Very surprising. Should go over well.

"My employer's doctor tells my boss when I'm too sick for promotion or to work."
Cool cool

you: we need 24/7 trading

me: it's nothing but bad actors and bad outcomes - in a 2 minute span someone jammed CAR from $640 to $690 on less than 5k shares at 4:22 EST

$500k of volume should not equate to $2b in market cap


thanks for coming to my Ted Talk

Iran’s Supreme Leader has given the green light for the Iranian negotiating team to travel to Islamabad. -Axios

thanks.

Hungary may agree as early as Wednesday to lift its block on the EU’s €90 billion credit line for Ukraine.

US has stopped funding security forces in Iraq and suspended security coordination with it until a new government is established in Iraq and those who attacked American facilities in its territory are identified.-Al-Hadath

HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier in Rosyth, Scotland waiting for a tidal window to head to sea - April 20, 2026 SRC: X-@liz_c177

Trump says U.S. seized Iranian-flagged ship near blockade ahead of talks in Pakistan There was no immediate Iran comment on the Trump's claim. Meanwhile The White House said Vice President JD Vance would lead the U.S. delegation to Pakistan with envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner,...

President Donald Trump said the U.S. forcibly seized an Iranian-flagged cargo ship that tried to get around a naval blockade near the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday, the first such interception since the blockade of Iranian ports began last week. https://to.pbs.org/4vJvXzO

Homeland Security tweet: DHSgov • 1h X 'Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.' —Proverbs 3:5-6 One nation under God.

Christofascist government

Way to own this story and change the narrative bro. Totally worked.

A US judge grants an injunction to makers of the banned "ICE Sightings - Chicagoland" Facebook group and Eyes Up mobile app, who say DHS and DOJ violated the 1A (Cheyenne MacDonald/Engadget)

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Need more Waffle Houses in Europe. I'd like to visit more.

Money for Nothing YouTube video by Dire Straits - Topic

Money for Nothing - Dire Straits

*this song includes homophobic slurs*

I find many interesting layers to this this morning

Be safe, Collin.

US intelligence assesses that Iran still retains 40% of its prewar stockpile of drones, and after conducting operations to dig up buried missile cities during the ceasefire, 60% of its missile launchers.-NYT

The parties are not the same.

Tell everyone.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

it is, among other things, incredibly striking to see that roberts was so solicitous of the burden the clean power plan might put on fossil fuel executives, when, a decade later, he is indifferent to the way trump’s moves have thrown hundreds of thousands of lives into turmoil.

Drama addicts?

This gas stuff is challenging for many reasons. Maybe we should think of easier ways to generate electrons where we need them.

Global DRAM supply is likely to meet only 60% of demand through 2027; memory to hit ~40% of low-end smartphone manufacturing costs by mid-2026, up from 20% now (Nikkei Asia)

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Merchant vessels report gunfire as they attempt to cross Hormuz, shipping sources say At least ​two merchant ‌vessels said they were ​hit by ​gunfire as they ⁠attempted ​to cross the ​Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, ​three ​maritime security and shipping ‌sources ⁠said.

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Always start on a Friday so the deal lasts at least 2 days.

US renews Russian oil sanctions waiver for 1 month, days after signaling it would not do so The effective extension of the waiver comes just two days after U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told reporters that the Trump administration "will not be renewing the general license on Russian ...

⚡️US renews Russian oil sanctions waiver for 1 month, days after signaling it would not do so.

The U.S. Treasury Department issued a temporary license on April 17 renewing a sanctions waiver that allows countries to purchase Russian oil stranded at sea.

And have a nice weekend.

Could be some good money to be made in prediction markets here.

;)