black & white vs colorful logic vs emotions isolation vs hope sharp lines and calculating symmetry vs natural randomness & spontaneity

Adobe was a textbook compounder for years. Now: organic growth decelerating for the tenth straight quarter, the CEO on his way out, the CFO too. Buy and verify, not buy and forget.

Several large lawfirms have begun early preparations for a national advertising campaign to target margin traders that get wiped out following Ai bubble popping. The argument is brokerage firms made it too easy for traders to access margin debt, failed to warn them about ongoing risks of holding high margin debts, and promoted the purchasing of risky high priced stocks it knew were concentrated to retail trader accounts. These cases have about a 40% success rate in arbitration. Essentially brokerages knew it was a dangerous casino game and didn’t warn customers. $hood $schw

Tommy Robinson has just walked out of court with a victory that is already being called one of the most explosive free-speech moments in Britain. The terrorism-related case against him — linked to his refusal to hand over his phone PIN to UK police — was thrown out after the judge ruled the stop unlawful and reportedly said Robinson had been targeted because of his political views. This was not just about a phone. This was about power, politics, journalism, and whether the state can treat someone like a national security threat simply because it dislikes what they say. Robinson says he refused to unlock his phone to protect journalistic sources. The state treated it as a terrorism matter. The court, according to Robinson’s reaction, saw something far more disturbing: political targeting. Then came the detail that made the story explode worldwide: **Elon Musk reportedly helped finance Robinson’s legal defense**, stepping in where others stayed silent and turning the case into a global battle over free expression. Robinson thanked Musk publicly, asking why it had taken an American businessman to fight for justice in Britain. “First of all, thank you, Elon Musk,” Robinson said, before adding that he was targeted because of his political beliefs and that counterterrorism police were allegedly used to get access to his phone as a journalist. For supporters, this ruling is a brutal warning to the establishment: if terrorism powers can be used against controversial speech today, who will be next tomorrow? Critics will still call Robinson divisive, but this case has forced a bigger question onto the table — do rights only apply to people the government likes?

It goes way beyond gender discourse, this is the whole engine of liberalism >identify a human relationship under tension >offer a commodified, legible, transactional version of that relationship to the weaker party >pay for it by coercing the more powerful party >win a client, neutralize a rival power structure

🔺Telegram founder Pavel Durov compares the lack of panic during the sinking of the Titanic with the current lack of awareness in Europe as citizens freedoms are stripped away: “I came here today to tell you-that we find ourselves in a similar predicament. In a similar situation. Our ship. Has already hit the iceberg. We have already started to sink. Without even realizing it. And I'm talking about the ship of our personal freedoms” Continuing giving examples of his personal experiences of fraud and corruption with Russia, the EU and France. Before moving onto Keir Starmer’s UK clampdown on social media: “Thousands of people are getting arrested every year in the United Kingdom for social media posts. You say somethingpolitically incorrect online, you may end up being fined or spend some time in prison in Germany”

the side effect is the goal.

Anyone else find it strange… A couple weeks after the internet exposed the UK trying to hide the Henry Nowak murder the UK is pushing internet censorship? I’m sure it’s a total coincidence.

Every equity bubble inevitably becomes a credit bubble before it bursts...

The panic-stricken efforts by the state to force digital ID on the proles while simultaneously securing anonymity and cover for themselves and their own is a wonder to behold.

here's what will happen. - u16 ban passes, platforms must verify all ages - kids use VPNs, government bans VPNs - age verification infrastructure already exists, its scope gets broader, more invasive, more extreme - Online Safety Act forces backdoors into encrypted messaging, E2E encryption dies, gov can read everything you ever send - CBDC rolls out, your internet passport and financial passport become the same document - anonymous accounts posting "wrongthink" are now identifiable prosecutable - the generation that grows up with this doesn't remember it being any other way - George Orwell was right about everything - it's over

This is nuts

OMG, what did Citibank due to @matt_levine over the weekend to make him mad? This is hilariously brutal. Enjoy. Although you kind-of need to have read his accounts of the Citibank screw-ups over the years to fully appreciate the build-up to this capstone literary event.

This is absolute insanity Korean household loans increased by nearly 3x in a single month Banks are clamping down starting now because all the money is going into the stock market

frack it

the purpose is not to remove young people from the internet. the purpose is to remove anonymity from the internet in a country where the government routinely punishes dissent with jail. the british caliphate is no longer free.

JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.

UK is a police state

🚨BREAKING: The Daily Mail has revealed that a government propaganda unit, named RICU, is intervening to write statements by families of victims of horrific migrant crime to "prevent inflaming tensions" They are manipulating the masses.