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🏁⚡ 🎶 Big Shot... 🎶⚡🏁
some of the 2-Tone #Ska classics like this, are also available on Peertube 👏👏👏 😃 👇 Enjoy!
https://video.liberta.vip/w/w1snQmEHP5aw9dbWX9Nj2K
#skatwotone #ska2tone #music #bestmusic #thebeat #skadforlife #skamusic
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Warne seit Jahren vor der Instabilität des Fossilismus & auch im obigen Interview vor der Illusion von „ewigem (Wirtschafts-)Wachstum“ bei demografischer Schrumpfung. Erdöl & Erdgas erschienen nur „billig“, weil die eigentlichen Kosten fossiler Gewaltenergien auf Mitmenschen & Mitwelt externalisiert wurden, im 21. Jht. zurückschlagen.
Als Filme dazu empfehle ich „Don‘t look up“ & „The Big Short“… #Fossilismus #Karbonblase #Reaktanz #Dualismus #DontLookUp #BigShort #Dax https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Dax-rauscht-um-1000-Punkte-runter-Energiepreise-explodieren-id30425395.html
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Warne seit Jahren vor der Instabilität des Fossilismus & auch im obigen Interview vor der Illusion von „ewigem (Wirtschafts-)Wachstum“ bei demografischer Schrumpfung. Erdöl & Erdgas erschienen nur „billig“, weil die eigentlichen Kosten fossiler Gewaltenergien auf Mitmenschen & Mitwelt externalisiert wurden, im 21. Jht. zurückschlagen.
Als Filme dazu empfehle ich „Don‘t look up“ & „The Big Short“… #Fossilismus #Karbonblase #Reaktanz #Dualismus #DontLookUp #BigShort #Dax https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Dax-rauscht-um-1000-Punkte-runter-Energiepreise-explodieren-id30425395.html
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Warne seit Jahren vor der Instabilität des Fossilismus & auch im obigen Interview vor der Illusion von „ewigem (Wirtschafts-)Wachstum“ bei demografischer Schrumpfung. Erdöl & Erdgas erschienen nur „billig“, weil die eigentlichen Kosten fossiler Gewaltenergien auf Mitmenschen & Mitwelt externalisiert wurden, im 21. Jht. zurückschlagen.
Als Filme dazu empfehle ich „Don‘t look up“ & „The Big Short“… #Fossilismus #Karbonblase #Reaktanz #Dualismus #DontLookUp #BigShort #Dax https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Dax-rauscht-um-1000-Punkte-runter-Energiepreise-explodieren-id30425395.html
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Warne seit Jahren vor der Instabilität des Fossilismus & auch im obigen Interview vor der Illusion von „ewigem (Wirtschafts-)Wachstum“ bei demografischer Schrumpfung. Erdöl & Erdgas erschienen nur „billig“, weil die eigentlichen Kosten fossiler Gewaltenergien auf Mitmenschen & Mitwelt externalisiert wurden, im 21. Jht. zurückschlagen.
Als Filme dazu empfehle ich „Don‘t look up“ & „The Big Short“… #Fossilismus #Karbonblase #Reaktanz #Dualismus #DontLookUp #BigShort #Dax https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Dax-rauscht-um-1000-Punkte-runter-Energiepreise-explodieren-id30425395.html
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Warne seit Jahren vor der Instabilität des Fossilismus & auch im obigen Interview vor der Illusion von „ewigem (Wirtschafts-)Wachstum“ bei demografischer Schrumpfung. Erdöl & Erdgas erschienen nur „billig“, weil die eigentlichen Kosten fossiler Gewaltenergien auf Mitmenschen & Mitwelt externalisiert wurden, im 21. Jht. zurückschlagen.
Als Filme dazu empfehle ich „Don‘t look up“ & „The Big Short“… #Fossilismus #Karbonblase #Reaktanz #Dualismus #DontLookUp #BigShort #Dax https://www.n-tv.de/wirtschaft/Dax-rauscht-um-1000-Punkte-runter-Energiepreise-explodieren-id30425395.html
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Robert De Niro: “He doesn’t belong in my city, I don’t know where he belongs, but he certainly doesn’t belong here … We New Yorkers used to tolerate him when he was just another grubby real estate hustler masquerading as a big shot, a two-bit Playboy lying his way into the tabloids, pretending to be a spokesman, a spokesperson for himself … to fool the press into inflating his net worth.”
