Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

@harding Nice photo!

But even my technique is leaking some important metadata: you're not in Canada right now. 😂

https://twitter.com/lijukic/status/1355164987212390402/

"Wow it's really true. The European Commission's "redacted" copy of the AstraZeneca-EU vaccine contract is not redacted at all because you can just see everything in the bookmarks bar on the left."

Note how in my defamation lawsuit, Daniel J. Bernstein went to the trouble of printing out his declaration, then scanning it back in, to ensure the PDF didn't leak anything.

...someone else screwed that up so badly that ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛. 😂

@verretor speaking of... https://torontosun.com/news/national/canada-posts-epost-service-to-end

"2 Canada Post workers in Regina suspended after refusing to deliver Epoch Times"

Pre-internet communication monopolies were legally prohibited from censoring. Canada Post has no choice here.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/epoch-times-canada-post-suspensions-1.5892549

Should you wear three masks? Or even four?

I personally wear an infinite number of masks. However, each mask has half the filtration of the one before it...

@preston nah, you're missing something important: after you sell the share to someone else, it can be reborrowed and sold in yet another short.

Now, if your broker is letting the shorts borrow the shares, that's similar to the shares not actually existing. But not quite.

@NunyaBidness That sounds like a question for the lawyers...

@lucash_dev @GrandVizierOfMalta I remember once getting shown the Holy Excel Spreadsheet that was the sole authoritative record of share ownership for a multi-billion dollar fund.

They did one thing right at least: they kept the spreadsheet on an air-gapped computer sitting in the middle of an empty room with a dedicated security system to keep track of every single person who entered and left. It was probably backed up religiously too.

But still... Excel... 😱

@GrandVizierOfMalta Don't underestimate the chance it's happening due to incompetence! Financial systems are ridiculously complex, and there have been many cases where shares got double-booked.

@NunyaBidness https://twitter.com/joemccann/status/1354859879337320452

Looks like this is certainly extending to outstanding orders being cancelled; unclear if it's going as far as forcefully selling positions.

Prediction: the reason why Robinhood has been forcefully closing out client's GME positions will turn out to be because some or all of those GME positions didn't actually exist.

Unlike Bitcoin, there's no way for average investors to know if the numbers on their screen correspond to actual shares. You need crypto for that.

I'm not 100% confident this type of fraud and/or incompetence is happening. But I'll give it >50% probability.

@Bitcoinlabrador They tried to early on. But they just ended up stranding millions of migrant workers, far away from home, and had to give it up.

Lockdown in India is impossible. The country is just too poor and too crowded. Western countries with every advantage can't keep cases down with strict lockdowns; impossible for India.

"Our ideals are rooted in fairness, equal access..."

Stirring words from Robinhood co-founder Vlad Tenev.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/vaccine-found-92-effective-in-israel-in-first-controlled-result-outside-trials/

"Only 31 out of 163,000 Israelis vaccinated by Maccabi Healthcare Services caught coronavirus in their first 10 days of full-strength protection"

vs 6,437 in a comparable unvaxxed sample. Naively, you might think that implies 95% protection.

But remember, *groups* of people were vaccinated, esp elderly, and Israel is under very strict lockdown. So you'd expect herd immunity to result in much better than 95%.

Hopefully that's just false positives.

I did buy a token amount of GME myself. I fully expect to either successfully sell it soon, or lose every cent. Which I'm fine with.

PSA: the short-squeeze we're seeing with GME is a totally different situation than BTC.

Hodling makes sense when there is a long term value proposition. If you're buying GME at current prices, either plan to sell very soon, or do it for the lulz.