Interviewed the journalist who was getting death threats from polymarket gamblers to change his reporting on an Iranian missile strike. Scary stuff in here about how the intense harassment made him (for just a split second) doubt what he saw and reported. Others may not have his conviction/morals.
A Disturbing New Low in the Polymarket Era
Maybe turning war into a casino was a bad idea?
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@theobserveruk.bsky.social as a scholar of journalism and former resident of Dubai, I'm quite startled at the naivete displayed by the news meeting panel regarding the way in which the UAE controls information and treats the truth with contempt. It's 164th on the RSF press freedom index.
@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social London Metro is a newspaper, ironically available for free on the underground and buses. That makes you both wrong, I guess.
The New York Times flashback quiz today is a little too on the money. I'm pretty sure they prep these weeks in advance, but still...
So I went down the rabbit hole to find out what Chicken Jockey even is, and… can someone put this in front of Jack Black and ask him and or the Minecraft movie producers to sponsor her?
I don't think the Boers really had that kind of language, although many of the words that they would have considered neutral descriptors are now highly offensive (and racist). The thing is, Musk isn't an Afrikaner or a Boer. His family are people who moved to South Africa after WWII
Randy Potemkin@wisco-disco.bsky.social · last yr.We need to resurrect some really esoteric antique boer slurs
I genuinely thought being in the UK would mean I didn't have to see this. I'm irrationally angry at it. In
