if u start following me but u don't use your real name and don't have a photo of yourself, but we have lots of mutuals, i will be very confused. please stop, or at least dm me.
So the reason this Polymarket “prediction market” is performing so insanely high is because there’s a second market asking if this market will go above 5%. People in the derivative market are manipulating this market. Which defeats the public policy case for prediction markets…
@peligrietzer the best ones are perfect dialectical contradictions of the preceding paragraph. not every transition can be this way, but it feels so good when it works.
I am devastated to learn of the death of Jonathan Sterne, a titan of media studies. His book "MP3: The Meaning of a Format" was the apex of the Macluhanite approach to media that I was trained in.
It helped me understand Bitcoin, believe it or not.
https://t.co/vCgp9gI96E
They're actually kinda correct. The federal government issues money out of thin air. It's not like a household that needs to have a dollar before spending it. The gov is the *issuer* of the dollar—so it creates it. We can either use it to pay for healthcare or fund wars overseas.
Morgan Stanley, Bank of America, and other creditors that financed Musk's buyout of twitter have begun selling his debt. I want to buy a minuscule portion, just to feel the warmth of knowing that Elon will owe me money.
“Damages already outweigh the mitigation costs required to limit global warming to 2°C, i.e., it will be overwhelmingly positive economically to limit global warming”
NEW PIECE: I've rushed out coverage of the state of play of the Impoundment saga and why it is so important. Read all the gory details
https://t.co/2bh9t1dCJO
According to the order, “Female” means "a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the large reproductive cell," and “Male” means "a person belonging, at conception, to the sex that produces the small reproductive cell."
Trump's executive order on "gender ideology" uses peculiar language to define the terms "male" and "female". I think it can reasonably be read as saying that the male sex may not exist, while also expanding the definition of female to include anybody.
reading another Kittler interview where he mentions that he “understood what an electronic circuit was because [he] was making a lot of electronic music back [when he was writing Gramophone, Film, Typewriter].” I wonder what his music sounded like, or if he released any music.
Kittler, 1992: “One day I won’t have to write any more articles but will be able to generate new Kittler texts statistically out of old Kittler texts, and no reader will ever notice.”