Death and Gravity
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T1D, insulin should be free
T1D, insulin should be free
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I've been covering prediction markets intensively for just over six months now and felt like it was the right time to unleash this take... to understand them, you need to understand that they are a type of media company: www.wired.com/story/predic...
Polymarket’s Next Bet? It Can Also Be a Media Company
The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They’re already a new form of media.
www.wired.com
September 16, 2026 at 12:10 PM
I've been covering prediction markets intensively for just over six months now and felt like it was the right time to unleash this take... to understand them, you need to understand that they are a type of media company: www.wired.com/story/predic...
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NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2026 at 11:46 AM
NEW: Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and @wired.com, revealing in new detail how exactly Flock Safety’s cameras track the movements of both vehicles and people.
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Do you have any idea how badly you have to fuck up for the guy who started Silver Lake Partners and has a Weird Rich Guy Band Career to accurately call you out for having dogshit controls on your sandbox?
![McNamee is also a musician. He played in the band Flying Other Brothers from 1997 to 2006.[14] His current band, Moonalice, formed in 2007 after acclaimed producer T Bone Burnett approached McNamee about creating a new band in the spirit of the San Francisco psychedelic era.[15] Roger has written for, and played guitar, bass, and vocals in the band since 2007, using the stage persona of "Chubby Wombat Moonalice."[6] In 2014 he formed a duo with Jason Crosby called the Doobie Decibel System.[16] In 2015, The Doobie Brothers sued the band over the name.[17]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_McNamee
McNamee appeared in the 2021 award-winning documentary, The Tale of the Dog, which chronicles the outsized historical impact that the Denver music venue, The Family Dog Denver,[18] had on the changing city.[19]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6urox2njhwvxcqe5bcjqrmux/bafkreigsypeixxwjubvufz3kuvryjylkecwtfbo7pqh23553xtkbidmff4)
September 16, 2026 at 11:31 AM
Do you have any idea how badly you have to fuck up for the guy who started Silver Lake Partners and has a Weird Rich Guy Band Career to accurately call you out for having dogshit controls on your sandbox?
“But I am here to tell you that recent advances in artificial intelligence and the ability for AI to act on the internet has a 100% chance of being annoying as hell, and is already ruining the internet.”
There’s a 100% Chance AI Agents Are Already Ruining the Internet
“AI agents” now have enough power and permission to be extremely annoying online.
www.404media.co
September 16, 2026 at 10:13 AM
“But I am here to tell you that recent advances in artificial intelligence and the ability for AI to act on the internet has a 100% chance of being annoying as hell, and is already ruining the internet.”
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Rationalism rocks. Love any philosophy that tells me:
1) My actions are moral if I help a greater quantity of future people than the real ones I harm
2) There is an infinite quantity of future people
3) Thus, it's essential that I make as much money as possible by doing things I already want to do
1) My actions are moral if I help a greater quantity of future people than the real ones I harm
2) There is an infinite quantity of future people
3) Thus, it's essential that I make as much money as possible by doing things I already want to do
September 15, 2026 at 11:15 PM
Rationalism rocks. Love any philosophy that tells me:
1) My actions are moral if I help a greater quantity of future people than the real ones I harm
2) There is an infinite quantity of future people
3) Thus, it's essential that I make as much money as possible by doing things I already want to do
1) My actions are moral if I help a greater quantity of future people than the real ones I harm
2) There is an infinite quantity of future people
3) Thus, it's essential that I make as much money as possible by doing things I already want to do
Bernie has never been good on tech issues, and frankly it’s time he steps aside so younger people can take the lead
Bernie Sanders and Steve Bannon are showing how political figures who once wanted nothing to do with one another are joining forces in the face of AI proliferation, Toluse Olorunnipa reports:
The Bannon-Bernie Bromance Over AI and Oligarchs
The bedfellows have become strange.
