#concentration — Public Fediverse posts

A quotation from Thomas Carlyle

The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something: the strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock; the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
The Life of Friedrich Schiller, Part 2 (1825)

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“Gambling is a tax on ignorance”*…

And as Einstein observed, “two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”

Gambling– and related specualtive investments– have always been, for the vast majority of punters, a sucker’s bet. But, as Paul Kedrosky explains, the growing prevalence of AI and the emergence of prediction markets have amplified that painful reality…

The return skew in prediction markets’ returns is startling. It is partly a function of their nature, but also of vibe-coding script kiddies attacking every market anomaly as quickly as it arises. Check a recent WSJ article for examples.

The same dynamic is now spreading across retail-dominated markets. A driver is how AI lowers the cost of systematic exploitation and exploration to near zero. What used to require infrastructure, data pipelines, and bearded quants is now accessible via off-the-shelf models, APIs, and loosely stitched “agent” workflows doing … stuff that even their users don’t fully understand.

The result isn’t democratization of returns. It is wider participation, of a sort, alongside the rapid re-concentration of profits. A small subset of users—those willing to iterate fastest, monitor continuously, and deploy capital programmatically—capture gains, with everyone else just liquidity.

They scrape sentiment, parse new information, and reprice positions in seconds, compressing the half-life of mispricings. That doesn’t eliminate inefficiency, but changes who harvests it. The edge shifts from insight to speed, coverage, and execution discipline—areas where even modest automation compounds quickly, and edges disappear overnight.

Prediction markets are simply the cleanest expression of this trend because they combine thin liquidity, discrete outcomes, and high retail participation. But the same pattern is visible in options flow, single-stock volatility events, and even online poker, which AI increasingly dominates.

As AI tools continue to scale, expect this to get worse: a small cohort running semi-automated strategies extracting semi-consistent edge, and a much larger base supplying them returns. Under the pressure of AI prevalance, markets don’t flatten, the return gradient steepens to a cliff…

Fewer and fewer winners take more and more of the pot. The mechanics of concentration: “AI is Eating Markets” from @paulkedrosky.com.

* Warren Buffett

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As we contemplate concentration, we might note that today is Mother’s Day. As noted yesterday, the observance became official on that date in 1914. But the quest to honor moms began a good bit earlier. On this date in 1908, Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her mother at St. Andrew’s Methodist Church in Grafton, West Virginia, the location of the International Mother’s Day Shrine. But her quest to create Mother’s Day had begun three years earlier when her mother Ann, a lifelong activist, died.

Ann had tried to start a “Mother’s Remembrance Day” in the mid-19th century. On her passing, Anna enlisted the support of retailer extraordinaire John Wanamaker, who knew a merchandising opportunity when he saw one, and who hosted the first Mother’s Day ceremonies in his Philadelphia emporium’s auditorium. In 1912, Anna trademarked the phrases “second Sunday in May” and “Mother’s Day”, and created the Mother’s Day International Association. By 1914, she and Wanamaker had built sufficient support in Congress to score the Congressional Resolution noted yesterday. (President Wilson, who was by current accounts uninterested in the move– distracted as he was by the beginnings of his ultimately unsuccessful effort to keep the U.S. out of the troubles in Europe that became World War I– nonetheless knew better than to take a stand against moms.)

Poverty-Free: 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics

https://6garden.wordpress.com/2026/05/07/poverty-free-2019-nobel-prize-in-economics/

Brussels has a new guide on taxation: we must fight against the concentration of wealth

BarcelonaThe European Commission has a new diagnosis on taxation that points to the highest incomes and large fortunes.…
#Belgium #BE #Europe #Europa #EU #be #België #belgien #Belgique #belgium #Brussels #combated #concentration #guide #has #must #Nachrichten #new #Nieuws #Nouvelles #taxation #wealth
https://www.europesays.com/2961217/

https://www.europesays.com/dk/73421/ wealth concentration must be combated #be #Belgium #Brussels #combated #concentration #guide #has #must #new #Taxation #wealth

Brussels has a new guide on taxation: wealth concentration must be combated

BarcelonaThe European Commission has a new diagnosis on taxation that points to higher incomes and large fortunes. According…
#Europe #EU #EuropeanCommission #be #Brussels #combated #Concentration #guide #has #must #New #TAXATION #wealth
https://www.europesays.com/europe/29284/

https://www.europesays.com/be/13847/ Brussels has a new guide on taxation: wealth concentration must be combated #be #Brussels #combated #concentration #guide #has #must #New #taxation #wealth

How To #Improve Your #Concentration : Medium

New #Gas-Powered #DataCenters Could #Emit More #GreenhouseGases Than Entire #Nations : WIRED

#World #Food systems ‘pushed to the #Brink’ by extreme #Heat, #UN warns : Guardian

Latest #KnowledgeLinks

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A quotation from Einstein

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
 
[Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

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A quotation from Einstein

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
 
[Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

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A quotation from Einstein

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
 
[Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

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A quotation from Einstein

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
 
[Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

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A quotation from Einstine

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.
 
