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1 I visited the Surf in 2003, as part of an all Iowa tour, going to landmarks all over my newly adopted home state. It was a good, fun trip, which is I guess why I look so happy in the picture. Going to the Surf seemed less morbid than
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Short squeezes have a long history on Wall Street. In 1862, Cornelius Vanderbilt squeezed out short sellers in Harlem Railroad, and used his power to gain full control of the New York railroad business. * Musings on Markets: The Storming of the Bastille: The Reddit Crowd targets the Hedge Funds!
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Democracy is a request from a War Board, in the middle of a morning in the middle of a war, wanting to know what democracy is. * E. B. White on “The Meaning of Democracy” | The New Yorker
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First, are the Reddit revolutionaries new populists descended from the radicals of Occupy Wall Street? No. They’re basically a bunch of dudes upvoting memes with cash. Or, to be more generous, they represent an extremely online evolution of Big Finance itself, a kind of decentralized hedge fund duking it
Autism
1 I thought that this was interesting because the author doesn’t offer up any reasons why Music is bad, other than it’s “ill-judged”, a “bogus cultural production” that has caused “manifold harms”. I agree with all of the statements about Douglas as standup advocacy. I feel good
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At one point, I looked at my reflection in the mirror, said, “I never know what you’re thinking,” and laughed. * January 2nd, 2021
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On Tuesday morning, the nation’s foremost marmot weather expert saw his shadow after scurrying out of a burrow at Gobbler’s Knob in Punxsutawney. As the legend goes, that means the country can expect below-average temperatures for the next six weeks. There’s clearly widespread fraud here, though
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Monday was supposed to be the first day of a new session of Parliament following November elections that Suu Kyi’s party won in a landslide — and that the military-backed party did poorly in. The military has claimed widespread irregularities on voter lists could have led to fraud in
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Warburton: Eartha and I had actually worked together before that. We did some horrible movies in South Africa back in 1985 [Dragonard and Master of Dragonard Hill]. Oliver Reed was the villain. Eartha Kitt ran the bordello. I’m the one white slave. Now, I was 22 years old. I
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Take Sherry Turkle’s Life on the Screen, which is interesting, as far as it goes, but limited in scope. If Turkle had looked to W. E. B. DuBois, she might not have had to wait “more than twenty years after meeting the ideas of Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari”
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On Thursday morning, Robinhood restricted purchases of GameStop and the other stocks, which had been driven to unusually high prices by coordinated activity on the r/WallStreetBets subreddit. The decision to restrict purchases provoked a significant backlash, and several congressional committees have already pledged to investigate Robinhood in the wake