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MAGA like to ignore that Juneteenth exists. Let's remind them.
Today's "Morning Shots" from @BillKristol and @EggerDC celebrates Juneteenth and touches on the growing divide between the United States and Israel.
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Dear Amazon/Kindle Team,
Thanks for the condescending 'longtime customer' pat on the head right before you brick my perfectly working 14-year-old Kindle on May 20.
No more buying, borrowing, or downloading books. Reset it? It's dead forever.
Treating loyal readers like cash cows with an expiration date is peak corporate greed.
This is textbook planned obsolescence. Remember when you actually did cool shit like AutoRip for your customers?
Insincerely,
Enshittified Readers Everywhere
#Amazon #Kindle #PlannedObsolescence
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Stupidly and naively, it didn't occur to me that Amazon would force-retire my Kindle Fire 7 that my wife gave me for an anniversary well over a decade ago, one of my most treasured possessions. It wasn't hurting anyone. It just sat there and worked every time I asked.
“…Utterly destroyed the Columbia Broadcasting System. You will be relieved, I hope, to learn that we didn’t mean it…”, Orson Welles, 1938
I guess this time, they did mean it.
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Despite 3 years of Mike Johnson & Trump trying to stop it, the plaque honoring Jan 6 cops plaque was finally installed overnight.
Johnson had the workers do it quietly, at 4AM, hoping it wouldn't get any press.
Let's ruin his plans... and make sure that one of the first crimes he's prosecuted for is breaking the 2023 law that required him to put it up. VIA~ U.S. Democratic Socialists
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🦔A cooling system failure at a single data center in Aurora, Illinois took down virtually all CME futures and options trading on Friday. The facility handles an estimated $25 quadrillion in notional trade volume daily and serves as the backbone for CME's Globex trading platform. The outage wreaked havoc for traders across equities, foreign exchange, bonds, and commodities markets globally.
The Infrastructure
CME built the facility in 2009 but sold it to CyrusOne in 2016, agreeing to rent space for 15 years. In 2021, KKR and Global Infrastructure Partners bought CyrusOne for $11.4 billion as AI demand sent data center valuations soaring. The site is famous among high-frequency traders who've mounted antennas on nearby utility poles and bought property across the street to shave microseconds off latency. CyrusOne's website says the facility has redundant chiller units to protect against failures. One consultant noted "normally, in data centers of this type, there is a lot of redundancy to avoid this kind of problem."
My Take
$25 quadrillion in daily trading volume running through a single building in the town from Wayne's World, and a cooling system failure brought it all down. CME decided in 2016 it didn't want to own infrastructure anymore. Now the infrastructure that global markets depend on is owned by private equity firms chasing AI-driven valuations. CyrusOne's CEO at the time called the facility "ground zero" for high-speed trading and emphasized "speed is of the essence." Nobody emphasized what happens when the cooling fails. This is what critical infrastructure looks like when it's optimized for returns rather than resilience. CME's CEO once bragged they had 29 data centers to choose from if they needed to leave Illinois. Apparently activating backup wasn't as simple as he made it sound.
Hedgie🤗
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Today marks Fibonacci Day (11/23), a date that reflects the famous numerical sequence 1, 1, 2, 3.
This sequence appears in mathematics, nature, architecture, and many scientific phenomena, reminding us of the elegance and order underlying complex systems.
