Illinois is trying to find new ways to get around federal protections for gun manufacturers...maybe!?

https://www.fox32chicago.com/news/illinois-bill-would-require-gun-manufacturers-help-pay-gun-violence-costs

Complexity is easy to add and expensive to remove. Most “clever” solutions are just future maintenance nightmares in disguise.

It took me many years to learn that "perfect" is the enemy of "shipped". But I always knew that “good enough,” without knowing why it’s good enough, is just delayed failure.

The map is not the territory. Your model is not the system. The difference is where the quant trading research and development happens.

If billionaires are so worried about a wealth tax, why can't they just get a second job?

I've spent the last few months rebuilding my quant workflow after returning from fourteen years in software product engineering. The hardest part wasn't the math (for me). It was learning when to stop: when to kill a hypothesis and move on. I wrote up the funnel and mental model, from terminal exploration through statistical validation to robustness testing.

https://susanpotter.net/quant/hypothesis-to-production-toolkit/

#quantfinance #python #datascience

Dear Illinois (or anyone in any state): if your health insurance denies you coverage in stupid ways (it is rather common), be sure to file a complaint with your state's department of insurance (or whatever they call it). In Illinois it is here:

https://idoi.illinois.gov/consumers/file-a-complaint.html

These mofos get away with too much. The state should know more of their abuses.

LOL. So much winning... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/business/economy/trump-global-tariff-ruled-illegal.html

Also are we sure this guy is still alive?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/26/donald-trump-correspondents-dinner-shooting

Or are we already Weekend At Bernie's it now?

I'm amazed by all these terrified media and political elites concerned for their own safety but give zero fucks for the school children of our country.

GFY.

The amount of glee I have seen from tech workers over the OpenAI Stargate obliteration threat should worry all tech billionaires right now.

People are waking up to the class war that the billionaires have been waging against the masses for a decade.

There are more of us than them. Many many many more.

Remote jobs will be back in vogue sooner than Jamie Dimon thinks.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/02/world-response-iran-war-energy-crisis-oil

Datacenters are hot.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/climate/data-centers-are-having-an-underrported

T-shirt seen on a flight today.

My 12yo just called me "Bro-chacho" and I don't know how to feel about it.

Stratton +6% with 59% of the votes counted.

For Illinois US Senate primary results tonight: https://apnews.com/projects/elections-2026/illinois-primary-results-us-senate/

Team Stratton here.

Alex Karp is an anti-Constitution treasonous fuck: https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

OH: "Google it on TikTok"

I am convinced that Netflix just conducted a huge corporate psyops against the Ellisons. And I love it so much.