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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 44m

Three too many.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 7h

In America: King Trump demolishes the East Wing of White House.

Meanwhile in Canada: 24 Sussex continues to moulder and slowly collapse from decay after decades of neglect from performative parsimony.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 7h

Ontario just needs to fund schools and hospitals. The money is there. Now, if a millionaire tax means there’s more money, great, but the problem isn’t financial, it’s Ford is starving healthcare and education as a matter of policy.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 8h

Separately: people in century homes in DC area are losing their shit because: 1) all that salvage (windows, trim, fixtures) was destroyed 2) everybody else has to go through multi-year approval process to make any change to building and Trump just ripped it down.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 8h

I believe the East Wing also covers the secure bunker area. And this entire project feels like a field day for foreign intelligence to get surveillance devices into the White House…remember Nortel’s HQ fiasco? That was built almost 30 years ago, the tech is even tinier and more powerful now.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

you think it's "gay" to be associated with anything left of center ...

*opens manilla envelope*

... and yet, on jan 21, 2025 ...

*slides 8x10 photo across table*

... you wore the tutti frutti

CIAsandman on Twitter writes: "Leftist friend got called “fuckin lib” by a foid at a bar last night. Their cultural grip is slipping. It’s cringe and gay to even be associated with anything left of center."

On January 21, 2025, CIAsandman tweets: "White boy fuel." There's a photo showing him holding a half-eaten piece of bread a bottle of water. On his wrist is a white Swatch watch.

An eBay auction for the Swatch says: 1996 Vintage Swatch Watch TUTTI FRUTTI GW109 Working Swatch Watches Women

A detective looks down at a suspect while a light is shining above the suspect's head.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 8h

This feels like a Mitch Hedberg joke.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 8h

Colonel By? Is that you?

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 8h

We need to go back and stop Greber plan. And prevent Harris forcing amalgamation. Those two things set up the current scenario where the suburbs take all the money and ruin everything.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

a live look at the demolition of the White House's East Wing for Trump's ballroom

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The Beaverton @thebeaverton.com · 1d

Ford blames Jays playoff ticket gouging on asshole premier who scrapped Ticketmaster law in 2019

QUEEN’S PARK - After resale tickets to the Blue Jays’ World Series immediately skyrocketed into the thousands of dollars, Ontario Premier Doug Ford held a press conference to place the blame solely on...

www.thebeaverton.com

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

ottawacitizen.com/news/private...

Time for Sutcliffe to host Rural Summit XXXVI!

Private well users calling for City of Ottawa action amid 'water emergency'

Some residents in rural Ottawa have not had access to drinking water for weeks as they call on the city for emergency support.

ottawacitizen.com

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

I realized a long time ago that I need to have an outlet for bullshit investing so carved out a small chunk to play with and vent the stupidity. It’s worked out well: boring nest egg is safe and well managed but I can still have some fun on flyers (and overall the bullshit fund has performed well.)

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

Ouch. Yeah, it's way down from its post IPO peak. It picked up some retail/meme momentum this week but popped today. This is why I have real investments and a bullshit account. I'll get a small win, but moral is I should have sold but got greedy.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

I took a small position in a 'fuck around' account for making undisciplined trades and it went parabolic yesterday, but held on too long. I'm still in the green but nowhere near the same multiple as it was overnight/at open.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

Also: I'm just an ape taking a bath on BYND today so maybe don't listen to me about technology and investing lol.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

I don't think people understand how quantum computing will shatter cryptographic functions that secure everything online (plus all blockchain) in the blink of an eye and require complete retooling.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

And while it sounds dire, and will be rough short term, I think something will pop up fairly quickly as AI has been sucking up all the air and money in the room for a while now to the detriment of other innovation.

Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

The likely scenario (outside of immediate financial chaos) is that investment stops dead for a few years as existing overcapacity gets consumed by remaining demand. This means a long valley of darkness for GPU/datacentre sectors until next thing pops up.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

My gut is short to medium term the market can soak it up but the ass will fall out on pricing when AI pops and leaves a huge glut. Longer term, GPUs get wiped out by commercial quantum at scale, but that's been 10 years away for 30 years and quantum hard breaks a lot of industries (bye bye crypto!)

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

This feels very much like the fiber and networking craze in the late 90's during the dot-com boom. Overbuilt so much capacity. Arguably, having GPU FLOPS on tap might be a little easier to pivot to some other purpose.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

It seems to me that an AI crash is going to lead to a crypto cloudburst as all that GPU power moves on to the next easiest scam. It might also be a good time to be running large scale simulations as a lot of compute power is freed up and prices drop.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

My dearest Agnes, In the early morning mist and smoke of the battlefield I am given strength remembering your voice whispering "408327" like a bolt of sunlight. Although this code will expire in 5 minutes, my love for you is eternal.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

Two factor authentication (2FA) except it's via a handwritten, Civil War letter rather than an impersonal text message.

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Dave @allcaps.bsky.social · 1d

The Gen X urge to state your phone number twice when leaving a voicemail like it's being recorded on a cassette in a voicemail machine in a world where call display and call logs don't exist.

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