Reformed statistician turned quant. HFT, ocaml, and micro-inefficiency connoisseur. Non-partisan. Southern Baptist. Currently between Jordan, KSA, UAE.

Joined November 2023
Our Brian is at Peace There is no pain in this world like a mother having to say goodbye to her son. It is an anguish I would not wish on anyone, an agony that rips a hole in the fabric of your soul. My heart is broken beyond words. My beautiful son, Brian, passed away peacefully at 8:13 PM on the evening of August 28th. He was not alone. He was surrounded by all the love in the world—his devoted wife Alicia, his precious little boy Josh, his brothers, and I were all holding him as he finally went home to God. He fought so hard, for so long, with a strength that amazed me every day. Now, his fight is over, and he is finally free from all pain. But a mother's pain is just beginning. Please keep our family in your prayers. We are clinging to each other and to the beautiful memories he gave us. everloved.com/life-of/brian-…
Soon enough, by brother Joseph, who is also obsessed with data and is close to my line of work, will be running this account. I have been in palliative care for a while; the Big C. Liver. But cancer won. I am maxed out on dopamine and Levophed and pain meds, but I have lots of lucidity (likely terminal lucidity). I have a week at best, I lost 30kg, and I made amends. I ask you to be kind to strangers you meet; people are fighting battles we don't know about. ~ VIX
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Jeet: "Islam is cancer." White Christian teenager: "I think you're cancer. You're literally Indian. You should get deported." Literally, people of all religions hate Hindus for the scum some of them are.
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I have seen absurd capital structures before, but what Anthropic just disclosed in its S1 filing beats them all (by far)
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BREAKING: Anthropic warns in its IPO filing that a catastrophic AI-related incident could cause harm on a scale that no single insurer, and “potentially the insurance industry in the aggregate,” could cover. The filing says Anthropic’s insurance may not be enough to cover the liabilities it faces, especially if one incident or a group of incidents causes disproportionate harm.
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🦔Anthropic’s full IPO filing is out, and it plans to list on Nasdaq as ANT. Revenue hit $16.3 billion in the first half of 2026, up from $1.2 billion a year earlier, and the business brought in $3.9 billion more cash than it spent running itself. The $80.7 billion headline loss is almost entirely accounting on its convertible notes, which turn into stock at the IPO. My Take Anthropic grew fast, and a lot of that growth runs on money from the companies selling it chips and cloud capacity. It has raised $141 billion so far, and Google, Amazon and Broadcom have another $77 billion lined up, mostly tied to Anthropic using more of their compute. Even the positive cash flow came partly from paying those suppliers later. Suppliers lending a customer the money to keep buying from them is the same setup Nvidia runs with CoreWeave. And most of the revenue comes from usage instead of long contracts. About 80% is pay-as-you-go, and the filing admits many top customers can cut spending at any time. This half also lined up with companies pushing staff to rack up AI usage, right before corporate budget reviews. (Earlier reporting on the draft put compute commitments at $518 billion or more. The public filing leaves that number blank.) Public buyers barely get a vote. The founders keep 50.1% and a trust picks most of the board. I expect a hot first day and a much harder 2027, once finance teams review their AI budgets and usage growth slows. Hedgie🤗
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Elon just said that most neoclouds will eventually die. And we might already be seeing it play out. Even if AI is the biggest tech revolution of our lifetime, that doesn't mean every company building AI infrastructure will survive. Some will thrive. Many will struggle. Most will be liquidated. And we've seen this before during the internet boom. The internet changed the world, but plenty of companies that built the infrastructure went bankrupt along the way. This time won't be different.
Replying to @chamath
Pretty much. As of the past few weeks, debt markets have almost entirely shut off access to money for any company that doesn’t have substantial revenue independent of AI data centers. SpaceX closed $40B of debt for GPUs, but we’re investment grade and have Starlink & launch revenue. That means the 200+ neoclouds are going to see guppy-level death and consolidation. Some will make it through, but not many.
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FORBIDDEN STUDIOS PRESENTS: MIGHTY ZION ORANGE RANGER 🍊⚡ Straight from the lost archives of 1995 Saturday morning television. It's morphin' time.
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BREAKING: Trump on gas prices being high: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
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I got so many questions. 😬
Why are so many right-wing influencers suddenly in Serbia? And who's paying for all these trips?
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Trump the Terrorist (A.I. Video)
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Pro-ICE conservative blogger Samuel Sey (@slowtowrite), a prominent figure on the evangelical right, has himself been arrested and held for potential ICE deportation.
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🚨Warning. Someone created a malicious fake copy of our website, using a misspelled address. It adds an extra 'e' to its URL. (check video below) It shows some users a fake "verify you're human" box and tells you to open Command Prompt and paste a code. That pasted command is a virus that steals your passwords, logins and history. Never paste or run it. ✅ Our only website is archivegenocide.com ❌ Don't open the misspelled version, and never paste anything it tells you to. We have reverse engineered the malware and are digging into the source. Hashes have been sent to google, microsoft, virustotal, etc You can find them in the report here: archivegenocide.com/malware-… Our work is definitely hitting a nerve and they are looking for any way to target those associated with it. Stay safe.
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Arkansas taxes do not mess around. Holy shit
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What the fuck did I just watch.??? How much money did we just spend to neutralize a stick. This is like bringing an aircraft carrier to take out a camel.
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BREAKING: The War Department has designated Confucius Institutes as a threat to national security.
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Notice the details: The well known tactical adept @KingAbdullahII is packing in a professional retention holster with spare mags. The kind of guy that will never be a victim. Mad respect.
Replying to @KingAbdullahII
من السعودية دعواتنا لكم وللشعب الأردني
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🚨Trump-endorsed #IA02 candidate Joe Mitchell was caught on camera "crying about his d— size" and making disparaging comments about Black women. Snapchat screenshots show Mitchell talking about using Xanax and video shows him saying that he doesn’t like “f—ing white people” 🧵
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If only there were signs!
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