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Is it enough for a politician to say the right thing? Or is genuine credibility also measured by what one does in front of others in daily life? On 27 May 2026, the left-wing newspaper Dagbladet Information published a short opinion piece by me under the title: “Pelle Dragsted is not taking responsibility when cycling [...]





Dispersion And Correlation Are Screaming Overbought, Downside Hedging Is Cheap Submitted by SpotGamma CBOE’s Dispersion Index (DSPX) is at levels only seen during Covid and the April ’25 tariff crash, while Correlation (COR1M) is near all-time lows. This divergence signals extreme positioning risk driven by the AI stock chase, and makes SPY downside hedges historically cheap. Traders have been chasing AI related names in such h....


Truthout is a vital news source and a living history of political struggle. If you think our work is valuable, support us with a donation of any size. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-New York) has indicated that Democrats aren’t currently considering impeaching President Donald Trump — meaning that the issue likely won’t be a [...]


New York Democrats Move To Redraw Congressional Maps Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times, New York Democrats are moving to give state lawmakers the power to redraw the state’s congressional maps, entering the national fight over control of the U.S. House. The proposed constitutional amendment would allow lawmakers to draw district lines themselves and redraw them mid-decade. It had not been formally filed as of Tue....

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Meanwhile, gold price increases ~130x. Physical cash is only about 10% of M2. Roughly 90% of M2 is bank deposits and money-market balances.

Meanwhile, gold price increases ~130x. Physical cash is only about 10% of M2. Roughly 90% of M2 is bank deposits and money-market balances.

SDNY Prosecutors Looking At Valuation Discrepancies In Private Credit Market In a move that is long overdue, Jay Clayton, the US attorney for the Southern District of New York, said his office is looking at possible valuation discrepancies in the private credit marketplace.  Wall Street’s top prosecutor addressed the issue Wednesday while speaking at the Bloomberg Global Credit Forum in New York. Clayton said the difference between....


We’re introducing Instantaneous PowerLoss Storm, a new testing paradigm within Meta’s infrastructure for handling and mitigating instant or zero-notice power loss in our data centers.  We’re sharing: how we built readiness to tolerate instant failures into our existing systems with defense-in-depth strategies; tradeoffs made in implementing it, and how we validated our readiness. Disaster preparedness [...] Read More... The post Ligh..

We’re introducing Instantaneous PowerLoss Storm, a new testing paradigm within Meta’s infrastructure for handling and mitigating instant or zero-notice power loss in our data centers.  We’re sharing: how we built readiness to tolerate instant failures into our existing systems with defense-in-depth strategies; tradeoffs made in implementing it, and how we validated our readiness. Disaster preparedness [...] Read More... The post Ligh..


'The Pricking Is Coming': Dalio Warns AI Bubble Will Burst Like Dot-Com, But Tech Will Endure Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio appeared on Bloomberg TV today and delivered a measured yet cautionary assessment of the artificial intelligence investment frenzy. He highlighted classic bubble dynamics - sky-high valuations, rampant speculation, and "paper wealth" vastly outpacing actual cash flows - while drawing direct parallels to....


Snubbed By SpaceX, Jefferies Now Helping Traders Short World's Biggest IPO Two weeks ago, when the SpaceX IPO prospectus landed, we observed, that " Goldman is lead left; and pretty much every other bank is on the cover." Goldman is lead left; and pretty much every other bank is on the cover. They need that to sell it to retail https://t.co/9JogVIxo1i pic.twitter.com/nSnvx6tWqs — zerohedge (@zerohedge) May 20, 2026 Yet one ....

CBS Fires '60 Minutes' Scott Pelley 'For Cause' After "Performative Display Of Hostility" CBS News has fired "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley over a row with new executive producer Nick Bilton. As Just The News reports, the shakeup marks the latest in a series of major changes at the network since Bari Weiss took over the network . Her tenure has prompted internal dissent, much of which has leaked into the press. W....

Rabo On Regime-Change At The Fed: What Warsh Can (And Should) Do First The honeymoon period for Warsh is over . The FOMC could have given him the professional courtesy of allowing him to settle in, but in recent weeks several Committee participants have staked out their position. They want to drop the FOMC’s easing bias and instead take a more neutral stance. This means it will be more difficult for Warsh to convince the Committ....




