The E-Trade presidency: Trump trades stocks while America burns

> Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker... His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one.

https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/trump-stock-trades-palantir-nvidia-20260517.html

@rye
It is a super neat bike though, centrifugal clutch, very few of its kind still exist (the JDM flavor) so I would never scrap it

@Tatjna I think the most chilling stuff is later in the piece. "30 per cent of the world’s helium supply: gone. 30 to 50 per cent of fertiliser: gone. Half the planet’s industrial sulphuric acid: gone. Not “supply disrupted.” Not “temporarily off market.” Gone. Blown to fuck by Israeli and American strikes on Iranian processing infrastructure that the Pentagon either didn’t know existed or didn’t care about."

I expected bad, this is worse.

i do kind of like the idea of a named sync context being the locus of a recovery condition, so that if any tasks syncing to the context fail, the context can free its pages. this would absolutely propagate sideways (tasks declaring two contexts would blow up if one does) and upwards (if the sync context can't recover, goes up to its parent context)

Today would have been my mom’s 100th birthday.

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Stop Being A Dick Sticker. Gonna buy a bunch of these and stick them to every Richard I meet.
https://collabs.shop/qbdpag

@rye
It was fun in Oregon where I could ride a fun bike with no title or plates on rural roads, but in LA I think I'd die on the way out of the city.

@Daojoan

We should do more minning.

Holy shit, Jeet Heer uttering the words "General Strike" apparently happened this month. I missed it, but... maybe there is hope for you progs after all.

@jonny yeah it just goes by diameter. i bought something like 25ft fifteen years ago and it was enough to overhaul a half dozen bikes with lots left over

@rye
The ideal end goal is to just sell this machine lol, it makes absolutely no sense to have a 50 year old Japanese import bike that tops out at 45mph in LA, its just rusting in my alley as I passively refuse to use facebook marketplace to sell it and wait for a buyer to magically appear

@Tatjna I think the most chilling stuff is later in the piece. "30 per cent of the world’s helium supply: gone. 30 to 50 per cent of fertiliser: gone. Half the planet’s industrial sulphuric acid: gone. Not “supply disrupted.” Not “temporarily off market.” Gone. Blown to fuck by Israeli and American strikes on Iranian processing infrastructure that the Pentagon either didn’t know existed or didn’t care about."

I expected bad, this is worse.

@FranceskAlbs
Every time they sail I hope they meet their destination but too many countries look away when they should be helping.

We had a visitor.

Disaster Resilience Investment Has Touched $100 Billion in Asia
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-18/disaster-resilience-investment-has-touched-100-billion-in-asia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@joebeone I'm having a hard time imagining what we will do without him. And I mean not just his deep professional wisdom, but his wit, his bad puns, his musical talent, and his reminders that Multics did it first and better.