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UPS DRIVERS TO MAKE $170,000/YR WITH BENEFITS BY CONTRACT END

From @conorsen.bsky.social

Nice. IMO Taylor's article is the incorrect take.

Chart of the S&P 500 showing several examples of the gravestone doji candle, including today

Description of what the gravestone doji is from Investopedia.

Chart is S&P 500, daily candles, since February 2023.

I'm not real big into technical analysis, but I don't think it's worthless.

Treasury issuing a lot of debt each week, since debt ceiling raise. Today they notified of $301B of issuance of which $128B is 1 year or longer duration. I haven't looked at how much is maturing next week. They've been leaning on short term bills, I assume to pull $ out of RRP (liquidity neutral).

Facebook has an infinity of servers that can take the tiny incremental load that a few million new users of a mostly text app, when they are used to serving lots of pics and videos. Bluesky is not gonna be able to do that. But I think you are right, they are missing a big window the last few months.

If I could only set my morals aside, I could go perma-mega-bull something on here and become *the guy* for that niche. Still early enough.

Have you all heard about Guyana offshore oil?

I don't know, but didn't seem to make much of a difference to their PlayStation MAU?

yes

For me, VR/AR headsets are likely laptop killers, once the tech is good enough. Apple Vision Pro might be there. The last missing piece is some kind of gloves allowing typing w/ speed + accuracy of a keyboard. Then I'd probably ditch my desktop and laptop and exclusively use phone+headset+gloves.

This is a UX problem & the better solutions the more people will use mobile. I don't game on mobile, but it appears the industry has found very good solutions. Is the only thing keeping me from primarily using Office on the mobile phone just having better controls? https://youtu.be/JqId6RPEeo8?t=53

The barrier to entry is a lot lower because everyone already has a phone, while consoles are expensive, single purpose, and even hard to get. The question in my mind is will mobile gaming eventually kill off console gaming or serve as a gateway? And what are these stats for Microsoft Excel ;)

The release of the mobile game didn't hurt console MAU. Console is clearly the superior UX, gamers love better screens, better controls, better graphics, less limitations. It just added a bunch of new players who could play while riding in a bus or car or in their free time at a boring event. 3/

Call of Duty has been an insanely popular franchise for a long time. The mobile version was first release in October 2019, and you can see the huge jump in MAU. 2/

I don't generally pay too much attention to gaming, but I thought this was really interesting. More than half of Call of Duty users play on cell phones. This is a first person shooter. However, it doesn't appear to be cannibalizing consoles much (yet). 1/

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I'm here too now, yay. Honestly I really do want to be somewhere else, keep hoping one of these sites makes it happen.