I was reading, just now, an article about Young Thug’s recent scrape with the justice system, and at the end of the article, it was noted that he’s developed something of an idée fixe with the variable red supergiant star UY Scuti. Yes, you read that right.

Coincidentally, as realized volatility in the E-mini SP500 near-month index futures contract approached annualized levels of order 150 or even 300 this morning, I was finding myself thinking about the contrast between the essentially out-of-control red giants and consummately restrained red dwarf stars. Both classes of objects exist in the same effective temperature range, but the red dwarfs will manage to last for trillions of years before eventually turning themselves into degenerate helium cinders.