On Thursday, so heavy was the online interest in the company’s annual general meeting that theevent crashed,forcing a postponement. Later, Gill revealed his GameStop holding had reached just over 9mn shares, worth $262mn, making him the fourth largest shareholder with a 2.3 per cent stake, ...
The creators I interviewed were often surprised at how meaningful their content was to fellow climbers. “A lot of people message me really long paragraphs…I get messages that almost make me cry, make me think, ‘wow, I can’t believe that this seven-second meme with a Spongebob quote is...
Making it even cooler, some legitimately skilled Wall Street players who had joined their island of misfit toys pointed out that GameStop was a good buy, not a good sell, and convinced some of the degenerates to join them. Also, this mob of shitposters and neophytes was really learning t...
Despite great work across the board, the obvious and catchiest highlight is Sebastian Chaumeton’s art installation that consists of his latest paintings and sculptures, making references to social media, meme culture, art history, politics, etc. He renders all through the puppet Pinocchio and ...
Seriously, stop disabling SELinux. Learn how to use it before you shut it off. Every time you run setenforce 0, you make Dan Walsh weep. Dan is a nice guy and he certainly doesn't deserve that. Fan of SELinux? Get a t-shirt! A public service from Major Hayden ...
But the WSB bros realized many Wall Street firms were shorting those same stocks and they could inflict serious damage on these institutional investors by driving prices even higher—at which point the activity became less about making money and more about class warfare....
This man is a troll who can't stop trolling himself. He also doesn't know when to step away from the keyboard, making him a fearless, overly-opinionated boob. A pest, really. To this day, I think he's stilltweeting at Keith Lawabout how evolution is a farce. Let Curt Schilling dig...
But, as the meme goes, “that’s no moon”. There’s likely a lot of money to be made in shorting Gamestop. (Note: This is not financial advice.) But I imagine that it’ll be made illegal to notice that Hedgefunds are shorting more stock than exists instead of making it illegal ...
(a line of soap pads and a Hershey’s snack bar, respectively). That doesn’t mean that people can’t still shout out “SOS!” if they’re in distress, or use the word “payday” in a sentence. It just prevents other brands from making another product of that kind with the same ...
This feels like a processing problem. “One thing we learn about human beings: We’re meaning-making machines,” Kross says. And social mania may be ideal for mainlining breaking news, but it’s not great at providing meaning and context. Naturally Kross, Sundar, and everyone else I spoke...