apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org Sus admin alt account. Throwra_scentsitive on Reddit.
Hey! I'll admit I've slept a bit on the status of DRS estimates between the quarterly report numbers... thank your for taking up the mantle of providing this data!
Free-speech point of failure: DDoS protection and CloudFlare
Although I take the article's claims around intentionally propping up the DDoS landscape with a heavy grain of salt, the fact remains that anti-DDoS services can be critical for sites on the modern-day internet, and that our reliance on them is a weakness which certainly has been exploited before and will be exploited again to silence disfavored speech.
Note: we do use CloudFlare for our lemmy as well!
Replace "teller" with "bank" because we are talking about legal ownership, not physical control.
They don’t have anything but a responsibility to care for it
While they absolutely "have a responsibility" to you, they also benefit from holding it, so your "anything but" rhetoric is incorrect. Brokers and banks alike earn money by lending the assets the have, despite their corresponding liabilities.
Do you think there isn’t a “clear record” without direct registration (from your other comment)
Correct. Legally, you have a "security entitlement". Per UCC 8-503, the property interest you have a result of this entitlement is merely "a pro rata property interest in all interests in that financial asset held by the securities intermediary", i.e. what your broker actually has, which is (a) opaque to you as a customer, and (b) is fundamentally difficult even for them to pin down - as it is composed primarily of their DTC account balance, ideally but they undoubtedly have many derivatives, transactions to settle (which can extend beyond 2 days because FTDs are common), shares lent out that are due to them, etc. So while the number of security entitlements in your account has a clear record, your property interest in the issuer does not have a clear record.
The "event timestamp" is most likely stored in epoch seconds but being interpreted as epoch milliseconds. If you correct that, it works out to March 3rd, 2021.
Edit to add: Regardless, I am calling this a nothingburger, I'd be willing to bet that the 999... value is just a placeholder for unknown values.
Maybe if you have a fever, and the only prescription is more DRS
(sorry, couldn't resist)
It's the older one that was made for actual collaboration on the drsgme.org website.
I've re-uploaded it to my Google drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gqT4UdIoURT_LFZko3tpnfqzNc7pffcc/view?usp=sharing
Broader censorship: Creation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), partnering with US + UK gov starting in 2017 to suppress speech
Whistleblower makes trove of new documents available to Public and Racket, showing the birth of the Censorship Industrial Complex in reaction to Brexit and Trump election in 2016
Be a good time to PM anyone you know there and post about this place on the bbby sub since it’s been quiet after The PP Show got going.
Main discussion is already happening at the linked post, but wanted to copy over to [email protected] censorship for relevance. Also this is a good tweet to reference too https://twitter.com/beyond_mythos/status/1702224228236288182
As if the implosion of untethered corruption weren't reward enough!
In more words: there are a spectrum of possible outcomes, but I do think there is a significant possibility that in attempting to deliver the underlying securities and thus closing out net short positions, the market price would go astronomically high, and that some of that could be paid for by liquidation of other institutional assets. I don't have enough confidence in capitalist financial institutions to assign high probability to "full" payouts at MOASS market prices, but even "merely" the destruction of exploitative wealth hoarding necessary for a partial payout would result in more financial equality and less financially-driven social dysfunction, which is motivation enough for me. (Also worth keeping in mind that the exposure is not limited to individual short parties, but also to all members of the relevant clearing/depository organizations, pursuant to the rules of those organizations and their own individual self interests.)
Are you in this discord? If not, I can find another place too upload it...
https://discord.com/channels/955819881989808128/1059573570122023022/1060301849695105036
Disclaimer: I have not watched "This is Financial Advice", so if I miss something that's covered there, my bad. Maybe I'll have time to watch it someday, but that day is not today.
Your skepticism is understandable. However, my expectations around future GME (the security) prices are not fundamentally about expectations around GameStop (the company). All GameStop needs to do is not go bankrupt (which they are doing quite well based on their cash on hand), and any future business success / profitability is just icing on the cake.
