Dr in glaciology and expert mapper of coastal topography at a Cooperative Research Institute. An organizer for disability rights in science, which mostly involves yelling at agencies. Science is the easier part of my work. #T1D
Mike MacFerrin
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Were the letters removed from the Kennedy Center?
I saw watch parties and live feeds of scaffolding slow-set-up yday. Some premature headlines of “it’s down!”
Then some court-order-headline BS.
Are the physical letters removed now? Or they still up?
It’s all symbology. But it’s poignant symbology.
Apparently at this point in my life, if I don’t actively & aggressively stretch every single day, my body locks up like a rusty engine. What the fresh hell.
FYI this is the journal editorial that the American Diabetes Association ejected its authors for distributing at their major conference, in a weak-kneed attempt to appease the admin and appear “nonpartisan.”
none of this is true and the place where this is going is potentially very awful
Anyhoo, this is nothing new anyone in investing doesn’t already know.
Just, I’m trained in a field where collecting real data on _real_ things is ostensibly valued.
Seeing so much $$$ + effort infused in a made-up-concept-of-a-thing, requires some real cognitive dissonance to behold.
/fin
And since everyone still agrees “this is a real thing,” on it goes, and we all pay whatever price they say 💸.
The real $$$ goes to the dudes at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME), who collect about $2 for each fake-paper transaction. There’s more 💰 selling the picks ⚒️ than actually mining gold.
…almost no one actually cashes those contracts in! They just “roll over” from one month to the next. It’s just dudes at hedge funds—who never touch a barrel of oil—deciding what the price of oil *should be* in July/August/whenever, and trading on that. Mostly it’s just algos anymore. It’s wild.
For reasons unrelated to anything at all, I’ve learned about “Commodities Futures trading” lately. And HOLY CRAP it really is just “vibes & funny money.”
You buy & sell contracts at months-out future dates for [oil, rice, aluminum, whatevs], which keeps it *hypothetically* tethered to a thing. BUT…
Hotel Room Keurig Coffee
== Not Good At All 🤢
Dunno why I always insist on re-discovering this the hard way.
Something becoming disabled has taught me is how instinctual that response is, to say “something bad happened to this person, they must have fucked up, here’s all the reasons I’m immune.” It’s self-protective and enormously destructive. It’s one of those things you need to teach yourself to check.
