[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @patio11 Patrick McKenzie Patrick McKenzie posts on X about all the, investment, tide, money the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 2246 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::20844341/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX -XX% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +158% - X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX% - X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::20844341/posts_active)  - X Week XX -XX% - X Month XXX +57% - X Months XXX -XX% - X Year XXX -XXXX% ### Followers: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::20844341/followers)  - X Week XXXXXXX +0.14% - X Month XXXXXXX +0.62% - X Months XXXXXXX +3% - X Year XXXXXXX +6.90% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::20844341/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::20844341/influence) --- **Social category influence** [finance](/list/finance) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [social networks](/list/social-networks) [stocks](/list/stocks) **Social topic influence** [all the](/topic/all-the), [investment](/topic/investment), [tide](/topic/tide), [money](/topic/money), [what a](/topic/what-a), [youtube](/topic/youtube), [the white](/topic/the-white), [white house](/topic/white-house), [crowdstrike](/topic/crowdstrike), [ops](/topic/ops) **Top assets mentioned** [Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (CRWD)](/topic/crowdstrike) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::20844341/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "PSA: Linode CS interface got compromised at least some customer data accessed. If you use them it is probably Big Red Button time" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/175404261167988736) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2012-03-02T02:16Z 185.8K followers, XX engagements "What a weird time in computers when a) setting up a kids TV profile to have access to YouTube required a factory reset and XX minutes and b) a computer understands exactly the issue gestured to by the words domestic tranquility and fact a siblings profile worked" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1975446398725509403) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-07T06:21Z 185.8K followers, 11.1K engagements "This may in fact not work: Ctrl-F contingent" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1977427545868902848) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-12T17:34Z 185.8K followers, 19.5K engagements "A further fun fact: some nations don't customarily use post codes and others don't customarily use addresses favoring a natural language description of the recipient which is sufficient to get a mail carrier to successfully route to them" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1980859790709649751) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-22T04:52Z 185.8K followers, 11.5K engagements "@yongfook Perhaps some couples have the agreed-upon vision of XX years from now well be in the White House and whatever sacrifices required to make that happen are what we are both signing up for. Many people more similar to us have life scripts which bounce around *quite a bit.*" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1981415225107583007) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-23T17:39Z 185.8K followers, 5735 engagements "@TheStalwart Ill steelman it for you: DraftKings will pick your pocket but not break your kneecaps. Theyre much more effective at picking pockets than the alternative true but they compete almost all the physical violence out of the domain" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1981416469436256304) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-23T17:44Z 185.8K followers, 13.8K engagements "The longest portion of the talk started with the whimsical question "Who has the capability to unilaterally shut down the banks The monarch Someone in this building" Of course not we have centuries of controls on that. A XX year old engineer on the other hand" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1981479802470355364) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-23T21:56Z 185.8K followers, 5075 engagements "And then we got into a bit of a missing postmortem for non-technical people of how the Crowdstrike Falcon bug in July 2024 managed to turn off services up and down the US banking sector how this was exacerbated by seemed-like-good-idea-at-the-time regulations and why our" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1981480090950390237) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-23T21:57Z 185.8K followers, 2768 engagements "As my rap alter ego said about why trust companies in crypto find it difficult to land banking partners: Forty banks denied you Cant imagine why. XX% chance a year that you die. Now the banks lawyers and ops teams are going to get pulled into this bankruptcy/etc for years" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1982225722023313512) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-25T23:20Z 185.8K followers, 28K engagements "See: regarding underwriting bank customers that are also financial institutions and a previous worked example of a failure at that sinking the entire crypto practice of a mid-sized American bank" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1982226019760165276) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-25T23:21Z 185.8K followers, 2494 engagements "@AlecStapp I think its important in the cases where people do things for wildly irrational reasons to carefully listen to their explanation both for understanding their worldview and for recording mistakes for future versions of the game" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1982255006976811229) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-26T01:16Z 185.8K followers, 7060 engagements "@mattyglesias @benthompson Venue relationships apparently. Selling event tickets generally is not as straightforward as many would model (huge risk of non-performance that has to get borne by someone) but its fairly straightforward" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1982502186748879289) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-26T17:38Z 185.8K followers, 4982 engagements "@tszzl Ive for a few years nursed the