Rather than betting on some unimaginably successful 1,000x business transformation, I am betting against Wall Street. Fundamentally, valuation of securities works on the assumption that shares are fixed in quantity (or only created/destroyed by equity-preserving events by the issuer). With the ubiquitous rise of online brokerages, security entitlements, high speed trading, and a derivatives market that far eclipses the value of the underlying assets, that assumption is flawed and regularly abused by Wall Street to extract huge sums of wealth from investors and issuers. At the same time, Wall Street is laxly regulated and hugely greedy, and has no qualms about putting itself in risky situations for short term profit with the assumption that problems will be fixed down the road. Unfortunately for them, that situation has been threatened since the events of January 2021. Since then, all the evidence I've seen suggests that the financial institutions, many of them mutually liable for each others failures under the DTC or other organizations and settlement agreements, are regularly engaged in kicking the can down the road and perpetuating net short positions. However, since 2021 investors in GME have started removing their shares from Wall Street, meaning that eventually accountability will be required for naked short positions and then true price discovery can occur. Until then, price fluctuations only matter to help me understand how many more shares I can acquire.
Yup. I have a recording from the WSB daily space/call from the morning after where they coyly allude to it while also denying it
Preposterous...
"We appreciate Pulte likes the stock, but so do so many other wonderful stockholders." ... and Pulte content is removed, so any stockholder content is off limits by that logic.
PS. I would've missed this if not for your post, thank you for capturing and sharing!!!
If at a broker, keep lots smaller than 100
I'm not convinced that selling multiple shares is better than selling a single share for multiple times as much. My hope/goal is to keep 99.9% of my shares through MOASS. And 100% of my DRS'd shares.
I've fixed it again, thus solving the problem once and for all
All previously uploaded images are still available on a storage bucket (but with a corrupted index file), so if anyone wants to try to reconstruct things at their own peril, they can reach out to me for access...
The whole NFT thing was dead on arrival
I think that's a bit premature.
While I'm sad that they shut down all the shareholder requests for an NFT dividend (for now), I still think the need filled by NFTs in gaming is undeniable in the long term, so I'm not ready to call the NFT marketplace dead yet. I imagine it would be pretty awesome if you were browsing in your local physical GS and could see and buy in-game assets right there in-store!
Whoa, this one is pretty unique with both of the numbers worked in there! Super cool :)
I recently "upgraded" the storage (a week ago) from a Google Compute Engine attached drive to a Google Cloud Storage bucket. In theory, it is supposed to be highly scalable, but obviously there must be some subtle misconfiguration that is causing intermittent failures, as I see uploads working for some users... I'll have to investigate more
And the pools are full of darkness
That keeps away the poors
Just like the orders of retail, oh no no
Never reach the floor.
And let the books fill with fake liquidity
And let entitlements be the chains
That fill accounts
With all that leverage
Till it's time to make a change
Short in vain
Short in vain, down low
Oh, short in vain...
short in vain
Ed Sheeran - Make it Rain
``` And the pools are full of darkness That keeps away the poors Just like the orders of retail, oh no no Never reach the floor. And let the books fill with fake liquidity And let entitlements be the chains That fill accounts With all that leverage Till it's time to make a change
Short in vain Short in vain, dumb shorts Oh, short in vain... ```
Beyonce - Hold Up
Hold up! They don't buy you like I buy you.
Let's imagine for a moment that you never put your name on your shares or DRS'd, they had you labeled as an ape but never made it out the cage, still in there trading on the Street, never held the one idiosyncratic risk on your balance shee-e-eets.
Would they be down to ride?
No, they used to hide from you, lie to you. But y'all know, we were made for each other so I DRS'd an' hold you down.
Julie Lavery - Stars and Stripes
Replying to @Rin Strine Thanks for being angry with me ❤️✊🏻 The full version is here and you can download this live version on my website #originalmusic #politicalmusic #folkmusic #americanpolitics #starsandstripes #richmennorthofrichmond
Stars for the silver spoons Stripes for the poor Stars for the nightly news Stripes if you oppose the war Stars if you steal the land Stripes if you take a stand Stars if you march in time Stripes if you don't fall in line
Request review of moderation actions? Removed for "calling out" users/mods/other subs
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/159lxyj/its_time_to_unban_millertime/
u/TheMonkler
Express dissatisfaction with moderation practices in a comment? Ban
https://twitter.com/magsonthemoon/status/1681653137835171840/photo/1
u/alilmagpie
"The SEC confirms that Plan is NOT DRS"? Removed (no reason given)
https://www.reddit.com/r/drsgme/comments/15a4shk/plan_is_not_pure_book_mods_suppress_this_sec/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/151fuc1/the_sec_confirms_that_plan_is_not_drs/
u/_foo-bar_
Brandi Carlile - The Joke
Does a ballad belong on the resistance radio? Listen to the lyrics and decide for yourself.
