An American YouTuber has been imprisoned for 5 years in Ukraine, and allegedly tortured, for making videos.

This is not ok.

Let me help them out here: “Calling for the genocide [death] of anyone obviously constitutes harassment.”

Software recession has ended.

That’s one way to celebrate Black Friday.

Another $60 billion is about to go to Ukraine despite the fact that (1) the U.S. is broke and has to borrow the money, (2) Ukraine is so corrupt that its own officials admit 'people are stealing like there's no tomorrow', and (3) there's no prospect for winning the war.

“The current siege imposed on Gaza is collective punishment. … An entire population is being de-humanized. … I lost 64 colleagues in just over three weeks. … This is the highest number of UN aid workers killed in a conflict in such a short time.”

Pre-seed rounds are back to $500k at 5-10m, seed rounds 1-2m (10-15m)

Which is ~2009-2014 era

Founders are getting it done with less, and teams of 2-3 builder founders are running the show now.

“Idea” founders outsourcing tech not getting funded any more.

Sri Lanka is currently discussing with India about adopting the Indian rupee for settling cross-border transactions.

So far, eight countries have opened an SRVA to facilitate trade in the Indian rupee.

Eight countries:

• Sri Lanka
• Mauritius
• Malaysia
• Singapore
•…

unusual_whales I would like to apologize for firing these geniuses. Their immense talent will no doubt be of great use elsewhere.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why investors would put their money into an asset class in an unregulated market where tens of billions continue to evaporate in front of their eyes. Someone please explain this insanity? cnbc.com/2022/11/11/sam…

“A few other projects are going to be in similar situations. I think it will take a couple weeks for most of them to come out…”

Source: ft.com/content/0fa4f3…

BREAKING NEWS

BINANCE CHIEF CHANGPENG ZHAO WARNS OF CASCADING CRYPTO CRISIS SIMILAR TO THE 2008 FINANCIAL CRASH

Hold on tight.

Managed Money(mostly hedge funds) added another 8.8K short gold futures in COT(thru Tues.) to 120K. Net short 41.4K, 2nd highest on record. Lots of panic covering 2day (gold +$50). Could be kickoff to expected rally. Only will know in hindsight, but big moves often start this way

Sept '08 bottom gold +$50 in 1 day(+6.2%). Dec '15 bottom +$30 over 2 days(+2.8%), Oct '18 bottom +$41 over 3 days(+3.5%), May 19 bottom +$54 over 5 days (+4.3%), Mar '20 bottom +$111 over 2 days(7.5%), Mar '21 bottom +60 over 4 days(+3.6%). Nov '22 bottom? +$51 over 1 day(3.1%)

Looked back over last 15 yrs. of gold prices & observed EVERY major rally started with a big 1-5 day jump in gold prices off the bottoms. It always starts with short covering (that's the spike/signal). Then, when it's clear the rally won't reverse (bull move is on), longs come in

Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints.

No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.

LOOK OUT. Inventory on For Sale and Rental Market is exploding at the same time. 📈

This is called a 'Double Housing Crash'. Where there's a simultaneous collapse in Buyer AND Renter Demand.

Real Estate Investors are panicking right now. They weren't prepared for this.

I don’t know what tweet number I'm on now, but I also tell friends that they should always, always ask what the exercise window is *before* joining the next company.

You may not walk away from an offer but it'll help inform you so you don’t end up in situations like the above.

I am telling you people that the situation in #Europe is much worse than many understand.

We are essentially on the brink of another banking crisis, a collapse of our industrial base and households, and thus on the brink of the collapse of our economies.

Short thread. 1/4

All it takes is folks putting a little link to their software in the google listing.

Management co manages that directly.

Way more revenue to owner and less cost to guests.