idea of having an anachronistically skilled banker in a fantasy world start introducing more financial capitalism than theyre ready for but this idea never even occurred to me. The only trouble is if I had an idea for a novel financial product" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1982628104846893192) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-27T01:59Z 185.8K followers, 4672 engagements "How much could would you write if you could one-shot 10-100 line shell scripts or similar almost all of the time in XX seconds You would write a stupid amount of code. Who cares if it is disposable Dispose of it; it's basically free" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1982896854804427100) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-27T19:47Z 185.8K followers, 44.7K engagements "In this thread: an LLM (and critically for the time being a PMC advocate for a patient) knock $150k off a medical bill by a) looking at it b) asking questions and c) not taking the first offer" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1983221188001222926) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-28T17:15Z 185.8K followers, 56.5K engagements "Also there is a real and other-than-completely-cynical way in which medicine has historically involved a large charitable component either formally or informally and this relies on relatively well-monied patients paying list price without much complaint or insurance does so" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1983222467096178999) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-28T17:20Z 185.8K followers, 8821 engagements "And so there are some interesting potential issues downstream of "Wait relatively well-monied sophisticated patients are the most likely to ask ChatGPT 'Hey is this bill for $200k just made up' and have ChatGPT give them the true answer 'Oh all medical bills are made up.'"" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1983222710399390192) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-28T17:21Z 185.8K followers, 8125 engagements ""Because that is the market price of kitty litter." "That isn't the market price of kitty litter." "But $XXX is the market price of kitty litter." "I don't even own a cat." "Why is probably why you only bought $XXX of kitty litter."" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1983231979630776399) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-28T17:58Z 185.8K followers, 9714 engagements "@BeenThereCap AppAmaGooFaceSoft for life Except oddly enough not in my investment portfolio because I felt myself adequately exposed to tech by virtue of my career. Dont know whether that was a dumber call in 2004 when I first made it or whether the dumbness compounds for each year" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1983609936954417630) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-29T19:00Z 185.8K followers, 2349 engagements "@poiThePoi @eigenrobot Different regional variation here; sometimes its a XX pack of soda sometimes its Tide. Buy with EBT card sell to either someone in community or a local bodega which has infinite willingness to turn cash into inventory they can flip for 2X with holding time of days" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1983799668866777192) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-30T07:34Z 185.8K followers, 2098 engagements "@poiThePoi @eigenrobot (Hmm I had Tide cached as an example of this sort of diversion but a quick check suggests not SNAP eligible; might have misremembered sources.)" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1983801791436243126) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-30T07:42Z 185.8K followers, 1035 engagements "The combined enterprise that is Bitfinex/Tether routinely treats Tether as a piggy bank with ad hoc equity injections when their mismanagement causes its equity to go negative as it did at least twice in 2022. Did they learn from this experience Yes: no penalty for doing it" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1984298769874031008) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-31T16:37Z 185.8K followers, 15.9K engagements "I know the true status of these numbers is They tell the lie they need to tell and we pretend to believe them among cognoscenti but %+% they do not even understand the nature of the lie they need to tell after a decade of doing this" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1984299252160270718) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-31T16:39Z 185.8K followers, 2529 engagements "If they understood it better what would they do differently Maintain significantly more capital in the structure such that there was a buffer in the case of decline of value of their risk-on assets which management insists on keeping on Tethers balance sheet instead of" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1984300078765375874) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-31T16:42Z 185.8K followers, 6747 engagements "buying with their own money and keeping on their own balance sheets for reasons which are mysterious if you generally take them at their word regarding the goals and market purpose of Tether" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1984300380239356025) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-31T16:44Z 185.8K followers, 5844 engagements "@y_molodtsov In one of life's little ironies there was a flight to quality in stablecoins (to Tether) after the 2023 banking crisis in the US which (briefly) imperiled the portion of USDC's reservers which were deposited at SVB" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/1984304882732470661) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2025-10-31T17:02Z 185.8K followers, XXX engagements "Darn it SEO spammers for the amount of work you're putting into tricking me into linking to you you could ACTUALLY MAKE SOMETHING WONDERFUL" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/580291429567610881) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2015-03-24T08:53Z 185.8K followers, XX engagements "Man my inner child hates the responsible adult I have become" [X Link](https://x.com/patio11/status/663720137615249410) [@patio11](/creator/x/patio11) 2015-11-09T14:09Z 185.8K followers, XX engagements
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@patio11 Patrick McKenzie