Let 'em laugh while they can Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends And the joke's on them
What do y'all think?
The Apes' Guide to Lemmy
What is Lemmy?
Lemmy is open source software used for running individually hosted social media networks in the style of Reddit. It is built on the ActivityPub protocol, and is part of the Fediverse.
We wrote this introduction with Apes in mind, but you may also want to check out the introduction and tutorials at join-lemmy.org located at https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/01-getting-started.html
How is Lemmy structured and moderated compared to Reddit?
Lemmy has Instance administrations and Community moderators
The analog is Reddit administrators and Subreddit moderators
Instance admins can perform all mod actions on all communities, just like Reddit admins can perform all mod actions on all subreddits
Meanwhile, Community/Subreddit mods only moderate their community or subreddit
What is the Fediverse?
The Fediverse refers to a collection of social media software which all are open source, independently hosted, and can choose to interact with each other. These software are all built on the same protocol and can interact with each other and share users. When instances opt in to the broader system, they are ‘federated’.
Tips for signing up
When you make an account on a federated Lemmy instance like this one, you can interact with all other instances and communities which are federated. The differences between instances are up to individual instance admins, who decide who can sign up and what content is allowed on their instance along with moderation rules.
https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/signup
When signing up, Lemmy can freeze up if the username you are trying to register already exists or if you are using a password longer than 63 characters long. As detailed in the instance policies, limiting data collection means that no email account recovery is supported. Please ensure that you save your login information somewhere securely such as a KeePass data file. After signing up, there is a verification process which is manual. Our DRS instance admins do their best to check and approve applicants quickly.
Have you reviewed our Instance Policies?
See here: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/1209
TLDR: Treat everything you submit to this instance as public. Instance admins (we) will attempt to reduce data collection as much as practicable, and will maintain open access for anyone to view posts and comments on this instance.
Different clients you can use, and how to set them up
Once you have your account created and approved, you can choose to browse Lemmy through an app or other client. You can find some apps here: https://join-lemmy.org/apps/
Web
https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org
Android
- Connect - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect&gl=us
- Jerboa - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jerboa&gl=us
iPhone
- Voyager app: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762
- Alternatively, how to install Voyager (f.k.a WefWef) as a progressive web app on iOS: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/10616
- ...and how to add Lemmy to the iOS home screen: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/4489
👀 Following Superstonk via Lemmy
The lemmit.online instance replicates a number of Reddit subs to Lemmy communities through an automated bot which crossposts content. You can follow those communities through your Lemmy account no matter which instance you signed up on.
For Superstonk specifically, just follow [email protected]
For other subs, find the community you are interested in following, and then paste the community’s tag (listed in the community’s sidebar) into the search function on our instance. For example:
How to start a new community on this instance
Click the Create Community option along the top. You’ll need to select the community name, the URL, and optionally can include sidebar content.
On Lemmy, Communities are automatically moderated by the person who creates them. That user can appoint other moderators, pin stickies, and moderate content on that community. It’s very similar to how Subreddits are made and operated.
On the lemmy.whynotdrs.org instance, we welcome all communities who wish to discuss the financial markets and surrounding topics including specific stocks, investing styles, rules and regulations, crypto and web3, and the culture around money itself.
List of non-local communities you may want to subscribe to
You may want to start your Lemmy journey by browsing some of the largest instances and subscribing to some of their communities. These are some of the largest general instances which cover a wide array of topics.
- https://lemmy.ml/
- https://lemmy.world/
- https://beehaw.org/
Each instance has its own user base. Your login credentials on your home instance won’t work anywhere else. If you are using the DRS instance as your home instance, how do you find and subscribe to new communities through your own instance?
How to find new Communities to follow
If you're coming over from Reddit, these three resources can help you find migrations for communities you may have followed on Reddit:
- https://sub.rehab/
- https://redditmigration.com/
- https://www.quippd.com/writing/2023/06/15/unofficial-subreddit-migration-list-lemmy-kbin-etc.html
For finding new communities, perhaps the easiest way to find instances and communities is to search for them on https://lemmyverse.net/ - at the top of the screen, you can filter for either instances or for communities. This will parse ALL federated instances and their associated communities, and is very robust - it will search titles, domains, and sidebars in order to help you find things you are interested in.
Set your home instance first. At the top right of the screen, hit the house icon and search for your home instance. Here’s how you can select this DRS instance:
Once your home instance is set, you can easily navigate to communities on any instance by clicking the community name, which will be a generated link.
