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Stephen Nuñez

@socio-steve.bsky.social

Director, Stratification Economics at The Roosevelt Institute/Roosevelt Forward @rooseveltinstitute.org Sociologist, Dad, Autistic person, Bathos-Enjoyer, elitist jerk Taxes are what we pay for civilized society Opinions are my own

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Brad Lipton@bradlipton.bsky.social · yesterday

1/ My colleague @todusola.bsky.social and I did this piece on the real effects that prediction markets can have on people in our society who DO NOT use those markets, b/c the sheer range of bets available on those platforms gives people incentives to modify their behavior about all sorts of things.

How Prediction Markets Are Shaping Real-World Events and Eroding Public Trust

Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are rapidly expanding beyond sports betting into politics, news, and global events, raising concerns about insider trading, market manipulation, and their...

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Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 6h ago

Meme cut of the Odyssey where every instance of "we have violated/forgotten Zeus's Law" is replaced with "we have lost the mandate of heaven." And Odysseus leaves Ithaca with Penelope to seek out new sources of Baja Blast.

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 6h ago

This story in the odyssey (which is an unrelated tale sung by a bard at a dinner Odysseus is at) is very funny. Has the male gods laughing at Ares caught in Hephaestus's trap but then joking about how they would probably be willing to endure such humiliation for a night with Aphrodite anyway.

David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social · 6h ago

"For instance, the Odyssey is the only surviving Greek literary work from the Archaic Period that describes a marriage between Aphrodite and Hephaistos; every other surviving source from this period takes for granted that Aphrodite is unmarried." I did not know this

Stephen Nuñez@socio-steve.bsky.social · 6h ago

Meme cut of the Odyssey where every instance of "we have violated/forgotten Zeus's Law" is replaced with "we have lost the mandate of heaven." And Odysseus leaves Ithaca with Penelope to seek out new sources of Baja Blast.

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 6h ago

This is why electing a Black president was such an inflection point. It was the exact opposite of post-racial politics: it was politics where status took on new salience because it became pellucid to cis, straight, white, male Christians that they wouldn't *always* be at the top of the hierarchy.

Josh Chafetz@joshchafetz.bsky.social · 7h ago

As women, people of color, LGBTQ+ people, and others made status gains, it provoked a reaction, which then made these questions, which had always been foundational to our politics, salient.