Jason Rayner

@JasonRayner
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Startup and innovation fan / supporter... oh and dad to two brilliant souls.

US PPI much cooler than expected at -0.5% vs. -0.1% est... more signs that inflation is retreating in Canada as well.

US Retail Sales for December - no bueno. -1.1% MoM

@gnat “Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.” ~Roger Ebert
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@justinling it's Ebony and ivory! They live together in perfect harmony.

I remember covering Peterson's testimony before the Canadian Senate some five years ago, when he claimed that an anti-discrimination bill would created "compelled speech" and result in people going to jail for not using the correct gender pronouns.

It turned out to be, surprise, complete nonsense. None of the dire warnings he predicted even remotely came true. Yet he's going to garner alarmist headlines for yet another round of crackpottery.

I decided to take some time to reflect on some of the #QuoteBoost discourse, from the lens of moderation and community development. I expect these are not new thoughts since there's a lively discourse to which I'm largely oblivious.

Special thanks to @futurebird, whose posts have been especially illuminating for me.

https://write.as/collisiondomain/some-thoughts-on-quote-boosts

#QB #QBs #QT #QTs

Some thoughts on Quote Boosts

I have read many intricate discussions about quote-boosting content on the fediverse, and like many others before me, I have concluded th...

collision domain
@donieosullivan I think it wise to be pragmatic. You still have an audience on Twitter. There's also no need to be quiet about your objection to requiring the removal of the tweet. 

Let me get the sequence of events right....
1) Idiot misogynist Andrew Tate gets banned from Twitter because he's an idiot misogynist
2) Other idiot Elon Musk let's Andrew Tate back on Twitter, because idiots certainly do enjoy one another.
3) Andrew Tate immediately uses his return to insult teenage girl Greta Thunberg
4) Thunberg totally owns Tate in an epic Twitter exchange
5) Tate attempts to recoup some face by lamely insulting Thunberg (who wisely does not engage) eventually admitting that he is in Romania, where he is wanted by police
6) Romanian authorities use this information to go arrest Tate, because he's wanted on suspicion of the very serious crime of abduction (of two girls)

Conclusion: Elon Musk might have inadvertently done a good thing.

@Popehat Can confirm!

Stocks I'm watching this week with bias:

Long: #ATO, #BBWI, #BLMN, #BTU, #CHX, #DG, #ETSY, #INMD, #MGNI, #NFLX, #TSCO

Short: None

Some areas of the market are quite oversold / not a great environment for new shorts... but longs are also suspect, IMO. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