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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Another compelling frame free for any Dem to pick up: it’s time to advocate for a pro social world. The antisocial elite feeds into the antisocial child molesters and the antisocial public bus murders. It’s time to make a case for the pro social public

I think we should thread these things also: violence against women and children is so presumed, so endemic, that people who have lost all faculties knee-jerk react to a series of desperate (whether they are desperate or FEEL desperate) circumstances with violence against women. racism also, but here

Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less

via sethackerman.substack.com

Family seeks answers after "senseless and callous death" of autistic man during encounter with Howard County Police Grieving family members told WJZ Investigates they are "deeply saddened and shocked" over the death of 25-year-old Alexander LaMorie, an autistic man killed during an encounter with Howard County poli...

Howard County Police shot and killed Alexander LaMorie.

LaMorie, an autistic man called 911 himself due to having suicidal thoughts, he called from his apartment which was part of project to “provide safe and affordable housing for adults with disabilities”.

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I can’t help but think, as I read someone else say, they just want a shortcut to the praise. Are we that incurious?

Idk what these people’s experiences are but having someone notice and say “I like how you used my book” in the lit review, leading to a beer and a friendship, is so much of this

Right. Very basically, I got a PhD because I love learning. Why would I outsource that?

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

I think that is actually the biggest problem with those systems.

It's not losing some random skill that we have made superflous, it's about taking skills that are the foundation for your agency in this world and your ability to understand it.

third way really has its finger on the pulse with its opposition to a billionaire tax. really smart election-maximizing moderation here folks

Being a soldier is lame, being a rogue extra legal operative driven by vengeance alone who blows shit up is cool

According to my research (movies), If they were actually good troops they would be private contractors who break the law in order to win and kill the baddies

ai is a rhetorical technology.

when it produces a list of permissible targets, its value is not producing targets but producing permission

historical detail I can't help but bring up: by some accounts, the event that instigated the British soldiers to open fire on Crispus Attacks and the rest of the crowd in the Boston Massacre was a soldier being hit by a snowball

—Thaddeus Steven’s on sections 3 and 4 of the 14th amendment (1865)

For the first time since @projectsaltbox.bsky.social launched their DHS warehouse acquisition tracker, the number of canceled sales is higher than any of the other warehouse-related figures. We've reached a tipping point, folks.

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It's a neat argument because he's not leaning at all on the quality of the homily's prose or the creativity required to write it, but the intersubjective exchange it consummates.

Every single element of life is either more deadly, more expensive or more inconvenient (often all three) today than it’s been in decades & it’s purely because our robber baron overlords decided to dedicate the entirety of the US apparatus to doing barbaric & culturally suicidal white nationalism

Zeynep Tufekci on having the wrong nightmares about generative AI I was writing a blog post where I was going to reference Zeynep Tufekci’s 2025 NeurIPS keynote, and realized there isn’t a solid synopsis online.

“Generative AI breaks long-standing correlations that society uses to infer things like effort, sincerity, authenticity, and credibility. Once these signals erode, we don’t automatically get something better.”
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Thrilled that my article, Forgotten Framers: Black Conventions and the Second Founding, is forthcoming in the Stan. L. Rev. @stanlrev.bsky.social. It discusses Black Conventions held during Reconstruction and how these conventions are critical to a proper understanding of the 13, 14, & 15th Amdts.

I don’t mock anybody as fiercely and unrepentantly as I mock people driving this thing. I point. I laugh. I gun my (superior) engine. I don’t let them into traffic. I don’t let them pass on the right or the left. I will out my car back into park rather than give them next for a parking space.

all I can add is Epstein apparently knew something about law enforcement and who they really serve

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

“I will continue working with slave catchers” was a refrain post Emancipation also. Federal and local are less meaningful categories to law enforcement than “I can do whatever I want”

Members-only Philly cop bar has been linked to two DUIs — and a third crash kept secret, until now Anna Wakeman still questions why 7C Lounge bartenders didn’t stop serving the officer who crashed into her house and upended her life five years ago.

"The cops can drink as much as they want there...The bartenders serve them till they're blackout drunk and let them leave." Quote from a woman who was hit by a drunk-driving cop *while sitting in her living room.* This story from the @inquirer.com is a hell of a thing. share.inquirer.com/yynTQX

like so many other things in our broken society, the act of reporting has floated free of its former social functions (providing accountability, informing the market, motivating regulators) and now serves as little more than empty entertainment

if there's a point anymore, it escapes me

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

My undergrads are so damn good. Not in their taste in music so much, but in their dedication to social science and moral commitments. Really tired of how they get unfairly maligned by the punditry.

Harris/Walz