pyrrhlin
mhoyeWhere does “board member saying something that’s obviously nonsense about the company finances” fit on our hierarchy of market-legible signals?
mike morris@mhoye The ability to detect *and call out* that unmistakable odour of bullshit remains one of life's key skills, but seemingly eludes a large portion of the population.
tripleman, a 🇨🇦 in 🇩🇪@mikro2nd Same and, man oh man, is this not a popular skill to have.
Andrew Deacon@mhoye I dont know much about the AI bubble but I will make a prediction. The one group of professionals who will end up making vast profits from the bubble are the Lawyers.
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@mhoye can't help but laugh. masnick, supposedly a journalist, playing dumb.
@mawhrin Speaking truth to power is outdated thinking, these days we speak fluff to stonks.
glasspshr@glasspusher @mhoye it all checks out if you remember that he's a technolibertarian.
@glasspusher @mhoye he will always take a position against the state, but he very rarely will find a reason to constrain a private enterprise.
A journalist isn't just a stenographer who's picked a side.
@mhoye @glasspusher very much so. (there's a reason i'm blocked by masnick both here and on bsky.)
Cassandrich@glasspusher @mhoye @mawhrin Come on?
(1) If it's a conflict of interest he should be shutting up not lying.
(2) It's disappointing that he's on the board of such a slimy org to begin with. But we already knew that.
Dan S
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Interpipes 💙@mhoye @davidgerard @_elena who among us hasn't been too busy to pen the most basic of press releases about a $100m investment in your company
Elena Rossini ⁂@_elena @mhoye @davidgerard this isn't some bullshit shenanigans like "we told them we only needed to borrow $100m but then couldn't actually pay it back and we've had to force the lender to take stock instead and now they are an investor!" is it
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Kevin Boyd (he/him) 🇨🇦@mhoye hmm. Hmm. Now I'm wondering if I should drop techdirt from my rss feeds.
... nah. But I think I'll create a new folder for it. Maybe I'll put it beside pluralistic and gruber. People who seem to have well-respected opinions, inconceivably (to me) frequent output, and a couple of frustrating blind spots.
@mhoye Done. "Opinionistas".
The Orange Theme@mhoye I hate when I get $100 million and just forget to tell everyone because I have soooo many emails to get through.
@theorangetheme who among us.