In San Jose del Cabo there is a pretty cool gallery that features sculpture from Sotomayor. He takes junk and spare parts and welds animals out of them and then uses an epoxy resin to color them. They hold up very well outdoors, keeping their color for many years. Here is a peacock he recently made. Zoom in to see the items he used.

This is cool. A star that is estimated to be about 26 billion light years away from us has been identified by the Webb telescope platform.

Space Explored

Most distant star ever detected seen by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope

Thanks to NASA's James Webb telescope, astronomers are now getting a closer look at the most distant star ever detected, known as Earendel.

Staying at the Westin Regina in SJ del Cabo. This place doesn't have a room without an ocean front view.

42 sats to the first account that can correctly guess what country I am in:

A note to explain my handle - "Cody Penn-Dent" isn't my real name. When you sound it out it is "codependent" which describes some of my behavior in my early trading days where I would seek out postings on stock message boards to justify trades I had already placed that weren't working out. Every noob does it and it is easy to get psyched out of a good position, hold a bad one too long or get over confident when trades go well. So I used that handle to remind myself to post and read things that inform. The name took when I was writing for a few finance websites and then I used it when I started a Twitter account in 2009-ish.

LOL Never going to put up content there again. Did for 12 years. Got permanently suspended last week.

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Eric Abbenante (@EricAbbenante) on X

Twitter / X CEO Linda Yaccarino: "We've introduced a new policy called Freedom of speech, not reach" "If you're going to post something that is law...

#BTC is showing a little life at the moment and may be preparing to clear resistance from the channel it has been in for the past month. The 2 HR chart has been the most reliable for me and it is starting to turn. #Bitcoin is in a broader ascending wedge that should last until sometime in November or December. I have been swing trading it and, at the moment, am long.

For those who trade in and out of #BTC (or use #bitcoin to trade in and out of dollars)... My most reliable charts for the past year have been the 5 minute chart and the 2 hour chart. The 5 minute chart is lined up for BTC buys (USD sells) right now. But there is a headwind on the 2 hour chart as it comes off the sugar high of the recent 30K love tap. So an opportunity for some scalps. Here are my current 5 min and 2 hr charts. I wrote the indicators (except the Bollinger bands)

By the way ... Here is how someone can find who you are IRL on NOSTR. They post a link to an item on a server they control and mention you. You look at alerts / notifications and the link in the note mentioning you is hit by your browser as it tries to display the item, like this picture form a Financial Times article I just read (I figured no one is going to go through the haystack in the logs at FT to find out who you are right now, so I used them). Yes - vpns / tor provides a layer that is hard to crack, but I have also noticed Google is tweaking ads based on what I am doing here so I assume they've already started correlating public keys. I assume via chrome/android. Anyways, be mindful anything networked is vulnerable.

So the geriatric shit-poster in Provo, who was about 300 pounds and used a cane to get around, but posed such a threat to the country that the FBI killed him in a no-knock, was reported to the feds by none other than Truth Social. Facebook joined in too. There are better ways to handle loud mouths in a free society (who have made the same statements for 12 years) than executing them. Unsurprisingly, the details are slow to come out, and the ones that are first shared are those that are meant to justify the action. Nonetheless, over the top venting on social media (including here) can be hazardous to your health.

With the Dora winds blowing from the east, all 4 of Maui's fires: * started near a road * started within hours of each other * started without lightning or nearby power lines Smells like arson. Wildfires don't start spontaneously. Here's the map.

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Maui fires | Bay Area News Group map - Google My Maps

Aug. 9, 2023

You would think, with Stanford and Cal in the middle of Silicon Valley, they’d be able to set a new course for “affiliated independent” schools in the west who can do streaming deals to fund their athletic programs. People forget that it isn’t just football. Baseball, gymnastics, golf, rowing … they will all have to travel to the East Coast if these schools join the ACC. Student athletes unlikely to go pro (like swimmers) aren’t going to benefit from flying to the east coast to compete in most of their meets. And there isn’t enough football TV revenue to cover it.

Oh my.

Fitness startup amp is here to build routines that can actually stick

If you go to the visitor’s center on Mauna Kea on the big island of Hawaii and hang out after sunset you can take pics like this one with your phone. Mind blooming star gazing up there. Took this with my iPhone a few months ago. #photography #astronomy

My oldest son, who now writes code for Google.