[Die Majorität der Dummen ist unüberwindbar und für alle Zeiten gesichert. Der Schrecken ihrer Tyrannei ist indessen gemildert durch Mangel an Konsequenz.]

Albert Einstein (1879-1955) German-American physicist
Essay (1953-05-23), “Aphorisms for Leo Baeck [Neun Aphorismen], No. 5, Essays Presented to Leo Baeck on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday (1954) [Einstein Archives 28-962]

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https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/46643/ C’est officiel, La Hulpe attaque la Flandre en justice : « On nous demande d’acheter un chat dans un sac » #adult #athlete #australia #AustralianOpen #ball #BallGame #BE #BEFr #Belgique #Belgium #clothing #competition #concentration #exercising #grappa33 #January202026 #lifestyles #melbourne #MelbournePark #OnePerson #player #racket #RacketSport #Sports #SportsClothing #string #tennis #TennisBall #TennisRacket #victoria #xxshare #YoungAdult

[en] Cloud outages: "#Concentration is the real risk" - Prof Doug #Jacobson

For example, #DNS ... has quietly become a single point of failure ... DNS is not alone.

#Cloud outages are getting more #expensive. "#Centralization magnifies these costs."

"... concentration means that a single configuration error, routing issue or attack can ripple across much of the web."

https://theconversation.com/why-cloud-service-outages-ripple-across-the-internet-and-the-economy-272241

#cybersecurity #spof #outage #crowdstrike #iastate

https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/35417/ Jets de raquette, insultes au public : une joueuse russe pète les plombs à Indian Wells (VIDEOS) #adult #athlete #AustralianOpen #ball #BallGame #BE #BEFr #belgaonthespot #Belgique #Belgium #BeneluxOnly #clothing #competition #concentration #dames #determination #exercising #femmes #lifestyles #OnePerson #player #racket #RacketSport #Sports #SportsClothing #tennis #TennisBall #TennisRacket #vrouwen #YoungAdult

https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/35189/ Attention, c’est peut-être aussi la dernière » : les chefs intransigeants avec un candidat de « Top Chef #adult #athlete #AustralianOpen #ball #BallGame #BE #BEFr #belgaonthespot #Belgique #Belgium #BeneluxOnly #clothing #competition #concentration #dames #determination #Divertissement #Entertainment #exercising #femmes #lifestyles #OnePerson #player #racket #RacketSport #Sports #SportsClothing #tennis #TennisBall #TennisRacket #vrouwen #YoungAdult

https://www.europesays.com/be-fr/34856/ A Dubaï, les refuges tirent la sonnette d'alarme face à l'abandon d'animaux : "Ils souffrent en silence" – DHnet #adult #athlete #AustralianOpen #ball #BallGame #BE #BEFr #belgaonthespot #Belgique #Belgium #BeneluxOnly #clothing #competition #concentration #dames #determination #exercising #femmes #International #lifestyles #OnePerson #player #racket #RacketSport #Sports #SportsClothing #tennis #TennisBall #TennisRacket #vrouwen #WorldNews #YoungAdult

"HIS FILES THEIR WAR YOUR KIDS"
Seen in Nashville this weekend
#fascist #USA #OurPutin #AnotherOrban #PresidentMusk #WhiskeyPete #Kegsbreath #Iran #MiddleEast #war for #oil #ChristoFascism #Armaggedon #SecondComing #bomb #SchoolGirls #GOP #KKK #DEI #DHS #ICE #DBP #concentration #camps #Israel #Palestine #WarCrimes #military #parade #unarmed #ship #sunk #submarine #torpedo #survivors

There was no need for, and no such thing as, a *reciprocal tariff*. The streets of Minneapolis were safe. The immigrants are not gang members and undocumented workers cannot vote. Our elections are fair.
"To the extent that there's an emergency, he's the cause of it."
- Joyce Vance, lawyer in Obama admin.
#fascist #USA #OurPutin #free #fair #elections #states #rights #emergency #declaration #GOP #KKK #ICE #immigration #policy #concentration #camps #human #rights #violations #AnotherOrban

I've hinted at this (below) before, as we've watched the #USA slide into #fascism. But with #ICE and the #DoJ now routinely ignoring court orders, or engaging in malicious compliance, and offering obviously bad-faith arguments about how their actions didn't actually violate court orders, it's become pretty apparent that the #immigration issue is the one driving this #lawless #government.