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Day 12
Here's my photo from our 2019 NZ trip: The old oak tree above the home of Bilbo Baggins, Bag End, on the Hill, Bagshot Row, Bag End, in the Shire, Hobbiton, Middle Earth. ©Carl R. Englander#ArtAdventCalendar #ThickTrunkThursday #ThrowbackThursday #Throwback #FensterFreitag #FensterFriday #WindowFriday #TheLordOfTheRings #LordOfTheRings #LOTR #TheHobbit #Hobbit #Shire #Tolkien #WETA #PhotographersOfMastodon #Photography #Photographer #Aotearoa #NZ #NewZealand #Photo #Art #Mastoart
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https://www.europesays.com/news/24881/ ‘Big Short’ Michael Burry Sells GameStop Stake, Shorts Palantir Stock #AdditionalPut #BigShort #burry #GamestopStake #GreatCompany #Headlines #LateMondayPost #MondayPost #News #Nvidia #palantir #portfolio #qqq #soxx #tesla #time #TimeLeverage #TopStories
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The shocking 😳 story behind #Trump's Tariff Czar Howard #Lutnick | If Any of You R Listening 👂
https://youtu.be/NYWsonBlNaY?feature=shared
(Ed: Welcome 2 #bigshort part deux🙄🇺🇸
Mortgage backed securities r for losers!
Have u ever shorted an entire country 😉🇺🇸💸 #CantorFitzgerald strikes back 💥 ) -
Aww, look at Mr. Big Shot #Crypto #Whale, flexing his financial biceps with a double-or-nothing #Bitcoin #bet. 🚀💸 Apparently, the only thing harder than understanding the #blockchain is enabling #JavaScript and cookies. 🍪🔍 #TechGenius
https://cryptonews.com/news/crypto-whale-opens-new-163m-bitcoin-short-after-192m-win/ #TechGenius #HackerNews #ngated -
https://www.europesays.com/ie/194669/ The Internet Is Loving ‘Big Short’ Michael Burry’s War on Nvidia, AI #AI #AIStock #ArtificialIntelligence #ArtificialIntelligence #BigShort #BtcPic #burry #day #Éire #IE #investor #Ireland #MarketWatcher #MichaelBurry #Nvidia #OtherAiCompany #palantir #september #slump #Technology #ThirdQuarterEarningBeat #thursday
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Got a chance to photograph one of North America's most beautiful dung beetles, Copris arizonensis, at the Bugshot course in Portal last month. The various textures and shapes on this animal are amazing.
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I may be disappointed with a lot of my goals in 2024, but I am proud to say that my gardening skills have gotten to the point where I regularly harvest vegetables from my tiny balcony garden. This vege is “kangkung” or water spinach.Apologies for the late newsletter. I’ve just survived a tough quarter at work. By “tough” I mean, “Hey, OMG here are 100 tickets and can you get it done by today” kind of tough.
Before you start wondering what I mean by “tough”, I want to quickly say that I really love my job, and I’m not just saying this in case my boss has subscribed to this newsletter (er, hi boss if you are?). But my current role in tech has been the most rewarding role I’ve had. It’s one of the rare jobs that seem perfectly syncronised with my personality and how I’d like to work, down to project management systems.
I had a very tough pivot from journalism. After leaving journalism, I didn’t think I’d find a career as satisfying, but technical writing has proven to my happy place, even better, dare I say, than journalism.
Journalism was glamorous though. I cannot deny that it was insanely wonderful to travel all over the world in the first 10 years of my career.
Of all the careers I’ve had (and I’ve had a crazy number of pivots), it probably satisfies my massive thirst for new experiences the most. However, it can be a demoralising profession, especially towards the end when the industry was falling apart.
Maybe, one day I’ll tell you about this.
So, big apologies. My brain is a little overwhelmed of late I have fallen so behind in commenting on people’s newsletters and I feel guilty. I do read them though, please be assured you are read!
