Just passed a couple while out walking on the trail... ... they were both staring at their own phone.

While too many of the YouTube Financial Influencers (!) are balding and overcompensate with expensive wig fakery... ... this guy always LEANS INTO it with a camera positioned high. Sometimes, it looks like it's a CONVEX camera lens! Happily, I LISTEN to most video podcasts and mostly only see thumbnails.

Latin Lesson of the day...

It's an invasion...

The man was probably just rubbing his tired eye... ... this is the frame CBS chose for their video thumbnail. I have been conditioned to "recognize" this as some kind of SIGNAL, yet I have no clue what it is really supposed to mean.

OMG... ... how could you hang on to one?

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Outright fakery... ... corruption coming to a head. "Forged contracts, fake emails, fake domains and millions in fund diversion all present in a $500 million dollar private credit loan which will likely result in another massive Blackrock related write down. "

"But no one is in charge of these systems, and, especially as they become concentrated and powerful, they often fail to produce the outcomes we might be hoping for. Many are intransigent and sticky, and they work hard to remain invisible. When we see the systems, we have a chance to do something about them. The hard part is organizing the community to push back before the new normal becomes permanent."

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Caveman economics

Marshall Sahlins and others showed that early hunter gatherer societies generally didn’t work very hard. Two or three hours a day were spent ...

Last night... ... big old owl patiently looking over a field for edibles.