At the center of the prediction markets boom is a bitter rivalry between two 20-something billionaire fintech bros vying for their companies to be distinct, despite everyone constantly lumping them together
"For them, it's existential," a former Kalshi employee told me
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wow, I’m almost excited about the chaos but this can’t be good
over the next couple weeks, we're going to be sharing more about what we're building at @habitat.network :)
here's the first ... excited to see things break for the first time I guess!
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"Freshwater ecosystems across the country are in crisis, “overdrawn, polluted, fragmented and invaded.” Marine and terrestrial ecosystems are degraded, with reduced biodiversity. An estimated 34 percent of plant species and 40 percent of animal species are at risk of extinction."
Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."
It's the weekend, baby
We did close to 200K in RPG sales last year, and more than half was from indie games. If your a small local store, you should be supporting small publishers.
Fried Rice - March 4 through Feb. 10, 2027
Vegetable Fried Rice - Feb. 28 through Nov. 19
Japanese Style Fried Rice - Feb. 28 through Nov. 14
Chicken Shu Mai - March 13 through Oct. 23
The previous recall, issued on Feb. 20, was for Chicken Fried Rice.
In the package I have for doing AT Protocol OAuth with @adonisjs.com, it actually takes care of automatically using cimd-service in development environments. I need to improve that a little bit, just to make server restarts faster, but otherwise it works.
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I piloted river boats for a time and the extent to which not just every year or season but every week or even day was different was a mind-altering experience.
We just don't pay attention.
But when we do, we see this whole freaking planet is alive.
HARD. AGREE.
People said they wanted more culture pieces on Bsky, right? For COYOTE, I interviewed the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org and @meganwachspress.bsky.social for a behind-the-scenes account of how Megan's 7,000-word feature (!) on coal in Oakland came to be—a phenomenal work of longform journalism.
As a worker-owned literary collective, we've drawn inspiration from @theflytrapmedia.com, @aftermath.site, @hearingthingsco.bsky.social, @404media.co and other independent publications (*cough* @coyotemedia.org). We hope you'll join us! www.talkscratch.com
Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
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Popfeed lexicons are available! Create your own app experience or just poke around to see how your data is structured.
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what is some beautiful bit of music that came out in 2025? could be a small "phrase" or entire track. please link!
for your definition of beautiful
oh this is actually quite interesting for @inlay.at
People are information starved, now more than ever. The people who only read the headlines were never going to read the article, but the people who read the articles want substance, and so few deliver it.
A little background here on the very long, very intense investigative work Aftermath published this week on the gamblification of gaming sites. Glad that the reporting has resonated with people and hope to see more support for independent media grinding it out.
Holy crap, Mamdani is finally doing something to bring down sidewalk sheds that will actually sort of work! Sheds will no longer be required more than 40 ft. away from buildings, which will be a help to NYCHA and other towers-in-a-park complexes www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...
for next week when I’m with his friends to say “look at this goofy shit ya mans said”
for next year when asked about other apps to say “look at the goofy shit those devs say”
for next decade when my kids ask what it was like to build Blacksky I‘ll say “look at the goofy shit we were up against”
Target has allowed ICE to abduct its workers and use its property for staging. Now Minnesota organizers are building a pressure campaign against the company. "There is no neutral here," says labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore. Vital reporting by Isabela Escalona.
In a statement to The Verge, Alex Gay, vice president of product and corporate marketing at Grammarly parent company Superhuman, commented: “The Expert Review agent doesn’t claim endorsement or direct participation from those experts; it provides suggestions inspired by works of experts and points users toward influential voices whose scholarship they can then explore more deeply.”
This is going to be an interesting set of lawsuits:
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People are watching 4 hour video essays in the millions. If you write well and engagingly, depth and length are assets of the work, not negatives.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.
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Corporate broadcast coverage of climate change fell 35% in the last year, even as Trump systemically dismantled climate policy and billion-dollar disasters rose
The gradual deprioritization led NBC climate reporter Chase Cain to hit a breaking point, and he quit last week
Here's our interview:
Make it stick and get these banned at your favorite local business and other public access spaces using some of our tools.
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Unfortunately, “Yo brother, legal team confirmed we can’t work with minors rn” is an instant classic
