Peter Gratton
@petergratton.bsky.social
Peter Gratton, PhD, is an editor at Investopedia, book author, and professor of philosophy. He covers political theory, technology, finance, and political economy. Views are definitely my own.
"It's insane. I can say for myself and 200 of my friends in finance, we're not getting anywhere near this. In another administration, this would be considered criminal.”
Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.
The gambling/prediction market industries won't be done until you can gamble on your flights, in your sleep, in the hospital—anywhere you might get some respite from their endless ads. www.investopedia.com/market-updat...
Delta, DraftKings Partner on ‘Free-to-Play Sports Knowledge Contest’
In-flight gambling has been illegal on U.S. commercial aircraft for more than six decades. Delta Air Lines and DraftKings are collaborating nevertheless.
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Still get a kick out of Kalshi making a big part of their advertising campaign that "we're not breaking the law." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A $600,000 Kalshi Trade Sets Up for Big Payoff If Fed Hikes
A $600,000 trade on Kalshi that would have delivered a roughly quadruple payout if the Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday turned into a losing wager after the US central bank stood pat...
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' "Ross is one of the preeminent public intellectuals in America today, a thinker of uncommon rigor and a journalist of deep empathy," Bilton said. ' So those are words that have happened. www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minu...
"60 Minutes" announces new correspondents and contributors
"60 Minutes" announced ahead of its 59th season that Ross Douthat, Sebastian Junger, Gianna Toboni and Trevor Phillips will join the show.
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People who think Emily Wilson is being mean have clearly never presented a paper at an academic conference
I was explaining the pitching process to a friend who isn’t in journalism/writing, because she was curious about what happens before a story is a story. There was a long pause and she goes “I think I need to subscribe to more things.”
"The complaint, now public, accused the two Russians of running the largest illegal library in the world, a website with tens of millions of digital books, and millions of regular users, called Z-Library." giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
The race to collect every book ever written
When the FBI seized Z-Library, it looked like the end of illegal book sharing. Now, its pirate project is central to the AI revolution
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Penelope: And you really didn't have sex with anyone else in those twenty years. Odysseus: I can honestly say that Nobody was having sex.
I wrote a whole book and you just tweeted it out ;) www.dukeupress.edu/good-vibes-o...
Good Vibes Only: Phenomenology and the Biopolitics of Algorithmic Legitimation
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🚨 New GAO report— About two-thirds of Americans who rely on federal programs to make ends meet—such as Medicaid and SNAP—work full time.
U.S. GAO - Federal Social Safety Net Programs: Millions of Workers, Including Many Employed by Large Employers, Continue to Rely on Medicaid and SNAP
Millions of American adults earn so little that they rely on federal programs to make ends meet, such as Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition...
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I am convinced that unless something changes drastically most people will experience more negative effects of AI, scams, deception, fake news, etc., than positive ones over the course of their lives. www.nytimes.com/video/techno...
Video: The Fake Influencers Selling Wellness on Your Feed
The New York Times found hundreds of A.I.-generated doctors, healers and wellness influencers on social media touting the health benefits of supplements to American consumers. Many of these hyperreali...
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Lots of defenders of Western civilization have a fully racial version since what else is left if they have so little knowledge of it?
@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2w agoMatt Walsh complains that Nolan brought his obsession with nonlinear story telling to the Odyssey, undercutting the original's narrative. The defenders of western civilisation, folks.
Hans-Georg Gadamer had a fable he'd sometimes tell. It was about how God in his Glory created someone magnificent, a figure who was pure and wise and free and serious and deep: the Scholar. But then alas God created the exact opposite, a veritable demon of stupidity and wrong: the Colleague.
Ah, once again someone has confused Clausewitz with the Marquis de Sade.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoRep. Rich McCormick on Iran: "I'm a big Clausewitzian warfare guy. I believe in dominance. We are the dominant world superpower. These guys are not. I would've been unrelenting until the end."
I missed this before. Very amusing Tenure Letter for the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales. www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/lives-of-t...
Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Thales
To the promotions committee, this is my evaluation of Thales’ case for tenure.
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A generous NYT review of Cool Machine that gives a good sense of its preoccupations/themes & the like: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/b...
Book Review: ‘Cool Machine,’ by Colson Whitehead
The final installment of his Harlem crime trilogy is full of heists, cultural shifts and nostalgia for 1980s New York.
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i am not even hostile to using an LLM to try to fix something but this is great marketing
Metin Seven (Moon Child's dad 🌝)@seven.eurosky.social · 2w ago
Props to consumer reports for their journalism here. Since Taylor foods and the FDA are not disclosing where all the lettuce went they’re doing a great job trying to figure out the details. For now they’re recommending everyone trash all their iceberg. www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...
