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peterrenshaw
☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻 @peterrenshaw@ioc.exchange · Jul 31, 2026
“Situational Awareness LP was named for a series of facile essays about machine intelligence published by the improbably-named #LeopoldAschenbrenner, the 24-year-old mastermind of the hedge fund. “We are building machines that can think and reason,” he writes, betraying that he has no idea what thinking could possibly mean. “By 2025/26, these #machines will outpace many college #PostGraduates By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have #superintelligence in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be unleashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.” With no understanding of the technology and a ‘greed is good’ credo SA looses billions. 🤨🤣☺️ #AI / #ArtificialIntelligence / #AGI / #investment / #HedgeFund / #stonks (paywall) / < https://archive.md/l4sPZ&gt
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The Athletic @nyt_sports@robot.villas · Jul 29, 2026
Liga F's €55 million bet: Can private equity accelerate Spanish women's soccer? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7477147/2026/07/29/liga-f-pau-gasol-investment-spanish-womens-soccer/ #Soccer #WomensSports #Investment
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WSJ.com — Markets @wsj_markets@robot.villas · Jul 27, 2026
KKR, Blackstone Sign $16 Billion Kuwait Oil Deal https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/kkr-blackstone-sign-16-billion-kuwait-oil-deal-e864ed68?mod=rss_markets_main #Finance #Energy #Investment
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Nonilex
Nonilex @Nonilex@masto.ai · Jul 26, 2026
Replying to @Nonilex@masto.ai
For #Brazil, the only #war we need to wage in this part of the world is the war against #hunger, #poverty & #inequality. And the only weapons we should deploy are #investment, #technology transfer, & fair & balanced #trade. 
Attempts to impose ideological constraints on the bilateral partnership, or to instrumentalize it for electoral purposes, will not stand. Never before has a #US secretary of #state declared that Brazil is not a friend of the US. No one will defeat us through #lies. #Trump
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leonardscheidel
Leonard Scheidel @leonardscheidel@mastodon.social · Jul 24, 2026
Candid Health just 3×'d its valuation in 12 months doing AI revenue cycle. Epic will commoditize this by 2028. who's paying 3× for a feature? #HealthTech #Investment
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mxchara
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 24, 2026
Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink
re: the can't do spirit of U.S. techno-optimism Hover or focus to reveal Sensitive
The CEOs and even the #investment punters who do nothing all day but hope their portfolios go up as if by magic, they're the "builders" and "creators". Abundant pro-business pro-#capitalism agitprop have cemented the impression that there's something intrinsically creative about "building wealth" even if it's all in electronic funny-money maintained at enormous social and economic cost. One tries to tell them they're swindlers, one tries to get them to understand what actual labor is like and WHY it's laborious and "boring" to them, something they've actually become terrified of. (cont'd)
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The Athletic @nyt_sports@robot.villas · Jul 24, 2026
Amit Bhatia, Liverpool and the potential of India: Is this the beginning of something spectacular? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7465623/2026/07/24/liverpool-bhatia-fsg-henry-mittal-bezos/ #Football #Business #Investment
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mxchara
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026
Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink
I cite that last example, which comes from another Dan Olson documentary about the strange GameStop #investment cult which hinges upon "MOASS" (yet another abbreviation, yet another magic spell), because it's an especially stark example of the irrationality of the magical thinking at work. The premise of the MOASS cult (the "Mother Of All Short Squeezes") is simple: an imaginary war is supposedly raging between evil short-sellers who live only to destroy good honest corporations by torpedoing the value of their #stocks, and true $GME believers who "own the float" (i.e. the GameStop cultists think they own ALL the legitimate $GME shares being traded, whereas the short-sellers have somehow faked the shares they're trading.) (cont'd)
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mxchara
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026
Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink
There's one more point I'd like to make before wrapping up this excessively lengthy thread, and that's the value of #NFT simply as an abbreviation. The world of #finance scams and #investment gambling etc. is a world ruled by magical thinking. Again, desperation is the cause for this: only desperate people need to chase after get-rich-quick schemes and thus they're inclined out of desperation to believe in unlikely miracles. At least in the "Western" mindset, the notion of #magic is intimately mixed up with the idea of the spell, which in its ideal "Western" form appears in a zillion works of fiction, like in Harry Potter: a short incantation that produces a desired instantaneous result. (cont'd)
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mxchara
Mx. Chara Aznable (they/them) of Pnictogen @mxchara@seattle.pink · Jul 23, 2026
Replying to @mxchara@seattle.pink
A "blue chip" #investment is supposed to be a sure bet, a license to print money, and the term derives from the conventions of gambling in poker: the blue chips (the literal discs of plastic) are treated as the most valuable. The #crypto "coins" and the NFT "tokens" and other such #blockchain gimmicks are intrinsically worthless or very nearly worthless just like cheap plastic poker chips, but they're shuffled about in a context in which they're meant to represent extreme wealth...or at least, the potential to be exchanged for extreme wealth. After all, these things are gonna EXPLODE all over the WORLD...right? (cont'd)
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WSJ.com — Markets @wsj_markets@robot.villas · Jul 21, 2026
Adnoc, Partners to Proceed With $6.2 Billion Umm Shaif Gas Cap Project https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/adnoc-partners-to-proceed-with-6-2-billion-umm-shaif-gas-cap-project-59a8199c?mod=rss_markets_main #Energy #Finance #Investment
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wdr
WDR (inoffiziell) @wdr@squeet.me · Jul 17, 2026
Ab 2028 können auch in Deutschland Italo-Züge im Fernverkehr fahren. Das hat heute die Bundesnetzagentur entschieden.#WDR #Zug #Fernzüge #Italo #Bundesnetzagentur #Investment #Wettbewerb #NRW Günstigere Preise und bessere Bahnverbindungen? Italo-Züge dürfen ab 2028 in Deutschland fahren
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ChrisMayLA6
Emeritus Prof. Christopher May @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk · Jul 17, 2026
A major Q. is why so many UK firms end up being sold to foreign owners? The FT thinks its the regulatory environment that causes UK investors to choose to invest elsewhere.... and so that needs to change. But, the real issue is why do non-UK investors value UK-corporate assets more highly than UK investors.... its such a pattern that ignorant optimism about the UK seems unlikely, so what we need to know is *why* is there this disparity? #investment #politics h/t FT 1/2
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ChrisMayLA6
Emeritus Prof. Christopher May @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk · Jul 17, 2026
Replying to @ChrisMayLA6@mastodon.me.uk

I have two possible explanations:

  1. non-UK investors have a more realistic expectation of returns & can live with long-term 'normal' profits; UK investors are seeking 'super' returns & so seek more risky investments (abroad):

  2. UK investors tend to ignore the actualities of specific business & have got caught up in a self-reinforcing negative sentiment about the UK's economy generally (not unwarranted, of course), and so seek to find 'better' investments abroad.

#investment #politics

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Luminous_J
Jay☀️🏹 @Luminous_J@beige.party · Jun 10, 2026
I just pre-ordered a couple of Space X shares, hoping to get at least 4-5. This is my first time buying shares, although I have 5 years of experience with Bitcoin/alt coin trading. Hoping this will help me. I feel excitement! 🤪🙌 #spacex #Ipo #ElonMusk #investment #nasdaq
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