Jamie Lee Kurtosis

@josh.sg

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I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. AUD vol on a 40 handle. Crypto basis swaps. BNPL burrito taxis. Cloudwatch bills the size of a phone number. Memories, tears in rain, etc. etc.

Chris Cocks — Chief Executive Officer Well, certainly Kamigawa is a sequel to when the last Kamigawa came out. It became the best-selling first-party set of all time. But then basically every other first-party set that came out after that kind of took the crown. I would anticipate that the new Kamigawa do likewise. It should be pretty fun. The other two sets are more original settings for us. And then in terms of the Universes Beyond that we'll have next year, I don't want to give away too much on those. Each of them I think will be pretty cool. I think we have a different kind of announce strategy which is more IP-specific around some significant dates and significant events associated with those. I think the one thing I'll say on the Universes Beyond partners that we have next year is they'll probably be a bit more fantasy-adjacent. And I don't think any of them will take place in New York City because we definitely have gotten that feedback from some fans.
A list of the seven smallest banks in America by assets. Four are subsidiaries of larger organizations; one (Kentland) collapsed into receivership on Friday; and two are still extant.
Winnie-the-Pooh tuxedo meme: Winnie-the-Pooh: it's coming home Winnie-the-Pooh in a tuxedo: we recommend selling cable gamma due to a possible unscheduled public holiday on July 20th
Winnie-the-Pooh tuxedo meme: Winnie-the-Pooh: Betting on England to win the cup Winnie-the-Pooh in a tuxedo: short July 20th cable gamma in case Starmer declares a bank holiday
Toto Wolff is frowning VERY intensely at something off to the right of the screen
Quiz results showing that I am roughly evenly split between “tech bro” and “Luddite”; mostly “woke”, not “chud”; mostly “hopepilled”, not “doomer”; and extremely “Davis”, not “Dubai”, and I am closest to Mark Carney in these respects
my scorecard for this week’s Pointed quiz, showing a perfect 190
A rabbit, standing in a patch of bark chips, looking mildly surprised in the direction of the camera.
A screenshot of my score on the April 3rd Pointed, showing a perfect 190
#* Conversation *# REF. NO: 375 DATE: 021110 TIME: 0809 TO DRBS COMMERZ FFT - DB SIN OUR TERMINAL: DRMS OUR USER: Joshua Giersch # AUD 3 SELL AT # #INTERRUPT# # 1.0000 TO CONFIRM 3 MIO AGREED AT 1.0000 I BUY AUD VAL 04NOV2010 MY AUD TO AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND BANKING GROUP, MELBOURNE THANKS AND BYE # #INTERRUPT# #END REMOTE# ^ ##ENDED AT 08:11 GMT## (209 CHARS) #* End of Conversation *#
A Will Manidis tweet: “ a friend who thought he owned some SpaceX via a slightly odd SPV just found out (allegedly) the manager sold the underlying to some offshore family office and fled the country”
A scoresheet for the Bloomberg Pointed quiz showing a perfect 190 points
“Panic sweeps Korean stocks in biggest one-day crash since 2008”, but it’s in the Pokopia font
A Pointed end-of-game screenshot showing a perfect 190 score.
A shot of The Score, sitting on a table next to a glass of white wine. In the background, abstract art hangs on a brick wall
An excerpt from The Score, in which Nguyen argues that metrics provide a dangerous, seductive, artificial clarity around value
"Should you use ChatGPT to hedge a new issue?"
The main building of the Hearst Castle complex, a gigantic mock-Spanish pile with a pair of hundred-foot-high bell towers surrounding a front door that tries to be, but isn't, on par with the entrance to Gaudi's Sagrada Família. Palm trees are scattered around the building, and a crowd mills on the steps below, possibly wondering what possessed William Randolph Hearst to build this incoherent pile.
Bixby Bridge at Big Sur, a dramatic arched bridge over a deep coastal canyon. The panorama is lit by a golden sunset.
A screenshot of Intuit TurboTax, suggesting that I'll be able to finish my taxes in an hour and thirty-two minutes. There is an inexplicable popup that labels the picture as "race mode activation".
An Arabian gazelle is looking straight at the camera. It has slender black horns, a very soft face with dramatic white eyeliner, and ridiculously huge ears that look like variegated leaves.
A falcon, wings spread and its eyes intently focused, perches on a glove on the arm of its keeper. The keeper is a young woman, wearing sunglasses, smiling proudly at the falcon.
A screenshot from the above Bloomberg article. "The pensions regulator had been monitoring the swaps contracts based on their nominal value, rather than the risk. If the yield curve were flat, a one-year swap contract and a 10-year swap contract may have the same notional value outstanding, but the dollar value at risk for the 10-year would be far higher. The correct way to hedge a swap is with another swap of equal risk, not equal nominal outstanding."
A sign in the style of Zohran Mamdani’s “Zohran for New York City” posters but it says “Wicked for Good”
A screenshot from a Bloomberg article. It reads “I’m a little embarrassed by this, but I love Dick’s,” one fellow soccer dad tells me. “When we walk in I say ‘I love Dicks”
An AI-generated video of a tech company CEO hosting a press conference where he is announcing the creation of the Torment Nexus, from the classic sci-fi novel Don't Create the Torment Nexus. He holds up a copy of the book and points repeatedly to it as he speaks.
A still from the movie Mean Girls. Cady Heron, played by Lindsay Lohan, is saying “it’s October 3rd”.
An aspen tree, with a slender white trunk, is fully covered in yellow and orange autumn foliage. It's surrounded by dark-green pine trees, and the scene is reflected in a lake in the foreground.
A dead bristlecone pine tree, shot from near its base, in dramatic perspective against a partly cloudy sky. The tree is tall and gnarled, and the wood is striated with light-blonde and dark-gray streaks.
Advancements in electronic trading may be crushing volatility in the currency market, making prolonged wild swings a thing of the past. That’s the view of some of the participants at an annual industry shindig in Barcelona this week, where the impact of growing automation and algorithmic trading were the hot topics. Some warned that the lack of dramatic action creates the risk that market makers may exit as it becomes harder to generate profits.
A long-exposure picture of star trails circling above the peak of Mount Shasta. Polaris, the center of the circle, is in the top left; down the bottom, the ground is lit in an eerie red, and two trees are silhouetted against the sky, one on each side of the frame.
Two Acorn Woodpeckers - black birds with white undersides and prominent red heads - are sitting on a branch. In the background, the trunk of the tree they're sitting on is pockmarked with holes drilled by other woodpeckers.
A half-sunken ship, weathered by time and salt spray, sits listing in the calm water of a harbor.
A squirrel pokes his head up from behind some dry grass, looking intently at the viewer, his ears perked as though he's suspicious of something.