Goldman Sits Down With Anduril As 'War Unicorns' Reshape Defense Tech Palmer Luckey’s defense startup, Anduril, is emerging as the Department of War’s answer to the urgent need for affordable, scalable advanced weaponry produced at lightning speed, rather than through the slow, over-budget procurement cycles that have long defined the legacy primes. The twin conflicts raging across Eurasia and the Middle East, from the Russia-Ukraine w....


Quantum Computing: Hype Or The Real Deal? Authored by Michael Lebowitz via RealInvestmentAdvice.com, The word “ quantum ” is defined as “ an amount ,” with its Latin root meaning “ how much .” In physics, a quantum is the smallest discrete unit of any physical property. The adjective form, as in “ quantum leap ,” describes a sudden, significant, and fundamental change. It is also a perfect adjective for coining the next potential t....

Developers are embracing agentic coding tools - but data engineers need tools with specialist scraping skills.



Ukrainian Drone Smashes Into Russian Passenger Bus, Killing 8 Civilians The last 48 hours have seen massive, devastating Russian missile and drone attacks on the Ukrainian capital and other cities, which left at 18 dead and over 100 injured. Russia said this was in response to the  Starobelsk dormitory attack  of last month and other drone attacks targeting Russian territory. But Ukrainian forces have upped the ante once again, this ....

Well. rocks do not die. and yet they are part of nature.” My correspondent may not have seen the rocks. being crushed into gravel by a road crew with machines. Who will hear their cry. and who stand for their rights. the way the environmentalists stand for innocent vegetables and other defenceless creatures. Granted. I (…)

Oil Prices Hold Gains As Gasoline Stocks Hit 12 Year Lows, Cushing 'Tank Bottoms' Loom Brent crude prices are rising back toward $100 per barrel this morning following the latest flare-up in fighting to threaten the U.S.-Iran ceasefire Prices rose after the U.S. military said Iran fired missiles toward Kuwait and Bahrain , which failed to hit their targets. The United States said it then struck an Iranian military ground control st....

Ever wished you could talk in to a text field rather than type? Ubuntu 26.10 hears you – quite literally. Canonical’s VP of Engineer Jon Seager, at the Ubuntu Summit, said the distro will soon lets users “press a button and talk into any field that you could previously type in”. A small, on-device AI language parsing model like Whisper will power the feature. It’s part of a wider push to integrate AI features in Ubuntu this year, with found..

Next Month, Next Quarter, Next Year" By Molly Schwartz, cross-asset macro strategist at Rabobank In a tense Congressional Hearing before the foreign relations committee, Marco Rubio defended the Trump Administration’s war in Iran, praising the success of US military operations destroying Iranian military and nuclear facilities. He also said that a deal with Iran could happen “today, tomorrow, or next week.” However, the recent mili....

US Services Surveys Signal Surging Prices, Mixed Growth Following the dramatically better than expected rise in US Manufacturing PMI surveys, analysts expected stability in the Services side of the economy in May. They were somewhat correct but the message was mixed with one survey improving while the other deteriorated... S&P Global US Services PMI dropped from 51.0 (April) to 50.9 (flash May) to 50.7 (final May) - dropping bac....


Trump Says He'd Like To Meet Iran's New Supreme Leader: 'We Probably Will' After US-Israeli strikes assassinated the last longtime Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, President Trump says he would like to meet the new one . Trump said he "would like to meet" Iran's Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, in an interview published Wednesday. In surprising remarks, Trump  told the New York Post's  Pod Force One:  "I would like to meet him, and we proba....

We've seen this before. The post Rotation revisited: A shocking discovery about gcc’s unidirectional rotation algorithm appeared first on The Old New Thing .


YouTube is an incredible resource for MOOCs but the platform itself is an absolute minefield of distractions. Curatube fixes this by transforming public playlists into focused, interactive courses entirely free from the feed. Take timestamped notes side by side with the video, navigate lectures effortlessly using interactive transcripts. Best of all, it's open source and designed to be easily self hosted! Looking forward to contribution..


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