Friday, November 30, 2018
A mesmerizing, mirrored time-lapse of humans moving through cities. (Seizure warning.)
A mesmerizing, mirrored time-lapse of humans moving through cities. (Seizure warning.)
The Literary Review announces the 2018 finalists for its “bad sex in fiction” award.
Some sex scenes were “so over the top as to be almost outrageous”, said Brinkley, pointing to this line in Scoundrels: “I yearned again for the cogs of her Iron Maiden to grind my glans around inside her like an opera singer with a mouth lozenge.”
↩︎ The Guardian
December OPEC Meeting Preview
When the OPEC-Non-OPEC Joint Ministerial Monitoring Committee (JMMC) convened in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates in mid-November, it reported in a press release: The Committee reviewed current oil supply and demand fundamentals and noted that 2019 prospects point to higher supply growth than global requirements, taking into account current uncertainties. “The Committee also noted that […]
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An analysis of search terms finds a strong correlation between Trump supporters and “fragile masculinity.”
The precincts that swung hardest for Trump in 2016 and for the GOP in 2018 also had the highest incidence of Google searches for “erectile dysfunction,” “hair loss,” “how to get girls,” “penis enlargement,” “penis size,” “steroids,” “testosterone” and “Viagra.”
↩︎ Boing Boing
GFXC to publish disclosures, cover-and-deal findings
Take Profits On SPY Today - Trump and Xi Not Ready To Deal
Take Profits On SPY Today - Trump and Xi Not Ready To Deal
Two banks sign up for ForexClear compression
Hedge fund giants lead fourth wave of IM candidates
Volatility will not deter central banks
Thursday, November 29, 2018
“Cuddle parties” are going strong in San Francisco, despite or because of “a quiet air of loneliness.”
At our feet is a very active massage train. A man with a low blonde ponytail is spooning with two women, a move called the spoon drawer. His eyes are closed in delicious delight.
↩︎ SF Gate
A musical portrait in the wake of crisis.
From the podcast and radio show Afropop Worldwide, a recent episode explores Mali’s emergence from war through a return of its musical life.
Ethnomusicologist Lucy Durán has been studying the oral transmission of music in various countries, notably among griot families in Mali. With her guidance, we explore the precarious lives of griots in today’s Bamako, focusing on the upbringing and education of children in these hereditary families of historian-entertainers. Elders and traditionalists say the griot tradition has been corrupted beyond hope, and even advise their young to pursue different professions. Others persist, within an environment where growing religious conservatism puts increasing pressure on the lives and careers of all musicians.
Farm Bill Could Unleash $1 Billion In US Hemp Sales
The US hemp industry is on the verge of a groundbreaking legal victory. Powerful politicians are about to open the floodgates for billions in new sales to flow into the hemp industry in the next few years with a controversial piece of legislation. This potential legal breakthrough is the perfect catalyst for a promising young […]
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Market Bounce Will Continue - Ride Profits and Use These Levels
Market Bounce Will Continue - Ride Profits and Use These Levels
A conversation about emerging technologies that take CO2 out of the atmosphere, and America’s great climate hypocrisy.
"The U.S. has the natural gas, has the fantastic [CO2 storage] reservoir capacity, the pipeline infrastructure, has tremendous lands for wind and solar. We’ve got all of it. And so we could become the, or one of the, energy superpowers of the world."
↩︎ YaleEnvironment360
"We are here for a dream."
Footage from the Deportivo Benito Juarez in Tijuana’s Zona Norte, where hundreds of migrants from Central America are sheltering with hopes of entering the United States. From L.A. Taco:
Along the path, various organizations and government bodies have set up booths to aid the migrants: medical, legal, human-rights. The inevitable Christian evangelizers and hard-left activists weave among the crowds, yearning for converts. Too many reporters and camera crews all hunt for what is essentially the same story: weepy tales of a migrant’s vulnerability and desperation.
If the Universe were shrunk to something akin to the size of Earth, what would be the scale for stars, planets, etc.?
The nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, is about half a millimeter away, or about the size of an amoeba. The Galaxy is now about seven meters in radius, so about four people tall.
↩︎ Reddit
As Brexit looms, Mifid transparency faces the chop
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
How British socialists from 1880 to 1920 used fairy tales to inspire followers.
He looks at me with strange eyes; he does not speak, he whispers: “To the bridge.” He is very pale, the constable, and very lean. His face—his face is like a skull: it is a skull. No; but how hollow are his eyes! How sharp and prominent are his cheekbones!
↩︎ Literary Hub
Scott becomes head of e-FX at ANZ
Morgan Stanley invests $15 million in Integral
Sanctions do more harm than good, often hurting common people and consolidating dictatorial power.
The left in the United States and abroad needs to challenge the sanctions orthodoxy of liberal internationalism, reinventing the power of economic pressure for progressive purposes while reducing its dangerous excesses in world politics.
↩︎ The Nation
Goldman and Morgan Stanley go live with DLT-based CLSNet
Short Squeeze Has Started - Buy This Bounce - Big News At Noon
Short Squeeze Has Started - Buy This Bounce - Big News At Noon
Is The Housing Market About To Turn Positive?
One of the anomalies of the current economic rebound compared to past recoveries is the virtual absence of the housing market in the upturn. Not only has the housing industry – and its symbiotic partner, the mortgage market – failed to lead or even participate in the recovery, as it usually does, it’s been a […]
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Bloomberg adds real-time market data service to cloud
Shterenberg to lead G10 and EM e-FX trading at Barclays
Tuesday, November 27, 2018
A terrific essay by Andrea Long Chu on the only prerequisite that should be required for trans surgeries: a demonstration of want.
I was not suicidal before hormones. Now I often am... I tell you this not because I’m cruising for sympathy but to prepare you for what I’m telling you now: I still want this, all of it. I want the tears; I want the pain. Transition doesn’t have to make me happy for me to want it.
↩︎ The New York Times
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Joe Kennedy III sounds a lot like his grandfather Bobby in a speech responding to GM’s decision to cut 14,000 jobs.
"Our people need an alternative to the trickle-down, feed-the-top, if-you’re-struggling-try-harder narrative that conservatives have masterfully entrenched in American consciousness, but for years, the left has failed to offer a competing—compelling—economic vision."
↩︎ The Washington Post