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One of the most important financial stories out there if you want to know how and why the same five evil guys wind up owning everything.

This is why "prediction markets" caught on so ferociously. While prediction markets are sold as a way to "inject information" into markets, they are *actually* a rigged system, transferring money from "investors" to insiders: pluralistic.net/2026/03/24/d...

Voting with your wallet doesn't work (billionaires' wallets are thicker than yours, so they win) and if you lose enough of those wallet elections, it's easy to fall into the despair of believing that the future is inevitable: pluralistic.net/2025/09/13/c...

Prediction is a weak and helpless activity, the obsession of people who don't think they can change anything. It's the superstitious dread that gives rise to astrology. Far better to be a Luddite who asserts that there is more than one way to introduce a technology to a society.

Average Trump scandal: many people dead after uncontroversial government program illegally cut by doge for nonexistent savings Average mamdani scandal: he’s playing BASKETBALL with his FRIENDS

#TurretTuesday 6605 S. Harvard, Chicago. Built before 1890.

Huge thanks to Robert Wilson for taking the time last week to talk to me about the business and technology of printing in the 19th century, and for showing me some types, matrices, punches, and specimen books at Bowne & Co.: southstreetseaportmuseum.org/visit/bowne/

When @breakthroughbook.bsky.social & I decided to publish this book (very quickly) we opted for a first print run of 2000, not knowing if we'd sell all of those. They are now just 60 left, all signed, & you can grab one here with FREE international delivery: blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro...

The work of Emma Stebbins, the first woman to receive a public sculpture commission from New York City, is on view at the Driehaus Museum. https://bit.ly/47JwYgp

Oh, hey @bikegridnow.org, do we use this metric?

via @stathead.com, throughout 122 years of world series history there have been two games in which a team scored 10+ runs and allowed 3 or fewer hits. both were the brewers (tonight and 1982 game 1)

Can anyone explain the little white dust puff when the ball hits the field in Tampa? Never seen that anywhere else.

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

RECORD BREAKING OCTOBER October of last year we collected more bike lane obstructions than any other October since we started. We have surpassed last October's record-high & there are 5 days left in the month. We expect to collect over 3,500 reports this month. www.bikelaneuprising.com/maps/all

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

I did not expect a Brewers sweep, but it's looking more likely now.

I love that the illusion of stabie input/control is being taught for a non-deterministic process.

Hia charging port is open

Just looked it up, and Walter was born in Chicago. We need to figure out what neighborhood.

We’re fulfilling orders Thurs. Get your orders in before then +Most reflective jacket sizes are in stock, but sizes are getting low selling/out +Bike lights are back in stock (USB-C) www.bikelaneuprising.com/shop

wsj is wsj'ing at unprecedented levels

I don't want to depend on Chinese AI. I don't want to depend on Chinese AI or American AI. I don't want to use, or depend on Chinese or American AI. I don't want to consume, use, or depend on anything produced by Chinese or American AI.

A snow bunting at Montrose Point this morning

next year microsoft execs will be required to sell their plasma regularly in order to contribute to its data center petty cash box

Bluesky in a nutshell www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdAJ...

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I quickly read the label as "To Cakefront Trail" and now I want a Cakefront Trail.

Coyote in Touhy Park. @robertloerzel.bsky.social @buckweaver.bsky.social @rebeccakell.bsky.social

I totally forgot to mention that I collaborated with @chicago.suntimes.com ! Pretty sure you can still get this shirt when you donate to Chicago Public Media.

That's Sebewaing!

Does feel more apocalyptic these days, and there's definitely a greater fear of airplanes falling on us.

Great character. Never too late to (re)watch Babylon 5 🖖

BTW, I keep seeing the gold Teslas (which I think are Robotaxis) in/near Logan Square. Caught one the other night going eastbound on Logan at Elston. Any one else been seeing them here?

ChatGPT, my child arrived just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there are planes to catch, and bills to pay Can you teach him to walk while I'm away?

Hey Gemini what is my kid's name and what does she look like, I'm at her school play and I can't figure out which one it is

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My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Canada remembers

This was just balloons. SpaceX wants to do this with satellites so they can increase internet coverage.

More signs of a perfectly normal economy