Also, I want to share my gratitude to the people who have deigned to be paid subscribers. I don’t really talk about paid subscriptions etc, because I know it’s a lot of pressure, but I appreciate all of you, paid and unpaid, for believing that my writing is worth your time.
Anyway, I’m glad to have closed the quarter satisfactorily, and it’s now time to begin a new one. However, this quarter I’m doing something a little different. Instead of in December, I’m currently doing my personal year-end evaluation three months early.
So, here I am in a Hilton suite writing this issue while watching the Korean Drama Brain Works and Chinese drama, Love in the Desert.
This was suggested to me by someone on the Internet and I thought it was a good idea to evaluate your strategy and restrategise so that you can meet your goals. It is sort of a “last chance to meet your goals” sprint, so to speak. Instead of ending the year with disappointment that you’ve fallen short of your goals, you can at least end it knowing that you’ve tried best because you tried another tactic to achieve them in the last quarter.
Personally, I’m not very pleased with myself this year, though I have to say that I achieved a lot of my work and writing goals, I have sorely underachieved in the health and social category.
I really, really need to improve my health! I’m of that age where it really matters.
But, anyway, before I bore you, I just want to quickly say that in the next few weeks I’m taking a break, but not from sending you Substack issues. I have a wealth of writing that I’ve published in the past that I’d love to share instead. And I hope you will enjoy them too.
Before I go, here are some things that could pique your interest:
What I wrote
I didn’t write much beyond Tai Tales, but if you feel like it you can read my Chinese drama reviews here:
An amnesiac woman tries to be a dutiful wife. But in truth, she’s being used as bait by her husband to lure a nefarious bandit. A rare, beautiful gem of a drama that will make you smile and sigh.
A big-shot banker is demoted to a tiny branch of his bank when he refuses to participate in his superiors’ corrupt dealings. He refuses to lie low and causes ripples in his new place of work.
Okay, nerdier stuff I wrote:
The circle of competence and our information diet
When it comes to information consumption, am I focusing on a subject that will help me improve my life or make it worse?
Auditing my social media use and information consumption
When you get such extreme mental fatigue from social media and you just want to check out and sleep all day – you know you’ve got a problem.
Okay, maybe I wrote a lot LOL.
Great reads
Some interesting articles I read recently:
Has China’s younger generation really chosen to ‘lie flat’?
Even in Malaysia, Chinese youths face great pressure to excel. I remember watching a Youtube video of an naturalised American who visited China recently. There, he asked some Chinese teenagers about their plans, and they were already planning for their careers. He was so amazed by that.
I remember thinking, wait, Americans don’t do that at 16?? When I was 16 I was already drawing flowcharts for my path towards a medical career and working for the United Nations. (Which, er, as you can see, took a sharp detour to journalism in my 20s.)
I’m not sure if Chinese youths in Malaysia or youths in China have the greater pressure, but it is a pressure all Chinese people understand well. The belief that the Great Exam will change your life is a pervasive one in China, and among the diaspora in Malaysia.
This newsletter from the fabulous Baiguan offers three stories around this lie flat phenomenon in China.
The long strange trip of Julian Assange
With Julian Assange giving his first speech since he was released from prison, I wanted to get up to speed about him. This is a good primer.
Can China’s Long-Suffering Idol Fans Catch a Break?
Since I moderate a Reddit sub (a “responsibility” that I question each day) that often discusses this topic, I try to read up about it. Honestly, I’m still flummoxed by how insane fandom can get and don’t know what to think of it. Frankly, I think they’re (the stars, the industry) are milking profits off these young, para-socialised minds and the symbiotic yet toxic relationship disturbs me.
What I watched
Happily devouring a trashy drama that can be best described as “bandits and royalty in the desert”. Basically about a princess who ends up entangled with a bandit, a prince and a king. It’s not exactly “intellectual” TV, but it is about as much drama as I can handle right now LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s6d_zyUqhI
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Older shop windows in New Orleans.
