Perfect time for you to subscribe to my new API service that provides early access to my oncology test results before they go public. Why should Big Pharma be the only ones that make money off my cancer? (Obviously a joke, Kalshi & Polymarket should be illegal.) futurism.com/health-medic...

Kalshi Defends Plan to Bet on Lives of Cancer Patients

Users on Kalshi will even allow users to bet on whether drug trials for potentially lifesaving drug trials will succeed.

futurism.com

I’m fairly certain I ate fewer than a dozen avocados in the 20th century.

Constantine@ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 21h ago

Food, man. Food is so much better than it was in 1986. All of it. Poor-people food, restaurant food, fresh food, frozen food. Food is just a hell of a lot better.

A story of cause and effect: Last November, Ontario banned cities from using speed safety cameras to issue tickets. Reckless speeding immediately surged in Toronto, Ottawa, Guelph, and cities throughout the province. A 🧵 about my latest in Bloomberg (gift link)

What Happens When Speed Cameras Get Shut Off

In 2025, Ontario banned automated traffic enforcement. Now the number of drivers exceeding the speed limit has surged, according to traffic data.

bloomberg.com

I have a product development thesis that I'm pretty sure is foolproof if someone wants to test it:

Civic Holiday is my favourite Canadian holiday because it’s true meaning is that someone realized you can just make a three day weekend when the weather is nice.

It's probably good that there's only one season of The Prisoner, because I'm halfway through and seriously reconsidering my anti-cape stance. These are dope, maybe I should get one for the autumn.

Sol LeWitt would have done amazing things with generative AI.

Somehow I hadn't seen this live version of Songs: Ohia's Blue Factory Flame before. My favourite Jason Molina song, and the guitar tone here is unreal. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GH9...

Songs:Ohia / Jason Molina "Blue Factory Flame"

YouTube video by SecretDevice

youtube.com

A weird side effect of one of my chemo drugs is that when I make a chattering motion with my teeth or tap my head with my hand, it sounds and feels like I’m tapping a ripe watermelon. Kind of a hollow echo. It is very trippy and entertaining.

The Bluesky For You feed is magnitudes better than the one at the old place. I'm constantly impressed with the relevance of the posts it surfaces. Today I saw a post saying that a railpath trail in my neighbourhood that had been closed for several years was now open. So well targeted! 👏 foryou.club

For You · Most Liked Custom Feed on Bluesky

For You is the most liked custom feed on Bluesky. It finds people who liked the same posts as you and shows you what else they’ve liked recently.

foryou.club

A paradox of AI layoffs I struggle to understand: During the early-2020s hypergrowth era, I constantly had to cut high-impact projects because my product teams lacked resources. Now AI gives us more leverage, and companies are using it to cut costs instead of expanding ambition.

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 5d ago

At the startup, we are seeing large productivity gains time after time in deployments of AI that are done thoughtfully. There are so many important things that aren't done because there simply aren't enough people to do them.

I think it’s cute that the Tour of Denmark has a “King of the Hills” leader instead of a “King of the Mountains.” Here’s the route profile for today’s Queen stage, where they go over the same two or three small hills several times.

Finally secured Odyssey tickets for Aug 23, so set your calendar for some piping hot takes from me in a month.

Portland is the best basketball city in North America. The new owner is speed running the Donald Sterling playbook of malicious hostility towards the fan base.

At the risk of wading into the "main character of the day" drama: As someone who was not aware that playing the spelling bee is now apparently considered transphobic, this doesn't feel like the most helpful way to get people on your side.

I truly don't understand otherwise seemingly intelligent people who share direct AI output like "Here's what ChatGPT said about [topic]:" Buddy, if I wanted to know what ChatGPT says, I can ask myself. You aren't adding anything here.

I’m going back to the US in a few weeks to visit family in Ohio, and I’m googling things like “can I drink the water?”, “which foods are unsafe to eat?”, and “will I have problems with border guards?” Great job America, you are now a developing country in the 1960s. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/c...

In Ohio, Toxic Wastewater Is Bubbling Up Out of the Ground

The state is a major importer of fracking wastewater, which gets pumped underground but doesn’t always stay there. The city of Marietta is fighting back.

nytimes.com

All of my Duolingo lessons this week seem to be about salted cod. This is not a dish I have ever ordered, nor a topic I have discussed with anyone in France. Perhaps I’ve been missing out on a key part of French culture?

I still think about the wine-drinking dog from season 1 of Love is Blind at least once a month.

Brian Phillips@brianphillips.lol · last wk.

It looks like the dog is saying this

Trying to track down the source of Satre's "eyes of the least favoured" principle in his 1952 book The Communists and Peace, and the PDF I found online is missing the exact pages it appears on. Clearly this is a conspiracy to hide such powerful ideas from the public.

The roar on Montmarte when Pogi in yellow comes around the corner gives me goosebumps. I've watched this like a dozen times. Sport at its finest.

What is LinkedIn for if not posting things that would make you unhirable to the largest tech company in your country?

I assume this prompt was planted by a marketing intern at Columbia Records to juice the streaming numbers for Alice In Chains.

Acting the Fulemin@actingthefulemin.bsky.social · last wk.

Not trying to dunk but I enjoy that apparently the too-obvious bands you have to check off in the 90s are these ones. Like of everyone you could have picked it's good grunge, decent grunge, tedious alt rock with some grunge, and "being submerged in mud"

I have never expended this much energy in my life. I can not even imagine expending this much energy in a sprint. Chapeau to MVDP for leaving it all out there for a breathtaking win.

ednl🇪🇺@ee1.nl · last wk.

Champ of Champs #tdf2026

Having a submarine that can cruise the Great Lakes has been a life goal of mine since I was four years old and visited a WWII submarine docked on the Cleveland waterfront.

James McLeod@jamespmcleod.ca · 2w ago

It's safe to assume that all major LLMs are scraping Bluesky data to train future models. As an open protocol, Bluesky is one of the few sources of fresh human-generated content that anybody can gobble up. So all this is probably going in the models. There are submarines in the Great Lakes.

Canada's mini-Elon is mad that democracy led to the cancellation of Toronto's waterfront airport expansion, making it slightly less convenient to hop in his private jet to fuck off to his little Galt's Gulch fantasy world.

Absolutely influenced by recency bias of the third week of the Tour, but this is my ranking for most enjoyable riders to root for this year: 1. Richard Carapaz 2. Baptiste Veistroffer 3. Tadej Pogačar 4. Torstein Træen 5. Tim Merlier 184. [Unnamed, problematic American who actually rode well]

Trying to not make this a Carapaz stan account, but it's hard. What a great last week of the Tour for La Locomotora.

Since LeBron isn't going to come home to Cleveland (the only acceptable outcome), I am going to very much enjoy the Philly fans turning on him in November when they realize this is a 41 year old guy trying to keep his body working well past the expiration date.

Watching Richard Carapaz attack in the mountains is such a delight. It feels like he's the purest embodiment of vintage climbers in the modern peloton, and impossible to root against.