Oliver Roeder
@okr.bsky.social
commissioning editor, FT weekend magazine @financialtimes.com website: oliverroeder.com previously: FT data; nieman fellow; fivethirtyeight
wrote for the magazine about the open source software that underpins our digital lives, how it is being upended by AI code tools, and about maintainers as.ft.com/r/b7f62212-9...
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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what happens when AI code slop seeps into the essential plumbing of the internet? tour de force by the human @samlearner.bsky.social: as.ft.com/r/5f63219d-6...
Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party?
Our obsession with AI code-writing tools is overwhelming the web’s unsung human caretakers
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The FT Mag's America at 250 edition is out today, featuring the thoughts of Stephen Breyer, Nicole Krauss, Yiyun Li @frankfukuyama.bsky.social Simon Schama, @okr.bsky.social Harlan Bozeman @jayrayner1.bsky.social @nigella.bsky.social Jancis Robinson & more www.ft.com/content/3265... @ftweekend.com
My fellow American: who should be remembered for the next 250 years?
Artists, thinkers and leaders from the US and beyond pick the person they think deserves to be honoured: from Abraham Lincoln to Dorothy Parker
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“There’s no hustle, there’s no fighting,” Ejupovic said. “These players are boring.” lovely story by johnny kauffman: as.ft.com/r/b27dbcd3-6...
The lonely torture of Wimbledon dreams
At the bottom of the pro-tennis hierarchy, players hustle for money and rankings, ‘like a gladiator fighting for your life’
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in professional news, come monday i've got a new role at the FT: commissioning editor on FT Weekend Magazine. very excited; send pitches.
A special FT magazine issue all about maps is out today, w great pieces by @okr.bsky.social and @theboysmithy.ft.com, plus maps by me on how glacial melt is redrawing Alpine borders, the battle to redraw America and more Read it online here (though best enjoyed in print!) www.ft.com/content/efab...
NEW: How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America @okr.bsky.social and I on prediction markets' entry into sports contracts under Trump's CFTC and the resulting legal fights with states, tribal groups, and the gaming industry on.ft.com/4nwVxDk
How prediction markets are shaking up sports gambling in America
Kalshi is spearheading a legal battle to expand access to online betting, with support from some in Trump’s circle
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ICE plans to 6x its current budget for immigrant transportation and deportations. The money offers a potential windfall for a few contractors and charter airlines — some with close ties to the Trump campaign. Yet the system is already under strain, with significant concerns for detainees' safety: 🧵
The booming business of Trump’s deportation flights
Companies are jostling for billions of dollars to fly immigrant detainees out of the US
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why can't i stop cleaning fake dirt off fake objects? www.ft.com/content/0500...
Why can’t I stop cleaning fake dirt off fake objects?
In praise of ‘PowerWash Simulator’, part ponderous game, part dreamlike state
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absolutely incredible work by my colleagues, on the "shadow war" in the baltics: ig.ft.com/baltic-sea/
Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics
A series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure
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atoms, vacuums, lasers, and subcommittees — the technology and politics behind redefinining the second: www.ft.com/content/625d...
The mind-bending new science of measuring time
In windowless labs in Colorado sit the 20 atomic clocks the world sets its watch by. They’re barely keeping up
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I spent most of 2024 traveling around the U.S. and Central America hanging out with gamblers, bookies, politicians, even CEOs and casino bosses, trying to learn about sports betting from every perspective. I wrote 10,000 words about it for Rolling Stone. www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Is the $11 Billion Online Sportsbook Bubble About to Burst?
From Vegas to the black market, gambling companies have taken over sports. Inside a billion-dollar industry that could be on the bubble
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NEW: How a small group of connected bettors has been driving up Trump's odds in betting markets with massive limit orders on.ft.com/3YsgXaI w/ @okr.bsky.social
Burst of trades gives Trump a winning edge in election prediction markets
[FREE TO READ] Small group of bettors lifts odds of Republican victory to 62 per cent on cryptocurrency-based Polymarket
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