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(DIR) Post #Az8dzRRE21Dm2lVSgi by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T16:26:40Z
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I liked the good ol “irrational exuberance” better than the new “mandatory exuberance”
(DIR) Post #Az8eBGXyLn9bjxIhTE by rk@mastodon.well.com
2025-10-12T16:28:45Z
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@futurebird “Looks like you’re not sad enough about the death of a horrible person! I can help with that.”
(DIR) Post #Az8hVzIXyZS6BherNA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-12T17:06:06Z
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The classic. https://youtu.be/JBJtQjykq_4
(DIR) Post #Az8ksfXnt1BnReIjOi by CatherineFlick@mastodon.me.uk
2025-10-12T17:43:46Z
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@futurebird thank you for returning this to my brain, I miss the ancient internet
(DIR) Post #AzAH8homaiusp0tSsK by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-13T11:20:00Z
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The tech sector is ablaze with hype. New jargon is flying everywhere. But there are ominous signs. Even those who don't understand the technology are starting to question the stock market. Could it be a bubble?The year is 1996. (The big crash wouldn't come until 2000.)Then-Federal Reserve Board chairman, Alan Greenspan gives a speech where he asks "... how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?"The phase "irrational exuberance" went viral.
(DIR) Post #AzAHTSQqzVULBUb1l2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-13T11:23:47Z
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Some people in the tech sector were annoyed that Greenspan was doing what we would call "FUD" today (Fear Uncertainty and Doubt) he was ruining the vibes of a market that was making so many people rich. I was just a child, and found all of the memes about this hilarious. Including a flash animation set to a Japanese song called "yatta"I always thought it was just a silly pop song, but it turns out it was made by a comedy troop... a parody boy band called "Green Leaves."
(DIR) Post #AzAHfLhJr5ZVlyy5FA by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-13T11:25:56Z
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The original was also making fun of hype. But in this case of the inspirational speaker boy band variety. Their original video is simply amazing. "Yatta" means something like "yay I did it!"But what did you do? Looks like you lost your shirt and pants to conmen. Now all you have are the green leaves. https://youtu.be/KUOwbcdZozQ
(DIR) Post #AzAHuEGHmhNV3QQ1ke by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-13T11:28:31Z
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@androcat It is now "mandatory exuberance"
(DIR) Post #AzAIXE36VbZDgkqduK by MisuseCase@twit.social
2025-10-13T11:35:37Z
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@futurebird I remember this! My little brother was obsessed with this song for a while.
(DIR) Post #AzAJyGfwx2WlbjTbpA by dusk@todon.eu
2025-10-13T11:51:42Z
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@futurebird This video is absolutely incredible. Thank you for sharing!
(DIR) Post #AzAKPF0JH4HqF3rTgu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-13T11:56:32Z
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@brad It's such a good parody of so many things. Cults, pyramid schemes, bitcoins scams... all of that.The simplicity of the visual of having NOTHING but "Green Leaves" but being so full of hype? Cuts to the heart of the issue in the universal language. It's the emperor's new clothes. The moment is right for a remake of this song.
(DIR) Post #AzALOm1H8ariIoecLo by llewelly@sauropods.win
2025-10-13T12:07:43Z
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@futurebird right after that speech, the university I would transfer to in autumn held a tech jobs fair for CS undergrads. They had crazy deadlines for registering for fall classes, so I was already registered and got invited. The jobs fair featured a speech by some microsoft dweeb, who had the gall to quote Greenspan and use it as the centerpiece of an argument for why we should all get jobs right now with stable, long-lived companies that would for sure weather any upcoming economic issues.
(DIR) Post #AzALz5XM391xG9yWMy by promovicz@chaos.social
2025-10-13T12:14:17Z
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@futurebird Simple! Whenever people’s livelihood and money become disconnected, that’s a problem. It’s the difference between “capital” and “capitalism”…
(DIR) Post #AzAN0mmSr8XlcaPqgC by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-13T12:25:49Z
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@Rob_T_Firefly @brad Magnificent!
(DIR) Post #AzARdGLJnChO7yJyLo by emjonaitis@mathstodon.xyz
2025-10-13T13:17:33Z
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@futurebird TIL.
(DIR) Post #AzAWT7YE7oTHjeLI36 by twipped@twipped.social
2025-10-13T14:11:45Z
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@futurebird I took an economics summer course in 1998, for high school. We did a mock stock market investment for the course where we each had a fake 10k investment to buy stocks with.I put mine into yahoo and excite.At the end of the three week class I had earned over 100k, more than anyone else in the class.What a wild time that was.
(DIR) Post #AzBPwuwd3SVgnsyeSu by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-14T00:33:28Z
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Hi Ed, I think you will know the song in this thread, but *also* I think it would make you smile and you should put a cover of it in your podcast. @Rob_T_Firefly has a good cover ...@Zitron
(DIR) Post #AzBQQ4nFW5HzkMUgrI by d_j_fitzgerald@bitbang.social
2025-10-14T00:38:41Z
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@futurebird @Rob_T_Firefly @Zitron holy shit that man's Masto account is _dead_
(DIR) Post #AzBQVaNtUODZAlGGoq by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-14T00:39:43Z
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@d_j_fitzgerald @Rob_T_Firefly @Zitron I swear I thought I saw him on here... did he move servers? Or is he on ... bluesky... ew.
(DIR) Post #AzBS9nOMe8vd3JDcqe by d_j_fitzgerald@bitbang.social
2025-10-14T00:58:11Z
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@futurebird @Rob_T_Firefly @Zitron BlueSky, I believe. The tagged account made a handful of posts 7 years ago.
(DIR) Post #AzBSTEyAL2YY5IEjRo by futurebird@sauropods.win
2025-10-14T01:01:43Z
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@d_j_fitzgerald @Rob_T_Firefly @Zitron Well I'll use my bluesky mirror to try and lure him back over here. Wish me luck.