Patrick McKenzie posts on X about all the, investment, tide, money the most. They currently have XXXXXXX followers and 2246 posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX -XX%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +158%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX -XX%
- X Year XXXXXXXXXX -XX%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week XX -XX%
- X Month XXX +57%
- X Months XXX -XX%
- X Year XXX -XXXX%
Followers: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXX +0.14%
- X Month XXXXXXX +0.62%
- X Months XXXXXXX +3%
- X Year XXXXXXX +6.90%
CreatorRank: XXXXXXXXX #
Social Influence #
Social category influence finance technology brands social networks stocks
Social topic influence all the, investment, tide, money, what a, youtube, the white, white house, crowdstrike, ops
Top assets mentioned Crowdstrike Holdings Inc (CRWD)
Top Social Posts #
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"PSA: Linode CS interface got compromised at least some customer data accessed. If you use them it is probably Big Red Button time"
X Link @patio11 2012-03-02T02:16Z 185.8K followers, XX engagements
"What a weird time in computers when a) setting up a kids TV profile to have access to YouTube required a factory reset and XX minutes and b) a computer understands exactly the issue gestured to by the words domestic tranquility and fact a siblings profile worked"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-07T06:21Z 185.8K followers, 11.1K engagements
"This may in fact not work: Ctrl-F contingent"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-12T17:34Z 185.8K followers, 19.5K engagements
"A further fun fact: some nations don't customarily use post codes and others don't customarily use addresses favoring a natural language description of the recipient which is sufficient to get a mail carrier to successfully route to them"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-22T04:52Z 185.8K followers, 11.5K engagements
"@yongfook Perhaps some couples have the agreed-upon vision of XX years from now well be in the White House and whatever sacrifices required to make that happen are what we are both signing up for. Many people more similar to us have life scripts which bounce around quite a bit."
X Link @patio11 2025-10-23T17:39Z 185.8K followers, 5735 engagements
"@TheStalwart Ill steelman it for you: DraftKings will pick your pocket but not break your kneecaps. Theyre much more effective at picking pockets than the alternative true but they compete almost all the physical violence out of the domain"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-23T17:44Z 185.8K followers, 13.8K engagements
"The longest portion of the talk started with the whimsical question "Who has the capability to unilaterally shut down the banks The monarch Someone in this building" Of course not we have centuries of controls on that. A XX year old engineer on the other hand"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-23T21:56Z 185.8K followers, 5075 engagements
"And then we got into a bit of a missing postmortem for non-technical people of how the Crowdstrike Falcon bug in July 2024 managed to turn off services up and down the US banking sector how this was exacerbated by seemed-like-good-idea-at-the-time regulations and why our"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-23T21:57Z 185.8K followers, 2768 engagements
"As my rap alter ego said about why trust companies in crypto find it difficult to land banking partners: Forty banks denied you Cant imagine why. XX% chance a year that you die. Now the banks lawyers and ops teams are going to get pulled into this bankruptcy/etc for years"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-25T23:20Z 185.8K followers, 28K engagements
"See: regarding underwriting bank customers that are also financial institutions and a previous worked example of a failure at that sinking the entire crypto practice of a mid-sized American bank"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-25T23:21Z 185.8K followers, 2494 engagements
"@AlecStapp I think its important in the cases where people do things for wildly irrational reasons to carefully listen to their explanation both for understanding their worldview and for recording mistakes for future versions of the game"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-26T01:16Z 185.8K followers, 7060 engagements
"@mattyglesias @benthompson Venue relationships apparently. Selling event tickets generally is not as straightforward as many would model (huge risk of non-performance that has to get borne by someone) but its fairly straightforward"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-26T17:38Z 185.8K followers, 4982 engagements
"@tszzl Ive for a few years nursed the idea of having an anachronistically skilled banker in a fantasy world start introducing more financial capitalism than theyre ready for but this idea never even occurred to me. The only trouble is if I had an idea for a novel financial product"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-27T01:59Z 185.8K followers, 4672 engagements
"How much could would you write if you could one-shot 10-100 line shell scripts or similar almost all of the time in XX seconds You would write a stupid amount of code. Who cares if it is disposable Dispose of it; it's basically free"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-27T19:47Z 185.8K followers, 44.7K engagements
"In this thread: an LLM (and critically for the time being a PMC advocate for a patient) knock $150k off a medical bill by a) looking at it b) asking questions and c) not taking the first offer"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-28T17:15Z 185.8K followers, 56.5K engagements
"Also there is a real and other-than-completely-cynical way in which medicine has historically involved a large charitable component either formally or informally and this relies on relatively well-monied patients paying list price without much complaint or insurance does so"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-28T17:20Z 185.8K followers, 8821 engagements
"And so there are some interesting potential issues downstream of "Wait relatively well-monied sophisticated patients are the most likely to ask ChatGPT 'Hey is this bill for $200k just made up' and have ChatGPT give them the true answer 'Oh all medical bills are made up.'""
