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Options / Long Volatility… but lately other stuff
“N.F.A.”
Put down the paddles. It’s time to call Time of Death on the McCarthy speakership vote
What fresh hell is this? Adobe has opted me in to letting them train their algorithms on my photos? That’s the end of me using their cloud storage for anything, ever. #privacy #adobe #lightroom #LightroomMobile

[reads, rubs eyes, reads again, sobs]

"a New Jersey-based law firm that was the first personal injury law firm to have opened an office in the metaverse, today announced that it has gifted CryptoMories non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to its employees as year-end bonuses that will provide them and their family members unlimited mental health services."

https://www.prweb.com/releases/2022/12/prweb19063172.htm

If you’re cheering the failure to elect McCarthy you’re looking at the wrong thing
The US public domain extends at midnight tonight another year, now encompassing through 1927. You can read my 2019 Smithsonian story about when a 20-year freeze thawed: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/first-time-20-years-copyrighted-works-enter-public-domain-180971016/ The joy of the public domain isn’t just that the works are freely available. Some works are locked up amid copyright confusion, or a publisher simply decided to stop publishing new editions. The public domain ensures access to important works that otherwise would exist only in a handful of libraries.
For the First Time in More Than 20 Years, Copyrighted Works Will Enter the Public Domain

A beloved Robert Frost poem is among the many creations that are (finally) losing their protections in 2019

Smithsonian Magazine
LAST BS BUSTING OF 2022
1/ Epoch Times, the conspiracy sheet, claims boosted is worse than vaxxed & report claims by Robert Malone as to the ineffectiveness of vaccines. Then provide data showing EFFECTIVENESS of vaxx (up to 92% lower death) and they fall for Simpson's paradox.
Is it bad to get a margin call because the plummeting share price of one business can no longer prop up the other failing business, cause it seems bad
Mastodon seems to have reached a critical mass that makes it possible to doomscroll.
Portman Introduces Two Bills on Facial Recognition, AI in Government

The fate of the bills in a lame duck session of Congress is uncertain, but a Portman aide says the outgoing senator wants to be active on the subjects even after retiring.

Nextgov.com

Reuters reached a tentative contract agreement with its unionized US journalists, including 10% pay hike over three years and terms that let most employees work from home three days a week next year

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-27/reuters-agrees-to-wage-increase-work-from-home-in-us-labor-deal

Reuters Agrees to Wage Increase, Work From Home in US Labor Deal

Thomson Reuters Corp. reached a tentative contract agreement with its unionized US journalists, including pay raises and terms that let most employees work from home three days a week next year.

Bloomberg