RED GAVEL
Surveillance State: How Is This A Thing?
"Openly spying on citizens' properties to see if they've made small developments to their homes so that the state may squeeze more revenue out of them."
Computing Forever
Synthetic Salvation - On Genomics, Mind Uploads, & The Quest For Immortality
Our elites want to live forever. The rest of us will make for rich compost...
Barring some miracle, divine or otherwise, we’re all soon to follow, down to the sweetest baby ever born.
Unfazed by this horror, the faithful are emboldened by belief in resurrection or reincarnation—a direct participation in the eternal. For religious people, the body is just a vehicle for a transcendent soul. The mystery of death is a rite of passage.
For the materialist, there is only this world, beyond which the dying meet total annihilation. The brain dissolves into black nothingness. Consciousness stops with the Big Zero at the end of our lives. And for all sentient beings, and all memory of our existence, there awaits the Big Zero at the end of the universe.
The cosmos is nothing but atoms and the void. To make matters worse, the atoms are slowly freezing to death.
Young Woman From Gorlovka Votes In Donbass Referendum + Donbass Referendum - Lugansk is Ready!
vanessa beeley: In Sterlitamak. Eastern Region of Russia. Refugees who cannot go to polling stations can vote at home in a separate room for privacy. No soldiers 🙄 BBC propaganda has been universally ridiculed.
Braking, Breaking, Broken, Broke
"I’m incredibly worried about the state of the economy, markets, and geopolitics..."
Authored by Peter Tchir: I’m incredibly worried about the state of the economy, markets, and geopolitics (please see Putin’s Speech SITREP).
With football season in full swing, maybe we will get a “bend but doesn’t break” type of market. Sentiment survey’s like AAII are sending some contrarian signals. That survey (which was published on Wednesday and presumably did not fully include the impact of the FOMC meeting) had bulls at a measly 17.7% and hit a yearly high of 60.9% of respondents being bearish. The CNN Fear & Greed index nudged back to extreme fear, but at a rating of 24, there is room for more fear (coincidentally, the index had the same reading this time last year before the S&P 500 rallied 10% into year-end).
Where To Start?
There are so many places to start and it is difficult to pick just one. We should probably start with FX since the moves there are starting to pit country against country, but we’ll start with rates because it is almost as important, just as broken, and more natural for us.