bit.ly
September 16, 2026 at 2:09 AM
Bernie has never been good on tech issues, and frankly it’s time he steps aside so younger people can take the lead
in a sci-fi sense i think the idea of colonizing other worlds is really cool
but i think we need to establish a rule: no second planets until you can learn to take care of your first planet
but i think we need to establish a rule: no second planets until you can learn to take care of your first planet
September 16, 2026 at 2:07 AM
in a sci-fi sense i think the idea of colonizing other worlds is really cool
but i think we need to establish a rule: no second planets until you can learn to take care of your first planet
but i think we need to establish a rule: no second planets until you can learn to take care of your first planet
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MERCX: “.. The cost of shipping 2 million barrels of oil jumps another 14.3% today to $18.15 per barrel. That move is already extreme. I think it gets even more extreme from here.”
September 15, 2026 at 4:46 PM
MERCX: “.. The cost of shipping 2 million barrels of oil jumps another 14.3% today to $18.15 per barrel. That move is already extreme. I think it gets even more extreme from here.”
the best things in life are free
Support For Trump's Proposed $5000 Check:
Oppose: 63%
Support: 17%
Ipsos / Sept 14, 2026
Oppose: 63%
Support: 17%
Ipsos / Sept 14, 2026
September 16, 2026 at 1:28 AM
the best things in life are free
by “self-regulation” they mean “just trust us and give us the entire checkbook, after you’ve signed all those blank checks”
Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...
Cybersecurity experts say AI giants are shutting them out of safety plans
Cybersecurity experts told NBC News that they were concerned that fundamental issues of cybersecurity weren’t being addressed.
www.nbcnews.com
September 16, 2026 at 1:12 AM
by “self-regulation” they mean “just trust us and give us the entire checkbook, after you’ve signed all those blank checks”
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When Nancy Kissinger died last month, her obits glancingly mentioned a strange 1982 incident where she went on trial for choking out a Lyndon LaRouche supporter. I'd already been piecing the story together, and the results are in today's @flaminghydra.com newsletter:
Throttle diplomacy
Nancy Kissinger goes berserk in the Newark Airport: a vignette of 1982 by Sarah Weinman
flaminghydra.com
September 16, 2026 at 12:47 AM
When Nancy Kissinger died last month, her obits glancingly mentioned a strange 1982 incident where she went on trial for choking out a Lyndon LaRouche supporter. I'd already been piecing the story together, and the results are in today's @flaminghydra.com newsletter:
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Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
September 15, 2026 at 7:55 PM
Pretty funny that Ed Sheeran seemingly only hired Irish people and yet didn't see this coming.
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Interesting window into immigration enforcement: An ICE supervisor in upstate New York stopped at Walmart to use the bathroom and instead ended up surveilling a group of Spanish-speakers he saw in the toy aisle.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
September 15, 2026 at 5:14 PM
Interesting window into immigration enforcement: An ICE supervisor in upstate New York stopped at Walmart to use the bathroom and instead ended up surveilling a group of Spanish-speakers he saw in the toy aisle.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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If you reject zionism, wait until you hear about literally everyone behind the 2028 Olympics.
September 16, 2026 at 12:24 AM
If you reject zionism, wait until you hear about literally everyone behind the 2028 Olympics.
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JUST IN: A federal judge has barred DHS from threatening to prosecute a man who harshly criticized ICE’s acting director following the fatal shootings in Minnesota. It violates his free speech, Judge Contreras ruled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
September 16, 2026 at 12:03 AM
JUST IN: A federal judge has barred DHS from threatening to prosecute a man who harshly criticized ICE’s acting director following the fatal shootings in Minnesota. It violates his free speech, Judge Contreras ruled. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
if you don’t count my debts my credit score is 850
JUST IN: Anthropic says they’re highly profitable if you take out some of their biggest expenses.
