The wildest frat party on campus? Prediction markets. Kalshi and Polymarket are pouring money into deals with social-media influencers and college students.
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The wildest frat party on campus? Prediction markets. Kalshi and Polymarket are pouring money into deals with social-media influencers and college students.
Sisyphus is on duty
if you don’t know a lot of women you may not be aware… www.cnbc.com/2026/03/06/g...
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. She’s married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
They’ve already sent her to Louisiana.
The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.
U.S.-Israeli strikes have damaged multiple Iranian hospitals and schools.
It appears we may have replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei
Obama Campaign Manager Jim Messina is up on stage as the last event of the day. He cites being anti crypto, anti prediction markets and anti gambling as why Democrats are losing young men. Messina is on the board of Blockchain .com and lobbied for the American Gaming Association
Sam Altman tweet: Tonight, we reached an agreement with the Department of War to deploy our models in their classified network. In all of our interactions, the DoW displayed a deep respect for safety and a desire to partner to achieve the best possible outcome. AI safety and wide distribution of benefits are the core of our mission. Two of our most important safety principles are prohibitions on domestic mass surveillance and human responsibility for the use of force, including for autonomous weapon systems. The DoW agrees with these principles, reflects them in law and policy, and we put them into our agreement. We also will build technical safeguards to ensure our models behave as they should, which the DoW also wanted. We will deploy FDEs to help with our models and to ensure their safety, we will deploy on cloud networks only. We are asking the DoW to offer these same terms to all AI companies, which in our opinion we think everyone should be willing to accept. We have expressed our strong desire to see things de-escalate away from legal and governmental actions and towards reasonable agreements. We remain committed to serve all of humanity as best we can. The world is a complicated, messy, and sometimes dangerous place.
My goodness.
today we're making one of the hardest decisions in the history of our company: we're reducing our organization by nearly half, from over 10,000 people to just under 6,000. that means over 4,000 of you are being asked to leave or entering into consultation. i'll be straight about what's happening, why, and what it means for everyone.
Getting mass fired in all lower case x.com/jack/status/...
Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social
www.wivb.com/news/local-n...
NEW: Kalshi announces details into two insider trading investigations. WIRED confirms that one suspended account belongs to California congressional candidate Kyle Langford: www.wired.com/story/kalshi...
The head of Amazon's AGI Lab, David Luan, is leaving the company, he announced in a LinkedIn post.
Luan joined Amazon through an acqui-hire of his AI agent startup Adept less than two years ago.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/h...
An eye-opening story from @ering.bsky.social and Karen Weise on how Jeffrey Epstein worked his way into the inner sanctum of Microsoft's C-suite
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...
It's worth reading Rahman's account of what happened to her, it's not that long.
"...the glass of the passenger side window flew across my face. I yelled "I'm disabled!" at the hands grabbing me. An agent said, "TOO LATE.""
www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault.
LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith”
In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted
DOJ keeps lying and losing:
This is a huge deal, and the number of people I see pooh-poohing this as just a loss to a supposedly elite group sucks. A) most of the jobs that disappeared were the working-class ones; B) bye bye not just to local coverage but to arts, sports, everything that’s not tech/biz/politics/opinion/advice
fell for it again award
Sleepy time bear
It's Friday night baby
How RVs became Silicon Valley's housing safety net, by
@katerogerscnbc.bsky.social
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/20/h...
Amazon service was taken down by AI coding bot ft.trib.al/irDnF78
Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up
The feds do not share how many agents are still in Minnesota or how many arrests are taking place, but anecdotal accounts show their activities moving from the Twin Cities (where they encountered strong opposition) to suburbs, exurbs & small towns. (3) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
SCOOP: Ring’s controversial, AI-powered “Search Party” feature isn’t intended to be limited only to dogs, the company’s founder, Jamie Siminoff, told Ring employees in an internal email obtained by 404 Media.
Prediction market traders are “seeking alpha” by buying TV antennas for a millisecond of speed, timing the Super Bowl national anthem rehearsal in person and uncovering not-yet-public press releases hiding in the HTML of websites. Anything for an edge!
www.npr.org/2026/02/17/n...
Back when many of the tech industry's leading cos didn't disclose much about the makeup of their workforces, Jesse Jackson was a regular presence in Seattle, pushing Amazon and Microsoft to share and do more.
eg:
www.seattletimes.com/business/jes...
www.seattletimes.com/business/sha...
Waymo is paying gig workers from DoorDash, Honk to close its robotaxi doors. cnb.cx/4kzLAEM
“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.
At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...
Ring has announced it's dropping its partnership with police tech company Flock Safety. The partnership attracted intense scrutiny after Ring's Super Bowl ad touted an AI pet finding tool and amid calls for tech companies to reexamine their work with ICE, CBP, etc.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/a...
A 76-year-old veteran and nurse was tackled and detained at the site of Alex Pretti's killing. Agents told him his phone was evidence in an investigation into him assaulting an officer.
“I didn’t assault an officer. I got assaulted by three officers." minnesotareformer.com/2026/02/12/w...
