Kalshi and Polymarket users who bet on Iran are mad — but for very different reasons:
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Kalshi and Polymarket users who bet on Iran are mad — but for very different reasons:
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NEW for Bloomberg Businessweek: Prediction market companies pitch themselves as sources of truth. Can they be trusted? (gift link)
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From "Eddington" to fears of an AI stock bubble, 2025 was the year data centers became the villain (gift link):
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Strong contender for fav. headline of the year @emilyanthes.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/s...
Did the esoteric "code is law" debate make a jury cry? A recent mistrial shows why it can be so hard to apply traditional finance laws to crypto:
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What do architecture critics think of Trump's ballroom and Obama's library? I asked them (gift link):
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🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/
Are we in an AI bubble?
George Gilder, the tech guru who famously got blindsided by the 2001 telecom collapse, scoffs at the current AI data center mania. “It’s way overbuilding,” he says.
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When I called Engel to ask him about all of this, he told me that he does not believe that genetics are “the chief explanation” for how Anglo-Protestant ideals are transferred from generation to generation—but added that “there is an ethnic or racial correlation” between who embodies such ideals and who doesn’t. Our conversation was polite, but strange at times. I mentioned that as a half-Iranian American who was born and raised in the U.S., I share more in common ideologically with the Anglo-Protestant Founders of the United States than I do with Middle Eastern theocrats. “I would also contend that there is something deep inside of you that is attracted to or finds familiar portions of Iranian history,” he said, as though I am genetically predisposed to find the conquests of Darius the Great uniquely moving. I don’t, and told him as much. “I’m not contending that you can’t take someone and raise him within a certain cultural environment and he begins to adopt the taste and all that,” Engel responded. “But I do contend that if you bring in massive groups of people over time, it’s going to, in a few generations, be a lot culturally different than it would otherwise have been if you never had done that.”
Obsessed with this portion of @alibreland.bsky.social’s latest, on “heritage Americans,” not just because it’s snappy, but because it reveals much about the nature of the ideology these people have: superior, unwavering, fundamentally rooted in historic unreality www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Josh Wallace Kerrigan had a bold idea: To make AI video that does not suck.
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Wrote about the Charlie Kirk memecoin frenzy (gift link):
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I spoke with Dan Wang, who argues in his new book "Breakneck" that the US needs to rekindle its love of engineering -- and that means learning from China:
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Spent a brain-melting amount of time talking, reading, and thinking about the Zizians:
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how @chrisbeam.bsky.social inspired a major chinese movie
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"My article, titled 'Year of the Pigskin,' was natural Hollywood bait," Christopher Beam writes. "Now a Chinese studio appeared to have simply lifted the idea":
A Chinese movie studio (unofficially) adapted my 2014 article about an American football team. The differences from the original say a lot about how US-China relations have deteriorated
What a sad & poignant story -- the kind of thing that will serve a mile marker when historians write about the loss of US democracy.
SECOND LIFE by @amandahess.bsky.social is out today! bookshop.org/p/books/seco...
the one and only @amandahess.bsky.social has written the most moving book about "having a child in the digital age"—but it's really about so much more. it's a meditation on the oppressiveness of tech, the fragility of humans, the miracle & bittersweetness of life... i would love for you to read it
If you were a Trumpcast listener, this may be what you need now: my new show w/Stephen Metcalf. It's designed to be adrenaline for a better future.
We look straight at the catastrophe. And we ask what can be built from the rubble. It's also free & ad-free.
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"They’re hanging out, like something out of a movie.”
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Ayn Rand gave Leonard Peikoff everything—her ideas, her copyrights, and her money. Then he fell in love with his caregiver.
My deep dive on the battle for Ayn Rand’s estate:
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Interesting read.
"Devoted aide" might be an understatement www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/u...
Behavioral science is troubled and overly influential in general, but “business-school psychology,” as my colleague and editor @engber.bsky.social calls it, is basically just a machine for fraud, erected to enrich its fraudsters.
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"In the collective mind of U.S. voters, the concept of democracy appears to be so muddled, and their commitment to it so conditional, that it makes you wonder what, if anything, they’d do anything to stop its erosion—or whether they’d even notice that happening." www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
“Mate, I’ve never had a bad day in journalism in my life. ...You win, you get drunk because you won. You lose, you get drunk because you lost.” --Steve Dunleavy www.nytimes.com/2019/06/25/b...
Wrote about longevity guru Bryan Johnson’s pivot to supplements:
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Thanks Chris!