1) Algiers Point - Renecky Shoe Co
2)Algiers Point - Whiskey & Wines
3)Freret Street, 13th Ward - Big Shot, Oil Change
4)Gentilly - Air Conditioned DrugsPhotos by Infrogmation of New Orleans
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Just lately I’ve been crossing off my wish list cameras at an alarming rate. First there was an Agfa Billy-Clack, then I found a Reto 3D on sale, and most recently acquired the oldest camera on my list, the Kodak 1A Autographic Jr. Of course, there are plenty of cameras still to go, the Kodak vest camera and the Polaroid Big Shot, for example, but today I was happy to have the Kodak 1A Autographic Jr.
First launched around 1914, the Kodak 1A Autographic Jr was described in the 1915 Kodak catalogue as, ‘a compact, reliable camera … and so thin as to be pocketed without inconvenience.’ I’m not sure what kind of pockets they used to have back in the day, but the 1A Autographic Jr is a beast. Measuring 20x10x4cm and weighing about 0.8kg, it was anything but pocketable by today’s standards.
From it’s launch in 1914 to when Kodak stopped production in 1927, about 800,000 units of the Kodak 1A Autographic Jr were produced. During that time it went through several variations of frontispiece — the lens, aperture and shutter assembly — but the overall body remained the same, with its bellows, removable back and the unique ‘Autographic’ feature that gives the 1A its name.
On the back of the camera is a little flap, and if this is lifted, below you can see the film plane. The Autographic cameras were equipped with a small stylus (mine has been lost over the years) and on the back of the film was a carbon paper layer that if you wrote on with the stylus (press down heavily it says in the manual) would imprint details onto the film, generally in the space between the frames. Thus you could annotate you films with a ‘date stamp’, or description.
Regarding the films used in the cameras, the 1A Autographic uses 116 film, which of course is no longer available. First introduced by Kodak in 1899, 116 film is 70mm wide, roughly 1 cm wider than 120 film, and produces 6.5×11cm negatives. On the flap on the back of my camera is embossed, ‘use Autographic film no. A-116’, which gave the same size pictures as 116 film but instead of paper the film was wound with a sheet of carbon paper and thinner red backing paper which allowed the user to write information on the back with the stylus. The A-116 film used in the 1A Autographic camera gave twelve exposures compared to eight exposures in the 1 series.
From what I can tell, my Autographic 1A is one of the later models in the series. It is fitted with a Diomatic shutter N°0, which was introduced to the Autographic 1A in 1925, and features shutter speeds of 1/10, 1/25, 1/50 and 1/100s plus B (bulb) and T (time). When you set a shutter speed, exposure is determined by the dial on the front underneath the lens. In the 1925 description of the camera it says, ‘the correct speed … for dull, gray, clear or brilliant light is indicated by a sliding scale which controls the diaphragm.’ These criteria would have been set for Kodak orthochromatic film, which from what I can tell had a film speed of ISO 30-40. I’m hoping that modern films have enough latitude that sometime I can use this awesome little ‘exposure meter’.
When I first saw Kodak 1A Autographic Jr on the Kamerastore website it was priced at an amazing 15€ and was in the ‘Not passed’ category, which was a sure sign that there was something wrong with it. From the image on the website you could see that some of the leather was peeling, and it was described as being in ‘generally bad condition’. However, that has never put me off before, and it didn’t deter me this time.
When the camera arrived, it certainly lived up to the description on the website. The leather was badly scuffed and was peeling in several places, the red window in the back of the camera was missing, which was highlighted on the website entry, and the back was firmly jammed onto the camera, which was not mentioned, but was normal for an ‘untested, sold as-is’ camera. Solving the issue of the jammed film back was quite straightforward. A small screwdriver was inserted into a gap between the back and the camera body and gentle pressure applied. The back moved slightly, then came apart from the body. Clipping it back on, the back now fits snugly in place. While the back was off, I took a quick look inside. Of course it was quite dirty, but apart from that, and the missing red window, it was in reasonably good condition.
When the front door was opened, the bellows came out quite easily. A quick check suggested they were in pretty good condition, but when I performed the lamp test later — shining a light through the bellows from inside the camera in the dark — they were anything but light tight, with a little Christmas tree of pinholes visible in the dark. However, what was more pressing was that the shutter was sticking. On the left (looking from the back) is a cocking lever and to the right is the shutter lever. The shutter cocks fine, but when I fire the shutter it hesitates half open for a second or so before firing. I’m hoping that this sticky shutter is just some 100-year-old gunk that’s making it stick and a bit of lighter fluid will get it firing again.