X Link @patio11 2025-10-28T17:21Z 185.8K followers, 8125 engagements
""Because that is the market price of kitty litter." "That isn't the market price of kitty litter." "But $XXX is the market price of kitty litter." "I don't even own a cat." "Why is probably why you only bought $XXX of kitty litter.""
X Link @patio11 2025-10-28T17:58Z 185.8K followers, 9714 engagements
"@BeenThereCap AppAmaGooFaceSoft for life Except oddly enough not in my investment portfolio because I felt myself adequately exposed to tech by virtue of my career. Dont know whether that was a dumber call in 2004 when I first made it or whether the dumbness compounds for each year"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-29T19:00Z 185.8K followers, 2349 engagements
"@poiThePoi @eigenrobot Different regional variation here; sometimes its a XX pack of soda sometimes its Tide. Buy with EBT card sell to either someone in community or a local bodega which has infinite willingness to turn cash into inventory they can flip for 2X with holding time of days"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-30T07:34Z 185.8K followers, 2098 engagements
"@poiThePoi @eigenrobot (Hmm I had Tide cached as an example of this sort of diversion but a quick check suggests not SNAP eligible; might have misremembered sources.)"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-30T07:42Z 185.8K followers, 1035 engagements
"The combined enterprise that is Bitfinex/Tether routinely treats Tether as a piggy bank with ad hoc equity injections when their mismanagement causes its equity to go negative as it did at least twice in 2022. Did they learn from this experience Yes: no penalty for doing it"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-31T16:37Z 185.8K followers, 15.9K engagements
"I know the true status of these numbers is They tell the lie they need to tell and we pretend to believe them among cognoscenti but %+% they do not even understand the nature of the lie they need to tell after a decade of doing this"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-31T16:39Z 185.8K followers, 2529 engagements
"If they understood it better what would they do differently Maintain significantly more capital in the structure such that there was a buffer in the case of decline of value of their risk-on assets which management insists on keeping on Tethers balance sheet instead of"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-31T16:42Z 185.8K followers, 6747 engagements
"buying with their own money and keeping on their own balance sheets for reasons which are mysterious if you generally take them at their word regarding the goals and market purpose of Tether"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-31T16:44Z 185.8K followers, 5844 engagements
"@y_molodtsov In one of life's little ironies there was a flight to quality in stablecoins (to Tether) after the 2023 banking crisis in the US which (briefly) imperiled the portion of USDC's reservers which were deposited at SVB"
X Link @patio11 2025-10-31T17:02Z 185.8K followers, XXX engagements
"Darn it SEO spammers for the amount of work you're putting into tricking me into linking to you you could ACTUALLY MAKE SOMETHING WONDERFUL"
X Link @patio11 2015-03-24T08:53Z 185.8K followers, XX engagements
"Man my inner child hates the responsible adult I have become"
X Link @patio11 2015-11-09T14:09Z 185.8K followers, XX engagements