September 15, 2026 at 11:22 PM
if you don’t count my debts my credit score is 850
i think we should ban zoos, except for the one where we keep and study Trump’s lackeys
September 15, 2026 at 11:18 PM
i think we should ban zoos, except for the one where we keep and study Trump’s lackeys
this man’s mind is rancid soup
FBI Director Kash Patel told lawmakers he changed the bureau's hiring standards to eliminate bestiality as an automatic disqualifier because he did not want to bar trafficking victims who had been forced to have sex with animals reut.rs/4yFCKuV
September 15, 2026 at 11:16 PM
this man’s mind is rancid soup
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remember when a member of richard spencer’s entourage fired a gun into a crowd during his college speaking tour and they kept letting him speak on college campuses? it was about two months after a woman was murdered at an event he was headlining.
As politicians condemn Hasan Piker's visit to the University of Texas, the student group that invited him is speaking out.
UT Democrats accuse school of 'shadow cancelling' event
As politicians condemn Hasan Piker's visit to the University of Texas, the student group that invited him is speaking out.
bit.ly
September 15, 2026 at 10:07 PM
remember when a member of richard spencer’s entourage fired a gun into a crowd during his college speaking tour and they kept letting him speak on college campuses? it was about two months after a woman was murdered at an event he was headlining.
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You ever think about how Art programs were added to schools because as labor technology advanced people thought that the next gen needed to learn how to have hobbies if they ended up working less
And then boomers left a world where we work more than ever and AI is destroying hobbies/interests 🫠
And then boomers left a world where we work more than ever and AI is destroying hobbies/interests 🫠
I think a big element of why average people are ok with AI is because to them art isn’t a thing you enjoy and interact with, art is stuff that /goes on things/: mugs, walls, lobbies, etc.
It’s real prominent in boomers but its more the larger issue of people not understanding the importance of art
It’s real prominent in boomers but its more the larger issue of people not understanding the importance of art
September 15, 2026 at 10:10 PM
You ever think about how Art programs were added to schools because as labor technology advanced people thought that the next gen needed to learn how to have hobbies if they ended up working less
And then boomers left a world where we work more than ever and AI is destroying hobbies/interests 🫠
And then boomers left a world where we work more than ever and AI is destroying hobbies/interests 🫠
troubling.
WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump slams Supreme Court for rejecting his push to restrict mail ballots, says 'these are not the people I interviewed.'
@apnews.com
@apnews.com
September 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
troubling.
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A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.
September 15, 2026 at 7:01 AM
A friend of mine works in AI and thinks bad things are about to happen. He sold his home and moved his family out the country. He said that if you own a home in a walkable San Francisco neighborhood near a taqueria with good veggie options, you should sell your home for super cheap right now.
just spent a minute listening to an NPR analyst talk abour AI agents as though they are minds with sentience and free will
we’re never getting out of this hole if the media can’t learn how to not anthropomorphize lines of code
we’re never getting out of this hole if the media can’t learn how to not anthropomorphize lines of code
September 15, 2026 at 1:27 PM
just spent a minute listening to an NPR analyst talk abour AI agents as though they are minds with sentience and free will
we’re never getting out of this hole if the media can’t learn how to not anthropomorphize lines of code
we’re never getting out of this hole if the media can’t learn how to not anthropomorphize lines of code
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talarico reminds me of how democrats spent years trying to "moderate" on immigration and getting nothing in return and now we have the best funded paramilitary force on the planet disappearing people across the country while running a system of concentration camps with no oversight
September 14, 2026 at 8:33 PM
talarico reminds me of how democrats spent years trying to "moderate" on immigration and getting nothing in return and now we have the best funded paramilitary force on the planet disappearing people across the country while running a system of concentration camps with no oversight
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There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander!
September 14, 2026 at 5:53 PM
There’s a bizarre contrarianism in the Democratic Party, where, if an idea catches on with the base it’s treated as presumptively unreasonable forever. Not even an effort to *appear* to be supportive. Politicians used to pander!