I had been thinking about what camera I’d like to use in the next #ShittyCameraChallenge, which is starting in December. Originally it was probably going to be the Agfa Billy-Clack, which of course I can still use in the Challenge, but now I hoping that I can get the Kodak 1A Autographic Jr, with its sticky shutter, no red window and pinhole-filled bellows, working again. If I can get it going it’ll be awesome.
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#116Film #ArtDeco #Autographic #Bellows #Camera #Experimental #Film #FrugalFilmProject #Kodak #Retro #Shittycamerachallenge #Vintage
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#TheAtlantic— For a #lavish and #expensive #epic about #1920s #Hollywood, Damien #Chazelle’s new #film, #Babylon, introduces itself about as #scatologically as possible. In its first sequence, a harried gofer named Manny Torres (played by Diego #Calva) tries to transport an elephant into the #Hollywood Hills for a big-shot #producer’s party, a #farcical #task that ends with the #elephant #pooping on the camera #lens—in a way, on the #viewers #themselves.
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Got a chance to photograph one of North America's most beautiful dung beetles, Copris arizonensis, at the Bugshot course in Portal last month. The various textures and shapes on this animal are amazing.
#Coleoptera #Copris #DungBeetle #Insects -
Got a chance to photograph one of North America's most beautiful dung beetles, Copris arizonensis, at the Bugshot course in Portal last month. The various textures and shapes on this animal are amazing.
#Coleoptera #Copris #DungBeetle #Insects -
I had a rather epic thrift haul today which included a LOT of die cutting related stuff.
I bought one of the original Sizzix machines at a thrift store a few weeks ago, and today I acquired a Sizzix BIg Shot and a Cuttlebug, as well as a TON of the cutting accessories.
I think I'm still missing some necessary pieces and I'm hoping I can find them, I didn't do a whole lot of research before impulsively purchasing a bunch of stuff....
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Make a plan VOTE ! #DementiaDonRico is swirling the drain. Mob boss, Mr. big shot is wearing black face again. THIS IS NOT NORMAL He's crazier than ever. He can't make a sentence. His rally venue is half empty, he's loosing it and he is lashing out. He is not well.Meanwhile our brilliant #TransportationSecretaryPeteButtigiege is a true gem & #VPHarris is super presidential & perfect for this moment in history. We will win. #WomanWillSaveDEMOCRACY https://youtu.be/LjCRURGx6kg?si=N2b4TONtMWUjCvyH https://youtube.com/watch?v=LjCRURGx6kg&si=SzcnDL0ea73OlMi7
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Media Draws Attention to Sam Bankman-Fried’s 2 Visits While on House Arrest - After FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was released on bail and traveled to ... - https://news.bitcoin.com/media-draws-attention-to-sam-bankman-frieds-2-visits-while-on-house-arrest/ #disgracedformerftxceo #majormoviecompanies #streamingcompanies #“bigshort”author #sambankman-fried #securitiesfraud #thenewyorkpost #ftxco-founder #pitchingabook #michaellewis #taylorlorenz #arraignment #bikiniphoto #articles
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I wonder if this is a Backyard Baseball first. A big shot from Ernie that bounced off the head of the right fielder and over the fence for a homerun!
https://www.twitch.tv/bogusmeatfactory/clip/HomelyStrangeGrasshopperWoofer-524DBwTUMgFwflsa
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🚨 Burry's Final Act: He deregistered Scion Asset Management.
The Lesson: He removed his 13F duty before his $NVDA & $PLTR shorts could be fully verified as a blunder. Destroy the evidence before you admit the error. 🤡
Audit his final position size here: https://www.13radar.com/guru/michael-burry
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Michael Burry a.k.a. "Big Short",discloses $1.1B bet against Nvidia&Palantir
#HackerNews #MichaelBurry #BigShort #Nvidia #Palantir #InvestmentNews #FinanceTrends
