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Isn't it gorgeous?  Blogger Tim Knight tried this phrase as a Dall-E prompt, presumably because he wanted a picture of a stock-market bear celebrating that the market is going down.  It's so anthro!

Mr. Knight's blog-post then went in the "creative skills are going to get usurped by technology" direction, but to me the weird thing is that this appears to be a person wearing a fursuit, but it's not furry because it's vitreous.  The bear is oddly holding the leaf, which looks sort of like a sword.

Here is a painting by ErAn Croitoru.  His surname is the Romanian word for "tailor" and is pronounced "ˌcrow-ee-ˈTOR-u".  The painting is not particularly furry, except perhaps in a Kryton desires a vacuum cleaner sense.

That's the title for this Reddit post.



In other news, on Monday I gave another lecture about stock-trading — or rather, about my inability to make any money at it.  I described the extreme efforts I had to go through to compile an archive of 20,000 hours of trading in one particular stock-ticker (IWM, an exchange-traded mutual fund that holds shares in the 2000 stocks that are just below the S&P 500).  One person asked if I was going to "liberate" this data.

Yes I can!  Unfortunately, intellectual-property licensing agreements prevent me from posting it here (I can give it out only to "a limited number of individuals", without charge, for noncommercial use, on an occasional and irregular basis).  I tried posting the data to the Google Group for the programmer's meetup, but my message has gotten stuck in the queue.  Please comment if you either want it or don't want it.