After that, just hit subscribe on the sidebar and you are good to go!
If necessary, you can create and share URLs which will navigate to any community on any instance from any instance following this formula.
https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/c/[email protected]
[home instance url] [/c/] [community name] @ [hosting instance name]
Views (New vs Active, and Subscribed vs Local) and setting your default preferences
Okay! You have found some communities to follow - these could be on your home instance, on one of the largest and universal instances, or niche communities found through the network search at lemmyverse.
Just like with Reddit, you have some choices to make about how you want to interact with the communities you joined. Your main choices are the types of posts to display and the communities to display them from.
Lemmy’s own core developers explain it well here: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/03-votes-and-ranking.html
Blocking Users, Communities, or Instances which you want to avoid
Each user has the ability to block or hide content from specific users or specific communities.
In the case of users, you can block them in order to avoid seeing comments or posts which they make. Click on a user’s name on a comment or post and you’ll see the option at the top of the screen.
For communities, you can avoid ever seeing their posts on your various feeds. While navigating a community, the option to block it will appear on the right sidebar.
Public Moderation Logs: How they work and how to search them
Lemmy’s moderation logs for all instance administrator actions and community moderator actions are available for public review at all times - and do not require sign up to access.
https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog
Moderation logs are collected together for all federated instances, and so can be difficult to parse in real time without searching for a specific mod. Once you type the name of an individual mod, select them from the dropdown and you can review all mod or admin actions they have taken. Posts which were removed can also be viewed and scrutinized here. There is complete transparency into moderation actions.
- https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog?page=1&modId=2 - admin account admin history
- https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog?page=1&modId=4 - Chives account admin history
- https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/modlog?page=1&modId=487 - Bibic account admin history
Migrated post: My favorite takeaway from the 10-K: 95.9% of holders that could continue to hold did so
This post originally appeared in Superstonk on March 28, 2023 (just after our most recent annual 10-K report)
My favorite takeaway from the 10-K: the majority of apes continue to hold. 197k active holders vs 210k all-time holders. Given that 4.7k holders were already inactive before March 2022, this means that 95.9% of holders that could continue to hold did so.
PS. That's before even accounting for the reality that some apes had duplicate account numbers that they may have consolidated
Federal government censorship on the internet via tech companies - an update on a landmark federal lawsuit
Hey apes! The censorship I spend most of my time bringing to light on this co is from (presumably) personally driven censorship decisions on Reddit. Today, I'm going to cover an ongoing story on censorship from the federal government itself.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2023/07/11/historic-first-judge-blocks-biden-admins-orwellian-collusion-big-tech-suppress-free-speech/
In case you missed the original injunction that came out two weeks ago, a Federal judge issued a temporary injunction on the Biden administration prohibiting them, in no uncertain terms, from urging/pressuring/inducing social media companies to remove/suppress content containing protected free speech.
What is particularly interesting to me is the sheer detail of this injunction - 155 pages citing examples of past actions, examples of targeted individuals, and naming dozens of specific individuals and departments in the government who are specifically being put on notice.
While I'm not any sort of legal analyst, I think the amount of detail in this injunction sets a clear tone for the remainder of case. Basically, I take this as presumptive evidence that the government has been caught with its hands in the cookie jar and is guilty here. (Not that this is a criminal action. I'm using guilty in the vernacular sense)
Freedom of speech is essential. Be suspicious of apparently "private" censorship on the internet. Demand accountability from your government. Demand transparency in finance. BUY, HOLD, DRS, BOOK, SHOP, COMMENT, SPREAD THE WORD.
Wut doin SEC? (We are an equal opportunity anti-censorship community)
As a reminder, please limit content in this community to factual record. Please do not include commentary on presumed motivations, intentions, shillery, name-calling, etc. Thanks for keeping tensions to a minimum! (Especially with our always fair and steady-handed friend, the federal government 😬️)
Auto-crosspost: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/22100
Original: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/153zf5r/sec_currently_deleting_comments_on_proposal/
A short sample of the removed comments still visible in the index:
Arbitration of truth re: SEC bulletin
As a reminder, please limit content in this community to factual record. Please do not include commentary on presumed motivations, intentions, shillery, name-calling, etc. Thanks for keeping tensions to a minimum!
Auto-crossposts:
- https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/20551
- https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/20434
On-reddit discussion:
https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/1536yx9/my_post_on_booking_your_shares_got_removed_on_ss/