Paul Knowles

This was always where the smart money is

And 10 days to stew on it

No context britons: Source: Manchester Evening News
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Starmer is clearly the problem for labour.

Family voting also needs to be explained better

Who are democracy volunteers?

so it looks like we've finally reached the "oh shit" moment with AI. Am officially worried for humanity.

'Bam, everything's gone': Two young men describe losing thousands on Kalshi and Polymarket The gambling-like experience of using prediction markets poses risks for millions. Some struggle to stop.

Polymarket and Kalshi are real scams www.businessinsider.com/quitting-pol...

Bitcoin (BTC) news: Fed's Kashkari says crypto is 'utterly useless' The Minneapolis Fed president said stablecoins don’t beat Venmo and argued crypto fails basic real-world tests.

"Crypto has been around for more than a decade, and it's utterly useless," - hard to refute this one: www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/...

G'morn

It's remarkable how little he talks about green issues.

Word on the ground is greens are nowhere in Denton and Gorton, it's labour or reform, but probably reform unsurprisingly with the current shitshow

The Mandleson saga makes clear what was apparent all along: New Labour was a con job and a vehicle for careerists. Such a missed opportunity. Could have had a solid labour gov that made fundamental changes to the country and avoided things like brexit. And we're still making the same mistakes today.

Is today the day Trump officially became a lame duck? Will he last til the midterms?0

Can't remember the last time I looked forward to MOTD so much #mufc

No the next one will be great. It'll come sooner than you think

The club is older that 13 years. To be honest, the glory days of winning the league every year did get kinda boring. But yeah the club is a joke

To be fair he did a really crap job but it was starting to improve. We'll never know

You'll need to change your handle

Wow.

Poor Arsenal. Doing all the right things but will inevitably be hunted down by city.

2025 letter | Dan Wang Corgis, compute, Cold War; Ecclesiastes; ties; Stendhal; humor; Pascal's Wager; deep infrastructure; Germanic obedience; Texas State Fair

This has become a new years fixture: danwang.co/2025-letter/

I think the social media part is right but I'm starting to think results immediate or not have little to do with it all

When racists shout ‘Go home’, and you come from 15 places, what to do? | Hugh Muir A DNA test showed me that theoretically I have links to a long list of countries – and that the way we look at belonging makes little sense, says Hugh Muir, executive editor, Opinion

Best article of 2026 so far: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I wish it could be b'twixmas everyday

It's hard being a red #mufc

Ask chatgpt to generate a pic of Putin as a Sith overload but apparently it violates their content policies.

The Bitcoin Dream Just Collided with Math Why the world’s most famous asset now faces a hard ceiling, fading speculation, and an 80% chance of long-term irrelevance.

Bitcoin is probably over: evervests.substack.com/p/the-bitcoi...

Manc

The one time when I'm up early and can watch the Ashes, all I see is England struggling to bowl out a couple of tailenders.