You Can See Everything 👀 Went in mostly cold, that’s a once in a lifetime film
A painting for our times: Nicole Eisenman, "Parking Lot of Violent Forces & Depressive Positions," 2026, in the artist's current show at Sadie Coles HQ in London
Weil, Gotshal & Manges plans to wind down its operations, its leadership told partners, capping a dizzying downfall for the nearly century-old law firm after it failed to stem an exodus of partners reut.rs/4e4MMhm
‘If you know when the US is going to enter Venezuela and kidnap Nicolás Maduro, you can bet on it and “earn” $400,000, just as a member of the US Special Forces did in January.’ @geoffmann.bsky.social on prediction markets. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Geoff Mann · What’s the truth? Prediction Markets
Beneath a list of current bets on whether there will be a coup in this or that country by a certain date, Polymarket...
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My genuine guess about what “clown comedy” involves was pretty far off the mark
A public making decisions (bets) that have financial stakes is good, actually
The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand
Raffi Melkonian@rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · last wk.Obviously there’s something going on with AI breaches in the last few days, and I can’t quite figure out how bad it is, but it is really weird that AI industry people keep saying in public “it’s us and we don’t know how to stop it.” Because that is not going to end well for them, eventually.
With the election looming, the GOP is calling in the big guns. Which means having a megachurch freak named Timmy dispatch an army of walleyed 23yo home-school casualties with YouTube diction to opposing candidates' rallies, where they will demand those candidates reject and denounce the WNBA.
No doubt this story applies to lots of communities, and NYT shows its hand profiling this particular community. Nonetheless! You can't read it and not imagine yourself trying to live this way www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/u...
This Is What America’s Utility Bill Crisis Looks Like (Gift Article)
Record heat and a rising demand for electricity are closing in on Oklahoma families trying to keep the lights on and the AC running.
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I’m glad alito put in writing that originalism has nothing to do with rigorous historical research and is in fact just him talking to his imaginary friends bsky.app/profile/audr...
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie@audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app · 2w agoif you were wondering whether Alito's book is an embarrassing crock of shit, I can now officially answer your question with a resounding yes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...
The saturation of a behavior / belief in a population is an S curve, with somewhat predictable inflection points, one is around 30% and another around 70% Once you reach those on either side, it is very difficult/expensive to turn things around. Trump is out of time, among other things.
Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 2w ago
There’s this story from the abolitionist period about a newly elected Congressman from Ohio, Joshua Giddings. He was entering a Congress where the pro slavery Southerners routinely pulled knives &guns to intimidate other members. But Giddings was a corn feed 6ft tall farmer-lawyer&he wasn’t scared.
Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2w agoAbdul El-Sayed has MAGA fascinated and terrified this election cycle. But I don't think it's (just) because he's Muslim. They don't know how to handle his aggressive and blunt style. It just goes to show the power of Democrats actually fighting back. www.salon.com/2026/10/19/a...
School shootings being allowed to persist is a very under-discussed political reality shaping why my generation is more cognizant of the social contract being in tatters. You let us get ritually murdered in school and didn't lift a finger, what other conclusion should I arrive at?
Alex Ip 葉清霖@alexip718.com · 2w agoAmerica now has second-generation school shooting survivors nypost.com/2026/10/17/u...
Billionaires get mad at things that can't be bought, like talent. Surely they should be able to write books and perform music and have mathematical insights just as well as the talented -- they're rich! If we let them dismiss and devalue real talent, we're going to pay a big price.
LA restaurant group used $60,000 Dodgers bet to hedge playoff risk, Kalshi says reut.rs/3TWj1sh
LA restaurant group used $60,000 Dodgers bet to hedge playoff risk, Kalshi says
A Los Angeles hospitality group used a $60,000 trade on Kalshi to offset revenue lost after the Los Angeles Dodgers failed to reach the World Series, according to the prediction markets platform.
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Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...
I haven’t been following the discourse too closely but I basically agree that GLP-1s are conscious
