Rod Blake

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

#ai

[Isabella AI @IsabellaA60913]

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[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

True education is discovery.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

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[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

Choose your craft,
become irreplaceable.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

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[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

#power

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Australia says data centres need to bring their own green energy - why isn't the UK insisting on the same?

Have a listen to South Australian Premier Peter Malinauskas,

"As data centres come on line and bring their own demand for energy, they bring their own supply of power"

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

#Canadá

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

#ai

[Yurii Yeltsov @yura_elkin]

Trump vs Mark Carney. Welcome to Canada 🇨🇦
Prompt in the commetns ⬇️

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

Lake Ontario

[Mark Carney @MarkJCarney]

The name Lake Ontario comes from the Wendat word Ontari’io, which, appropriately, means “the lake is beautiful, the lake is big”.

The name is more than 400 years old, predating both the Confederation of Canada and the Declaration of Independence of the United States of America.

We know that America is changing. Their trading relationships, their foreign policies, their national monuments, their hydronyms.

Canadians also know that naming reality means calling it Lake Ontario – then, now and always.

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

#concerned #usa

[Mark Mason @MarkRainycity]

Be concerned, very concerned.

How the Iran War Is Draining the U.S. of Critical Weapons https://t.co/h7xn1o3ikt via @YouTube

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

#GazaGenocide‌

[Solo Monk @JJKALE2]

A staggering +80% of Australians stands in open defiance of Israel’s actions—yet our entire political and media elite remains locked in a united, deafening chorus of support.

They do not speak for us. They do not represent us. We are living under the rule of an occupied country.

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

#jesus

[Marxist Mark & The Socialist Bunch @MarxistBunch]

Jesus was a Palestinian Jew. If he were alive today Israel would kill and then claim he was Hamas. Fact.

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

True story

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

The Bulwark

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

#sugar

[Living Tricks @LivingTricks_]

Sugar content in different fruits.

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

Beef & Butter

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

You cannot read a food label without a system, so take mine. Eleven things to find. Find any of them and the packet goes back on the shelf.

Step one: seed oil. Sunflower, rapeseed, soybean, corn, cottonseed, grapeseed, safflower, rice bran. Named outright, and that is the whole decision made.

Step two: the aliases, because they know you are looking now. Vegetable oil. Vegetable fat. Shortening. High oleic anything. Same oil, back it goes.

Step three: the derivatives, and this is where it gets sporting. Mono and diglycerides of fatty acids. E471. Soy lecithin. That emulsifier was fat before it was an E number, and nobody is telling you whose.

Step four: sugar, under all its names. Sucrose, glucose syrup, dextrose, invert sugar, fruit juice concentrate, agave, honey, maltodextrin. Maltodextrin is sugar in a hard hat.

Step five: count how many of those appear separately. Split across four names, none of them has to be first on the list. Add them up yourself and see where the product really starts.

Step six: modified maize starch. Ask anyone in that shop what modified means. Go on.

Step seven: preservatives. BHA, BHT, TBHQ. If they are there, so is step one, because that fat will not survive the lorry unaided. A preservative is a confession.

Step eight: the gums. Xanthan, guar, carrageenan. Borrowed structure, because nothing in the packet has any of its own.

Step nine: natural flavouring, a phrase that legally means almost nothing and is carrying this entire product on its back.

Step ten: colours, because whatever this was, it was never that colour.

Step eleven: turn it over and read the front. Heart healthy, plant based, high in fibre. Claims on the front are there to cover what is on the back.

Now put it down. Walk to the wall of the shop and find the two labels that say beef and butter.

One step. Took a second. Off you go.

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

The Market's
$40, 000,000,000,000 Question:

Can Treasury Keep Yields Under Control?

#USD #bonds #USFederalReserve
#insiders

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

@SamaHoole Solar sheep

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

#USFederalReserve

[Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto]

🚨 The Bond Market Just Broke: Japan Dumps $26 Billion in Treasuries While America Is Buying Back Its Own Bonds

Today, the US Treasury admitted the long end of the bond market is broken. Nobody wanted the 10-year, 20-year, or 30-year debt. The 30-year yield just slammed into its highest level since 2007 (peaking near 5.33%).

So what did they do?

They announced they’re AT LEAST DOUBLING their liquidity buybacks of those exact long-term bonds, from a $2 billion max per operation to $4 billion+ starting September 9.

They’re literally borrowing short-term money to buy back their own long-term debt. Classic desperation move. Bond prices spiked, yields crashed 9-10 bps, and futures ripped higher the second the news dropped.

