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  • 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!

  • Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    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)

  • I've been going with Liquidate Wall Street personally

  • 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

  • Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    Broader censorship: Creation of the Cyber Threat Intelligence League (CTIL), partnering with US + UK gov starting in 2017 to suppress speech

    Welcome

  • Thanks Miller!

  • Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    The PP Show sub banned on Reddit - DRSGME/WhyDRS Lemmy

    Main discussion is already happening at the linked post, but wanted to copy over to !anticensorship@lemmy.whynotdrs.org 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.)

  • 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!!!

  • Ah, my home state!

  • 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!

  • Who knows, I'm not sure if it would even get on his radar

  • DRS Your GME @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    +200 DRS (and amazingly half way to my next X, didn't expect to get this far!)

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    Request review of moderation actions? Removed for "calling out" users/mods/other subs

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    Express dissatisfaction with moderation practices in a comment? Ban

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    "The SEC confirms that Plan is NOT DRS"? Removed (no reason given)

    Ⓜ️ Instance Meta Discussion @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    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

    DRS Your GME @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    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

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    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

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    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:

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    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:

    On-reddit discussion:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/GME/comments/1536yx9/my_post_on_booking_your_shares_got_removed_on_ss/

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    Seeking review of book/plan related bannings - > Removed (edit: then banned)

    As a reminder, due to the unfortunate risk of escalating tensions, please limit content in this community to factual record. Please do not include commentary on presumed motivations, intentions, shillery, name-calling, etc.

    Original post: https://old.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/152a2r1/the_mod_team_seriously_needs_to_look_into_all_the/

    Auto-crosspost: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/20348

    On-reddit commentary: https://www.reddit.com/r/drsgme/comments/152d1bm/a_story_in_3_pictures_sad_to_see_history_repeat/

    For context, I believe the "no meta content" mandate by RAdmins only covered content which was cross-sub or person-oriented, and not content on intra-sub moderation policy/practice, a belief which was not resolved in attempted discussion | [with](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/11i6pj

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    Is a Lemmy link a subreddit? Is sharing an alternative channel brigading? Do rules mean anything? (No)

    As a reminder, please do not include commentary on presumed motivations, intentions, shillery, name-calling, etc. Thanks for keeping tensions to a minumum.

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    SS: Migrate a post you own? Believe it or not, removed. Right away. (Also ban warning)

    DRS Your GME @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    TACRTFL - What is the secret ingredient?

    Migration note: This post originally appeared on Reddit/Superstonk in April of 2022.

    👋️🦍️⌚️📖️🍆️⚖️

    Hey apes, time to RTFL: Read The Fucking Law. (That's the law they use to fuck us)

    Can't read? No problem, I'll TACR it for you. Don't like my TACR? No problem, read it yourself. Can't read AND don't like my TACR? Find a lawyer and get them to read it for you.

    First, disclaimers - I'm a big proponent of DRSing shares. I've been holding since Jan 2021, DRS'd in September, 99% DRS'd since October. I am not a lawyer, just reading (#blessed)

    Let's start with where I started, the Queen herself:

    https://twitter.com/SusanneTrimbath/status/1438653922449641472

    Interesting enough on its own, I'd say. I like having rights and protections. But what is this "entitlement holder"?

    The answer lies in the Uniform Commercial Code, in Article 8 on investment securities:

    ![](https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/pict

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    SS Discord: Rule against sharing alternative communication channels

    Anti-censorship @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    Pattern of Twitter bans

    DRS Your GME @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    When your sub gets banned from Reddit

    DRS Your GME @lemmy.whynotdrs.org
    apes_on_parade @lemmy.whynotdrs.org

    250 more for the donut god

    Just submitted a request to send over 250 more that I bought during earnings week! That is all.