@kentwillard usually it’s true that gold usually likes low real rates. real rates right now are not low though. gold has been rising during a period when US long-term nominal rates have been rising, when expectations of cuts have been delayed and diminished. but maybe you are right about the ECB, and my befuddlement comed from a kind of chauvinism about the Fed. (rising gold may reduce the likelihood of cuts, though, at least by the Fed.)
i hate to link a thread over there, but i am glad there are Israelis of note who are sober about their situation.
no doubt former attorney general Michael Ben-Yair will be and has long been considered beyond the pale by many in Israel, precisely because he is not.
“The State of Israel was founded by inspiring and visionary statesmen. It is collapsing due to the evil madness of small and pathless politicians.”
Read the whole thread. https://x.com/benzionsanders/status/1777634382896902388
[tech notebook] Names too on the nose https://tech.interfluidity.com/2024/04/09/names-too-on-the-nose/index.html
Let the right one in.
An image of a mosquito, pressed against a screen, perhaps trying to get in.
totality, motherfuckers. https://social.coop/@dyani/112237339779227832 ht @xerophile
Today's solar #eclipse, partial here in Florida, captured in a lens flare, and projected onto paper through a pinhole.
Photo of the sun during the 8-April-2024 solar eclipse, partial from the Tampa Bay area in Florida. The sun is too bright for the cellphone camera to capture the crescent, it appears as a bright, yellow-white blob. But the crescent of the eclips is clearly visible in a lens flare just below.
Photo during the 8-April-2024 solar eclipse, partial from the Tampa Bay area in Florida. The crescent of the eclipse is visible projected through a pinhole onto a piece of paper.
@sqrtminusone@emacs.ch ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(i don't know anything about openrss.org, just endorse the exhortation to publish full feeds.)
@chiraag @404mediaco i find it particularly galling when i catually pay to subscribe to something but still see truncated little stubs in my reader.
good on @404mediaco
i love you for your rough edges. even when they cut me.
"I'm not a eugenicist, I'm just an anti-dysgenicist."
"Full text in RSS, please" https://openrss.org/blog/full-text-in-rss-please
"you cannot avoid 'punching down' without a confident sense of in which direction 'down' lies. If you see what I mean." ~Freddie deBoer, from a fascinating review of my sister #AdelleWaldman's new book "Help Wanted" https://freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/review-adelle-waldmans-help-wanted
is it gonna be hard for the Fed to cut rates while gold is on such a tear?
@jonathankoren @BenRossTransit all i want is a clutch on my ebike. is that too much to ask for?
“Toyota is developing a manual transmission emulator for electric cars, to return some of the driving engagement.” #EzraDyer https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/opinion/electric-car-ev-tesla.html ht @BenRossTransit
// bizarre.
@atomicpoet all your pwnage are belong to us.
@punnie @wattdefalk @PatrickoftheG @paninid and X is the male Y. (we’ve got the whole chromosome thing *backward*!)
@drwho @Polychrome I spent a bit of annoyance writing an RSS notifier (e-mail newsletters and Mastodon announcements supported) that is careful not to send the same item twice, (As identified by RSS GUID… if the GUID changes, it would; if that comes up I’ll also track link URLs and never resend those. But I haven’t seen that in the wild yet.) Anyway, if you are interested it’s https://github.com/swaldman/feedletter I’d love any feedback, and would be glad to help.
“I continue to be nauseously optimistic.” @rbreich https://robertreich.substack.com/p/when-will-americans-start-crediting
@PatrickoftheG @paninid why isn’t m double n?