblical level miracle

[𝓐 ⭑ @ayojoestar]

Turns out that child who could sit and read a 500-page fantasy novel in a single afternoon without moving, eating, or hearing their parents call their name, but took six hours to finish a simple three-sentence homework assignment, wasn't choosing when to behave. They were just experiencing their very first intense, dopamine-fueled hyperfixation spikes.

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

It just dawned on me what they are actually proposing.

They aren’t going to release the sanctioned Iranian funds, they are going to get the US and GCC to put money into an “international reconstruction investment fund” so they can dole contracts out to Kushner and his cronies.

LOL holy crap this administration is so corrupt it’s actually stunning at times.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

If you turned on the TV in another country and saw the leader's daughter-in-law giving him a softball interview on a major "news" channel, you would rightfully assume that country is a tinpot dictatorship.

[Lee Hepner @LeeHepner]

“Trump purchased $500,000 to $1 million worth of Nvidia stock on Jan. 6, a week before the Commerce Department officially approved the sale of Nvidia chips to China.”

Insider trading, corruption, treason. Where are the calls for impeachment?

[kira-ann @charrlysa]

Learned helplessness is an important concept to understand but so many people ironically assume its a fixed state you can't escape and dismiss people as worthless because of it. Just like you where conditioned into it, you can be conditioned out of it. It takes empathy & work

[K(sad trombone noise enthusiast) @brainnotonyett]

One of the reasons that both Neoliberals and fascists hate people like Mamdani is because he proves they are all liars who have effectively sold out their constituents to billionaire interests.

All of the pain we have been told to endure has been a choice to sate the wealthy

[akil & saltfish @yungdessalines]

everyones really emotionally unregulated and taking it out on each other and it’s really getting to be a problem