TLP:Fred 🦇☠️💾✨️

the straits are not okay.

sometimes the unforgiving cycles align and we get both at once.

A true poster

I'm fairly sure this would be a "security" under the relevant legal definitions.

It fits the broad definition from the seminal 1946 case, SEC v. W.J. Howey Co., 328 U.S. 293, 298-99 (1946) (broadly defining investment contracts as those where profit depends on a third party's action)

17 CFR § 240.10b-5 - Employment of manipulative and deceptive devices.

I'm not an expert (I've done one insider trading case but it was a while ago), but my understanding is that the text of the relevant laws reach "any person" trading on the basis of "material, non-public information"

see 17 CFR § 240.10b-5 & 10b5-1
www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/17/...

could someone explain to the senator from Connecticut that insider trading, especially on classified information, is decidedly already illegal?

that 2nd paragraph is so bad for so many reasons but I'm too tired from *gestures broadly at everything else today* so I'm bookmarking this to riff on later.

Images of an old silver 1999 Toyota Corolla for sale

You want a car that gets the job done? You want a car that's hassle free? You want a car that literally no one will ever compliment you on? Well look no further. The 1999 Toyota Corolla. Let's talk about features. Bluetooth: nope Sunroof: nope Fancy wheels: nope Rear view camera: nope...but it's got a transparent rear window and you have a fucking neck that can turn. Let me tell you a story. One day my Corolla started making a strange sound. I didn't give a shit and ignored it. It went away. The End. You could take the engine out of this car, drop it off the Golden Gate Bridge, fish it out of the water a thousand years later, put it in the trunk of the car, fill the gas tank up with Nutella, turn the key, and this puppy would fucking start right up. This car will outlive you, it will outlive your children. Things this car is old enough to do: Vote: yes

Consent to sex: yes Rent a car: it IS a car This car's got history. It's seen some shit. People have done straight things in this car. People have done gay things in this car. It's not going to judge you like a fucking Volkswagen would. Interesting facts: This car's exterior color is gray, but it's interior color is grey. In the owner's manual, oil is listed as "optional." When this car was unveiled at the 1998 Detroit Auto Show, it caused all 2,000 attendees to spontaneously yawn. The resulting abrupt change in air pressure inside the building caused a partial collapse of the roof. Four people died. The event is chronicled in the documentary "Bored to Death: The Story of the 1999 Toyota Corolla You wanna know more? Great, I had my car fill out a Facebook survey. Favorite food: spaghetti Favorite tv show: Alf Favorite band: tie between Bush and the Gin Blossoms This car is as practical as a Roth IRA. It's as middle-of-the-

When I ran the CarFax for this car, I got back a single piece of paper that said, "It's a Corolla, It's fine." Let's face the facts, this car isn't going to win any beauty contests, but neither are you. Stop lying to yourself and stop lying to your wife. This isn't the car you want, it's the car you deserve: The fucking 1999 Toyota Corolla. Google map of cars location

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

Ah yes. The famously straight book The Picture of Dorian Gray, by noted straight author Oscar Wilde

it's left as an exercise for the reader to determine whether Altman is too dumb to understand the difference, or if he merely hopes his audience is.

I'm not surprised or vindicated so much as disappointed.

okay so this was apparently *exactly it*

OAI is fine with their contract lacking enforceable-in-fact restrictions.

bsky.app/profile/masn...

I cannot count the sheer number of times Microsoft Word has decimated my entire, lovingly crafted Tables of Authorities and/or Contents in a final draft, for no other reason than, idk, the vibes were off or Saturn was in retrograde or the moon told it to or something.

probably the same joker who snuck BIGTOE in there.

I usually do a similar all-caps, yellow highlight, but also with [[ brackets ]] to make it stand out more as Obviously Not Final Text.

That said, whom amongst us hasn't caught that kind of error moments before filing at least once.

I am once again asking members of the heterosexual community to stop using “MAL“ as an acronym for the president‘s Florida club.

overcursed

bar exam

The AniMorbtrix

if people are using classified information to place bets, then theoretically others can analyze betting behavior to find signals that reveal classified information.

Operation Epic Furry is what Pittsburgh Sanitation calls the day after Anthrocon

“Rutherford Statement on Operation Epic Furry” “Furry” highlighted by me http://rutherford.house.gov/media/press-releases/rutherford-statement-operation-epic-furry

Google result showing the presser for Rutherford’s statement on “Operation Epic Furry” was posted 11 hours ago

What a time to be alive

(as others have pointed out, compromise is probably more attributable to the hung curtains and exposed-beam ceiling architecture, in this instance)

'Is the Quran Truck A Technical?' – the greatest thread in the history of forums, locked by a moderator after 6,236 pages of heated debate

Smartwatch-Compromised Information Facility

their takes are increasingly ridiculous, but one must admit it would be hilarious if several crummy tech companies got sued by the Tolkien estate, even if the lawsuit was a losing case.

it's sure too bad nobody recalls what the S or C in SCIF stood for.

oh, good.

my following-bubble was making the analysis on this site look downright *hinged* and I was getting concerned that Bluesky had lost The Juice.

this reminds me of the spam I used to get from contractor companies pitching "we'll build an app for your law firm, it's so cheap!" who became Very Vague when I asked if their developers got paid a living wage.