Meanwhile Japan, still the #1 foreign holder of US Treasuries is dumping them to fund currency interventions.

The BoJ and finance minister threatened of bold actions to save the yen. BoJ’s Yuto apologized for the measures being prepared.

June data just showed Japan cut holdings by another $26.4 billion (down to $1.117 trillion).

That follows the massive joint US-Japan yen-buying intervention in late July that burned tens of billions of dollars trying to stop the yen from hitting 40-year lows near 164. The yen has already given back more than half those gains and is back above 159.

When the biggest foreign buyer is selling Treasuries to defend its own currency… and the US government is forced to step in and buy its own unwanted long bonds… this isn’t “market support.” This is the system flashing red.

The famous City Of London banker @LordBelgrave had already warned about the planned debt, oil + currency financial crisis at the start of the year. It is now being executed.

Yields are the gravity of everything, your mortgage, stocks, crypto, gold. The can just got kicked harder and farther. Don’t look away.

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

Habits

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The strongest version of you is buried under the habits you're afraid to break.”

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

The Giving Pledge

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught.

After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New York investment firm D. E. Shaw. There she met a colleague named Jeff Bezos, who had an ambitious idea: selling books on the internet.

She didn’t laugh at the idea.

They married in 1993, and the following year drove across the country to the Seattle area to build what would become Amazon.

In the beginning, there was no global empire.

There was a garage.

MacKenzie handled accounting, wrote business materials, answered customer emails and phone calls, and packed orders alongside Jeff. Like many startups, everyone did whatever needed to be done.

As Amazon grew, MacKenzie stepped away from day-to-day operations to raise their four children while continuing to pursue her own passion for writing.

Her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, won the American Book Award. She later published a second novel and quietly built a respected literary career.

Meanwhile, the story of Amazon became one of the most famous business stories ever told.

Jeff Bezos became one of the world’s most recognizable entrepreneurs.

MacKenzie’s role was rarely part of the public narrative.

She never seemed interested in changing that.

What many people don’t know is that she also knew financial hardship.

Her family filed for bankruptcy while she was still a student, and she has spoken about the kindness of people who helped her through difficult times—acts of generosity she never forgot.

In 2019, after her divorce, MacKenzie Scott received approximately 4% of Amazon’s shares.

Almost immediately, she made a decision that surprised the world.

She signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate the majority of her wealth during her lifetime.

Then she did something even more unusual.

Instead of building a massive public foundation or attaching her name to buildings, she began giving away billions of dollars through large, unrestricted grants.

Universities.

Food banks.

Housing organizations.

Rural communities.

Women’s health initiatives.

Tribal colleges.

Climate organizations.

Small nonprofits that had never imagined receiving gifts of that size.

Many recipients reportedly thought the phone calls were scams.

They weren’t.

Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has donated tens of billions of dollars to thousands of organizations, making her one of the most significant philanthropists of the modern era.

Despite giving away enormous sums, her fortune has remained substantial because of Amazon’s continued growth.

The woman who once packed Amazon’s first orders is now helping fund opportunities for millions of people she will probably never meet.

She never asked for buildings in her name.

She never demanded headlines.

Sometimes the greatest legacy isn’t the company you help build.

It’s what you choose to do with the success that follows.

[Rod Blake @rbblake1]

Interesting

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

The most metabolically ill country on Earth has a control group living right inside it, and the results are deeply inconvenient.

The Amish eat butter, lard, eggs, meat, and raw milk straight from their own cows, by the bucket. They cook in animal fat. They eat the saturated fat the rest of us were told to fear for fifty years. Their obesity rate sits around 4%. The country around them is closing on 40%, four in ten adults. Ten times lower, on the diet that was supposed to be killing them.

They are not dropping from heart attacks at the rate the theory demands either. Their overall cancer rates run lower than the surrounding American population, despite skipping most of the screening that is meant to be saving everyone else.

Now, honesty, because it matters. The Amish are not low-carb. There are pies and bread and plenty of sugar on an Amish table. This is no clean carnivore case, and I will not pretend it is.

What it is, is a controlled experiment sitting in plain sight across Pennsylvania and Ohio. Same country. Same supermarkets down the road. The Amish simply opt out of two things: the ultra-processed food and the sitting still. Their men walk upward of 18,000 steps a day. They eat food their grandmothers would recognise, and they move like their lives depend on it, because for most of history they did.

The animal fat was never what made America sick. The seed oil, the sugar, the packet, and the sofa did that, and the Amish skipped all four. They ran the experiment by accident, by living in the same country as everyone else and politely declining to join in.