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Kalshi employees "kind of understand that without the tweets and the streamers and all of the social-media stuff that the traders do for them, usually just for free, their marketing would be a lot harder," said Jack Campion, 20, a junior at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Kalshi affiliate. In September, Kalshi briefly signed up a 15-year-old videogame streamer who goes by vertid online to promote its brand on X as an affiliate. A week later, Kalshi ended the partnership. "Yo brother, legal team confirmed that we can't work with minors rn," a Kalshi employee wrote to the user in messages reviewed by the Journal. "Kinda sad tbh."

what the fuck are we doing

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Gen Z males twice as likely as baby boomers to believe wives should obey husbands Global survey shows young men and boys hold more traditional views about gender roles than older generations

To quote He's Just Not That Into You: UNDATEABLE.

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Ginsberg’s Howl is my personal Roman Empire

I wonder if the Washington Post still thinks sacking its entire Middle East desk was such a great move now

Bbg’s tech crew in EMEA had a long discussion about this yesterday! Conclusions:
It’s really a postcard from SF
Writer positions these guys as “agentic” totems but largely they are individually odd losers (though very entertaining) so not sure there’s a broader point

what is money

xAI Co-Founder Toby Pohlen Is Latest Executive to Depart xAI co-founder Toby Pohlen said he is leaving Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence startup, the latest founding executive to depart as the company restructures following its merger with SpaceX.

A 7th co-founder leaves xAI? This company had more co-founders than Snow White had dwarves.

Experiencing a big parental milestone: frantically putting together a World Book Day costume

When the CEO is replaced by AI [consultants]

And inviting narcissists into journalism.

Do these advisers live in a hole? Why were they kow-towing to this stuff to begin with?

Who should I be following in the TCG/TTRPG space on Bluesky? I’m particularly interested in D&D, Magic and Pokemon, but I’ll take any and all recommendations…

Counterpoint: Men can’t be truly intelligent because they don’t care enough about what other people feel.

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Annoying to be trying to write an essay about AI while Sam Kriss exists.

Frankly, only weirdos 'worry' about falling fertility rates as a hobby.

5) CAN YOU DORKS READ ANOTHER BOOK FFS

1) The guy who created the Ring is not a good person
2) Unless Sam/Greg/OpenAI are Frodo in this analogy. In which case...they will try and destroy the Ring?
3) Does this guy know how LOTR ends
4) Sauron's main backer is...Morgoth? Is this guy Morgoth

I mean look, when BBG pays $$$ to integrate Polymarket data, who'll be laughing then

hahahaha

Love this attempt at injecting some Indian masculinity into proceedings (South Asian dudes love holding hands)

Raspberry Pi CEO Upton Embraces Meme Stock Label After 94% Rally Eben Upton was on a ski holiday in California on Monday when he noticed shares in his company were ticking up.

Raspberry Pi, much-loved maker of affordable computers, saw a surprising share rally this week thanks to OpenClaw, the viral AI agent people are deploying on Raspberry Pi devices. CEO Eben Upton is into it, he told BBG. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

India’s Big AI Moment Starts on Chaotic Note India’s biggest business summit in years descended into chaos this week after hundreds of delegates were left stranded without food or water during a sudden security lockdown, a black eye for a marque...

AI grandees discover IST (Indian Stretchable Time) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Bill Gates Pulls Out of Address at High-Profile India AI Summit Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates backed out of a keynote address at a high-profile Indian AI summit just hours before he was due to speak.

There have been almost zero consequences for the men closely linked to Epstein but finally Bill Gates shows an atom of self-awareness by not doing a plush speaking gig. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Saudi-backed AI company Humain invests $3B in xAI, becoming a "significant minority shareholder" in a deal that happened just prior to SpaceX's xAI acquisition (Shona Ghosh/Bloomberg)

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At India's AI Summit, Sundar Pichai announces the America-India Connect Initiative to build new fiber optic lines between India, the US, and other countries (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)

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The truth about population decline Arguments about the dangers of falling fertility deserve much closer scrutiny

New Martin Wolf piece on the same theme. Many kid-free friends cite this as their reason for not being interested in children: "Modernity...creates new pleasures, which compete with those of having children." www.ft.com/content/0ae2...

Why are fertility rates collapsing? Gender roles A big part of female graduates’ decision to have children depends on how they expect their husbands to behave

I have finally got around to reading the Martin Wolf piece on birth rates (flagged by my husband, a v involved dad who knows I have strong views) and it's good. Although I also think people just...don't want that many kids. It's hard work! www.ft.com/content/e1a7...

Journalism likes to think of itself as a trade, but it's really a white-collar profession these days. And like other white-collar professions, it is both integrating AI and being disrupted by it.

Ars Technica pulled a story after finding quotes fabricated by AI, which is obviously horrendous, but some commendable transparency by the reporter here.

I'll just add that many reporters across many news organisations are being strongly encouraged *by management* to experiment with AI tools.