Did I say immigration? Sorry, I meant the #racist issue. The administration has been very clear and very explicit about their actual goals - bragging about how they're going to "restore" #America with 100,000,000 #deportations. That's basically the number of non-white people in the #country, most of whom were born in the USA and are lawful, #inalienable #citizens. Then there are the slogans and mottos stolen directly from the #Nazis, talking about #purifying Germany and all the rest. They are not being subtle about this.

Building #concentration camps is a pretty solid clue, too. The death #camps in #WWII started out like this, trying to #deport people. But when you can't move fast enough, well, you gotta do something, right? So #gas chambers and #crematoriums... ICE isn't meeting its #deportation quotas, so they're letting people die of neglect and abuse. It'll get there.

So, the point: if (big IF) #USAnians can recover their #country, it won't really be over until #Stephen #Miller meets his end after a short #drop and sudden stop at the #Hague.

#USPol #AmeriKKKa #StephenMiller

There's so much out there, there's a Wikipedia page about it.
"They'll round up enemies & put 'em in camps"
>Meanwhile, one of the richest armies on planet Earth, ICE, is doing just that.
[Their Conspiracy Theories Just Broadcast What They'll Do When in Power, Part B]
#fascist #USA #concentration #camps #ICE #raids = #slave #patrols #GOP #KKK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory

There's so much out there, there's a Wikipedia page about it.
"They'll round up enemies & put 'em in camps"
>Meanwhile, one of the richest armies on planet Earth, ICE, is doing just that.
[Their Conspiracy Theories Just Broadcast What They'll Do When in Power, Part B]
#fascist #USA #concentration #camps #ICE #raids = #slave #patrols #GOP #KKK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory

There's so much out there, there's a Wikipedia page about it.
"They'll round up enemies & put 'em in camps"
>Meanwhile, one of the richest armies on planet Earth, ICE, is doing just that.
[Their Conspiracy Theories Just Broadcast What They'll Do When in Power, Part B]
#fascist #USA #concentration #camps #ICE #raids = #slave #patrols #GOP #KKK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory

There's so much out there, there's a Wikipedia page about it.
"They'll round up enemies & put 'em in camps"
>Meanwhile, one of the richest armies on planet Earth, ICE, is doing just that.
[Their Conspiracy Theories Just Broadcast What They'll Do When in Power, Part B]
#fascist #USA #concentration #camps #ICE #raids = #slave #patrols #GOP #KKK
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FEMA_camps_conspiracy_theory

DANS LES CAMPS DE L' #ICE, LES #DROITS #HUMAINS BAFOUÉS QUOTIDIENNEMENT

– #Malnutrition, #viols, #tabassages, #meurtres, #détention de milliers d’ #enfants, #maltraitance de #femmes #enceintes ou d’enfants dans les #camps de #concentration de l’ #ICE –

https://contre-attaque.net/2026/01/28/dans-les-camps-de-lice-les-droits-humains-bafoues-quotidiennement/

https://www.europesays.com/fr/689708/ Australian Open – Elise Mertens ne craint pas cette star du circuit : « Je n’ai rien à perdre » #adult #athlete #AustralianOpen #ball #BallGame #belgaonthespot #BeneluxOnly #compétition #concentration #dames #détermination #exercising #Femmes #FR #France #lifestyles #motion #OnePerson #player #racket #RacketSport #Sports #SportsClothing #Tennis #TennisBall #TennisRacket #vrouwen #YoungAdult

Worth remembering that prior to the Great Depression, farm prices collapsed well before Wall Street did.

Regulators who regulate and the overturning of Citizens United would help remedy this.

https://youtu.be/jaOS6bGta7M

#democracy #farming #antitrust #regulation #agriculture #agribusiness #concentration

That's the picture that came to my mind

#meditation #buddhism #jhana #concentration #practice #monkeymind

Le spectacle vivant, pour une poignée de milliardaires

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.lechiffon.fr/le-spectacle-vivant-pour-une-poignee-de-milliardaires/

🎵 Исцеляющая музыка в стиле Славянского фолка с современными элементами для умственной работы и памяти ✨

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ISXFSv-R90

#musicforstudy #focusmusic #healingmusic #memoryimprovement #iqboost #motivation #studymusic #concentration #slavicfolk #electronicmusic #productivity #brainpower #deepwork #mindfulness #relaxation #mentalclarity #calmmind #projectgamaun #музыкадляучебы #концентрация #память #продуктивность #мозги

this is a really important TED talk about #wealth #concentration to the grave disadvantage of the younger generations. #Youth #WealthConcentration #Theft

https://youtu.be/qEJ4hkpQW8E?si=8krDca-e6-NA6pO7

The pink #tansyaphid #Metopeurum #fuscoviride is native to Europe and prefers forming large #colonies on #tansy #Tanacetum #vulgare.This aphid is very attractive for #ants, as one aphid has a high #honeydew #production with in average 1 milligram of honeydew per hour. Authors M. K. Fischer et al. (2002) found the #aminoacid #concentration in honeydew increasing with #aphid age.

© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2025

Ref
M. K. Fischer et al. (2002)
https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-1910(01)00179-2

#Photos
© S F. Wirth 2025

"The wealthier a household was in 1990, the quicker its wealth has accumulated in the years since. While the top 1% grew its share of total household wealth, all other U.S. wealth groups have seen their shares decrease."

https://archive.is/20250430155240/https://www.wsj.com/economy/1-trillion-richest-families-wealth-increase-bc13874a h/t @John

#wealth #money #accumulation #redirection #appropriation #USPol #neoliberalism #RonaldReagan #taxes #assets #savings #estate #property #ownership #finance #economy #economics #inequalities #concentration #families #TaxTheRich #billionaires

"The reason you begin tracking your data is that you have
some uncertainty about yourself that you believe the data
can illuminate. It’s about introspection, reflection, seeing
patterns, and arriving at realizations about who you are
and how you might change."
—Eric Boyd, self-tracker

an article by Natasha D. Schüll, 2019, "The Data-Based Self:
Self-Quantification and the Data-Driven (Good) Life" https://www.natashadowschull.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/SocialResearch-2019.pdf

#concentration #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #selfRegulation #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #selfConfidence #dataDon #Schüll #quotes

‘Our moral intuitions about merit and personal worth are changing.’

an interview with Marion Fourcade about her book "The Ordinal Society" co-written by @kjhealy: https://news.berkeley.edu/2024/04/23/from-uber-ratings-to-credit-scores-whats-lost-in-a-society-that-counts-and-sorts-everything/

#TheOrdinalSociety #concentration #merit #meritocracy #MarionFourcade #Fourcade #school #credit #scores #scoring #reward #rewards #sociology #psychology #socioPsych #socioPsychology #ranking #selfWorth #universalism #digitalization #inequality #inequalities #recognition #data #AIRisks #AIEthics #gaming #socialization #Tracking #surveillance #power #socialControl #governance #regulation #rules #socialMedia #attention #reintermediation #intermediation #enshittification #risk #derisking #vulnerability #morality #confidence #trust #dataDon

📢🔍 Breaking News: #America accused of exporting its worst #vacation destinations—concentration camps! Who knew #El #Salvador and #Guantanamo #Bay would become the latest hotspots for indefinite stays? 🏝️⛓️ But hey, once you've built a system that ditches #due #process, why not share it with the world? 🌎🙄
https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/american-concentration-camps #destinations #concentration #camps #HackerNews #ngated

#Heilon #Musk offers a bid to buy #OpenAI for up to $97,4 billions Is this the #great #genius ? He cannot create #Twitter so he has to #buy #it. He cannot create #OpenAI, so he has to #buy #it. Without considering/mentionning the #unprecedented #concentration of #powers elpais.com/internaciona...

Musk presenta una oferta de 97...

#Heilon #Musk offers a bid to buy #OpenAI for up to $97,4 billions

Is this the #great #genius ?
He cannot create #Twitter so he has to #buy #it.
He cannot create #OpenAI, so he has to #buy #it.
Without considering/mentionning the #unprecedented #concentration of #powers

https://elpais.com/internacional/2025-02-10/musk-presenta-una-oferta-de-97400-millones-de-dolares-para-comprar-openai.html

Master stress with Navy Seals' secret: The 4-4-4-4 box breathing technique

Frances Mei Hardin is an otolaryngologist.

https://youtube.com/shorts/L6TV9QrHh80

Link in bio or visit kevinmd.com/podcast

#DistressTolerance #BoxBreathing #NavySeals #4444Method #BreathingTechniques #VagalNervousSystem #StressManagement #MeditativePractices #Concentration

@et_alia YES. When I’m mentally or emotionally exhausted, my ability to handle #sensory stuff is severely diminished. Sounds are my biggest #trigger. It’s further exacerbated by demands for #concentration, like #focusing #attention on reading or writing.

It’s why I now wear over-ear headsets and entirely ignore phone and email during meetings. Why no, I didn’t see your email during that meeting. I was actually paying attention.

#ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD

@rbreich Let's do this again. Gotta use hashtags or your message doesn't get out as effectively. #MastodonTips

#Corporate #Concentration #CorporateConcentration #Oligopoly #Trustbusting #GovernmentNegligence #WallStreet #Airlines #DrugCompanies #MeatProcessing